Cornerstone Baptist Church

1. God ordains every circumstance that leads to His glory. 2. Every person who comes across our path is sent by God. 3. Even our sins can be used by God. 4. God can use even our immaturity for His plan and good. 5. We should be encouraged by God's sovereignty - all is not lost when our first attempt is not the best.

The people of Israel wanted to trade in their Good King in order to get a king within their Grasp. God uses our vulnerabilities to drive us to Himself. Handout: http://trmd.io/Z0gyZ

Paul explains that false gospels are so dangerous and so attractive that we should be mad at any presence of them.

If you are relying on your own moral efforts for God's approval of you, then Christ will be of no advantage to you.

God shows mercy to lead His People to repentance through His servant Samuel by His word. He routes the Israelite's enemy the Philistines as He shows victory over their ultimate enemy, sin.

Mistaken ways to deal with God (1) The Philistine approach — keep our sin and get rid of God (2) The Beth-shemesh approach — treat God as casual and manageable. Only right way to deal with God: The Kiriath-jearim approach — treat God as Holy.

The gospel stands both as a promise from God and stands in contrast to human effort.

What qualities does true Christian love have?

Remember that Jesus is the ONLY possible savior for sinners; feel the relief of redemption. Don't turn back to ritual righteousness.

God shows the powerless nature of false gods and forecasts the incredible comeback to be realized in the Father raising Christ our Lord, overcoming sin and death.

Look at your trust in Christ, look back to your baptism, and remember that, in Christ, we all have the same status.

Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and hoops

We are saved through the Promise of God’s rescue in Christ. The Mosaic covenant was given as a gift to point us to Jesus.

Our biggest problem is our need for mercy.

The law required perfection and you can’t obey it perfectly, the Bible makes clear that salvation comes by faith alone in Christ, salvation by the law is the opposite of salvation by faith, your only hope is to place faith in Jesus who paid for your lawbreaking.

When the Word of God was rare, God spoke to Samuel giving hope to Israel that God had not forgotten. In His mercy God continued to give His Word, ultimately fulfilled in the Word made flesh, Jesus Christ.

(1) Hannah’s Darkest Hour Preceded God’s Dawning Moment (2) Eli’s evil priesthood is one of Israel’s Darkest Spiritual Moments (3) Sovereign God Shines a Ray of Hope into the Israel’s Darkest Hour (4) The world’s darkest Hour Dawns with the Promised Messiah

Remember what you had to do to get the Holy Spirit and remember what Abraham had to do to be declared righteous by God.

Because justification is by faith alone, because the law can't justify anyone, because “law” and “life” are mutually exclusive, because that would be a sin, and because it's a rejection of God's grace and God's Son.

Understand that your hypocrisy will lead others astray, remind yourself of the gospel and offer and seek out accountability.

Be particular in your understanding of justification, understand how bad ‘Justification by Faith + Works' actually is and never yield, be more loyal to the gospel than to people, and, because of the gospel, give material care to fellow Christians.

God moves to show us our barrenness, moves us to brokenness and gives us belief.

Paul had hated the church, Paul had been a rising star in Judaism, Paul had loved the Jewish religion. The explanation: Jesus had revealed himself to Paul. Paul didn't collaborate with the apostles.

Jesus, the Son of God, the Word of God, the Light of Life

God blesses His people with the perfect king Jesus. In the message we trace the promises of God to give a Kingdom, the sin of the people resisting God as King, God's commitment to His people and the promise of enjoying God's perfect King.