[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.]
Offertory scripture:
I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned —but if I have no love, this does me no good.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Corinthians%2013:1-3&version=GNT
When we give we need to give with the right motives and not selfish motives. We need to be motivated by love and not about “what I can get out of it.”
Sermon message:
Thesis: What to do when a challenge is present in your life
An example:
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Corinthians%203:6-7&version=NKJV
Context: the church members in Corinth were saying “I’m with Paul” or “I’m with Apollos.” Paul was saying that each man had his role but everything comes from God.
For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.
2 Peter 1:12-15 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=2%20Peter%201:12-15&version=NKJV
Tent = his own body. Peter is nearing the end of his life.
Point is: repetition is important. Being reminded of the same important biblical truths helps strengthen our faith. Particularly in tough times.
What do you do when you encounter tough times?
Point #1: It is important to speak faith.
This is a doctrine of confession.
Side note about doctrines: really knowing the doctrine, especially the right doctrine, will help protect you from false doctrines. No craziness will infect your thinking.
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Romans%2010:9&version=NKJV
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:10 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Romans%2010:10&version=NKJV
What we say is important. We got in to the family of God by speaking faith. Same thing with dealing with tough circumstances.
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
2 Corinthians 4:13 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=2%20Corinthians%204:13&version=NKJV
For example: “I am a child of God.” Declare it.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Ephesians 6:10-20 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Ephesians%206:10-20&version=NKJV
Wiles = military strategies
Remember: we are in a very real battle. A spiritual battle for sure. But a very real battle. And it continues the entire time that we are here on earth.
Part of your armor is your mouth, your tongue. What you speak matters. Therefore, when you speak, speak the word of God. Speak the truth of God.
Don’t think it strange that when we have a great time with God, the devil will try to counterattack. Be ready for it. Put on the armor of God. Even Jesus needed to do this. Even Jesus knew the importance of declaring faith:
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ” Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
Matthew 4:1-11 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Matthew%204:1-11&version=NKJV
Point #2: speak to the challenge itself. (Mountain, storm, difficulty, even the devil, whatever it is.)
Jesus gives this counsel to his disciples regarding speaking faith AND having faith when you speak:
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Mark 11:23 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Mark%2011:23&version=NKJV
Now, notice the verse before it:
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
Mark 11:22 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Mark%2011:22&version=NKJV
Speak faith. This is a key foundational truth for everything, but especially for when problems come.
The question is: Are you speaking to the mountain?
Talk back to the devil. Because he won’t stop talking. To get him to shut up you must speak faith and truth.
Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ” But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately. And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
Luke 8:43-48 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Luke%208:43-48&version=NKJV
This woman spoke faith and acted in faith.
Other ways the devil can attack us: attacking the truth that we are forgiven of our sins.
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
John 8:3-11 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=John%208:3-11&version=NKJV
When Paul was interrupted on the way to Damascus Jesus visited him. Jesus’ point is: if you’re persecuting My church, you’re persecuting Me. Paul repents, gets saved. Preaches that he used to be the chief of sinners but is forgiven and is an apostle of Jesus Christ.
Declare: “I may have made some dumb mistakes. But God has forgiven me.”
And: “because I’ve been forgiven, I forgive you.”
The point is: speak faith over all circumstances, over all challenges, over all types of accusations that the devil may try to say to you. Stand up to him. Talk back.
Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”
1 Samuel 17:37 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Samuel%2017:37&version=NKJV
David declared faith even before meeting Goliath.
So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. So the Philistine said to David, “ Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
1 Samuel 17:41-47 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Samuel%2017:41-47&version=NKJV
When Goliath taunted him, David “clapped back”. David didn’t stay silent. He talked back to Goliath and stood up to him.
Above all he stood trusting God. He didn’t stand for Goliath mocking God either.
Don’t talk about the circumstance and give it life. Talk to the circumstance and kill it.
Angels are here to minister to us and for us.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews 1:14 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Hebrews%201:14&version=NKJV
Are not all the angels ministering spirits sent out [by God] to serve (accompany, protect) those who will inherit salvation? [Of course they are!]
Hebrews 1:14 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Hebrews%201:14&version=AMP
Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.
Psalm 103:20 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Psalm%20103:20&version=NKJV
Bless the Lord, you His angels, You mighty ones who do His commandments, Obeying the voice of His word!
Psalm 103:20 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Psalm%20103:20&version=AMP
The angels need us to speak faith for them to do their part.
