Unshakable Hope Week 1
Max Lucado
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Unshakable Hope Week 1
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Unshakable Hope Week 1 - The Text
Max Lucado
•Twelve conversational chapters
•A lifetime of studying the Scriptures
Twelve Conversational Chapters
•Session 1: You are Stamped With God’s image
•Session 2: God Will Win the victory
•Session 3: You Are an Heir of God
•Session 4: Your Prayers Have Power
•Session 5: God Gives Grace to the Humble
•Session 6: God Gets You
•Session 7: Jesus is Praying for You
•Session 8: Death Has Been Defeated
•Session 9: Joy is Coming Soon
•Session 10: You Will Have Power
•Session 11: There is No Condemnation in Christ
•Session 12: Justice Will Prevail
Stamped With God’s Image: Genesis 1: 26-27
•Key Story: God creates humankind
•God’s Promise: Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature
•Our Promise: We will embrace our role as God’s image bearer
Genesis 1: 26-27 (NIV)
•26 - Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
•27 – “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
As Image-Bearers of God, Choose Hope
Embracing God’s Image – In Us
•Max Lucado’s video introduction to Session 1 (~8 minutes)
•https://watch.studygateway.com/videos/unshakable-hope-session-1-you-are-stamped-with-god-s-image
Discussion Questions
•How does the world make you feel unimportant?
• How do we encourage those who doubt God made us in His image?
•What does it mean practically to ‘bear God’s image’ in your daily life at this stage of life?
Colossians 3:5-7: (NIV)
5: Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature; sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry
6: Because of these, the wrath of God coming
7: You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived
Colossians 3: 8-10: (NIV)
•8: But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and the filthy language from your lips
•9: Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices
•10: And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator
Galatians 5: 22-23: The Fruits of the Spirit . . .
2 Corinthians 3:18: Being Transformed
All Human Beings Bear God’s Image
•Born and preborn, rich and poor, male and female, urban and rural, all ethnicities bear God’s image
•Sin has distorted God’s image in human beings, but it has not destroyed it
In the Arena of Life But Not Defined By It
•The culture tells us to look inside ourselves… money, possessions, fame, status, church attendance, doing good deeds will make us significant
•But these things do not define your worth
•God alone defines our significance
1 John 3:1 (NIV)
•See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God!
•And that is what we are!
•The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him!
John 17:3 (NIV): Our Mission is Knowing God
•Now there is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent
Unshakable Hope: NBA & The National Anthem
Max Lucado
•Twelve conversational chapters
•A lifetime of studying the Scriptures