National Capital Bible Church

Communion Service; How do we function effectively as a local church?; Heb 10:25; assembling together to encourage one another cont.; 2 Cor 5:10.

Honoring D-Day, 6 June 1944; How do we function effectively as a local church? cont.; Heb 10:19-25; assembling together to encourage one another.

How do we function effectively as a local church, cont.; Heb 10:22-23; exhortations to the Church; “we must;” principles regarding men and women and the role of the helper.

How do we function effectively as a local church; Heb 10:19-22; connecting worshipping of OT in the Temple to the Church.

Memorial Day 2009; Douglas McArthur speech, 1-26-55; one Body in Christ; 1 Cor 12:12 ff ; Fashioned together in Christ; Eph 2:19-22; the Body equipped by spiritual gifts; Eph 4:11ff; individual spiritual advance the means to the end, functioning on the team in the local church.

Memorial Day 2009 cont.; Maj Gen John Kelly speech in Fallujah; how we ought to think about spiritual gifts; Rom 12:3-8.

How do we function as a church?, cont.; the nature of the Church; Col 1;18; Eph 2:19 ff; building and body analogy used for the Church; Eph 4:11 ff ; believers equipped with spiritual gifts to minister and build the Body of Christ.

1 Cor 12:12 ff ; the Church, one Body in Christ; each member assigned a responsibility by God.

How do we function as a church?; 1 Cor 12:12ff; Phil 2:3-4; Matt 20:28; Christ is our example; God’s plan for the believer’s life is Body-centric.

Origin of Mother’s Day; Why the Church? Rom 11:35-27; the future of Israel, how the Church is grafted in God’s plan; Rom 11:1-24.

Communion service; Why the Church?; Matt 12:22-32; the unpardonable sin, the rejection of the Messiah or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Church History: John Knox; how Israel fits into God’s plan; Matt 5:13-16; failure of Israel parallel to failure of believers in the Church; focus on self rather than God’s mission; spiritual maturity not the goal, but the means to accomplishing God’s plan—a testimony to the world.

Confession of sin; John 13:1 ff ; interpersonal forgiveness; Eph 4:32; Col 3:12-13

Fours categories of forgiveness—judicial, positional, experiential, and interpersonal; the barrier between God and man.

Communion Service; Triumphal Entry Day; the last week of Christ’s earthly ministry; Matt 21:1-11; Mk 11:110; Like 19:28-40; Jn 12:12-19; Hosanna; seeking the national deliverer from the Romans, rejecting the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God.

Faith Rest Technique cont.; taking biblical truth and applying it in our souls; promises of God; Phil 4:6-7; peace of God; guarding your soul; Eph 6:10 ff

Prayer; developing out relationship with God; 1 Phil 4:6-7; 1 Thess 5:17-18; Matt 6:8, 32

Communion Service; eternal security; can salvation be lost? Eph 2:8-9; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 Jn 5:13

Assurance of salvation―character of God; Jn 6:47 ff ; changes in life after salvation: 2 Cor 5:17; Rom 6:1-2; gal 5:19-21, 22-26; sin results in loss of inheritance; works not proof of salvation; Gal 2:26

Mankind and the problem of sin cont.; the barrier between God and man; God’s solution; regeneration; Titus 3:5; Jn 3:1ff; passing from spiritual death to spiritual life at salvation with the reception of the human spirit; position in Christ frees us form our position in Adam; 1 Cor 1:22; 2 Cor 5:17; Rom 6:2-3

Mankind and the problem of sin cont.; the barrier between God and man; Propitiation/Expiation; Rom 3:23-25; Heb 2:17; 1 Jn 2:2, 4:10; Ark of the Covenant; Exo 25:17; Imputation; 1 Cor 1:30; 2 Cor 5:21; Justification; Rom 4:1-5; Gal 2:16; Gen 15:6; Zech 3:1-3

Mankind and the problem of sin cont.; the barrier between God and man; God’s solution; regeneration―recover human spirit and receive eternal life; Eph 2:1; human spirit necessary to understand spiritual things; 1 Thess 5:23; Heb 4:12; 1 Cor 2:10-14

Mankind and the problem of sin cont.; the barrier between God and man;  unlimited atonement; Lev 16:1-17; Rom 5:6-8; Redemption; Rom 3:24, 1 Tim 2:6; 2 Pet 2:1, 1 Cor 6:20; Gal 3:13; Forgiveness of sins; Eph 1:7; Col 2:13-14; 1 Pet 1:18; 1 Pet 2:24

Mankind and the problem of sin, cont.; three kinds of sin, imputed, inherent, and personal; Rom 6:23; consequences of sin; Gen 3:10-11, 21; the barrier between God and man.

Mankind and the problem of sin cont.; the barrier between God and man; God’s solution; Acts 16:30-3`; 1 Cor 15:1-3; Eph 2:8-9; exclusivity of salvation; Acts 4:12; Jn 14:6; unlimited atonement; 1 Tim 4:10; 1 Jn 2:2