01/13/11 WEDNESDAY SERVICE... Dream Your Dreams, Set Your Goals, Make Your Plans With GOD.
"The Lord will" is a Standard, not a Slogan (Ja. 4:13-15).
Focus Points:
Goal setting has changed in recent history.
Few people use Biblical guidelines. (We won't invite people to a church to which we are not committed).
Intellect conversion is not enough.
Greater polarization ahead.
NOTES FROM MESSAGE...
PASSAGE...
James 4:13-16
(13) Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
(14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
(15) For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
(16) But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
GOAL SETTING HAS CHANGED...
There was a time when Christians in the western world could set material goals, because daily living was not in total opposition to Christian standards. In some places and times, Christians live on the fringe of society and their goal is to live faithfully for Christ, one more day. Survival is the name of their existence. We are seeing this environment develop in the modern, western world. The more anti-Christ a society becomes, the less interest and time a Christian will spend in trying to succeed in the passing affairs of life. He will be focused on the moment to moment afflictions and the eternal weight of glory ahead.
1 John 2:15-17
(15) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
FEW PEOPLE LIVE IN, AND ARE RULED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD...
Very few people, including professing Christians, live their lives under the Lordship of Christ. This includes their finances, romances, academics, politics, careers. The world does not need another Donald Trump, it needs another hero of the faith.
Isaiah 6:8-9
(8) Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
(9) And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Ezekiel 22:29-30
(29) The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
(30) And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
COMMITMENT REQUIRED TO MAKE PLANS...
In order to dream dreams, set goals and make plans to grow a church, the members need to be fully convinced that everyone else should come to their church. If a person is not uplifted, transformed and committed to his own church, he will not be convinced that others should come.
Hebrews 10:22-25
(22) Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
(23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
(24) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
(25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Jude 1:3
(3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
TRUE DETERMINATION IS SPIRITUAL, NOT JUST INTELLECTUAL...
Most people live on the superficial level. They have an understanding of God, the Church but they are not actually spiritual beings. They are either dead in sins and trespasses or they are carnal.
The Natural Man...
Corinthians 2:14-16
(14) But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
(15) But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
The Carnal Christian...
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
(1) And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
(2) I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
(3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
MORE POLARIZATION TOMORROW...
As we approach the end of the age we will see the pagan world become more vocal and demonstrative in its resistance, rejection and repudiation of Christianity. More people will gravitate in that direction. Men of God will become more spiritually inclined (by necessity) and will be totally ostracized by society.
1 Timothy 4:1
(1) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Timothy 3:12-14
(12) Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
(13) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
(14) But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
NOTES FROM MESSAGE...
PASSAGE...
James 4:13-16
(13) Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
(14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
(15) For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
(16) But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
GOAL SETTING HAS CHANGED...
There was a time when Christians in the western world could set material goals, because daily living was not in total opposition to Christian standards. In some places and times, Christians live on the fringe of society and their goal is to live faithfully for Christ, one more day. Survival is the name of their existence. We are seeing this environment develop in the modern, western world. The more anti-Christ a society becomes, the less interest and time a Christian will spend in trying to succeed in the passing affairs of life. He will be focused on the moment to moment afflictions and the eternal weight of glory ahead.
1 John 2:15-17
(15) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.
FEW PEOPLE LIVE IN, AND ARE RULED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD...
Very few people, including professing Christians, live their lives under the Lordship of Christ. This includes their finances, romances, academics, politics, careers. The world does not need another Donald Trump, it needs another hero of the faith.
Isaiah 6:8-9
(8) Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
(9) And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Ezekiel 22:29-30
(29) The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
(30) And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
COMMITMENT REQUIRED TO MAKE PLANS...
In order to dream dreams, set goals and make plans to grow a church, the members need to be fully convinced that everyone else should come to their church. If a person is not uplifted, transformed and committed to his own church, he will not be convinced that others should come.
Hebrews 10:22-25
(22) Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
(23) Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
(24) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
(25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Jude 1:3
(3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
TRUE DETERMINATION IS SPIRITUAL, NOT JUST INTELLECTUAL...
Most people live on the superficial level. They have an understanding of God, the Church but they are not actually spiritual beings. They are either dead in sins and trespasses or they are carnal.
The Natural Man...
Corinthians 2:14-16
(14) But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
(15) But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
The Carnal Christian...
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
(1) And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
(2) I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
(3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
MORE POLARIZATION TOMORROW...
As we approach the end of the age we will see the pagan world become more vocal and demonstrative in its resistance, rejection and repudiation of Christianity. More people will gravitate in that direction. Men of God will become more spiritually inclined (by necessity) and will be totally ostracized by society.
1 Timothy 4:1
(1) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Timothy 3:12-14
(12) Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
(13) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
(14) But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
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