God Hates Wicked Hearts and Evil Feet

The Hated Six - God Hates Wicked Hearts and Evil Feet

Dave Riddle - 8/20/2023

Key Passage: Proverbs 6:16-19

Seven are Detestable to Him

“Detestable” = tôʿēḇâ: Something disgusting (morally), an abhorrence, especially an idol or idolatry. Often translated “an abomination”

A Heart That Plots Wicked Schemes

• “Heart” = lēḇ - inner man, mind, will, heart, understanding

• “Wicked” = āven - to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught; nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness

What we think is right

• Proverbs 15:12 / Most of Judges

• The way the seems right to us is the way that leads to death.

• We plot towards nothingness and scheme towards vanity

• Romans 6:23 - the wages of sin is death…

• Psalm 14:1 - …there is no one who does good.

We plot… and then eagerly run to do evil

• Proverbs 6:18

• What the heart plots to do, the feet are eager to carry out

• Run = mâhar - to be liquid or flow easily

• Proverbs 6:12-17

• Genesis 6:5-6 - God sees the wickedness of our hearts and it breaks his heart.

The Answer

• Christ alone.

• Ephesians 2:8

• We can be saved, by grace, through faith.

What’s the point of Baptism?

What’s the point of Baptism?

Dave Riddle - 5/21/2023

Key Passage: Romans 6:3-11

John the Baptister 

• Jewish ritual purification based on laws from Leviticus.

• John took it a step further. He required people to repent. Turn from sin. Turn towards God.

Jesus makes a local phenomenon a global one

• Matthew 28:19

• An imperative to make, baptize, and teach disciples.

Why Immersion?

• The grammar says so

• baptizo (Greek: βαπτίζω) - to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of sunken vessels); to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe.

• Clarity from a recipe for Pickles

• It’s consistent with what we see in the New Testament.

Baptism is…

An Identifier

• It is open identification with Jesus and his death

• Romans 6:3

Impactful

• A picture of the impact of Jesus’ transformative work in our loves.

• Romans 6:6-8

Sufficient

• Baptism displays the sufficiency of Jesus’ Sacrifice

• Romans 6:9-10

• 1 Peter 3:18

A Reminder

• It reminds each believer of the call to follow Jesus.

• Romans 6:11

• Galatians 2:20

Dying to Live

Baptisms at 14:30 • Message at 34:00

Dying to Live

Dave Riddle • 07/31/2022

Key Passage: Romans 6:1-11

A Provocative Challenge
- Romans 6:1

A Piercing and Passionate Answer
- Romans 6:2a - “Absolutely not!”

A Comprehensive Explanation
- Romans 6:3 - Identification

- Romans 6:4-7 - Dying to Live

The Triumphant Jesus
- Romans 6:9-10

A Parting Challenge
- Romans 6:11 - Consider yourself dead to sin…

What is Communion?

Message begins around 30:00

What is Communion?

Dave Riddle • 07/27/2022

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 11:24-28

Communion: A Jesus-ordained ceremony 

• Baptism is the other “ordinance” that we regularly practice

• Matthew 26:26-28

An Act of Commemoration 

• Remember

  • 1 Corinthians 11:24

    • Remember who Jesus is, and what he has done for us.

  • Exodus 12:2-3, 6-7, 12-14

    • A permanent statute

    • A lasting ordinance

    • Jesus fulfilled the old Passover and, in a sense, instituted a new Passover.

A Gospel Proclamation 

• Proclaim

  • 1 Corinthians 11:26

    • Communion preaches the Gospel.

An Opportunity for Contemplation 

• 1 Corinthians 11:28

  • dokimazō - to test, examine, prove, scrutinise (to see whether a thing is genuine or not). To recognise as genuine after examination.

• Galatians 2:20

• Romans 6:11

A Way to Celebrate Unity

• koinōnia (Greek: κοινωνία) - fellowship, association, community, intimacy, joint participation (the share which one has in anything), communion.

