Washed in the Word

Sean Doyle
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Washed in the Word with Sean Doyle provides weekly expository Bible teaching along with Diving Deeper Study Guides.  Washed in the Word seeks to help foster biblical maturation through biblical saturation. Thanks for joining us.   Grab a Bible, a pen, & let's dive into Scripture together!

  1. 2D AGO

    11 Suffering in the Will of God - 1 Peter 3:8-22

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Have you noticed that sometimes following Jesus hurts?  Our passage today speaks about suffering in the will of God.  The Bible is not bashful about this subject.  Peter began our epistle by telling us that as elect exiles we should not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon us as though something strange were happening to us For the past few sessions our near context in chapters 2 & 3 has called us to submission to unrighteous civil authorities, submission to unjust employers, & submission to imperfect spouses.  Today Peter sums up these lessons on submission with a call to us all to repress our reflex towards retaliation substituting what comes naturally for what must come supernaturally.  You can’t get more radical in your reorientation to kingdom thinking than Peter’s call to "Suffering in the Will of God."   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    1h 1m

  2. APR 12

    10 Submission to Imperfect Spouses 1 Peter 3:1-7

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Our text today takes us to challenging places.  To the original hearers these words upended societal norms in liberating but threatening ways. To modern ears these same words are equally challenging but for the opposite reason.  These words are threatening not for their radical liberation but for their seemingly unseemly subjugation. 1st Peter is a monument to the vast difference between how we think & how God thinks.  Our culture says “do what you feel.” God says do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy.The world says rejoice in leisure & pleasure.  God says, rejoice, though now for a little while, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith, may be found to result in praise & glory & honor at the revelation of Jesus.  Scoffers say "Where is this Jesus?  I do not see Him!"  God says: "Though you do not now see him, you believe in him & rejoice with joy that is inexpressible & filled with glory,  obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls."  Today, we come to the high water mark of counter-cultural instruction.  Peter moves from calls to submission to unrighteous civil authorities & unjust employers to calls to submission within our own walls.  Our text today zeros in on "Submission to Our Imperfect Spouses."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    53 min

  3. APR 5

    9 Submission to Unjust Employers - 1 Peter 2:18-25

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Work is a central facet of our existence.  Most of us spend about a third of our lives at work.  Work is a good gift from God.  Before sin entered in, Adam worked the garden. But after the fall there is a curse on it all.  Apart from the curse, when you add sinful man into the mix given our proclivity to iniquity, work often feels less than good, especially when our employers are ungracious or unjust. We are midway into our perusal of first Peter & Peter is presently pondering the countercultural, uncomfortable, but entirely biblical call for us all to submit for the Lord’s sake to every human institution so long as obedience to man does not involve disobedience to God.  Disarmingly, we told to allow ourselves to be exploited For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people….For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.  In submitting there will be occasions when our oppressors are won without a word when they see our respectful & pure conduct.  When we live with one another in an understanding way… Honoring everyone. Loving the brotherhood. Fearing God. Even honoring the emperor. Peter has singled out three human institutions in which we are to exercise submission. Last week we looked at submission to unrighteous civil authorities.  Next week we will look at submission to imperfect spouses.This week God zeros in on  "Submission to Unjust Employers."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    48 min

  4. MAR 29

    8 Submission to Unrighteous Civil Authorities - 1 Peter 2:13-17

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Tell me if any of these sound familiar:  “Why do I have to listen to you?”  “Who are you to order me?”  “This state, city, county, or country, is so corrupt why should I pay this tax or toll?”  All of those sentiments pertain to submission to authority or rather, a lack of submission to authority.  1 Peter tackles this subject head on.  The question we want to talk about is this:  As Christians, how should we relate to the State?  What if the state is Sub-Christian?  Unchristian?  Anti-Christian?  The biblical posture for the Christian is not subversion but submission.  Submission in our marriages when exploited by imperfect spouses, submission in our vocations when exploited by ungracious employers & even submission to unrighteous civil authorities.  Why?  Why should we submit to them?  And if our general posture is submission not subversion are there ever biblically legitimate exceptions to this general rule?  Those are excellent questions & God’s Word has excellent answers.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    46 min

