← ArchiveSunday, July 23, 2017DateJuly 23, 2017Speaker—TextMatthew 17Passages in this sermonExodus 401:23Matthew 1714:54John 1519:16Exodus 132:07Exodus 1:832:15John 1434:37TranscriptMachine transcribed. Click any line to jump there.0:00Moses Moses Your fathers called me God And I am you I have made you an orphan of grace I have sustained you in the house of the king Now see your purpose For I have heard the cries of my people0:28I have seen the weight of their oppression And I have come down to deliver them And I will stretch out my hand against Egypt And guide my people to a land I have prepared I will make you my mouthpiece I will make you a shadow of one greater to come I will lead you as I have led you0:55Now go And you will see what I will do to Pharaoh Now go and you will see This is our final week in the book of Exodus If you have your Bibles with you And I hope that you do If you left your Bible at home Most of you have your phones So you can get them out And join me in Exodus chapter 401:23The final chapter in the book of Exodus We have been journeying together as a church Through a series that we've entitled Calling Us Out to Draw Us In So the story of the Bible are not stories It is God working in history And for those that have put their faith in Jesus Christ The story of the Bible is your story And we've seen that God does not call His people out And leave them for nothing1:51God always draws us and delivers us Into His presence So we're going to lean into that again today With a sermon entitled Living in the Presence of the Most High That pew is falling apart I actually ripped it off a couple weeks ago So it's not Someone's not under conviction The pastor ripped it off2:19Ms. Jessie I had the same face as you did When I did that the other day So you're not alone C.S. Lewis In the final book Of the Chronicles of Narnia The Last Battle And the last page of the series Said this Now at last They were beginning chapter 1 Of the great story2:49Which no one on earth has read Which goes on forever In which every chapter is better Than the one before As we come to the book of Exodus This is how I feel That this is not the end But this is the beginning For those who know Christ And know the presence of God So we begin this morning With this simple question And it's very profound And it's going to bring conviction So if you're uncomfortable That's okay I'm not sorry The question is this3:18If you had your choice And you had to make a choice Would you rather The blessings of God Without his presence Or would you rather The presence of God Without his blessings Would you rather The blessings of God Without his presence Or would you rather The presence of God Without his blessings And you say And you say Well of course This is church I'm going to answer I want the presence of God3:46But think about the way We pray Often we pray Seeking God's blessings And ignoring his presence And we come to the book of Exodus At the end And we see God's people Not yet In the promised land But they are promised The presence of God And this is the same promise That he gives you and I For those who believe He promises us4:16His presence And so I ask How important is the presence Of Christ in your life And what are some of the Practical implications Of Jesus and God Dwelling with his people That's what we're going To unpack today So if you will Open your Bible To Exodus 40 And I will begin reading In verse 33 This is not Simply A book This is God's Holy Word4:45Holy Word It reveals The character of God And here's Here's what's something That is unbelievable to me As someone who's devoted My life to studying God's Word This is not Simply God's Word It is But this is God's Word To us So as we read it Read it as someone That God is speaking Through to you This morning Verse 33 Now Moses Set up The surrounding courtyard Of the tabernacle And the altar5:14And hung a screen For the gate Of the courtyard And circle this Highlight it in your mind Moses Finished The work Don't you long For the day That you can say that God I have finished Everything you have set Before me Now this next verse Is a bummer Look at verse 34 The cloud Covered the tent Of meeting What was the name Of the tabernacle5:44It was the tent Of meeting And the glory Of the Lord Filled the tabernacle And Moses Was unable To enter The tent Of meeting Because the cloud Rested on it And the glory Of the Lord Filled the tabernacle And the Israelites Set out whenever The cloud Was taken up From the tabernacle Throughout all The stages Of their journey If the cloud