Dec. 08, 2024

New Pathways

Primary Text:  Proverbs 3:5–6              

Last Teaching:  New Beginnings II

1)  A New Mind

Ephesians 4:22–24:  You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 

2)  New Hope

1 Peter 1:3–5:  Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 

3)  New Desires

2 Corinthains 5:9–10:  So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 

This Week’s Teaching:

1)  New Relationships

Romans 8:15–16:  For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.  And by him we cry, “Abba, Father”.  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 

Ephesians 2:19–20:  Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

Psalm 68:4–6:  Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him who rides on the clouds— his name is the Lord— and rejoice before him.  A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.  God sets the lonely in families, he leads forth the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. 

DQ 1) How has God expanded your relationships since coming to know Him?  

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2)  New Direction

Psalm 16:7, 11:  I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me….  You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Proverbs 3:5–6:  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.  

DQ 2) Are you wandering aimlessly through life?  Do you need new direction?

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3)  New Purpose 

1 Corinthians 6:19–20:  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Psalm 73:25–26:  Whom have I in heaven but you?  And earth has nothing I desire besides you.  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Philippians 2:12–13:  Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.  

DQ 3) Define the primary purposes of your life at this stage of your journey.

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