2025 September Sermon Notes

25Sep07 

Empty Handed

Ex 23:15  Ex 34:20

Deut 16:16   What can we offer to God?

1. Praise and Thanksgiving - Pslams 50:14- offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving; Psalm 50:23- thanksgiving honors God; Hebrews 13:15- continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name.

2. Generosity- Heb 13:6- do good and share what you have - sacrifices are pleasing to Go

3. Our obedience- I Samuel 15:22- To obey is better than sacrifice and to listen

4. Humble Repentance- Psalms 51:16-17. Have a broken heart   

25Sep14
Only Servants 
I Cor 3:1-9 God Uses: 
1. Mature servants- V 1-4 
2. Humble servants- V 5 
3. Diverse servants- V5. Each has a task 
4. Unified servants- V 6- I planted, Apollos watered  refresh yourself in the Lord

25Sep21 

Oh What A Savior Psalm 40:1-5 

1. The reward for patience -V 1. - God’s delay is not God’s denial 

2. The redemption from the pit- V2 
3. The renewal of praise- V 3-5  

25Sep28 
I Cor 15:10- By the grace of God, I am what I am  Paul is defending his faith with God’s resurrection 

1. Grace Defines Identity.

• Our Identity is found in God’s Grace.

• “But by the grace of God I am what I am,”

2. Grace Propels Us.

Grace will drive/equip you to work hard.

(Grace isn’t earned, but it doesn’t mean we sit still.)

“His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them…”

3. Grace Deserves the Glory.

It’s not our doing or strength that we are who we are.

“Yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. Paul never took the credit, even in his hardest times or work. He acknowledges that the power was not his own.