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WHAT DOES YOUR LIFE NAME JESUS?
“The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.  but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”  - I Corinthians 15:56-57.
(1.  In ancient China, the people wanted security from the barbaric, invading hordes to the north.
(2.  To get this protection, they built the Great Wall of China.
1.  It is 30 feet high, 18 feet thick, and more than 1500 	miles long!
1.  Too high to climb over, too thick to break down, and too long to go around.
(4.  But during the first hundred years of the wall’s existence China was successfully invaded three times.
1.  they simply bribed a gatekeeper and then marched right in through an open gate.
(6.  The purpose of the wall failed because of a breakdown in values.
#2  - If we think back to Adam and Eve we will remember that the same thing happened in the Garden of Eden.
(1.  God provided a perfect place for Adam and Eve to live but the serpent tempted Adam and Eve to violate God’s command about eating the fruit of one tree.
(2.  As a result of their succumbing to the temptation, evil entered into and corrupted all of creation.
I.  We seem to have the same kind of problem.  The fact of the matter is that sometimes we fall.  Sometimes we fail.
1.  Sometimes we are not the super Christians that we want to be.
(1.  Actually even if we are saved, even if we are Christians we are just sinners saved by the grace of God.
4.  Why is that good news?  Because with sin there is a way out.  You can repent of sin.
(1.  You can’t repent of confusion or psychological flaws - you’re stuck with them.
(2.  But you can repent of sin.
5.  Sin and repentance are the only grounds for hope and joy - the ground for reconciled, joyful relationships.
II.  I Corinthians 15:57 Living on planet earth in our fleshly bodies we often wonder where is the victory?
1.  There are the attractions of the world, the lusts of the flesh, and the temptations of the devil which assail us.
2.  So, when we fail to live up to our expectations as Christians what do we do?
3.  When we fail to do what we know Jesus would have done what do we do?
(1.  (Explain) Here is a list of questions I asked our young people at youth camp this summer and I asked them what would they do?
Hug a stranger who has AIDS?
Stay at a party where people are drinking?
Drink alcohol while under age?
Copy answers from a friend’s homework?
Keep the money when the cashier gives you too much change?
Speed to make it to school on time?
Spread rumors about someone who hurt you?
Lie for a friend to an authority figure?
Be the first to talk to the new person in school?
Date someone who doesn’t believe in God?
Go to Sunday School regularly?
4.  After asking them what they would do I then asked them what Jesus would do.
(1.  For many of them their answers for the most part were much different the second time.
(2.  Most likely some of ours would be too.   We know what Jesus would do.
III.  So, what do you do when you don’t do what Jesus would do?  Do you bail out?  Do you start living like the devil?  Do you stop going to church?
1.  Do you stop reading the Bible and praying?  Do you stop serving?  Stop witnessing?  What do you do?  Where is the victory?
2.  Isn’t it God’s will for us to be victorious?  Doesn’t Paul say, “we are more than conquerors”?  (Or super conquerors).
3.  So where’s the victory?
(1.  But that is not all!
6.  How is that possible when so many times we stumble and fall and open the door for the enemy to come in?
(1.  It is only possible through Jesus and His glorious resources.
1.  We are all sinners and we all desire to die but Christ, by dying, has taken out this sting of death.
2.  He has made atonement for sin; he has obtained remission of it. It may hiss, it may roar, it may frighten but it cannot hurt.
(1.  but the curse of the law is removed by our Redeemer’s becoming a curse for us.
4.  So that sin is deprived of its strength and sting, through Christ, that is, by His incarnation, suffering, and death.
5.  Death may seize a believer, but cannot sting him, cannot hold him in his power.
(1.  Death through sin may reach out and grab a believer but it cannot hold on.  Why?
(2.  Because the sting of death has been removed through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
1.  And the righteous person, the saved person rises again from the clutches of sin.
7.  So where is the victory?  The victory is in Jesus Christ!
(1.  It is only through His power, His strength that we are able to rise again and escape the clutches of death.
1.  How can we do what James says to do?  We can only submit ourselves to God through Jesus.
2.  We can only resist the devil through the Name and blood of Jesus Christ.
3.  We can only draw near to God through Jesus.
(1.  Our hands, our hearts can only be cleansed and purified through Jesus Christ.
