Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 04/16/2009

2 Kings 22

Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 22:)

Christianity offers you the power to make a free choice.

Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 22:8)

The reading and teaching of the Word of God lead can lead to spiritual renewal.

Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 22:13)

The reading and study of the Word of God needs to lead us to action.

Life Lesson (verse 2 Kings 22:17)

You cannot really break God’s law you can only break yourself upon God’s laws.

Selected Notes/Illustrations

When the child of God looks into the Word of God and sees the Son of God, he or she is transformed by the Spirit of God into the image of God for the Glory of God.

2 Chron 34:8-10 NKJV

8 In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.9 When they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem.

Acts 20:27 NKJV

For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

Heb 4:12 NKJV

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Heb 4:12 NLT

For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are.

1 Peter 1:23 NKJV

having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

2 Cor 7:10 NLT

For God can use sorrow in our lives to help us turn away from sin and seek salvation. We will never regret that kind of sorrow. But sorrow without repentance is the kind that results in death.

Prov 12:15 NKJV

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
But he who heeds counsel is wise.

Rev 1:3 NLT

God blesses the one who reads this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to it and obey what it says. For the time is near when these things will happen.

James 2:26 NKJV

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Eph 4:29-32 NKJV

29 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Gal 6:9 NKJV

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

Scripture quotations marked "NKJV(tm)" are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.