I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned —but if I have no love, this does me no good.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Corinthians%2013:1-3&version=GNT
When we give we need to give with the right motives and not selfish motives. We need to be motivated by love and not about “what I can get out of it.”
Sermon message:
Thesis: What to do when a challenge is present in your life
An example:
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:6-7 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Corinthians%203:6-7&version=NKJV
Context: the church members in Corinth were saying “I’m with Paul” or “I’m with Apollos.” Paul was saying that each man had his role but everything comes from God.
For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.
2 Peter 1:12-15 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=2%20Peter%201:12-15&version=NKJV
Tent = his own body. Peter is nearing the end of his life.
Point is: repetition is important. Being reminded of the same important biblical truths helps strengthen our faith. Particularly in tough times.
What do you do when you encounter tough times?
Point #1: It is important to speak faith.
This is a doctrine of confession.
Side note about doctrines: really knowing the doctrine, especially the right doctrine, will help protect you from false doctrines. No craziness will infect your thinking.
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Romans%2010:9&version=NKJV
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:10 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Romans%2010:10&version=NKJV
What we say is important. We got in to the family of God by speaking faith. Same thing with dealing with tough circumstances.
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,
2 Corinthians 4:13 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=2%20Corinthians%204:13&version=NKJV
For example: “I am a child of God.” Declare it.
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Ephesians 6:10-20 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Ephesians%206:10-20&version=NKJV
Wiles = military strategies
Remember: we are in a very real battle. A spiritual battle for sure. But a very real battle. And it continues the entire time that we are here on earth.
Part of your armor is your mouth, your tongue. What you speak matters. Therefore, when you speak, speak the word of God. Speak the truth of God.
Don’t think it strange that when we have a great time with God, the devil will try to counterattack. Be ready for it. Put on the armor of God. Even Jesus needed to do this. Even Jesus knew the importance of declaring faith:
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ” Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
Matthew 4:1-11 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Matthew%204:1-11&version=NKJV
Point #2: speak to the challenge itself. (Mountain, storm, difficulty, even the devil, whatever it is.)
Jesus gives this counsel to his disciples regarding speaking faith AND having faith when you speak:
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Mark 11:23 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Mark%2011:23&version=NKJV
Now, notice the verse before it:
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.
Mark 11:22 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Mark%2011:22&version=NKJV
Speak faith. This is a key foundational truth for everything, but especially for when problems come.
The question is: Are you speaking to the mountain?
Talk back to the devil. Because he won’t stop talking. To get him to shut up you must speak faith and truth.
Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, “Who touched Me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes throng and press You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ” But Jesus said, “Somebody touched Me, for I perceived power going out from Me.” Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately. And He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
Luke 8:43-48 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Luke%208:43-48&version=NKJV
This woman spoke faith and acted in faith.
Other ways the devil can attack us: attacking the truth that we are forgiven of our sins.
Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
John 8:3-11 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=John%208:3-11&version=NKJV
When Paul was interrupted on the way to Damascus Jesus visited him. Jesus’ point is: if you’re persecuting My church, you’re persecuting Me. Paul repents, gets saved. Preaches that he used to be the chief of sinners but is forgiven and is an apostle of Jesus Christ.
Declare: “I may have made some dumb mistakes. But God has forgiven me.”
And: “because I’ve been forgiven, I forgive you.”
The point is: speak faith over all circumstances, over all challenges, over all types of accusations that the devil may try to say to you. Stand up to him. Talk back.
Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”
1 Samuel 17:37 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Samuel%2017:37&version=NKJV
David declared faith even before meeting Goliath.
So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. So the Philistine said to David, “ Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!” Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”
1 Samuel 17:41-47 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Samuel%2017:41-47&version=NKJV
When Goliath taunted him, David “clapped back”. David didn’t stay silent. He talked back to Goliath and stood up to him.
Above all he stood trusting God. He didn’t stand for Goliath mocking God either.
Don’t talk about the circumstance and give it life. Talk to the circumstance and kill it.
Angels are here to minister to us and for us.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?
Hebrews 1:14 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Hebrews%201:14&version=NKJV
Are not all the angels ministering spirits sent out [by God] to serve (accompany, protect) those who will inherit salvation? [Of course they are!]
Hebrews 1:14 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Hebrews%201:14&version=AMP
Bless the Lord, you His angels, Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word.
Psalm 103:20 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Psalm%20103:20&version=NKJV
Bless the Lord, you His angels, You mighty ones who do His commandments, Obeying the voice of His word!
Psalm 103:20 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Psalm%20103:20&version=AMP
The angels need us to speak faith for them to do their part.
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