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Hey Leaders!

I know you’ve been counting down the days and yup, tomorrow is the day! Yay You should all have Large bins at your houses with some essentials and some “just in case” items. There are also the small bins with information in them. PLEASE look through the tabs and make sure all of the info is available to the students. This is one of the only ways we can communicate with them so if you don’t, they won’t know what’s going on!

Also, below is the schedule for the semester, the breakdown of groups, and the questions for discussion that correspond to the lectures. Hope all of these resources are helpful for you!! We are praying for you all tomorrow night!

Denham

**Jen Robison/Jillian De Los Santos

1. Mary McCloskey 480-219-2371 marymoo316@cox.net

2. Faith Busk 480-705-4515 trinitymusic@cox.net

3. Desiree Gorham 480-262-9788 bookaholic3@cox.net

4. Naiya Soetan 480 323 5890 naiyasoetan@gmail.com

5. Kelly Neujahr 480-882-8766 Kneuj1622@aol.com

6. Terah Fullman 480 246 5873 terahfullman@yahoo.com

7. Nicole Scavarda 480-600-4967 n_m_s247@yahoo.com

8. Amy Jackson 602-791-7931 amy.jackson1@cox.net

9. Brayonna Findley 480 656-3585 nail_diva2cox.net

10. Lizzie Weigele 480-254-9310 mcfries_19467@yahoo.com

11. Kiersten Kelly 480-290-2023 smvlfreak@yahoo.com

12. Traeana Hopkins 602-586-8464 raeana.l.hopkins@gmail.com

13. Makenzie Eldridge 480-620-0729 jeffandroz@cox.net

Melissa Hosten/Amber Harryman

1. Jessica Fowler 480-635-6230 jessierofo@cox.net

2. Gabby Asher 602-400-5701 christiangirly@cox.net

3. Sarah Auble 480-600-2177 cristyauble@aol.com

4. Gabby Fonner 480-688-9030 gfonner@cox.net

5. Heather Gorham 480-993-4512 xhgtvx@gmail.com

6. Hollie White 480-734-3549 beanierules@Aol.com

7. Taylor Hopkins 602-586-8468 taylor.r.hopkins@gmail.com

8. Ugena Zamora 4808404336 jzamo28@cox.net

9. Ashley Bush 4805709899 ashleybush0504@hotmail.com

10. Sierra Flores 480-240-8366 deemflo@yahoo.com

11. Morgan Jameson 4802763203 basketballbabe47@yahoo.com

12. Samantha Richardson (602) 384-8984

13. Cecily Denham 480 219-3646 denhamfamily@me.com

14. Brittany Flemming 480-406-3506 livelaughluv@cox.net

Goodell

**Allan Firman/Justin Hosten/Paul Lewkowski

1. Sam McAlear

2. David Wikoff

3. Matt Roth

4. Colton Farmer

5. Jared Maples

6. Chase Robinette

7. Anthony Siddall

8. Brandon Vaz

9. Madison Turner

Bryan Nelson/Bob Dunn

10. Taylor Gunkel

11. Tanner Gunkel

12. Colton Fritz

13. Nick Ayres

14. Dustin Hall

15. Austin Herman

16. Cole Corwin

Nielson

**Jason Coyle/ Eric Olyejar

1. Jansen Colella

2. Austin Harding

3. Keagan Sweeney

4. Cody Lewkowski

5. Jacob McAlear

6. Matt Richardson

7. Stefan Espin

8. Matt Nielson

Kurt Joiner/Jared Albert

1. Brody Moore

2. Omar Aguilar

3. Joshua Wikoff

4. Alex Mitchell

5. David Auble

6. Patrick Joseph

7. Terry Henry

8. Brad Smith

9. Kody Budinger

Jon Kielmeyer/Kyle Brown/Don

1. Caleb Simonds

2. Christian Lowery

3. Tyler Price

4. Adam New

5. Jake Curtier

6. Niyi Soetan

7. Patrick Buck

8. Zach Ibach

9. Wesley Shelberg

10. Devin Glauner

****I tried to make the accurate changes to all of these groups, but please let me know if I missed something!!

Sermon Outlines and Study Questions

“Who is God?”

A message from God’s word

“Revival happens when we see God majestic in holiness, and when we see ourselves, disobedient dust. Brokenness, repentance, unspeakable joy of forgiveness, a “taste for the magnificence of God,” a hunger for his holiness — to see it more and to live it more: that’s revival. And it comes from seeing God.” John Piper

Who is God?

I. Everyone in the world will have to answer this question. When you die and face God, you will be judged for your sins…and when the time comes for God to say, “What reason do I have to let you have full communion with me?” You will either answer that question correctly or incorrectly.

a. Matthew 7:23 “I will declare, I never knew you…”

i. If we don’t know God, we are DONE.

ii. A true understanding of God will radically change you and your heart, thus FORCING a response!

