Jim Osman (Kootenal Church)

🙋 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | June 14, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The delay in the coming of the Day of the Lord should not disturb us or cause us to doubt the certainty of its coming. Peter answered the denial of the mockers by reminding his readers of two things: God’s perspective on time and Gods patience toward us. In this sermon we look at God's patience in His promises and toward His people. An exposition of 2 Peter 3:9. Scripture: The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. - 2 Peter 3:9 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Peter3:9?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | June 14, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce31 Description: If the first commandment settles WHO we worship, the second settles HOW. In Lesson 31 of Christian Ethics and the Old Testament, Dave Rich takes up the second commandment: "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God..." (Exodus 21:4-6). Dave begins by drawing the line that most readers miss: the second commandment is not a repeat of the first. The first forbids worshiping false gods; the second forbids worshiping the true God in the wrong way—through images. A surface reading of verse 4 sounds like a ban on making any image of anything at all, but that cannot be the meaning. In the very same context God commands Israel to fashion a lampstand with cups shaped like almond blossoms (Exodus 25:31-34). What God condemns is not the existence of an image but its misuse—making it in order to bow down to it and serve it. From there Dave asks what, exactly, the calf idols were. The golden calf of Exodus 32 and Jeroboam's calves in 1 Kings 12 were not meant to be rival gods—they were meant to represent Yahweh, "who brought you up from the land of Egypt." And that is precisely the problem: even an image intended to represent the true God is forbidden, because, as Deuteronomy 4 explains, at Horeb Israel saw no form—they heard only a voice. To reduce the living God to a manufactured form is to fashion Him according to our own understanding. Dave distills the teaching into three ethical principles: (1) images of created things are permitted, even as aids to worship, so long as they are not worshipped; (2) images of created things are never to be worshipped—whether the ultimate object of devotion is a false god or the true one; and (3) images intended to represent God the Father are prohibited outright. He then unfolds the commandment's motive clauses. God's jealousy (Exodus 20:5; 34:12-17)—His very name is "Jealous"—is the rightful jealousy of a husband for an exclusive love. God's wrath "to the third and fourth generations" is widely misread, so Rich pairs it with Ezekiel 18: God does not punish children for their parents' sins. Rather, idolatrous parents create an atmosphere that breeds idolatry in their children, who then "hate Me" and die for their own sin (Ezekiel 18:20). And against all of it stands God's grace: lovingkindness shown "to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments" (Exodus 20:6). Finally, Dave presses the commandment where it cuts closest to home: are mental images of God also forbidden? Drawing on Calvin—who called the human mind a perpetual workshop forging idols—along with Douma and Packer, he argues that the second commandment reaches past wood and stone to the images we build in our heads. Psalm 50 delivers the indictment: "You thought that I was just like you." Every sentence that begins "My god would never..." or "I like to think of God as..." risks the same sin the craftsmen committed: scaling God down to our own size. An imagined God, Packer warns, will always be imaginary and unreal. A clarifying, convicting lesson for anyone who has ever assumed the second commandment was only about statues—and discovered it reaches all the way to the heart. Next time: humanity made in the image of God, images of Jesus, relics, The Shack, and The Chosen. ★ Support this ministry ★ https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/

By Phil Johnson, Pastor | June 6, 2026 | Worship Service Phil is the Executive Director of Grace to You. https://x.com/GraceLifePulpit

By Phil Johnson, Pastor | June 6, 2026 | Sunday School Phil is the Executive Director of Grace to You. https://x.com/GraceLifePulpit

The mockers had a question: Where is the promise of His coming? Time had passed. Apostles had died. Nothing had changed. Pastor Jim Osman addresses that question head-on as he works through 2 Peter 3:8 — and the answer is as pointed today as it was in the first century. God does not experience time as we do. He is not encumbered by it, constrained by it, or running out of it. He meets no deadlines, feels no urgency, and is exhausted by no length of years. A literal thousand years is to Him what a single day is to us — not because time is vague or undefined, but because He is eternal and we are not. The delay in Christ's return is no evidence of a failed promise. It is simply a reflection of the unbridgeable difference between the eternal God and creatures made of dust. Drawing from Psalm 90 and Peter's deliberate use of its language, Pastor Osman traces what God's relationship to time actually means for the church — and what it does not mean. He corrects three common misuses of this verse: as an argument for long creation days in Genesis 1, as a framework for end-times chronology, and as a basis for treating the thousand years of Revelation 20 as figurative. The point stands: time has no bearing on the fulfillment of God's Word. His return remains imminent. The only question is whether we are found watching. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

