Our culture has coined a phrase that we consider to be new. People will speak about “my truth.” I expect that you have heard this phrase used before. In fact, we are encouraged to speak “our truth.” You are told that you need to speak “your truth.” The idea is that there is something that can be true for me that is not true for you. But this is not a new idea as much as we might fancy that we have made a breakthrough about truth. The prophet Jeremiah was also dealing with people who were making claims about truth that were contrary to Jeremiah’s truth claims. What God is going to do through the prophet Jeremiah is to help them know how to seek the truth and to build a desire for the truth in the hearts of his people so that they will seek him. Now, before we can move into the text, I want to remind us of the context. The beginning of Jeremiah 23 revealed that God himself would rescue his people by sending the righteous Branch. He will do justice and righteous. He will save his people and he will be called, “The Lord is our Righteousness.” So after talking about God himself will rescue his people, he immediately starts talking about having a heart for truth. Open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 23 and we will begin our study in verse 9…

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Listen to what Paul says: “I am a debtor…” (Romans 1:14). We do not want to be debtors. We do not want to have obligations. We try to free ourselves from every debt. But this is a good debt. Paul embraces the fact that he is debtor and it is understand the debt of the gospel that has changed his life purpose.

Thankful For the Proclaimed Gospel (Romans 1:8-10)

After opening his letter to the Roman Christians by proclaiming a summary message of the gospel, the apostle Paul turns his attention to being thankful. Paul says that he is thankful to God for these Christians because their faith is being proclaimed all over the world. Paul says that he has been praying for these Christians in all his prayers. One of the things that Paul is praying for is the ability to go to Rome to see these Christians…

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There are many New Testament scriptures that speak about the glory of God as seen through the amazing work of our Lord Christ Jesus. But we can miss the depth of what those images and teachings are giving because we do not know intimately what the prophets were proclaiming. Often the New Testament assumes we know those prophetic pictures so that we are ready to cry out to our God when we see their fulfillment in Christ. God is giving us these pictures so that we would see the multifaceted work of the Savior. Jeremiah is going to proclaim another name for the Savior so that we would see who he is and what he came into the world to do for his people. Open your copies of God’s word and we are going to see God making a stunning proclamation of hope that will cause his sheep to have a heart for him…

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I want to begin the lesson today by asking an important question. What is the gospel? If someone were to come up to you, could you answer this question? If your neighbor asked you, “What is the gospel?”, what would you tell them? What exactly is the gospel? Now if you have grown up in the pews, you might quickly answer that the gospel is good news. This is what the word “gospel” means. But I want us to think deeper than this. Do not merely provide a definition of the gospel, that is, being good news. What exactly is the good news? What is the good news you have received? What is the good news you proclaim? What is the good news that you put your hope in? What is the good news that you have placed your faith upon? What are the contents of the good news? The book of Romans can seem complicated to the point that we can avoid reading it. But the book of Romans was not written to theologians. The book of Romans was written to everyday people like us. We should understand the gospel and not make the book of Romans so hard that we feel lost by it. So open your copies of God’s word to the book of Romans and we are going to be learning about the glorious gospel from this book…

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We are in a section in the prophecy of Jeremiah where we are learning about having a heart for God. In Jeremiah 20 we saw the terrible treatment of God’s prophet. Jeremiah is mocked, scorned, and verbally abused. His close friends seek revenge on Jeremiah because of his teachings. Jeremiah was arrested, beaten, and put in prison for proclaiming God’s coming judgments. Yet in the face of his deep discouragement, Jeremiah has a fire in his bones that compelled him to continue to work as God’s prophet. The word of God was a fire in his bones that he could not shut even if he tried. But for more than a decade, Jeremiah has been preaching to the people only to receive rejection and scorn as their response. In fact, it is possible that at this point Jeremiah had been preaching God’s word to the nation for about 40 years. For decades no one has listened to Jeremiah…

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We are looking at how to fight against the temptations that our enemy, the devil, is using to attack our faith. Our enemy wants us to doubt God, doubt God’s love, doubt our relationship with God, and doubt that God cares for us. There are many, many doubts that the devil launches at us so that we will question God, weaken our faith, and ultimately destroy our souls. I want to remind us the promise that God has given to us regarding our temptations.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV)

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We are beginning a new series called A Heart For God. We are going to be looking at how to have a heart for God when life is particularly painful while trying to live for God. We would think that doing the right thing would keep us safe. We want to think that if we are following God and doing what he says that this would keep us from having to go through suffering and hardships. We would especially want to think that we would not be persecuted for doing the right thing. Whatever the reason, it is easy to become discouraged when we are trying to what is right but life seems to go so wrong. So how can we deal with our discouragement and what hope do we have as God’s people? How can we have a heart for God when feeling discouraged? Open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 20 and we are going to look at how the prophet Jeremiah dealt with his rejection and discouragement…

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We are looking at how to fight against the temptations that our enemy, the devil, is using to attack our faith. Our enemy wants us to doubt God, doubt God’s love, doubt our relationship with God, and doubt that God cares for us. There are many, many doubts that the devil launches at us so that we will question God, weaken our faith, and ultimately destroy our souls. I want to remind us the promise that God has given to us regarding our temptations.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV)

God is faithful. God is with you. There is a way of escape and a means of endurance provided with every temptation. Let’s look at how this promise plays out as the devil is launching his spiritual attack against Jesus in the wilderness. Open your copies of God’s word to Matthew 4 and we are going to look at the second temptation which is recorded in verses 5-7…

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The apostle John is writing to help Christians know if they have eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:13). John does not want anyone to be deceived regarding their relationship with God. He wants us to evaluate our walk so that we can know if we are walking in the light or if we are walking in the darkness. The third chapter of this letter has been set off by calling for everyone to see the love of the Father.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. (1 John 3:1 ESV)

Our walk with God is defined and transformed by the fact that the Father has shown an extraordinary love for us. John has clearly defined for us what it means to love God and what it means to love those who belong to Christ…

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We are looking at how to fight against the temptations that our enemy, the devil, is using to attack our faith. In last week’s lesson we observed the first step that the devil uses against us is doubt. Our enemy wants us to doubt God, doubt God’s love, doubt our relationship with God, and doubt that God cares for us. There are many, many doubts that the devil launches at us so that we will question God, weaken our faith, and ultimately destroy our souls. I want to remind us the promise that God has given to us regarding our temptations.

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV)

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The apostle John is writing to help Christians know if they have eternal life (cf. 1 John 5:13). John does not want anyone to be deceived regarding their relationship with God. He wants us to evaluate our walk so that we can know if we are walking in the light or if we are walking in the darkness. The third chapter of this letter has been set off by calling for everyone to see the love of the Father.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. (1 John 3:1 ESV)

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