For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10
Character
Calling
Character
Calling
Having then gifts differing according to
the grace that is given to us, let us use
them...
Romans 12:6
Character
Calling
- Providence
↳ God working supernaturally...naturally
↳ Divine coincidence
For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus for good works, which
God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10
Character
Calling
- Providence
- Personal
- Peaceable (sign)
↳ Shows God cares about
↳ Shows Trustworthy
And let the peace of God rule in your
hearts, to which also you were called in
one body; and be thankful.
Colossians 3:15
Character
Calling
- Providence
- Personal
- Peaceable (sign)
- Provision (sign)
↳ where God guides, God provides
"God's work
done in
God's way
will never lack
God's supply"
Hudson Taylor
Missionary
to China
(1832-1905)
Character
Calling
- Providence
- Personal
- Peaceable (sign)
- Provision (sign)
- Power (sign)
I don’t get verse 12
Saul, a prophet? so unlike him...
Their father? Not from a prophet
family, or a godly family....
Saul’s uncle? Why?
v.16
Saul’s response
Ner, father of Abner?
perceptive, influential...manipulative
Response? Humble...
Character
Calling
- Providence
- Personal
- Peaceable (sign)
- Provision (sign)
- Power (sign)
- Perception (others)
“When you come to the land which the
Lord your God is giving you, and
possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I
will set a king over me like all the
nations that are around me,’
Deuteronomy 17:14
you shall surely set a king over you
whom the Lord your God chooses; one
from among your brethren you shall set
as king over you; you may not set a
foreigner over you, who is not your
brother.
Deuteronomy 17:15
But he shall not multiply horses for
himself, nor cause the people to return
to Egypt to multiply horses, for the
Lord has said to you, ‘You shall not
return that way again.’
Deuteronomy 17:16
Neither shall he multiply wives for
himself, lest his heart turn away; nor
shall he greatly multiply silver and gold
for himself.
Deuteronomy 17:17
“Also it shall be, when he sits on the
throne of his kingdom, that he shall
write for himself a copy of this law in a
book, from the one before the priests,
the Levites.
Deuteronomy 17:18
And it shall be with him, and he shall
read it all the days of his life, that he
may learn to fear the Lord his God and
be careful to observe all the words of
this law and these statutes,
Deuteronomy 17:19
that his heart may not be lifted above
his brethren, that he may not turn
aside from the commandment to the
right hand or to the left, and that he
may prolong his days in his kingdom,
he and his children in the midst of
Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:20
Character
Calling
- Providence
- Personal
- Peaceable (sign)
- Provision (sign)
- Power (sign)
- Perception (others)
- Partners
Saul reigned one year; and when he
had reigned two years over Israel, Saul
chose for himself three thousand men
of Israel.
1 Samuel 13:1-2
Character
Calling
- Providence
- Personal
- Peaceable (sign)
- Provision (sign)
- Power (sign)
- Perception (others)
- Partners
But to each one of us grace was given
according to the measure of Christ’s
gift. Therefore He says: “When He
ascended on high, He led captivity
captive, And gave gifts to men.”
Ephesians 4:7-8
(Now this, “He ascended”—what does
it mean but that He also first descended
into the lower parts of the earth? He
who descended is also the One who
ascended far above all the heavens, that
He might fill all things.)
Ephesians 4:9-10
And He Himself gave some to be
apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists, and some pastors and
teachers,
Ephesians 4:11
for the equipping of the saints for the
work of ministry, for the edifying of the
body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:12
till we all come to the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, to a perfect man, to the measure
of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Ephesians 4:13
that we should no longer be children,
tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by the
trickery of men, in the cunning
craftiness of deceitful plotting,
Ephesians 4:14
but, speaking the truth in love, may
grow up in all things into Him who is
the head—Christ—
Ephesians 4:15
from whom the whole body, joined and
knit together by what every joint
supplies, according to the effective
working by which every part does its
share, causes growth of the body for the
edifying of itself in love.
Ephesians 4:16
But to each one of us grace was given
according to the measure of Christ’s
gift. Therefore He says: “When He
ascended on high, He led captivity
captive, And gave gifts to men.”
Ephesians 4:7-8
(Now this, “He ascended”—what does
it mean but that He also first descended
into the lower parts of the earth? He
who descended is also the One who
ascended far above all the heavens, that
He might fill all things.)
Ephesians 4:9-10