  5. MAR 22

    7 Christ & the Christian Part II – 1 Peter 2:4-12

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Do you understand God’s plan for your life?  Do you understand your kingdom calling?  Do you understand who you are in Christ & what that means as you seek to live for Christ?  Our text today is the very heart & core of the epistle of First Peter.  Our passage is the fulcrum from which all the teachings of First Peter pivot. Everything before our passage points to it.  Everything after our passage flows from it.   If we used the letter S to suggest a structure for First Peter we see that in chapters 1 & 2 Peter has spoken of our salvation & sanctification.  And later in chapters 3-5 Peter will speak of our submission, suffering, shepherds & sheep, specifically their serving & our self-control.  But all of this centers on the subject of our Scripture today, the status of the Christian.  Now the status of the Christian is based on the status of Christ.  Hence the title of our sermon Christ & the Christian.  Last time we were together we focused on: “Who is Christ?”  Today we will focus on "Because of Christ, Who are we?" Today’s text can be life changing because it is life clarifying.   Today’s text can be soul cleansing because if we really understand & apply it.  It can keep us out of the toxicity that seeks to defile you & me.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    54 min

  6. MAR 15

    6 Christ & The Christian Part I - 1 Peter 2:4-12

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Today Peter speaks on something so basic you might be tempted to skip past it.  But it is so intrinsic we must imbibe it until we own it.  Until it is rooted in the very fabric of our daily existence.  Today’s topic is "Christ & the Christian."  May I be so bold as to say never let this passage become old because it is pure gold.An argument can be made that our text today is the fulcrum whereby the entire epistle of first Peter hangs together.  Everything before it points to it & everything after it flows from it.  First Peter can be summarized structurally by a series of “S’s”.  In chapters 1 & 2 Peter has spoken of our salvation & sanctification & later in chapters 3 thru 5 Peter will speak of our submission, suffering, shepherds & sheep, specifically their serving & our self-control.  But all of these S’s point to or flow from the S we must address, process, possess, & profess lest we regress & transgress.  For you see, our salvation & sanctification stem from our status in Jesus just as our call to submission, suffering, serving & self-control flow from our status in Jesus.Since this subject is so seminal, central & pivotal we will be investing two sermons to it.  Today is Part I regarding "Christ & the Christian."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    50 min

  7. MAR 8

    5 Loving & Longing Biblically - 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. In 1980 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers offered the world a catchy chorus: “You don’t have to live like a refugee.”  Christians find that is not quite the case.  Hebrews 13:14 tells us “this world is not our home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.”  Peter calls us elect exiles because Christians are temporarily, providentially placed in this world to impact it for Christ, yet this world is constantly trying to squeeze us into its mold.  If we don’t play along, sometimes we find it is hard to get along & the world tells us to move along.  So how do we achieve this tricky balance of being in the world but not of the world?  1 Peter 1:22 offers God’s twin solutions to preventing personal pollution & gospel dilution by "Loving & Longing Biblically."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    50 min

  8. MAR 1

    4 Holiness in a World of Sinfulness - 1 Peter 1:13-21

    We'd love to hear from you. Text us. Our subject today is one from which folks tend to shy away.  The subject is holiness.  Today we are in 1 Peter 1 & the what of our passage is clear in verses 14-15: "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.."  The why of our passage is clear in verses 15-19: 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct…“You shall be holy, for I am holy.” The how of our passage is clear in verse 13 13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, & being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  But the rub of our passage is that holiness in a world of sinfulness is hard.  So as we turn in the Word of the Lord, let’s turn to the Lord of that Word & ask Him to help us move towards holiness in a world of sinfulness.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word! Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for Old Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/ot-study-guides   Free Sermon Outlines & Study Guides for New Testament books are available at: https://washedintheword.life/nt-study-guides

    46 min
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    Sean Doyle
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