🤷🏼‍♂️ Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | May 10, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The Day of the Lord will eventually bring the complete dissolution of all creation in a fiery conflagration of judgment. Peter reminds us that the return of Christ in judgment is certain, and unexpected. The judgment by fire will be thorough. An exposition of 2 Peter 3:7 & 10. Scripture: But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be found out. - 2 Peter 3:7-10 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Peter3:7-10?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | May 31, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce30 Description: The Ten Commandments are where most people assume Christian ethics begins—but what does the very first commandment actually require? In Lesson 30 of Christian Ethics and the Old Testament, Dave Rich opens the Decalogue itself, beginning with the prologue and the first commandment: "I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt... You shall have no other gods before Me" (Exodus 20:1–3). Rich starts with a question most Christians never think to ask: how should the Ten Commandments even be numbered? The Jewish, Roman Catholic/Lutheran, and traditional Protestant traditions divide them differently. Rich explains why he follows the traditional Protestant numbering—the prologue is not itself a command, and the object of coveting is ordered differently in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. From there he makes a crucial observation about the prologue: grace comes first. Before God issues a single command, He reminds Israel that He has already delivered them from Egypt. Deliverance precedes obedience; grace precedes and motivates works—the same pattern that runs straight through the new covenant. The law is not the ground of the relationship but the loving self-communication of the God who has already redeemed His people. Rich then defines what the commandment requires and forbids, drawing on Luther's Small Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Westminster Larger Catechism, and carefully distinguishes biblical monotheism from henotheism and monolatry. He closes with two points to ponder. First, the first commandment contains all the rest—because all sin is, at its root, disloyalty to God, the act of putting something else before Him. Second, you have idols to reject. The old names—Baal, Zeus, Thor—have faded, but the powers behind them remain. Scripture itself calls strength, money, the stomach, and covetousness idols. As Calvin put it, the human heart is a perpetual forge of idols. A foundational lesson for anyone who wants to understand why the Ten Commandments still bind the believer today—and why the first one matters most. ★ Support this ministry ★ https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/

Grief is universal. But not all grief is the same. In this message from 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14, guest speaker Cornel Rasor opens with a pastoral truth that Paul made plain to the Thessalonians: Christians do not grieve as those who have no hope. The distinction isn't about grieving less—it's about grieving differently. The sorrow is real. The tears are real. But the hopelessness isn't. Rasor walks through what the Thessalonians were actually worried about: would their believing loved ones who had already died miss the glory of Christ's return? Paul's answer, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, is a resounding no. Because Christ died and rose again, God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. The dead in Christ are not behind—they will be coming with Him. Drawing on ancient pagan epitaphs, Ecclesiastes, commentary from Leon Morris, and John 14, Rasor paints a vivid contrast between the despair of a world without resurrection hope and the settled confidence of those who know where their beloved ones are right now—and where they are going. This episode also addresses the harder question: what about loved ones whose salvation is uncertain? Rasor speaks to that grief with care and points believers back to the sovereignty, mercy, and goodness of God. For anyone carrying the weight of loss, this is a message built to hold that weight. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

