Sermons from Good News: letting go

Church 1/12/2022

Sermon message:

Thesis: letting go

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:7 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=James%204:7&version=NKJV

Submit: to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).

Resist: to withstand, strive against, or oppose:

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 8:32 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=John%208:32&version=NKJV

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:4 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=2%20Corinthians%201:4&version=NKJV

Submit to God. Resist the devil.

Our desire to resist the devil, by itself, is not enough. We also need to submit to God.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
1 Peter 5:8-9 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=1%20Peter%205:8-9&version=NKJV

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 1:8-11 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Exodus%201:8-11&version=NKJV

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psalm 4:4 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Psalm%204:4&version=KJV

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
James 3:17 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=James%203:17&version=NKJV

Let go of whatever is bothering you; lay it at Jesus’ feet. Spend quiet time with God; and talk to Him about the things on your heart and just be with Him.