Sunday Morning, April 16, 2017
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Communion
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11
-Jesus knew his death was coming but still decided to sacrifice his life for our freedom.
Scripture: Matthew 26
-Do you stand strong in the midst of your trials.
-Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver, is there any amount of money or worldly treasurers that you would sacrifice your relationship with God for?
Sermon
Scripture: Romans 12
-Are you plotting and scheming sins that you are trying to commit?
-The devil like people to cause confusion.
-Guilt is eating some people up because they have made bad decisions knowing what the word of God says.
-When you hear the truth at church being preached say amen!
-As a servant of God you will have to interact with people!
Scripture: 1 John 2
-What will you give in exchange for your soul?
-Loving the world is more problematic then you might think?
Scripture: John 4
-What people are willing to do for pleasure is sad. Don’t live a life chasing pleasure.
-People will kill, steal, lie, cheat, etc for pleasure.
-Money does not solve all of life problems, just take a look at some of the worlds celebrities and the issues they have.
-Some people’s prayer requests are actually evil and selfish prayers.
-Too many people are saying burger king “have it your way” prayers.
-What you need is Christ! The other things in life are just wants.
-Just to be clear…friendship with the world is WARFARE with God.
-Relationships are your choice…when you make a willful choice to engage in an ungodly relationship don’t pretend that it just coincidentally happened.
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 16
-Give fellow brothers in sisters in Christ credit and acknowledgment for the good things they are doing. Stop being so caught up on yourself and the things that you want to do.
-How are you going to come into God’s house and not speak to people? Be loving! Be kind! Speak!
-If you don’t love the Lord…there is something wrong with you.