Passionate Prayer

House Rules - Prayer

Dave Riddle - 10/23/2022

Key Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21

Passionate Prayer

• growing in our desire and commitment to seek God (individually and with others) and yield to His will for our lives.

Key Concept: Surrender!

• Prayer is acknowledging that we don’t have complete control

Posture of Humility

• Ephesians 3:14

• Philippians 2:10

• Pray = proseuchomai (Greek: προσεύχομαι) to pray to God, supplicate, worship.

• Worship = proskyneo (Greek: προσκυνέω) - to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence

Phenomenal God

• Ephesians 3:14b-16a

• Ephesians 3:20

  • dynamis (Greek: δύναμις) strength, ability of power, especially inherent power, residing in something (or someone) by virtue of its (or their) nature.

Passionate Request

• Ephesians 3:16

  • Praying for spiritual maturity

• Ephesians 3:17

  • Praying for a strong foundation

• Ephesians 3:18-19

  • Comprehend, know, filled with the fulness of God

    • Know = ginōskō: to know in a deeply experiential way.

Point of it All

• Ephesians 3:21

Life in the Spirit

House Rules - Holy Spirit

Dave Riddle - 10/16/2022

Key Passage:  John 14:16-17

Life in the Spirit

• walking in the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit, while bearing spiritual fruit and utilizing spiritual gifts.

A Promise Fulfilled

• John 14:16-17

  • We need help!

• John 16:7

  • Jesus was leaving, but He didn’t leave us without help!

  • Helper = paraklētos - summoned, called to one's side, esp. called to one's aid. One who pleads another's cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate. One who pleads another's cause with one, an intercessor. In the widest sense, a helper, aider, assistant

Friendship

• Holy Spirit “…is the loving, self-communicating, out-fanning and out-pouring presence of the eternal divine life of the triune God. By the Spirit, God draws near to the creature and mediates a knowledge of divinity in a hundred thousand ways.” - Jürgen Moltmann

Conviction

• John 16:8-9

  • We are completely dependent on the Holy Spirit bearing fruit in our gospel work and in our lives.

New Life

• Acts 2:37-38

• John 3:5-6

• John 6:63a

Empowered Life

• Acts 1:8

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  • Power = dynamis (Greek: δύναμις) strength, ability of power, especially inherent power, residing in something (or someone) by virtue of its (or their) nature.

• Galatians 5:16

Changed (Fruitful) Life

• Galatians 5:22-23

• Galatians 5:25 - If we live by the spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit

  • Keep in step = stoicheo (Greek: στοιχέω) -literally, to march in military rank; to proceed in a row as the march of a soldier. Figuratively, to conform (in virtue, piety)

Gifted Life

• 1 Corinthians 12:4-7

  • We are strengthened by each other’s gifts.

• 1 Corinthians 12:12

Directed Life

• John 16:3

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

Eternal Life

• Ephesians 1:13-14

• Ephesians 4:30

United Life

• 1 Corinthians 12:13

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

You Can’t Serve Two Masters

Message begins around 34:00

You Can’t Serve Two Masters

Dave Riddle - 8/28/22

Key Passage: Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters…”

• Jesus in Matthew 6:24a

• “No one” = oudeis (οὐδείς) - not even one

  • Romans 3:10

• “Can” = dynamai (δύναμαι) - to be able, have power whether by virtue of one's own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favourable circumstances, or by permission of law or custom

• It is impossible!

• “Serve” = douleuō (δουλεύω) - to be a slave to (literal or figurative, involuntary or voluntary):—be in bondage, (do) serve(-ice).

• “Masters” = kyrios (κύριος) - supreme in authority

  • Romans 10:9, Luke 6:46

“…he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.”

• Jesus in Matthew 6:24b

• It’s impossible for us to love (agapaō: ἀγαπάω - perfect unconditional love) two supreme masters at once.

  • Compare to Jesus’ comments about the good “single” eye from last week, Matthew 6:22.

“…You cannot serve both God and money.”

• Jesus in Matthew 6:24c

• “Money” = mamōnas (μαμωνᾶς) - Mammon - everything we pursue in life. Riches, treasures, dreams, feelings, idols. Everything that isn’t God.

• Joshua 24:15 - “…choose this day whom you will serve...”

Upside Down View of Ourselves

Message begins around 33 minutes

Upside Down View of Ourselves

03/13/2021 - Dave Riddle 

Key Passage: Psalm 37:5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “trust thyself”

• Proverbs 3:5 - don’t do that…

  • Self-reliance limits our spiritual growth

  • Psalm 37:5 - “Depend on the Lord. Trust in him, and he will help you.”

  • Jeremiah 9:23 - Don’t boast about yourself

  • Philippians 4:11-13 - it’s not about our strength or ability.

Spiritual growth is not about personal willpower, it’s about surrender.

What do we trust in?

His Forgiveness

• Luke 18:9-14

  • …everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.

• Romans 3:11-12

  • Our own goodness will never be enough.

• Philippians 3:9

  • Our righteousness comes from him!

• It all goes back to what God has done for us.

His Empowerment

• 1 Chronicles 16:11

  • Seek God

• Acts 1:8a

  • Empowered by the Holy Spirit.

  • dynamos (δύναμαι)= able. to be able, have power whether by virtue of one's own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favourable circumstances, or by permission of law

• The same power that raised Christ from the dead empowers you today!

His Wisdom

• 1 Corinthians 3:19

  • The wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight.

• James 3:17

  • The wisdom from above is pure, peace loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy, unwavering, without pretense…

His Provision

• Psalm 34:19 - “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues from them all.”

• 1 Peter 5:7 - cast all your anxieties on God..

• 2 Corinthians 1:8-9

  • We even despaired off life itself!

  • …so that we would not trust ourselves.

• His provision is better than our attempts at self preservation

His Kingship

• Psalm 18:2

• Psalm 113:4-6

• John 6:68 - where else would we go? Only you have the words of eternal life.

Wrapping Up Romans

Wrapping Up Romans

10/04/2020 - Dave Riddle

Key Passage: Romans 16:25-27

Now to him... be the glory forever! Amen.

• Romans 16:25, 27

• Glory = doxa (δόξα)
  

 Him who is able to strengthen you...

• Romans 16:25

• dynamos (δύναμαι)= able. to be able, have power whether by virtue of one's own ability and resources, or of a state of mind, or through favourable circumstances, or by permission of law or custom

• stērizō (στηρίζω) = strengthen. To set fast. To turn resolutely in a certain direction. 
  

Good News

• Romans 16:25

• euangelion (εὐαγγέλιον) = a good message. Good news!
  

Divine Revelation 

• Romans 16:25-26

• A secret or mystery revealed. Something that had been kept hidden.

• Ours eyes have been opened to the truth of Jesus.
  

Divine Mandate

• Romans 16:26

• epitagē (ἐπιταγὴν) - an injunction , decree, command or mandate. By implication, authoritativeness.
  

...to the only wise God

• Romans 16:27

• We have no shortage of access to facts and opinions.

  • God is the only one who is wise.

• sophos (σοφῷ) - Wise. To have skill or expertise. To best form plans and use the best means for their actual execution. 
  

How do we walk more deeply in this truth?

• Understand his word better

• Live empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit.

• Walk together in community and unity.