4.  Where is the victory?  The victory is in Jesus Christ!
1.  How do we overcome fear, discouragement, and depression?
2.  We overcome it through Jesus by talking to Him.
(1.  We overcome it by focusing in upon our Lord.
3.  So where is the victory?  The victory is in Jesus!
1.  And we know from John chapter 1 that Jesus Christ is the Word become flesh.
2.  So how do we have faith to overcome?  Where is the victory?
3.  The victory is in Jesus!
1.  How do we set our minds on what the Spirit desires?  How do we live in accordance with the Spirit?
4.  So where is the victory?  The victory is in Jesus!
1.  How do we have the abundant life?
3.  So where is the abundant life found?  Where is the victory?
(1.  The victory is in Jesus!
1.  What do we do when we become ensnared by sin or have a besetting sin such as an addiction?
2.  How can this addiction be overcome?  How can it be laid aside?
5.  So where is the victory?  The victory is in Jesus!
XI.  Since we know we have victory in Jesus, do we just keep on sinning and sin even more knowing the victory is in Jesus?
2.  Paul goes on to say beginning in Romans 6:10, “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.  Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.	Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.  And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
3.  How do we do that?  Paul says reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
4.  It is a decision of the heart.  God does not force us to live as He wants us to.
(1.  He doesn’t force us to pray and not to faint.
(2.  He doesn’t force us to Consider Him so we don’t grow weary and lose heart.
(3.  He doesn’t force us to live in accordance with the Spirit so that we will have life and peace.
(4.  He doesn’t force us to lay aside the sin that so easily ensnares us by looking unto the author and finisher of our faith.
(5.  He doesn’t force us to have the abundant life by following our Good Shepherd.
(6.  He doesn’t force us to read His Word so that we will have faith.
(7.  He doesn’t force us to assemble together like we are this morning so that we will provoked unto love and good works.
5.  So, where’s the victory?  It is a decision of the heart.  The victory is in Jesus if you want to have victory.
(1.  That’s really the question.  Do you want victory?
Do you want to be rid of the besetting sins?
Do you want to stop following the desires of the flesh?
Do you want to stop being discouraged and defeated?
Do you want to experience the abundant life?
Do you really want victory?
(2.  If you want victory you can have it.
6.  What will you say to God this morning?  Will you say Lord, I want victory?
(1.  Or will you say, Lord, I’m just not ready to give up my sins and the pleasures of the world.
7.  God says what?  reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(1.  Make the decision to take advantage of His resources.  He will not force you.
(2.  Where’s the victory?  The victory is in Jesus.
(3.  So, the question is do you want victory?
Victory is alive and well through Jesus Christ.
(4.  It just depends on whether you want it or not.
(5.  Where’s the victory?  The victory is still in Jesus!
season, a time for everything, for every purpose.
His purpose and time in your life and mine at this point in time?
we are at in God’s timing.
we know that much of God’s time has passed.
Creation was corrupted when Adam and Eve sinned.
The flood came when even the thoughts of men were evil.
Abraham became the father of the family of faith.
through which God saved His people.
Moses to bring His people out.
Then came the Promised Land with Judges and then great Kings.
Then they returned to the Holy city of Jerusalem.
Since that time almost 2000 years have passed.
God’s timing for the end of time.
far off future just as did the OT prophets.
being one of the more recent.
risen against nation more so in the 20th century than ever before.
be wars and the threat/rumor of war all across planet earth.
starving to death across the world.
diseases such as ebola, and AIDS.
we have to worry about.  Now we have biological warfare.
cheap alternative to the nuclear bomb.
betray one another, and shall hate one another.
(2.  Now we have the Moslem persecution as well.
experienced right here in the good old USA.
this country we are seeing people betrayed and hating one another .
though they know they should speak up.
offended by prayer and the teaching of morality.
Christ but also of false prophets who are leading people astray.
disappeared and other groups who have committed mass suicide.
when we can know that time is approaching.
of Noah the it is now?
of men now filled with evil just as much as then?
halt.  But that is coming to an end.
