The document provides a prescription for happiness based on Psalm 1. It advises to make good choices by watching one's walk, stance, and seat - avoiding the counsel of the wicked, path of sinners, and seat of scoffers. It also advises choosing godly companions through wise counsel and watching one's pleasures. Practicing meditation on God and cultivating godly character are also prescribed, noting choices have consequences. The righteous will be blessed while the wicked will not stand in judgment.
Jesus commands us to be anxious for nothing and to always rejoice but how is this possible? In this lesson we will discuss how to do it. Joy vs Anxiousness sermon can be listened to at www.cmcoc.org Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Have Hope and Be Hope Sojourner Series 1 07302017Ephraim Termulo
Hope must be constant, for us to pursue our purpose in life. We should have a firm foundation to stand up and to fight whatever challenges we could face. We our strong enough to be a victor if CHRIST is at the center of our life. God bless.
3 points:
1. From 10 commandments - we are meant to be under God's rule
2. From 1 Corinthians - do not allow factions to dominate us
3. Focus on Christ
Jesus commands us to be anxious for nothing and to always rejoice but how is this possible? In this lesson we will discuss how to do it. Joy vs Anxiousness sermon can be listened to at www.cmcoc.org Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Have Hope and Be Hope Sojourner Series 1 07302017Ephraim Termulo
Hope must be constant, for us to pursue our purpose in life. We should have a firm foundation to stand up and to fight whatever challenges we could face. We our strong enough to be a victor if CHRIST is at the center of our life. God bless.
3 points:
1. From 10 commandments - we are meant to be under God's rule
2. From 1 Corinthians - do not allow factions to dominate us
3. Focus on Christ
Are we trying to impress the world? Are we trying to impress others? Who are we trying to impress? Ultimately we can impress no one, not even God. But rewards are with God, not because we can impress him, but because he honors those that love him.
Knowing the gates of our body. These gates are connected to the gates of our soul. Remember the body is not in direct contact with the spirit but with the soul. The soul is in contact with the spirit and with the body, in this way, the soul is the connector between spirit and soul.
In this series of lessons we examine Jesus and the women at the well. The Jew and Samaritan relationship and why it was necessary for Jesus to travel through the city of Samaria. Both audio and slides can be found together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian BIrddow
Taking care of your soul. A transformation of our conscience, reason, imagination, mind, emotions, choice and will is absolutely necessary to be aligned with the renewed Spirit that is already in us. In order to attain this, the Holy Spirit needs to be in control, bringing a complete renewal.
Examples of Humility and Unity - Phil. 2:19-30David Turner
God is looking for servants that are humble and seek unity. Paul gives examples of several servants that demonstrate these traits. Download free PowerPoint at BibleGuy.org
Our little Church is using a Chronological Bible Reading Schedule by Skip Andrews. It can be found here: http://www.churchofchristduluthga.org
Each Sunday a lesson is given from some of that week's reading. This lesson covers Oct 5-11
In this lesson we continue to examine 2 Peter 1 and what we must add to our faith if we are to grow spiritually. The first thing the apostle Peter tells us to add to our faith is virtue. We define virtue, we show how Jesus lived a virtuous life and we give other scriptures defining and explaining virtue. Both slides and audio can be found together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Are we trying to impress the world? Are we trying to impress others? Who are we trying to impress? Ultimately we can impress no one, not even God. But rewards are with God, not because we can impress him, but because he honors those that love him.
Knowing the gates of our body. These gates are connected to the gates of our soul. Remember the body is not in direct contact with the spirit but with the soul. The soul is in contact with the spirit and with the body, in this way, the soul is the connector between spirit and soul.
In this series of lessons we examine Jesus and the women at the well. The Jew and Samaritan relationship and why it was necessary for Jesus to travel through the city of Samaria. Both audio and slides can be found together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian BIrddow
Taking care of your soul. A transformation of our conscience, reason, imagination, mind, emotions, choice and will is absolutely necessary to be aligned with the renewed Spirit that is already in us. In order to attain this, the Holy Spirit needs to be in control, bringing a complete renewal.
Examples of Humility and Unity - Phil. 2:19-30David Turner
God is looking for servants that are humble and seek unity. Paul gives examples of several servants that demonstrate these traits. Download free PowerPoint at BibleGuy.org
Our little Church is using a Chronological Bible Reading Schedule by Skip Andrews. It can be found here: http://www.churchofchristduluthga.org
Each Sunday a lesson is given from some of that week's reading. This lesson covers Oct 5-11
In this lesson we continue to examine 2 Peter 1 and what we must add to our faith if we are to grow spiritually. The first thing the apostle Peter tells us to add to our faith is virtue. We define virtue, we show how Jesus lived a virtuous life and we give other scriptures defining and explaining virtue. Both slides and audio can be found together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Jesus was and is the Master teacher. In this lesson we examine what made Him so effective. Both slides and audio can be viewed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
This is the first wisdom that we need to learn if we want to have a blessed (happy) life as a Christian.
