Benjamin Murphy
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Benjamin Murphy
Sermon Series Highlights
Sermon Series Highlights

Even if you are Broken

  1. Brokenness is coming to the realization that "I Am Wrong"

    2. You've hit a "Broken Point" when:

    1. Your circumstances are Out of your control (Jonah 2:2-3)

    2. You got what you wanted, then find out You don't really want it (Jonah 2:4)

    3. Crying out to God becomes Your only option (Jonah 2:5-7)

    4. You Learn the lesson God was trying to teach you (Jonah 2:8)

    5. Your Passion for God returns (Jonah 2:9)

  2. God pursues His broken children with Restoration (Jonah 2:10-3:3)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Jonah 2

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

Even if you Rebel

2 Kings 14:25 - He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher. 

Matthew 12:38-41 - Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. (Matthew 16:4, Luke 11:29-32) 

  1. Rebellion is a Choice to disobey God (Jonah 1:1-3)

    1. Rebellion makes use want to Avoid God (Jonah 1:3-5)

    2. Rebellion saps our Boldness to Witness (Jonah 1:6-10)

    3. Rebellion drives us to more and more Desperate Choices (Jonah 1:11-16)

  2. God pursues His rebellious children with Discipline

    1. What is discipline?

    2. Why is discipline a good thing?

    3. How does God discipline us?

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Jonah 1

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

Dealing with Disadvantages

  1. Take Inventoryof how the Lord has equipped you (Judges 11:1-2)

    2. My disadvantages are not God’s disadvantages in using me.


  2. Make an Investment in those the Lord gathers to you (Judges 11:3)

  3. Take the Inventations the Lord provides (Judges 11:4-11)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Judges 11:1-11

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

What Now?

Until Jesus Returns:

  1. I serve out of Love (John 21:15-29)

    2. Matthew 26:31-35 - Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee." Peter answered him, "Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away." Jesus said to him, "Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!" And all the disciples said the same.


    1 John 4:19 - We love because he first loved us.


  2. I follow to the End (John 21:18-19)

  3. I focus on Christ, not Others (John 21:20-23)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read John 21:15-23

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

What's Next?

The return of Jesus Christ is Promised.

Acts 1:11 - "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

Hebrews 9:28 - so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.


The return of Jesus Christ is Imminent.

Matthew 24: 27, 36 - For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man... But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Luke 12:40 - You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."


He’s Coming Back:

  1. Be Comforted by faith (John 14:1)

  2. Be Hopeful by faith (John 14:2-3)

  3. Be Settled in faith (John 14:4)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read John 14:1-6

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.