Truth That Changes Lives on Oneplace.com: Recent Episodes
JP Jones
The mission of Truth that Changes Lives is to maximize the use of creative media for the purpose of preaching the gospel and teaching the Word of God. Our vision is to see believers transformed to become multiplying disciples and lost people calling on the name of Jesus and being saved. Our prayer is that every day someone, somewhere around the world, hears the gospel, believes in Jesus and is saved.
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Elisha wanted more. He prayed for a double portion of the spirit. I am convinced that the reason he did miracles, counseled kings, spoke the word of God and the reason he was used by God in his generation was because he asked for a double portion of God's spirit.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Therefore confess your sins to each other. Pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
I love Elijah because of the ministry that God called him to. He was a man of prayer.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
No temptation has overtaken you, but such is as common to man, and God is faithful with the temptation to provide the way of escape also.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The Bible says in Proverbs 27, "As iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another". David had those kinds of men, but not in this occasion. Because he was in Jerusalem and they were all out fighting the battle.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We need a Samuel. Every one of us knows somebody whose going through something that they need God to be their rock of hope.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The story of human history is God using people who surrender their lives to Him, who experience Him personally, are then are used by God for kingdom purposes.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God's not looking for perfect people, He's looking for available people. If He's looking for perfect people, He only had one guy on His side and that was Jesus.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Samson, from a human perspective, was the strongest man who ever lived. And there is nobody even close to him. But his stregnth wasn't enough to give him victory in his personal battles.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Joshua was given the land as a possesion, but he had to go in and posses it. Never take it for granted that God does miracles. He has absolute power, but He calls us to step into what it is He is doing.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Fear can be a powerful motivator. It can also be the most debilitating emotion that we can experience. In fact, fear is one of the biggest issues that men in particular struggle with.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
1 Peter 4 says, "As stewards of the manifold grace of God, use the spiritual gift that you have been given to build up the body of Christ."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What God delights in doing is revealing Himself, showing up and revealing the plans that He has for us in a way the changes our live and changes the world!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God is a covenant keeper. He kept and is keeping his covenant with Abraham. God made a covenant with us through Jesus Christ and keeps it and delivers on it.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When we crossed the line and came into new life with Christ we became a new creature. We're united with Christ in a way that transcends our real ability to understand. We died with Christ, we were raised up with Christ, we received a whole new spiritual nature, we put off that old life, we put on the new life; we won the lottery! Spiritually speaking we did! And so the bible is telling us redeem it! Act upon it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And I think all of us have had enough of religion! In fact that's the one thing that Jesus and the apostle Paul and the writers of the new testament speak out strongly against! And that's reducing a living relationship with Christ to a bunch of rules and regulations that we have to try to fulfill in our own power. That's not what this is about!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We are to put on it says, we are to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bare with each other and forgive whatever grievences you may have against one another. To bear with someone is to endure, to put up with their irritations!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
If we try to live a new life without understanding our new identity, we're merely following a religion. Trying to live up to some do's and dont's. The bible does not present Christianity as just another religion; just an elevated sense of do's and dont's! It's a whole new relationship!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus said, "I'm the true vine. My Father is the vine dresser." Every branch in me that does not bare fruit is lifted out of the dirt and is put up on the tressle. Why? Because what Jesus wants out of His branches is fruitfulness! You know, Jesus wants to fill your life with joy and peace and love more than you even want it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus Christ is the focus! He is the source of authentic spiritual life! He is the source of authentic spiritual life! He is the source of a true relationship with God! He is the way to be connected to God! He is the way to experience a fulfilled, abundant and fruitful life!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Isaiah is telling us here in Isaiah chapter 40 that God is bigger than anything we can imagine. He knows everything! He has all power! He is everywhere! He has no equal! He has infinite resources! He can do anything He wills to do!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Everyone is on a spiritual journey! Some of us realise it! Some of us don't even know it! But every person is on a spiritual journey! And Jesus used parables to speak to people wherever they might be in their journey to move them to take the next step!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Everybody here is on a spiritual journey. So whether you would identify yourself as someone who is already a Christ follower, someone who is in the process of becoming a Christ follower, or someone who is not a Christ follower at all. Your heart is soil into which the seed of God's message is being sown.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Believers are secure in their salvation because of the unconditional love of God!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
There is for the believer in Jesus Christ, the promise, the hope, the reality of blessed assurance!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We've been made alive with Christ! We've been raised up with Christ! We've been seated with Christ! We share in our relationship with Jesus Christ His authority! We have the authority of Jesus Christ to win the spiritual battle!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible teaches that to follow Jesus Christ means we need to understand and be prepared to fight the spiritual battle. But it also tells us that we're on the winning side!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The religion of Jesus is different than the form that we probably know and experience in the typical American church. This passage in Mark chapter 1, is Jesus telling us about the good news, the gospel!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Spiritual victory is the fruit of the spirit filled life! And a spirit filled life is experienced as we practice spiritual habits!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God is one! Not just that there is one God, but He is an irriducable minimum. You can't divide Him up! You can't break Him apart! You can't analyze Him as if He's something that we sit in scrutiny over!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
To be a Christian is to be a follower of Jesus Christ! And you're following Jesus if you trust Him as your savior! You're following Jesus if you talk to Him everyday in prayer! You're following Jesus if you read His word! You're following Jesus if you obey His commandments! You're following Jesus if you love what He loves!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When you felt guilty, you felt that is how God wanted you to feel! Nothing could be further from the truth! God doesn't want us to feel guilty, in fact, He wants to take away our guilt. God doesn't want us to feel shame, He wants to take away our shame. God doesn't want us to feel condemned, He wants us to feel confident!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible says that we're to seek and when we seek, we find. Having questions, asking questions of God is a positive thing. God invites us to pursue Him if we're curious.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Sixty-six books, forty authors, fifteen hundred years, three languages, three continents, different life situations, different backgrounds of the authors writing on a whole variety of controversial issues. You know what you would expect to find? A whole conglomeration of opinion and ideas. But instead what you find is a unified truth from Genesis to Revelation. A consistency on every issue that's dealt with! The bible is unique!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus connected truth with life change. Jesus connected truth with life transformation. Now, all of a sudden, this discussion of truth becomes interesting to me.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
This passage says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Good grief, this is the greatest message that has ever been given. This is a message that will set you free! This is a message that will forgive your sins! This is a message that will give you hope! This is a message that will take you out of darkness and bring you into light! This is a message that can turn everything around!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So whether you're asking about the person who's off in the jungle or the person who's off in the desert; the question is still the same. What is God's response to that person who never heard the message of the gospel?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Why is Jesus the only way? All religions, are they the same? No. Well then how can God reject or condemn someone who is sincere in their belief in another religion?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The scripture says this is 1 Peter 3: "Sanctify Christ as lord in your hearts. Always being ready to make a defense to anyone who asks you to give an account of the hope that's in you". If you are here and commited, people are going to be asking you these questions. So I am hoping to give you some information that will equip you to be able to answer questions.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God has designed us so that we are part of a team and we make a unique contribution for the team. So the question is this; how do I connect with and complement others to make the body complete? What's my contribution for the team?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
First and foremost is my relationship with Jesus Christ. And have I surrendered my whole life to Jesus Christ? That's a personal question everyone of us needs to ask ourselves. Have we offered our whole life to God as an act of worship?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And when you find where it is that God has really called you; you're the best steward, you're the best administrator, you're the best manager of what God has given you! And you make your best contribution to something that is bigger than yourself; the eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
In Ephesians chapter 1:11 it says, "One day, God is going to sum everything up in Jesus Christ"!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So for you, if you're here and you don't know with certainty that Christ is in your life and He's the Lord of your life and He's real and transforming your life; the most important thing out of all of this is, "What am I going to do with Jesus Christ?"To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
For the follower of Jesus Christ life takes on a whole new significance. And you can't be any more significant than being right in the very center of Gods plan. God has this eternal kingdom plan and then He has an individual plan for your life and when you right there at the center of God's kingdom plan and your individual plan; that is life at its fullest!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
2 Corinthians 5:17 says this, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We may have different gifts and we are to discover and use those gifts, but we all share a common connection with the Holy Spirit.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
As we understand the spiritual gifts that God has given to us, the whole experience of our Christian life is going to be changed!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The spiritual gifts that God gives us are to build up the body of Christ to accomplish God's purposes. And when we do it, we find our greatest joy and our greatest fulfillment.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We build up the body of Chirst in love as we discover and use our spiritual gifts!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Do you know what Romans 12:1 2 tells us? It says that if we will present our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice; if we'll stop being conformed to this world; if we'll present ourselves in a way to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Then what God promises to us is that we will be able to test and prove the will of God for our lives.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The command to live wisely means that we are to be people who are constantly engaged in a process of discoverying God's will for our lives and then doing it. And when we do it, we are living with wisdom.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
You are not to take from this sermon that it is your God ordained roll to go over ot your neighbor and point out all the darkness in their life. You're not to get your sin-ometer and go down to work and focus in on a co-worker and say, you know I need to point this out to you because the sermon on Sunday was how I'm supposed to expose darkness. No! The only person you should be poiniting the finger at is yourself!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Nobody can earn favor with God. It is all a gift of His grace.The bible is so clear that salvation is by grace through faith. But the bible also says that when that grace of God comes into our lives, we become new creatures in Jesus Christ. We become new people in Christ. There is a new life priciple within us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Renewing our minds. This is what Paul says in Romans chapter 12, when he says, "I urge you therefore bretheren by the mercies of God to present your body as a living holy sacrifice which is your spiritual act of worship. Stop being conformed to this world but be transformed". How? By the renewing of your mind.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus Christ in Matthew Chapters 5, 6 7 lays out the values, the priorities, the focus of His kingdom and it stands in antithesis to this world. And in a very mini version of that, the Apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 4 says "We're to be different." And that is something to embrace, that is something to cherish. It's something to be excited about because of what we've been saved from and what we've been saved to, and the power that comes from being different.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Peter says in 1Peter chapter 3, "Do not return a curse with a curse but return a curse with a blessing." Why? Because you were called for this very purpose. So that you could inherit a blessing. That's the idea behind long suffering. And then, if that wasn't enough, he says, "We are to bear one another in love". We are to sustain, hang in there, endure in our relationships in love.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So, what's our calling that Paul says right out of the blocks in Ephisians chapter 4? I therefore prisoner of the Lord entreat you and urge you to live a life worthy of your calling. Well our calling is, bless with every spiritual blessing, totally saved by grace. Made part of a new community, a body, the church. And so, we ought to live like it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
As we step into the vision that God has for us. We need to believe great things about God. We need to ask great things of God. And we need to attempt great things for God! When we discover God's vision, it will change our lives today, tomorrow and for all eternity!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
