1.) I am beginning to head into a super busy season. So while I will try as much as possible to continue posting sermons from my church in the coming weeks and months, I realize I may not be able to be nearly as timely with getting these out there. This past week wasn't necessarily more busy than previous weeks, but it has taken me a week to finally get this on the blog. With my schedule ramping up beginning next week, I don't anticipate being able to be timely with posting. So at that, I apologize. Moreover, I apologize that I was not able to copy the Bible verses themselves like I usually do. I have included all the references, so you can at least search them yourselves if you like.
2.) The message included in this post was very timely for me personally. I am current processing and walking through a big life change (a good one, in fact), but one question about such things that I have long wrestled with is being able to know God's timing in the moment. In my learning, I have made the mistake of both running ahead of God with decisions, as well as been slow to act. But as I have been learning to read the changes in aspects of my immediate circumstances, especially in the last week, I feel that God has faithfully given me both the peace and the wisdom to see what is really going on, as well as how I need to act, even down to the minutiae of each act. I'm still learning and growing, but I believe that this particular life change will be worked out in God's right timing.
Church 5/29/2021
Offertory scriptures:
1 Samuel 2:30
Church 5/29/2021
Offertory scriptures:
1 Samuel 2:30
"Honor me; I will honor you."
Isaiah 29:13
While God is looking for our hearts rather than the raw amount of money, still our money represents our hearts.
Sermon message:
It's Memorial Day weekend.
Memorial Day was originally set up for those who passed away from the civil war. Now we commemorate all those who have passed on, military members and our loved ones.
Strong faith. Hebrews 11 is a memorial chapter to faith.
Isaiah 29:13
While God is looking for our hearts rather than the raw amount of money, still our money represents our hearts.
Sermon message:
It's Memorial Day weekend.
Memorial Day was originally set up for those who passed away from the civil war. Now we commemorate all those who have passed on, military members and our loved ones.
Strong faith. Hebrews 11 is a memorial chapter to faith.
Part 7: Faith responds to God's warnings.
Jesus' earthly father listened to God's warning and moved Mary and Jesus to Egypt to avoid Herod killing all babies in the area.
Sometimes God wants us to miss trouble. Or to get out of the trouble we are currently in.
God gives us free will. We could choose to believe God or not to.
The greatest warning is that there is a real hell. The only way out is to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But it is up to us to listen and believe God's warning.
Hebrews 11 is a very important chapter. It's a hall of faith, a hall of heroes, a memorial of great persons in the Bible who lived by and demonstrated great faith. It lists all the main characters from the book of Genesis.
A man who heeded the warning from God. Because he did this the entire human race was saved. (Animals and birds too.) This man was Noah.
Point 1: faith believes God.
Believing God is part of faith. A very important part of faith.
Noah believed but believed what he couldn't see.
Hebrews 11:7.
Noah didn't see God or what He was talking about. But he believed God.
2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV ; NLT
2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV
You don't dwell on only the things you see. You focus on what God says and sees and promises.
The word of God is eternal. Your circumstances are temporal. And the eternal doesn't change. Therefore the temporal must change. If we continue to stand in faith the circumstances will change eventually.
Hebrews 11:5. Noah was divinely warned re things not seen.
Genesis 7:4 God says what He is planning to do.
It's possible Noah didn't even know what rain was, when God said he was going to make it rain.
Genesis 2:5 NKJV
Genesis 6:17 NKJV
Genesis 7:11 NKJV
Point #2: faith responds to God (action!)
Hebrews 11:7 NKJV
Noah moved with godly fear and did what God said to do.
What's most important is if God says a person has faith.
Saying we believe by itself is not enough. Acting on our belief matters critically.
Genesis 6:13. NKJV
Genesis 6:15. NKJV
The ark was really long. It was 1 1/2 football fields long and 1/2 football field wide. No one undertakes that huge of a project without really believing God.
Genesis 6:22. NKJV
Hebrews 11:7 NKJV. Noah moving with godly fear means he has reverence for God and what He says.
God wants us to give Him respect because He is Almighty God, even though we have a personal relationship with Him.