• 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

  • One body (the Church)

  • One loaf of bread (Christ)

• John 17:9-11

A Cause for Hopeful Anticipation

• 1 Corinthians 11:26

  • “…until He comes”

• Matthew 26:29

Christmas Eve - The Impact of Life

Christmas Eve - The Impact of Life

12/24/2021 - Dave Riddle 

God gives us life

• Genesis 2:7

  • From the very beginning

• John 1:4

  • Life from Jesus

We are surrounded by death

• Romans 5:12, 17

  • Because we’ve all missed the mark

• Romans 6:23

  • The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life

• John 10:10

  • …life and life to the fullest

    • zōē (ζωή): life

    • perissos (περισσός): life to the fullest! superabundant or superior. Exceeding some number, measure, or rank. Over and above. More than necessary. Extraordinary. Excellent.

John 5:25 - …and those who hear will live

1 Corinthians 15:54 - …Death has been swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? 

Our Unchanging Identity

Unchanging Identity
Dave Riddle 8/29/2021

Key passage: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Hard truths of the Bible

• There are lots of things that make us say “I wish I didn’t know that… I wish that wasn’t in there”

  • 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

    • “You are not your own”

      • The world doesn’t revolve around me.

I’m now a steward

• 1 Peter 4:10

  • Steward: a person who manages another’s property or finances; one who administers anything as the agent of another.

  • We manage our lives, not in our own interest, but in the interest of the Father

I’m now a child

• 1 John 3:1

  • See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children—and we are!

I’m now a follower

• “Follow me”

  • Follow = akoloutheō - to be in the same way with. To be in the same road. To follow one who proceeds.

I’m now a disciple 

• Disciple = mathetes (Greek: μαθητής) - pupil/learner/student - a disciple. In the New Testament, a disciple is one who not only learns, but accepts and adverse to the instruction given to them, making it their personal everyday way of living .

  • Not just learning knowledge, but allowing that knowledge to change the way we live.

  • Matthew 16:24 - if anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself and take up his cross.

I’m now a slave

• doulos (Greek: δοῦλος): a slave, bondman, man of servile condition

  • We are slaves to our sin

    • Romans 6:15

  • Romans 6:18

    • Set free from sin!

    • Now slaves to righteousness!

Why Baptism?

Why Baptism?

Dave Riddle - Baptism Sunday 5/2/21

Key passage: Matthew 28:19-20

Why do we baptise?

• It’s a Perfect Picture

• Dead to sin (dunked) raised to new life in Christ (raised out of the water)

  • Romans 6:4

Why Immersion?

• Seems to be the regular practice in the New Testament and Apostolic Age.

• It’s consistent with what baptism symbolizes.

  • baptizo (Greek: βαπτίζω) - to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of sunken vessels); to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe.

  • Pickle recipe from 200BC

    • The immersion leads to a permanent change of the vegetable.

• It’s about identification

  • Romans 6:3-4

• It’s a public declaration faith

  • What are we declaring?

    • 1 Peter 3:8

      • What we believe about Jesus

    • 2 Corinthians 5:17

      • What we believe about ourselves. Made new!

  • Who should be baptized?

    • Acts 2:38 - Repent and be baptized...

    • Philip and the Ethiopian

    • Baptism follows salvation.

• It’s a Reminder of Who We Are in Jesus

  • Romans 6:6-7

  • Romans 6:11

  • Galatians 2:20 - ...it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me

Baptism

Baptism

Dave Riddle - 09/29/19

Key Passage: Matthew 28:19

Why Immersion?

• Seems to be the regular practice of the New Testament Church.

• baptizo (Greek: βαπτίζω) - to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of sunken vessels); to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe.

  • ancient pickle recipe

Identification

• immersed into Christ

• Romans 6:3-4

Declaration

• 1 Peter 3:18

• A new identity!

  • 2 Corinthians 5:17

• Phillip and the Ethiopian

  • Acts 8:36

Reminder

• A reminder of the call to obedience

  • Romans 6:6-7

  • Galatians 2:20

• A reminder of Jesus’ great commission for us as believers.