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Jul 30 2006 | AM Worship Sermon | Trading Our Gold for Sawdust (Haggai 1) | Stan Reeves |
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Jul 30 2006 | Bible Study | Sharing the Good News with Postmodern People | Jacob Young |
Sermon Outline
Trading Our Gold for Sawdust
Haggai 1
Religion in America is a mile wide and an inch deep. We want to give lip service to God, but we have a hard time squeezing him into lives already filled with material comforts and endless distractions. The situation in Haggai's day was strikingly similar.
The Significance of the Temple
1. God can't actually be contained by a building made with hands.
2. God had chosen to set his name on that place.
3. This was the place to which prayers were to be directed and forgiveness was to be obtained.
The Offense of the People
The unbuilt house indicated an unwanted resident.
Paneled houses indicates that they were enjoying a degree of luxury while the house of God stood in ruins.
Their relationship with God was only moderately important to them.
God's Discipline
No material goods delivered on their promise.
The People's Response
They heeded the words of Haggai as the Word of God.
They responded with fear of God.
The responded with wholehearted, immediate action.
Their obedience was corporate.
God's Gracious Assurance
"I am with you, declares the LORD"
Applications:
Is God only moderately important to you?
The church is the beginning or inaugurated form of God's heavenly temple breaking into this present evil age. Do you want to be a part of that?
Are you embracing Christ and his work as the rebuilt temple?
Bible Study Outline
Sharing the Good News with Postmodern People
Handout on Postmodernism
(If you'd like the full set of notes from Jacob's class, please reply to Stan.)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who
can understand it?
~
Jeremiah 17:9
I.
Pre-modernism
1) What is truth? (truth)
A1) All truth is contained in God. God knows all
things.
2) How do we know it? (communication)
A2) We know truth through God’s revelation of it
to us. That is to say, we can only
know those things which God reveals to us.
1)
There is a
God who knows everything
2)
Human beings
were created in his image and were intended to know
truth.
3)
The only way
for human beings to know any part of truth is for God to reveal it to
us.
4)
People thus
know subgroups of what God knows, and their knowledge is bound up in God’s
revelation.
II.
Modernism
1) What is truth? (truth)
A1) Truth is objective and exists in the
world.
2) How do we know it? (communication)
A2) By using reason I can discover and know this
truth.
1)
Knowledge
begins with me – “I think, therefore I
am.”
2)
Epistemological certainty is both
desirable and attainable.
3)
Foundationalism
4)
Method
5)
The assumption of 'a-historical
universality'
6)
The rise of philosophical
naturalism
III.
Post-Modernism
1) What is truth? (truth)
A1) Well, there is none. There is no such thing as truth, or at
least none that we can know.
2) How do we know it? (communication)
A2)
Well, since there’s none to be
known, we can’t know it. To say
that we can is arrogant and narrow minded.
1)
Because the “I” is finite, there is no
universal knowledge.
2)
Epistemological certainty is neither desirable or
attainable.
3)
Profoundly anti-foundational.
4)
Methodological structures are what each interpretive community
uses.
5)
You can no longer strive towards “a-historical universality”; this is
an idol.
6)
Adopted philosophical naturalism, but
stretched beyond strict science.
Definitions:
Biblical Theology (Redemptive
History) - a discipline
of understanding the progressive history of God revealing himself to Man
following the Fall and throughout the Old Testament and New Testament. It
particularly focuses on the epochs of the Old Testament in order to understand
how each part of it ultimately points forward to fulfillment in the life mission
of Jesus Christ. (Wikipedia)
Epistemology - the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its
methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what
distinguishes justified belief from opinion. (
Systematic Theology – Any study that answers the question,
“What does the whole Bible teach us today?” about any given topic. (Grudem, Systematic
Theology). That is,
studying what the Bible, as a whole, says on a particular subject or doctrine
and seeing how that relates to the rest of the full voice of Scripture’s
doctrines.