God’s Care: Resilience, Part 3 (#949)
Good morning. We’re going to continue our series today on God’s care for use, which we’ve been doing throughout 2018. And the last few sessions we’ve talked about God’s care leading to us having great resilience. Because God cares for us, we can bounce back from difficult situations. We can have comebacks; we can have turnarounds, they are some of the terms used in business and in sports and things. You’ll see a great athlete who has disappeared for a number of years and all of the sudden he’ll have a come-back and start doing well again. Or a company that was really doing poorly, that will re-organize, re-do how they work, and all of the sudden they will being doing well. Well the same with our lives. We can be very resilient and no matter how tough things get, our lives can turn around we can have a great come back and we can be better than ever.
One example I haven’t put in here and we probably won’t cover in this session is Job. Now there are a lot of challenges about reading the book of Job, but the one thing that is very clear is that he was doing well, and then he was doing very, very poorly. But then he came back stronger than ever. And so, we need to keep that in mind when we have a set back in life, that just because we have a set back, it doesn’t mean that it is the end of our lives, it just means that the way life used to be may be done, but it doesn’t mean God’s done with us and it doesn’t mean He won’t have great things ahead. They may just be very different than the way they were before. But they will be wonderful if we keep looking to God.
And this is part 3, in the first two parts we read about Ahab, Hezekiah, and spent a lot of time focusing on the apostle Paul and the challenges he had when he went to Jerusalem. And the great thing about reading about Paul is that he went there against the will of the Lord. God warned him what was going to happen, he went anyway, he got in a big mess, but God still bailed him out and got him out of there. And Paul continued for many, many years to help God’s people and he received the revelation for many of the church epistles that have so many great truths about this age of grace in which we live, and the body of Christ, and the manifestations of holy spirit, and so many great things. Much of that great revelation was given to him while he was imprisoned in Rome. So, the fact that he disobeyed what God had told him and got in a mess, didn’t end his life or didn’t end his ability to help people. He just did it in different ways. Instead of being able to travel around the Mediterranean and visit the Churches in person, God gave him the revelation to write letters, which became the Church Epistles. And he was able to help many believers in his fellowship there in Rome.
So, things happen in life and we all have a rather bad habit, so to speak, of wanting things to stay just as they are. I shouldn’t say it is a bad habit, it is nice when things are the way you want them it is great to want them to stay that way. But they can’t always stay that way because people have freedom of will and as much as God wants to bless us and can bless us, He can’t control people’s freedom of will. So I could be in a wonderful situation, where everything is just the way I want, but if various people, perhaps including me, perhaps not including me chose to change that situation, so I can no longer enjoy it. Nobody can do anything about it, except the person that chose to change it. But that doesn’t mean God stopped, because He’ll come back with something else.
Remember that record of Elijah? I’m not sure we’ll get into it in this series of teachings, but we get into it from time to time, where God went to the prophet Elijah and said: ‘pray that it won’t rain until I say so.’ So he prayed that it wouldn’t rain and it didn’t rain for a couple years. And the king of Israel, probably Ahab at that time, got all mad and sent people around to find him and kill him. But God hid him. God hid him and told him to go live by the brook Cherub, then that the ravens would feed him and the ravens came and fed him and he was fine until the water ran out. And He said: ‘go to Tyre and see this widow woman and she’ll take care of you.’ So he gets there and the widow woman only has enough food for one small snack for her and her son, yet God stretches that food so that the woman, her son, and Elijah eat for many days, until the rains come back. So the point is: things are different. If Elijah has spent all his time saying: ‘Gosh, I wish God hadn’t told me to pray and I wish we never had this drought; I wish things were like they were before,’ that would have been fruitless because things weren’t the way they were before. Or if he got by the brook Cherub and he got all comfy there, made a little campsite and loved it, and then that ended because the brook dried up and he spent all his time saying: ‘Gee, I wish I could stay here by the brook.’ That wouldn’t work. So, he did what God said and went to Tyre and met the widow woman and she took care of him.
