Redemption Church in Brookfield, WI

Getting Along With The Family

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 3 John

Big Question: How should we relate to other churches and their leaders?

Sermon Points:

1. GAIUS: A good example of both truth & love in ministry
2. DIOTREPHES: A bad example of unloving self-importance

3. DEMETRIUS: The reason we need to love those who walk in truth

Big Idea: Let's not get in God's way.

Application Points:

1. Gospel truth trumps everything else.
2. Gospel love trumps our “position” or “status.”

3. God’s gospel mission must trump our agenda.

A Family of Truth & Love

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 2 John

Big Question: What is the relationship between truth & love?

Sermon Points:

1. The Church
2. The Deceivers
3. Our Response

Big Idea: The truth of the gospel is what binds us together in love.

Application Points:

1. Our love sets us apart, together.
2. Some truths are worth dividing over.
3. God's truth & God's love are never at odds.

Confidence - Under One Condition

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 5:13-21

Big Question: Are there any conditions to this confidence?

Sermon Points:

• Part 1 - The Confidence We Have Toward God
  1. God hears our prayers.
  2. God restores us when we sin.
  3. God protects us from the evil one.
  4. God will deliver us from this world.
  5. God has made us one with his Son.
• Part 2 - The One Condition of our Confidence

Big Idea: We can know we have eternal life if we remain in God's eternal Son.

The Life-giving Testimony of God

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 5:6-12

Big Question: Why is it so important for us to understand who Jesus is?

Sermon Points:

1. Jesus really died
2. God has really spoken
3. Eternal Life is at stake

Big Idea: Because our eternal life depends on the eternal human life of Jesus.

Application Points:

1. God has told us his plan of redemption
2. God has given us his life
3. God has offered us his precious Son

Why our Confidence Matters

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 5:1-5

Big Question: Do we really need this kind of spiritual confidence?

Sermon Points:

1. How to have the confidence of a child.
2. Why we need the confidence of a child.

Big Idea: Because our confidence in Christ is the only way to overcome the world.

Application Points:

1. This confidence is a joy, not a burden.
2. We do need this confidence to overcome the world.

Why We Love

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 4:7-21

Big Question: Why is it so important for us to love one another?

Sermon Points:

1. God's Invisible Love, Made Visible

    

2. The Recipients of God's Love, Made Fearless

Big Idea: God has shown us his invisible love in order to make our visible love possible.

Application Points:

1. God's visible love has removed our fear of punishment.
2. God's visible love is redeeming the world through us.

Discerning the Spirit

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 4:1-6

Big Question: How can you tell who has God's Spirit within them?

Sermon Points:

1. The need for spiritual discernment
   • Takeaway: We can't trust every spirit
2. Our hope in spiritual discernment
   • We don't have to fear any spirit
3. The key to spiritual discernment
   • Who do these spirits listen to?

Big Idea: When God's Son is confessed, those with God's Spirit will listen.

The Love That Makes us Confident

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 3:11-28

Big Question: Why can we be so confident that God’s children will love one another?

Sermon Points:

1. God's Son has shown us True Love.
2. His love is in us, overcoming our lack of love.

Big Idea: God loves his children through his children.

Application Points:

Our Love for One Another Should Be:

1. Righteous
2. Tangible
3. More than just a feeling

The Confidence of God's Children

Preacher: Danny D'Acquisto

Passage: 1 John 2:28 - 3:10

Big Question: Why can we be so confident that God's children will practice righteousness?

Sermon Points:

1. God's Son is real & righteous.
2. He makes us God's righteous children

Big Idea: God's only righteous Son makes us righteous children, like him.

Application Points:

How can we know if we're children of God?

1. Is your Jesus real & righteous?
2. Is your Jesus really making you righteous?

God's Steadfast Love Wins The Day

Preacher: Mark Lindstrom

Passage: Psalm 6

Sermon Points:

1. Troubled Believers call out for grace and healing. (Verses 1-3)
   • Principle: A humbled believer understands the need for grace and healing and cries out for them by name.
2. Troubled Believers pray fervently to the God of steadfast love. (Verses 4-7)
   • Principle: Fervent prayer flows out of a humble heart and is based on a particular aspect of the holy character of God.
3. Troubled Believers are heard by God and delivered. (Verses 8-10)
   • Principle: God hears a believer’s prayer and acts powerfully to heal and deliver them.

Big idea: A humbled believer's fervent reliance on God’s steadfast love leads to deliverance of the whole man.