Was not taken up They did not set out Until the day6:13It was taken up For the cloud Of the Lord Was over the tabernacle By day And there was a fire Inside the cloud By night Visible To the entire House of Israel Throughout all The stages Of their journey This is the word Of God Let's pray Father Open our minds To behold Your glory Lord we confess That without you Illuminating our minds We cannot know you6:42Lord open our hearts To understand deeply Your truths Father and open our hands That we would not Simply hear your words But we would live them out And we pray this In the precious blood Of Jesus Christ Amen And amen How do we live out In the presence Of the most high The first point Is simply this7:12And it's in verse 33 The Lord calls us To faithfulness The Lord calls you To faithfulness Look at verse 33 Moses set up The surrounding courtyard Of the tabernacle And the altar And hung a screen With a gate Of the courtyard So Moses Finished the work See God calls us And delivers us From our difficulties From our Egypt If you will7:42To make us faithful And we see over And over again Moses finishing the work That God has called him To do The Lord The Lord does not call us Merely to be people Of faith But to be people Of faithfulness I'm gonna unpack that later You might think Well God's called us Surely he's called us To have faith He has But God has not only Called us To be people Of faith He's called you To faithfulness We see that Over and over again8:11The Lord Did not send Jesus Christ As our substitute And as the covering Of our sin To leave us There in our sin And he does not Leave us In the wilderness And he does not Leave you In your pre-Christ Difficulty Aren't you thankful For that That God doesn't Leave us In our wilderness He promises us His presence And in that He empowers us To now be faithful8:41So we see Over and over again Moses doing What the Lord Has commanded So look at Verse 16 with me Same chapter Verse 40 Moses did What? I'm reading From the Christian Standard version Mine says That Moses Did All Or everything Just as the Lord Had commanded him So I know That we are Simple people Saved by Sovereign grace9:10Sovereign grace So when the Lord Says that Moses Did all We should understand That to mean Everything Right? So is there anything That Moses did not do That God had commanded him For the tabernacle? No Okay Verse 21 Moses brought the ark Of the tabernacle He put up the curtain For the screen Sound familiar? He screened off The ark Of the testimony Just as the Lord Had Commanded I've heard that before9:39Right? God commands Moses to do something And Moses does all Now Moses is doing Everything the Lord Had commanded Verse 23 He arranged the bread On the table Before the Lord How? Just as the Lord Had commanded him Seeing a pattern here Verse 25 Moses set up the lamps Before the Lord Just as the Lord Had commanded him10:07See I get it by now Verse 32 They washed Whenever they came To the tent Of meeting And approached the altar Just as the Lord Had commanded Moses And then in verse 33 At the end Moses finished All the work Over and over And over again We see God Screaming at his people Through his word I have called you Through faith To be faithful See in our lives10:37Faithfulness Always follows Faith And so if I stand Before you And say I have faith I have faith As a mustard seed Man those mountains Are going to jump In the ocean And yet I'm not faithful God's word would say I am not truthful Because I do not have faith Fred Luter A previous President of the Southern Baptist Convention A powerful Pastor11:07Pastor Godly Man Dodd You'll appreciate this Preached at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church In New Orleans A very strong Church Known for their light He recalls this story He said At the age of 21 I was radically saved Lying in Charity Hospital Dodd Ever been to Charity Hospital It's pretty rough Isn't it They're known In New Orleans If you have If you have A gunshot wound If you have a trauma That's where you go In the south11:36Because they know Trauma So Fred Luter Is lying there Not knowing If he will live Or die tomorrow The doctors Have given him 24 hours And he says An old deacon That he grew up With came And visited him In his hospital room And this is what The deacon said I want you to Listen to these Powerful words The deacon Put his finger An inch From my face He said And he said Without apology He said Boy Obedience12:05Obedience Is better Than sacrifice And he said If you would have Obeyed your mother You would not be Sacrificing your