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from Yvon Prehn to help you know, trust, and apply the Bible

MICAH: How can we please God? and it’s not what people often think that matters

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Micah, how can we please GodWhat does God want us to do, and how are we supposed to live in a way that is pleasing to Him? Is it for us to do big, extravagant actions to demonstrate our faith?

Or are small acts of devotion what God requires?

This week, we’ll look at what God says is the way of life that pleases Him in our lesson from the Prophet Micah.

I trust you’ll find the message encouraging as God’s demands are not difficult or unreasonable. He simply wants us to act as He does with His people, with justice, mercy, kindness, and humility. And yes, our God is humble and demonstrated that in the ultimate act of humility when Jesus, “who was in very nature God, humbled Himself, became human and died on the cross.”

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Hosea the Prophet and how God may use your life as a lesson

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Why do you think God has you go through hard times?

Is it because God doesn’t love you?

Is it because He’s trying to teach you something?

Or is it another reason?

I have challenging and not always easy answers for you in the lesson today. 

Below is the podcast and video of the lesson.

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Amos, when religion isn’t enough—how God wants us to live

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Amos, the prophet and the book he wroteWhat kind of religion pleases God?

•         Is going to church enough?

•         Do we need to read our Bibles every day?

•         What about taking care of the less fortunate?

•         People asked the same questions when the prophet Amos lived, and we’ll look at his answers in our lesson today.

Below is the podcast and video and below them are the notes/transcript of the lesson.

As promised in the lesson, for a list of organizations that fulfill the challenges of Amos and the commands of Matt. 25, click the following link: https://wp.me/pazrJD-qT


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Ancient Prophets, Modern Messages, How the lives of Old Testament Prophets apply to us

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Ancient Prophets, Modern MessagesIn ancient Israel, as now, our calling is to be God’s people, to represent Him, to be His hands and feet in our world.

But what does that mean in practice?

How do we get distracted?

What can bring us back to where we should be?

And on a more serious note, what are the consequences if we don’t obey?

The Old Testament prophets can help answer these questions and the story of the Prophets in the Old Testament begins with Elijah and Elisha who we will talk about today.

Below is a podcast of the lesson, then a video and following that notes/transcript of it:

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Intro & Overview of Old Testament Prophets, little understood, incredibly important

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Intro and Overview of the Prophetic booksWe are at the place in reading through the Bible where many people either quit or are confused and make incorrect applications from their reading.

We’ve finished the books that are primarily historical narratives and are now in books that combine both historical narrative AND the messages of the prophets to the people at that time. Understanding what is going on in the history of the people and how that relates to the book of prophecy is very important. Without it, the books of prophecy either make little sense or people come up with wildly incorrect conclusions about them.

A modern-day analogy would be to imagine 2500 years from now (that is how long ago most of them wrote) if you heard Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. If you were not familiar with the Civil Rights Movement, what was going on in the U.S. at that time, how extraordinary it was for the speech to even take place, and why he wove together Bible passages with his visions (and imagine you didn’t even know some of them came from the Christian Bible), well, obviously the speech wouldn’t make sense to you. Knowing the historical context of a speech makes all the difference in our ability to understand it.

My goal in this next series of lessons (plus your reading and a Timeline of the Prophets I put together for you) will help you understand not only the meaning and importance of what the Prophets said in their day but also how we can apply their words to our lives to live in ways that are pleasing to our Lord.

Below are links to the podcast, video, notes, and links to the charts shown in the video.

CLICK on the images below to download PDFs of the charts:

Old Testament Prophets Timeline

 

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