This wisdom is an introduction to the entire book of Psalms.
And if we follow this course in our life through this year and beyond, it will lead us to happiness and reward.
Presentation to a group of pastors Full Gospel Church and Pentecostal Church pastors detailing the process of going from a text to a sermon using an inductive Bible study method.
Observation, Interpretation and Application is redefined as See God's Truth, Understand God's Truth, Live God's Truth.
And then a Puritan matrix of application to Unbelievers, Seekers, Backsliders, New Converts, Believers and Old Saints seeking to Engage their Minds, Stir their Emotions and Call on their Wills is demonstrated.
Three texts are handled, Psalm 1, John 21:15-17 and Revelation 3:1-6.
The devil is crafty but we know how he operates. He sets snares in which to trap us in sin. In this lesson we examine in depth how satan operates. Both slides and audio can be viewed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
2. How blessed is the man
who does not
walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight
is in the law of YAHWEH,
And in His law he meditates
day and night.
3. He will be like a tree
firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does,
he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff
which the wind drives away.
4. Therefore the wicked
will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners
in the assembly of the righteous.
For YAHWEH
knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked
will perish.
5. PSALM 1
INTERPRETATION: To God’s
“Covenant People,” the nation of
Israel.
APPLICATION: To God’s
“Current People,” The Church…
believers in Jesus Christ.
6. Prescription For Happiness-Psalm 1
MAKE GOOD CHOICES:
• Watch your “walk”: NOT in the
counsel of the wicked!
• Watch your “stance”: Not in the
path of sinners!
• Watch your “seat”: Not in the
seat of scoffers!
9. “Walk by the Spirit and
you will not fulfill the
desires of the flesh…
NOT in Eph. 5:18
the “…so that you will walk
in a manner
counsel WALK worthy of the Lord, to
of the please Him in all
wicked respects, bearing fruit in
every good work and
increasing in the know-
ledge of God; Col. 1:10
11. Therefore, my
beloved brethren
NOT whom I long to
in the see,
path my joy and crown,
STAND in this way
of stand firm in the
sinners Lord,
my beloved.
Philippians 4:1
13. Therefore if you have been
raised up with Christ, keep
seeking the things above,
where Christ is, seated at
NOT the right hand of God.
in the SIT Set your mind on the things
seat above, not on the things
of that are on earth.
scoffers For you have died and your
life is hidden with Christ in
God.
Colossians 3:1-3
14. Prescription For Happiness-Psalm 1
MAKE GOOD CHOICES:
• Watch your “walk”: NOT in the
counsel of the wicked!
• Watch your “stance”: Not in the
path of sinners!
• Watch your “seat”: Not in the
seat of scoffers!
16. Proverbs 13:20:
“He who walks with
wise men will be wise,
but the companion of
fools will suffer harm.”
17. Proverbs 22:24-25:
“Do not associate with a man
given to anger;
Or go with a
hot-tempered man,
Or you will learn his ways
And find a snare for
yourself!”
18. Proverbs 23:20-21:
“Do not be with heavy
drinkers of wine, Or with
gluttonous eaters of meat;
For the heavy drinker and the
glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe a
man with rags.”
19. Proverbs 24:1-2:
“Do not be envious
of evil men, Nor desire
to be with them;
For their minds devise
violence, And their lips
talk of trouble.”
22. Prescription For Happiness-Psalm 1
PRACTICE COGITATION!
Meditate on God and His Word!
CULTIVATE GODLY CHARACTER!
KNOW THAT CHOICES HAVE
CONSEQUENCES!!!
23. The Righteous… The Wicked…
• Blessed! • Are like chaff which
• He will be like a tree the wind drives away
firmly planted by • Will not stand in the
streams of water… judgment
--which yields its fruit • Will not stand in the
in its season assembly
--and its leaf does not of the righteous
wither
• And in whatever he
does, he prospers
• The Lord knows his
way.
25. “But one who looks intently at
the perfect law, the law of
liberty, and abides by it, not
having become a forgetful
hearer but an effectual doer,
this man will be blessed in
what he does.”
James 1:25