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Theme: We as Christians should acknowledge the Audacity of God with the purpose of deepening our admiration of, trust in, and obedience to Him, the One who does exactly as He pleases.

Definition of Audacity: Boldness, insolence, needless of restraint, a disregard of normal restraint or constraint.

Outline:

1. The audacity of God.
2. The audacity of the Son of God.
3. God’s audacity can tell man how to live.
4. God’s audacity to demand complete and total love.

Five reasons it is good that God (and Christ) are audacious:

1. He is the Creator.
2. He alone has Wisdom.
3. He alone has the Power.
4. He alone is Holy.
5. He alone is God.

Final comment: God is audacious in His Love (Rom 5:6-8)

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Omniscience: all knowing and all wise (continued from last week)

• Definition: God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.
• Shown in: Creation, Plan of Redemption and our individual lives.

Omnipotence

• Definition: God has all power over all things at all times and in all ways.
• Shown in: Creation, sustaining creation, the angels of Heaven, fallen angels, mankind.

Omnipresence

• Definition: God does not have size of spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently at different places.
• Shown in: Heaven and earth cannot contain Him. He fills heaven and earth so nothing is hid from His presence

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God fully knows Himself and all things, actual and possible, in one simple, eternal act.
Psalm 147:5, Job 37:14-16, Heb 4:13, Isa 40:13, Rom 11:33-36, 1 John 3:20

God sees and hears Everything.
Ex 3:7, 2 Chr 16:9, Prov 15:3, Prov 5:21

God knows the beginning from the end.
Isa 46:9-11, Eph 1:3-12

God has perfect knowledge of each individual person and all of our ways.
Psalm 139:1-6, 15-18, Luke 12:7

God knows what we need.
Matt 6:8, 32, Matt 10:28-30

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Guest Speaker: Paul Forbat

2 Peter 1:1-11 New King James Bible (NKVJ)

¹ Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: ² Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, ³ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, ⁴ by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. ⁵ But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, ⁶ to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, ⁷ to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; ¹¹ for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Outline:

1. Appreciate God’s Provision (1:3) – has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness
2. Adopt God’s Purpose (1:4) – that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature
3. Apply God’s Program (5-7) – giving all diligence, add to your faith
4. Appraise your Progress (8-10) – if these things are yours and abound
5. Anticipate your Prize (11) – so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly

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Philemon 18-22 (NASB)

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Matthew 1:18-23 (NASB)

18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, since he was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly. 20 But when he had thought this over, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a Son; and you shall name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 22 Now all this took place so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: 23 “Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they shall name Him Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

Luke 1:30-38 (NASB)

30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; 33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” 34 But Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” 35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason also the holy Child will be called the Son of God. 36 And behold, even your relative Elizabeth herself has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called infertile is now in her sixth month. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.” 38 And Mary said, “Behold, the Lord’s bond-servant; may it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Galatians 4:4-5

4 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, 5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons and daughters.

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Philemon 8-17  (NASB)

⁸ Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper, ⁹ yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus— ¹⁰ I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I fathered in my imprisonment, ¹¹ who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me. ¹² I have sent him back to you in person, that is, sending my very heart, ¹³ whom I wanted to keep with me, so that in your behalf he might be at my service in my imprisonment for the gospel; ¹⁴ but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion, but of your own free will. ¹⁵ For perhaps it was for this reason that he was separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever, ¹⁶ no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. ¹⁷ If then you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.

Sermon Series Theme: The Gospel transforms human relationships and social conventions as Christians are faithful to live out its truths spiritually and practically.

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Philemon 1-7 (NASB)

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker, ² and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house: ³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁴ I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, ⁵ because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints; ⁶ and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake. ⁷ For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Sermon Series Theme: The Gospel transforms human relationships and social conventions as Christians are faithful to live out its truths spiritually and practically.

Outline:

• Greetings (1-3)
• Prayer and Praise (4-7)
• The Plea or Appeal (8-17)
• The Pledge or Promise (18-22)
• Closing Verses (23-25)

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Guest Speaker: Wanye Truong

Matthew 10:28 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

²⁸ And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

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God reveals Himself through His words and actions. One example is the history of Israel’s redemption from Egypt. Three purposes of the plagues were:

1. God demonstrates His power.
2. God distinguishes between His people and others.
3. God Hardened the heart of Pharoah.

In the final plague (Exodus 12:1-42) the people were spared through the death of a substitute – a spotless lamb. The lesson is that redemption requires the death of an innocent substitute. But all the sacrifices since the first Passover were not satisfactory. They pointed to the final, acceptable sacrifice of Christ.

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