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We’ve been reading this week about how we are all sinful creatures who desperately need saving.
Discuss with your small group what you’ve drawn from your reading this week and how God has spoken to you. You can also pull from the questions in each day’s reading.
The HEAR method is also an excellent structure for your discussion as a group. If you aren’t currently in a group we’d love to help you connect with one. Contact sharon@mybelmont.org or go to mybelmont.org/smallgroups
Highlight – what words or phrases jump out at you
Explain – what does the passage mean?
Apply – how does the passage intersect with your life today?
Respond – how is God leading you to respond?
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Pslam 5:9
“For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.”
The year we moved to Georgia, I discovered the Coca-Cola Experience in Atlanta. Near the end of the tour is a room filled with fountains of every soda made by that company around the world. I decided to sample them all. One particular drink, made for a country on the other side of the earth, had a wretched, bitter, nasty taste. I moved on, but couldn’t get that horrible taste out of my mouth. No matter how good a flavor entered my mouth, the nasty lingered. Is this the same as our speech?
From time to time you see the tabloid newspapers while checking out of the store. There are “sensational” stories on the front cover. Sometimes the front cover is about the Bible, end times, religious folk, or outrageous suppositions. On one of these occasions, I purchased 6 copies and took them to my Bible study class. I asked them to read the front cover religious article and mark what was 100% true, 100% false, and what was misquoted, misleading, or out of context. Is this the same as our speech?
At the end of a revival, a member told the pastor that they wanted to lay their tongue on the alter. The pastor said for someone to get one the eight-foot tables from the fellowship hall, because this little Lord’s Supper table ain’t gonna’ get it.
Highlight – what words or phrases jump out at you
Explain – what does the passage mean?
Apply – how does the passage intersect with your life today?
Respond – how is God leading you to respond?
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Pslam 14:1-3
“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God. “They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.”
Sometimes my quirky since of humor takes me the wrong way at the wrong time. I was in a conservation with a self-professed atheists who said, “It’s not fair that we don’t have any special days to celebrate like you religious people!” I quickly said, “Oh, but you do; the first of April.” She said she didn’t understand. I said “April fools day!. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” The conversation took a horrible turn after that. Taking a line from an old TV show; “Did I do that?”
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
“Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.”
If practice makes perfect… be very careful what you practice.
If you find a perfect church, don’t join it. If you have a perfect friend or relative, don’t ever speak to them again. There are no such people or churches. Eventually you will find a flaw. Sometimes that little crack in an otherwise perfect person disappoints us, and at other times devastates us.
I asked a Christian artist about some of the Christian artists that have fallen from very public ministries. His answer was quite unique; “They began to believe their own publicity.” We tend to place leaders, artist, TV personalities, politicians, pastors, and even friends on a platform to be admired, followed, copied, and worshiped. We believe the greater the gift a person has, the closer they are to the Lord. The more vast, higher, public platform the Lord places us for ministry; the more one must point to the one who placed us there and give him all the glory. It’s ok to smell the compliments, but don’t inhale.
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Romans 3:19-20
“Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.”
I was shocked when one of my sixteen-year-old students from my youth group told me she had never sinned. She had never broken any laws, didn’t smoke, drink, spit and chew or run around with others who do. She became upset at me when I explained that we are all sinners – she was a good girl. “Through the law comes knowledge of sin!” We want to classify big sins, little sins, necessary sins, mistake sins, and sins that are for you, but not for me. There goes our mouth again. Sin is sin and as far as “big sins” go – we are all one bad judgements call away from doing something stupid! We are a broken people, living in a broken world, needing a Savior who was broken on the cross for us.
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