How do we put ourselves in a place to discover God's will for our lives? What are the preconditions to be able to prove it for ourselves and know it personally? Well we've got to present our whole bodies as a living and holy sacrifice. We've got to stop being conformed to this world. And we need to be engaged in the ongoing mind renewal process of transformation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
I think alot of times in our Christian life, we agonize and we ask God to give us something and God is saying, "I have already given that to you in Christ. It is already yours. Understand who you are and step into the freedom of your new identity. Understand your resources. Understand your inheritance. Know what's true about you and it will transform your life.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible says this in Collosians 1:13-14, "For He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves in whom we have redemtion the forgiveness of sins." God says that at one time we were in darkness seperated from God outside of a relationship with Christ. And the metaphor to describe what happens when someone crosses the line is moving from darkness into light into God's kingdom.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
I can get up every morning because I have opened up my life to the grace of God, and say, "God, what are the good works you have for me today? What adventure do you have for me today? How can I love God and love people today? How can I step into good works today? What's the mission you have for me today? How can my life take on eternal significance today? Because I know you have good works for me today!"To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When it comes to this issue of salvation and a new start and a transformation by grace; it is almost as if God gives us an instanstaneous zap when we put our faith in Jesus Christ. In fact Ephesians chapter 2 tells us the very moment we reach out to God in faith; that very moment grace transforms us. Our eternity is changed and life becomes new because we experience the very life of Jesus Christ. Grace can change anything!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
It says in Ezekiel chapter 18, "I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies declares the Lord! Therefore repent and live." It says in 1Timothy 2, "This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our savior who desires all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth." It says in 2Peter 3:9, "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus said this in John chapter 8, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". So the converse is if you don't know the truth, if you are believing a lie rather than being set free, you are in some kind of bondage. So the premise of the series we have been in this summer is that there is power in believing the truth. When we know the truth, we understand the truth, we believe the truth, it literally sets us free.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God the Father planned salvation. God the Son accomplished salvation. God the Holy Spirit, he applies salvation. He changes our lives. He makes us different people.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
If you look at the testimony of scripture from Genesis to Revelation, you will see that it is the work of the Holy Spirit to reveal God. To draw people into a relationship with God. To transform people in that new life in Christ. And then to reproduce the very life of Christ within the individual experience and within the corporate experience we call the church.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What do you believe about Jesus? Jesus Christ is the promised messiah, the God man, the bold prophet, the compassionate healer, the bondage breaker, the perfect example, the atoning sacrifice, the resurrected Lord, the interceding high priest, the returning King. What you believe about Jesus will change your life today and tomorrow and for all eternity.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Who do we really say Jesus Christ is? What do we really believe about Jesus? Because what we believe affects how we feel and how we live and the eternal destiny of our lives. And what we believe about Jesus will effect everything about our spiritual journey.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We feel guilty. We are aware of our inadequacy. We know how we fall short. But for some reason we spiritualize that. You'd think the hight of spirituallity is feeling guilty. Your best sermons are when you leave feeling really bad about yourself. There is nothing spiritual about being guilty. Guilt is a step in a process towards, freedom, forgiveness, hope, restoration.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The agnostic has a thought in his mind when he thinks about God. He says, "I don't know if there's a God." The hindu has a thought in his mind when he thinks about God; "there are many gods." Everybody has a basic notion, understanding, preconceived idea of God. The question is, is it acurate or not?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
But here is what I discovered. You probably have discovered this to. That first step, which at the time, seems all encompasing, and it really is, is really the first big step followed by alot of smaller steps. Because every step of spiritual growth is an act of surrender.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What we believe affects our view of God. Relationships, marriage, parenting, hope, how we respond to struggles and trials. How do we answer the deepest questions about life. What we beieve affects all of that. Your mind matters. Your thoughts matter. Your thoughts today are going to affect the kind of person you are going to become tomorrow.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God has called us to live sanctified lives that demonstrated His life within us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And so Peter, inspired by the Holy Spirit, writes a letter about how God has a plan and purpose for history and a plan and purpose for our lives. God even uses suffering and spiritual warfare as a means to reveal His grace to us and to stregnthen us and to empower us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We have brothers and sisters who are really facing struggles. So when we face struggles, we need to let that be a reminder to not only pray for ourselves but to pray for one another.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Whatever you are facing right now; whether it's in your personal spiritual life or your finances or your marriage or with your kids or just some life confusion. Regardless of what might be pressuring you to give up or to cave in, there is a word from God that gives hope to stand firm.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. You want to experience God's grace, walk in humility. You want God as your enemy, be prideful.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
You see, God has placed spiritual leaders and all of us are to have an attitude of teachable, humble submission to our spiritual leaders. And it's for our benefit to do that.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Peter says in 1 Peter chapter 5, "Listen, when times are hard and tough, you not only need a strong faith, you need to be a part of a community of faith that's served by Godly servant leaders."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We need to be a part of community of faith that's led by Godly servant leaders! God's looking for leaders, the church needs leaders, you as a congregation deserve servant leaders!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Even when things are hard, even when things are falling apart, even when our expectations aren't being met; we need to understand some things that are important, that are priorities that are things that really matter.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Even when things are hard. Even when things are falling apart. Even when our expectations aren't being met. We need to understand some things that are important that are prioritites that are things that really matter.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Why bring unnecessary suffering into your life? In other words, why make sinful choices and then suffer the consequence of your sinful choices?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Suffering will either make us bitter or will make us better. The difference is how we respond!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, when anyone comes to God and says have mercy on me, guess what, God has mercy on them.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Christ died for our sins and Peter adds, He died for our sins once for all! This is a theme, by the way, of the book of Hebrews. It's this once for all concept!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Some of us grow strong and are growing strong in grace because the people around us are speaking words that are adding grace to our lives.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
There is a life that we live that if we live it, people will be asking us questions about our faith. And then when they ask us, we are to be prepared to give an answer.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
There's going to be times in our following of Jesus Christ, we got to submit to people we don't want to, but we do it because we are following Jesus Christ.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
See, the bible addresses our attitudes. And in 1 Peter chapter 2 and chapter 3 it addresses what I believe is a distinctly unique Christian attitude.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Wherever we are on the spiritual journey, am I going to do what God tells me to do? That's why it's pro active. The good life is pro active. It doesn't just happen because we go to church. It happens because we have commited ourselves to follow Jesus.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God in grace loves us and has provided a plan of salvation for us and if we in faith open up our hearts to God and receive His grace, we're saved, we're born again!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We need to live such good lives; such good lives that the very stuff that the pagans would try to accuse us of; that they've got nothing to say. Because you can't accuse someone who's being a servant.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
1 Peter 2:11-12. It's a very simple message. And maybe that's why there's so much I want to say about it. Because it's the simple things, the basic things that really are life transforming; that are defining about who we are and how we're to live in this world.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Our spouse says something, and they just said it innocently, but it pushed our button and we interpret it as an insult, so what do we do back, insult them back. Insult for insult, curse for curse. You just get in that spiral. How is it broken? When somebody blesses.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When there's a lot of pressure and there's a lot of turmoil and there's a lot of trials in our lives one of the areas where we become most vulnerable is in the area of our personal relationships. And the most intimate of all relationships is the relationship of marriage.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Paul said in Romans chapter 7, "Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from this body of death? I myself in my mind am serving the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin." The mind is critical. Romans chapter 8 says, "But the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The train diagram in the back of the little booklet called "The Four Spiritual Laws". The illustration is, you see a train running down the track, there's an engine, there's compartment cars and then there's a caboose. All the power is in the engine. You can't pull the train by the compartment car; you can't pull it by the caboose. Well if you think about the engine being fact and the compartment cars as faith and the caboose as feeling, the way we live our Christian life is we put our faith in the facts and then God produces the feelings.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible says that when we give our lives to Jesus Christ, at that very moment, we become new people. If you are a believer in Jesus, what is true about you is that you have died and you have been raised up with Christ.
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The Bible says that when we give our lives to Jesus Christ, at that very moment we become new people.
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We need a proactive life where we are seeking after and thinking about Jesus. Anything that helps you seek after Jesus, you need to do it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
If you are already a follower in Jesus Christ, the most important commitment you could make today is that you are going to keep on following Jesus Christ. If you are a seeker trying to figure out if you beleive in God and Jesus, you must know that there are many false, counterfeit religious paths that are presented to us today. But the only truth and reality is in Jesus Christ.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
A Christian fundamentally is someone who has new spiritual life in them. The ressurection life of Jesus Christ.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
In Christ is the fullness of deity and we are united with Christ. We are in Christ and His fullness has become ours.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The scripture says that Jesus has all authority. Jesus has sovereign rule over every principality and authority. Jesus Christ has victory. Why? Because He is God!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The very nature of God is that He is infinite and we are finite. So, there are things about God we will just never understand. That does not mean that they are not true!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Is God building you up spiritually? Are you asking Him to? Are you cooperating with Him? Are you responding to His work within your life or are you resisting Him?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Every person is in one of two categories; either in the category of needing to receive Christ or in the category of having received Christ and needing to live in Christ.
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The mission of the gospel is to proclaim Christ to everyone and to present everyone perfect in Christ. We proclaim him admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
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The message of the gospel is a message about who Jesus is and what Jesus has done for us.
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It doesn’t matter whether you are in the first few steps or you are well down the path of following Jesus; there is an area of your life that absolutely needs to be surrendered to him.
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The ultimate question for the seeker is this. What do I believe about Jesus Christ?
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We are in the light in the kingdom of God's son. We have a new king, Jesus Christ. But if you don’t know that you have a new king and that you are in a new kingdom, you can’t live as a kingdom citizen. But once we know what is true about us, we can be set free by that truth through Jesus Christ.
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In the book of Colossians, the apostle Paul brings everything back to Jesus Christ. Paul says ultimately all of our theological, religious, philosophical and life questions find their answer in Jesus. That was not only true at the time that Paul originally wrote this book, it is true for us today.
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Sometimes persistence in prayer is just a couple of days, sometimes it’s a couple of months, sometimes it’s a couple of years, sometimes it’s thirty five years plus.
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The bible says that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and that we have been made complete in Christ. Christ truly is the answer to the real spiritual struggles that everyone faces.
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Paul said in Romans chapter 7, Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from this body of death? I myself in my mind am certain of the law of God but with my flesh the law of sin. The mind is critical. Romans chapter 8 says, But the mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
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When you examine the illustration of the train diagram from the back of the booklet The Four Spiritual Laws, you see a train running down the track. There is an engine, there are compartment cars and there is a caboose. All the power is in the engine. If you think about the engine being fact, the compartment cars as faith and the caboose as feeling, the way we live our Christian life is that we put our faith in the facts and then God produces the feelings.