So things will change. And rather than spending too much time trying to hold on to what is gone, we have to look to God and look to what is next. Again, I’m not encouraging us to have loss in our lives, I’m encouraging us to hold on to good things that God gives us, but there are time where there are situations beyond our control where the stuff we’ve had we can’t have. Whether its the financial situation, whether it is physical, material stuff you have, whether it is a relationship with a person or a group; these things change. But God will always be there.
And you will find through out your life that people are going to come and go, but God will be there. It is great when people stay with you, I love it, I’m all for it. But I’ve just found in my life and seen that many people are going to come and go; there here today and gone tomorrow. So cherish the ones that stay with you and the situations that continue to work. But the ones that go and are no longer available, just let them go. Be thankful that they were there as long as they were there. Look fondly on the good parts of them, but let the bad parts just go away and pray that God will open new doors for you, with new people and new situations. And God always will.
And the book of Ruth is one of the most extreme examples of a woman who literally lost everything, but came back unbelievably strong because she looked to God. So with that not so brief introduction, let’s go to the book of Ruth, chapter one…
As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180805.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Ruth 1:1-18; (ch. 2-4) 4:13-22: Ruth chose the true God. Kinsman redeemer. Mat. 1:5.
Understanding eastern customs during this period, often referred to as Orientalisms will greatly aid in understanding.  Bishop Pillai’s work can aid here (http://www.biblecustoms.org/bishop-kc-pillai/old-and-new-testament-orientalisms/ruth)
Ruth 3:7 They drink at the end of a meal (coffee or milk), does not necessarily mean liquor.  Threshing floors are always on a high, rocky place. Oxen and buffalo walk on the grain to crush it down. The mouth of the ox should not be muzzled. The laborer is worthy of his hire.  Work is always done at night by moonlight. No women are allowed at night. The owner comes and sits on a pile of corn in the corner.
Ruth 3:9  She lay down at his feet as a sign of submission, surrender. She was asking him to redeem her, marry her. She asked him to spread his mantle (not skirt) over her. In doing so, he was showing protection, promising to marry her.
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God’s Care: Resilience, Part 3 (#949)

God’s Care: Resilience, Part 2 (#948)
Welcome. We’re going to continue our series on God’s Care, the one we’ve been doing this the beginning of 2018. And last week we talked about how one way God care’s for us is giving us resilience. And we read about Ahab, and Hezekiah, and we started in on the ministry of the apostle Paul, but there was so much detail that we stopped. We stopped about the time Paul was arrested. But we’re going to pick it up there.
And of course Paul had many ups that downs; everybody has ups and downs in life and Paul had a lot of them and they are very well documented in the book of Acts and to a lessor extent in the epistles. He of coarse had challenges primarily from the other believers, the Judaising believers, the Christians who had become born again, but didn’t want to let go of the old testament law. Paul, of coarse was the one most responsible for teaching about the age of grace and that Jesus Christ had fulfilled the law and that we no longer should or had to follow the old testament law. God revealed that to many people, but nobody more than the apostle Paul, who received the revelation of the great mystery, the book of Ephesians and other parts of the Epistles that really make it very clear. And of course those Christians, the Judean’s didn’t like him, because he said you should follow Jesus Christ, because they did not recognize as the Messiah. They were very mad at him. But just as mad at him were the Christians who, although they were born again, still wanted to follow the old testament law. And we see this today in Christianity, lots and lots of Christian groups don’t really understand the Age of Grace and the deliverance we’ve received through Jesus Christ, they just want to keep people under the Old Testament Law. So we see it very common today, its just a little different. Back then the biggest deal was following the law and circumcising your children.
People don’t seem to argue about that today, they argue about many other things. Pick any topic in life, pick any topic in the scriptures and you can find some group that’s worried about it and occasionally what they say it actually found in the scriptures. Quite often it has no ground in the scriptures whatever, just what they’re into. You know like for instance, there are still groups that don’t like you to go dancing. We’ll if you look in the scripture about dancing, the only example I can think of is when David had a great victory and danced and one of his wives, Saul’s daughter, got mad at him and he basically shut her up in the tower for the rest of her life. She, because it was very godly for him to dance before the Lord. So how you can have a Christian group that says dancing is evil, I’m not sure where you get it from the scriptures. They just don’t like the idea. And that’s just one example, there are so many others. But at any rate that is what Paul was dealing with. And we’re really not going to focus on the difference between the law and grace today, that is a whole different other topic that we’ve spent time on before and the future we’ll spend more time on.