life Right now And Fred Luter Said the next day He surrendered And committed His life To Jesus Christ Because in our life God desires Obedience More than sacrifice Well how can we say that Because this is what we see Jesus is the sacrifice12:33And since Jesus Sacrificed for me Now I can live And I'm empowered To live In faithfulness And this is how we pray I just believe We have sometimes A hero complex In America But we We desire To be heroes For God Like we And I'm thankful That we can commission People to Dominican But they Each and every one Of them would stand up Before you this morning And say look We are not heroes13:02Because we're going To another country We are just being faithful We're being faithful And some of us Sometimes we pray In the mornings Right God If you call me To the Himalayas Lord if there is One person on Mount Everest I will climb That summit Right I'll carry The Sherpa On my back And I will reach People for Jesus For you And yet When we go to work13:31God says Why don't See that water cooler Right there Why don't you Climb that water cooler And why don't you Obey me And share The grace That I have Given you We struggle Don't we With ordinary Faithfulness And yet That's what God Has called us to God has called us Over and over Moses Do as I have commanded Josh Do as I commanded I know it's not Glorious I know no one14:00Sees you on Sunday Afternoon Loving your family Being patient With your kids When they're little Monsters But God sees it And he's called us To be faithful No one sees you Helping the little Old lady change Your tire But God sees it No one sees you Spending time In the morning Praying for those That are far off From God But God sees it And he's called us To be faithful14:30And sometimes And most often That is more powerful And more valued In the kingdom of God Than you going And climbing Mount Everest God has empowered us To be faithful Daily To be faithful daily You say well Why is this important Jesus reminds us Of a simple application I want you to listen To the words Of Matthew 17 This is the passage Where Jesus says If you had faith14:58The size of a mustard seed You can move mountains And we cling to that Don't we God just give me I just want a little faith Because you know Mustard seeds Are very small We plant them I love mustard greens And turnip greens We grew up planting that At our house And if you're planting Some this winter I would love To partake In the fruit Of your labors But listen to the words Of Jesus Christ Because we forget this15:28Matthew 17 When they reached The crowd A man approached Jesus And he knelt down Before him By the way The proper response Always to God Is kneeling God is I have sinned Lord he said Have mercy on my son Because he has seizures And he suffers severely He often falls Into the fire And often into the water And this is what The man says Talk about conviction Verse 1615:57Verse 16 He says I brought him To your disciples And they could not heal him Can you imagine If you were a disciple In that moment And this is what Jesus said Verse 17 In Matthew 17 You unbelieving And rebellious generation How long will I be with you How long must I put up with you Bring him here to me Now if that's the way16:26If I'm the dad I'm thinking This is not good Jesus rebuked the demon And it came out of him And from that moment The boy was healed Praise God For the power of Jesus Christ Verse 19 The disciples approached Jesus Privately They were wise And they said Why could we not drive The demon out And Jesus said Because of your little faith16:55He told them For I assure you If you have the size Of a mustard seed You will tell this mountain Move from here to there And it will move Nothing is impossible for you So we cling to verse 20 Don't we But we forget That Jesus has rebuked The disciples Because they had a little faith They just weren't being faithful You see Jesus says Because of your little faith So if you have a little faith17:24He didn't say no faith They had a little faith And Jesus was reminding them Look just trust me I have empowered you To be faithful Trust me on Sunday morning church You're thinking Man it's pretty easy At 11 o'clock In the morning To trust Christ And Jesus says Monday at 7 a.m Trust me When the alarm clock Wakes you up And your spirit17:53And your spirit Is agitated Trust Christ Be faithful Fathers When you go home From a long day of work And your kids Run up to you And say Daddy, daddy, daddy Don't blow them off Trust Christ When your life When your wife Wants to spend time with you And you're worn