Waukesha Bible Church
By Waukesha Bible Church
Waukesha Bible ChurchMar 01, 2022
Eph. 1:15-23 “Lavish Love Inspires Lavish Prayer”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
A prayer for the church to understand her union with Jesus – who we are and what we possess.
Eph. 1:3-14 "He Chose Us"
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
God chose us to be in his Son so that we would become part of his forever family. Such actions on his part should humble us and cause us to respond with gratitude and worship.
"Blessed in Christ"
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The overarching theme in Ephesians is God, through the work of Jesus, reconciling all things unto Himself (1:10). That work of reconciliation by Jesus is a work of grace resulting in us being united to Christ. And it is this union with Christ that enables the believing to receive all spiritual blessings.
“Understanding the Purpose or ‘Why’ of the Letter and Paul’s Structure”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As it once was, it shall again be. All of Creation shall once again bow under the dominion and headship of Jesus. Having received all authority from the Father (Matt. 28:18-20), Jesus, as the second Adam, shall have dominion over all of creation (Gen. 1:26).
“Understanding the Historical Setting of the City of Ephesus in the First Century”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The A.I.M. (Author’s Intended Meaning) of this lesson is to introduce the reader to the book of Ephesians by looking at the city of Ephesus in its first century setting.
“Understanding the Book of Ephesians as a First Century Letter”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
By seeing the Book of Ephesians as a New Testament Letter, our understanding of the Letter will be increased.
1 Cor. 15:1-19 “He Appeared – Our Resurrection Hope”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The resurrection of Jesus assures us that his victory is our victory – both in this life and the life to come.
Matt. 27:51a “Torn Veil – Access Granted”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
When Jesus died on the cross, the veil in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Unlike the Old Covenant when access to God was highly regulated and limited, now under the New Covenant access is granted.
John 12:12-19 “The Triumphal Entry – Victory Pronounced”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Our conquering King rides into Jerusalem pronouncing the victory he is on the verge of securing.
Heb. 13:20-25 “More than a Closing Prayer”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
A confident expectation for God to work in and through his children for his glory.
Heb. 13:1-19 "What is Acceptable Worship?"
Speaker: Mike Davis
The author of Hebrews has been making an argument that Jesus is better than the Old Covenant. The Law, the prophets, the old covenant, all of this was pointing to how God would fulfill His promises in Jesus Christ. By Faith, we are inheritors of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken. Given all of this, Chapter 12 concludes with a call for “acceptable worship”.
Heb. 12:18-29 "The Unshakeable Kingdom of Christ"
Speaker: Connor Shady
Let us find hope not in the things of this world, but in our unshakeable hope from above.
Heb. 12:1-17 "Looking to Jesus"
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
For believers in Jesus, persecution is inevitable. Rather than see it as judgment by God, His people need to receive it as an expression of love from God. It is easy to lose one’s grip in the face of hardship, but rather than letting go, one needs to buckle up and hold fast to Jesus who is the founder and perfecter of their faith.
Heb. 11:1-40 “The Endurance of Faith”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
A faith-fueled endurance is the consequence of seeing Jesus and continuing to believe the God who promises will faithfully fulfill his word.
Heb. 10:19-39 “We have a Great High Priest”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
If Jesus is our Great High Priest, then everything will be okay.
Heb. 10:1-18 “The End of All Offerings”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The role of the Old Covenant ends where the New Covenant begins. God is not asking you for any kind of sacrifice to appease His wrath or earn His pleasure. The only sacrifice that answers all of our questions is that of His only begotten Son. Thus, you can stop trying to satisfy His justice and gain His approval. That, thankfully, is finished.
Heb. 9:11-28 “Death and New Life Through the Cross of Christ”
Speaker: Aaron Cutshall
Christ’s better sacrifice is the death of the Old Covenant and the inauguration of the New Covenant.
Heb. 9:1-14 “From What Once Was [Shadow] to What Now Is [Substance]”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
What the old could not do in perfecting the conscience of the worshiper, the new in Christ does.
Lev. 16 “Beyond the Veil”
Speaker: Connor Shady
Cherishing Christ’s Work on Our Behalf: From Temporary to Finished
Matt. 6:5-15 “And When You Pray”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Praying to God is part of our fellowship with God. Prayer void of right content is empty, impotent, and vain. Thus, the act of praying is of no benefit, for even the unbeliever ‘prays.’ But prayer guided by right content deepens one’s fellowship with God. Today’s study focuses on the confessional nature of the Lord’s Prayer and how it can deepen our fellowship with God even as we increase in our knowledge of Him.