By Cornel Rasor, Pastor | May 24, 2025 | Exposition of 1 Thessalonians Scripture: But we do not want you to be uninformed brethren about those who are asleep so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. - 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 NASB https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/1thess4:13-14?partner=kootenaichurch ____________________ Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch ____________________ You can find the latest book by Pastor Osman - God Doesn’t Whisper, along with his others, at: https://jimosman.com/ ____________________ Have questions? https://www.gotquestions.org Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these 3 online bible resources: Bible App - Free, ESV, Offline https://www.esv.org/resources/mobile-apps Bible Gateway- Free, You Choose Version, Online Only https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1&version=NASB Daily Bible Reading App - Free, You choose Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Kootenai Church Sermons https://kootenaichurch.org/kcc-audio-archive/john Grace to You Sermons https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | May 24, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce29 Description: In this lesson we turn from the *source* of Christian ethics to the *intake* of it — asking not merely whether the Bible is trustworthy, but how the believer who has rightly trusted it should actually take it in. Five practical questions frame the hour: *frequency* (how often should I read?), *pace* (how much at a time?), *timing* (when?), *depth* (read only, or study and meditate?), and *breadth* (should I read all of it?). Before prescribing any method, we let Scripture testify to its own worth and power: it is perfect and reviving, more desirable than gold (Psalm 19:7–11; Psalm 119), the object of holy trembling (Isaiah 66:2), enduring forever while all flesh withers (Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 1:22–25), Christ's own weapon against temptation (Matthew 4:1–11), the means of our sanctification and truth itself (John 17:17), a blessing to those who hear and keep it (Luke 11:27–28), and to be read publicly in the gathered church (1 Timothy 4:13). On *frequency*, the witness of Scripture points to continual, daily intake rather than the occasional glance — meditation day and night (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:1–3), the Word woven through the rhythms of ordinary life (Deuteronomy 6:4–9), and the noble-minded Bereans examining the Scriptures daily (Acts 17:10–11). Against this, the American Bible Society's *State of the Bible, USA 2026* shows how far real engagement falls short, and to expose the poverty of the "a verse a day" approach we note that at that rate it would take roughly *85 years* to read the Bible through once. On *pace* and *breadth*, we insist that man lives by *every* word that proceeds from God's mouth (Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:1–4) and that *all* Scripture is God-breathed and profitable (2 Timothy 3:16–17) — including the portions we are tempted to skip: the genealogies, the tabernacle and temple instructions, and the openings and closings of the letters (1 Thessalonians 1:1; Romans 16:21–23). The whole counsel of God proves far more reachable than most assume: reading the entire Bible straight through takes only about 70–90 hours, which spread across a year is some 12–15 minutes a day — roughly one percent of the 1,440 minutes God gives us daily. We close with a charge to read the Word *assiduously*. Jonathan Edwards urged believers not to let so great a treasure lie neglected, for Scripture is the fountain from which all knowledge of God is drawn; and as Nate Pickowicz reminds us in *How to Eat Your Bible*, to read assiduously is to come to the text with great care, intense scrutiny, and unrelenting vigor. We let J.C. Ryle's *Practical Religion* press the point home with his plain reasons that everyone who cares for his soul ought to prize the Bible: no book is written like it; no knowledge is more needful to salvation than what it contains; no book holds matters so important or has produced such effects on mankind; none can do so much for the one who reads it rightly, for by it the Spirit converts and transforms sinners; it is the only rule by which every question of doctrine or duty can be tested — bidding us set our watch by the sun-dial of the Word and not the clock of our neighbor; it is the book every true servant of God has lived on and loved; and it is the only book that can comfort a man in the last hours of his life. We preview next week's topic: decision-making and the will of God.

Anxiety is everywhere. Roughly 38 million American adults are taking medication to manage it—a number that has climbed sharply since 2019. But anxiety isn't just a modern problem, and it isn't merely a clinical one. In this message from Philippians 4:5–7, guest speaker David Forsyth makes the case that anxiety is a sin of little faith—common to all believers, not unique to a few—and that Scripture offers a clear, three-part prescription to address it. First, adjust your focus. "The Lord is near" is not a throwaway phrase but a statement of eschatological reality. Caesar is not Lord. Circumstances are not Lord. The risen Christ is Lord, and he stands near, interceding for his children. Second, cease worry and pray. Paul's command is direct: be anxious for nothing, prayerful in everything. The antidote to worry isn't willpower—it's prayer built on a foundation of thanksgiving. Gratitude resets the soul and establishes the atmosphere in which believing prayer can flourish. Third, believe God's promise. The peace that guards hearts and minds in Christ Jesus is supernatural—it surpasses comprehension. It is God himself standing watch over his children. David Forsyth is honest: this isn't a quick cure. The battle with anxiety is lifelong. But long obedience in the same direction pays off, and God's grace is more than sufficient for the fight. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

By David Forsyth, Teacher | May 17, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Description: Dealing with anxiety: Paul’s three-part prescription for curing a noisy soul. Scripture: Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:5-7 NASB https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/Philippians4:5-7?partner=kootenaichurch ____________________ Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch

By Dave Rich, Teacher | May 17, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce28 Description: In this lesson we turn from the *properties* of Scripture to the *interpretation* of Scripture — asking how Christians should read the Bible they have rightly trusted. We open by revisiting the theological foundation established in prior weeks: 2 Timothy 3:16–17 and Isaiah 55:10–11 ground our confidence that God's word is authoritative and sufficient. But before moving to hermeneutics proper, we pause to demonstrate how extrabiblical evidence functions: the created order itself (Romans 1:18–20) gives us a universe that testifies to God. We then confront a specific challenge — a 2014 *International Business Times* article by Hannah Osborne claiming that radiocarbon-dated camel bones from Tel Aviv University prove the Old Testament was composed centuries after the patriarchal era — and walk through how to answer it faithfully, using Genesis 12:14–16 as our footing. The heart of the lesson is biblical hermeneutics: the rules governing proper interpretation. We present the literal grammatical-historical method as the historic evangelical standard, anchored in Calvin's insistence that "the true meaning of Scripture is the natural and obvious meaning," Luther's counsel to "seek out the literal sense, for it alone holds its ground in trouble and trial," the Kootenai Community Church Doctrinal Statement's affirmation that proper application is binding on all generations while Scripture stands in judgment of men rather than vice versa, and Roy Zuck's communication model — writer, message, reader — which establishes that the author's intended meaning is knowable and normative. We then examine common interpretive errors. *Proof-texting* is illustrated with Matthew 7:1a ("Do not judge") read in isolation versus its full context (Matthew 7:1–20 and John 7:24), showing how context determines meaning. *Hyper-literalism* is explored through five New Testament commands — the holy kiss (Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14), feet-washing (John 13:12–17; 1 Timothy 5:9–10), and head coverings (1 Corinthians 11:4–16) — and we work through six hard cases asking whether commands are culturally relative or timelessly binding: holy kisses, feet-washing, head coverings, hair length for men (1 Corinthians 11:14), women wearing jewelry and braids (1 Timothy 2:9–10; 1 Peter 3:3–4), and lifting hands in prayer (1 Timothy 2:8). Three more serious distortions close the lesson. *Theological liberalism* — the essential denial of inspiration — is diagnosed using Machen: "Christianity is founded upon the Bible; liberalism is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men." *Red Letter Christianity* errs by treating only (or primarily) the words of Christ as authoritative, as if the rest of Scripture were subordinate. *Standpoint hermeneutics* — including feminist biblical interpretation — replaces authorial intent with group identity as the determinative factor in meaning. We preview next week's topic: subordinate sources of authority for ethics, and the ethics of using the Bible itself.

