“The True Wages of God”
Sunday Morning, January 13, 2013
scriptures: Hebrews 10, Romans 6, Psalms 50, Isaiah 3
keywords: provoke, love, good works, sin, iniquity, sin, wages, lazy, salvation, wicked, slothful
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Hebrews 10:24
Person in the congregation- think about what that person likes and doesn’t like. How can you provoke that person to love and to good works? What things do you want Lidia to do and what would you like for her to do?
Romans 6:19-23
The world lives it up and they party hard. A lot of people want to be like that in some way. Verse 19- iniquity unto iniquity. People were involved in sin unto sin. People are involved in all kinds sins such as drinking, drugs and etc. He said in this verse that he was speaking to your flesh. Verse 21- What did those things do to help when you were involved in sin? What fruit did you have in those things? What impact will the things that I do have on me? Verse 23- This verse deals with the question that a lot of people ask- if they will go to hell or not. It uses the word “wages” that a lot of people can understand. You will have to pay for your sin.
A lot of you may not appreciate what the definition of sin is so you think that you may be better off. The word sins means that you are not what you are supposed to be. You are going to pay for being mean when you know you are mean or lazy when you know that you are being lazy. Do you believe that church service is more important than the job that you have? What is more important is your salvation and not your survivability. Matthew 25:14-44 People will figure out a way to do things if it is for their job or for a class. Verse 27- If you don’t know you should ask someone who can help you out. Their sin in verse 25 was their inability to find out how to do something with what God had given them. God calls that wicked and slothful. Doing nothing is a sin. If you go to work and do nothing they will fire you for lack of productivity. Verse 35- Ignorance is not going to be an excuse. Verse 40- When you are doing something for others in Christ you are doing something for Christ. Sometimes we excuse people when they don’t ask or try to do things as in verse 44. Have you invested yourself in work for Christ? Some of you are way to talented to not be doing more things for Christ.
Psalms 50:1-23 Verse 12- God doesn’t need you- you need him. Verse 21- When God doesn’t say anything when you are doing something and you think that you have gotten away with something but you have not.
Isaiah 3:1-26 Verse 4 God will take your strength from you. Youth does not mean anything to God. Verse 9- people are so bold in their sin. Verse 12- God setup a system and man was supposed to rule and lead- this is why this verse talks about women shall rule over them as not a good thing. God will tear down things that you think are important- your beauty and everything.
If you haven’t been living for God then you can’t just realize it; you have to repent.