The Epic Life - Bob Hallman

4-The Priorities of the Kingdom (I Thess. 2:13-20)

It is important to hear the word of God. The bible tells us in a number of places how important it is to hear the Word of God. The Word of God is heard through the preaching and teaching of the Bible and through the reading of the Bible. That hearing is a critical part of coming to Christ in the first place. The Gospel actually has to be heard, somebody has to speak it out loud and actually communicate it. That's why you are so important and why God is using you as you are speaking up and you are telling people about Jesus Christ and the difference He can make in their life. People are listening. They might not always agree with you, but they are hearing it and the Thessalonian church are no different.
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3-Paul: A Model for Ministry (I Thessalonians 2:1-12)

In chapter 2, Paul is defending his ministry. If you are a leader of any kind, comes with the territory is accusations. Maybe you are a parent, or you work in a business, or in ministry, no matter what it is, you are going to have people that doubt and question, on occasion, your character and your integrity. 00:7:20 One of the things I found over the years that I didn't realize, nobody actually told me when I was a young pastor, how important Character is. I mean it seems like it would be so obvious, but you never know how important the building blocks of consistent character over many, many, years, how important that is until you face your first false accusation. That character helps you to stand. That consistency and that reputation helps you to absorb those kinds of accusations. In the ends, those things are the things that cause people to look back and that is exactly what Paul is going to point to in this text.
 
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2-The Evidence of New Life (1 Thess 1:4-10)

1 & 2 Thessalonians, a letter to the church, explaining the truths of the 2nd coming of Christ, The rapture of the Church and end times!
You have been chosen by God... and the Bible says the Gospel needs to be preached. Paul says in Romans 10 "14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who [b]preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
We just need to tell people, we just need to let them know, give them a chance at life eternal
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1. Introduction to 1 Thessalonians

Overall theme, is the Lord's return.
End of every chapter includes are reference the to the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 3:11-13 - 11 Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you. 12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, 13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.
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4. Angry With God (Jonah 4)

In chapter 4, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly, it displeased him exceedingly so he prayed to the Lord and said our Lord was this not what I said when I was still in my country therefore I fled previously to Tarsus for I know that you are gracious and merciful God slow to anger and abundant and loving-kindness one who relents from doing harm therefore now oh lord please take my life for me for it is better for me to die than live.
Then the Lord said, is it right for you to be angry? So Jonah went out into the city outside of the city and sat on the east of the city and there he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade till he might see what would become of the city.  And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. Jonah was very grateful for the plant but in the morning in the morning dawn the next day God prepared a worm and it's so damaged to plant that it withered and it happened when the Sun arose that God prepared a vehement east wind and the Sun beat on Jonah's head so that he grew faint then he wished death for himself and said it is better for me to die than to live.  Then God said to Jonah is it right for you to be angry about the plant and he said it is right for me to be angry even to death but the Lord said you've had pity on the plant for which you have not labored nor made it grow which came up in a night and perished in the night and should I not pity Nineveh that great city in which are more than 120,000 persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and much livestock. 
 
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3. A God of Second Chances (Jonah 3:1-10)

God is patient with you. Did you know that that God loves you today and that God is long-suffering? It doesn't mean he's a pushover, he's not the granddaddy in the sky where you can do no wrong, no, he's a God of justice and a God of pure and a God of holiness but he's also got a patience and he knows our frame and he knows what you've been going through and he knows your life, and he knows your struggles and what I want you to know is that God is patient with you and God loves you. Even if you've been in sin and even if you're struggling and resisting as well even right now, I want you to know that God is long-suffering toward you, but he's determined and if he has to stir up a storm in your life or send a great fish or a problem of one kind or another he will do it, but he will get you where he wants you to go if you're a believer in Him . The Bible says that he's going to finish the work he started in you and so God is a God of second chances.
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2 Jonah’s Prayer

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Jonah had to make a decision, I'm going to go as far away as I can and then he had to make a decision to buy boat passage and put the money in the captain's hand, and then he had to walk the plank to get up on the boat, and then he had to watch the plank removed and he had to watch it sail away. All these decisions and you know the Holy Spirit of God was working on him. 
Have you ever done that? The Holy Spirit's working trying to tell you something, it's like you know I can't hear you; I can't hear you.  Well, that's where Jonah was and so he travels 2,500miles away and unfortunately, he discovered what most of us discover when we're trying to run from God. You can run from him, but you can't hide because God is everywhere and so God allowed a storm and created this storm that eventually led to Jonah being thrown overboard and to what he thought would be his death. I can only imagine the thoughts that must have been swirling through his mind as he was swirling in the waters. We don't know a lot about Jonah. 
 
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1 Introduction to Jonah

This is the first of a four-part series on the Book of Jonah, delivered by Pastor Bob Hallman January 20, 2013. 
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When we come to the Book of Jonah people think man this guy is just a flaky prophet. Why did God even call this man? This man was actually a very faithful prophet of God, and we have record of him, especially as he's addressing a very wicked king of Israel Jeroboam the second, he stood up against this king and he was very courageous and speaking the word of the Lord. So, he has a history prior to this situation with Nineveh of being faithful, of being obedient, and being a powerful voice for the for the person of God, but something happened that we're going to discover as we go through this text, the reasons why.
Something happened to Jonah that caused him to completely flake out and to completely bust a move and disobey the Lord and I think you're going to find it interesting. Some of you already know the story, for some of you this story may be a bit new.
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20. Standing Strong Part I (Ephesians 6:10-13)

The Bible says clearly that we are going to have trials in life. Some of the suffering we go through is simply a result of our fallen world. Sometimes it's our own sin or the sin of other people.  When we go through difficulties, we are encouraged to "stand"!  The Greek word is "hupomone" which means to stay under the trial until God lifts it.  
 
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21. Standing Strong Part 2 (Ephesians 6:10-18)

The Whole Armor of God
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the [a]wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [b]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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