Don’t Follow the Flesh”
Sunday Morning, April 21, 2013
scriptures: Genesis 3, Titus 3, Luke 14
keywords: performance, evaluation, values, proactive, relationships, grade, success, scriptural, flesh, sex, marriage, reject
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Performance Evaluation for a Christian:
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What do you think is going to happen to you for what you are doing?You want to be proactive which means that you will tend to initiate things instead of reacting to things. Are you staying true to the core values? Core values- there are principles that guide in the church. Build relationships that lead to the church success- Do you build relationships that lead to the success of the church? We need to look at ourselves spiritually. At the end of the semester you will get a grade. You want God to see what you are doing as more important than anything- even your own job. At work you may score well but at church you may score horribly.
People are fleshly and what to do what they want to do.
“This is my life I can do what I want to do.”- is that scriptural?
“I can’t change other people”- is that scriptural?
“It doesn’t matter what I do”- is that scriptural?
“You only live once” is a worldly statement that the world is using to justify what they want to do. Can you hang around anybody that you want to or go anywhere that you want to go?
Genesis 3:1-7
There are so many things that a Christian wants to do- so many things. Why does the world want to focus on things that are forbidden? You are not as strong as you think that you are. You can be tempted and get caught up in something.
Does God ever give up on some people? The answer is yes. He actually will give people over to think crazy things and to a crazy mind. Should you give up on someone as well- the answer is yes. The bible says that if the unbelieving depart then let them depart when it comes to a married spouse leaves another.
Titus 3:9-11
The Lord told Christians that after the second and third admonition to reject an heretick. Christians must stick to the word and go to task on it. You hear that every sin is the same which is not true. Sexual sins are different than other sins- it causes serious damage to one’s onself. Flesh is what people want to serve. “Do what makes you happy?”- No, this is not good. Why would you go buy something like cocaine that would kill you? It is the flesh that leads people to destruction because the devil is seeking to kill and destroy. Don’t ever make your mind up by on what everybody else is doing.
Luke 14:15-26
The story about the master who bid people to come to the supper.
Verse 19- Some people use money as an excuse to serve God.
Verse 20- They used marriage as reason that they could not come.
There is nobody that is more important than your relationship with Christ Jesus.