Heb.8:1-2

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I have been given the opportunity to teach 5th and 6th grade boys and girls at Summit Baptist Church, in Clarks Summit, PA. I have been doing this for about 8 months, and will continue till Dec. of 2006. I have started to post the lessons along with my other blogs for the use of readers on this site.

Let me invite you to turn in your bibles to…Hebrews 8:1-2
Background: Heb.5:11-14, we must want to think

Prepositional Statement (#, Noun, Application, action)
I have three points that you should know about Christ being your High Priest

I. Instructional Points-my first point is Christ is to be your High Priest
Such an high priest – As the one described in chapters 4:16-7:28
A. Illustration-Lord of the Rings
Like in the Lord of the Rings, the purpose of the ring was to rule them all. We have many different fights, scenes, characters, story lines, and everything leads up to the ring. When your watching the movie you don’t lose focus of the ring, but it sticks in the back of your mind constantly through all three movies. This is the same mind set we must have in reading the book of Hebrews here. The main point and mind set of the writer of the book of Hebrews, is that Jesus Christ is our Great High Priest.
B. Application-what does this mean?
We can call on the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at anytime. Jesus Christ is the one mediator that intercedes to God the Father for us on our behalf. One of thee main things we have in Christ is that he is our High priest, but this one is different then all the others, no other age nor world has had one like our Jesus. No one has ever been in order like this one. The ones you’ve read or heard (Levi) of before are only shadows of this one. This one is Jesus who suffered, bled, died and resurrected the third day so that he may have victory over death, sin, and most of all his sheep’s souls.
C. Interaction-what would that look like?
We don’t have to see any catholic priests, we don’t need to buy some piece of paper to get rid of our sins. We have a Savior that we can go to at all times, in your bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and car. Jesus is always waiting to hear your plea! He wants your prayers, and he loves your praises. So what we need to have a mindset to constantly think of Christ is waiting for your prayers, and constantly live a life that is constantly praying in all we do.

II. Instructional Points-another point is where Christ sits in the heavens
Heb.1:3
A. Illustration-Lord of the rings
In the lord of the rings, first movie, the hobbits had just meet Galadriel, which was one of the wood elves. They were in awe of her, “just to have one golden lock of your hair“, was Gimle’s last words to her as he left. The woods, the realm in which they were in was a cite they had never saw, never been, and may never get to live out once again. Like the site we see the day we face God and Jesus setting there waiting for his family. I can not even comprehend or begin to image the cite, and let alone the awe of seeing the stuffing servant that made it able for me to stand in His fathers presence.
B. Application-what does this mean?
God in all his glory and majesty setting in Heaven and beside him on the right hand sets a Man that does the interceding for you and me(his chosen). That mediator is placed at the right hand of God possessing all authority and power in Heaven and on earth. This set which he has been given is because of the humiliation and suffering he had to endure for you and mines soul (Luke 24:44-47). This authority that he has is for only but His fathers name, for his fathers honor, and his fathers glory. Setting there in heavens bringing every single one of his sheep before him at the throne of God in heaven, that is where we one day will be as well.
C. Interaction-what would that look like?
Can you even image what it is going to be like before God the father and Jesus in front of you? I think we must start seeing that it is about him, and his name and who God is, and what Jesus has allowed for you and me, and stop merely thinking about our own minds, our own thinking, our own problems, sins, temptations that we dwell upon, but we must look heavenly bound! Lets read…Col.3:1, we need to have the mind set of that tends to look at Christ and in a eternal perspective and not now. If we look at now, we start to think about ourselves, our problems, and what we are facing but when looking at Christ we see the past, the cross what it has done for us, then the future of His kingdom to come, in which he is doing for us as we speak, we can not miss the mark with that kind of joy, and hope found in Christ.

III. Instructional Points-last point is Christ does not dwell in man made tent
A. Illustration-
B. Application-what does this mean?
Now the old tabernacle was made by man. In the outer part of the tabernacle was the alter where the sacrifices had to be taken, in which was a symbol of Christ’s payment one day later. In the inter part of it was the veil in which was also a symbol which like the priest that Christ was an interceder. This tabernacle in heaven is the true one due to Christ paying the due to his father, so might he become a Minster of that sanctuary in heaven. There Jesus takes care of our needs, and our sin problems we might have with his father and because of his burden on the cross in which the Lord finds satisfactory in. People listen not only is Jesus Christ setting next to God in heaven, but he is your high priest, the high priest of today’s church. And for you that are in it remember all that are, are place by his hand, and there for his will.
C. Interaction-what would that look like?
Heb. 5:8-10
It looks at the factors and brings the cross to a even fuller enjoyment of our lives. That fact that the cross which Christ suffered upon, paved the way for his high priestly ministry in the heavens, this makes us enjoy our salvation that much more. That act of the cross of Jesus Christ has allowed him to take throne with his father and constantly intercede for his people. And if we our those people, then take heed to the sin of our everyday lives, and remember what Christ had to do, in order to be our forgiver and interceder.

