This Week’s Experience – 12/30/2018

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Order of Service

Music……………………..Worship Team
Grace Like a Wave
Welcome……………………….Bill Butler
Momentum
Lion and the Lamb
Reckless Love
Message………………Gilbert Thurston
How We Got the Bible
Offering & Announcements
Music……………………..Worship Team
Momentum
Dismissal………………………Bill Butler

Message notes

Through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

-Genesis 22:18

Promissory Covenant- where one party pledges to the other I will take full responsibility for fulfilling this promise. There are no strings attached and it’s unconditional. I will fulfill it  you do.

Suzerainty Covenant- this kind of covenant also known as a   Covenant is where a greater power dictates to the lesser power all the rules and conditions of the agreement. “If you do this, then I will do that for you”.

After supper he took another cup of wine and said, "This cup is the new covenant between God and his people--an agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.

-Luke 22:20

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.”

-Jeremiah 31:31-32

The word Testament comes from the Latin word testamentum which was used when the Bible was being translated from Greek to Latin. The original Greek word is diathéké which means .

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

-Matthew 5:17-18

1. Study for yourself what Peter, Paul, James and the entire Jerusalem Council said about our relationship to the   and .

2. Learn to read the Old Testament for its about the founding of the nation of Israel from which one day Jesus would be born.

3. Don’t attempt to the teachings of the Old and New Testaments with one another.

4. Discover the the Old Testament was trying to teach.

5. Use the Old Testament stories to inspire your faith.

LIFE APPLICATION
To discuss during the week with your family or Life Group

1. How were you taught to treat the first bible you were ever given? How were you taught to read it?
2. How did this message stretch your thinking and/or faith?
3. Why is it Good News that we are longer bound to the laws of the Old Testament? In what way(s) have you intentionally or not kept yourself bound to it?
4. What is your next step as a result of this message?