Wednesday Night December 7, 2011
scriptures: Proverbs 17, James 2, Job 31
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Pre-Bible Study Thoughts to Consider
Giving, Release in Worship and Praise
Psalm 103:1-5
Mark 12:28-30
Do you love God with all? Are you owned by God?
heart – passion
soul – purpose, direction
mind – thinking, planning, organizing
A Christian is wise about being Christian.
How much time do you spend thinking about what you do in Christ?
strength – effort, energy
When you love God like this, serving Him is beauty and poetry, not punishment and pounding.
Totally sold out for God.
Don’t wait for things to become easy. Give God extreme effort.
Bible study lesson
Proverbs 17:4
Sometimes you listen to things you shouldn’t.
You feed on certain things because that’s the kind of creature you are.
God does not value people who think they are better than others, or mock people because of what they don’t have.
James 2:1-5
Do you choose between people, giving favor to the well dressed and disregarding the poor?
Don’t be uppity.
Often you will find that the most diligent in a congregation are the ones with less material wealth.
Poor in this world and rich in faith. (Not talking about those that are poor or homeless because of choice and wasteful spending.)
Proverbs 17:5-6
Do you feel good when bad things happen to people? Do you have that much evil and hate in you?
Job 31:29-30
You have to desire for your enemies to repent and get better, not to hope evil on them.
If you have gotten to the point that you don’t care and hope evil for someone, then there is something wrong with you too.
Bless them that curse you. Obey that.
God knows everything we have done and yet died to bring our forgiveness.
How dare we not want forgiveness and restoration for someone? That kind of anger and hate comes from the devil.
If you’re “not at that point yet” of being able to want someone saved, then you are not at the point of being saved.
If someone says they want to be a Christian but wish a curse on someone, they need to be corrected and change.