Why God? Why study God? How do you study God?

II. There are 2 aspects to study God

a. Incommunicable (Unshared) Attributes

b. Communicable (Shared) Attributes

c. The saints in heaven will see God with the eye of the mind, for He will be always invisible to the bodily eye; and will see Him more clearly than they could see Him by reason and faith, and more extensively than all His works and dispensations had hitherto revealed Him; but their minds will not be so enlarged as to be capable of contemplating at once, or in detail, the whole excellence of His nature. To comprehend infinite perfection, they must become infinite themselves. Even in Heaven, their knowledge will be partial, but at the same time their happiness will be complete, because their knowledge will be perfect in this sense, that it will be adequate to the capacity of the subject, although it will not exhaust the fullness of the object. We believe that it will be progressive, and that as their views expand, their blessedness will increase; but it will never reach a limit beyond which there is nothing to be discovered; and when ages after ages have passed away, He will still be the incomprehensible God. (John Dick, 1840).

d. The proper study of the Christian is the God-head. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the doings, and the existence of the great God which he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can comprehend and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go on our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science…amid that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought “I am but of yesterday and know nothing.” (Sermon on Mal. 3:6).

e. “Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity.” (C.H. Spurgeon)

f. We are called to LOVE God (Matthew 23:27)

i. We say that we love God…how can you love God when you don’t know him?

ii. We say that we love God…how can your love increase when your knowledge of God doesn’t increase?

1. I love Steve Nash…the more I know about him, how he works, what he does, how he plays, I love him even more!

2. Boyfriend/Girlfriend – the more you know them, the more you do or don’t love them!

Who is God? What is our response?

Job 38-42

I. Job 38:1-4 – God lays a challenge for Job

a. God states that Job doesn’t have any knowledge

b. The God states He will ask Job questions, even though He knows Job doesn’t have the answer!

i. Job 1:1 – Job was a believer, a deeply devout and prayerful man. He of all people knew God as he should.

c. Practical Application:

i. Tonight, we don’t have the answers. God canNOT be figured out, understood, comprehended…yet, God wants to challenge us. Why? To get our hearts to respond the RIGHT way!

II. Job 38:4 – Genesis 1:1

a. This is where our hearts and mind HAVE to start with our attempt to understand who God is

b. “In the beginning, GOD…”

c. Without us, God exists…without God we CANNOT exist!

d. Here we get a glimpse of really, how BIG God is and how small we really are!

i. 38:5-11 – God’s power

ii. 38:12-15 – God’s authority

iii. 38:16-21 – God’s incomprehensibility

iv. 38:22-35 – God’s power

v. 38:36-41 – God’s authority

vi. 39 God’s authority and power

III. Job 40:2 – Job’s 1^st Response (like ours maybe)

a. Verse 2 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

i. “Faultfinder” – someone who doubts God’s capabilities

ii. “let him answer it” – answer the doubts of God’s capabilities

b. 40:3-5 – Job’s first response

i. Job is inward…although humble in nature, his focus is on HIMSELF!

ii. “I am of small account” – “what shall I answer you?” – “I lay my hand on my mouth” – “I have spoken once, I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”

iii. Job’s focus is what do I do? Who am I?

1. Yes, when you study and see God for who He is…that will be a response…but that should not be our first response. Our first response should be, “What does GOD do? Who is GOD?”

2. If our response is inward, we will not be fully affected. If our response is outward, we will not be fully affected, we will be FORCED to be fully affected!

iv. 40:10-14 – God’s incomprehensibility

v. 40:15-41 – God’s authority

IV. Job 42:1-6 – Job’s 2^nd Response (what ours should be)

a. Job’s focus changes from inward to outward

i. “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose or yours can be thwarted. Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?

ii. Verse 4 – “Hear” means, PLEASE, LISTEN GOD!!!

1. Job is crying out to God

2. “I will question you, and YOU make it known to me”

a. This is the proper way to view God – we ask, and HE answers

3. “but now my eyes SEE YOU”

a. Job has changed his view from in to out

b. “Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes”

i. “repent” should be read, “comforted”

ii. “dust and ashes” is a term used for mourning; Job’s understanding of God brings 2 things:

1. Mourning for his own finitude, weakness, pride, inadequacy, etc.

2. Comfort

V. Application:

a. Where is your focus tonight? During the day? Every moment?

i. If you feel that you are not affected by God the way you should, I guarantee you that your response is like Job’s 1^st response

ii. Change it to Job’s 2^nd response

b. Does your view of God create in you a humility regarding who you are?

i. You are nothing in comparison to God….it moved Job to a posture of mourning…what does that look like to you?

c. Does your view of God create comfort?

i. We serve an amazing God!

ii. What do we have to worry about?