3.  Isn’t the time for sitting, and hearing, and getting over?
individual lives isn’t it time instead for going, and doing, and telling?
the true meaning of Christmas to another soul?
to lead someone else into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
someone else about what happened when He saved your soul?
8.  Who would the Lord have you to go to and tell about Jesus?
(1.  Do you have any relatives that are lost?
(2.  Do you have any friends that are lost?
(3.  Do you have any neighbors that are lost?
(4.  Do you work with someone that is lost?
to the end of time than we are to the beginning of time.
years since our Lord’s birth.
2.  Isn’t the time for sitting, and hearing, and getting over?
(1.  Isn’t it time for going, and doing, and telling?
I.  How could this happen with the babysitter at Hinton, killing a 2 and a half year old child?
1.  Or the nanny that’s on trial for killing a todler?
behind the acts that people commit.
with many people on a daily basis that had been affected by either drugs or alcohol or both.
(1.  The truth is that every person is capable of doing evil.
has kept me from doing some terrible thing.
are often made in the whim of an instant.
He had was 40 years old and had never been in trouble before. There was a gun laying on a table, he was mad at his friend, grabbed it and shot him. He was a model inmate and a model client, never causing any more trouble.).
must have been the rage of a moment.
(3.  The decisions of an instant have ruined many a life.
from doing some terrible thing.
or uncle that you really want to be.
(2.  The one thing that will keep you from evil.
called the friend of Jesus.
need to consider in answering this question.
(1.  You could call these tests, tests of your friendship.
2.  This is more than a mental knowledge of who Jesus was.
His life had a great impact upon history and all of this world.
crucified, buried and came back to life on the third day.
(1.  I believed it with all my heart long before I was saved.
of God and the bible says they tremble at that fact.
Son of God, but they are not saved.
Jesus into your heart trusting Him for eternity?
know for sure?  The Bible says you can know.
1.  If you are really the friend of Jesus then you will love Him.
Jesus says the greatest commandment is to.
heart is the wellspring of life.
you and all those who would beieve in Him.
there a  stirring of love within your heart for Jesus?
when you think of Him?
(1.  not only love Him but we will love others.
(2.  Do you love the Lord and have His love for others?
1.  We are His friends if we obey Him.
(2.  They liked to listen but their lives never changed.
5.  What kind of obedience does Jesus want?
required to be a true friend of Jesus.
V.  Now if we were to grade the test, how would you have done?
1.  Have you trusted Jesus as your Savior?
2.  Do you truly love Him?
#  As a young man, Joseph Scriven had been engaged to a woman he deeply loved.
home in Ireland and went to Canada.
yet all he tried to do was obey God’s word as best he could understand it.
to be decisions the Lord would want you to make.
and the things you do will have eternal meaning.
(2.  Who wouldn’t want to be the friend of Jesus?
4.  Jesus is the friend that will stick closer than a brother.
are good and when times are tough.
have a friend and His name is Jesus.
I have a friend and His name is Jesus.
because I have a friend and His name is Jesus.
instead of living in some homeless shelter.
of robbing and killing them.
even though I didn’t love Him.
finally I saw I needed His kind of friendship.
busy to be my friend.
is an enemy that would take great pleasure in destroying us.
decision that will ruin your life and the lives of many others.
2.  The enemy has everyone of us surrounded.
headquarters repeatedly tried to communicate with the missing troops.
“This is Baker Company,”   came the reply.
“What is your situation?”  Asked the corpsman.
VII.  Would you be a friend of Jesus?
1.  Turst Him as your Savior.
2.  Love Him with all your heart.
3.  Obey him not just with your words but with your actions.
Allow Him to be your friend - Trust Him - Love Him - Obey Him.
1.  Across the country the average of those not attending church is 41%.
In several counties in Oklahoma that number is as high as 69%.
Ohio, those numbers soar to over 70%.
percentage most likely is much higher.
but then, Christianity just doesn’t seem to be all that popular anymore.
before our eyes in the headlines and on the evening news.
greatest crime was that of being a SS teacher.
right wing conservative extremists, according to the popular media.
fairy tales - and many groups are constantly attacking the bible.
and even harder to believe and embrace.
we are suddenly put into a world which seems very strange to us.
