Message: Who You Are In Christ
Rev Jim Schremp
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Finding God's direction for your life
Message: Finding God's direction for your life
Isaiah 55:8-9
Colossians 1:15-17
1. God is always providing direction, it's up to us to look for, listen
to, and follow it.
Proverbs 3:5-6
2. There will be distractions, roadblocks and detours.
James 1:2-4
3. He is always leading us toward the same place
1 Thessalonians 5: 12-18
“As God is exalted to his rightful place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.” AW Tozer
Patient Leadership
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 11:20-27
Patient Leadership
Judgment according to opportunity
A.W. Tozer, "Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done but by how much I could have done."
C.S. Lewis, "For in it (judgment, Mt 25) the goats are condemned entirely for their sins of omission; as if to make us fairly sure that the heaviest charge against each of us turns not upon things he has done but on those he never did…"
James 4:17
2 Timothy 2:24-26
Don't fear...trust.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:21-31
Don’t fear…trust
“Fear Him, you saints, and you will then have nothing else to fear.”
“Whatever I…tell…you…”
The Work: Don't Worry 2
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:9-20
The Work:
Don’t worry
Vs 9-10
Don’t worry about money
Vs 11-16
Don’t worry, there will be people to help you, and people who will not heed you.
R.T. France, “They were to look for someone able and willing to accommodate them, and this would normally be someone open to their message, though not necessarily already committed to their cause.”
Vs 17-20
Don’t worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
The Work: Don't Worry
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:9-20
The Work:
Don’t worry
Vs 9-10
Don’t worry about money
Vs 11-16
Don’t worry, there will be people to help you, and people who will not heed you.
R.T. France, “They were to look for someone able and willing to accommodate them, and this would normally be someone open to their message, though not necessarily already committed to their cause.”
Vs 17-20
Don’t worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
The Work: Giving
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:1-8
The Work:
Giving
One positive: You can only give what you have been given.
First negative: You should only give what you have been given.
“I don’t always know when the Holy Spirit is, but I sure know when He aint.”
Second negative: Jesus turns water into wine, Sauls into Pauls, your negatives into positives.
Slavery into salvation
Joshua 24:4
Love in Action
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:35-10:1
Love in Action
Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.
Look out!
Compassion is more than pity, it is love in action.
Luke 10:33
Jesus saw everyone as sheep…having no shepherd.
We are currently meeting: Sunday school 10:00am; Sanctuary worship 11:00am; The Chosen-life of Jesus series 5:00pm Sunday nights; Ladies Discerning the Voice of God 9:00am Mondays; Small group Bible for all ages Wednesdays 6:30…Invite who is not here!
Give & Take
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:32-34
Give & Take
1 Peter 5:8-9
John 10:9-10
1 Peter 5:6-7
James 4:6-7
Psalm 51:12, “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”
Asking Faith
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:27-31
Action Faith
Asking Faith
Deliverance
Message: Deliverance
Text: Exodus 12:21-27, 13:3-10
I am through complaining about the present because I remember my deliverance in the past.
I am through worrying about the future because I remember my deliverance in the past.
I will not go backward, but keep going forward in faith.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Eternal Life
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:18-26
Eternal Life
Where is heaven?
Luke 7:14
John 11:43-44
Compassion for who?
Luke 7:13
All are alive to Jesus.
John 11:11-14, 25-26
Luke 20:38 (NIV)
You have an eternity with Jesus waiting for you.
You have a short time left here.
1 John 5:12-13
Approaching Jesus
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:18-22
Approaching Jesus
The touch-two ways.
Standing, bowing, kneeling, crawling.
He asks for his daughter. She asks for herself.
He can talk about it. She can’t.
Immediate need. Long term need.
I ask for my daughter’s life back. I ask for my life back.
Incredible faith. More desperation than faith.
“Faith stretched thin is thick enough.”
Pride is an enemy of faith. Need is a great destroyer of pride.
The Old and The New
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:14-17
The Old and The New
G Campbell Morgan, “This is Christ’s defense of the right of His people to be joyful; and that right to be joyful is the fact that He is with them. If that be true, then we have the right to be joyful always.”
As you go forward with Jesus there will always be someone or something pulling you backward and downward.
Psalm 40:1-3
Romans 10:9
Why Them?
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:9-13
Why Them?
The self-righteous, “Why are you eating with sinners?”
Self-righteous people don’t eat with sinners, we’re too good for them.
The sinners may rub off on you.
We’re uncomfortable with those who aren’t our kind.
Jesus, “Why aren’t you eating with sinners?”
I left the glory of heaven to ransom all people, not some people.
You may rub off on the sinners.
The cross was a very uncomfortable place.
So, why aren’t you eating with sinners?
Vs 9
“…he arose…”
Truly Free
Truly Free
First Thing First
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:1-8
First Thing First
What are the priorities in this story?
For the people it is the physical.
For Jesus it is the spiritual.
Isaiah 59:2
Does it seem that God is not responding, and even ignoring, what you believe is your need right now?
Nothing is more important to God than you, and solving the sin issue that separates you from Him.
1 John 1:9
Matthew 9:8
"Go"
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:28-34
“Go.”
Observations:
Demons know Jesus when they see him, before He says a word. Up to this point in Matthew, only devils call Jesus, “Son of God.”
You may have doubts about Jesus? Demons never do.
Demons know something about how much time they have left. Revelation 12:12.
Demons like to inhabit and/or work thru someone. Ephesians 6:12
Paul Levertoff, “All down the ages the world has been refusing Jesus because it prefers its pigs.”
Everyone else avoids these demon possessed men, Jesus sails toward them.
If there’s not some satanic oppression, some spiritual challenge or temptation-you’re not doing something right.
Without a spiritual fight of some kind, your life will be spiritually irrelevant-you will make no eternal difference.
Do demons know you? Acts 19:15
“Go.” Matthew 8:32, 28:19
The New Impossible
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:23-27
The new impossible
Leper, centurion’s servant, Peter’s mother in law, many others-healed. Demons cast out.
The disciples cry out to Jesus for help then are shocked when He does.
Have you reserved an area that you still see as impossible for God?
It matters to Jesus that you believe He can. Why?
Vs 25
Three Followers
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:18-22
Three Followers
The Crowd:
Jesus left the crowd. He is not interested in entertaining or impressing a crowd or being impressed by a crowd.
Serious people step out of the crowd when they see Jesus is serious.
The Scribe:
This is a very accomplished person who is not used to the uncomfortable, the inconvenient and the unknown.
The Disciple:
Legitimate problems to overcome. Actual issues to deal with and real choices to make.