Sermon & Study Outlines
Setting a Different Example
Scripture reading: Acts 17:10-12 – a different kind of nobility
prepared by David G. Churchill

     Intro.
          Faithful Christians practice a different sort of religion and set a different sort of example

     I. We example a different perspective
          A. life
          B. death
          C. deliverance
               1. Jeremiah – Jeremiah 1:19 (Lamentations 3:19-26)
               2. Jonah – Jonah 2:6-9 (Jonah 2:10; 3:10; 4:9-11)
          D. service

     II. We example a different set of values
          A. hopes
          B. goals
          C. motivations
          D. attitudes
          E. needs
          F. righteousness
          G. friendship
          H. enemies

     III. We example a different speech
          A. who
          B. what
          C. when
          D. where
          E. why
          F. how

     IV. We example a different set of works
          A. prove & convince – Paul told us through Timothy
          B. encourage – Paul told us through Timothy & Titus
          C. rebuke – Paul told us through Timothy; Jesus told us through the apostles
          D. repent – Jesus told us through the apostles
          E. forgive – Jesus told us through the apostles
          F. share – Paul told us through the church in Galatia

     V. We example a different Master – Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 6:46
          A. different redemption – Titus 2:11-16
          B. different authority – John 12:44-50
          C. different responsibilities – Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Matthew 28:16-20; 1 Corinthians 5:9-11,17-21
          D. different privileges – Ephesians 2:8-10; 3:10-11; Galatians 6:6-10
          E. different standard operating procedure – Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:16,17

     Conclusion: We example a different result – Jeremiah 29:11-14
          “
For thus says the LORD:  After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place.  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity;  I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.



      Sermon outline prepared by David G. Churchill; used by permission. rev:051202-060528
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