Journey Church Bozeman Sermons

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | April 28, 2024 A Follower of Jesus Unfollowed but Re-followed Jesus. The Backstory: One day, a man named Simon and some other fishermen had been fishing all night in the Sea of Galilee (Luke 5:5). They’d not caught anything, when Jesus gave an unsolicited fishing tip (Luke 5:4-5). After instructing them to cast their nets into the deep water, they caught a boatload of fish (Luke 5:4-7). Jesus then said to Simon, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people” (Matt. 4:18-20, Mark 1:17). In addition, Jesus told Simon that he would be called Peter, which means “Rock” (John 1:42). And that was when, Peter left everything and became one of the 12 disciples, a follower of Jesus. “Peter could be brash, impetuous, impulsive, and vacillating. His passion often got ahead of his head. There were times when Peter was a windbag, a blowhard. He made these unnecessary—as well as empty—boasts. In the upper room, Peter bragged to Jesus that he would lay down his life for Jesus (John 13:37).” —John E. Johnson The Story:Feed My Sheep When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” John 21:15-17 (NIV) Follow Me Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!” John 21:18-19 (NIV) Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them…. When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” John 21:20a-22 (NIV) Your Story: “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” Revelation 3:20 (NIV) Reflection Questions: 1. Have you ever quit a team, class, or job? Why did you leave? In hindsight, was it a good decision? 2. Would you call yourself a follower of Jesus, a former follower, curious about following Jesus, or something else? 3. In the sermon, the question was asked, “How do we love Jesus?” The answer was, “We love Jesus by feeding his sheep and following him.” What would it look like for you to do those two things? 4. Journey Church’s purpose statement is: “Together, we’re leading people to become all-in followers of Jesus.” How do you envision your role in our church fulfilling that statement? 5. How would you answer the question, “What’s your next step?” in the growth path? For more information, go to: https://journeybozeman.com/about/ Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.04.28.pdf

Logan Holloman | NextGen Pastor | April 21, 2024 What comes to mind when you hear the title Lord? Luke 6:46 (NIV)“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Why don’t I do what he says? 1 John 5:1-3 (NIV)Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, Obedience is not perfection “In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship [...] is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough…Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you…Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings. They’re the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day.” — David Foster Wallace, commencement ‘05 Luke 6:47-49 (NIV)As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.” Digging:ApprenticeshipWorship = practiced obedienceTaking the plank out of your own eye (Luke 6:41-42)Tested, sturdy, weather storms well“No accidental saints” Building on the sand:Hear ⧣ DoHaphazardly, hurried, rushed”Microwave, sprinkle Jesus”Fingers crossedFragile, delicate James 1:22-25 (NIV)Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. Is he Lord of your life?Do you do what he says?Does obedience feel like a burden or worship? Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.04.21.pdf

Logan Holloman | NextGen Pastor | April 14, 2024 John 5:1-7 (NIV)Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Jesus- invitation to be made whole “do you want to be well” Pool- what we look to for wholeness and healing. What’s your pool? John 5:8-15 (NIV)Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.” But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’” So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?” The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well. Mat- symbolic of sin/pain used for Jesus’ purposes in our lives. What’s your mat? God never wastes our suffering John 1:29b (NIV)“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! John 20:30-31 (NIV)Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. Jesus’ invitation …is to be made whole,  …it’s beyond our pools …he’ll redeem/use our mats Reflection Questions:1. What is one felt need you are aware of at the moment?2. What gets in the way (i.e. fear, control, lack of trust) of receiving what God wants to do for, in, or through us?3. Jesus warns the man to not return to sin, in what areas are you tempted to return to your mat? Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.04.14.pdf

Guest Speaker: Michael Jr. | April 7, 2024 Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.04.07.pdf

