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Written by Assemble Church on 12 June 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

Jehovah Jireh

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- Bible Reference: Genesis 22:1-14, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+22%3A1-14&version=NIV, Bible Passage: Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.” Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
- Bible Reference: Matthew 6:24-34, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=NIV, Bible Passage: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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Rec Date: 12th Jun 2022

In Genesis 22 God asks Abraham to take his son up a mountain to sacrifice him as a burnt offering. Through this story of Abraham's incredible obedience and faith, we saw a miraculous provision of God. God spares Abraham from sacrificing his son, and instead provides an offering for him to use.

In response, Abraham declares that Jehovah Jireh - the Lord provides. In our final week in this teaching series, Samantha unpacks some of what it means that the Lord is our provider. In order to see the true provision of God, we must put ourselves in a position where the faith is required that God will provide.

sundayteaching, Samantha O'Connell

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Written by Assemble Church on 08 June 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

Jehovah Sela

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- Bible Reference: Psalm 18:1-2, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2018%3A1-2&version=NIV, Bible Passage: I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
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Rec Date: 5th Jun 2022

After God delivered him from some fairly bleak situations, David was able to declare in Psalm 18 that the LORD is his rock - Jehovah Selah. Throughout the Old Testament there are many images of the rock being a place of refuge and safety, but also provision - as we see in Exodus 17.

We're continuing with our study into the names attributed to God in the Old Testament, this week Olivia explore what it means for us that God is our rock, and how we see the rock imagery continued in the New Testament through Jesus Christ - the cornerstone on which the Church is built

sundayteaching, Olivia Utton

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Written by Assemble Church on 29 May 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

Jehovah Nissi

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- Bible Reference: Exodus 17:5-15, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2017%3A5-15&version=NKJV, Bible Passage: And the Lord said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.” So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands became heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. And Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner;
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Rec Date: 29th May 2022

In Exodus 17 Moses build an alter to God and calls it The LORD is my Banner. What does it mean to have the LORD as our banner. This week David explores some of the meaning of Yahweh as the one we raise high, and under whom we conduct our lives.

What does it look like to live lives under the banner that is God?

sundayteaching, David Rouse

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Written by Assemble Church on 22 May 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

Jehovah Shalom

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- Bible Reference: Judges 6:12-24, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%206%3A12-24&version=NIV, Bible Passage: When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.” Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!” But the Lord said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.” So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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Rec Date: 22nd May 2022

Gideon experiences the peace of God in Judges 6, when it seems likely that he would face certain death. This week we explore the story of Gideon and how God brought a sense of peace to him, such that he declared "Jehovah Shalom" - the LORD is peace.

We can see how the peace of the Lord is embodied in the person of Jesus, and what this relevation and truth means for us in our lives now.

In Philippians Paul talks about a peace of God that transcends our understanding, it is God's desire that we live in that peace.

sundayteaching, Samantha O'Connell

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Written by Assemble Church on 15 May 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

Jehovah Tsidkenu

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- Bible Reference: Jeremiah 23: 5-6, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2023:5-6&version=NIV, Bible Passage: “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteous Savior.
- Bible Reference: Psalm 51:3-5, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2051:3-5&version=NIV, Bible Passage: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
- Bible Reference: Romans 6:12, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6%3A12&version=NIV, Bible Passage: Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
- Bible Reference: Romans 5:19, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5%3A19&version=NIV, Bible Passage: For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
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Rec Date: 15th May 2022

In Jeremiah 23 God declares that He Himself will be the righteousness of His people. But what is righteousness? Why do we need it? How is our righteousness fulfilled by God?

This week we explore what God means when He tells us that He is our righteousness, and we begin to explore some of what righteousness means in context of its opposite - sin. We'll go on a whistle-stop tour of the biblical narrative to try and understand the impact of this declaration.

Finally, we come to observe how it is Jesus who earns righteousness, and how our righteousness is awarded to us by our faith in Him.

sundayteaching, Dom O'Connell

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Written by Assemble Church on 08 May 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

Jehovah Rohi

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- Bible Reference: Psalm 23:1-4, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+23%3A1-4&version=NIV, Bible Passage: The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Bible Reference: John 10:11-14, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10%3A11-14&version=NIV, Bible Passage: “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—
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Rec Date: 1st May 2022

In psalm 23 David describes the God of the bible as being a shepherd, and we can read all across the Old Testament various scriptures where the relationship between God and His people is likened to that of a shepherd and his flock. In this epiosde we study what God means when He declares that He is our shepherd. We then look at how Jesus is the embodiment of the shepherd described in psalm 23, by analysing the evidence from His earthly ministry.

Finally, we unpack some of what this revelation means for us, today.

sundayteaching, Dom O'Connell

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Written by Assemble Church on 01 May 2022. Posted in Hello. I Am.

I Am

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- Bible Reference: Exodus 3:4-15, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%203%3A4-15&version=NIV, Bible Passage: When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
- Bible Reference: Matthew 1:20-23, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+1%3A20-23&version=NIV, Bible Passage: But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
- Bible Reference: John 8:48-53, Bible Link: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A48-53&version=NIV, Bible Passage: The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?” “I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge. Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.” At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death. Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?” Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and obey his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” “You are not yet fifty years old,” they said to him, “and you have seen Abraham!” “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
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Rec Date: 24th April 2022

Samantha begins a new series discovering some of the character and nature of God, extracted from the names and story of God found in the Old Testament.

This week we're looking at the name that God gives himself in Exodus 3, when speaking to Moses at the burning bush.

sundayteaching, Samantha O'Connell

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Jehovah Jireh

Jehovah Sela

Jehovah Nissi

Jehovah Shalom

Jehovah Tsidkenu

Jehovah Rohi

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