April 19, 2015
Types of Confessions
1. Confessing your sins to the Father
A confession is a declaration
Ours
sins obstruct our relationship with God
Isaiah 59:1-2
Mark
11:24-26
When you remove more sins, the more God will
hear your prayers
1 John 1:8-9
A. Sins of
commission
-something
that you catch yourself doing
B. Sins of omission
-things we
could've done, but we didn't
-James 4:17
C. Sins of the heart
-1 Samuel 16:7
-When someone is looking in a certain way, they
can see things differently
-Psalm 139:23-24
Sometimes
people don't feel anything wrong with sinning it is because you have lost your
sensitivity to it
Deuteronomy 8:1-3
April 19, 2015
Isaiah 43:18-23
God is an adventurous God and likes to do new things
Ecclesiastes 11:4-5
Every great work requires sacrifice
Every time a baby is born, God requires great sacrifice
God always has a part and sacrifice for you to make
April 5, 2015
Luke 24:1-12
Why Christians do believed
that Jesus rose from the dead?
1. The fact of the empty tomb
1 Corinthians 15:17
2.
The fact of multiple witnesses
Acts 1:3
1 Corinthians 15:3-6
Acts 3:32
2
Peter 1:16
3.
The fact of the changed lives of those who followed Jesus Christ
John 20:19-20
April 5, 2015
Luke 24:1-12
Why Christians do believed
that Jesus rose from the dead?
1. The fact of the empty tomb
1 Corinthians 15:17
2.
The fact of multiple witnesses
Acts 1:3
1 Corinthians 15:3-6
Acts 3:32
2
Peter 1:16
3.
The fact of the changed lives of those who followed Jesus Christ
John 20:19-20
April 3, 2015
Matthew 16:24
Mark 8:34-38; 10:17-21
Be prepared to deny yourself and
take up your cross to follow Christ
Luke 9:23-26
A major condition to follow
Jesus is to have a cross
The bearing or carrying of a
cross is a symbol; to bear a cross is to walk with the implications of surrendering
The Symbolic meanings of The Cross
1. The cross is a symbol of the price Christians must pay
to be a Christian
to be referred to as a Christian
is a price
when you become a Christian you
run a filter across your life (so that certain things don't make it through)
1 Peter 2:19-21
2. The love of God
1 John 3:16
3. A symbol of obedience
Philippians 2:5-8
What is your obedience costing
you?
Obedience is going to cost you
4. The cross is the symbol of sacrifice
"take up your cross
daily" means to sacrifice daily
Ephesians 5:2
April 3, 2015
Matthew 16:24
Mark 8:34-38; 10:17-21
Be prepared to deny yourself and
take up your cross to follow Christ
Luke 9:23-26
A major condition to follow
Jesus is to have a cross
The bearing or carrying of a
cross is a symbol; to bear a cross is to walk with the implications of surrendering
The Symbolic meanings of The Cross
1. The cross is a symbol of the price Christians must pay
to be a Christian
to be referred to as a Christian
is a price
when you become a Christian you
run a filter across your life (so that certain things don't make it through)
1 Peter 2:19-21
2. The love of God
1 John 3:16
3. A symbol of obedience
Philippians 2:5-8
What is your obedience costing
you?
Obedience is going to cost you
4. The cross is the symbol of sacrifice
"take up your cross
daily" means to sacrifice daily
Ephesians 5:2
April 3, 2015
Matthew 16:24
Mark 8:34-38; 10:17-21
Be prepared to deny yourself and
take up your cross to follow Christ
Luke 9:23-26
A major condition to follow
Jesus is to have a cross
The bearing or carrying of a
cross is a symbol; to bear a cross is to walk with the implications of surrendering
The Symbolic meanings of The Cross
1. The cross is a symbol of the price Christians must pay
to be a Christian
to be referred to as a Christian
is a price
when you become a Christian you
run a filter across your life (so that certain things don't make it through)
1 Peter 2:19-21
2. The love of God
1 John 3:16
3. A symbol of obedience
Philippians 2:5-8
What is your obedience costing
you?
Obedience is going to cost you
4. The cross is the symbol of sacrifice
"take up your cross
daily" means to sacrifice daily
Ephesians 5:2
April 1, 2015
1. We need to serve God with joyfulness and gladness of heart
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
God is the only one who gives us more than we bring to Him.
Psalms 100:2
Serve the Lord with gladness:
come before his presence with singing.
Psalms 100:1
A Psalm of praise.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
Noise is any sound that is out of place. But God asks us to make a joyful noise. God is not looking for perfection, He is looking for the joy that we attach to what we're doing. The attitude with what you're offering what you're offering is more important than you're offering.
Gods ability to hear sound goes beyond what we can understand as humans. God can receive praise from even stones.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
2. Consistency
Daniel 6:16
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
3. Serve God with humility of mind and in tears
Acts 20:19
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
