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What is the condition of your desire for Jesus Christ this morning? Is it red-hot... or is it cold... or is it in between?
)Having some computer troubles. We are trying to fix them and get our downloads caught up! Sorry! Might be some duplicate messages?) What are we to do and what is to be our motivation for doing? 2 Peter 1:3-11 is awesome in it's answers to these questions! Learn it and dance!
Your faith is the leader of the dance of eternal life! It's not your faith that supplies the power. It is the one you placed your faith in! As followers of Christ we are to be EAGER and full of EFFORT to dance with God the Spirit so that we know Him and bring glory to Jesus! SPOUDE! God's Speed!
Believers in Christ are called to teach! The Law of Activity... Engagefulness! Be doers of the Word! 2 Peter 1:3-11 is our call to make our calling and election in Christ SURE... CERTAIN... CONFIDENT! We will be sure when we DO THE WORD! But what exactly does Peter define that we should be doing? Do what?
If you know Christ as Savior, you are called to teach! Not formally, but influentially! The Law of Activity says "Maximum learning is always the result of maximum involvement." Involvement; engagefulness; doing! It means obedience to Christ; being a doer of the Word, not just a hearer!
The Law of Education is that the effective teacher KNOWS the people he or she is endeavoring to teach. He or she is about the student, not about how wonderful he or she is or how wonderful the teaching. Jesus was all about the Law of Education!
The law of the teacher states that the effective teacher always teaches from the overflow of a FULL LIFE! This, according to Jesus and Howard Hendricks in his book "Teaching to Change Lives". Full? Full of what?
Do you have a passion to communicate? Communication is a part of communing with God and others. This series is about teaching. Every born-twice believer in Christ is a teacher; not formally, but in the sense of living out loud how Christ is transforming their soul. Many believers have lost or never connected with Christ to gain this passion. What about you?
Proverbs 2:1-5 contains the dynamic counsel of a father (Solomon) to his child. There are 5 dynamic character qualities that will launch our young people to a life of eternal significance. Listen and be inspired by the Word of God breathed out by the Holy Spirit!
If purity is having 'ONE THING PRESENT', then what is that 'one thing' in a pure heart? Hope motivates a purity of heart that makes us desire to be more like Jesus... because... that is where we are headed!
Our hope in Christ is tied to our willingness to embrace our peculiarity in this world as followers of Christ. What does that look like? What should that peculiarity look like? It should look like Jesus!
Peculiar means 'unusual' and 'unique'. The Bible calls believers out of the peculiar and strange of this world, which is a competition to be noticed... to a peculiar that is like Jesus. Jesus was peculiar because He wasn't about Himself; He was about His Father, and about people. While we wait for our hope in Christ to be realized, we are called to be a peculiar people... peculiar like Jesus!
What if THE WORST thing you could imagine happened to you? Would your HOPE IN CHRIST sustain you? Or would you blame God and run? The Bible says what happened to Israel coming out of Egypt was an example for us to learn from. So let's look at their story through the lense of hope! They faced many impossible situations. What can we learn from them in the midst of this COVID 19 crisis?
In this Corona Crisis, we need some hope! Well, you won't find it in politics or media or a better self-esteem. Hope is a person. Hope is a trustful expectation in that person! His name is Jesus! And He has a purpose and a plan that we need to know and surrender too! In Him, you will find not only hope, but you will find yourself!
Where did the Communion Cup come from in the Last Supper? And what does it mean to me and to the world? This is a 'WOW'! But will it make you to 'BOW'? From which cup are you drinking?
We call it "The Last Supper". But where did it come from? The Communion Bread that Jesus offered to his disciples that night in remembrance of Him, goes way, way back! And its meaning and the picture it paints contains masterful brushstrokes that only God Himself could canvas! So, imagine your heart has a door. The God of the universe wants to enter to do life with you! Will you welcome Him in or not?
What kind of bread did Jesus eat with His disciples when He instituted communion at the Last Supper? And what was the significance? What did it mean? To commune with God means so much more than formal participation in the religious ritual of taking communion.
The Gospel is a message from God, but that message is a Person. Jesus is the Gospel! Physical LIGHT is a major illustration of Jesus in the Bible. Physical darkness is the absence of physical light. Spiritual and eternal darkness is the absence of Spiritual light; that light being Jesus! Come out of the confusion and fear into the light that Jesus offers!
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the meaning, purpose, and foundation of everything that everyone experiences in life. The Gospel is woven into the fabric of human experience like the threads of a tapestry. Most people never experience or even see this sovereign message from God that calls out to them in things like marriage, parenting, work, and even food; but the meaning is there. Turns out our lives illustrate this message from God! The Gospel is everything, we are called to surrender to it!
It is the nature of fire to consume. A fire that does not burn is a contradiction. In Romans 1, the Apostle Paul is on fire. He is fiercely passionate with the fire of the Holy Spirit over the Gospel! That same Holy Spirit lives in you and me! Though we are not Apostle Paul's, we are ambassadors for Christ! We also are obligated, eager, and unashamed of the Gospel!