Spiritual Parents • Mother’s Day

Spiritual Parents • Mother’s Day 

Dave Riddle - 5/14/2023

Key Passage: 1 Corinthians 4:14-21

10,000 Guardians

• 1 Corinthians 4:15

• paidagogos: literally, a child-leader. A guardian and guide for children

Not many fathers

• 1 Corinthians 4:15

• gennao: literally to procreate. Used of women who gave birth or men who fathered.

I became your father through the gospel.

• 1 Corinthians 4:15

Truth

• 1 Corinthians 4:14

• Commuted to the truth out of genuine concern.

• “Not to shame you but to warn you”

Love

• 1 Corinthians 4:14

• Matthew 3:17

• agapetos: “dearly beloved”

A Living Example

• 1 Corinthians 4:16

• “Imitate me”

• 1 Corinthians 11:1

A Collaborator

• 1 Corinthians 4:17

• 2 Timothy 2:2

• This is a group effort; a team sport 

Gutsy 

• 1 Corinthians 4:18-21

• it takes courage!

• “If you’ve never been hated by your children, you haven’t been a parent” - Bette Davis

• “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk… but by all means keep moving” - MLK Jr. 

God is Faithful. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

God is Faithful. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Dave Riddle - 1/29/2023

Key Passage: Deuteronomy 7:9

God is faithful. Are we?

Many words to describe one truth. God is Faithful.

āman (Hebrew: אָמַן) - to go to the right hand. To build up or support someone. To poster as a parent or nurse. Figuratively to be firm or faithful. Permanent. True.

• Deuteronomy 7:9

ĕmeṯ (Hebrew: אֱמֶת) - stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness, faithful, right, sure, true.

• Psalm 91:4

• Psalm 108:4

ḥeseḏ (Hebrew: חֶסֶד) - goodness, kindness, faithfulness. Loving-kindness

• Exodus 15:13

• Psalm 108:4

• Psalm 89:1

ĕmûnâ (Hebrew: אֱמוּנָה) - firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness

pistos (Greek: πιστός) - of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of business, the execution of commands, or the discharge of official duties

• 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God is faithful…

• Hebrews 3:1-6

• Hebrews 10:23

• 2 Timothy 2:13

Our natural default setting is to be unfaithful

pistis (Greek: πίστις) - persuasion, credence, conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it. fidelity, faithfulness

• Galatians 5:22 - faithfulness is a product of the Holy Sprit’s work in our lives.

How have you lived?

2 Timothy 4:7 - I have fought the good fight, finished the course, kept the faith.