Church 2/19/2022
Offertory scripture: Honoring God with our giving.
Give to the Lord the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
God doesn’t take lightly the offerings we offer to Him. He takes it seriously. There’s a spiritual meaning to giving.
Sermon message:
Thesis: It’s dark until you speak.
Last week: needed — the fruit of the Spirit.
Brief review: when you receive Jesus Christ as you Lord and Savior, you also receive the Spirit of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 - https://www.biblegateway.com/
Good news: it has already been placed inside of you.
They will know if you’re a disciple of Jesus by your love for others, by your fruit.
We need to be light in a dark world.
We must speak. What we say is very important.
Clarity / disclaimer: we are not God.
But we can learn from God and learn from His word.
Point #1: it was dark until God spoke.
In the beginning t was dark. But God spoke into the darkness, and it changed.
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
Point #2: things may bad/dark/messy until you speak
Truth: we were all sinners, falling short of the glory of God, with a penalty of death. But God calls us to speak.
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.
Point #3: even the world (even the ungodly) acknowledges what you say is important and powerful
Whether it builds someone up or tears them down, words are powerful.
Point #4: God has explained the importance of words for thousands of years.
Consider Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, Paul, among others — the words they spoke were (and are) powerful
A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth; From the produce of his lips he shall be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Proverbs 18:20-21 - https://www.biblegateway.com/
The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will come through trouble. A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, And the recompense of a man’s hands will be rendered to him.
Proverbs 12:13-14 - https://www.biblegateway.com/
God’s talking about your mouth. You’re not God but your words are still important. We can speak and either bring darkness or light.
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.
Point #5: let us speak and watch things change.
Say out loud what is in God’s word.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13 - https://www.biblegateway.com/
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