Romans 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Acts 5

Summary The focus of 2 Corinthians 5 is reconciliation.

As you join your congregation in corporate worship, pay attention to the words that you're singing and

God grants us grace; we need to extend it to others as well. Read / Listen Listen to passage & devotional: Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 13 Q. Can we pay this debt ourselves? A. Certainly not. Actually, we increase our guilt every day. Summary When I was a kid, many stores offered a service known as layaway. A customer would bring an item to the layaway department, and make a small payment on that item. The store associate would mark down the customer's information and how much was owed and hold on to the item. Over a period of time, the customer could continue to make payments on the item until they paid for it in full, and then they would take it home. What would it be like to go to the layaway department to make your final payment on the item, only to find that it was now going to cost you more to pay for that item? Each time you would come back expecting to pay off the item, and each time the cost of the item increased. With our sin, not only can we not make the payment to appease God’s wrath, but the debt increases more every day! Dig Deeper When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, he included a short prayer of confession in the Lord’s Prayer: And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors (v12). We offer prayers of confession because of the constant increase in our sin. No matter how often we try to keep ourselves from sin, we cannot completely live a sin free life. It simply is not possible, no matter how righteous a person may appear. All it takes is an unkind word, a seemingly small lie, or an impure thought. They are all sins. Just because you sin, and your sin increases every day, does not mean that you should stop asking for forgiveness or give up on walking God’s righteous path. In teaching His followers how to pray, Jesus commands you to continue to ask for forgiveness from God. Not only that, but you must grant others forgiveness too. When Jesus is teaching the Lord’s Prayer, He takes the act of forgiveness one step further. Not only must you ask God for forgiveness, you need to pass along what you've been given to others. You cannot live with bitter and angry hearts, holding on to the sin that others have committed against you. You are to live with grace. God grants us his grace, so we need to give it to others as well. Who do you need to forgive? AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who is in heaven, your name is holy. ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Grant me forgiveness for my sin, and help me to forgive others. ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - Acts 6

When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 1  Have mercy and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. 5     You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 17 Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Our need is twofold: We need reconciliation (51:1–9), and we need transformation (51:10–19).

Then, on this mountain, Peter, James, and John saw Jesus speaking with two prominent Old Testament prophets Deut 18:15; Mal. 4:5). As He states within the sermon of the mount in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish 1:17).” 1:14) ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Jesus, as a prophet, spoke words of warning and promise.

Psalm 51 (NKJV) To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David When Nathan the Prophet Went to Him, After He Had Gone in to Bathsheba. 1       Have this  evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And  blameless when You judge. 5              For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. 17 David wrote Psalm 51 roughly 1,000 years before Jesus lived, so David had no way of understanding the

When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17   Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. 18  When Simon saw When Peter & John give the Spirit by laying on their hands (Luke refers here to Spiritual gifts, not Today: 1 Timothy 1

Gospels: Week 5 - Jesus' power over creation, demons, hunger and unbelief CONTEXT: John the Baptist has Matthew 14:13–21 (NASB95) 13 Now when Jesus heard about John, He withdrew from there in a boat to a secluded 17 They said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.” 18 And He said, “Bring them here to And the news of John's sudden execution hit him hard.

A petition. 1   Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. 2   Your arrows soundness in my bones because of my sin. 4   My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. 5   Lord my God. 16  For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.” 17 Point 4 - Irresistible Grace Point 5 - Perseverance of the Saints Article 5: The Effects of Serious Today: John 13