Humility and the Body of Christ

Going Deeper

Week Four

“Humility and the Body of Christ”

Day One:Listen to the following sermon by Thabiti Anyabwile: You’ll have to copy and paste this address into your finder.

http://sgm.edgeboss.net/download/sgm/teaching/worshipgod2009/wg09-session4.mp3

1.We need the church because it’s God’s workmanship(1 Cor. 12:18-21; Eph. 3:10)

2.We need the church because we need to be cared(shepherded, watched over, kept) for(vs 24-26)

3.We need to be equipped and matured for the Christian life.(Ephesians 4:11-16)

4.We need the church because we need God’s grace(1 Peter 4:10)

5.We need the church because we need God’s love(1 John 4:14-21; John 13:35)

Spend time in prayer about what you have just heard.

Day Two: Read 1 Corinthians 12. What gifts has God given you that you have been neglecting to use for His glory? Write down some practical ways that you can use these gifts to serve others. Are there ways that you should be serving at church? Are there ministry opportunities that God wants you to be involved in?

Spend time in prayer and seek God’s guidance about what your gifts are and how He wants you to use them.

Day Three: Review the five points above from the sermon that you listened to. Take each one and write down one way that it applies to your life.

Find two note cards. Use one to write a thank you note to someone who has showed God’s design in the body of Christ specifically to you by caring for you, shepherding you, and spiritually watching over over.

Use the second note card to obey God’s design for the body of Christ by writing an encouraging note to someone that God has placed on your heart to minister to as you have been ministered to.

Spend time in prayer thanking the Lord and praying for the people that you have just written to.

Day Four: Read these verses-1 Peter 4:10: Ephesians 4:1-16; Phil. 2:1-11)

Spend time in prayer. Ask the Lord to show you where you need to be humbled in reaching out to others at church. Do you wait for people to come and talk to you? Are you intentional in pursuing God honoring relationships with others around you. “Renounce self reliance and pride. Humble yourself and care for others.”(Thabiti Anyabwile). Ask the Lord how He wants you to do this.

Day Five: “Church is absolutely essential”.

“It is pride to think that the church is an optional extra”.

“ A man who loves God, loves the church”.

“To reject what God has designed for His glory and our good, is spiritual suicide. To reject the church is to take your own spiritual life”.

The Scripture that you have been reading and the quotes above are some that God has been using in my life to show me the importance of the body of Christ. What is something that God has shown you this week from the sermon and this study on “Humility and the Body of Christ”? Please share what you have learned by using the comment block on our blog.

Spend time in prayer.

Week Three on humility

"It is pride that allows you to crawl up out of your own

hole and condemn others." ~John MacArthur

Day One: Listen to this sermon by John MacArthur. As you listen take notes. If you want, you can print the manuscript and highlight it.
Pray for God to make these truths a reality in your heart.

Day Two:
These four points summarize what true humility is. Read them and write below each one a specific area of your life that you need more humility in.

1) It is a sense of one's spiritual bankruptcy and utter unworthiness as manifested in the Beatitudes and in the sermon Jesus preached in Matthew 18 and in the book of James.

2) It is an attitude that continues after our salvation when we recognize that we are no more worthy now than we ever were in the past.

3) It is an attitude that realizes the suffering and pain that comes into our lives that cuts so deeply and buffets us...and that's a word from
2 Corinthians 12 that means fist, it's a blow to the face, the very same word used of the soldiers who punched Jesus in the face. And when we get punched around in life and falsely accused, we embrace that because we understand that through it God humbles us and the humbler we are the more powerful He is through us.

4) It's the kind of humility that is more concerned about our sins than the sins of everybody else or anybody else. It's the kind of humility that particularly looks on the interest of others demonstrated in the condescension of Jesus Christ...that's humility.

Day Three: Read Matthew chapter five. "theirs is the kingdom of heaven, for they shall be comforted, for they shall inherit the earth, for they shall be satisfied, for they shall receive mercy, for they shall see God" this is the language Jesus used to describe those who are truly saved. Who does this chapter say are the true believers? What is a sign that you belong to that kingdom, that you are a true believer?

If you are (vs. 3):___________in ______________.
If you (vs. 4):________________.
If you are (vs. 5):___________________.
If you (vs.6) ______________ and _____________ for
_____________.

According to the sermon, and the description of the believer in Matt. 5, the Kingdom belongs to the:_____________________. (hint)

Day four: Review the highlighted parts of your notes from Day One's sermon. Pray and ask God to reveal new areas of humility you need to grow in. Listen to this song: "High in the Heavens". Read the words along with the song. Make this last verse a prayer to Him.

Let us be found in your likeness,
learning to serve as you served,
filled with your Spirit, your fullness,
the fragrance of grace on the earth.
You love the heart that is humble,
you desire worship that’s true;
voices that sing for your glory
and lives that bring honour to you.

