Minot Assembly Of Believers

How we can please the Lord. Paul's desire for the believers is that they would walk worthy of the Lord Jesus and be fully pleasing to Him. He wrote to them to explain how they could live in such a way that they would please Him.

The Lord gave the apostles signs as they preached the gospel. Signs are pointers to the reality. The reality isn't speaking in tongues, it is changed speech. Healing the lame man was a sign. The reality is a changed life that follows the Lord. These realities are the great testimony that persuades people to listen to Jesus.

In the beginning of Joshua is a comment on the importance of keeping of God's command to be prosperous. The same thought appears in his farewell address in the context of remembering what God had done for them. Joshua called on the people to make the choice to follow the Lord.

Paul wrote that the believers were complete in Christ. They did not need to add traditions and principles to be approved of by God. Everything they needed to be complete as a Christian is in Christ.

continuing through the epistle of John

The Father has made Christ everything to us. We are complete in Him.

The Lord's working in Berlin

The response of the Gentiles to Paul's gospel message in the synagogue.

John's instructions and care towards beloved believers

What the believer's relationship with the Lord is like in these days and how Jesus manifests Himself to us and not to the world. What Jesus wants us to do a believers while He is gone.

Wrapping up Acts 13

Concluding thoughts of the epistle. A key characteristic of people in the family of God is that they don't practice sin. They are of God, not the world. The Son of God has given them truth. They must keep from idols.

Paul's gospel message

The resurrection where Jesus fulfilled His statement that He had overcome the world

The sin unto death

The fondational truth of Christianity: We begin in sin, guilty before God; He has saved us. 1 Corinthians 13 - a better way. Receive love from God in order to love. We learn the love of God through the pursuit of knowing God, learning who He is. We may learn through nature, working, and His commands. These things are not the and goal of the Christian life, they are the means to learn of God. This...

The first recorded message of the apostle Paul. He spoke of the salvation of God throughout the history of Israel, illustrating the salvation in Christ.

How Jesus overcame the world through His obedience to the Father when He died on the cross.

Reviewing chapter 4, we see it is important to test the spirits and also to love one another. This is a difficult balance to maintain but necessary.

Starting out the first journey. Paul and Elymas the sorcerer. Elymas was blinded and Sergius came to see.

Jesus told Pilate that His kingdom was not of this world. A kingdom has a king, people who are subject to the King, a domain, and an administration. This message looks at the features of Jesus' kingdom.

Testing and checking for truth in all things that come at us. The truth is that God showed His love for us by sending His Son into the world to deal with our sin. If the message you hear doesn't have this foundation, it isn't from God.

The last message looked at how the chief priests were trying to get rid of Jesus, but Jesus was telling people He was leaving. If we believe that the crucifixion was Jesus leaving, then there are big implications to our lives. We should follow Him because He is the one from God. What does it mean to follow Jesus?

What was the message the apostle John was conveying through his selection of events and method of telling the crucifixion story?

How the church began to branch off from Jerusalem. Jerusalem had been the center of the people of God since the days of David. God was removing the natural bramah and grafting in a wild branch. God gathered people to the name of the Lord, not as extensions of an organization. This was the first church started without the apostles. Barnabas encouraged these people to continue with the Lord, not att...