But what we’re going to focus on today is Paul’s resilience. That in spite of being attacked and set up, and tricked by legalistic Christians who should have been on his side, but instead were hindering him. And in spite of the attacks by the Jews, the legalistic Christians that came from a Jewish background, and the Roman authorities, and many other groups. Remember he was stoned to death, we are not going to read about it today, but at one point he was stoned to death by basically a bunch of pagans who thought that he and Barnabas were Greek Gods and when they found out they weren’t they stoned them to death. So they started out trying to worship them and then Paul wouldn’t let them worship them, they stoned them to death. So, he had to be resilient. They literally killed him, but the believers prayed, he got up from the dead and he went on and preached in the next city. That takes resilience. There are people that have a bad conversation with somebody, or have a disagreement with somebody and it sets them into a tizzy and takes them years to recover if they ever do. Well he was stoned to death and he still got up, brushed the dust off his feet, and went to the next town to preach the Gospel.
So Paul had great resilience and it is part of God’s care that He provides what we need so we can be that resilient. And we can read about people like the apostle Paul and so many others in the scriptures who come back from great set backs, great challenges, great difficulties. Sometimes it is because they did something wrong like Paul going to Jerusalem, when God told him not to go. Sometimes it is from other people doing bad things to them like when the counsel of the church leaders told him to go into the temple to offer a sacrifice. They did that to him and then the other Jews there, they’re the ones that started to beat him up and almost killed him. It took the unbelieving Roman soldiers, unbelieving in the sense that they didn’t believe in the true God and Jesus Christ, they are the ones that saved him. And that will happen sometimes in life, the people that aught to be behind you, the other Christians, are the ones trying to kill you and it takes some nice more rational unbelievers to come in and save your bacon, so to speak. So that’s going to happen in life. I’m not saying just love the unbelievers and hate the believers, but there are times when the unbelievers will be the more rational and helpful for you. Because the believers throw you out. Anyway, with that background, let’s pick up Paul before the Sanhedrin.
He’s already been to the temple to offer sacrifices, which is a silly thing to do for someone born again. But the church leaders in Jerusalem were so legalistic they thought it would keep the legalistic Christians happy. Now in retrospect, what Paul should have done is one, not go to Jerusalem and two, if he got there say, ‘I don’t care what you guys say, we’re free from the law, I’m not going to go offer sacrifices; Jesus Christ fulfilled all that.’ But there are all kinds of things he should have done, he didn’t. And we certainly can’t make fun of him because we do sillier things on most days. But Paul did and the result is he is now being dragged before the Sanhedrin, which is the ruling body of Judaism; it isn’t a Roman court, because although the Romans controlled Judea as the Roman province and they had a Roman governor there, just as in the time of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion it was Pontius Pilate, there was a Roman governor there which will come out as we read further. And the Romans controlled the province, but they let the Jewish leaders continue to have their own council and handle their own internal matters. That is the way big empires will often work, they’ll let the locals police small matters, but when they get big, then the imperial government comes in and controls it. So, Paul is before the Sanhedrin, the council of the Jewish leaders, here in Acts 23…
As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180722.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Acts 23:1-10       Paul before the Sanhedrin
Acts 23:11           And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer,
Acts 23:12ff        Paul barely escapes the mob
Acts 24:27           But after two years Porcius Festus left Paul bound.
Acts 25:10           Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat
Acts 27:23-24      For there stood by me this night the angel of God, Saying, Fear not, Paul;
Acts 28:23            He expounded and testified the kingdom of God concerning Jesus
Acts 28:30-31      And Paul dwelt two whole years preaching the kingdom of God
Gal. 6:18              Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit. Amen.
[[[To [the] Galatians written from Rome.]]]
Eph. 6:24             [[[To [the] Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.]]]