Day Five: Read Romans 7:21-8:1 (You might have memorized this for Fort this year) How does Paul's humility and ours relate to the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives based on these verses? Write your answer to this in the comment box on this post.

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Week Two

Going Deeper

Week Two

Day One: Listen to the following sermon by John Piper. Take time during your listening to write notes. Answer these questions.

1. Did He become the end or the means of the universe?

2.What’s the nature of my depravity?

3.What is John Piper’s definition of “Total Depravity”?

4.What are the two things that need to be remedied?(the internal problem and the external problem)

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/ConferenceMessages/ByConference/40/2698_The_Origin_of_the_Unwasted_Life/

Pray for 20 minutes(if you already pray longer than this add 10 minutes)

Day Two: Listed below are the 6 parts of the Gospel that were mentioned in the sermon.

The Gospel Is...

1. A Plan(“In accordance with the Scriptures”)
2. An Event In History(“died and rose again”)
3. An Accomplishment Through the Event(“Christ died FOR our sins”)
4. The Gospel is a Free Offer to Faith, Not Works(belief)
5. An Application of What He Accomplished to my Personal Life(“by which you are being saved”)
6. An Eternal and Infinitely Happy Future Enjoying the Glory of God(“gospel”, “saved”, and sins bore by another)

Find three verses(besides the referenced 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 passage) on the Gospel. Write all three of them down and choose one to meditate on and memorize this week.

Consider these 6 points and the verses that you’ve just read and then spend 20 minutes in prayer with most of that time being spent praising God for His powerful Gospel that has redeemed you!

Day Three: Spend time working on your memory verse that you found yesterday.

Read John 14:15.

1.Consider how the Lord would have you to grow in your love for Him in your heart.

2.Consider how you can put your love for the Lord into action through obedience.

Spend at least 20 minutes in prayer confessing sin(specifically name areas in your life where you have fallen short in loving the Lord), telling the Lord of your love for Him, and commit to living your day(and life) out of love for Him.

Day Four: Read Romans 1. Verse 25 was mentioned in the sermon that you listened to on “day one”. While reading this passage, specifically verse 25, were there “creatures”(created things) that the Holy Spirit brought to your mind that you need to confess? Confess those now and repent.

Spend 20 more minutes in prayer.

Day Five:

“We are hellbound, enslaved, and freely loving our darkness”. ~John Piper

“The Gospel is our deliverence!”~John Piper

Spend at least 20 minutes in prayer acknowledging your need for Christ and then praising Him for the deliverance that He has provided through the Gospel.

“The nature of our problem is that we prefer the glory of created things over the glory of God the Creator and His Son.” Review your notes on last week’s “Going Deeper” study. Go to our blogspot(http://www.rbcgirlsgoingdeeper.blogspot.com/) and post the answer to the following question.

How does the lesson on “Humility” from last week correspond to our lesson this week?

Not everyone will have the same answer so don’t think that your answer is wrong. Be personal and transparent.

Continue meditating and memorizing your verse!

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Humility

Mon: Sermon: Click link on Amy DeBurgh's facebook wall. Listen to the whole sermon.
Greatness, Humility, Servanthood :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library
Source: www.desiringgod.org
Pray: 20 minutes (if you already pray longer than this, add 10 minutes)
Tues:here is the summary of the message you listened to on Monday. Read through these and circle the one that you need to grow in and write down how you need to grow.
1. Humility is glad that God gets all the credit for choosing us so that we boast only in him and not man.
2. Humility happily admits that everything we have is a free gift from God, so that we can’t boast in it.
3. Humility is glad to affirm that God sovereignly governs our heartbeats and safe arrivals, or non-arrivals.
4. The root of Christian humility is the gospel that Christ died for our sins. That’s how sinful I was. That’s how dependent I am.
5. Humility gives itself away in serving everyone, rather than seeking to be served.
6. And humility is glad to affirm that this service is true greatness.
Pray 20 minutes (if you already pray longer than this, add 10 minutes)
Wed: Find three verses on humility: Use the concordance in your Bible or go to this site:
http://www.esv.org/

Memorize one of the verses you find
(Always be sure to understand the context of your verses)
Pray 20 minutes(if you already pray longer than this, add 10 minutes)
Thurs: Humility: Read this passage and make five observations of humility and five observations that show pride.
Mark 10:32-45
Pray 20 minutes (if you already pray longer than this, add 10 minutes)
Fri: Reread mark 10:32-45. Spend 5 minutes praying for God to reveal more from His Word to you about how you can grow in humility. Spend 5 minutes confessing prideful actions, words and attitudes. Spend 5 minutes thanking God for someone you know who is an example of humility. Go over your the verse you are memorizing and Review what you circled in the summary above and commit to grow.