Phil. 2:1-11 “When God Became Man”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
When Jesus took on human nature, He fulfilled God’s design for the saving of His people.
Matt. 1:1-17 “The Book of the Genealogy of Jesus Christ”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Matthew’s genealogy proves Jesus is the MESSIAH. Jesus is the fulfillment of the SEED PROMISE. When we read this genealogy, we can only respond with, “BUT GOD!” Friends, as we consider this strange and marvelous journey of preparation, let us worship deeply our immutable and incomprehensible God.
Heb. 8:1-13 “Now the Point is This”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Everything points to Jesus Christ as the fullest and final great high priest who, on the basis of a New Covenant, mediates before the Father in behalf of His people.
Jeremiah 31:27-40 “I Will Forgive Their Iniquity and Remember It No More”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In the promise of a New Covenant, Israel is offered redemption and hope even as they enter into captivity and displacement.
Heb. 6:13-7:28 “Jesus is Better”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Because Jesus has been appointed a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, He can offer a better means, hope, promise, intercession, and sacrifice than that offered by the line of Levi.
Psalm 110 “The Eternal Priest-King’s Triumph”
Jesus has been foreseen as the Priest-King who brings in God’s judgment against the unbelieving and victory for the believing.
Heb. 5:11-6:12 “Apostasy vs the Full Assurance of Hope”
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
The author of Hebrews has been addressing a Hebrew audience with an appeal for Jesus. This parenthetical section reveals that some within the fellowship may have initially professed faith in Christ but are now abandoning Jesus to return to Judaism. The author’s stern warning against turning from Christ raises a long debated theological question. Can a Christian lose their salvation?
Heb. 4:14-5:10 “Jesus, Our Great High Priest”
Speaker: Patrick J. Griffiths
Because Jesus is our Great High Priest, we can draw near and we are acceptable before Him for our good.
Heb. 4:1-13 “Four Letter Words and Other Expletives”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Enter the promised rest by believing Jesus. We don’t value rest. We don’t know how to rest. We don’t believe God regarding rest. Rest finds a home with the other four-letter words we look down on. The promise of rest is still on the table. Rest is available. The exhortation in this text comes as a sobering warning not to forfeit this rest or fail to reach it.
Heb. 3:7-19; Ps. 95; Exod. 17:1-17 "I'd Like a Second Opinion"
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Today, if you have ears to hear and eyes to see, take care how you respond to God. The author of Hebrews writes this lengthy exhortation to his audience to listen and believe. He is calling his audience to listen intently to the voice of God who speaks directly through his Son (Heb. 1). He’s encouraging his audience to see Jesus and consider who Jesus is and what he’s accomplished on our behalf (Heb. 2-3).
Heb. 3:7-19; Ps. 95; Exod. 17:1-17 “A Cautionary Tale of Rejecting Rest”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
Considering Jesus as God’s message of rest calls for a better response than rejecting it through unbelief.
Hebrews 3:1-6 “Consider Jesus”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus, like Moses, is faithful over His responsibilities, but unlike Moses, is a son and not a servant. The builder and not the building. Jesus is better than the Old Testament best.
Hebrews 2:5-18 “Jesus: The Founder of Our Salvation”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus, in His identification with us, answers for us our sin issue. The previous section, Heb. 1:1-2:4, forms a single unit showing Jesus as the superior revelation of God and concludes with a warning not to drift from believing in Him. Because He is the exact representation of God, He is God. This following section now explains His humanity, the reason for it, and the result of it.
Hebrews 1:5-2:4 “Jesus, God’s Firstborn Son”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Jesus Christ, as Son, is set above angels in importance. If rejecting the revelation received from angels brought condemnation, how much more will the condemnation be if we reject Jesus?
Hebrews 1:1-4 “Jesus: God’s Final Answer”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
In Jesus Christ we have the fullest and final word from God and it is to Him we must look and listen. Jesus is better than the Old Testament best. It isn’t that the old is bad, only that Jesus is better!
Hebrews Introduction “Jesus Christ is Better Than the Old Testament Best”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Everything in the Old Testament pointed to and prepared us for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Book of Hebrews is clear, there is no one beside Him and there is nothing beyond Him. If one rejects Jesus, there is no escaping the damnation from God. Everything in Hebrews points to Jesus as the Great High Priest (8:1) and not to accept Jesus is to reject Him and to reject Him, is to reject all hope of entering into the rest promised to His people. There is no middle ground. It is actually that simple.