⚠️ Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | May 10, 2026 | Worship Service Description: The Day of the Lord will eventually bring the complete dissolution of all creation in a fiery conflagration of judgment. Peter reminds us that the return of Christ in judgment is certain, and unexpected. The judgment by fire will be thorough. An exposition of 2 Peter 3:7 & 10. Scripture: But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be found out. - 2 Peter 3:7-10 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/2Peter3:7-10?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

For "the whole Bible" to be the source of Christian ethics, it must be authoritative, clear, necessary, sufficient, all of God's words and only God's words, and reliably translated and transmitted. This lesson addresses those final two attributes directly. By Dave Rich, Teacher | May 10, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce27 Description: In this lesson we take up the question of whether Scripture's reliable transmission and translation can be defended — or whether the fact that translation is a human activity makes faithful English Bibles impossible. We begin with Old Testament transmission, tracing the three major ancient witnesses: the Masoretic Text (Hebrew, completed ~1000 AD), the Dead Sea Scrolls (over 900 manuscripts, dating ~250 BC–70 AD), and the Septuagint (Greek translation, ~250 BC). Their remarkable agreement is a fingerprint of providential preservation. One notable difference — Psalm 22:16 — becomes a case study: the Masoretic Text reads "like a lion are my hands and feet" (כארי) while the Septuagint reads "they pierced my hands and feet" (כארו), a difference of a single Hebrew letter. We argue the Septuagint rendering is correct, and observe how Psalm 22's broader fulfillment in Matthew 27 — the cry of dereliction, the mockery, the casting of lots — confirms "they pierced" as the faithful reading. For the New Testament, we survey over 5,800 Greek manuscripts with 99.5% consistency, using a creative "million dollars" illustration to show how most variants are trivially obvious. We walk through specific textual examples — Revelation 1:5b (λύσαντι vs. λούσαντι: "released" or "washed" from sins), Revelation 1:8a (with or without "the Beginning and the End"), and ten more significant variants including Mark's longer ending (16:9–20), the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53–8:11), the Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7), and the eunuch's confession (Acts 8:37). We then address translation philosophy — formal vs. dynamic equivalence — placing major versions on a spectrum from the highly literal YLT through the NASB, LSB, ESV, KJV, NKJV, and CSB to the more dynamic NIV and NLT, and showing how each renders John 3:16 and Romans 8:3–4. The Living Bible (TLB) is examined as an acceptable paraphrase, while several defective "translations" are exposed: the Message (MSG) expands and editorializes, the New World Translation (NWT) corrupts John 1:1 to deny Christ's deity, The Passion Translation (TPT) softens the complementarian force of 1 Timothy 2:11–12, the Cotton Patch Version (CPV) relocates Acts 19 to Alabama, the Clear Word (TCW) embeds Adventist investigative-judgment theology into Daniel 8:14, and the Joseph Smith Translation (JST) inverts justification in Romans 4:5 and replaces John 1:1 with a Christological rewrite. We close with the theological foundation for confidence: 2 Timothy 3:16–17 and Isaiah 55:10–11 assure us that God's word accomplishes His purpose and will not return void — and the same providence that inspired Scripture has preserved it. We preview next week's topic: how Christians should engage extrabiblical authority, illustrated by a challenge from a 2014 *International Business Times* article claiming that radiocarbon-dated camel bones prove the Old Testament was written centuries after the patriarchs — a claim we will learn to answer with Romans 1:18–20.