Questions for Week 1

1. What do think is the difference between knowing God intellectually, and knowing him personally (in our hearts)?

a. What are the results, effects, outcomes of both situations? i.e. knowing God intellectually and/or knowing Him personally (in our hearts)

b. Should we know God more intellectually? Or should we know God more in a personal way? Should it be an equal balance, or should one be greater than the other?

c. What kind of responses should we have to understanding God intellectually?

d. What kind of responses should we have to understanding God personally?

“To comprehend infinite perfection, they must become infinite themselves. Even in Heaven, their knowledge will be partial, but at the same time their happiness will be complete, because their knowledge will be perfect in this sense, that it will be adequate to the capacity of the subject, although it will not exhaust the fullness of the object. We believe that it will be progressive, and that as their views expand, their blessedness will increase; but it will never reach a limit beyond which there is nothing to be discovered; and when ages after ages have passed away, He will still be the incomprehensible God.”

2. What are your thoughts on getting to heaven, and still not knowing fully, who God is?

a. Does that frustrate you?

b. Does that make you even more humbled?

c. How would you describe our HAPPINESS being complete, but our knowledge still not complete?

3. How does the realization that God can’t be understood affect us every day?

a. How does it help us in school?

b. How does it help us in our friendships?

c. How does it help us in our relationship with our family? Parents?

d. How does it help in our evangelism?

“There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. Other subjects we can comprehend and grapple with; in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go on our way with the thought, “Behold I am wise.” But when we come to this master science…amid that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the thought “I am but of yesterday and know nothing.”

4. With a study on who God is, it automatically creates humility in our hearts that we can’t but HELP feel. Thus, when someone shows pride, what are they really saying to God?

a. If we are arrogant in something, what does that say about our knowledge of God?

b. If we show pride towards authorities (whom God has placed in our lives), what does that say about our knowledge of God?

“Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity.”

5. If we have a true understanding of who God is, what do you think that does for our understanding of sin?

a. If our friends, family, leaders, etc. knows and understands who God is better, do you think that we can get away with sin still?

b. If we understand who God is, will we be more convicted of sin?

6. We say that we love God…how can you love God when you don’t know him?

a. What are you doing right now that is allowing you to know Him?

b. What do you NEED to do that will allow you to get to know Him?

c. We say that we love God…how can our love increase when our knowledge of God doesn’t increase?

7. Job was a believer, a deeply devout and prayerful man. He of all people knew God as he should. Yet, God challenges him. What does this say for us?

a. Without us, God exists…without God we CANNOT exist! What should this attitude do for us in how we live?

8. Job 40:3-5 talks about his first response. His response is “Who am I and what can I do?” Is this response right?

9. Job 42:1-6 talks about Job’s second response. What things does this response give to Job (and us)?

10. With an understanding of God, does that create a comfort for you? Why?

Questions for Week 2

The Knowledge of God

Jeff Royce

1. What is the point of trying to understand the knowledge of God, whose knowledge can’t be understood?

a. Explain the parallels between God’s knowledge and understanding

i. Is there a difference? Is there a difference to God? Us?

b. If God’s knowledge is beyond our comprehension, what should that do for our everyday life? Our personal devotions to God? Our prayer life?*

*This could be an awesome opportunity to talk about what PRAYER is and how our understanding of God affects that!

2. What are the benefits of God having complete and total knowledge?

a. What are the practical benefits?

b. Are there any downsides to God having complete and total knowledge?

3. If God knows EVERYTHING…past, present, and future…does that make us robots?

a. Does God’s knowledge allow us to let him lead, or does that just mean we have no choice in anything?

b. How does God’s complete knowledge affect our everyday “choices”?

4. If I have a God who knows everything, why can’t I let Him lead?

a. What does God’s knowledge do for my confidence?

b. What does God’s knowledge do for my relationships?

c. What does God’s knowledge do for the interactions with my family? Friends?

5. How does God’s knowledge change our perspective with people who gossip about us?

a. If people are saying things that aren’t true about us, yet, God knows the truth, what should our response be to those people?

6. How does understanding God’s infinite knowledge affect us when we feel depressed?

a. God never makes mistakes or gets us wrong, so why do we get frustrated with ourselves? Do we have a right to be frustrated with ourselves?

b. God never makes mistakes or gets us wrong, so how do we explain sin and the consequences we receive for that sin in our lives?

7. Because God is all-knowing, why do we go around thinking that we can do things behind His back?

a. Obviously, God knows everything we do…so why do we need to confess our sins to God? Why should we confess our sins to other people?

8. How does God’s all-knowing ability relate to salvation?

a. If God knows everything, does that mean we don’t choose God, but that He chooses us?

b. If God knows everything, why did Satan choose to rebel against God?

If God knows everything, why did He allow Adam and Eve to sin?

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