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Wherever I am, I better look to God's word to see what it says about my finances, because it says something that will set me free and enable me to bless God and others.
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Whatever season of life or life experience we find ourselves in, where do we turn when we hit a financial crisis? The good news is that God's word has answers, as it does for all of the challenges that we have in life.
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The bottom line is this; where do you turn when you have a marriage struggle? You turn to Jesus Christ, the truth of his word and to the help and encouragement of God's people.
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When we talk about the issue of where to turn when you have marriage struggles, we are not talking about a small percentage of the population; we are talking about all of us. We must turn to Jesus Christ who loves us, has a plan for us, made us, died for us, rose again and wants to enter into relationship with us.
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We must come out of the darkness into the light. When we believed in and became a follower of Jesus Christ, not only did we receive the forgiveness of our sins, we received the benefit of what Christ did to set us free from sins power. We exchanged masters. Sin used to be our master and now Christ is our master.
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The tendency towards addictive behavior is a result of being sinful in a sinful world. Sin has distorted our view of God, others and ourselves. Everybody struggles with something. Let’s look at what God’s word says in terms of some truth considerations and some steps to freedom. Where do you turn when you're struggling with addicition?
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God is transcendent yet he is also eminent. God says he lives not only in a high and lofty place but also with those who are low and crushed. Do you feel crushed? God says, I commit myself to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. There is hope in Jesus Christ!
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Depression will affect every one of us at some point in our life. Does God care about my depression? Yes! Our God is a compassionate God who cares about everything that we feel and experience in life and he cares about depression.
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There are people who build their house on the rock and ones who build on the sand. In affect he is saying: What are going to be? Who are you going to define yourself as? What message are you going to follow? What gate are you going to enter into? What path are you going to follow on?
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Jesus is giving us an invitation to consider his words and to put them into practice, to consider all of the voices we have been hearing and to listen to his voice, to consider the way we have been living and to follow his way.
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Our prayers need to be rooted in the promises and will of God. Our faith is not in faith itself; we place our faith in God. We need to pray in the name of Jesus with a clean heart and pure motives out of an abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.
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If we think about prayer as having a magic lamp and all we have to do is rub the lamp to receive our three wishes, we are not thinking about prayer the way Jesus teaches us to think about it.
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There is a residual goodness in every person, but we are all sinners by nature and by choices. Even when we cross the line and come into new life in Jesus Christ there is still this internal struggle.
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On the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is contrasting the prevailing attitudes both of our culture and of religion. The message of religion and the message of our culture only have it partially right. If we follow those messages, we will get it totally wrong. The only truth is found in Jesus Christ and his teaching of an inner heart transformation, which produces a change of life, a kingdom disciple.
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Where is your treasure? What are you putting your eyes on? Who is your master?
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Whatever you treasure, that is where your heart is. You can have heavenly treasure and your heart will be there. Or you can have earthly treasure and your heart will be there. So treasure up your treasures in heaven.
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From the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is challenging us to a rigorous spiritual life.
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Jesus is telling us what it means to live as a disciple.
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From the sermon on the mount, Jesus gives us tracks to run on to live out our love for God, people and to live out the righteous life he has called us to.
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Jesus is dealing with personal righteousness on the Sermon on the Mount. Living a life of integrity, obedience to God's word and living a life of personal righteousness as we strongly pursue the lordship of Jesus Christ in our life. When we come before God and study his word, it produces a level of conviction and moves us toward confession and repentance. Jesus raises the bar on what it means to be righteous.
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The truest thing about us is what God says is true. 2000 years ago, Jesus invested his entire kingdom mission in the lives of his disciples. He said, "you are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world." Today, Jesus invests his kingdom mission in us.
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The teaching of Jesus runs completely counter to not only the prevailing world view of our culture, it runs counter to the message of religion.
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Don't put out the spirits fire! There is a work of the Holy Spirit that's real!
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Be someone who speaks peace, relates in peace, communicates in peace, does everything you can in terms of what you own in your personal responsibility to be at peace with others! Because what did Jesus say in the sermon on the mount? Blessed are the peace makers!
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This passage has not been written to be dissected and analyzed and regurgitated in some theology class! It hasn’t been written so that Christians can argue about it! It’s been written to give us hope! The hope that Jesus is coming back, and heaven is ours!
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The apostle Paul says that this truth; the truth of Christ's second coming is the blessed hope of the church! It is God's desire to give us hope! To give us hope that heaven is ours!
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Hebrews 11:6 says this, "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exsists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him!" God rewards those who earnestly seek Him!
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So Paul warns us as he warns these folks. Listen! This is what I want you to excel at! This may be where you need to take you next step! Being personally responsible for your life! Taking care of your own affairs! Providing for yourself! Working hard! Being a person of consistency and integrity! Being personally responsible!
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What is it that we're basing our joy on? Are we basing our joy on having all of our personal expectations met? About the safety, the comfort and the security of our life? Or are we basing our joy on our relationship with God and our relationship with one another?
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When we encounter trials and opposition and persecution in the Christian life, if we are not prepared for understanding how God uses that to grow us up spiritually, if we are not having the big picture of understanding it accomplishes God's kingdom purposes, if our trust is not in God's resources in the midsts of those trials, you know what they easily become, they become the leverage point for the tempter to tempt us!
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God's game plan for us is not just to fight and to have a neutral result against spiritual opposition. God's game plan is to fight and win the spiritual battle!
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For any one of us who wants to move forward in our relationship with God; for any one of us who wants to do something spiritually significant in our lives; we are going to encounter opposition!
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God is calling us to be world changers! God is calling us to call one another to be world changers! We have a roll in speaking into peoples lives the truth and grace of God! To motivate them to take their next step in following after Jesus Christ!
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You see, in the spiritual realm, success or failure is not primarily measured by results! It's measured by obeying what God tells you to do! When we obey God in what He tells us to do, it's a success, whatever the results might be! When we obey God in the power of the Holy Spirit, it is a success whatever the results might be because God is the one who produces results!
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It's when we humbly receive the word. When we read it, and study it and memorize it and seek to do what it says. It's that humbled attitude of dependence upon it that literally will change us, and that's what Paul observed in the folks at Thesolanica. And he says you welcomed the message of God's word with the joy of the Holy Spirit!
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In fact, he says over in 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 13, that "when you receive from us the word of God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men but for what it really is, the word of God which performes its work in you who believe"! You know when we welcome God's word into our life and we believe it; it performs a work in us, it changes us! God's word has that kind of life giving power!
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My hope, my goal, my prayer for this sermon is not that you'll know more about prayer; it's that you will pray!
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Thanksgiving aligns our heart with God! Thanksgiving makes an acknowledgment that God's God and we're not! Thanksgiving shows that we have an awareness of who God is and what He's doing in our lives!
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Each one should use whatever gift he's received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms! We're to use our gifts to serve others, that's the purpose! God didn't give us gifts to just kind of say, I have these gifts! He's given us spiritual gifts so that we can use them!
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I glorified you by doing what you called me to do! That should be the aspiration of every follower of Jesus Christ! Because that's the meaning of life! That's why we're here! That's the point of life! Glorifiying God! And remember, when we give ourselves to that, when we pursue that, we find our greatest joy!
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When our lives, the totality of our lives; our marriages, our parenting, going to kids soccer games and little league games, working through paying the bills and maintaining the house and going on vacation and coming to church and everything about life, when all of our lives reflect who God really is!
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We find our greatest joy when we pursue God's greatest glory!
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You see obedience ultimately is the acid test of our relationship with Jesus Christ. There are many people who can say a whole lot of stuff, but it's when we obey that we demonstrate the true conviction of our faith!
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It only takes a simple reading of scripture to realize that God is looking for men! He's looking for men to follow Him and love Him and serve Him and be the spiritual leaders He has designed them to be in the home, in the church and in the culture at large! God is looking for men!
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In the family unit, the marriage relationship is to be supreme and have priority and mom and dad need to be on the same page! Then kids can come and be blessed and grow into Godly adults!
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And every family since the original family is affected with this blaming mechanisim. When something goes wrong in the family, when something goes wrong in the marriage there is an instinctive response to blame! To blame the spouse, to blame the kids and when you can't do that any longer, blame the dog! You blame somebody!
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Do you know God has a lot to say about this whole dynamic of relationship about how we're to be in relationship with the opposite sex. In fact, it may come as a surprise to some of you, but God dreamed up with the whole idea of sex!
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Selfishness is a barrier to God's design; to God's definition for a marriage!
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In 1 Corinthians chapter 6 the apostle Paul is talking about God's call to moral purity and why God wants us to reserve sex for marriage and the signifigance of the marriage act. And he says, "Don't you realize that God's purpose was this; that a man would leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and the two would become one flesh!"
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Sometimes what God has for us is not what we would choose for ourselves! Sometimes it's better than anything we can imagine and sometimes it's harder than anything we can imagine!
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When you felt guilty, you felt like that's how God wanted you to feel! You know, nothing could be further from the truth! God doesn't want us to feel guilty, in fact, He wants to take away our guilt! God doesn’t want us to feel shame, He wants to take away our shame! God doesn't want us to feel condemned, He wants us to feel confident!
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The Bible says that we're to seek and when we seek we find! Having questions, asking questions of God is a positive thing! God invites us to pursue Him if we're curious!
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Sixty-six books, forty authors, fifteen hundred years, three languages, three continents, different life situations, different backgrounds of the authors writing on a whole variety of controversial issues. You know what you would expect to find, a whole conglomeration of opinion and ideas! But instead what you find is a unified truth from Genesis to Revelation! A consistency on every issue that is dealt with. The Bible is unique!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus connected truth with life change! Jesus connected truth with life transformation! Now all of a sudden this discussion of truth becomes interesting to me!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
This passage says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Good grief, this is the greatest message that has ever been given. This is a message that will set you free. This is a message that will forgive your sins. This is a message that will give you hope. This is a message that will take you out of darkness and bring you into light. This is a message that can turn everything around.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So whether you are asking about the person who's off in the jungle or the person who's off in the dessert, the question is still the same; what is God's response to that person who never heard the message of the gospel?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Why is Jesus the only way? All religions, are they the same? No! Well then how can God reject or condemn someone who is sincere in their beleif in another religion?
