Bible Lessons
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All Age Church – a way of life
ALL AGE CHURCH– NOT SO MUCH A SERVICE – MORE A WAY OF LIFE. – learning from the experience of God’s people in the Old Testament.
INTRODUCTION:
The inclusion of children alongside adults in the life and decisions of God’s people in the Old Testament is a challenge to the way that churches operate today.
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An Emotional Storm
AN EMOTIONAL STORM
Matthew 14v21-32
The number of men who ate was about 5000, not counting women and children…………….Excited
Jesus made them get into the boat and go ahead while he sent the people away …………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………Wondering what’s happening
By this time the boat was far out in the lake………………………………………Thinking everything is ok
The disciples were …
Being an influencer for Jesus
WHERE CAN YOU BE AN INFLUENCER FOR JESUS ?
SPEAKING – 2 Timothy 1v7
The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love and self-control.
FAITH – Luke 12v29,31
So don’t be all upset, always concerned about what you will eat and drink… Your …
Being like the “Wise Men” for Jesus
Being like the “Wise Men” for Jesus – Matthew Ch 2
1. Unknown but important for Jesus – From the east is all we know.
2. Hearts for Jesus – They knew his importance.
3. Treasure for Jesus – They were blessed with things they could give.
4. On the lookout for Jesus – They …
Believing, receiving, feeling God’s love
JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO:
THINGS THAT GET IN THE WAY OF US BELIEVING GOD’S LOVE FOR US.
1. TRAGEDY
– loss – bereavement. “If you had been here….” John 11v21,32
“He has sent me… to comfort all who mourn, and provide for all those who grieve… to bestow on them a crown of beauty …
Building for Jesus
BUILDING FOR JESUS
1. Matthew 7v24 Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.
What led you to begin to build your house on the rock?
2. 1 Corinthians 3v10 Each one should be careful how he builds. . …
Building in vain or Building in Jesus
BUILDING IN VAIN or BUILDING IN JESUS
BUILDING IN VAIN
1. “I did it my way”
Psalm 127v1 – Unless the Lord builds the house the builders labour in vain.
self-reliant “I did it my way” – building
2. In church but not in Jesus
Matt 7v26-27 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine …
Children and Spiritual Warfare
What is the spiritual warfare?
Psalm 8v2 says:
“You have ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might silence the foe and the avenger”
Satan and his forces are against us – seeking to stand in our way – to block our progress and to push us back. They try to restrict …
Crowns
1. Putting up with hard things for Jesus
Happy is the person who endures trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. James 1v12
CROWN OF LIFE – STRONG
2. Caring for others who are following Jesus
Be shepherds …
Do You Have a Relationship with Jesus?
Do you have a relationship with JESUS like…
Joseph
A direction changing relationship
Mary
A happily receptive relationship
Shepherds
A step by step discovery relationship
Wise men
A faith journey relationship
John and Elizabeth
A Holy Spirit manifestation relationship
Simeon
A forward looking relationship
Anna
A committed persistent relationship
Do you want things to be the same or different?
How do you want things to be different?
Are you prepared for all the implications of that?
Do you want to be the same or different?
How do you want to be different?
Are you prepared for all the implications of that?
John the Baptist
He wanted things to be different – he was effective
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Elijah
1 Kings 17
The king thinks that he is in charge, doing what he chooses, but here Elijah shows that the most basic necessity – water from rain is not in the king’s control but in God’s – and operational through His servant.
The prophet’s responsibility is to announce the withholding of God’s blessing as …
Ever need reassurance?
Eph 1 – We have every reason to have confidence in The Purpose of Father, The Place of Jesus, the Provision of the Holy Spirit
(at the end choose one – stand – prayer)
The Purpose of Father
– A Jesus- purpose
1. track laid down before the foundation of the world.
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Faithfulness Reminders
What Jesus wants, the Holy Spirit is ready to help make happen.
1. What does Jesus think? I Cor 4v2
Required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.
2. Am I looking outward for the needs of others? Matthew 24v45
Faithful servant – to give servants food …
Getting on the Road
People of the WAY
GETTING ON THE ROAD
In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths. (Proverbs 3v6)
GETTING ON THE ROAD as JESUS PEOPLE
To all who received him, to those who believe in …
God’s best is what Jesus gives
Don’t miss God’s best.