What does the Bible have to say about fear:
Proverbs 1:7 NKJV
Psalm 111:10 NKJV
Proverbs 16:6 NKJV
If you reverence God you will also avoid trouble.
Proverbs 10:27 NKJV
Proverbs 14:26 NKJV
Love God but also respect Him.
He's a loving God but also a powerful God.
Psalm 85:9 NKJV
Proverbs 22:4 NKJV, NIV
Point #3: faith warns others
Tell people there is a hell but also tell them there is a good God who sent them Jesus who died for their sins, so that there is a way to avoid hell, which is to receive Jesus as Lord and as Savior.
2 Peter 2:5 NKJV
Our job is not to make them follow Jesus. Our job is to tell them though.
Matthew 24:37-39 NKJV
Even Jesus referenced Noah's story.
Point #4: faith receives.
After we believe, respond, and warn others, (in short we obey,) then we receive God's reward.
Hebrews 11:6 NKJV
1 Peter 3:20 NKJV
Jesus' earthly father listened to God's warning and moved Mary and Jesus to Egypt to avoid Herod killing all babies in the area.
Sometimes God wants us to miss trouble. Or to get out of the trouble we are currently in.
God gives us free will. We could choose to believe God or not to.
The greatest warning is that there is a real hell. The only way out is to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But it is up to us to listen and believe God's warning.
Hebrews 11 is a very important chapter. It's a hall of faith, a hall of heroes, a memorial of great persons in the Bible who lived by and demonstrated great faith. It lists all the main characters from the book of Genesis.
A man who heeded the warning from God. Because he did this the entire human race was saved. (Animals and birds too.) This man was Noah.
Point 1: faith believes God.
Believing God is part of faith. A very important part of faith.
Noah believed but believed what he couldn't see.
Hebrews 11:7.
Noah didn't see God or what He was talking about. But he believed God.
2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV ; NLT
2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV
You don't dwell on only the things you see. You focus on what God says and sees and promises.
The word of God is eternal. Your circumstances are temporal. And the eternal doesn't change. Therefore the temporal must change. If we continue to stand in faith the circumstances will change eventually.
Hebrews 11:5. Noah was divinely warned re things not seen.
Genesis 7:4 God says what He is planning to do.
It's possible Noah didn't even know what rain was, when God said he was going to make it rain.
Genesis 2:5 NKJV
Genesis 6:17 NKJV
Genesis 7:11 NKJV
Point #2: faith responds to God (action!)
Hebrews 11:7 NKJV
Noah moved with godly fear and did what God said to do.
What's most important is if God says a person has faith.
Saying we believe by itself is not enough. Acting on our belief matters critically.
Genesis 6:13. NKJV
Genesis 6:15. NKJV
The ark was really long. It was 1 1/2 football fields long and 1/2 football field wide. No one undertakes that huge of a project without really believing God.
Genesis 6:22. NKJV
Hebrews 11:7 NKJV. Noah moving with godly fear means he has reverence for God and what He says.
God wants us to give Him respect because He is Almighty God, even though we have a personal relationship with Him.
What does the Bible have to say about fear:
Proverbs 1:7 NKJV
Psalm 111:10 NKJV
Proverbs 16:6 NKJV
If you reverence God you will also avoid trouble.
Proverbs 10:27 NKJV
Proverbs 14:26 NKJV
Love God but also respect Him.
He's a loving God but also a powerful God.
Psalm 85:9 NKJV
Proverbs 22:4 NKJV, NIV
Point #3: faith warns others
Tell people there is a hell but also tell them there is a good God who sent them Jesus who died for their sins, so that there is a way to avoid hell, which is to receive Jesus as Lord and as Savior.
2 Peter 2:5 NKJV
Our job is not to make them follow Jesus. Our job is to tell them though.
Matthew 24:37-39 NKJV
Even Jesus referenced Noah's story.
Point #4: faith receives.
After we believe, respond, and warn others, (in short we obey,) then we receive God's reward.
Hebrews 11:6 NKJV
1 Peter 3:20 NKJV
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