1. They were _________________ and put into _________________ so they wouldn’t just shut down the lives of other people.
2. Think of this woman, for 12 years she is in a continual state of being                 _____________________________________.  

Mark 5:29-34, “Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched My clothes?’ ‘You see the people crowding against you,’ His disciples answered, ‘and yet you can ask, “Who touched me?”’  But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at His feet and, trembling with fear, told Him the whole truth. He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’”

3. For anyone other than family ________________ Jesus’ fringe would have been culturally scandalous.

James 5:14-15, ”Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.”

4. The “Praying Process”
5. A) It’s for the _________________________.
6. B) It’s by the church’s ________________________.
7. C) It includes being __________________________.     
8. D) It means to pray __________________________.

1. Their condition was so horrific these lepers didn’t ask Jesus to heal them—they asked for ___________________________.
2. The main point: Gratitude really is a __________________.
3. Having faith in God isn’t the same as ____________ to God.

1. Grace: The idea of ____________ what you don’t deserve, and not ________________ what you do.
2. One of the biggest lies that we can tell ourselves is that we have to get our ________________________ before we come to Jesus as Leader and Forgiver.
3. Second lie: Once you come to God the relationship is only continued if you keep your _________________________.

See Romans 7 and 8

John 8:7, “…He straightened up and said to them, ‘Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’”

4. If you want to receive grace from God but refuse to give it to someone else, you ________________________ in your life.

See Matthew 18:22-35

John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Romans 6:1-2, “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?”

5. This isn’t about a mandate to live a ____________________, but a mandate to not lead a sin-dominated life.

1. The word “worship” comes from an old anglo-saxon word that meant — to give __________________ to someone or something.

Acts 2:42-47, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” 

2. What worship does to life…
3. Worship orders your life _________________________.     
4. Worship helps you encounter and__________________ 

           God. 

Matthew 18:20, [Jesus said] ”For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” 

1. Worship helps you ________________________ to God.
2. Worship is what God ___________________________.
3. When you become a worshiper, you become _____________.

See Acts 16:16-34 

4. How do you become a “worshiper”?
5. Be __________________________________________.

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.

1. In ____________________.

1. The dream of Jesus is _______________, and the person who is serious about following Him will buy into His dream.

Acts 2:42-47, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5, “ For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 

2. It’s your responsibility to take up the mantle of _________________.   

Hebrews 5:11-14, “We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!  Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.  But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” 

3. Why study the Bible? The ultimate goal is to do ________________.

James 1:22-25, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.  Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.” 

4. Three steps — You should…
   1. 4. Take ____________ of practical teaching.
      5. Invest in private ___________________.
      6. Act on what you _____________________.

1. A)Am I being honest with myself really?
2. B)What story do I want to tell?
3. C)Is there a tension that deserves my attention?
4. D)What is the wise thing to do?
5. This final question isn’t about making your life better; it’s about making ___________________________ life better.

John 13:34-35, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” 

2. At that moment, Jesus establishes Himself as ________                      

    _____________________ for love. 

3. Last question — The Relationship Question,                     

    What does love _____________________________? 

4. This law crushes the excuse we have used through the