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 31, 2024 Acts 9:1-6 (NIV)Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied. “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott Philippians 3:10-11 (NIV)I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Philippians 3:8b-9 (NIV)that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. Reflection Questions: 1. Have you had seasons in your life where you were running from God? What was that experience like? How did it change? 2. How are you experiencing the challenge and change of God in your life? Why is experiencing the challenge and change of God crucial to following Him? If we are not being challenged and changed what could that be evidence of? 3. How have you seen the resurrected Jesus meet you in your times of need? Despair. Anxiety. Doubt. Failure. Rebellion. Indifference. Where do you need Him to meet you today? 4. How have you seen the tendency to create God in our image? Why are we prone to assume that God is who we imagine Him to be rather than who He really is? How can make sure that our image of God is accurate? Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.31.pdf

Brandon Edwards | Worship & Creative Arts Pastor | March 29, 2024 1. Covenant is the only way to relate to God. Deuteronomy 29:2a, 9, 12-18 (NIV)Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do. You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today. You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold. Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison. Deuteronomy 29:9 (NIV)Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV)“But make sure there’s no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord your God and worships other gods.” Deuteronomy 29:13b (NIV)“...that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Genesis 15:18 (NIV)“Therefore, God made a covenant with Abraham.” Galatians 3:13-14 (NIV)“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to us all through Jesus Christ.” 2. Jesus followed the covenant perfectly and fulfilled the curse of the covenant by his death. Deuteronomy 29:18 (NIV)“Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God” 3. God wants all of your heart. John 13:35 (NIV)“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”   Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.29.pdf

Brian Priebe | Executive Pastor | March 24, 2024 Philippians 3:4b-6 (NIV)“If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.” Philippians 3:7-8But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss…What is more, I consider everything a loss… … I have lost all things.I consider them garbage… Philippians 3:7-9a (NIV)But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” John 13:34-35 (NIV)“A new command I give you:Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Reflection Questions: What are the things in life that matter to you most right now?Read Phil 3:4-9. What things in your life can you relate to Paul's description of becoming "loss"? What things in your life were priorities that you now consider "a loss".Read John Piper's quote, "You gain Christ by renouncing everything that competes with him." What areas of your life "compete" with Jesus?Read Jesus' command passages of Mark 12:30-31 and John 13:34-35. What are your thoughts around Jesus' commands and how they are lived out in your daily life?What is one step of action these passages or this conversation has led you to commit to do this week? Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.24.pdf

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 17, 2024 Exodus 34:6-7 (NIV)And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; …” Romans 3:25-26 (NIV)God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. Hebrews 10:10-14 (NIV) “The man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself, and no longer looking to himself. He no longer looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not look at what he hopes to be … He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and his finished work, and he rests on that alone.”— Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1 John 4:16-19 (NIV)And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.We love because he first loved us. Reflection Questions: What was something that stuck out to you from the sermon? Do you tend to view God as more loving/compassionate or more just/wrathful? Explain. Why do you think that is? How does the cross of Jesus show us the fullness of God’s LOVE and the fullness of His JUSTICE? We receive justification by faith. How do you define faith? How can faith actually become a “work” of righteousness to us? How would you paraphrase the quote(above) by Martyn Lloyd-Jones? It is the OBJECT of our faith and not the AMOUNT of our faith that save us. Agree or disagree? Explain. If we are justified freely (without cost or cause) what is our motivation to obey and follow Jesus? Why is fear of punishment or judgment not the motivation Jesus wants from us? Read 1 John 4:16-19 (above). Christianity is not at it’s core message a religion. It is a gospel (good news). It is not what we DO for God but what God has DONE for us. Good news is meant to be shared. What motivates you to share the good news with people in your world? What hinders you from sharing the good news with others? How can you overcome these barriers? Who will you invite to be part of our Easter gatherings where we celebrate the good news of Jesus? Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcard Want to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.17.pdf

