Benjamin Murphy
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Benjamin Murphy
Sermon Series Highlights
Sermon Series Highlights

The Priority of Holiness

Holiness:

Defined:

Aspects of:

Why I Must Make Holiness a Priority:


  1. Holiness isn't CONTAGIOUS . (Hg 2:10-13)

  2. Holiness is a HEART issue. (Hg 2:14)

  3. Holiness is God's AGENDA. (Hg 2:15-17)

  4. Holiness sees God at WORK. (Hg 2:18-19)

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Parents! Encourage your children to take some notes on the sermon and discuss these questions this week. Make the concepts age appropriate for your children:
Read Haggai 2:10-19

  1. Why do parents discipline their children? Why does God discipline us? How does God discipline us?
     
  2. In Haggai 2:13-13, God warns that you can’t catch holiness but you can catch unholiness (explain that it is like a disease: you can catch a disease, but you can’t “catch” health). How can being around the wrong people affect us? (1 Corinthians 15:33)

The Priority of Relationship

Your WALK with God Motivates
Your WORK for God.

  1. Haggai 1:12-15

    2. When we say: I'm not FEELING it.
    Then God says: You will after you OBEY.

  2. Haggai 2:1-3,9

    3. When we say: I miss the GOOD old days.
    Then God says: Your BEST days are ahead

  3. Haggai 2:4-5

    4. When we say: I'm not sure God is WITH ME on this.
    Then God says: I AM and ALWAYS have been.

  4. Haggai 2:6-8

    5. When we say: I'm in over my HEAD .
    Then God says: I'm NOT .

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Haggai 1:12-2:9

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

The Priority of Worship

Priority Test: Is God first in my life?

  1. Do I make EXCUSES not to serve God? (Hg 1:2)


  2. Do I have TIME for me but not God? (Hg 1:4)


  3. Do I feel UNSATISTFIED in my walk with God? (Hg 1:6)


  4. What would God want me to DO? (Hg 1:8)


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

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

The Power of the Resurrection

What NO Resurrection of Jesus Means to Me...

  1. NO Resurrection = NO Reason for FFAITH (1 Cor 15:13-15a)

  2. NO Resurrection = NO Victory over DEATH (1 Cor 15:15b-16)

  3. NO Resurrection = NO Forgiveness of SIN (1 Cor 15:17)

  4. NO Resurrection = NO REUNION with deceased loved ones (1 Cor 15:18)

  5. NO Resurrection = NO HOPE (1 Cor 15:19)

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read 1 Corinthians 15:12-20

  1. Why is the resurrection of Jesus the heart of the Gospel message?
     
  2. What would it mean if He didn’t raise from the dead?
     
  3. What does it mean to you that He did?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another!