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INTRODUTION
Whose eyes are you looking at people threw?
When we look at people do we see them the way the Lord
Sees them?
O r do we think we already have it figured out?
1 COR 6:9-11
“ Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
Main-point 1. There’s know difference in sin.
A. Sin is sin to God (drunkard or the greedy)
1 Cor 6:11
“And that is what some of you were. But you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God”.
B. ( We like to categorize sin) ex-husband, porn
John 8:34
“Jesus replied,” I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin’.
He didn’t say everyone who’s a drunkard is a slave to sin He said everyone who sins is a slave to sin. So sin is sin.
We tend to categorize sin because that sin hurt us. Or offends us all sin offends God but he still loves us.
C. We need to realize we have all sinned.
Romans 3:22-23
“There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
Acts 10:34
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of the truth I perceive
That God is no respecter of persons,
We let peoples sin keep us from ministering to them we can’t do that they need the Lord as much as we do.
Main-point 2. Learning to build bridges.
A. By finding common ground.
We need to meet people ware there at. That’s why in class we studded different demotions and cults.
1 Cor 9:22
“To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”
B. Loving them
That’s a commandment.
Mark 12:31
“The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these”.
That’s the most thing that people need because there is such a lack of it. Is to be loved and know they madder that will knock down so many walls. To know they are here for a reason not by chance.
C. Sharing Christ with them.
We can do this by being example. Not just talking the talk but walking the walk. Lost people are looking for real people who are who they say they are.
1 John 3:16-18
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and truth”.
Main-point 3. Where here for 3 reasons
A. To get saved
1 Tim 2:4
“Who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth.”
B. Prepare are self’s
By reading the word getting to know God learning his ways.
Romans 12:12
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will”.
C. Make disciples (getting people saved)
Matt 28:19-20
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”.
We are only hear for a short time we need to spend less time trying to figure ever one out why there this way or this is so wrong that I can’t even acknowledge them and realize that God loves them just as much as he loves us the only difference is they don’t have him. And all these other things will not change untill they have Christ.
It’s our job to love them like Christ loves us even when we were sinning and give them the word even if we don’t think it will madder. God knows there heart and we need to be obedient to the Lord.
How many of you worry?
Did you know that it is a sin to worry and that worry will hinder your Faith?
Matt 6:25
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?”
When I was sick with the mental illness alls I did was worry. My body continued to fall apart. But when I realized that I had A God who wanted me to be healed who wanted me to be whole and I started reading the scriptures. I started speaking over my body, health and healing and it didn’t happen over night it was a processes. But as I spoke the scriptures over my self I began to quite worrying and started believing.
If we are in worry we are not in faith, and the only way to be saved is threw faith.
To believe that Christ died for are sins, ask for forgiveness, repent that means turn way.
And you shall be saved.
Isn’t amazing that we have the Faith to believe God for eternal life. But not trust him with are concerns that he will take care of us today right now. Well struggle in this area with worry at one point or another.
Matt 6:26
“Look at the birds of the air’ they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
We are made in Christ image of course where more valuable then the birds. But we don’t act like it some times you don’t see the birds flying around having heart attacks laying all over the place because there worried of ware there foods coming from the Lord takes care of them.
Matt 6:27
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
I think this is so true. We know that worry won’t add to are life. But it sure can cause health problems and take away the
quality of are lives.
We need to start practicing giving things over to God he is willing to take them.
MATT 11:28-30
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Love of God
John 3:16
”God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son. Anyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life.
Christ died for us if that is not love I don’t know what is I know I wouldn’t want to be crucified for someone else I would be scared to death. But he did it any way so we could one day be with him if we chose to follow him.
He died for the saved and the unsaved, the people who wanted him and the people who didn’t.
God loves us so much he wants to be in a relasionship with us, He wants to meet us where we are, we don’t have to clean up first or quit that sin first he wants us to come to him as we are and he will begin a work in us.
Romans 5:8
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this, While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. “
There are so many things Christ wants to give us so many blessings but he needs workable vassals, people who love him and want to do his work buy excepting him and all of his blessings. Then turning around and loving someone else the way Christ loves us. Showing him or her who God is.
When we receive Christ we also receive the Holy Spirit who lives in us our helper, He will help us in so many ways and guide us to make right decisions.
John 14:26
“But the counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you”
That’s just one of the two ways he shows his love for us He died so we could have life, and gave us a helper to live inside of us to talk to, ask for help to make right decisions.
He also gives us spiritual gifts to help the kingdom to bring others to Christ and help the ones in our church and family.
1 Corinthians 12:4-5
“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.”
1 Cor 12:27-28
“You are the body of Christ. Each one of you is a part of it. First, God has appointed apostles in the church. Second, he has appointed prophets. Third, he has appointed teachers. Then he has appointed people who do miracles and those who have gifts of healing. He also appointed those able to help others, those able to direct things, and those who can speak in different kinds of languages they had not know before.’
God loves us, he wants to be able to fellowship with us, we are precious to him he made us and formed us.
God loves us so much he spent the time to make each and everyone of us different and, unique with different gifts and personalities.
Now we in turn need to do the best we can to love one another the way Christ’s loves us.
What does it mean to trust in the Lord? It means to have full confidence in Christ and to rest in him.
Psalm 91:2 Says “ I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
It so easy to forget to trust in God when we get so caught up in are ever day to day situations. We forget to hand are situations over to him on a daily basis. When we must realize God is not asking us to give it to him. It’s commanded, so we are actually sinning when we take on are own problems and we don’t give it to the Lord.
In proverbs 3:5-6 “says Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
How to trust in the Lord? First make sure you have a relationship with him. Second pray and communicate with him so you know his voice. Third believe what his word says.
In Mathew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I’ am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
What is the result of trusting in the Lord?
Philippians 4:7 “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
So now we know it’s commanded to trust the Lord and we trust in him by having a relationship with him, by spending time in prayer, getting to know his voice. And reading the word and believing what it says. The result of that is having peace that surpasses all understanding.