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The scripture says this in 1 Peter chapter 3, "Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts always being ready to make a defense to anyone who asks you to give an account of the hope that's in you." If you're here and you're committed, people are going to be asking you these questions. So I am hoping to give you some information that will equip you to be able to answer questions!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The life you've always wanted; it's a message to proclaim. It's a life to give away! We need to see as Jesus saw! We need to feel as Jesus felt! We need to pray as Jesus prayed! We need to do as Jesus did!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The life that Jesus has for us, the life that you've always wanted, is a message to proclaim and a life to give away!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Victory in the Christian life, the life you've always wanted, is not a life removed from the spiritual battle, it's a life engaged in the spiritual battle and actually winning the spiritual battle!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Victory in the Christian life, the life you've always wanted, is not a life removed from the spiritual battle, it's a life engaged in the spiritual battle and actually winning the spiritual battle!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The life we've always wanted is the life that God wants to give us! It's the life that He's delighted to reveal to us! It's the life that He wants us to experience! It's a power to experience!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The life that you've always wanted is about a relationship! Because what's true with the people in our lives is also true with God. It's about a relationship!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Worship is the engagement of our mind, our wills and our emotions expressed through our bodies.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Is worship at the heart of our lives? Is worship the first priority in our lives? Is worshiping God the epicenter to all that we're doing?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Maybe you just have a vague sense that somethings wrong in your life? Maybe you have a vague since that your marriage isn't what it needs to be? May be you just have a vague spiritual sense that God wants to do something in the world? That's a good place to start, but you've got to figure out what the real problem is!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The great commision is never fullfilled if the community of believers stays in its comfort zone!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When God does a building program; whether it's a temple, whether it's a church, whether it's a family, whether it's an individual life, these are the the principles that are at play. There's a prophetic word, there's the providence of God and there's the provision of God's people!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What word are you trusting in for what God's doing in your marriage? What word are you claiming and praying through for God's work in your kids lives?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What is God laying on heart for your life? What is God laying on your heart for your marriage? What is God laying on your heart for your family? Are you willing to take a risk and step out in faith and trust God?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And for the first time, I found myself not just thinking about what I wanted to do with my life or what my parents wanted to do with my life. Or even how I should fit my new faith in Jesus Christ into what I wanted to do with my life!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Because I know how much God loves me, that energizes me to face whatever I'm facing triumphantly!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God wants to fill us with hope! Hope that is certain and sure! An anchor to our soul! A hope that's fixed on Jesus Christ!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The message of the gospel is a message of hope! It's a message that we get to give away to people to add hope to their lives. It's a message we get to emberace ourselves to have hope!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
1 John 1:7-9. "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ, His son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The spiritual person experiences the ministry of the Holy Spirit guiding him in truth! Jesus said in John 16:13-15, "But when He, the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all truth!"To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Rather than thinking of worry, panic and fear; I renew myself with Phillipians 4:6-7. "I'm going to be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, I'm going to let my request be made known to God and the peace of God that passes all comprehension will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So the first step in experiencing life, power, freedom, is knowing who we are and knowing what God has made true about us!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Wherever we might be in our spiritual journey, desperation is the prerequisite to victory! And freedom is the experience of victory! Because the life we've always wanted and the life that God wants to give us is produced by the Holy Spirit!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
But have you discovered, like me, that's the way life is? There's option a and option b. There's the easy way, God's way, grace way, Holy Spirit way. And then there is option B. The hard way, my way, selfish way, the sin struggle way. Paul says here at the end of Romans 7; there's a b. There's the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. There's the law of sins and death. There's the law of God in my mind. There's the law of sin and death in my members. There's option a and option b. And everyday, we live in the realm of choices!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
In this series we're talking about how to experience freedom from sins penalty and how to experience freedom from sins power and control!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Paul is trying to argue, when he responds to this stupid hypothetical question; "Since I'm forgiven because of grace, can I just sin every now and then?" He says, "well I guess you could, but don't you realize that when you do that you are setting yourself up to become a slave of whatever it is that you commit yourself to? And since you've been freed from since and become a slave of righteousness, why don't you present yourself to righteousness. Why don't you offer yourself fully, unconditionally to Jesus Christ? Why don't you go for all the gusto that you have in Jesus? Because the more you surrender to Christ, the more you become like Christ.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
At first glance, this looks like Christianity 401. It's Christianity for the advanced student of the faith! And it is every bit of that! But when you step away and look at the simple truth, it's Christianity 101! It is the message of hope and life to every person where ever they might be in their spiritual journey!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
None of us are victims to sin anymore if we know Jesus Christ! Because our old self was crucified with Him so that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. Jesus has broken the power of sin in our lives!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The focus is this. You've got to know the bad news so you can fully appreciate the good news! And the bad news is this; every person is sinful and seperated from God. That makes every person a candidate for the solution that only God can provide. The bad news is that every person is sinful and seprated from God! But the good news is that salvation is made avaialbe to anyone who would believe in Jesus Christ!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We all have a history! We come into this world, Romans 5: 15-19 says, with a history in Adam! This is what God does. God gives us a whole new spiritual history. A whole new spiritual genealogy! He translates us out of our identitiy just in Adam and gives us a new identity in Jesus Christ!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
It's a simple story with profound implications! Sin has entered the world! We don't think right, we don't feel right, we don't act right, we don't live right! And nobody else does either! I'm a sinner who sins and you are too! Because sin had entered the world! That's what Romans 5 is telling us! Now, if that's all there was that would just be bad news! But the gospel, the message of Jesus Christ, is good news!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
You know how you learn the bible? You read it, you study it and you memorize it! That's just it! You know how you grow in your knowledge of Jesus Christ? You pursue Him and you structure your life around the activities and disciplines that help you get to know Him. So you structure your life around studying God's word, around prayer and being around other Christians. Around worship, around service. You plan a life that will lead you towards the knowledge of Jesus Christ!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Romans 5:1-11 is what God says is true! And whoever you may be and whatever your back ground is, there is a commonality among all of us! Our perceptions at some level are false! And God wants to take the truth and set us free!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
This is tough stuff, but this is real stuff! This is the stuff where theology becomes life change! This is the stuff where truth sets us free! This is where we read Collosians 3 and it's not just a good bible study, but it's words of life and hope and truth that transform us!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
In whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus! Giving thanks through Him to God the Father! That's real life! And it makes sense when you understand what we've been given in Christ! The grace, forgiveness, hope and life we have been given!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When we crossed the line and came into new life with Christ we became a new creature. We're united with Christ in a way that transcends our real ability to understand. We died with Christ, we were raised up with Christ, we received a whole new spiritual nature, we put off that old life, we put on the new life; we won the lottery! Spiritually speaking we did! And so the bible is telling us redeem it! Act upon it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And I think all of us have had enough of religion! In fact that's the one thing that Jesus and the apostle Paul and the writers of the new testament speak out strongly against! And that's reducing a living relationship with Christ to a bunch of rules and regulations that we have to try to fulfill in our own power. That's not what this is about!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We are to put on it says, we are to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bare with each other and forgive whatever grievences you may have against one another. To bear with someone is to endure, to put up with their irritations!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
If we try to live a new life without understanding our new identity, we're merely following a religion. Trying to live up to some do's and dont's. The bible does not present Christianity as just another religion; just an elevated sense of do's and dont's! It's a whole new relationship!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus said, "I'm the true vine. My Father is the vine dresser." Every branch in me that does not bare fruit is lifted out of the dirt and is put up on the tressle. Why? Because what Jesus wants out of His branches is fruitfulness! You know, Jesus wants to fill your life with joy and peace and love more than you even want it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus Christ is the focus! He is the source of authentic spiritual life! He is the source of authentic spiritual life! He is the source of a true relationship with God! He is the way to be connected to God! He is the way to experience a fulfilled, abundant and fruitful life!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Isaiah is telling us here in Isaiah chapter 40 that God is bigger than anything we can imagine. He knows everything! He has all power! He is everywhere! He has no equal! He has infinite resources! He can do anything He wills to do!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Everyone is on a spiritual journey! Some of us realise it! Some of us don't even know it! But every person is on a spiritual journey! And Jesus used parables to speak to people wherever they might be in their journey to move them to take the next step!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Everybody here is on a spiritual journey. So whether you would identify yourself as someone who is already a Christ follower, someone who is in the process of becoming a Christ follower, or someone who is not a Christ follower at all. Your heart is soil into which the seed of God's message is being sown.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Believers are secure in their salvation because of the unconditional love of God!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
There is for the believer in Jesus Christ, the promise, the hope, the reality of blessed assurance!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We've been made alive with Christ! We've been raised up with Christ! We've been seated with Christ! We share in our relationship with Jesus Christ His authority! We have the authority of Jesus Christ to win the spiritual battle!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible teaches that to follow Jesus Christ means we need to understand and be prepared to fight the spiritual battle. But it also tells us that we're on the winning side!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The religion of Jesus is different than the form that we probably know and experience in the typical American church. This passage in Mark chapter 1, is Jesus telling us about the good news, the gospel!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Spiritual victory is the fruit of the spirit filled life! And a spirit filled life is experienced as we practice spiritual habits!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God is one! Not just that there is one God, but He is an irriducable minimum. You can't divide Him up! You can't break Him apart! You can't analyze Him as if He's something that we sit in scrutiny over!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
To be a Christian is to be a follower of Jesus Christ! And you're following Jesus if you trust Him as your savior! You're following Jesus if you talk to Him everyday in prayer! You're following Jesus if you read His word! You're following Jesus if you obey His commandments! You're following Jesus if you love what He loves!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When you felt guilty, you felt that is how God wanted you to feel! Nothing could be further from the truth! God doesn't want us to feel guilty, in fact, He wants to take away our guilt. God doesn't want us to feel shame, He wants to take away our shame. God doesn't want us to feel condemned, He wants us to feel confident!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible says that we're to seek and when we seek, we find. Having questions, asking questions of God is a positive thing. God invites us to pursue Him if we're curious.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Sixty-six books, forty authors, fifteen hundred years, three languages, three continents, different life situations, different backgrounds of the authors writing on a whole variety of controversial issues. You know what you would expect to find? A whole conglomeration of opinion and ideas. But instead what you find is a unified truth from Genesis to Revelation. A consistency on every issue that's dealt with! The bible is unique!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus connected truth with life change. Jesus connected truth with life transformation. Now, all of a sudden, this discussion of truth becomes interesting to me.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
This passage says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Good grief, this is the greatest message that has ever been given. This is a message that will set you free! This is a message that will forgive your sins! This is a message that will give you hope! This is a message that will take you out of darkness and bring you into light! This is a message that can turn everything around!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So whether you're asking about the person who's off in the jungle or the person who's off in the desert; the question is still the same. What is God's response to that person who never heard the message of the gospel?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Why is Jesus the only way? All religions, are they the same? No. Well then how can God reject or condemn someone who is sincere in their belief in another religion?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The scripture says this is 1 Peter 3: "Sanctify Christ as lord in your hearts. Always being ready to make a defense to anyone who asks you to give an account of the hope that's in you". If you are here and commited, people are going to be asking you these questions. So I am hoping to give you some information that will equip you to be able to answer questions.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God has designed us so that we are part of a team and we make a unique contribution for the team. So the question is this; how do I connect with and complement others to make the body complete? What's my contribution for the team?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
First and foremost is my relationship with Jesus Christ. And have I surrendered my whole life to Jesus Christ? That's a personal question everyone of us needs to ask ourselves. Have we offered our whole life to God as an act of worship?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And when you find where it is that God has really called you; you're the best steward, you're the best administrator, you're the best manager of what God has given you! And you make your best contribution to something that is bigger than yourself; the eternal kingdom of Jesus Christ!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
In Ephesians chapter 1:11 it says, "One day, God is going to sum everything up in Jesus Christ"!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So for you, if you're here and you don't know with certainty that Christ is in your life and He's the Lord of your life and He's real and transforming your life; the most important thing out of all of this is, "What am I going to do with Jesus Christ?"To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