(2.  Bushes burn but are not consumed.
(3.  Manna drops out of the sky to feed hungry people.
(4.  People walk on water.
(5.  The blind are given sight.
(6.  Quadriplegics are made to walk.
(7.  And, the dead are brought back to life.
and must see it and feel it for themselves before they will believe?
Bible, they are beyond explanation but they are not beyond belief.
from front to back and the more I read it, the more I believe it.
ashamed of the Christian faith.
protect ourselves we have had to become suspicious.
scams.  Or if its not on the phone, its in the mail.
of exercise equipment to make your body what you always dreamed.
4.  Spike’s problem is our problem.  We’ve been “had” too many times.
We are not that suprisingly suspicious.
is to seek revenge and to get even.
“That’s what the sign says!”  said the woman who answered the door.
we’ve all felt the urge for it at some time or another.
is mine saith the Lord."
sins.  All of us have had to wrestle with these personal sins.
thing that works to change the behavior of those in prison is God.
power of God that I am not in prison myself.
her father and the instructor.
(2.  Of course, in the news since then we have had much about the child beauty pageants.
our lives to have some significance.
3.  Is it true?  It may be for some but not for the Christian!
(2.  We are part of the royal family of God, we have significance.
we can share words of hope where there is hopelessness.
faith.  It provides us with a hope that will not die.
(1.  Without hope, we die.  With it, however, we live.
becoming more and more prevalent in our country and across the world.
as Chuck Colson has pointed out.
(1.  We must not be ashamed of the only hope that this world has.
sin and replace it with the righteousness and significance of God.
world.  That hope is alive and real.
(1.  Jesus is not in the tomb for He has Risen - We must believe.
death sentence of Hell and replace it with Heaven.
terribly for us on the cross.
Let us demonstrate it with our lives!
dirt.  For hours men worked desperately trying to rescue him from that dirty hole.
been pushed into a trap?
and equipment can’t save even one person.
for sin is death according to Romans 6:23.
up, washed us in His blood, and made us white as snow.
the hole, even though Paul says he was the “chief” of sinners.
anyone who turns to Him.
never risk going anywhere else.
after they die and that they will live eternally.
people who have slipped back down into the hole of sin.
(2.  It is God’s will that we might all war a good warfare.
(1.  Most of us are not giving it all that we’ve got.
(2.  We’re still down in the hole.
III.  Do you want to stay in that hole, that shipwreck as Paul puts it?
how to get out of the hole.
3.  This is the opposite of making a shipwreck of your faith.
Hold ont the truths about God which you have been taught.
(1.  Hold on - Don’t let go - Don’t shrink, grow in your faith.
than anything else and do what you know is right.
1.  Hold on to your faith and do what you know is right.
2.  Does God want you in that hole?  No!
other and walk with God along the path of life.
your heart - Eventually your ability to tell right from wrong will disappear.
God speakes through it, to you - You climb a little farther out of the hole.
“medium,” and “large.”  He was exhausted by the end of the first day.
I know the feeling!  The decisions of life can be so demanding we want to quit.
we change daily decisions into divine directives.
6.  You want your conscience to be full of the wisdom of God.
(2.  Keep a good conscience - full of the wisdom of God.
handedly won the game for his team.
IV.  You don’t have to play a great first half in order to be a winner.
talking about his life before salvation.
4.  How about you?  How has the game of life been going for you?
faith?  Do you have a good conscience?
you are a child of God, a member of the royal family.
1.  God has chosen you and God always chooses wisely.
not think you are very important to God.
(1.  David - fight Goliath.
(2.  Moses - 80 year old man herding sheep.
became on of the mighty military men of all history.
chosen and so are you.
suffered his first-ever defeat.  After the race he sat alone, pouting in the bleachers.
the 1924 Olympic Gold Medal in the hundred-meter run.
Grant made no reply, and McPherson impatiently asked what he intended to do.
No one is defeated until he gives up.
foot in - Make a surprise attack on our enemy.
(1.  You’ve held on to the faith.
