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1/27/2019

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Sermon Passage: 1 Peter 4:12-16
Sermon Title: Taste and See
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Suffering for Christ is normal for Christians
1. John 15:18-20 - “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours
2. Too comfortable trying not to offend, but the gospel is offensive and uncomfortable
  1. Our lives should not look like everyone else’s
    1. If your life is too comfortable, you should worry
    2. Luke 6:26 “Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated false prophets in the same way”
  2. Don’t actively seek suffering and persecution, but it should come if you are following Christ
    1. “let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.”
  3. Evangelism through our lives, but also explici
Rejoice in suffering that you may rejoice when His glory is revealed
1. Suffering produces hope
  1. Romans 5:3-5 - Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
    1. Paul on being justified by faith
    2. Past with God leads to hope in the future
      1. He can not remove your suffering and still be there and good
2. Hope doesn't look like rejoicing in the moment, but submitting to the will of God
  1. Jesus - Garden of Gethsemane
    1. Sweating blood
  2. Job - Losing Children, wealth and health
    1. Job 1:20 - Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped
  3. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego - simply to bow down to a statue
    1. Apostle Peter - denying Jesus 3 times
Endure until the end (It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish)
1. Do not try to hide, distract or run
  1. Easy to die for Him, difficult to live for Him
  2. We give up too easily; as soon as we see opposition or difficulty
  3. Culture of things “coming easy” or “chosen by destiny” thinking “we are different (an exception)”
    1. Real-life prodigies - star king
2. Makes it easier - we are created to enjoy Him
  1. Christian Hedonism - Seeking pleasure to its fullest should lead to Him as everything else fails us
    1. Hedonist - doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life - Webster Dictionary
    2. God is most satisfied in us, when we are most satisfied in Him - John Piper
    3. (EM) Self denial is denying pleasures of the Earth, but looking to be satisfied in something greater
      1. Jesus extends salvation and you reject is sin
  2. Matthew 6:25-26 - “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
  3. Peace will come
    1. Philippians 4:4-7 ESV - Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
3. John 16:33 - “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

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Taste and See

1/13/2019

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Sermon Passage: Matthew 7:21-23
Sermon Title: Taste and See
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Work is not the purpose of life
1. “Does the will of my father”
  1. What is this/His will?
    1. We were not created as a labor force because God is in need of one - If you think God needs you in His plan, think again
    2. Focus too much on what we do (action and work) rather than how we will do it
  2. If you do not know or understand God’s heart, you cannot help but sin and thus “workers of lawlessness”
    1. Pharisees
2. Misconception of “fruit”
  1. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:15-16)
    1. Prophets doing good works would/should not tip off false prophets
    2. Prophets were told people weren't going to listen, but they were told to continue to minister
      1. Jeremiah 7:27 “So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
    3. Fruit of the Spirit is Godly character
      1. Again not to strive for, but that is a natural byproduct
Salvation is not the purpose of life (Self preservation)
1. False teaching from: ‘Believe in Jesus and you will be saved’
  1. Belief in what?
    1. James 2:19 “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe and shudder”
  2. You can know about Jesus, and have no relationship
    1. Wagyu - can have substitutes, and study day and night about it, but never taste and see
  3. Heaven and salvation would be pointless without a relationship
    1. “Came to my rescue”
      1. Until you know what you are being rescued from and for, salvation is meaningless
    2. If you could go to heaven and God was not there, would you want to be there?
2. Salvation is granted to those who have communion and relations with God
  1. Communion and our broken relationship with God was restored on the day Jesus died
    1. He died that you might be saved, but so that we could have access to worship Him
We were made for worship (experiencing God in such a powerful way that it transforms us)
1. Worship comes from experiencing God
  1. Song of Moses and Miriam (Exodus 15)
  2. Psalms - David’s worship book through experiencing and walking with God
2. Look back to creation and God’s design
  1. Communion with God and work that was not toilsome from the beginning
  2. In love - commanding an action vs doing out of love and will
3. He is the living God, and believe that one encounter and experience with Him is enough to change your life
  1. Sometimes we need to simply sit with God more and remove distractions and idols
    1. If you don’t accept your brokenness, be careful not to be a Saul
4. Do not take the Holy Spirit for granted - Holiness of God and access to Him in us
  1. Ark of the covenant
  2. Holy of Holies in Tabernacle
  3. Moses would die
  4. Paul blinded
5. Challenge and to spend time alone with God desperately asking for His presence

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