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God’s Care: Resilience, Part 2 (#948)

God’s Care: Resilience, Part 1 (#947)
Good morning. We’re going to continue our series on God’s care for us and today we’ll talk about it from the point of view of resilience. We all know people that are very resilient and can bounce back from any kind of challenge they may have. We also know people that hit one stumbling block or have one little problem and then they never seem to pick up and move on form there. Well God gives us the ability to be resilient because no matter what may go wrong in our lives, no matter what we may lose, no matter what difficulty may be ahead of us, God can get us through that and move on to the next part of our lives. So we will talk about it today and we may actually continue it for the next few sessions looking at many of the wonderful believers in God’s word who faced tremendous challenges, it looked like totally defeat, it looked like everything was going wrong, yet they came back and not only recovered, but prospered. I think of some people that aren’t in the notes for today, like Job: he lost everything, he – it literally says he survived by the skin of his teeth. Yet when his life turned around, he ended up with more than he’d had before, twice as much. And there are so many people like that. Abraham started with so little and end up with so much, Joseph, in prison in Egypt, went from being the youngest son in a moderately prosperous family to being a slave, then being a prisoner, and ended up being the second most powerful man in that entire part of the world. There are so many records of people who have such great resilience, their lives turn around you can call them — in the business world they call them come-back kings or something, or turn-around kings because they somehow took a bad situation and made it very good with God’s help. So we’ll read about a few of those today and then as I say, we may continue on other sessions to do that. But the point of it is, part of God’s care for us is He helps us be resilient. There may be people that will help you be resilient when you have a challenge, and that is wonderful when they are, but whether there are people there or not to help you be resilient, God will be there to help you be resilient. And He will help you bounce back from whatever challenge you have and come out even more successful and prosperous as a result. So let’s go into first Kings chapter 21…
As taught by Bruce Mahone, 201180708.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
I Kings 21:18-29     Ahab was wicked, but humbled himself (vs. 29)
II Kings 20:1-11      Hezekiah sick unto death, prayed, and healed (vs. 7)
Acts 20:7-21:40      Paul went to Jerusalem against the will of the Lord
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God’s Care: Resilience Part 1 (#947)

God’s Care: Reliability (#946)
Good morning! We’re going to continue our series on God’s Care that we’ve been reviewing since the first of the year. Today we’re going to talk about God’s care in the light of His reliability, His faithfulness. We all like things that are reliable. I was talking to somebody the other day that had a rather limited budget to buy a car and we were figuring out how we could find a car that was within budget, but still reliable. Obviously, if you buy a brand new car its reliable. If you buy a used car, you just need to be a little more careful to make sure it has been well maintained and its in good shape. And we all have things that are like that: if we have home repairs done, if we buy a home appliance, if we buy a phone or a computer, or anything; we want one that’s reliable. And the same thing working with people. Sometimes people are very reliable and come through for you; other times they make a lot of promises and never do anything. And we’re all used to that. Ourselves; none of us are perfect. We all have great intentions to do good things and often we follow through, and often something gets in the way and we don’t follow-through. That’s just the way of life. But God is not like that. He is always reliable. He is always faithful. He always comes through for us. And that is part of His care for us. ‘Cause we know that He cares for us and we know that that care is reliable. It’s not sort of fickle, and one day He cares for you and the next day He doesn’t want to bother, so you’re on your own. Our heavenly father, our God, is not like that; He always comes through. So let’s start in the book of Deuteronomy chapter seven…
As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180624.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Deut. 7:7-9                  The LORD God is the faithful God
I Kings 17:1-16           The ravens, then the barrel of meal fed Elijah.
