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Good Bible resolutions

Good Bible resolutions. Paul resolves to know Christ. Billy Graham. Charles Templeton. “Jesus said…” “The Bible says…”. John Spong. Bishop and “Humanist of the year” 1999. Good Bible resolutions. Paul resolves to know Christ. Paul’s resolution

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Good Bible resolutions

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  1. GoodBible resolutions Paul resolves to know Christ Billy Graham Charles Templeton “Jesus said…” “The Bible says…” John Spong Bishop and “Humanist of the year” 1999

  2. GoodBible resolutions Paul resolves to know Christ • Paul’s resolution • I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

  3. GoodBible resolutions Paul resolves to know Christ • Paul’s resolution • When I came to you…I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

  4. GoodBible resolutions Paul resolves to know Christ • Arguments galore… • – how services should be run – • – how to treat people who misbehaved – • – what type of food you should eat as a Christian – • – the work of the Holy Spirit – • – “Jesus didn’t rise from the dead”! –

  5. GoodBible resolutions Paul resolves to know Christ • Accusations…(2 Cor. 10) • I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” when away! (1) • …some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.” (10)

  6. GoodBible resolutions Habakkuk resolves to rejoice • Paul’s conviction… • … the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. … • Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe…

  7. GoodBible resolutions Habakkuk resolves to rejoice • Paul’s conviction… • …think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no-one may boast before him.

  8. GoodBible resolutions Habakkuk resolves to rejoice • Paul’s conclusion… • Personalities – Policies – Practicalities – Philosophies • I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

  9. GoodBible resolutions Habakkuk resolves to rejoice • Paul’s conclusion (Phil. 3)… • whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him

  10. GoodBible resolutions Habakkuk resolves to rejoice • Our responses?… • Change – a fundamental shift? • Clarity (in a confused world) • Commitment (in an un-committing world)

  11. GoodBible resolutions Habakkuk resolves to rejoice • The resolve to follow God (Jacob) • The resolve to live differently (Daniel) • The resolve to ask God (Jehoshaphat) • The resolve to give back to God (Hannah) • The resolve to control our words and actions (David) • The resolve to rejoice (Habakkuk) • The resolve to know Jesus (Paul)

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