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Legacy Church exists to connect people with God, help them grow in relationships, and live their lives generously.
In our digital, information age, the average American spends 50 hours a week interacting with media, amounting to nearly 30% of our time. And that's just one among the many things that can become a distraction in our lives and so choke out the Word of God if we're not careful. Today Pastor Steve Smothermon continues to expose the enemy within as he entreats us to focus on God's purposes and Kingdom and to avoid these self-serving and (ultimately) self-abasing "Weapons of Self-Destruction."
In this timely, poignant, and urgently-needed sermon series, "Weapons of Self-Destruction", Pastor Steve Smothermon will uncover the vast array of enemies aligned against us as Christians; and the most insidious one? Self-Destruction. Join us as we learn to take up our cross as Jesus commanded.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to give God's Word to you as you enjoy the service. In the fitting sermon series, "'Tis The Season," Pastor Steve Smothermon reminds us about what the heart of Christmas really is: our loving, gracious God who gave His Son in generosity to a dying and lost world. We are here to celebrate the extravagant, nothing-held-back gift of Jesus, the real reason for the season.
Thank you for being a part of Legacy Church. Forget about the roasted chestnuts at home on the fire (they're probably already burnt); give up lying to your kids about Santa; and abandon the commercialism of what some would make Christmas out to be. We are here to celebrate Jesus, the real reason for the season. Pastor Steve reminds us of all this as he opens God's Word to us in the sermon series: 'Tis The Season.
Thanks for joining us! Enjoy the thought-provoking sermon series, "Giant Killers" with us as Senior Pastor Steve Smothermon examines how to stare down the nasty and brutish enemies of our spiritual life.
Thanks for joining us! Enjoy the thought-provoking sermon series, "Giant Killers" with us as Senior Pastor Steve Smothermon examines how to stand up to the big enemies of our spiritual life.
What's On Your Throne
========== Idols Pastor Steve Smothermon ==========
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Exodus 20:3-6 “You must not have any other god but me. “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
Idolatry - Giving into any human desire a precedence over God's will. We will seek it rather than God. Anything that causes us to think less of God.
Our idols are things like pride, money, popularity, body image, hobbies, etc...
God is the giver of gifts (James 1:17 / Psalm 37:4) However when we begin to value something above God - How we see ourselves - What defines us - What brings ultimate satisfaction (even if it is not voiced) We have began making it an idol.
The idolatry learned in Egypt was probably rooted out from among the people during the forty years wandering in the wilderness...
When God gave Israel the ten commandments they likely had a hard time with it.
No matter how well they kept the other eight commandments, the violation of one and two said they couldn't be His people.
We we say we believe in God but not the Bible, this is impossible. No one can separate God form His word. We only know Him through His word and experiencing it.
God is always to be first!
All of us must judge our own hearts and minds. So then begin to line up with God and His ways - If we judge ourselves He won't.
To truly walk with God and follow Him. We must put Him first in our lives, nothing can come before Him.
1 John 5:20-21 And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life. Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.
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========== My ID: Where's My Identity Pastor Daniel McCabe ==========
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How do I find my identity?
Where or from whom do I get my identity from?
Acts 7:22-30, Acts 7:34-35 Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds. But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand. On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?' But the one who was injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, 'W HO MADE YOU A RULER AND JUDGE OVER US? Y OU DO NOT MEAN TO KILL ME AS YOU KILLED THE E GYPTIAN YESTERDAY, DO YOU?' At this remark, M OSES FLED AND BECAME AN ALIEN IN THE LAND OF M IDIAN, where he became the father of two sons. "After forty years had passed, AN ANGEL APPEARED TO HIM IN THE WILDERNESS OF M OUNT Sinai, IN THE FLAME OF A BURNING THORN BUSH.
I HAVE CERTAINLY SEEN THE OPPRESSION OF M Y PEOPLE IN E GYPT AND HAVE HEARD THEIR GROANS, AND I HAVE COME DOWN TO RESCUE THEM; COME NOW, AND I WILL SEND YOU TO E GYPT.' "This Moses whom they disowned, saying, 'W HO MADE YOU A RULER AND A JUDGE?' is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.
Exodus 3:1-8, Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:14-15 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said, "I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up." When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then He said, "Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." He said also, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."
God said to Moses, " I AM WHO I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" God, furthermore, said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.
Maybe God is preparing you for something great when you can’t understand the why.
How do we come before the LORD? Do we show up with familiarity or honor? Yes, God is our friend but He is also our sovereign Lord. Do you just approach him casually?
Where do you try and get your identity? Popularity – you may have had it, but then it’s gone. Possessions – “check out what I have” – but that gets old really quick. Position – you can lose that! Performance – You may think you are good, but what happens when you fail? Have you ever failed? Moses gives many excuses why his leadership would not be acceptable: (1) unworthy, (2) ignorant, (3) lacked eloquence, (4) others would not believe him. Stop hiding behind your inadequacies. Look beyond yourself to all that is available to us and we can allow God to use our unique contributions. When we know who God is then we can know how God sees us. God has a name – wants a relationship with you; See this in Genesis when dealing with Adam
Exodus 4:1-4 Then Moses said, "What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you.'" The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff." Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. But the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail"-so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand-
Moses only thought about all that could go wrong. God doesn’t ask us to go where He will not give us what we need! Will we give Him what we have?
This staff represented his identity – who was and who he was not. For all Moses knew, God was telling him to get rid of his rod. Staff is his identity. He is a shepherd. Now he might never see it again. He is asked to give what is his to God. Moses must have remembered a time when his hands held a scepter instead.
God knew what Moses had in his hand. God was not asking for information. God was asking for obedience. God was asking Moses to consider what he holds. In Moses’ life, the thing he held onto had a hold on his identity! But when we know who God is then we can know how God sees us. This stick reminded Moses, “You are nothing but a shepherd keeping another man’s flock!
Staff was used by God in so many ways: God took that insignificant stick and worked wonders with it. It was used to confront the Egyptian magicians It was used to bring about many of the plagues: turn the waters of Egypt to blood plague of frogs plague of lice plague of thunder and hail call and east wind that blew in the plague of locusts It was used to part the Red Sea It was used to drowning Pharaoh and his army It was used to for victory against the Amalekites
Exodus 4:17, Exodus 4:20 You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs."
So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.
When we know who God is then we can know how God sees us. How does He see you?
Isaiah 49:16 "Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
John 15:16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
2 Corinthians 5:17-19 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Colossians 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
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