Psalms 36:5-9             Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds
Psalms 92:1-5             To show forth thy faithfulness every night
Psalm 108:1-6             Your mercy (steadfast love, lovingkindness) is great above (higher than) the heavens and thy truth (faithfulness) reaches to the clouds (skies) (vs. 4)
Psalms 119:86            All thy commandments are faithful
Psalms 119:90            Thy faithfulness is unto all generations
Psalms 119:138          Thy testimonies are very faithful
Lam. 3:22-23               Great is thy faithfulness
Romans 8:35-39         Nothing can separate us from the love of God
Romans 12:10-14       Patient in mental pressure, continuing instant [steadfastly, faithful, persevering,  be constant] in prayer (vs. 12)
I Cor. 10:13                 God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able
II Thes. 3:3                  The Lord is faithful, who will stablish you and keep you from evil
II Timothy 4:16-18     The Lord stood with me, and strengthened me
Titus 1:9                      Holding fast the faithful word
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God’s Care: Reliability (#946)

God’s Care: Father’s Day (#945)
We have been having a series for a number of months, actually since the beginning of 2018, on God’s care for us.  And since today is the day that we celebrate as Father’s Day we’ll be talking about God as our father. God obviously is spirit and He is not a physical father, but He is a spiritual father in that we are born again of His spirit.  So, we’re going to read a bunch of verses that relate to His role as our father. And let’s start in Matthew chapter six in verse seven…
As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180610.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Matthew 6-7:11        He is our Heavenly Father, and He does want us to pray
Matthew 7:7-11        How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (vs. 11)
Matthew 23:1-11      Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven (vs. 9)
John 3:1-5                   Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God
John 14                        The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name (vs. 26)
Acts 1:1-4                    Wait for the promise of the Father (vs. 4)
Romans 1:7                 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ
Romans 8:15-18         We cry Abba, Father
II Thess. 2:16-17         God our Father hath loved us, comfort your hearts
I Peter 1:23                  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible
I John 1:3-4                  Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ (vs. 3)
I John 3:1-2                  And we are!
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God’s Care: Father’s Day (#945)

God’s Care: He Cares (#944)
Good morning. Today we are going to continue our series, which we started the beginning of 2018, on God’s Care. And this time we are going to get to something we probably should done the first time, about how God cares for us. God cares for us so we don’t have to have any anxiety; about anything. I talked to somebody this week, that said there was a lot of anxiety about some future travel and future plans and it occurred to me that lots of people of anxiety, but God has a solution to that; so we’ll read about that. Matthew 13…

As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180527.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Mat. 13:1-9; 18-23       The care (merimna – anxiety, worry, care) of this world can choke God’s Word
Mat. 6:25-34                 Take no thought (merimnao – to be apprehensive, have anxiety, be anxious, be (unduly) concerned) for tomorrow
Luke 10:38-42              Thou art careful (merimnao) and troubled (agitated). One thing is needful
Phil. 4:4-9                      Be anxious for nothing (moderation – gentleness, patience)
Don’t worry over anything whatever; tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer, and the peace of God, which transcends human understanding, will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus – JB Phillips
Philippians 4:6-7 6       Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. – NLT
I Peter 5:6-9                  Casting all your mental distraction (merimna) on him, for is is aware (melo) of your needs
Psalm 1                          Meditate on God’s Word
Prov 3:5-6                      He shall direct your paths
Phil. 3:13-16                  Reaching forth unto those things which are before
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God’s Care: He Cares (#944)

God’s Care: Wisdom (#943)
Welcome. Today we’ll continue our series on God’s Care. We’ve been looking at many, many different ways God cares for us. His care is so huge and so amazing, we could stay with this for years, which we might do. But today we’ll speak specifically about the wisdom He provides through His word, and of course through manifestations of holy spirit. But we’ll focus today on teh wisom we get from God’s word and how powerful and important it is for living our daily lives. So let’s start today in first Chronicles…

As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180513.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
I Chron. 22:6-16     Only the Lord give thee wisdom and understanding (vs. 12)
Psalms 104:24        In wisdom hast thou made all thy works
Psalms 111:10        The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom
Proverbs 1:7           Fools despise wisdom and instruction
Proverbs 1:33         Whoso hearkeneth unto wisdom shall be quiet from fear of evil
Proverbs 2:1-11      The LORD giveth wisdom (vs. 6)
