Wednesday Night December 4, 2013
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Key points from last two lessons
- Being able to communicate your faith. It is the responsibility of Christians to share and to not be ashamed. There are many that know what being a Christian requires, but are too ashamed to stand up and be counted.
- Remember it is not just about how we talk, but also how we walk.
- God is at hand, so we should be moderate at all times.
- Some children are more willing to listen to people in the world than their parents, even if they have the same “education”. It is foolish for a child to assume that he knows more than the parent who has experienced much. The devil is working in that kind of thinking.
When you are in an evil way, you look for evil things. When you are in a godly way, you look for the things of God.
The word is what figures you out. It classifies you and says what you are. It put things into their perspective. A lot of people are not really what they say they are.
Hebrews 4:11
The word of God is living. Spirit – God breathing life in you
Soul (psyche) – your passions, who you really are
It is the word of God that figures out what your psychology is.
Everything that psychology talks about is talked about in church. You have to go to the word if you want to know what are people’s hearts, passion, and true desires. That is if you want to know people. Knowing this doesn’t necessarily mean that people will like it or correct what is wrong.
Jesus didn’t live trying to tell people what they wanted to hear, but with what they needed to hear.
When you have a conversation or situation, do you respond with the word of God or rather with your feelings? Do you believe the word is able to detail you?
Luke 6:46-49
Do you let the word of God define you?
Why call Him Lord while being disobedient? The bible will tell you what the life of the disobedient will be like.
We cannot just pray about situations that we need to repent from sinning. In those, we need to repent first, then pray for God’s help.
If you say that you are a Christian, you have to be that everywhere and in every thing that we do. Christian father, good neighbor. A person cannot blame anyone else for not being a Christian. We are commanded to be, to do the things of God. Don’t use ‘try’ as an excuse. We have to be. That is our responsibility.
A fornicator cannot expect God to work out things for them. God wants us to repent from sin. He tells us to repent and obey, not try to repent and try to obey.
If you are not doing right and will pray and ask God for things, you are insulting Him.
vs 47-48
God says that He is describing people who approach Him, listen to and actually do what He says. That person is stable. The word says they are not shaken. They don’t quit. If I quit in the circumstance, it is speaking against me. It is not bringing down God.
If you get devastated, you are not where God is holding you. If you are not being obedient, you cannot expect to be stable.
You cannot trust your own eyes sometimes. You need something external. The word of God is the ruler, the standard. Like a builder uses a level, it confirms what is right. Even the experienced builder continues to trust the true.
Let the word straighten out your confusions. Let it measure and discern situations for you. You can see if something doesn’t line up with the word.
If you are arguing with someone, ask are you using a the word of God as your level? It is pointless to argue against someone with a level when you don’t even have a level.
Jesus brings up this scripture to let us know what happens to people who are listening to the word but failing to follow and obey. God wants us to do