Revelation 4-5 “Behold, a Throne”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
Revelation assures the church in tribulation that God is in control by giving her a vision of the throne. As we read chapters 4 and 5, we must read them as a singular vision.
1 Cor. 12 “The Anatomy of a Healthy Church”
Speaker: Pastor Giles Litzner
The Spirit has equipped and empowers each one of you for the benefit of this body.
Psalm 23 “The Lord is my Shepherd”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Because Jesus is our Shepherd there is no want thus there is no fear in our uncertainties whether immediate or long-term.
Ruth 4:1-22 “The Triumph of the Woman’s Seed”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As shadow, the redemption secured by Boaz of his bride images/pictures God’s redemption of His people from their debt and death.
Exodus 20:1-21 “The Ten Words”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The people of God have been and shall forever be marked by the ten words. The Ten Commandments are a part of the Law of Moses which is a vassal treaty, a conditional agreement. “You do your part and God shall do His.” The Ten Words reflect God’s character. The Law does not begin morality. In the Law of Moses, it only legislates morality to a nation. I am fully aware that an entire lesson could be taught on each of the ten words. This study desires to put the ten words in their proper historical and Christological context and implication. The Ten Commandments expand on the two commandments which are really one commandment, “Believe in Jesus.”
Genesis 1 “God’s Good World”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
God CREATES a place where He will MEET with his People for their JOY. His People rejected Him. Nonetheless, God binds Himself through PROMISE (i.e. The Royal Gift Covenant) to RESCUE His people from their sin and RESTORE them to Himself for their JOY. God created all things and the pinnacle of this creative activity is humanity. The readers of Genesis 1 and 2 would know that what exists came from God’s good design. The world in which we exist is INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, and GOOD. The reason as to why this world and all of creation is so incredible, wonderful, and beautiful is because God is INCREDIBLE, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, and GOOD.
Isaiah 66:1-24 “The Word of God is Uncompromising”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The Lord’s final judgment against the unrighteous will be with fire. The righteous, however, will be gathered from all the nations to eternally worship the Lord in a new heaven and new earth. The final sentence is a sober reminder to Isaiah’s audience – if the beauty of ‘the Servant/the Anointed One’ does not attract you to believe, the fear of judgment should.
Isaiah 63:1-6 “The Day of Vengeance”
Speaker: Elder Mike Davis
Throughout scripture there is reference to a Day when God will pour out his wrath upon the wicked. It is God alone who carries out this wrath and God alone who brings salvation.
Isaiah 62:1-12 “The Servant’s Vow”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
The servant king shall not rest until all that He promises comes to pass. The prophet, as a watchman, prays without ceasing until the fulfillment of all God’s promises. As New Testament believers, we are to pray without ceasing until the fulfillment of all God’s promises.
Isaiah 61:1-11 “To Proclaim Liberty”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
Only God can bring good news to the afflicted, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners. Only God can comfort all who mourn, give to the mourning a garland instead of ashes, and the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting. Will you give Him what you are and receive from Him what He is?
Isaiah 59:14-60:22 “At the Right Time, It Will Swiftly Come to Pass”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The promises in the gospel enable us to hope even while we experience loss, absence, and suffering. As our world becomes increasingly adjusted to and accepting of special effects whereby a false reality is believed, the biblical narrative continues to paint fantastical pictures of a reality almost beyond one’s capacity to believe. And yet, our current conditioning can almost make what we are about to read either believable or purely man-made myth. And at the end of the day, you and I will have to decide what we are going to believe.
Isaiah 54-55 “Enlarge the Place of Your Tent”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
As a consequence of the servant king’s penal substitutionary sacrifice in behalf of His people (Isa. 53), all of the LORD’S promises shall be fulfilled (Isa. 54) and a gracious invitation is extended to the thirsty and wicked to come and seek Him (Isa. 55).
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 “The LORD Has Laid on Him the Iniquity of Us All”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J Griffiths
The servant described in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, is fully revealed in the fourth and final Servant Song found in Isaiah 53. The LORD has laid on this servant the sins of His people and of the Nations. And it was the LORD’S will to crush His chosen one, the servant. This servant takes our place to satisfy the justice of God whereby stopping the wrath of God.
Isaiah 50:4-11 “The Servant’s Resolve”
Speaker: Pastor Patrick J. Griffiths
This is the third servant song which also builds on the previous two songs. Who the servant is makes what he does decisive. One will either accept his message from God or shall reject his message. Either way, that decision determines destiny.