Risky Business

Title: Risky Business
Text: Philippians 2:25-30

Teaching Synopsis
What does it mean to risk your life for what God has called you to do.  In this teaching we explore the example of Epaphroditus, a believer from the church in Philipi who almost died while serving God.

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Hey Jude: God’s in Your Corner

Title: God’s in Your Corner
Text: Jude 24-25

Teaching Synopsis
Jude wraps up his book by reminding us that God is in our corner.  Jude wants us to remember that our victory comes from God, and not anything else.  As we contend for the faith, we will experience victory, purity, and joy.

Your life can be characterized by…

• God can keep you from falling (a lifestyle of obedience)
• God can present you faultless (a heart of surrender)
• God can present you with great Joy (an attitude of delight)

Our lives can reflect…

• The holiness/glory of God (our character is more and more like Him)
• The Majesty of God (our lives are in service to Him)
• The Power of God (we take steps of faith so that He can prove Himself mighty through us)
• The Authority of God (He has the final say in our lives).

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Hey Jude: Big Bark, Little Bite

Title: Big Bark, Little Bite
Text: Jude 12-16

Teaching Synopsis
To contend for the faith, you have to enter the ring to win!  In this teaching we look at some warnings Jude gives as coaches the early church to contend.  He lays out 4 ways to get yourself killed in the fight

1. Treat the Church as a Commodity
2. Activity vs. Accomplishment
3. Ignoring the Coming Judgment
4. Self-Centered Living

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Hey Jude: Fighting Dirty

Title: Fighting Dirty
Text: Jude 8-11

Teaching Synopsis
To contend for the faith you can’t cheat.  Jude gives us an example of those that want to cheat in their way to victory.  Our life as Christians is to be marked by something radically different.  Jude approaches three themes in a parallel form.  In this teaching we unearth those parallels and consider what it means to contend the way God wants us to contend.

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Hey Jude: A Fatal Blow

Title: A Fatal Blow
Text: Jude 5-7

Teaching Synopsis
Jude warns us of three sins that will create downfall for those who do not contend for the faith.  Unbelief (Israel), Pride/Hubris (Angels), Sexual Perversion (Sodom & Gomorrah). In this teaching we will consider the interaction of these groups with the opportunities God provided and how their unwillingness to respond to God’s leadership resulted in their downfall.

1. The Sin of Unbelief leads to a Spirit of Judgment (cr. Numbers 14)
2. The Sin of Hubris leads to a Spirit of Rebellion (cr. Isaiah 14:12-14)
3. The Sin of Lust leads to a Spirit of Gratification (cr. Genesis 19)

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Hey Jude: Put Up Your Dukes

Title: Put Up Your Dukes
Text: Jude 1-4

What does it mean to “contend for the faith”?  What is our faith and how can it be undermind?  In this teaching we kick off the new series by considering what our faith is and why we should contend for it.

Contending for the Faith
The word “contend” means to fight, to take an offensive posture, lace up the gloves, be the first one in the ring to take on those that would undermine our faith.  God wants you to beat down those things which will infect and distort your engagement of God’s grace and the person of Jesus Christ.

Jude points to three expressions of Faith

1. Your Faith expressed thru Relationship
2. Your Faith expressed thru Belief
3. Your Faith expressed thru Lifestyle

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