Dan.1:8

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Let me invite you to turn in your bibles to…Daniel 6… Daniel 1:8
#1 What Daniel Did:
Overview through chapters 6-2, what made God Glorified most?
Chapter 1, I want to know what was different in Daniel’s life to have men not even believer’s know his God.

#2 What God is Doing:
Is.43:6-7, you were made for Gods Glory! 25- He forgive you for His Glory!
If your born again, you are owned by?…God, you’re his chosen people.
Born again individuals should desire what their leader desires…
God doesn’t not desire sin… why do we?
You don’t have a desire to stop sin, you can never grow in your walk with God.
If you don’t have a desire for God, you are in horrible spiritual condition.

#3 What are You Going to Do?
Propositional Statement (#, Noun, Application, action)
I want to share with you-Three desires a teenager should seek in their lives to glorify God.

Read Verse 8, (A)
I. Instructional Points-the first desire is to seek a Purpose in your mind to not sin
A. Illustration-you have a purpose to stop sin?
Law found in Lev.11-to touch this food would be sinning. The illustration here is Daniel had to and wanted to remain true to the law. Why? Because it was Gods Word. Daniel is thee best illustration I can think of for this. He was changed in every way. Taken away from everything, and knew enough that they could not and would not change his heart. Daniel did not want to mix the pagan culture with the Word of God. We can not mix what is the world’s with what is God’s, and if you are setting there today and are apart of God’s chosen then you better not desire what is of this word.
B. Application-is your desire true to stop sin?
It’s true that hard times and crises not only build character, they also reveal it. In other words, how a person handles difficulties says a lot about that person’s character and beliefs.
When you have the possibility to sin, do you? I mean from the moment you wake up we need to have a mind set like Daniel to not sin. That is where we have mixed up today’s culture with the word of God. We have desired the wrong things in stead of desiring our pursuit of Holiness with our Savior. A Christian walk is hard, but it is not as hard as Daniel life. I’ll tell you what is hard, wakening up not knowing if your parents are alive, not seeing your family since you were 14! Your named changed, watching his king die in the hands of his now ruler that won’t let you speak your own langue and Daniel still said in verse 8 that he has made up his mind, heart, he desires God more then anything!
C. Interaction-what would this look like?
You Glorify what you enjoy… you must desire God over…your…sin such as
Here is some truths are you standing for them? (Get the brown book and look up)
Prov.20, 21, 23-Drunkeness, Prov.14-Anger, Eph.4-Bitterness, Eph.4-Gossip, and Lying, 1Tim.6-Coveting, 2Cor.4-Depression, 2Tim.2-Fear, Eph.4-Forgiving each other, Rom.1-Homosexuality, Rom.8-Lust and evil desires, Rom.12-Overcomign Evil, and Overcoming Sin, James 3-Self-Centerness, Gal.5-Self Controlled, 1Cor.6-Sex Immorality, 2Thess.3-Laziness, Ps.37-Anxiety
John 14:15- If you Love me you will keep my commandments.
Read Verse 8, (B)