For the follower of Jesus Christ life takes on a whole new significance. And you can't be any more significant than being right in the very center of Gods plan. God has this eternal kingdom plan and then He has an individual plan for your life and when you right there at the center of God's kingdom plan and your individual plan; that is life at its fullest!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
2 Corinthians 5:17 says this, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We may have different gifts and we are to discover and use those gifts, but we all share a common connection with the Holy Spirit.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
As we understand the spiritual gifts that God has given to us, the whole experience of our Christian life is going to be changed!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The spiritual gifts that God gives us are to build up the body of Christ to accomplish God's purposes. And when we do it, we find our greatest joy and our greatest fulfillment.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We build up the body of Chirst in love as we discover and use our spiritual gifts!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Do you know what Romans 12:1 2 tells us? It says that if we will present our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice; if we'll stop being conformed to this world; if we'll present ourselves in a way to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Then what God promises to us is that we will be able to test and prove the will of God for our lives.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The command to live wisely means that we are to be people who are constantly engaged in a process of discoverying God's will for our lives and then doing it. And when we do it, we are living with wisdom.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
You are not to take from this sermon that it is your God ordained roll to go over ot your neighbor and point out all the darkness in their life. You're not to get your sin-ometer and go down to work and focus in on a co-worker and say, you know I need to point this out to you because the sermon on Sunday was how I'm supposed to expose darkness. No! The only person you should be poiniting the finger at is yourself!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Nobody can earn favor with God. It is all a gift of His grace.The bible is so clear that salvation is by grace through faith. But the bible also says that when that grace of God comes into our lives, we become new creatures in Jesus Christ. We become new people in Christ. There is a new life priciple within us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Renewing our minds. This is what Paul says in Romans chapter 12, when he says, "I urge you therefore bretheren by the mercies of God to present your body as a living holy sacrifice which is your spiritual act of worship. Stop being conformed to this world but be transformed". How? By the renewing of your mind.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus Christ in Matthew Chapters 5, 6 7 lays out the values, the priorities, the focus of His kingdom and it stands in antithesis to this world. And in a very mini version of that, the Apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 4 says "We're to be different." And that is something to embrace, that is something to cherish. It's something to be excited about because of what we've been saved from and what we've been saved to, and the power that comes from being different.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Peter says in 1Peter chapter 3, "Do not return a curse with a curse but return a curse with a blessing." Why? Because you were called for this very purpose. So that you could inherit a blessing. That's the idea behind long suffering. And then, if that wasn't enough, he says, "We are to bear one another in love". We are to sustain, hang in there, endure in our relationships in love.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So, what's our calling that Paul says right out of the blocks in Ephisians chapter 4? I therefore prisoner of the Lord entreat you and urge you to live a life worthy of your calling. Well our calling is, bless with every spiritual blessing, totally saved by grace. Made part of a new community, a body, the church. And so, we ought to live like it!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
As we step into the vision that God has for us. We need to believe great things about God. We need to ask great things of God. And we need to attempt great things for God! When we discover God's vision, it will change our lives today, tomorrow and for all eternity!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
How do we put ourselves in a place to discover God's will for our lives? What are the preconditions to be able to prove it for ourselves and know it personally? Well we've got to present our whole bodies as a living and holy sacrifice. We've got to stop being conformed to this world. And we need to be engaged in the ongoing mind renewal process of transformation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
I think alot of times in our Christian life, we agonize and we ask God to give us something and God is saying, "I have already given that to you in Christ. It is already yours. Understand who you are and step into the freedom of your new identity. Understand your resources. Understand your inheritance. Know what's true about you and it will transform your life.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bible says this in Collosians 1:13-14, "For He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves in whom we have redemtion the forgiveness of sins." God says that at one time we were in darkness seperated from God outside of a relationship with Christ. And the metaphor to describe what happens when someone crosses the line is moving from darkness into light into God's kingdom.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
I can get up every morning because I have opened up my life to the grace of God, and say, "God, what are the good works you have for me today? What adventure do you have for me today? How can I love God and love people today? How can I step into good works today? What's the mission you have for me today? How can my life take on eternal significance today? Because I know you have good works for me today!"To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When it comes to this issue of salvation and a new start and a transformation by grace; it is almost as if God gives us an instanstaneous zap when we put our faith in Jesus Christ. In fact Ephesians chapter 2 tells us the very moment we reach out to God in faith; that very moment grace transforms us. Our eternity is changed and life becomes new because we experience the very life of Jesus Christ. Grace can change anything!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
It says in Ezekiel chapter 18, "I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies declares the Lord! Therefore repent and live." It says in 1Timothy 2, "This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our savior who desires all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth." It says in 2Peter 3:9, "God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Jesus said this in John chapter 8, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". So the converse is if you don't know the truth, if you are believing a lie rather than being set free, you are in some kind of bondage. So the premise of the series we have been in this summer is that there is power in believing the truth. When we know the truth, we understand the truth, we believe the truth, it literally sets us free.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God the Father planned salvation. God the Son accomplished salvation. God the Holy Spirit, he applies salvation. He changes our lives. He makes us different people.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
If you look at the testimony of scripture from Genesis to Revelation, you will see that it is the work of the Holy Spirit to reveal God. To draw people into a relationship with God. To transform people in that new life in Christ. And then to reproduce the very life of Christ within the individual experience and within the corporate experience we call the church.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What do you believe about Jesus? Jesus Christ is the promised messiah, the God man, the bold prophet, the compassionate healer, the bondage breaker, the perfect example, the atoning sacrifice, the resurrected Lord, the interceding high priest, the returning King. What you believe about Jesus will change your life today and tomorrow and for all eternity.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Who do we really say Jesus Christ is? What do we really believe about Jesus? Because what we believe affects how we feel and how we live and the eternal destiny of our lives. And what we believe about Jesus will effect everything about our spiritual journey.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We feel guilty. We are aware of our inadequacy. We know how we fall short. But for some reason we spiritualize that. You'd think the hight of spirituallity is feeling guilty. Your best sermons are when you leave feeling really bad about yourself. There is nothing spiritual about being guilty. Guilt is a step in a process towards, freedom, forgiveness, hope, restoration.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The agnostic has a thought in his mind when he thinks about God. He says, "I don't know if there's a God." The hindu has a thought in his mind when he thinks about God; "there are many gods." Everybody has a basic notion, understanding, preconceived idea of God. The question is, is it acurate or not?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
But here is what I discovered. You probably have discovered this to. That first step, which at the time, seems all encompasing, and it really is, is really the first big step followed by alot of smaller steps. Because every step of spiritual growth is an act of surrender.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
What we believe affects our view of God. Relationships, marriage, parenting, hope, how we respond to struggles and trials. How do we answer the deepest questions about life. What we beieve affects all of that. Your mind matters. Your thoughts matter. Your thoughts today are going to affect the kind of person you are going to become tomorrow.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God has called us to live sanctified lives that demonstrated His life within us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
And so Peter, inspired by the Holy Spirit, writes a letter about how God has a plan and purpose for history and a plan and purpose for our lives. God even uses suffering and spiritual warfare as a means to reveal His grace to us and to stregnthen us and to empower us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We have brothers and sisters who are really facing struggles. So when we face struggles, we need to let that be a reminder to not only pray for ourselves but to pray for one another.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Whatever you are facing right now; whether it's in your personal spiritual life or your finances or your marriage or with your kids or just some life confusion. Regardless of what might be pressuring you to give up or to cave in, there is a word from God that gives hope to stand firm.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God is opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble. You want to experience God's grace, walk in humility. You want God as your enemy, be prideful.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
You see, God has placed spiritual leaders and all of us are to have an attitude of teachable, humble submission to our spiritual leaders. And it's for our benefit to do that.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Peter says in 1 Peter chapter 5, "Listen, when times are hard and tough, you not only need a strong faith, you need to be a part of a community of faith that's served by Godly servant leaders."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We need to be a part of community of faith that's led by Godly servant leaders! God's looking for leaders, the church needs leaders, you as a congregation deserve servant leaders!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Even when things are hard, even when things are falling apart, even when our expectations aren't being met; we need to understand some things that are important, that are priorities that are things that really matter.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Even when things are hard. Even when things are falling apart. Even when our expectations aren't being met. We need to understand some things that are important that are prioritites that are things that really matter.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Why bring unnecessary suffering into your life? In other words, why make sinful choices and then suffer the consequence of your sinful choices?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Suffering will either make us bitter or will make us better. The difference is how we respond!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, when anyone comes to God and says have mercy on me, guess what, God has mercy on them.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Christ died for our sins and Peter adds, He died for our sins once for all! This is a theme, by the way, of the book of Hebrews. It's this once for all concept!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Some of us grow strong and are growing strong in grace because the people around us are speaking words that are adding grace to our lives.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
There is a life that we live that if we live it, people will be asking us questions about our faith. And then when they ask us, we are to be prepared to give an answer.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
There's going to be times in our following of Jesus Christ, we got to submit to people we don't want to, but we do it because we are following Jesus Christ.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
See, the bible addresses our attitudes. And in 1 Peter chapter 2 and chapter 3 it addresses what I believe is a distinctly unique Christian attitude.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Wherever we are on the spiritual journey, am I going to do what God tells me to do? That's why it's pro active. The good life is pro active. It doesn't just happen because we go to church. It happens because we have commited ourselves to follow Jesus.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
God in grace loves us and has provided a plan of salvation for us and if we in faith open up our hearts to God and receive His grace, we're saved, we're born again!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We need to live such good lives; such good lives that the very stuff that the pagans would try to accuse us of; that they've got nothing to say. Because you can't accuse someone who's being a servant.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
1 Peter 2:11-12. It's a very simple message. And maybe that's why there's so much I want to say about it. Because it's the simple things, the basic things that really are life transforming; that are defining about who we are and how we're to live in this world.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Our spouse says something, and they just said it innocently, but it pushed our button and we interpret it as an insult, so what do we do back, insult them back. Insult for insult, curse for curse. You just get in that spiral. How is it broken? When somebody blesses.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When there's a lot of pressure and there's a lot of turmoil and there's a lot of trials in our lives one of the areas where we become most vulnerable is in the area of our personal relationships. And the most intimate of all relationships is the relationship of marriage.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
Paul said in Romans chapter 7, "Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from this body of death? I myself in my mind am serving the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin." The mind is critical. Romans chapter 8 says, "But the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The train diagram in the back of the little booklet called "The Four Spiritual Laws". The illustration is, you see a train running down the track, there's an engine, there's compartment cars and then there's a caboose. All the power is in the engine. You can't pull the train by the compartment car; you can't pull it by the caboose. Well if you think about the engine being fact and the compartment cars as faith and the caboose as feeling, the way we live our Christian life is we put our faith in the facts and then God produces the feelings.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
That's the point; wherever I am, I better look to God's word to see what it says about my finances because it says something that will set me free and enable me to bless God and others!To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
So this is a very appropriate question; whatever season of life or life experience we find ourselves in; where do we turn when we hit a financial crisis? And the good news is that God's word has answers. As it does for all the challenges that we have in life.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The bottom line is this. Where do you turn when you have a marriage struggle? You turn to Jesus Christ. You turn to the truth of His word. You turn to the help and encouragement of God's people.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
When we talk about this issue, where do you turn when you have marriage struggles? We're not talking about some small percentage of the population out there that we who've made it can somehow be equipped to help. We're talking about us; we're talking about all of us. And the answer is the same as I shared with you earlier on all of these. Where do you turn? We turn to Jesus Christ who love us, has a plan for us, made us, died for us, rose again, wants to enter into relationship with us.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
We must come out of the darkness into the light. This is what Jesus said in John chapter 3, "This is the verdict. Light has come into the world but men love darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1170/29
The tendency towards addictive behaviour is the result of being sinful in a sinful world. We're no longer in the garden, we are no longer in perfect fellowship with God and with one another. Sin has distorted our view of God, it's distorted our view of other people, it's distorted our view of ourselves. And so everybody struggles with something. So let's look at what God's word says in terms of some truth considerations and some steps to freedom. Where do you turn when you're stuggling with addicition?