God’s best is what Jesus gives:
1. To all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become God’s children. John 1v12
2. Whoever drinks of the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed the water I give will become in him a spring of …
Good Things
My prayer is that our fellowship with you as believers will bring about a deeper understanding of every good thing which we have in our life in union with Christ. Philemon v6
1. GOD IS GOOD
Acts 14v17. Nevertheless he did not leave himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from …
Guidance and decision making in the life of Paul
1. Acts 9 v1-9
Situ: persecuting Christians
Light from heaven – voice of Jesus “Lord, what will you have me to do?” “Arise, go into the city, and it will be told you what you must do.” He took that step – obeyed that first instruction. At that point he had no idea what that …
Holy Spirit Horizontal and Vertical Moves
HOLY SPIRIT HORIZONTAL MOVES
Right hand – called alongside to help – constant presence. John 14v16
Revelation – teaching about and from Jesus. John 14v,26; 16v7-15
Resource – Producing fruit – to enable us to be all we are meant to be. Galatians 5v22,23
Giving gifts, abilities – to enable us to do all we …
Holy Spirit Ministries
HOLY SPIRIT MINISTRIES (Ephesians 4:11-12)
Being prepared for serving God.
Jesus gives to the church five different sorts of helpers to prepare us for serving God. The Holy Spirit helps them to help us.
Jesus may decide to use any of us to be one of those helpers. He may use us in different ways …
Hope Verses
Hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom he has given us. Romans 5v5
Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, in order that we might have hope through the patience and the encouragement that the Scriptures give …
How to be a Holy Spirit person like Simeon
“Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit” Galatians 5v25
Lessons on walking in the Spirit from the example of Simeon Luke 2v25 -36
1. Holy Spirit interference– v25 “Behold! See what happens next! – (not “Now” as in NIV)
2. Holy Spirit ordinariness – v25 – a man …
I have loved you says the Lord
“I have loved you”, says the Lord Malachi 1v1
“How have you loved us?”
JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO:
THINGS THAT GET IN THE WAY OF US BELIEVING GOD’S LOVE FOR US.
1. TRAGEDY
– loss – bereavement. “If you had been here….” John 11v21,32
• “He has sent me… to comfort all who mourn, …
Jeremiah 1
Jeremiah 1
1.The Word of the Lord came to me
(4 times) – that’s what we want.
2. “I formed you, I knew you, I set you apart, I gave you” – we are each special to God from the time we are in our mother’s womb.
3. What’s stops people doing all that God …
Jesus and the Easter crowds
Often, by preachers and others, the impression is given that there was one Easter crowd who welcomed Jesus with “Hosannas” at the beginning of the week, then shouted , “Crucify him!” a few days later.
That is not true. There were several Easter crowds, very different from each other.
Who is in the crowd?
What …
Jesus comes alongside us to give us fresh hope
1. They were committed to Jesus but they did not understand his ways.
1. He had died for their personal redemption.
2. They were expecting revival but it had not happened in the way they had been expecting.
2. He had risen from the dead to release the power of His Kingdom into the whole …
Jesus coming to the temple
JESUS COMING TO THE TEMPLE
“The Lord you are looking for will suddenly come to his temple”
Malachi 3v1
1. Jesus comes to his temple to stir up the faithful waiting older people.
Luke 2v25-38
2. Jesus comes to his temple to stir up the Bible studiers.
Luke 2v46
3. Jesus comes to his temple …
Jesus dying means that…
We are safe
I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep. John 10v11
We are changed
When we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5v6
We are loved that much
God has shown us how much he loves us – it was while we were still sinners …
Jesus from beginning to end
He was there at the beginning.
He was with the people in the Old Testament.He became a baby in Mary’s womb and was born.
He was committed to his Father when he was 12.He worked as a carpenter in the town where he lived.
He was baptised and said no to the Devil.He said what …
Jesus has power over every aspect of death
“The rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.” Luke 1v78, 79
1. Death was not able to hold onto him.
Acts 2v24 God has raised him up, freeing him from the labour-pains …
Jesus introduces his disciples to the Holy Spirit
How did Jesus introduce his disciples to the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit?
He introduced them to:
• The Holy Spirit of power
– doing things beyond human ability – Luke 4v16-21 (A1v8)
• The Holy Spirit of prophecy
– speaking through you – Matthew 10v19,20
• The Holy Spirit of purging
– …
Jesus is with us in all aspects of life
Psalm 23
Jesus is with us in the
1. Cry of Life
for relationship – the Lord is my shepherd
not shepherdlessnot any other – the Lordnot just a shepherd or the shepherd but my shepherdnot will be or may be but is
How? recognising him – voluntarily giving our lives to him
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Jesus knowing people’s thoughts
Jesus knowing/seeing what people were thinking
Matt 9v4 – healing the paralysed man – Knowing their thoughts Jesus said
Matt 9v36 – seeing the crowds – he had compassion because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd.
