“Be Truly Changed and Make an Impact”
Sunday Morning March 4, 2012
scriptures: 2 Corinthians 5
keywords: Impact, judgment, intentions, live, new, creature, feel, feelings, why, hell
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Why you are living you want to have an impact. To have impact you have to have contact. You have to reach out and touch someone. What do you think is going to happen because of what you are doing? Look at specific people and see what impact that you have on those specific people. You have to do things on purpose in your life to have an effect. One day you will not have strength to do certain things.
Ecclesiastes says to remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 -If you just want to leave this life because of your own selfish issues and problems then you need to focus on making an impact in God for someone else and not yourself. You can be dead to this life but you will be in another existence and it will get worse for people who are not right. One of these days we are going to stand before God and we will have to give an account- he is going to go down the list of things that you have done. You will not be given credit for intentions. Your “why you didn’t do something” will not be acceptable. A lot of people “whys” are not other people’s “whys”- other people get things done. This will be a sentencing appearance. There is no next semester in God. You have one life to live. You got to know who you are dealing with in God. God is almighty, magnificent and can destroy things with his breath.
If you get caught up on your feelings then you need to live on faith and not on how you feel. If you do things because you are mad then you can go to hell for those feelings that make you act in the wrong way. Ask yourself what does this have to do with Christ in me and making an impact for God, when you have certain feelings or are considering something? What do you think is going to happen for what you are doing? Some people bite like a pit bull that looks nice and all cute but might attack. Don’t be a pit bull that acts nice at times- be truly changed and be truly a new creature.
2 Corinthians 5:16 You deal with people based on Christ and faith and not just based on who they are. Verse 17- If you are new and you have the same old things then something is not changed. Do you like who you are? If you don’t like what you are doing then change it. You can can’t be the same old monster. This week stand in that mirror and ask do you like the person that you are in Christ? Is this person ready for Christ’s return?