[Blogger's note: after being crazy busy one month, and then crazy sick for much of another month, by God's grace I am finally back and able to catch up on posting my notes from sermons at my church for the months of June and July. Thank you all for your prayers; I am believing and claiming that I will be completely healed, and even healed beyond whatever Satan or the world calls a "preexisting condition." I completely reject that term in Jesus' name, and choose to receive by faith the complete healing that GOD says He has for me: a new [undisclosed part of the body] in Jesus' name!
In the meantime, I pray that you are blessed by these sermon notes as much as I was blessed by these sermons. I will post sermons twice weekly until we are caught up again, in the same manner that I did from January through May, 2021.]
Church 6/19/2021
Offertory scripture:
It’s not about the money; it’s about our hearts. God wants our hearts in drawing close to God.
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
Jeremiah 17:7 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Jeremiah%2017:7&version=NIV
The payoff:
They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:8 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Jeremiah%2017:8&version=NIV
Sermon message:
Praise and worship this Wednesday—an invitation to come
Thesis: don’t give up on God
In sports coaches say to never give up
Highlight verse:
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
John 10:10 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=John%2010:10&version=NIV
Jesus says this about Satan:
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:44 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=John%208:44&version=NIV
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Galatians%206:9&version=NIV
Things are not always what they seem.
Biblical character focus: Jacob
Jacob becomes renamed Israel.
Jacob falls in love with Rachel and works 7 years. But then Laban gives him Leah. So Jacob asks what else is needed. Laban said to work another 7 years. A total of 14 years. And then more waiting before Rachel bore Joseph. As such Joseph is very precious to Jacob, to the point that he gives him a colorful coat. Jacob has dreams for Joseph. But then Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery and Jacob believes his dreams for Joseph were dead. Because he was told that Joseph was dead. But Jacob didn’t know Joseph was still alive.
Turns out, Joseph became 2nd in command in Egypt. And when his brothers, minus Benjamin, come to Egypt because of the famine, Joseph makes them go back, minus Simeon, to go fetch Benjamin. Then Jacob’s response when the brothers tell him they need Benjamin:
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me! ”
Genesis 42:36 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Genesis%2042:36&version=NIV
The question: why did Jacob say: everything is against me?
Point #1: Jacob was weary.
Fatigue can lead to sin. We can think thoughts that are negative and not of faith.
Jacob was a man of great faith. He had experiences with God and visions of angels:
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Genesis 28:11-15 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Genesis%2028:11-15&version=KJV
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis 32:28 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Genesis%2032:28&version=KJV
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Isaiah%2040:31&version=KJV
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Matthew%2011:28&version=KJV
Point #2: Jacob was worried
Worrying and anxiety will displace faith. Fear will drain you of your faith.
But faith will drain your fear, worry, and anxiety.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis 42:38 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Genesis%2042:38&version=KJV
Do this instead:
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter 5:7 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Peter%205:7&version=KJV
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Romans%2010:17&version=KJV
Point #3: Jacob was wrong. He was wrong because he didn’t know what was true.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Romans%208:28&version=KJV
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Matthew 6:9-13 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Matthew%206:9-13&version=KJV
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