(2.  You’re trying to fight a good fight.
(3.  Your conscience is good and clear.
life with no way out.
was thrown into prison and for all he knew it would be the rest of his life.
A day came when a shepherd boy became king.
your work has been wasted.
will know that all your labors for the Lord were not in vain.
(1.  That day will come!
people give up roll over and play dead.
1.  Drifting away, it is a slow compromise of our commitments.
fall prey to false teachings.
have been taught is the doing of what we have been taught.
3.  We have been taught the importance of discipleship.
(3.  We know the importance of being obedient of holy living.
commitment or that commitment.  Slacking up on others.
commitments have all been compromised.
Compromises rarely satisfy both sides in equal measure.
hunter got - a very, very bad deal.
6.  So, the Bible warns against drifting, compromising spiritually.
II.  Another reason people sometimes give up is unbelief.
says in v. 13 - we need to be exhorted and encouraged.
expend the effort necessary to grow in the Lord.
resources if put His yoke upon ourselves.
discipline, and discipline in doing good.
1.  It’s been said that there is always an advertised price for sin.
But that price is always lower than the actual price it carries.
VI.  And then, some give up because they don't understand God's love.
abandonment by him.  Instead, it is the loving act of God to bring you back.
attention so that we would listen.
I.  Isaiah 44:26-30  Even the strength of young men can be exhausted.
canaries can never become eagles.
inherited from our parents shall pass away/expire.
been born again but we cannot understand it.
perfect sacrifice in our place and rising again on the third day.
and killed a guard during the robbery.
capital punishment and a movement for the president to pardon George Wilson.
not only be granted, but it must be accepted.
Him, accept the pardon God has so freely given us.
our Bald Eagle and the booted eagle which is the Golden Eagle.
common in North America, Europe, and even in Asia.
it made safe and secure, warm, every bit of food provided for them.
them up on her eagle’s wings.
that to get them to discover who they are and what they can do.
for their every need they would never really be eagles.
comfortable and been pushed out of the nest?
(1.  I have!  And I’ve lost track of how many times it has happened.
they are able to soar above them.
2.  They don’t propel themselves they ride the wind.
3.  Wind in Greek is PNEUMA which is the same word used for Spirit.
Which makes me think again of how Paul says in Phil. 4:13.
but to be filled with the Spirit.
wings.  Have you ever seen a turkey fly?  Not a pretty sight.
movement of the Wind, the Holy Spirit.
activity.  And we ride the wind as an eagle to wherever the Spirit leads.
give up and we will reap a harvest.
Spirit?  By doing what most of us know to do.
resources.  We have to make a decision to be disciplined.
and through His power and resources refrain from sin.
(2.  God will not force us to make this commitment to be eagles.
inborn intuition about when it is time to die.
cliff and face the rising or the setting sun and then they will die.
went into a final coma she said, “I am going to be the first to see Jesus in my family!
before he died he said, “Mama, can you hear the angels singing?
Those were his last words.  And he died.
no pain. No valley.  This is glorious.
treating cases of people who almost died but were brought back.
devil-like figures, and other sights hailing from the darkness of hell.
Is it safe for you to die?
several disappointed listeners began to move toward the exits.
-Have you ever came to church, but felt disappointed?
-Let’s be honest this morning, we all have. . . .
asleep, because the message didn’t speak to me at all.
church is. I really do not understand it.
was given to the shady lady of Sychar.
true worship is. He says what it is and how to do it.
to see if you really worship God.
A. God is Spirit, what does that mean for us?
a.  people are made up of both spirit and matter.
b.  God must be worshiped in Spirit.
will be primarily something spiritual that you do.
a.  worship is not limited to physical actions.
B. What are these spiritual actions of worship?
~loving God with all your heart, mind, and soul.
put God first in our values.
“wortheship.”   It’s the idea of being worthy.
being placed first in our values.
line of what you value?
the week, while they live as they please.
2. (All your heart...)You worship God in spirit with your heart.
God to be your first love.
more than your free time.
love them? Of course not.
your children better, if you love God more than anything else.
God first in our commitments.
ourselves to a mighty God.
willing, and being. . .
willing, and being as the Lord desires.
spiritual worship of the will.
faithful to you, would you call him/her committed?
