STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – February 26, 2017

REVELATION MESSAGE 18 – Eating the Prophecy of God
Revelation 10

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AUDIO for FFC for Sunday – February 19, 2017

REVELATION MESSAGE 17 – Mercy Fighters
Revelation 9, Jude 17-25

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STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – February 19, 2017

The Work of Our Hands!
Good or Bad?

Often in the Bible God speaks of the work of our hands as something really good. In fact, under the correct circumstances he would really like to bless all the work of our hands.

  • (Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV) The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

But at other times he speaks to the work of our hands in the harshest of terms.

  • (Jeremiah 1:16 ESV) And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.

What is the difference?

It all depends on the object of our work. If we are working on the things for which God has created us and the things over which he has given us a stewardship, then he will generally speaking bless the work of our hands.

So what is the problem?

We, as in humans, make things that we are not supposed to make, e.g. making things to worship.

  • (Psalm 115:4 ESV) Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
  • (Jeremiah 25:6 ESV) Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.
  • (Jeremiah 25:7 ESV) Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
  • (Haggai 2:14 ESV) Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
  • (Acts 7:41 ESV) And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

If we are making things that God prohibits, then the work of our hands will always lead to false gods and false worship. Thus this morning’s text.

  • (Revelation 9:20 ESV) The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

REVELATION MESSAGE 17 – Mercy Fighters
Revelation 9, Jude 17-23

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AUDIO for FFC for Sunday – February 12, 2017

REVELATION MESSAGE 16 – Doom Is on Its Way
Revelation 8

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STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – February 12, 2017

REVELATION MESSAGE 16 – Doom Is on Its Way
Revelation 8

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AUDIO for FFC for Sunday – February 5, 2017

Judgment, judgment, judgment.

  • The furious wrath of God unleashed from heaven. Ravaging, wrecking, smashing cataclysmic events that God will bring on this entire planet as he breaks the seals and opens the scroll and has angels pour out bowls of judgment and blow trumpets of doom and devastation. And that is what much of the book of Revelation is about. But not that is not the full picture by any means. God’s judgment absolutely must happen for salvation to come, but in chapter seven we have an interlude as God reveals to us the saving side of his judgment, the salvation that he provides in and through his holy, righteous judgment.
  • God reveals to us that he will bring his salvation to those who believe no matter the conditions of this earth. The presentation of the redeemed, the saved, is really the unifying theme of chapter seven, and if we were to try to capture this with musical terminology which is what I have done, then we would see four movements in this amazing interlude that presents a multitude beyond number of those redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

REVELATION MESSAGE 15 – The Lamb Will Be Their Shepherd
Revelation 7

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STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – February 5, 2017

Message: “The Lamb Will Be Their Shepherd!”
Message Text: Revelation 7

 

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AUDIO for FFC for Sunday – January 29, 2017

REVELATION MESSAGE 14
The Great Day of Wrath – Revelation 6

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Who is going to face these judgments?

  • The writer of Hebrews tells us that “people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment (Hebrews 9:27 NIV). One day no more games, no more bandying about our opinions and stroking our pride. One day no more pretending.
  • As we look at these judgments, we should probably have some sense of shock and terror, and a great sense of sadness, as we realize who will be facing this. People like you and me, maybe even family and friends. That good neighbor couple who lives next door to you. Bob at work who is such an excellent coworker.
  • So who is going to face these judgments, the seals and the scroll and the vials? Everyone who has not been raptured.
  • Is this judgment horrible? Should it shake us up as we study it? Yes and yes. Should we ever doubt God as to the necessity of his judgment, or doubt him as to his solution for the problem of sin on the planet? Never.
  • What a person believes about the gospel tells you what they believe about sin. If they believe that salvation is something within their grasp, something they can work for, then they don’t understand the infinite gap between sin and righteousness. They don’t understand that the gospel doesn’t make good people better but brings dead people to life. And they do not understand grace, the means by which we are saved.
  • (Ephesians 2:8 ESV) For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.

 

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ADDITIONAL STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – January 29, 2017

More study sheets; lots of good commentary on the seals; I won’t go into all that detail tomorrow but is very good; more “Day of the Lord” Old Testament passages shared.

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STUDY SHEETS for FFC for Sunday – January 29, 2017

Message: The Great Day of Wrath
Message Text: Revelation 6

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