out And you just rather rest It is worth it Forsake yourself And trust Christ When you feel like18:22You don't have time To pray Take time And trust him Be faithful This is the power Of Christ In our life And oh That we would be like Moses in verse 33 That we could stand Before God one day And say God I have finished The work I have finished The work Lord It was mundane No one saw me But Lord I have finished18:51And Lord I have finished Because you saw me We are in the presence Of God To be Faithful And Jesus has now Given us a paradigm shift In faithfulness I don't want you to think That we should be legalistic That you go home today And at the end of every night You say Well have I been obedient Or not Jesus flips the script For us Jesus says In John 15 He says I am the vine You are the branches The one who abides in me19:20And I in him Will produce much fruit So now the question For us is not God am I obedient Or not The question is God am I abiding In Jesus Because if I am dwelling In obedience I will produce much fruit So we do not have to Legalistically say God I'm checking the box We can say God through your son Am I abiding In you God has given you His presence To be faithful19:50And you know what Worshipping together Is part of that Faithfulness I'm glad you're here Today But that's not The whole picture God says Do not forsake The gathering Of yourselves together But spur One another On to good works But we're here To encourage One another So before you leave Today As we abide In Christ I want you to grab Someone and encourage Them Pray over them Tell them what God Is doing in your life When you say Well I came to worship It's about me No it's not about me20:20My worship Is about God And my worship Is about you Right I want to encourage you I want to tell The joy That God has put In my heart Today That you And I tomorrow Can go do so much More for Christ Because he has given us The power To abide In him Church The Lord Is calling you To faithfulness Be faithful Finish the work Secondly The Lord20:49The Lord Calls us out To draw us in For this reason Verse 34 The cloud Covered the tent Of meeting And the glory Of the Lord Filled the tabernacle Now you might be Thinking well This is awesome Moses did Everything that God Wanted him to do Now if you go Back and read Exodus The whole rock Striking the rock Thing Was not what God Wanted him to do But at this point For the tabernacle Moses had done Everything that God Had wanted him to do And look what Happens to Moses21:18Verse 35 This is the tent Of meeting Right Moses was unable To enter the tent Of meeting It's as if God Has said Moses Build a tabernacle For me I'm going to meet With you there And Moses Builds a tabernacle And he comes to the door And God says Don't meet me Here's what We're reminded of We're reminded That obedience Does not guarantee You in your life21:48That you have Unmediated access To God Obedience Does not mean That you have Unmediated access What had Moses Forgotten here Nothing Right Verse 33 Moses finished The work Verse 16 Moses did everything Just as the Lord Had commanded Verse 21 The same Verse 23 The same 25 27 29 32 Over and over Again22:18Again And Moses is here At the gate Of God's presence And God says Hold up Why? Because God Reminds us That we can only Go into his presence With an invitation We only go into God's presence With an invitation From the Lord Something's going here In the Hebrew That it's hard to pick up In the English Obviously But the word In verse 33 So Moses22:47So Moses Finished Is a homonym I'm going to say it out loud And we're going to practice Our Hebrew The word is Vayakol Vayakol So Moses Vayakol The work You say Well why does that Even matter In my life One Tomorrow at work You're going to sound Very smart Two It matters Because of verse 35 Look at verse 35 Moses was Unable To enter The tent23:17The tent Of meeting This word is Vayakol Vayo Vayakol So Moses was Unable Vayakol Moses finished The work Vayakol And now he is Unable Vaylo Vayakol It's as if God is connecting The dots For the Hebrew Mind You see I know Moses finished The work But that doesn't Mean That he comes Into my presence Whenever he wants To Church23:46Church That is a reminder For all of us That we can't Go to God And say God I'm here At church Here I am God Lord I want you to know I showed up for you And so now I get What I want We are reminded That our obedience Is not a form Of divine Manipulation I cannot say To God Lord I prayed I read my Bible So now give me What I want Lord your word says24:15If I ask