~Are you committed to God?
our heart, and all of our will.
God in any other way, would be worshiping him in error.
because they are not worshiping Him in truth.
wrong and worship in error, when we do this.
mind that little sin in my life, why He must hardly notice it all.
ourselves, that we are totally dependent upon God.
3.  True Worship is motivated by God.
and created it with a word. He is The lord God!
His glory motivates true worshp.
Ill.-	Read 60 words of worship from the book of Psalms.
Do you worship God in Spirit?
~making him first in your heart, your mind, and will?
Do you worship God in Truth?
you worship God at church.
importance upon what he might be saying to you.
singing, the scripture, and  even the sermon.
spirit and in truth, because God is never boring!
Seminary, titled Introduction to Church Music.
Gulf. They said they had not been told they might have to go to war.
commitments before we follow Chirst.
similar to that WWII veteran's?
immediate moment - I just wanted Jesus, I wanted Him to save me.
moment than anything else in my life.
heart more so than anything else.
(3. I just needed Jesus and nothing else compared or mattered.
last long (not for me - EXP).
alone -- but are there even one million disciples in this country?
follow until - until it requires some meaningful sacrifice.
was perhaps even richer than the the rich young ruler.
momentary thing, it is an eternal thing.
sitting on one log, and one decided to jump off, how many frogs are left"
(4. Do you have a commitment to follow Jesus each day?
Zaccheus,and really be all the Lord wants us to be.
Lord - never taking the jump.
may not have been looking for loopholes then.
disciples and follow through with our commitment to the Lord.
# I always notice church signs, especially those with message boards.
else. Someone or something will supremely occupy our allegiance.
Whenever this is not God, life is without meaning and purpose.
God, from being truly committed to Him.
and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive."
3. We will always be children unless we become disciples.
4. We will always be easily deceived unless we become disciples.
6. We will always be easily deceived unless we become disciples.
any difference in our lives.
it's because you haven't ever taken the jump.
done thou good and faithful servant"
everything else, even our own family.
children, or brothers, or sisters, or parents. Or our job.
(2. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness."
(3. Let nothing come before your Lord Jesus.
Himself - if we hear the word of God and do it.
will achieve the desired results of weight loss and physical fitness.
exercise does produce better physical conditioning.
but over the long haul, it has good results.
coming of the national government?"
them Jesus was simply notLord!
They had found their word.
3. Today, is Jesus just a mister to you or is He the MIYA?
4. Are you just a believer or are you a disciple?
will be worth it to truly call Jesus my Lord.
was 3 months old, around Valentine's Day last year.
chocolate is lethal to dogs.
This morning, I want you to think about what you are eating.
what am I eating? And, am I eating right?
revealed that He was the Messiah.
disciples returned. Isn't great how the Holy Spirit works?
everything up, but the Spirit made sure that did not happen.
went to tell people in town about what had happened.
What do I mean by that, that she was eating the right thing?
people about Jesus. I don't understand everything that well.
Do you think this Samaritan woman understood everything?
commanded. Or we say, I'm just too busy to come to church.
I drew, dizzy at the depth.
was blind. She lifted her foot for the next step and it trod air.
and fell without a sound.
only a whisper would come.
under some trees, with their backs turned towards the gulf.
over the people fell, like a waterfall of souls.
anywhere; the gap would be well taken care of, they knew.
And then they sang a hymn.
a million broken hearts wrung out in one full drop, one sob.
what it was -- the Cry of the Blood.
crieth unto Me from the ground."
will go on for years. Why make such a fuss about it?
Shame us out of our sin!
his face! Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers, W.
will. Allow him to interrupt your life!
and even tells his disciples what real food is.
know nothing about. He was creating a teaching moment.
Jesus declares in v. 34 that his food is to do the will of God.
barely breathing spiritually, because they are not eating.
They are not eating their food, which is the will of God!
you tithe? Do you teach your children about God?
you eating? Are you eating the right food, God's will?
considers herself a Christian, but goes to God "one-on-one,"
consider herself a "bimbo." But her mother does.
whatever they want it to be. God's will is found in the Bible.
