- The right vision
- The Year of Jubilee: A social manifesto? (v10)
- Timing is everything (v8-9)
- Sabbath (v8)
- The Day of Atonement (v9)
- Catching the vision
- Trust and Obey?
- Remembering God’s Commands (25:55b-26:2)
- Obedience brings blessing (v3-12)
- Disobedience brings discipline (v14-39)
- Context is key (v13)
- OT
- NT
- Obedience, blessing and us?
- Times and Seasons
- Israel’s appointed times
- YHWH’s appointed times
- The reason for the season
- AGM’s, calendars, and corporate responsibility
Leviticus 19:18b ‘but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.’
- The rise of victimhood culture
- Who is my neighbour?
- Rebuking neighbours as an act of love
- The shape of rebuke
- Interpersonal
- Directed
- Performed
- Specific
- Corrective
- Rebuking neighbours for the sake of holiness
- Talking about sex
- Obey my laws and live (v1-5)
- Avoid sexual transgression (v6-23)
- Close relatives
- Other sexual miscondct
- Universal applicability (v24-30)
- Acknowledge complicity
- Heed the warning
- Know forgiveness
- The Lord’s Coming
- Illness and Sin
- Illness and Judgement
- Forgiveness and Healing
- Praise the Lord
- Our will for our lives
- 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
- The Lord’s will
- 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
- The Lord’s will for our lives
- 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
- Wanting for Wisdom
- Asking Found Wanting
- Wanting Found Wanting
- Opposing Wisdom
- What God Wants
- Why letters?
- The gospel and the shape of Christian relationships
- Giving (v1-4, 23) and the grace of Christ
- Partnership (v5-9, 12) in the gospel of Christ
- Recognition (v10-11, 15-16) for those who do the work of the Lord
- Urgency (v13-14, 22) and the return of Christ
- Love (v19-24) for the Lord, and for each other
- The shape of our relationships
- A place to stand
- “Therefore…stand firm” (1 Cor 15:58)
- “The gospel…on which you have taken your stand” (15:1-11)
- Christ died for our sins
- In accordance with the scriptures
- He was buried
- He was raised
- “If Christ has not been raised…” (15:14)
- “But…Christ has been raised” (15:20)
- “Therefore…brothers and sisters” (15:58)