What to Hold Onto Psalms 119: 31

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(I have clung unto thy testimonies; O Lord, put me not to shame.)

1. A believer's need for security can only be met by the assurance of God's word.

2. A specific word from God quiets the questioning heart.

3. The revealed truth of scripture becomes a pier to tie your faith to.

4. The winds of time and of critics, or those who do not understand, cannot 

dislodge the life of faith securely tied to the word of God.

5. The word held onto is the word God has given, not a word that man has stated.

6. There is no shame to God's word; nor to one who places His trust therein.

We don't have to apologize for the word of God or of its instruction to our

  own heart. There is no shame.

7. Shame comes when a believer quits believing God's word or impatiently

  asserts his own understanding before God's word.

Then, he no longer is holding onto God's word.

The Quest of Worship John 12: 21-24

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as pictured:

(...and desired Him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.)

v.21 1. Having a desire to see Jesus.

2. Seeking for Jesus, seeking to know Jesus.

3. Seeing Jesus as who He is.

v.23 4. Allowing Jesus to express Himself.

(And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, ...)

v.24 5. Abandoning the old life.

(Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die,)

v.24 6. Receiving the Christ life.

(...but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.)

7. Following Christ thereafter.

Worship's focus John 4: 24

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(God is a Spirit:  and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and 

  truth.)

1. It excludes anything exalting man.

2. It excludes anything following just man's tradition.

3. It excludes worshiping man's own works.

4. It excludes anything unholy or worldly.

5. It excludes holding anything contrary to truth of scripture.

6. It excludes that without spirit initiation and spiritual order.

7. It excludes anything that is apart from God or His word of truth.

Purpose of Worship John 4: 24

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(God is a Spirit:  and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.)

1. To exalt Christ.

2. To gain sensitivity to God's perspective.

3. To increase in understanding of truth.

4. To express love and loyalty to Christ.

5. To exercise our faith.

6. To gain in Godly sensitivity and compassion.

7. To gain spiritual strength and nurture.

8. To gain reassurance and renewal.

9. To be reconciled to God's heart.

10. To ready the heart for service.

The Role of the Holy Spirit 1 Corinthians 2: 10

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(But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.)to reveal to a believer's heart:

1.The presence of God's things.

2.The pattern of God's things.

how it fits.

3.The privilege of God's things.

4.The personal appropriation of God's things.

5.The plenteousness of God's things.

6.The priority of God's things.

both to God and to the believer

7.The praiseworthiness of God's things.

The Greatest Joy Psalms 81: 1-4

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v.1 1. Having God as your strength.

(Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of

  Jacob.)

v.1 2. Having God as your Father.

(God of Jacob)

v.1 3. Having God as your fulfillment.

v.2 4. Having God on and in your heart.

(Take a psalms, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the 

psaltery.)

v.2 5. Having Godly understanding of life.

v.3 6. Having God as your source and provider.

(Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,  in the time appointed, on our 

solemn feast day.)

v.4 7. Having God as your word of authority- word for living.

(For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.)

The Purpose of the Holy Spirit John 16: 8-11

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Looking at this subject from a broader view:

Also note the oneness of the Trinity.

v.8 1. To reveal and convince of heaven’s holiness.

(And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of 

judgment;)

v.9 2. To expose personal unbelief.

(…of sin, because they believe not on me)

v.10 3. To guard the integrity of the Son’s work.

(of righteousness)

v.10 4. To cooperate in the extension of the Son’s work.

(of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;)

v.11 5.To reveal the Father’s justice.

(of  judgment,)

v.11 6. To reveal the Father’s sovereignty.

(of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.)

7. To reveal the reality of grace and the boundary of time.

The Surprise Awaiting 2 John 20: 1, 2, 15, 16

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v.1 1. Troubling events mar spiritual liberty.

(The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet

  dark, unto the sepulcher,)

2. Spiritual loyalty is expressed with fade and hope

(unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher.)

v.1 3. Spiritual fellowship is based on only memory.

Jesus is gone seemingly.

v.1 4. The seeming certainty of a dead relationship is met with renewed

  opportunity.

v.1,  5. There is truth to believe, but doubt is a persistent enemy

  2 (and seeth the stone taken away) (we know not where they have laid Him.)

v.11,6. Believers with lost hope are victimized by much sorrow.  

  15 (But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping:)(Jesus saith unto her, 

Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?)

v.16 7. Sorrow is turned to joy by the reality of truth's immortality and eternal life.

(Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself,and saith unto Him, 

Rabboni; which is to say, Master.)