*Then, maybe, our country will be what God intended.
if you are not eating the right food!
tenet, or command, is to do what you want to do?
go in the direction the stick pointed when it landed.
several times. "Why do you toss the stick more than once?"
pointing to the left, and I want to take the road on the right."
they are God's will for your life!!
discarded a home pregnancy test.
people do not bother to parent their children.
and a gun to school last week?
How about the child who shot his teacher?
We could go on and on and on with examples.
I truly believe that the children of our country need healing.
Jesus said to the man in v. 48.
worth the result. Read v. 50.
healing that only comes from the precious blood of Jesus.
chance. He had no other options. . .
How do you bring your child to Jesus? Lift them up in prayer.
over them and protect them. It is so very important.
often leave witnessing to their children up to someone else.
us really knows when the age of accountability begins.
Ill.~ 	I've told this before, but I need to tell it again.
Tell him about Jesus before he's seven.
Tell him before he's five."
wrong, but doesn't know Jesus, they are close to death.
For I didn't think it mattered, little ones are safe, you know."
asked the man this question.
Also, Jesus wanted to see how important it was for this man.
him? Would he do it? Would the official persist in his faith?
but he persisted. Read v. 49.
would live. Read v. 50. His son would live.
Think about it. How often do they see you reading the Bible?
parents bad-mouth people from church all the way home?
3. Grownups never really listen to what children have to say.
4. Grownups make mistakes, but they won't admit them.
that somebody else made them.
what you want with that old thing!"
never try to think what it's like to be 10 years old right now.
parents. My generation is one of wishy-washy Christians.
are the best possible ones to have.
of your persistent faith that they easily see all the time?
Have you? It's the difference between life and death.
that you believe in Jesus yourself.
rushing to tell him some good news. His child was better.
was the Messiah, the Son of God, the promised one.
do. It is interesting, because Jesus healed the child anyway.
have to believe in him.
you live right, without a faith in Jesus? You can do neither.
change your child's life as well.
guy my response was probably similar to the release of Mt.
after spewing all over him I felt terrible...and so did he.
pray with Marty before I administered any form of discipline.
times all he needed was time and a mother's tender touch.
same urgency the royal official felt about his child? Do you?
spoke rightly about who the ruler of this world is at present.
beings to be ruled by their own choices.
and I will persist in my faith.  I hope you will as well.
are older, follow the same steps I talked about this morning.
Everyone has been forgetful at times.
1. Many of us forget important things, regularly.
memories would be jogged Him.
-It's not that fun anymore to even be there.
Christian life is supposed to be an experience of joy.
remember what the Lord has done for us.
B. Why did he say to use bread and wine?
no one would go hungry who partook of that bread.
for sins to be forgiven.
sacrifice that purchase forgiveness for the sins of humanity.
Him, but He didn't do it.
2. We forget how great that is!!!
proclaim Xr's  wonderful death on the cross.
Savior gave up for  Our salvation: His Life.
1. He says that it causes more harm than good.
better than the Son of God who died for your sins.
forgiveness,  no matter who they are.
only they ones that  you feel like forgiving.
supposed to have a forgiving attitude.
someone or ask for their forgiveness?
1. Bitterness is a dangerous thing if you let it go.
and   a joyous relationship with Christ impossible.
your heart against another person, maybe a family member?
with a  bitter grudge in your heart.
brother and sisters in the church.
members, we hurt the message and witness of the church.
caring and  forgiving relationships that exist.
back for what they said about you at church.
And you didn't deserve it either!!!!
III. Are You Forgetful? Have You Forgotten to Follow Christ?
A.  Look out v. 27= "unworthy manner"
Live like you know you should.
our life that displeases God.
deal with a sin your life.
means all that much to you.
4. And see if there is a dark sin, that you enjoy doing.
celebrate what Christ has done for you.
others, and remember to Follow Christ in your personal life.
-Take time to really 'examine yourself' this afternoon.
It is very important. If you don't believe me, read v. 30.
1. Who can participate in the Lord's Supper?
2. Who should participate in the Lord's Supper?
did for you when He died on a cross.

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