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)

God’s Care: Eternal Life (#939)
So today, we’re going to continue our series on God’s care. And as we’re in that time of year, for those people who follow the standard church calendar where we’re coming up to Easter next week and this Friday would be good Friday, and of course, for those people that observe Lent, we’re in Lent. So since we’re at that time of the year, and it is on so many people’s minds, I thought it would be a great session to talk about eternal life. Now this is something you run into whenever you are reading the scriptures, but we’re going to take a whole session and focus on it. So we’ll start in Job chapter 19…
As Taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180325.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
Job 19:25-27:       25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
26 And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me. (ASV)
John 3:16              Whosoever believeth in him should not perish (Greek apollumi: be destroyed, abolished, put to an end), but have everlasting life
John 10:25-30      I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish (apollumi)
Acts 1:22              A witness of his resurrection
Acts 4:1-4             Being grieved that they preached the resurrection
Acts 4:33              And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all
Acts 17:16-21       He preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection
Acts 17:31-32       He hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked
I Cor. 1:18              For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish (apollumi) foolishness
I Cor. 15:12-23      Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished (apollumi – vs. 18)
I Cor. 15:51-52      In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump
I Thes. 4:13-18      Wherefore comfort one another with these words
I Tim. 1:1                Lord Jesus Christ our hope
Heb. 2:14-15          Deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage (He himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil – NASB, vs. 14)
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God’s Care: Eternal Life (#939)

God’s Care: Live More!, Part 2 (#938)
Good morning. We’ll continue our series on God’s care for us, which we started the beginning of this year. We’re going to look at many different topics in the Bible from the point of view of how much God cares for us. And last week we covered the topic of Live. With the emphasis being that no matter what’s going on around you, you just have to live your life and you can’t let stuff get to you. When of the great examples we had was when Daniel was doing very well in the upper levels of bureaucracy in Babylon, he was one of the top bureaucrats there. Which I get a kick out of because some people like to make fun of government bureaucrats. There’s plenty to make fun of, but I think: we’ll Daniel was one. And then they get mad if the people in charge, they don’t agree with them . We’ll you work for a very idolatrous dictator, yet he still managed to believe God. The idolatrous dictator, who happened to be the King of Babylon, actually liked Daniel.
It was his coworkers that got jealous and decided they wanted to get rid of him because he was getting too influential. And they couldn’t figure out how to do it because they couldn’t find any skeletons in his closet so to speak — any dirt on him. So they made up a law that said you could only worship the king of Babylon for the next, I think, 60 or 90 days. And of course Daniel worshiped the true God and so even after they passed the law, he still went to his room, opened the window, and prayed the true God, the God of Israel, three times a day. That was against the law; he broke the law. But he kept living God’s word the way he had been doing before the law was written; and as a result he got thrown into the lions’ den, but you know the record: God brought him out safely. And it was those people that accused him that ended up getting eaten by the lions, not Daniel.
So we’ve covered a bunch of other records, but the point of the records, and you can listen to the teaching on the website if you want, the point of all the records we looked at last week was that you just have to live God’s word and live your life. You can’t be worried about what people say, what people think, how things go; you just can’t worry about it. You just got to live your life trusting God. And we’re going to continue to do that with the topic: Love More! Just a continuation of the topic of the importance of living God’s word, no matter what’s going on. So let’s go to John chapter 10….
As taught by Bruce Mahone, 20180311.  All rights reserved.
Verse Listing and Notes
John 10:10           I am come that they might have life (zoe) – more than abundantly
Acts 5:20             Go, stand and speak all the words of this life (zoe)
Rom 1:16-17       The just shall live (zao) by faith
Rom 6:1-4            Walk in newness of life (zoe)
Rom 8:1-8            To be spiritually minded is life (zoe) and peace (vs. 6)
Rom 12:1-2          Present your bodies a living (zao) sacrifice
Rom 12:10-21      Live peacably (eiraneuo) with all men (vs 18)
I Tim 2:1-6            A quiet and peacable life (bios) in all godliness and honesty
Supplemental verses:
Ps 119:165           Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them
Ps 103:11-14        As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us (vs 12)
Phil 3:13-16          Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those which are before (vs 13)
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God’s Care: Live More! (#938)