by Paul Apple | Mar 8, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: GOD’S SOVEREIGN PURPOSES CANNOT BE DERAILED BY MAN’S SINFUL BLUNDERSINTRODUCTION:Prov. 14:12 “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”Definition of Expediency – driven by what seems convenient and practical and will...
by Paul Apple | Mar 8, 2020 | Bible-OT
INTRODUCTION: Key transition as we move from chap. 11 to chap. 12. God has been dealing with all the nations – cf. the Table of Nations in chap. 10; but now God will focus on one person = Abram whom he will rename Abraham – from whom will come the nation of Israel and...
by Paul Apple | Mar 8, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: IN FAITHFULNESS TO HIS PROMISES, GOD SETS THE STAGE FOR HIS GRACIOUS DEALINGS WITH ABRAM AND HIS DESCENDANTSINTRODUCTION: [quoted largely from R. Kent Hughes]Finishing up the first main section of Genesis = chaps. 1-11 – Primitive (Primeval) History;Second...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: GOD WILL FRUSTRATE MAN’S PRIDEFUL AND SELFISH ATTEMPTS TO SUBSTITUTE A HUMAN AGENDA (EVEN IMPRESSIVE ATTEMPTS AT UNITY) FOR GOD’S AGENDAINTRODUCTION: One must first understand that God’s Great Commission for the post-Noahic flood world had been clearly...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE GOD WHO CHOSE ISRAEL IS THE SOVEREIGN GOD OVER ALL THE NATIONSINTRODUCTION:You might have come this morning anticipating that the most exciting thing about Genesis chapter 10 will be how I will butcher some of the difficult-to-pronounce names as we study...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD LIFTS US ABOVE THE HARSH REALITY OF HUMAN FAILUREINTRODUCTION:Our text this morning will teach us precious truths about both human failure and divine faithfulness.Illustration: Computer infected with malware; needs to be cleansed; you...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: IN THE MIDST OF DIVINE JUDGMENT GOD REMEMBERS HIS COVENANT PEOPLE BY ACTIVLELY CARING FOR ALL THEIR NEEDSINTRODUCTION:Look at how important this event of Noah’s Flood is in the Genesis account – Moses devotes a number of chapters to this one point in...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: GOD’S PROMISE OF JUDGMENT IS REAL, CATASTROPHIC AND INESCAPABLE APART FROM DIVINE DELIVERANCEINTRODUCTION: It is easy to find quotations from people who think Noah’s Flood is a joke:The Sensuous Curmudgeon: Conserving the Enlightenment values of reason,...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: ONLY GOD CAN MAKE PROVISION FOR YOU TO ESCAPE HIS COMING WRATHINTRODUCTION:The backdrop for today’s passage is the understanding that all mankind have sinned and are under the punishment of the wrath of God. If you only picture God as some type of loving...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: PERVERSE DEMONIC ACTIVITY INTENSIFIES AS SOCIETY DEGENERATES TO THE POINT WHERE GOD MUST POUR OUT HIS WRATH IN JUDGMENTINTRODUCTION: If you like action movies like I do, no doubt you have seen many times the scenario where the bomb squad is called in to try...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: DEATH DOES NOT DOMINATE LIFE FOR THOSE WHO WALK WITH GODINTRODUCTION:Last week I appreciated the opportunity to visit Jenny and attend Capitol Hill Baptist Church andlisten to Pastor Mark Dever. I happened to receive this week via email an article by him...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: CULTURE MAY DEVELOP IN WAYS THAT SEEM IMPRESSIVE, BUT THE ONLY HOPE FOR DEPRAVED MANKIND LIES IN CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORDINTRODUCTION:Keeping the title the same for 3 weeks: SIN MAKES A MESS . . . BUT GOD MAKES A WAYNot because my creative juices have...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: SIN LEADS TO GUILT . . . AND GUILT CHANGES EVERYTHING – PART 2INTRODUCTION:Sin makes a mess … there’s no way to sugarcoat that awful reality. It has been like that since the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. There are always consequences for our...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: SIN LEADS TO GUILT . . . AND GUILT CHANGES EVERYTHING – PART 1INTRODUCTION:Definition of Guilt: the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: — Accompanied by a sense...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
Big Idea: FALLING TO THE TEMPTATION TO QUESTION THE AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD OPENS THE DOOR TO THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF SIN INTRODUCTION:If God created the world and God is good, then how did evil come into this world? There is no...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: GOD CREATED BOTH MAN AND WOMAN AND PLACED THEM IN THE IDYLLIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE GARDEN OF EDENINTRODUCTION:Importance of this subject matter – what does it really matter how you interpret the opening chapters of Genesis?Jer. 10:6-16Relationship between...
by Paul Apple | Mar 7, 2020 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: EVERY ASPECT OF GOD’S CREATION WAS JUDGED TO BE GOOD BY GOD HIMSELFINTRODUCTION:We live in a culture that resists the authoritative declaration of absolute standards. In our world, everything is relative – everything revolves around your individual...
