062815AM Sermon Notes

CHRISTIANS IN A HOSTILE SOCIETY

1 PETER 3:8-12

Questions for Consideration:

What response should characterize the Christian community in a Hostile Society?

How are Christians to conduct themselves in a hostile society?

Christian relations to one another V 8

•   Harmonious living

•   Sympathetic

•   Brotherly love

•   Kindhearted

•   Humble

Christian behavior in a hostile society V 9, 10, 11

•   Improper responses:

–   Evil for evil

–   Insult for insult

•   Proper responses:

–   Give a blessing

–   Love Life

–   Keep your tongue from evil speech

–   Turn away from evil and do good

–   Seek Peace

–   Pursue Righteousness

The Foundational  Promise for the Christians in a Hostile Society   
Verse 3:12

•   The righteous are being observed

•   The evil doers are being observed

Here is the truth:  For us to be right we have to repent!

062115 AM Sermon Notes

Father’s Who Influence

Philippians 3:10-11

Statement of Truth:

There is a vast difference between “knowing about Him” and “knowing Him.”   Paul wanted his knowing Him to affect his daily living.

4 words describe Paul’s desire to know Jesus Christ:

            ·      Personally

We are to know God.  This word speaks of entering the deepest possible union with Christ.  Here is a question: 
Does your knowledge of God transform your conduct?

            ·      Powerfully

Resurrection power is the only power that can defeat the second greatest power in the world, namely the power of sin.

           ·      Passionately

To know God passionately means I learn to participate in the fellowship of Christ.    What I know produces action steps in my life.

          ·      Practically

Paul wished to be so much like Christ in the way he lived that people would think of him as a resurrected person now, even before the physical death.

Question to Consider:

Has anyone been compelled to glorify GOD because of you?

Other passages referenced today:  Matthew 1:25; Ephesians 2:5; 
1 Peter 4:12-13; 2 Timothy 3:12; Hebrews 4:12; Genesis 22:14; Acts 9:16; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10;  and 1 Peter 2:12.

061415AM Sermon Notes

STRUGGLES, SYMPATHIZER, AND STRENGTH

Matthew 26:36-39, 41 & Hebrews 2:18

I. JESUS UNDERSTANDS OUR STRUGGLES

Statements of Truth:

·       Temptation illustrates our struggle to remain true to God and His will, or to take pleasure in doing life our way

·       It is not the church that contains the answers  but it is the Christ of the church who contains the answers

II. JESUS SYMPATHIZES WITH OUR WEAKNESS

Life Lesson: Our mature and growing love for Jesus leads us away from temptation and into wise choices.

III. JESUS STRENGTHENS OUR RESOLVE WITH HIS PROMISES

Statement of Truth:

When I am not what I ought to be he remains what he is

The Pattern of Spiritual Tragedy:

           1.      Self-Confidence

           2.     Sleep

           3.     Temptation

          4.     Sin

          5.     Disaster

  

     The way to Victory:

          1.      Confidence in God

          2.     Moral and Spiritual vigilance

          3.     Resisting temptation

          4.     Holding to obedience

061015WED Sermon Notes

Common Questions About Heaven   {Part A}

Revelation 22:3-7

Question 1:  Will we know each other in heaven?

Question 2:  Will I still be married in heaven?

Question 3.  What is the role of angels in heaven?

Question 4:  Are we going to have pets in heaven? 

Question 5:  What will we do in heaven?