A study through the Old Testament

The final sermon preached by Jeremy Meeks as a pastor of Hope Community Church. The title of this sermon is Love One Another. John 13:31-38  When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.  [32]  If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.  [33]  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you...

A study through the Old Testament

1 Corinthians 10:1-14  For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,  [2]  and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,  [3]  and all ate the same spiritual food,  [4]  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.  [5]  Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the...

A study through the Old Testament.

1 Corinthians 9:1-27  Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?  [2]  If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.  [3]  This is my defense to those who would examine me.  [4]  Do we not have the right to eat and drink?  [5]  Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?  [6]  Or is it only...

1 John 1:5-10  This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  [6]  If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  [7]  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.  [8]  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  [9]  If we confess...

A Study through the Old Testament

2 Corinthians 8:1-15  We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,  [2]  for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.  [3]  For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,  [4]  begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—  [5]  and this, not as we...

1 Corinthians 8:1-13  Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.  [2]  If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.  [3]  But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.  [4]  Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”  [5]  For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or...

Assurance of Salvation in the book of 1 John

1 Corinthians 7:25-40  Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.  [26]  I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.  [27]  Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.  [28]  But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly...

1 Corinthians 7:17-24  Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.  [18]  Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.  [19]  For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.  [20]  Each one should...

Matthew 5:21-48  “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’  [22]  But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.  [23]  So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,  [24]  leave your...

1 Corinthians 7:1-16  Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”  [2]  But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.  [3]  The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.  [4]  For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over...

A Study through the Old Testament

1 Corinthians 6:12-20  “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.  [13]  “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.  [14]  And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.  [15]  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?...

1 Corinthians 6:1-11  When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?  [2]  Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?  [3]  Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!  [4]  So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the...

1 Corinthians 5:1-13  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.  [2]  And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.  [3]  For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.  [4]  When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and...

A Study through the Old Testament.

A Study through the Old Testament.

2 Corinthians 6:1-18  Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.  [2]  For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.  [3]  We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,  [4]  but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships,...

1 Corinthians 4:1-21  This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.  [2]  Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.  [3]  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.  [4]  For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.  [5]  Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time,...

1 Corinthians 3:1-23  But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.  [2]  I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,  [3]  for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?  [4]  For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely...

1 Corinthians 2:6-16  Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.  [7]  But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.  [8]  None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.  [9]  But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has...