1. Creation belongs to _____________________________________. See: Psalm 24:1; 50:10-11; Colossians 1:15-16
2. Creation is included in God’s redemptive _____________________. Genesis 1:26-28, 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.” So God created mankind in His Own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
3. a) As a result, we are to ______________ God in terms of His creation. Genesis 2:15 The LordGod took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.                           
4. b) As a result, God intends to redeem _________________________. See: Romans 8:19-22
5. We have been charged to care for creation, that care involves responsible _______________________________________.
6. a) God gave guidelines meant to ensure the ____________of the land. See: Exodus 23:10-11 and Leviticus 25:4-5
7. b) God gave a day of rest (the Sabbath) to ______________________. Exodus 23:12, “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest  and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.”

See: Deuteronomy 5:14-15

Deuteronomy 25:4, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”

See: Job 39:5-8; Genesis 9:8-11; Psalm 104:10-12, 16-18

1. c) God provided for maintaining a species’ ____________________.

1. I am a _____________________________. 
2. My sin brings _______________________. 
3. Jesus paid the ______________________ for my sin. 

1. According to the Bible, we __________________for worship.
2. Worship helps you…
3. Order your _____________ around God. 
4. Encounter and ________________ God.  Matthew 18:20, 

  “For where two or three gather in My name, there I am I with them.” 

1. ___________________ to God.

Psalm 71:22-24, “I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy  when I sing praise to You—  I whom You have delivered. My tongue will tell of Your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.”                                                         Psalm 50:16-17, “But I will sing of Your strength, in the morning I will sing of Your love; for You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. You are my strength, I sing praise to You; You, God, are my fortress, my God on whom I can rely.” 

96. _________________________God. See Psalm 96.
97. Receive spiritual encouragement and ___________________.

Hebrews 10:24-25, “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”                                           

3. The primary purpose of worship is not what WE get out of it, but what we ____________________ to God through it.

How Should We Worship?

John 4:23-24, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

See Psalm 28-2; 88:9; Nehemiah 8:5-6 

4. They are called sacraments because they convey something to you and for you of a _________________________. 

1. This is accomplished in __________________________.
2. Finding a community of faith and committing to it, is one of the most important spiritual steps you can take. The truth is: We cannot do life ______________________________.

Check out these “one another” references —                                        Romans 12:10; 12:16; 14:13; 14-19; 15:7; Ephesians 4:2; 4:32;             Colossians 3:13; Hebrews 10:24; 1 Peter 4:9.

3. We all need people who come alongside us and help us keep going. These people provide _________________________ and ___________________________.

1. Jesus set a ______________ and a _______________,

Luke 5:16, “ But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.”

2. Because of His morning DQT, Jesus became…: 

    (a)  _______________________; and, 

    (b)  _______________________, and,

    (c)   _______________________.

Moving Forward

3. Set a _________________ and find a _________________.

Matthew 6:6, “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

4. Some suggestions for Your DQT:   
5. _________________ (Estimated time: 30 seconds).                                
6. Read the Bible …            

1. Religion — thinking that when we go through certain religious rites, rituals, services or ceremonies we are ___________________. This is called ________________.
2. Knowledge — ALL we have to do is know and believe the __________________________________. 

See: James 2:14-19                                           

The Myths 

3. When we give our life to Jesus, spirituality happens __________________________________.

See: Colossians 2:7

4. 4. Being a Christian does not automatically translate into becoming ________________________.

See: Hebrews 5:12

5. All you have to do is _______________ to be like Jesus. Wrong! You ___________________ the things Jesus did in order to live like Jesus lived.

See: Luke 6:40 and 1 Timothy 4:7

6. Remember, becoming a truly spiritual person is a ____________________________

See: Proverbs 27:17 and Hebrews 10:24-25

7. Becoming like Jesus is a _____________ for the rest of your life.

Facts About Being a Jesus – Follower 

8. The state of your spirituality does not rest on how you ____________________________, but on who you are.
9. It is YOUR responsibility to ____________________.
10. The Mark of Spiritual Maturity is not being _________ but ________________________ yourself.

1. Fact: We tend to see what we _______________________           sensitize ourselves to see.

See: 1 Corinthians 15:13-15, 17-20

John 20:11-16 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward Him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

2. Doubt isn’t the same as unbelief. Doubt literally means to be ___________________________________________.

John 14:5-7,9  Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.  If you really know Me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.”  Jesus answered: “Don’t you know Me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

3. The truth about shame:
4. a)  We all have ___________________.  
5. b)  We’re all afraid to _____________________ about it.
6. c)  The less we talk about it, the more _______________ it has over our lives.

1. When Jesus was asked what He could possibly do to prove Himself to skeptics — His answer: the ____________________.

Matthew 12:38-40, “Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to Him, ‘Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.’ He answered, ‘A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.’” 

Matthew 16:1-4, “The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested Him by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied, ‘When evening comes, you say, “It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,”  and in the morning, “Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.” You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.’ Jesus then left them and went away.”

2. If you’re open to the possibility of the ___________________,    then the swallowing of Jonah by a great fish is ______________.   

Luke 9:18-22, “Once when Jesus was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, ‘Who do the crowds say I am?’ They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.’ ‘But what about you?’ He asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’ Peter answered, ‘God’s Messiah.

3. Jesus wants His audience to know two things about Himself: 
4. He was the ____________________________.  
5. He was a ______________________________.         

Luke 9:51, “And it came to pass, when the time was come that He should be received up, he steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem.”  (Also see Luke 10:38 and 13:22.)

  Luke 18:31-33, ^“Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, ’We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. ³² He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock Him, insult Him and spit on Him; ³³ they will flog Him and kill Him. On the third day He will rise again.’”   

4. Why does Jesus constantly declare how He would die and that He would be resurrected?
5. It was always the _________________________; and,
6. To ____________________ for the excruciating horror of the cross. (See Luke 24:1-8.) 
7. The resurrection was the ultimate _________________or validation for everything that Jesus ever said and ever did.