Matt 12v25 – Pharisees – Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them…
Matt 22v18 …
Jesus shares our feelings
“We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses” Heb.4v15
(the words in italics show what the meaning of the “feeling” words are in the original Greek)
1. Hunger, tiredness, thirst.
Matt4v2 temptations; Mk11v12 fig tree
John 4v6,7 – at the well
Jesus understands our needs.
2. Surprise at …
Jesus Turning Points
1. REALISATION – Jesus is interested in me personally.
John 1v35,36
When the two disciples heard him (John the Baptist) say this, they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned and saw them following and asked, “What are you looking for?”
2. RECEPTIVITY – I can receive what I need from Jesus.
Mark 5v30
At …
Jesus warnings of wrong roads
Matt 5 -7
1. Don’t hide the light of Jesus. Matthew 5v14-16
2. Don’t think that little wrongs don’t matter. Matt 5v17-20
3. Don’t say cruel things to people. 5v22-24
4. Don’t want things that you have no right to. 5v27-30
5. Don’t get your own back on someone who does wrong to you. 5v38-48
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Jesus will take you from where you are
Jesus will take you from where you are to where he wants you to be.
– He has a plan and a purpose for you.
– He will make all the arrangements for that to be fulfilled.
– He just needs your agreement to go with him.
Peter’s experience of Jesus as an example for …
Jesus’ dependence on Father
JESUS’ DEPENDENCE ON FATHER (John’s Gospel)
1. 3v31,32 He that is from heaven is above all. He tells what he has seen and heard.
2. 3v34 He whom God has sent speaks the words of God.
3. 5v19 The Son can do nothing from (apo) himself, but what he sees (blepo)the Father do, for whatever …
Jesus’ Expectation of Children
Jesus’ Kingdom is designed with children in mind. Jesus shows how He expects them to be involved.
1. Children will experience and enjoy the Kingdom of Heaven.
Jesus said to adults, “Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 18:3)
2. Children will come to him …
Jesus’ Fixed Appointments Diary
PAST
1. Matthew 20v18
We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will …
Jesus’ revival preparation plans
Acts 1
1. Giving us power-assisted instructions
2. doing whatever is needed to make us sure of him. 1v3
3. helping us to understand his kingdom. 1v3 (John 10v10)
4. gearing us into the coming move of God. 1v4,5
5. getting us to think “outside the box”. 1v6-8
6. teaching us to trust Father’s timing. …
Joseph of Arimathea
1. Joseph was from Arimathea, but he was now in Jerusalem. Luke 23v50
God has a purpose in you being somewhere different from where you came from.
2. Joseph was a rich man (we don’t know how that came about) – he was able to afford a tomb. Matt 27v57
God has a purpose for …
Knowing and following God’s leading
How are we meant to live?To know the leading of God and to follow it.
Ex 13v17 Now when Pharaoh let them go, God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines though that was near, for God said, in case the people change their minds when they see war and …
Living as Jesus’ family
1. To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1v12
2. Those who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s children. For the Spirit that God has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead …
Living in the presence of God
1. The presence of God is a wonderful place to be.
Glory and honour are in his presence. Strength and gladness are in his dwelling place. (I Chron 16v27)
Seeing what Jesus did amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.” (Mark 2v12)
2. The presence of God is …
Miracles signs we need to know
John’s Gospel
The miracles that Jesus did are SIGNS of things that we need to know.
Wedding problem (John 2):
When things don’t work out as you had hoped,
Jesus can bring to you even more than you were expecting.
Official’s dying son (John 4):
When you don’t see how your prayers can be answered,
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Path Verses
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119v105
You will show me the path of life; going with you gives the greatest joy. Psalm16v11
Everywhere you go, look to him, and he will guide you in the right path. Proverbs 3v6
If you wander off to the …
Priorities for a zealot
To be zealous for:
1. God’s glory – for holiness in God’s people.
John 2v17 “Zeal for your house has consumed me.”
2. Personal righteousness – repentant zeal.
2 Cor 7v10,11 Godly sorrow works out in repentance …. what zeal! – in all things you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
3. …
Psalm 23
Provision
The Lord is my shepherd; I have everything I need.
Refreshment He lets me rest in fields of green grass and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water.
