by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: WE CAN PATIENTLY WAIT ON THE LORD FOR SUSTAINING STRENGTH AND PERSEVERANCE BECAUSE OF HIS ULTIMATE SUPREMACY AND SIGNIFICANCEINTRODUCTION:Often people like to downplay the relevance of studying theology. They prefer more of a step-by-step manual on how to...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: COMFORT FOR ZION DERIVES FROM THE SALVATION AND GOVERNING BLESSINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROMISED COMING OF MESSIAHINTRODUCTION:Overview of Isaiah in Review – handout Motyer: No sooner the message of disaster (39:5-7) than the message of comfort (40:1-2)!You...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: 3 PITFALLS OF PRIDEINTRODUCTION:The Scriptures clearly indicate that the root problem of Hezekiah here is PRIDE.2 Chr. 32:24-25 – Hezekiah had wrongly responded in pride to the gift of healing he had receivedC. S. Lewis: If anyone would like to acquire...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: DIVINE DELIVERANCE DEMONSTRATES THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD OVERLIFE AND DEATH . . . AND DEFINES OUR LIFE IN TERMS OF WORSHIP –3 QUESTIONS THAT PROBE WHETHER WE TRULY WORSHIP GODINTRODUCTION: God seeks people that will worship Him in Spirit and truth. Do we...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: CRISIS SITUATIONS PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR GOD TO VINDICATE HIS PREEMINENCE AND GLORY AS HE RESPONDS TO PRAYERS FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS COVENANT PEOPLEINTRODUCTION:Life is a series of responding to one pressure after another; one crisis situation after...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: IMAGES OF SLAUGHTER AND DESOLATION FLESH OUT THE HORRIFYING PICTURE OF THE UNLEASHING OF THE WRATH OF GODINTRODUCTION:I don’t know how much you have heard of the controversy over the new biblical epic movie “Noah” that has just hit the movie theaters....
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: TWO RESULTS OF WITNESSING GOD’S JUDGMENT AND DELIVERANCE- FELLOWSHIP- BLESSINGINTRODUCTION:Review of the first half of Chapter 33: When God springs into action, the destroyer is destroyed and God’s people are delivered.I. (:1-6) First Movement: Judgment and...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: WHEN GOD SPRINGS INTO VISIBLE AND DRAMATIC ACTION, THE DESTROYER IS DESTROYED AND GOD’S PEOPLE ARE DELIVEREDINTRODUCTION:Accountability is coming says the Lord and He will destroy Judah’s enemies and deliver His people. It might look like the Lord is silent;...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: LOUSY GOVERNMENT AND UPSIDE DOWN SOCIAL VALUES WILL BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RIGHTEOUS REIGN OF THE MESSIAHINTRODUCTION:We like to think that the United States represents the best country on the earth today. Certainly we enjoy freedoms and a standard of living...
by Paul Apple | Apr 6, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THREE ARGUMENTS FOR TRUSTING IN GOD INSTEAD OF IN THE WORLD INTRODUCTION: Where do we turn for help when we are in danger? Instead of putting confidence in the flesh or seeking the help of sinful men, we need to put all of our dependence in the Lord who...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: YOU CAN TURN TO GOD FOR RESTORATION OR HAVE GOD TURN ON YOU IN RETRIBUTION –RESTORATION AND RETRIBUTION CULMINATE IN THE DAY OF THE LORDINTRODUCTION:A lot of people today would dismiss any preaching characterized by Fire and Brimstone as too severe....
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: REJECTION OF GOD’S WORD DOOMS RELIGIOUS FRAUDS TO COMPLETE COLLAPSEINTRODUCTION: The world is full of religious frauds. These are folks that profess to be Christians; they claim to love the Lord Jesus Christ; they speak highly of His moral example; they want...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: RETURNING TO EGYPT IS THE PATHWAY TO SHAME AND FUTILITYINTRODUCTION:James warns his readers: “You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE SMARTER THAN GOD WILL BE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THIS EARTH SO THAT FULL REDEMPTION CAN BE ENJOYED BY GOD’S TRANSFORMED PEOPLE IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOMINTRODUCTION:We should not be surprised at the level of mocking and scoffing that...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE LORD JUDGES ROTE RELIGIOUS TRADITION WITH SPIRITUAL BLINDNESSINTRODUCTION:It doesn’t take very long for dead religious traditions to replace vibrant biblical convictions. It happens all the time.- It happens in families as children attend the same...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE ONLY SURE FOUNDATION = THE PRECIOUS CORNERSTONE =THE MESSIAHINTRODUCTION:Outward physical circumstances can be so deceiving. The wicked can have that Hollywood glitter attached to them. They look so successful and so beautiful. But inside they are no...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: REGATHERED ISRAEL FLOURISHES IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM AS GOD DEALS DECISIVELY WITH HER ENEMIESINTRODUCTION:Today we are completing another major section in the prophecy of Isaiah – chapters 24-27 – the Mini Apocalypse that prepares God’s people for worship...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: FAITH IN THE ROCK OF AGES IS FORTIFIED BY VALUABLE LESSONS FROM GOD’S RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENTSINTRODUCTION: A Mighty Fortress is our GodA mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:For still our...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE REDEEMED NEED TO EXPRESS THEIR PRAISE TO GOD FOR HIS GREATNESS AND HIS SALVATION CULMINATING IN SWALLOWING UP DEATH FOR ALL TIMEINTRODUCTION:I have commented before how providentially when we are studying through a book of the Bible we will come to a...
by Paul Apple | Apr 5, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE WHOLE EARTH IS HEADED FOR CATASTROPHIC DEVASTATION AND ONLY THE REMNANT REMAINS TO PRAISE GODINTRODUCTION:Where is this earth headed?- The evolutionists have their answer: They have bought into Charles Darwin’s theory that via natural selection,...