II. Instructional Points-the second desire is to have God the center of your Life
A. Illustration-can the world change your true desire?
This is what happens when God is not the center of your life…
Let me read to you here a little bit about what the world teenagers have to offer America today…Children’s Defense Fund.
Every second a public school student is suspended.
Every 9 seconds a high school student drops out.
Every 13 seconds a public school student is corporally punished.
Every 20 seconds a teen is arrested.
Every minute teen mother had a child.
Every 4 minutes a teen is arrested for drug abuse.
Every 8 minutes a teen is arrested for violent crimes.
Every 41 minutes a teen dies in an accident.
Every 3 hours a teen is killed by a firearm.
Every 5 hours a teen commits suicide.
Every 6 hours a teen is killed by abuse or neglect.
B. Application-“what will make a man useful is a man’s heart”-Dwight Peterson
See everyone else was eating the food that the king had to offer. Everyone was doing it. But Daniel goes out of his way to not just not eat it, but to ask for something honoring to his Lord. Something that would be right before the eyes of the Lord. Listen to me kids, listen to me… Daniel wasn’t classed “cool”!!! But he was classed a Man of God. Daniel knew that God was watching him.
God is watching you today. He is watching you tonight, tomorrow, next week when your home, next few month back at home, and school, Gods watching to see if you’ve made a heart change and not a week change. The rest your life, if this week has been true it will not be a weak/week change but a desire to continually change everyday you wake up yelling from your morning breath God is the center of my life!
C. Interaction-what will this look like?
How do you guys and girls respond to difficult circumstances? God the center of your life? See everyone is drinking. I mean when you out Friday nights? When you’re out with your girlfriends, alone? What you Desire? Just when your alone period doing nothing, is God sill the center of your life? Because if you don’t make God the center of your every day life, then your headed down the same road as these here teenagers I have read to you about.
And if you don’t make God the center of your life then your going to be the next statistic. You just want to become a statistic? Or has God really become the center of your lives? Some of you have made decisions for Christ, some have dedicated your lives, some even have meet Christ here this week and made Him the Lord of your life in salvation. Daniel desired to remain true to God, do you?

III. Instructional Points-the third desire is to give the glory to God and not yourself
A. Illustration-A Great Example
A man that stuck up for what he believes in, a man that knew and showed what he knew to be true. A man that was constant in his walk. A man that stayed true in faith and knew that Gods provision was Gods protection. The reason why the next 5 chapters show Daniel as a Leader is because of his decision he had made in verse 8. If you don’t stand for what is to be true then it that much easier to pollute your mind, your body, your way of living, and that is then there where sin comes, and creeps in your life. They had changed his name, but they could not change his nature to live for God.
B. Application-How you do this is? Where can I find hope for this?
These are the questions. You do this realizing what the Gospel had to do with you being born again, becoming a “saved” individual, Teenagers… Gods grace allows you to wake up every morning breathing another breath for Gods own Glory and not yours. If you wake up tomorrow morning without remembering what the cross did and how it saved your soul from the pit of hell, you and I have missed the mark. We miss the whole mark/reason that your even alive.
C. Interaction-The Giver gets the Glory
My only hope is that I have a Savior that could bear my sins, Christ was condemn as if he loved sin, so that we may be embraced by the Farther. Christ looked like a sin lover. So we may be come a sin hater. The Giver is God, He gives you enough grace every morning in order that you desire to stop sin, that you desire Him first and foremost. God is the giver of grace and you give Him His Glory. Do not take Gods grace for granted but live Gods Grace in constant servitude to God who should be thee Desire of your lives.

Dan.2:20-23

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How to Have Joy in Gods Sovereignty?
Background:
Chapter one: Babylonian captivity, training program, shows faith, see the excellent of God’s men.
Chapter two:
V.1-3-Kings second year he has a dream, and asked for all the magicians to come in and tell him the dream.
V.4-11-Tells them that if they can do it they will be given gifts and if not they will dead. Then they could not tell the dream and the king looks for all the wise men to kill.
V.12-13-Even Daniel!
V.14-16-Daniel ask for some time and him and his friends not to be killed
V.17-18-went to find his friends and tell his friends about the matter. And ask God for compassion on his friends and himself.

V.19- is the transaction verse-seeing what God is doing in the situation and not Daniel.
So the title of my message is…even when death is upon you, still have joy, one of the greatest fears in ministry is its going to be hard…Daniel prayed for his ministry!!! But he also praises God for it.
Problem with us we have everything to begin with, it is easy being a Christian when we have everything. But time is coming to see if all your praises have been real to Jesus? See Daniel never worried about himself in the situation. See Daniel didn’t work for his name, but he realized Gods and there showed God first and foremost. That brings me to the first point…

Prepositional Statement (#, Noun, Application, action)
I have two questions for you, to take into your ministry.