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Matthew 11:28-30. Jesus says this, "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. For I am gentle and humble in heart and you'll find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
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What do we do when something robs us of joy? What do we do when we struggle with depression? What do we do when we struggle with marriage conflict? What do we do when we hit a financial crisis? Where do we turn? We are begining a new series called "Where Do You Turn", and the answer is always in Jesus Christ.
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We have been called out to be a worshiping community. And every person who is a part of Christ's church; every believer in Jesus Christ is part of this worship community.
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We have been called out to be a worshipping community. And every person who is a part of Christ's church, every beleiver in Jesus Christ is part of this worship community.
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Remember this, whomever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
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We are to come to Jesus as worshipers offering sacrifices, and those sacrifices in this passage are spelled out with praise and thanksgiving and good works and acts of service and those sacrifices, those offerings are pleasing to God!
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Brokenness and repentance is the means, the process to become useable as a worshiper to serve God.
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And in the same way as those who've come to beleive in Jesus Christ and embraces salvation into our lives, there never comes a place where we lose sight that we are sinners saved by grace.
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See, worship is a response to what we know of God!
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See, worship is a reflection of the mind, and it's an attitude of the heart and it's a response of the body.
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Worship is a response to what we know of God!
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See, worship is a reflection of the mind and it's an attitude of the heart and it's a response of the body.
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You can face it on your own and it will just lead you to despair. Or you can trust in a sovereign, loving and good God who uses everything. And it may not change you circumstances, but it will change you!
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The apostle Paul is trying to help us understand that these great truths of God, that sometimes are incomprehensible to us always have a real life application.
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God's provision is unimprovable!
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We can speak with some certainty about the nature of God and the reason we can speak with some certainty about the nature of God is God has revealed Himself. He showed up.
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We tend to think, "The problem is with God. He is not being who He should be!" Rather than humbly saying, "The problem is with me! I have got a wrong view of God!"
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Even what we can't imagine about God; the fact that we can even imagine it is because we have been created in His image and he has revealed a glimpse of who he is. What we can even speak about God with accuracy; we can speak about Him because He has made Hiimself known.
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In fact some of us here are here as seekers, we're here with questions, we're here because somebody invited us, we're guests. Maybe we haven't been to church in a long time. Maybe we have never been to church. And maybe we are the unconvinced. God wants you to be a worshiper.
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So Jesus say, "I am the bread of life, I am the light of the world, I am the door, I am the good shepard, I am the ressurection and the life, I am the way the truth and the life, I am the true vine."
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God knows our sin, but seeks us anyway!
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You see, we are worshipers. Every person is a worshiper. We're going to worship something. And it takes work to worship the true God. And to worship Him in a true way, that brings Him glory and brings Him honor.
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Jesus is coming back visibly, physically! Jesus is coming back to rule and to reign!
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The return of Jesus Christ at His second coming will be visible and will be physical!
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Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
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The call of God on our lives is to be a spirit filled church. The call of God on our marriages is to have spirit filled marriages. The call of God on us as individuals is to be spirit filled people.
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Have you invited Jesus to be at the center of your life, marriage, goals, finances, and parenting? Have you asked Jesus to be the Lord of every part of your life?
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Seeking to discover from the bible, who is Jesus and what are we going to do about it is the most important spiritual quest anyone could partake in!
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There are two kinds of people, those that know Christ and those that don't know Christ. If you know Christ, study the bible and do what it says.
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So Peter says, this word that has intrinsic lasting value because it's eternal in nature, has the power to change our lives.
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It's the message of the cross that's the seed that is implanted within our hearts that causes us to be born again.
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Once we come to this new relationship with God by grace through faith, it sets us free. It sets us free from trying to please God by our works and through legalistic rules. It sets us free from our flesh and our selfishness. It sets us free to be servants. It sets us free to be reconcilers of others. It sets us free to be who God created us to be so that we might bear spiritual fruit.
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Making a decision today I'm going to follow Christ. Today I am surrendering myself to Christ. I am asking for the Holy Spirit to produce in me love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.
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The path that is before us as Christ followers is to focus on Jesus Christ and by faith, to receive the grace of God in our lives.
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So we have the Holy Spirit to empower us, to free us. And the Holy Spirit produces new spiritual fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.
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Galatians 5 says this, "You my brothers were called to be free, but do not use your freedom to indulge your sinful nature. Rather serve one another in love. The entire law is summed in a single command. Love your neighbor as yourself."
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And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, if the spirit is alive because of righteousness and if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, He's going to give life to your bodies.
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The call of God is God working out in history His sovereign plan. God has a call on peoples lives. And when God calls people, they hear that call and they are compelled to respond.
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The only way anybody starts the Christian journey is by faith. We cross the line and commit our lives to Christ. We embrace Chirst's salvation for us by faith. It's Gods grace and we receive it by faith. And then every step after that in our spiritual journey is a step that we live by faith.
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Every person who begins the Christian life on the basis of grace through faith is free in Christ. That is our birth right as believers. It is our spiritual standing before God. It's the truest thing about us. Chirst has set us free!
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It says in Romans chapter 5, "Where sin did abound, grace did much more abound." So no matter how much we blow it, fall short, are weak or fail; God's grace is greater!
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Everthing hinges on what Christ has done for us. That's why Paul says in Galatians 5:1, "It was for freedom that Christ set us free"!
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But now we have been set free from the law, for we died to it. We're no longer captive to its power. We can serve God, not in the old way of trying to obey rules, but in a new way by living in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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You've come into this relationship with God. You've stepped across the line. You're living by grace. Stay living by grace. Don't go back to some form of law. Don't go back to some form of religious deception, and don't let other people pull you back into it either.
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Christ's church is only made up of those people who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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And the spirit who lives in you is the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead. And if He lives in you, then He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your bodies through His spirit who lives in you.
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Providence is the fact that God works in history. God answers prayer. God moves in circumstances. God has a plan for our life and He constructs things in such a way that His plan gets fulfilled.
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Take God at His word. Whether it's about your marriage, your spiritual life, holiness in your life, sharing your faith, releasing your finances to God's kingdom or forgiving someone who has wronged you. Whatever the issue is, believe God and you will step into His righteousness.
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Biblical faith is believing, it is acting upon what you believe, but it's believing the right thing! What you believe in is the determining power or engine behind your faith!
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God continually gives us the spirit to empower us to witness. To use our spiritual gifts. To accomplish Gods purposes. To worship Him in power and truth.
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The bible says being a Christ follower means you fundamentally become a new person. Your spiritual identity is totally transformed.
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Grace is to reign in our lives. Grace is to be the principle that we live everyday. Grace is to be the principle by which we have personal relationships. Grace is to be the principle by which we seek to know God. Grace is to be the principle by which we speak to one another.
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If we come to God based upon acknowledging our need and sin and placing our faith in Christ alone for our salvation; that always results in life, hope, forgiveness, love, and transformation.
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If anyone speaks let him speak the very words of God. If anyone serves let them serve with all the power that God gives so that in all things God may be glorified. It is at this phase that we really come to understand that life is not about me, it is about God!
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Begining to discover our spiritual gifts and serving and giving ourselves not to a consumptive lifestyle, but a lifestyle of giving away to others is getting out of our comfort zone.
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The writer to the Hebrews says, you know what? In the past God spoke in various ways. God made himself known through miracles and the writings of the prophets. But let me tell you right now, this is how God declares himself, in His son. And the son is the exact representation of the Father. Everything God wanted us to know about who He is, He made known to Jesus.
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It's our attitudes that are robbing us from the peace that God wants to give us and joy is a result of peace. So we are not experiencing peace nor are we experiencing joy. Why? Because we have bad attitudes!
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We experience joy when we follow God's plan for peace.
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We understand when Jesus comes back He is going to come back to rule and to reign and to set things right. He will wipe away every tear!
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We experience joy when we have an eternal expectation that motivates present conviction.
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We need to value knowing Jesus Christ above everything else.