anything In your name I will have it Lord give me A million dollars In Jesus name Boom God you know My enemies God destroy them In Jesus name God you know I've gone to church Over and over God you know I've been faithful Lord why aren't You doing what I want Isn't that What creeps up Into our flesh Sometimes This legalism That says God I've done this So why aren't24:45You doing What you should be Look You're not Moses If anyone Had an invitation For God It should be Moses And I'm reminded In scripture That God Owes Me Nothing So well You're a pastor And you've You've traveled To a foreign land Alabama You've forsaken And all You've gone25:12You've gone To You don't think It's cold here But when you live In the swamp For several years It gets cold In the mountains You've gone To Africa Surely if anyone If God's going To bless anyone Because of what They've done It should be You Or those that Have gone On the mission Field No My obedience Is not a form Of divine manipulation We always Need an invitation To God's presence25:41We always Need An invitation And we are Reminded that God is holy And set Apart Now I know That was not Happy But here is The beauty Of the good news That in Jesus Christ We now Have that Invitation We have That invitation God reminds us That he is holy He has set apart Moses In verse 33 Has set a screen26:11To keep people out In verse 35 Moses was unable To enter the tent Of meeting Because the cloud Rested On it I was reading This story This week The NPR Ran the story Actually And it was In 2010 Columbia Went to this Marketing executive And said We want you To run an ad We want you To invite The rebels The cocaine26:40The cocaine Rebels To give up Their arms And come home And so in 2010 This ad executive Said I'm going to Find these testimonies Of these guerrilla Warriors Not the monkeys Like the ones That hide The guerrilla warfare That That have left Everything And they've come back That they've Assimilated back Into society And so he had Actors Read testimonies Of these guerrilla Warriors And the first27:10Year that they did That ad No cocaine Rebel Responded to that None So they went back To the drawing board And they found That because the Actors read it It had no impact The invitation Was worthless Well the next year 2011 They ran a new Campaign And a different Approach They called it Operation Christmas And in nine Different places In the jungle27:39They strung Hundreds of Christmas lights And this is What they did They found 75 foot tall Trees in the jungle And they had A motion sensor And anytime A rebel Would go by The motion sensor They would hear This phrase If Christmas Can come to the jungle You can come home And that year 331 rebels Laid down their arms And quit fighting And went back28:08To society The next year They called This campaign Operation Rivers of light And they put 7,000 Translucent Balls In the river And in The ball They had Obviously The LED light And they had An invitation And they had Little gifts And notes Of thanks And encouragement And as This human nature When these Hardened Leftist Warriors28:38Warriors Saw these things Floating in the river They picked them up And they opened The invitations And in that year Hundreds If not Thousands Left And dropped Their arms And their weapons And because of The invitation They went back To society In 2012 That next year 2013 They ran another campaign Called Operation Bethlehem And they shone Huge skylights And they lit up The night sky29:07With the following message This Christmas Follow the light That will guide you And your family To freedom You see What they found In Colombia Is that there is Power In an invitation And there is Power In the invitation Around Christmas That Jesus Christ Came into the world To save Sinners Of whom We are The worst And if God's word Today reminds us29:37That we cannot Enter the presence Of God On our own power There's nothing You and I Can do To enter the presence Of God Moses reminds us That Jesus Christ Fills the gap And says But I have Invited you Into my presence Because I died On the cross And that invitation Is for you today To say Lord Oh what a beautiful Invitation it is To know you To be loved By you So I ask you30:05Have you accepted The invitation Of God In your life You say Well of course I have Pastor I'm here at church I'm obeying No Obedience Does not guarantee The presence of God In your life The truth is I cannot obey God Without Jesus Living And dwelling In me The Bible says That my best Is as filthy Rags To God Oh but what a Beautiful invitation30:35Beautiful