“Are You Really a Servant of God”
Sunday Morning,December 23, 2012
scriptures: Romans 6, Ephesians 2
keywords: sing, worship, song, excited, world, ashamed, spirit, disobedience, death, mind, servant, Christian, Christmas, devils
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When you sing songs like “Be Glorified” then you should sing with passion. Do you bring the passion so that you worship God like you should. Some people complain if they hear the same song in God more than once. At the clubs, they hear the same songs several times and get excited every time.
Romans 6:15-21
Verse 21- People do so much to be apart of the world- they prep, they spend money and etc. The stuff that you were involved in got you no where when you were not saved to the point that people are ashamed of what they used to do.
Most people are not excited about Christ. Most people will not spend time doing things for God but they will spend time on Facebook. Why not use the time that you put into Facebook to do something for God. Most don’t think that the gospel music is good enough for them.
Consider what your effort is for Christ compared to what your effort is for the world. People give attention to Justin Bieber but don’t get as excited for Christ. Am I really giving my effort to Christ.
Verse 2- There is a different spirit in some folk that they just don’t won’t to do right. There is a spirit of disobedience in them. There is a spirit that is in you. You are being driven and pulled by the world because you are fascinated by the world.
Verse 3- You can have something on your mind that is ungodly but you shouldn’t fulfill that. Just because you want something does not mean that you should have it.
Verse 4- God showed us great mercy.
Verse 5- When you do think about this scripture – where are you at?
Romans 6:21- What is going to happen to those people who did such things? The end of those things is death. If you someone was to take a sheet a paper and describe how you are in Christ what would they say? This word is used often in the bible – “servants”. Verse 22 says servants to God. How many of you see yourselves as servants to God? In the bible they did not use the word Christian to refer to themselves as we much as we use it today but they referred to themselves as servants. Servants speaks to ownership. Are you owned by God? It is so easy to say that you are a Christian. What do you actually do? You can say that you are a NASCAR driver but if you never drive in an actual NASCAR car then what are you.
If you think that the upcoming Christmas holiday is about Christ then you are fooled and deceived. This is about getting gifts and stuff that they wanted. People are mad because a person might not celebrate Christmas but they are getting high off eggnog and alcohol. People know that this is about getting the gifts- if the 25th is on Sunday they begin to close churches.
Matthew 9:27-38
Verse 32- The fact that we have computers does not change the fact that people have devils. Verse 36- but when he saw the multitudes he had compassion- he could read where people were. Verse 37- very few people want to do God’s work. God’s work requires you to be inconvenienced and to not to what you want to do.