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We experience joy when knowing Jesus is more important than anything else in our lives.
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The very nature of the apostle Paul was that he was a spiritual mentor. He was like a spiritual coach. He always took these young guys with him and he poured himself into them and he discipled them and then he turned them loose and they did amazing things for God's glory.
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It's this abiding, connected, dependent, relationship with Jesus.
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We've got to take personal ownership for our own spiritual lives!
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When we live in unity and actively seek to serve one another, the pay off is not only do we contribute to one anothers lives, but we experience joy!
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When we live in unity and when we are actively seeking to serve one another, the pay off is not only do we contribute to one anothers lives, but we experience joy!
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Living by the empowerment and energizing effect of the Holy Spirit within us; that gives life. It gives life to us and it gives life to others.
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We experience joy when we live out authentic Christianity.
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We're to live lives that are worthy of the gospel. And it's the gospel that is the unifying factor for all believers in Jesus.
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We experience joy when we find our true identity in Christ and give ourselves to His purposes for our lives.
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God uses the obedience of others to encourage our faith and He uses our obedience to encourage the faith of others.
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We experience joy when we prioritize the preaching of the gospel over personal comfort and ambition.
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Sharing the gospel is a team effort. So here is the question; are you on the team?
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Here is the key principal; we find joy when we partner with other believers in the work of the gospel.
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Jesus is coming back visibly, physically. Jesus is coming back to rule and to reign!
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The return of Jesus Christ at His second coming will be visible and will be physical!
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Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
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The call of God on our lives is to be a spirit filled church. The call of God on our marriages is to have spirit filled marriages. The call of God on us as individuals is to be spirit filled people.
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Christ's church is only made up of those people who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Have you invited Jesus to be at the center of your life, marriage, goals, finances and parenting? Have you asked Jesus to be the Lord of every part of your life?
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Seeking to discover from the bible, who is Jesus and what are we going to do about it is the most important spiritual quest anyone could partake in!
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There are two kinds of people, those that know Christ and those that don't know Christ. If you know Christ, study the bible and do what it says.
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So Peter says, this word that has intrinsic lasting value because it's eternal in nature, has the power to change our lives.
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We matter to God. The people we know matter to God. Our neighbors, our friends, our co-workers. They all matter to God. And God wants us to be contagious with the life of Jesus.
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God's intention for His people was that they would choose life, but He gave them the choice. God's intention for every one of us is that we would choose life, but He gives us the choice.
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If we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of His son Jesus cleanses us from all sin.
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Everyday we can walk in the hope, fellowship and reality of forgiveness. But it’s a choice.
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Where is your struggle? Because that is where you and I need to be intentional in putting on the full armor of God. We need to recognize that struggle is a spiritual battle.
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The battlefront is the mind. It’s in the area of our thoughts that the battle rages. That’s where we’re deceived, tempted and accused.
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And Jesus says there are people opportunities all around us. And what we do with them reveals the real nature of our hearts and we will be judged. You see, kingdom stewards are faithful to make the most of their opportunities with people!
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We wouldn’t really even understand who Jesus Christ is if God didn’t reveal it to us. Think about it; Jesus is fully God and fully man. He’s the messiah!
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If you want to know the word of God, you must study it. "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you". We must study it for the words to abide in us. We must read it, hear it, memorize it, be in it. We must saturate our lives with the word of God.
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Jesus says, "I am the vine and you are the branches". In a healthy plant, life comes up through the vine, flows into the branch and fruit is produced.
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Hebrews 11:1 gives this theme statement about faith being sure and certain about things hoped for and about things not seen. Then it gives a list of examples of people who actually applied this truth.
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Personal responsibility. We know that's in fact what it means to be an adult, right? To be able to take responsibility for your life and responsibility for your choices, and God treats us like adults and says, "You're responsible for all the choices you make."
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Personal responsibility. We know that's in fact what it means to be an adult, right? To be able to take responsibility for your life and responsibility for your choices, and God treats us like adults and says, "You're responsible for all the choices you make."
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I understand the bible teaches God's sovereignty, I understand the bible teaches human freedom. What we are going to be talking about over the next several weeks is human freedom and human responsibility. How the ball has been placed in our court and what God wants us to do about it and what our choices are in response.
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The Christian life begins with, continues with and culminates with us abiding in Jesus and abiding in the love that Jesus has for us. We are to immerse ourselves in Jesus' love!
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Jesus said, "If any man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. And out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water."
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But somewhere we've gotten the notion, some of us, that salvation is like signing up and paying for a fire insurance policy and you got that policy and you put it in your hip pocket and then you can live like hell but be certain of heaven.
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What would you want people to say in their eulogy of you at your memorial service? And then the challenge is whatever it is that you want people to say about you, start living that way now so that will be the legacy that you leave.
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These are the three areas of a person's life that will most present themselves as an idol that would stop you from loving God with all your heart, soul mind and strength: your relationships with other people, people will use excuses, "oh, it's my family, my kids, my parents" and they wont follow Jesus. So Jesus says "you've got to love me more than that."
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Jesus offers us a way of escape. It's called repentance. We either repent or we perish.
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The gospel of Jesus is a gopsel of grace. We are saved not by our works but by the grace of Jesus Christ. But the following of Jesus Christ is a relationship where He is our master, He is our boss.
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Because Jesus said we either do one of two things; we either fear God, confess Jesus and experience the help of the Holy Spirit or we fear man, we deny Jesus and we blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
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And what Jesus essentially is saying; be on guard against pharisaicism, legalism and hypocrisy.
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The means by which the light of Christ comes into your life needs to be maximized so that all the light of Chist can come in and enlighten all of your life.
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Jesus Christ has the authority to transform a person's life; to set someone free from bondage!
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How many of you have had every prayer you have ever prayed answered exactly the way you prayed it?
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There are certain spiritual truths and certain spiritual principals that are so important you repeat them. You don't just say them once, you say them on many occasions.
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Jesus says that believing in Him means total surrender and total identification with Him.
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The teachings of Jesus change lives and we are excited to unpack them!
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Whether you cross the culture or just cross the street. It is to minister to the spritual, physical and emotional needs of people.
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But Jesus, rather than just looking at the presenting issue, saw into peoples hearts. And He saw that every person had some kind of need. Spiritual, emotional, psychological, physical.
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I've already determined that I'm not gonig to accept anything this guy has to say before I've even heard it. I've already decided that I'm not going to listen to God because I don't believe in Him. I've already determined that I'm not going to accept the word of God because I am not even willing to hear it and consider it. See, if you are not even willing, the issue is not whether it's credible; it's that you have a hard heart.
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The word that Jesus is talking about is God's word that has the power to change our lives. To teach us, to rebuke us, to correct us, to train us in righteousness. The word that can set us free!
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When people see Christ in us, you know what they know? That's a real Christ follower.
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When we confess to God that we are sinners and we ask for His grace and forgiveness and we believe in Jesus Christ; that's what it means to come into a personal relationship with Him.
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Jesus is going to give us the credentials, the reasons, the proof, the evidence, the testimony of why He actually is who He said He is!
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And Jesus says, "Whoever hears my words and believes in Him who sent me has eternal life."
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In order to get spiritual life, something needs to take place in our personal experience that Jesus calls being born again. Just being alive physically does not necessarily mean we're alive spiritually. In fact, the bible says we're not alive spiritually.
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In order to get spiritual life, something needs to take place in our personal experience that Jesus calls being "born again". Just being alive physically does not necessarily mean we're alive spiritually. In fact, the bible says we're not alive spiritually!
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Repentance involves an owning of wherever we fall short. Wherever it is, when we own it and we confess it and we transform our lives by asking for God's help, that's when we're really repenting and that's when we're free.
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In a very simple way, Jesus gave a comprehensive statement about His teaching. Matthew 4:17 says, "and then on Jesus began to preach, repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near."
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We need to go back and review some of the things God has done for our lives. We need to celebrate the things God has done for this church.
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A spiritual leader is someone who knows where God is taking them and is able to motivate others to go there with him.
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For some of us, we need to give our lives to Christ! That's what we need to do! The bible says, "if you will confess with your mouth Jesus is lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved".
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Daniel was a hero because he experienced God even in the midst of pressure, opposition and challenge. Daniel was true to his commitment to his God!
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We need to come to a place in our life where like Elisha, we ask for a double portion of the spirit. We fully surrender our lives and ask God to do something by the work of His Holy Spirit.
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Elisha wanted more. He prayed for a double portion of the spirit. I am convinced that the reason he did miracles, counseled kings, spoke the word of God and the reason he was used by God in his generation was because he asked for a double portion of God's spirit.
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Therefore confess your sins to each other. Pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
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I love Elijah because of the ministry that God called him to. He was a man of prayer.
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No temptation has overtaken you, but such is as common to man, and God is faithful with the temptation to provide the way of escape also.
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The Bible says in Proverbs 27, "As iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another". David had those kinds of men, but not in this occasion. Because he was in Jerusalem and they were all out fighting the battle.
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We need a Samuel. Every one of us knows somebody whose going through something that they need God to be their rock of hope.
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The story of human history is God using people who surrender their lives to Him, who experience Him personally, are then are used by God for kingdom purposes.
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God's not looking for perfect people, He's looking for available people. If He's looking for perfect people, He only had one guy on His side and that was Jesus.
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Sampson, from a human perspective, was the strongest man who ever lived. And there is nobody even close to him. But his stregnth wasn't enough to give him victory in his personal battles.
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Joshua was given the land as a possesion, but he had to go in and posses it. Never take it for granted that God does miracles. He has absolute power, but He calls us to step into what it is He is doing.
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Fear can be a powerful motivator. It can also be the most debilitating emotion that we can experience. In fact, fear is one of the biggest issues that men in particular struggle with.
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1 Peter 4 says, "As stewards of the manifold grace of God, use the spiritual gift that you have been given to build up the body of Christ."
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What God delights in doing is revealing Himself, showing up and revealing the plans that He has for us in a way the changes our live and changes the world!
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God is a covenant keeper. He kept and is keeping his covenant with Abraham. God made a covenant with us through Jesus Christ and keeps it and delivers on it.
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Abraham is a hero, although he is not the central figure in the story of Abraham. The central figure is God!
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When we made the trasfer from being lost and dead in sin to crossing the line and having new life in Jesus Christ, we changed masters! We were under the mastery of sin, now we are under the mastery of Jesus Christ.
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See to it that no one takes you captive through empty philosophy according to the traditions of men rather than according to Christ! Jesus Christ should be at the center of our thinking!
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When we made the transfer from being lost and dead in sin to crossing the line and having new life in Jesus Christ, we changed masters. We were under the mastery of sin and now we are under the mastery of Jesus Christ.