Proverbs 3:13-26    Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (vs. 13). All the paths of wisdom are peace (vs. 17)
Proverbs 4:5-18      Get wisdom, get understanding (vs. 5)
Proverbs 8               Wisdom is better than rubies (vs. 11). Those that seek wisdom early shall find it (vs. 17)
Proverbs 19:8          He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul
Eccl. 2:13                  Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness
Eccl. 7:19                  Wisdom makes one wise man more powerful than ten rulers in a city (NIV)
Luke 2:41-52            Jesus Christ increased in wisdom and stature (vs. 52) (Heb. 5:8)
Romans 11:33         O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God
Ephesians 1             God has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence (vs. 8)
Collosians 1:9          They prayed that they might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding
Collosians 3:16-17   Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom
James 1:5 (1-8)         If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally. Temptations: trials. Patience: endurance. Upbraideth not: does not reproach, ungrudgingly
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God’s Care: Wisdom (#943)

God’s Care: Love God (#942)
We’re going to continue our series on God’s Care today. We’ve read so many ways over the last months about ways that God cares for us. And one of the ways He cares for us is by encouraging us to love him. You know everybody wants to have something to love, for some people it is a spouse, for some people it is their kids, for some people it is a cat; for some people it is a dog; for some people its their job, or a sport, or a car. Everybody needs something to one and care for and one of the things God wants us to do is simply love Him. And, I have found in my life, and many others have, that when they are really actively, in their minds and hearts, loving God, they are just much happier, they’re much more peaceful, they’re much more focused. So there are a lot of verses in the Bible about the importance of loving God, and we’re going to read some of those today and we do this every couple of years and every time I go through these verses again, I go wow, that is cool stuff! So let’s do that, let’s start in Deuteronomy chapter six…
As taught by Bruce Mahone 20180429.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Deut. 6:4-5                Love the Lord thy God
Deut. 7:7-9                Them that love him
Deut. 10:12-16         Love him and serve
Deut. 11:1-25            Love the Lord
Deut. 13:1-3              To know whether you love the Lord your God (vs. 3)
Deut. 30:15-20          Life and good
Joshua 22:1-5            Be diligent to love the Lord your God
Psalms 59:16-17       I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning
Psalms 119:97, 113, 163, 165 Thy law do I love
Eccl. 12:13                  Whole duty of man: fear God and keep his commandments
Matthew 22:34-40     First and great commandment: love God
John 15:9-12               If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love
Romans 8:28              All things work together for good
I John 4:19                  We love him, because he first loved us
I John 5:2-3                 For this is the love of God
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God’s Care: Love God (#942)

God’s Care: Learning (#941)
Welcome! Today, we are going to continue our series on God’s Care for us. We’ve looked through many sessions at the many ways God cares for us. And the way we’ll look at it today is that He helps us to keep learning. I know that in education, terms change from time to time and as some new approach gets popular, often for the better, but one term that has been around for a long time is what we call continuing education. Usually referring to adults who have finished their basic schooling and have gone and worked, but then want to keep learning more after that. I used to work for an organization where we had what we called life-long learning; we had programs that taught children starting in about second grade and would keep giving you classes ’till you were past retirement. So, there are all kinds of approaches to learning; we all know how important it is to keep growing. But what we are going to talk about today is how God helps people learn, and the point of it is, it doesn’t matter your age. We will see some very, very old people that keep learning and growing and we will see some very, very young people that keep learning and growing, and some people in middle-age are learning and growing. So, its not a matter of your age or where you are, it a matter that because God cares for us, He wants to help us keep learning, and He’ll continue to teach us. So we should never have the attitude that we’ve learned all we can learn and we can’t grow anymore and God’s done teaching us. Because He cares for us so much, that He’ll continue to help us learn. So let’s go to Genesis chapter 12…
As taught by Bruce Mahone 20180415, all rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Genesis 12:1-9                      Abraham moved to Canaan when 75 years old
Exodus 2:11-3:15                  Moses at 40 and at 80
I Samuel 2:18-21, 26; 3        Samuel as a young man
Proverbs 4:13; 8:33; 15:32  Instruction
Luke 2:41-52                          Jesus Christ increased in wisdom and stature (vs. 52) (Heb. 5:8)
Galations 2:11-15                 Paul confronted Peter regarding living under the law (Phil 4:11)
Hebrews 12:1-11                  Chasten/chastise: Discipline
II Timothy 3:10-17                Continue in the things thou hast learned
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God’s Care: Learning (#941)