The voice of authority
Joint participation
Lack of involvement
Can I have a lighter burden?
Will you crush me with my burden?
Father I will start being a law abiding student.
The voice of authority
Joint participation
Lack of involvement
Can I have a lighter burden?
Will you crush me with my burden?
Father I will start being a law abiding student.
James 1:16-18
1.Defeat the one that has blinded your mind.
1.V16
2.Accept the fact of the nature of God.
1.Every good and perfect gift is from God.
3.Don't worry, God has not changed.
4.Remember God didn’t turn out the light.
Addressing Different Hearts:
1.Can't afford it heart: Malachi 3: 6-8
2.Not necessary heart: Luke 5: 1-5
3.Cost too much heart: Matthew 26: 1-11
2 Chronicles 16:9
Gospel for the lost
V 16
Tell what you know, tell your experience.
Follow a plan
Grace to believers
1.V17-18
Forgive the inexcusable in others lives because God has forgiven our inexcusables.
Horizontal grace
Generosity in the kingdom
V16
The kingdom needs generous offerings
Offerings, a reflection of a generous heart.
Generosity of gifts
Using our gifts to further the kingdom.
Generosity of our time.
You make time and sacrifice time because it's a priority in your life.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Weights, the sin we know, slow us down.
Too much distance between me and the source of the signal.
Too many things in your life at one time.
Too many games in our life.
In the Owners Manual you can find all you need.
We need to reset, refresh and update our relationship with God.
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Luke 14: 16-24
1.I must be aware of what Christ desires.
1.He invited many
2.He made all things ready
3.He never gives up
4.He wants His house full
2.I must make myself available to go where Christ sends me.
3.I must be authentic to those I am inviting.
4.I must anticipate lame excuses.
5.I must be anxious about my invitation.