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See to it that no one takes you captive through empty philosophy according to the traditions of men rather than according to Christ. Jesus Christ should be at the center of our thinking.
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Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. With gratitude and grace in your heart towards God.
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A passage in this message tells us to follow as we live out this new life in Christ. This is the first one; put on Christ's virutes!
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The call of Jesus Christ on Christians is to repent! The call of Jesus to seekers and to lost people is believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.
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The Bible in Colossians chapter 3 says that we need to render a death blow to sin! Not slap it, not punch, but actually kill it!
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The bible says that when we give our lives to Jesus Christ, at that very moment, we become new people. If you are a believer in Jesus, what is true about you is that you have died and you have been raised up with Christ.
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The Bible says that when we give our lives to Jesus Christ, at that very moment we become new people.
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We need a proactive life where we are seeking after and thinking about Jesus. Anything that helps you seek after Jesus, you need to do it!
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If you are already a follower in Jesus Christ, the most important commitment you could make today is that you are going to keep on following Jesus Christ. If you are a seeker trying to figure out if you beleive in God and Jesus, you must know that there are many false, counterfeit religious paths that are presented to us today. But the only truth and reality is in Jesus Christ.
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A Christian fundamentally is someone who has new spiritual life in them. The ressurection life of Jesus Christ.
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In Christ is the fullness of deity and we are united with Christ. We are in Christ and His fullness has become ours.
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The scripture says that Jesus has all authority. Jesus has sovereign rule over every principality and authority. Jesus Christ has victory. Why? Because He is God!
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The very nature of God is that He is infinite and we are finite. So, there are things about God we will just never understand. That does not mean that they are not true!
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Is God building you up spiritually? Are you asking Him to? Are you cooperating with Him? Are you responding to His work within your life or are you resisting Him?
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Every person is in one of two categories; either in the category of needing to receive Christ or in the category of having received Christ and needing to live in Christ.
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The mission of the gospel is to proclaim Christ to everyone and to present everyone perfect in Christ. We proclaim him admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.
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The message of the gospel is a message about who Jesus is and what Jesus has done for us.
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It doesn’t matter whether you are in the first few steps or you are well down the path of following Jesus; there is an area of your life that absolutely needs to be surrendered to him.
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The ultimate question for the seeker is this. What do I believe about Jesus Christ?
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We are in the light in the kingdom of God's son. We have a new king, Jesus Christ. But if you don’t know that you have a new king and that you are in a new kingdom, you can’t live as a kingdom citizen. But once we know what is true about us, we can be set free by that truth through Jesus Christ.
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In the book of Colossians, the apostle Paul brings everything back to Jesus Christ. Paul says ultimately all of our theological, religious, philosophical and life questions find their answer in Jesus. That was not only true at the time that Paul originally wrote this book, it is true for us today.
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Sometimes persistence in prayer is just a couple of days, sometimes it’s a couple of months, sometimes it’s a couple of years, sometimes it’s thirty five years plus.
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The bible says that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, and that we have been made complete in Christ. Christ truly is the answer to the real spiritual struggles that everyone faces.
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Paul said in Romans chapter 7, Wretched man that I am, who will set me free from this body of death? I myself in my mind am certain of the law of God but with my flesh the law of sin. The mind is critical. Romans chapter 8 says, But the mind set on the flesh is death but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
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When you examine the illustration of the train diagram from the back of the booklet The Four Spiritual Laws, you see a train running down the track. There is an engine, there are compartment cars and there is a caboose. All the power is in the engine. If you think about the engine being fact, the compartment cars as faith and the caboose as feeling, the way we live our Christian life is that we put our faith in the facts and then God produces the feelings.
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Wherever I am, I better look to God's word to see what it says about my finances, because it says something that will set me free and enable me to bless God and others.
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Whatever season of life or life experience we find ourselves in, where do we turn when we hit a financial crisis? The good news is that God's word has answers, as it does for all of the challenges that we have in life.
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The bottom line is this; where do you turn when you have a marriage struggle? You turn to Jesus Christ, the truth of his word and to the help and encouragement of God's people.
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When we talk about the issue of where to turn when you have marriage struggles, we are not talking about a small percentage of the population; we are talking about all of us. We must turn to Jesus Christ who loves us, has a plan for us, made us, died for us, rose again and wants to enter into relationship with us.
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We must come out of the darkness into the light. When we believed in and became a follower of Jesus Christ, not only did we receive the forgiveness of our sins, we received the benefit of what Christ did to set us free from sins power. We exchanged masters. Sin used to be our master and now Christ is our master.
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The tendency towards addictive behavior is a result of being sinful in a sinful world. Sin has distorted our view of God, others and ourselves. Everybody struggles with something. Let’s look at what God’s word says in terms of some truth considerations and some steps to freedom. Where do you turn when you're struggling with addicition?
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God is transcendent yet he is also eminent. God says he lives not only in a high and lofty place but also with those who are low and crushed. Do you feel crushed? God says, I commit myself to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. There is hope in Jesus Christ!
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Depression will affect every one of us at some point in our life. Does God care about my depression? Yes! Our God is a compassionate God who cares about everything that we feel and experience in life and he cares about depression.
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There are people who build their house on the rock and ones who build on the sand. In affect he is saying: What are going to be? Who are you going to define yourself as? What message are you going to follow? What gate are you going to enter into? What path are you going to follow on?
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Jesus is giving us an invitation to consider his words and to put them into practice, to consider all of the voices we have been hearing and to listen to his voice, to consider the way we have been living and to follow his way.
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Our prayers need to be rooted in the promises and will of God. Our faith is not in faith itself; we place our faith in God. We need to pray in the name of Jesus with a clean heart and pure motives out of an abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.
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If we think about prayer as having a magic lamp and all we have to do is rub the lamp to receive our three wishes, we are not thinking about prayer the way Jesus teaches us to think about it.
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There is a residual goodness in every person, but we are all sinners by nature and by choices. Even when we cross the line and come into new life in Jesus Christ there is still this internal struggle.
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On the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is contrasting the prevailing attitudes both of our culture and of religion. The message of religion and the message of our culture only have it partially right. If we follow those messages, we will get it totally wrong. The only truth is found in Jesus Christ and his teaching of an inner heart transformation, which produces a change of life, a kingdom disciple.
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Where is your treasure? What are you putting your eyes on? Who is your master?
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What is it that we're basing our joy on? Are we basing our joy on having all of our personal expectations met? About the safety, the comfort and the security of our life? Or are we basing our joy on our relationship with God and our relationship with one another?
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When we encounter trials and opposition and persecution in the Christian life, if we are not prepared for understanding how God uses that to grow us up spiritually, if we are not having the big picture of understanding it accomplishes God's kingdom purposes, if our trust is not in God's resources in the midsts of those trials, you know what they easily become, they become the leverage point for the tempter to tempt us!
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God's game plan for us is not just to fight and to have a neutral result against spiritual opposition. God's game plan is to fight and win the spiritual battle!
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For any one of us who wants to move forward in our relationship with God; for any one of us who wants to do something spiritually significant in our lives; we are going to encounter opposition!
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God is calling us to be world changers! God is calling us to call one another to be world changers! We have a roll in speaking into peoples lives the truth and grace of God! To motivate them to take their next step in following after Jesus Christ!
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You see, in the spiritual realm, success or failure is not primarily measured by results! It's measured by obeying what God tells you to do! When we obey God in what He tells us to do, it's a success, whatever the results might be! When we obey God in the power of the Holy Spirit, it is a success whatever the results might be because God is the one who produces results!
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It's when we humbly receive the word. When we read it, and study it and memorize it and seek to do what it says. It's that humbled attitude of dependence upon it that literally will change us, and that's what Paul observed in the folks at Thesolanica. And he says you welcomed the message of God's word with the joy of the Holy Spirit!
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In fact, he says over in 1 Thessalonians 2, verse 13, that "when you receive from us the word of God's message, you accepted it not as the word of men but for what it really is, the word of God which performes its work in you who believe"! You know when we welcome God's word into our life and we believe it; it performs a work in us, it changes us! God's word has that kind of life giving power!
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My hope, my goal, my prayer for this sermon is not that you'll know more about prayer; it's that you will pray!
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Thanksgiving aligns our heart with God! Thanksgiving makes an acknowledgment that God's God and we're not! Thanksgiving shows that we have an awareness of who God is and what He's doing in our lives!
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Each one should use whatever gift he's received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms! We're to use our gifts to serve others, that's the purpose! God didn't give us gifts to just kind of say, I have these gifts! He's given us spiritual gifts so that we can use them!
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I glorified you by doing what you called me to do! That should be the aspiration of every follower of Jesus Christ! Because that's the meaning of life! That's why we're here! That's the point of life! Glorifiying God! And remember, when we give ourselves to that, when we pursue that, we find our greatest joy!
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When our lives, the totality of our lives; our marriages, our parenting, going to kids soccer games and little league games, working through paying the bills and maintaining the house and going on vacation and coming to church and everything about life, when all of our lives reflect who God really is!
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We find our greatest joy when we pursue God's greatest glory!
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Jesus Christ in Matthew Chapters 5, 6 7 lays out the values, the priorities, the focus of His kingdom and it stands in antithesis to this world. And in a very mini version of that, the Apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 4 says "We're to be different." And that is something to embrace, that is something to cherish. It's something to be excited about because of what we've been saved from and what we've been saved to, and the power that comes from being different.
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Jesus said this in John chapter 8, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". So the converse is if you don't know the truth, if you are believing a lie rather than being set free, you are in some kind of bondage. So the premise of the series we have been in this summer is that there is power in believing the truth. When we know the truth, we understand the truth, we believe the truth, it literally sets us free.
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We matter to God. The people we know matter to God. Our neighbors, our friends, our co-workers. They all matter to God. And God wants us to be contagious with the life of Jesus.
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God's intention for His people was that they would choose life, but He gave them the choice. God's intention for every one of us is that we would choose life, but He gives us the choice.
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If we walk in the light as He is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of His son Jesus cleanses us from all sin.
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And Jesus says there are people opportunities all around us. And what we do with them reveals the real nature of our hearts and we will be judged. You see, kingdom stewards are faithful to make the most of their opportunities with people!
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Hebrews 11:1 gives this theme statement about faith being sure and certain about things hoped for and about things not seen. Then it gives a list of examples of people who actually applied this truth.
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Whether you cross the culture or just cross the street. It is to minister to the spritual, physical and emotional needs of people.
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We need a Samuel. Every one of us knows somebody whose going through something that they need God to be their rock of hope.