invitation That Jesus Extends to us If we would Accept it And you say Well I've heard That a million times Pastor I get it I've been a Christian Almost as long As Moses If that is you That hearing The good news Of Jesus Should never Get old When I hear The invitation Of Christ It does something To my heart It brings joy That wells up Within me It's the Holy Spirit Leaping Inside of us God calls us31:04To faithfulness And his presence Invites us in Lastly We see this In God's word Verse 36 The Israelites Set out Whenever the cloud Was taken up From the tabernacle Throughout all stages Of their journeys If the cloud Was not taken up They did not set out Until the day That it was Taken up The word here Set out Departure31:33Departure Is the same word For journey Reminding us That the Lord Leads us By his spirit The Lord leads us So what has changed In Exodus If you have been here For the majority Of our time In Exodus Almost three months Now What has changed The people Are still wondering They're still journeying Like they're not Home yet This is what has changed Look at chapter32:01One of Exodus The very first Chapter Exodus one In verse eight Reminds us this Exodus Exodus one Eight There was a new King Who did not Know About Joseph Who did Not know About Joseph What has changed Well obviously Well obviously God has delivered His people32:31His people But they're still Journeying in the Wilderness And maybe you Feel like that Today Maybe you feel Like God Has radically Delivers you From things That you have Struggled with In your life But you just Feel like you Are in the Deserted Desert Place I would Remind you This morning What has Changed Verse eight There was a King Who did Not know Who did Not know Joseph Which means They did Not know Joseph's God Look at Verse 36 Of chapter Forty Again The first33:01The first Chapter And the Last Chapter The Israelite Set out Whenever the Cloud Was taken From the Tabernacle What has Changed What has Changed Is that God was Now with Them In all Stages Of their Journey The Presence Of God Is a Game Changer In our Lives Youth You are About to Go back Into a War zone We call High school God's33:30God's Presence Is there With you And that Is everything That you Need Adults Some of You go Back to A war Zone You call Work God's Presence Is with You Some of You have Our call God has Burdened You To share The love Of Jesus With your Neighbors If you Are like Me This is Our Prayer God I know You Burped34:00Burped This In my Heart But when You just Open The door God When I Ride past Our home And I See the Front door Open And a Sign that Says Come in Now I will Go in And Lord If you Would sit The angel Gabriel On their Front steps That would Really be Beneficial But maybe God is Saying My Presence Is already With you And my Spirit Has put This In your Soul Go Be Be Faithful Share Share The love Of Christ His34:29His Presence Is a Game Changer Jesus Reminds Us Of these Words John 14 Jesus Says If you Love me You Will Keep My Commands Sound Familiar God Empowers Us To Faithfulness Verse 16 Jesus Says I Will Ask The Father And He Will Give You Another Counselor The Holy Spirit To Be With You Forever How Long Is The Holy Spirit Going To Be With Us Forever34:59Forever So If Someone Says The Holy Spirit Is Going To Leave You You Say Jesus Said This Forever And My Jesus Does Not Lie He Is With Us Forever He Is The Spirit Of Truth The World Is Unable To Receive Him Because It Does Not See Him Or Know Him But You Do Know Him Because He Remains With You And Will Be In You So Not Only Is The Holy Spirit With Us As35:28As Our Guide Forever What's The Promise That He Is With You And He Is In Us And So If You Are Waiting To Be Filled With The Holy Spirit If You Have Put Your Faith In35:47If You Trust In Me I Have Already Sent Him He Is There And He Is With You Forever Because His Presence Is Everything We Need But I Will Remind You This Of God's Presence Matt Chandler Said It Best He Said God Is Not Our Divine Butler We Do Not See Israel Here In Verse 36 It Doesn't Say They Set Up Camp And They Had A Really Nice Tent And They Just Stay There It Doesn't Say They Made A Really Awesome Home They Had A Nice White Picket Fence36:17Fence And They Had A Dog And A Cat That Would Not Be My Utopia36:27And They Had A Car They Like And A Monster Truck And Life Was Good And They Had Season Tickets To The Sporting Event Of Their Choice That's Not What We See What Do We See In Verse 36 The Israelites Set Out So God Was Not Serving Them They Were Serving God And Israel Said God If You Remain Here We're