He gives me new strength.
Guidance
He guides me in the right paths, as he has promised.
Confidence
Even if I …
Readiness for Revival
Twelve doors of readiness for Revival/ more of Jesus (John chs1-5)
Look at what keeps those doors closed
1. Be hungry to experience more – be ready to move forward in the next kingdom of heaven adventure.
1v35-39 – “What are you looking for?” – “We want to be where you are.”
– the barrier …
Reassurance
Ephesians 1
Ever need reassurance?
Eph 1 – We have every reason to have confidence in The Purpose of Father, The Place of Jesus, the Provision of the Holy Spirit
The Purpose of Father
– A Jesus purpose – “THE JESUS TRAIN”
1. track laid down before the foundation of the world.
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Results from receiving Jesus
1. Family
John 1v12
To everyone who received him, to those who believed in His name, he gave the right to become God’s children.
2. Foundation
John 3v32,33
He tells what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his message. But whoever receives his message confirms by this that …
Samuel is an example to us
1. SAMUEL is an example to us in knowing we are special.
Special to parents – “I prayed for this child and the Lord gave me what I asked for. So now I give him to the Lord.” 1Samuel 1v27
We can thank God for our parents who love Jesus. There may be …
Satisfied or Hungry
SATISFIED OR HUNGRY
Jesus said,
The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy.
I have come that they might have life – life in all its fullness.
(John 10v10)
Jesus Christ is totally committed to make up completely
for every
hurt,
loss,
damage
and stain in your life,
whether caused by
yourself, others, the …
Sighing
SIGHING (the same word is sometimes translated “groaning” or “grieving”)
In the places where the word SIGHING is used in the Bible, it has to do with:
being dissatisfied at a present condition, and looking for a different condition (where the kingdom of heaven is more fully expressed).
Examples:
Mark 7v34 Faced with a man …
Steps to fulfilling God’s purpose
STEPS TO FULFILLING GOD’S PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE
Introduction:
1. God has a multifaceted purpose for your life.
2. You have already accomplished some of that purpose.
3. God wants you to fulfil that purpose.
4. God will do everything He can to help you to fulfil that purpose.
5. He will call you into …
The Difference Jesus makes in us and for us
2 Cor 4v13-5v10
The difference Jesus makes in us
1. We believe and therefore speak because we know. 4v13
2. We do not lose heart. 4v16
3. We fix our eyes on what is unseen. 4v18
4. We know we have a house in heaven. 5v1
5. We long to be in our …
The Way
Acts 9 v1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples.
He went to the high priest 2 and asked for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to THE WAY, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners …
The woman at the well
JOHN 4
1. This is wonderful – he wants to talk to me
2. This is wonderful – he wants to give me something special.
3. This is wonderful – he wants to bless me and provide for me every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year if my life.
4. …
Understanding Sacrifice
The Old Testament sacrifices have nothing to do with any idea of God using a pagan practice for his ends. This is complete misunderstanding of the place of Biblical sacrifice. Any pagan use of sacrifice is a distortion and wrongly directed use of what is God’s particularly chosen way of helping people to understand the …
Understanding the heart of Jesus
Isaiah 55
1. “Hoi!”
It is in the heart of Jesus to let us know what is in the heart of Jesus.
John 1v37-39; – “Come and see!”
John 15 v15 – “not servants but friends”
2. “Every one who thirsts, come to the waters, and you who have no money, come, buy and …
Welcome the Holy Spirit
Welcome the Holy spirit
1. to become a child of God – to connect with God and His Kingdom.
John 3v6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
2. to have your life directed from heaven – to be a son or daughter …
What can we expect? Learning from Simeon & Anna
Luke 2v25-38
In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Proverbs 3v6
1. See! Take notice
2. There was a man in Jerusalem – God has people in every place – God needs people in every place – we are placed by God for His purposes
Has God got you where …
What does Jesus want?
John 4v3-26
To give – v10 you ask he would giveAn everyday – like waterHoly Spirit flowing – v14 well springing upPersonalRelationshipWith Jesus for each of us
What might hinder us from asking?
1. view of self
How can you ask me?
Simon Peter – depart from me
2. view of God – what God …
Your History with Jesus
learning from Peter’s experience
CONSIDERING – becoming aware of Jesus and discovering more about him.
1. John 1 – brother Andrew – “We have found the Messiah” – then he took Simon to Jesus.
Who first told you about Jesus? Who brought you to church? Who taught you about Jesus?
2. Mark 1 v16,17 – …