Mens’ Chapter 8 and 9 notes and quotes for September 25, 2011

-After Chapter 6, everything is how to live it out

-Men are visually driven, women are emotionally driven

-Ephesians 5:16, Read in context and in several translations

-You are not your own, we are bought with a price; Who buys us?

-Colossians 4:5

-God assigns each man his wife; they are God’s gift to us

-We are to be servant-leaders;  How can you lead and be a leader at the same time?

-Chapter 8 key word:  rights

-Chapter 9 key word:  time

-We do not have rights but privileges

-Wives do not have rights either

-If we trample on each others essences, we step out of our privileges

-To redeem the time is to live our lives righteously

Assignment for next week, October 2, 2011:

  -List 10 things (time related) that are most important to you

  -Ask you wife for 5 things that would show her that you care about her

Sermon Notes: (Brother Tony)

-Psalm 51:1-12   Vs. 10 Create in me a clean heart oh God

-Proverbs 3:1-8

-If our hearts are in the right place, a lot of things we face daily would not be a problem

-Proverbs 4:20-27

-God pays attention to what we are saying

-We need to protect our hearts as life’s consequences come through our hearts

-God tests our hearts and wants our hearts to be pure

-Jeremiah 24:1-10

-vs. 7 – God wants us to find Him with all our hearts

-What kind of fig do you want to be?

Sermon Notes and Scriptures 9/21/11

Ephesians 4: 1-31 Very Powerful!

-Everyone needs to do their job in the Body and not worry about what other people are doing or not doing

-We belong to each other

Mens’ Chapter 8 notes and quotes for September 18, 2011

Chapter 8 and 9 go together

Brother David had everyone figure their daily schedule from the time they wake up until the time they got home,

He then asked the question “Do we men have the right to down time when we get home, and the wife needs help?”

-Time tests your faith

-“Time is money”

-Time is the currency we use with one another

-Exodus 21:1-6

-Our wives are our responsibilities from the Lord

-Our wife and kids are the Lord’s

-He is trusting use with them

-Pastor Eric:  Get book Slave by John MacArther

-For next week, 9/25/11, read Chapter 9

Sermon Notes:

-Not do I want to serve, but It Is What I Do as a Christian

-Jesus, our Master, is allowing us to be His slave

-Phillipians 4:1-23 in The Message (Awsome!)

-Vs.8: -Our old man wants to think about the junk, but our new man thinks on these things….

Mens’ Chapter 7 notes and quotes for September 11, 2011:

Go to Brother David’s blog, One Eighty, for a complete summary of the lesson.

-What we speak affects our attitude

-What you do will affect your attitude

Proverbs 18: 20, 21

Proverbs 12:14

Proverbs 13: 2,3

For next week, September 18, 2011:  Read Chapter 8

More Mens’ Chapter 7 notes and quotes for September 04, 2011

-Slavery is not something we do, it is something we are

-Early Christian who was captured, tortured, and eventually put to death would only say:  "I am a Christian."

-True Christian:  To be Christ's slave in a lifestyle of servant hood

- A slave has on options but to be submitted

-Before a Christian can be fitted into his part of Christ's body, he/she needs to commit and then be submitted;
  Committed, Submitted, and then Fitted

-Being a slave = esteem others in your life more than yourself

-"Let this mind (attitude and commitment) be in you that was in Christ Jesus"

-Everyone is committed to type of world view, philosophy, or cause in his/her search for significance

-not complete...to be continued

-Joseph quickly submitted to his circumstances; then as he humbled himself, the Lord lifted him up

-Since we are already slaves to one another in the church, it should be just a normal transfer to being a slave to our wives

-If you make things easy for your wife (make her successful), you will get the same benefit from your wife;  Just like if you make things easy for you boss at work,  you will get a return benefit from your boss

-Our society is not “we the people” anymore, but “I the person”, “We have our rights…”

-But rights without responsibility  = (equals)  rebellion

-Our position in Christ is to be in submission to Him;  Just as husbands and wives are to be in submission to one another

-But we as husbands cannot be the “Submission Police”

-True submission to others has to a be a result of a heart in true submission to Christ

-Lord (Master) Jesus (Savior) Christ (Power of the Holy Spirit)

-Allegiance  = (equals)  submission

-Only way to get rights is if they are granted to you by God

-“Pick up your Execution (death) Stake (and die daily) as you follow me (Jesus)”

-Luke 12:35-39

-For next week:  stay in Chapter 7