Going To Stay But God As Soon As We36:57We Are People That Say Lord I Know You Want Me To Move But And This Rock Is Really Comfy God This Tent I Know It Doesn't Have AC But Hey It Will Do Lord If We Move I Had To Take The Tent Apart And And Set It Up Again Lord And You Know My Wife Is Gonna Make Me Rearrange The Furniture Right She Gonna Make Put The Rug There And The Other Rug There God You Know How Difficult It Is That's Not What We See Verse 36 Israel Set Out When Whenever The37:27The Cloud Was Taken Up Are You A Person That Dwells With The Spirit Of God Because He Is Dwelling With You And Maybe This Morning God Has Called You To Say Look Move You See My Presence My Presence Has Moved Go With We Holding On To Our Stationary Things Objects When God Has Said Move And If God37:57God Is Saying Stay Why Are We Not Content Oh That We Would Understand That His Spirit Is Dwelling In Us Why Does The Spirit Of God Why Does His Presence Matter Because He Empowers Us To Faithfulness He Invites Us In Think About That Church God Invites Us To Something His Presence That God Would Give Me An Invitation To Anything Blows My Mind He Doesn't Deserve We38:27We Don't Deserve Any Invitation Of God And Yet He Invites Us In And He Invites Us To Dwell Now With His Presence That Is Forever Through His Son Jesus Through The Holy Spirit A Recent Craigslist Ad Said This A Group Of 20 Year Olds Got Together Which Is Never Good And They Posted A Request For A Generic Dad Online This38:56This Is What They Wanted Him To Do They Were Looking For Someone To Barbecue Burgers And Hot Dogs At An Outdoor Party We Would Like Him To Be Dad Like In His Activities As Desirable Including Grilling Hot Dogs And Hamburgers Referring To All Attendees As Big Guy Or Chief Or Sport Or Champ Etc And We Would Prefer That He Talks About Dad Things Like Lawn Mowers Building Your Own Deck39:25Deck Jimmy Buffett Etc So Obviously They Were On The Coast Okay In Additional Requirements He Needed To Be 18 He Needed To Have 18 Years Of Experience As A Father Ten Years Experience Grilling And A Preferred Name Of Bill Randy Or Dave And The Ad Obviously Went Viral Because It's Here Today But Their Hopes Was That They Would Have Bill Murray Respond To The Ad39:55Ad But I Began To Reflect On That And I Thought You Know There Are Times In Our Life Where We Are Just Seeking A Generic God We Say You Know Well It Doesn't Really Matter God Just Kind Do God Like Things Right You Know Lead Me To Church Just Make Me A Better Person I Struggling In My Marriage So Lord If40:23Crinkle Your God Like Dust Grow Hamburgers And Hot Dogs And Be God Like But Lord Don't Call Me To Faithfulness God I Want A Generic God And Our Savior Is Anything But Generic He Is Personal He Is Powerful And He Invites Us In If You Are Here This Morning And You You Feel Like You Have Been Praying To40:53To A Generic God You Just Pray And You Don't Care Where It Lands You Just Want Something To Hear It I Want You To Know That The Only True God Is Father Of Jesus Christ Who Said Jesus I Am The Way The Truth And The Life No Man Comes To The Father Except Through Me And This Personal God A God Who Is Holy That You Cannot Come To On Your Own This God Invites You In Today If You Will Forsake Yourself And Trust In Jesus41:23Jesus You Say Well How Do I Do That Pastor It Begins With A Simple Prayer Of Faith Why Is That Prayer Simple It Is Not Simple Because Jesus Died On The Cross For Jesus Sacrificed All For You But It's Simple Because You Don't Do Anything It's It's By Faith Alone Through Grace Alone Through Christ Alone That We Are Saved But Would You Be Will To Say Lord I Need You And I Will Forsake Myself41:53Myself And Trust In You That's Repentance God I Will Turn From Josh And Turn To Jesus You Say Well I Don't Have The Bible Figured Out Pastor I I Am Not Ready Yet No If You Know That You42:10To Know And The Moment You Say God I Am Yours He Sends His Spirit To Dwell In You And What A Glorious Perfect Counselor We Have And Jesus Invites You In Today Would You Respond And When We Pray Would You Pray That Prayer Faith And We To Invite You As You Put Your Faith In Jesus Where You Sit To Make That Public Later We Open The Altar Maybe You Need To Pray Today And Say God I Just Need To Be Reminded That I Am Called To Faithfulness42:40Faithfulness Lord In The Small Things I Been Focusing On Mount Everest And You Want Me To Focus On This Mole Hill But Lord It Is Equally A Place Of Faith And God Thank You For The Reminder That Your Presence Changes Everything Let's Pray Father Thank you.More sermons on Matthew →