Bob Schwahn | Lead Pastor | March 10, 2024   Romans 1:17 (NIV) For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”   Romans 3:20 (NIV) Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.   BUT NOW… BUT (conjunction): Used to introduce a phrase contrasting what has already been mentioned.   Romans 3:21-24 (NIV) But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.   IMPUTE: To ascribe something to someone by virtue of a similar quality in another…   Philippians 3:4-7 (NIV) though I myself have reasons for such confidence.  If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.   Romans 5:6-8 (NIV) You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.   1 John 4:16-19 (NIV) And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us.   “Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion that you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have.“ — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity   Reflection Questions: What accomplishments in this life are you especially proud of?  What would you want to put on your “life resume”?What are examples in our culture of the worldview that believes our resume/performance record is what validates or justifies our existence?How can this resume/performance worldview leak into our view of God and how we relate to Him?If you were to die tonight and stand before God and He were to ask you, ‘Why should I let you into heaven?”  What would you say? How does the answer to this question clarify what we believe about what God expects from us? Explain.   The word BUT is a word of contrast. What is being contrasted in Romans 3:21 from what Paul has been saying up to that point?  What makes this transition so important and meaningful?In Philippians (above) Paul talks about his outstanding “resume”.  Why would Paul call those very good resume items “loss” or “worthless”?  How does an understanding of the Gospel (good news) cause us to regard our resume as worthless? Romans 3:24 (NIV) and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.   Define justified/justification.   Define Grace.   How does free justification by grace remove both fear of condemnation and pride in our resume?  If we experience fear of condemnation or pride in our moral record, how does that show we don’t understand or aren’t experiencing the gospel?Read 1 John 4:16-19 (above). Why is fear of condemnation not a proper motivation to follow Jesus and obey Him?  Should we try to motivate people to follow and obey Jesus out of fear of condemnation?  Why do you think many people try to do this?How would your life change if you were living out of a deep understanding of the gospel?  How has your life changed? My life before -> BUT NOW -> My life after   Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcardWant to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.10.pdf

Jim Keena | Guest Speaker | March 3, 2024 The Charge: Romans 3:9 (NIV)What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. The Evidence: Romans 3:10-18 (NIV)As it is written:“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands;there is no one who seeks God. (Ecclesiastes 7:20)All have turned away,they have together become worthless;there is no one who does good,not even one.” (Psalms 14:1-3 & 53:1-3)“Their throats are open graves;their tongues practice deceit.” (Psalm 5:9)“The poison of vipers is on their lips.” (Psalm 140:3) “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” (Psalm 10:7)“Their feet are swift to shed blood; (Proverbs 1:16) ruin and misery mark their ways,and the way of peace they do not know.” (Isaiah 59:7-8)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Psalm 36:1) The Verdict: Romans 3:19-20 (NIV)Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. “The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. Man claims prerogatives that belong to God alone; God accepts penalties that belong to man alone.” — John Stott, Romans: Good News for the World   Reflection Questions: 1. What was something that captured your attention from the sermon? 2. According to Romans 2:1 & 3:1, it appears the Jewish Christians at times felt superior to the Gentiles. What does Paul identify in 3:9 that they have in common with them? How does this shape your perspective of others and yourself? 3. In Romans 3:10-18, Paul strings several Old Testament verses like a pearl necklace. How do these verses describe humanity’s mindset, direction, words, and actions? What is the main point that Paul is making in these verses? 4. If the letter to the Romans closed at verse 20, how would you feel about yourself and God Has there been a time when you truly sensed your sin and need for God? 5. Augustine wrote, “So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in understanding them.” How is Romans 3:9-20 designed to increase your love for God and others? 6. Romans 6:13, in the New Living Translation, reads, “Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So, use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.” How could you use your “whole body” to bring God glory this week? Next Steps: Complete the Connect Card to receive more information, have us pray for you, or to ask us any question: http://journeybozeman.com/connectcard Want to worship through giving and support the ministry of Journey Church: https://journeybozeman.com/giveDownload our app: https://journeybozeman.com/app Join our Facebook Group to stay connected throughout the week: https://facebook.com/groups/JourneyChurchBozemanGet your children connected to our children's ministry, Base Camp: https://journeybozeman.com/childrenOur Student Ministry is for High School and Middle School students: https://journeybozeman.com/studentsSubscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JourneyChurchBozemanNotes Page: https://journeybozeman.com/sermons/notes/2024.03.03.pdf