I. Instructional Points-V.20-22 are you praising God for being a part of His plan?
20Daniel said,…”Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever,For wisdom and power belong to Him. 21″It is He who changes the times and the epochs;He removes kings and establishes kings;He gives wisdom to wise menAnd knowledge to men of understanding. 22″It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things;He knows what is in the darkness,And the light dwells with Him.
A. Illustration-If I stopped everything in middle of a crisis you’d say I was ridiculous? We have one of the best illustrations of praising in what God is doing here! I mean Daniel doesn’t even know what hit him before the captain of the kings bodyguard is like, “Daniel come on we are killing you, o and all your friends too, ok.” First thing is he stands up for what he believes in, and shows faith for what he believes in and goes strait to the king! Says I’ll tell you tomorrow. Let me have a day to live. God first sees if he’s going to have faith and then allows Daniel to see this in a night vision and it comes to him. And the first thing he does is praise the Almighty God he showed his faith in. That is what God wants…
B. Application-are you an example of biblical praise?
v.20-This is what praise is, it is looking at what God has done! Then reflecting on what that tells us about God, and then the wonderful chance to come to Him and express those reflections in words to our Savior. Why don’t we remember what God has done he’s bought you so far along pretty good huh? You think God is going to do something wrong for you life?
v.21-Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful king at the time, but he had been granted his power by the sovereign Lord and was under His complete control. Some times in your life you might think that you have made it somewhere in life, but I remind you the only reason is because God has placed you there and you are doing His will and it wouldn’t matter if an unsaved person was doing if the Lord would terry without you any given day. Some of you want to boast in your name, your job, your wife, your family, your father, your house, your car, but there is no better name to boast in the name God.
God wants His praise! -IMPORTANT-thee example of biblical praise…thee ultimate praise is the Cross- Jesus cries out in Matt.27:46“MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME” which is a direct quotation form Ps.22:1 when David states the exact cry to God. Which was a form of praise. Jesus Christ going through what he did for 33 year’s of a sinless and blameless life and this is what he got, the cross… that is the way a lot of you respond like… you say, “I’ve done my best in my life and this is what you give me, this is what I am worth you God. To be a Christian is to take up your cross… this doesn’t mean that there’s going to be a kid in your suite that has harmed you wrong by using your shampoo or that is a 4 point instead of 5 on Calvinism, crosses are where people die, nails through your hands, hanging for three days until the crows come to eat at your mouth and pick you eyes out. Crosses are a year into ministry and your church splits, your youth group is falling at the seems, or crosses are you loosing your child after a year, crosses are maybe graduating without a mate, crosses are not knowing what your doing after you do graduate, crosses are going back to the factory cause you don’t have a job, you say I have went 4 years of schooling for you God and you give me this job, this kind of life? Praise God for His Sovereign plan in your life.
C. Interaction-what do you do when hard times come?
When we see and understand that God is in control, we must have the cross first in life. We then know our salvation to its fullest and there we show our true hearts in boosting form the cross saying, “it is ok, it’s ok, it must be ok because God is on control.” There is where we can find joy. In knowing God and not ourselves.
Daniel understood the sovereignty of God like no other, do we really trust God in hard times? Or does it become just a talk that we must talk. When we do not live out in which we believe to be true we then commit heresy and that is in a sin and a failure to Christ in itself.

II. Instructional Points-V.23 are you rejoicing in God for being a piece of His plan?
The difference is that don’t just praise God for His plan but you GET you be a part of the plan.
23″To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise,For You have given me wisdom and power;Even now You have made known to me what we requested of You,For You have made known to us the king’s matter.
A. Illustration-do you rejoice when big events ruin you plans?
Read from Dan Cruvers book…pages, 75-76
B. Application-are you an example of Biblical rejoicing?
Some of you are going into big ministry, some of you might be going home to hell, a father that is unsaved, some might go to a job that is dirty and worthless, when you go home rejoice in what you have. Part of Gods plan is there, cutting edge of what Gods doing selling fires, flipping burgers, washing cars, and even factories.
What do you think Daniels first reaction was when finding out he was going to be killed? Some you going to walk out this school, and hit home, those jobs and then the worst the Lords ministry and won’t even rejoice or praise God for one thing! Daniel chose to rejoice! He knew God was in control! Daniel could have said now God you took me out of my country, then made me learn under a pagan god and now I have to die!!! No he had faith in Gods severity and praise God through his circumstances, constantly reminded him self of just being able to serve God.
God wants His rejoice!
C. Interaction-do you truly have faith in Gods Sovereignty to even rejoice in him?
Review of the two points…
This is a 18 year old boy, lost his mentor Jeremiah, he lost his family! Watch his home be burnt down, lost his brothers, sister, and had no contact with them again, lost his king, his ruler, watched 5 of them in Jerusalem die and fall to pieces.