Providence Baptist Church

Sunday Evening

3 Areas of Battle to Being an Overcomer – Part 2

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1 Thessalonians 5:23

Warfare with the flesh.

The Bible View of the Body

Psalm 139:13-14 We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

  1.  We were made by God. The Creator reserves his special creation for Himself.
  2.  We were made for God.  1 Corinthians 6:19  We were made by Him and for Him, for a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

Your body was made for redemption.  Romans 12:1

Present your body as a living sacrifice.  Present your BEST to God.

It determines your appropriation of God’s will.

2 Corinthians 5:10

God will judge us based upon what we’ve done in our bodies, both good or bad.

The determination of your future has to do with what you do with your body.

Philippians 3:18-19, 10-11

There is a sacrifice in following after Jesus.

Focus on Heavenly things instead of earthly things.

1 Corinthians 9:27

Discipline our bodies – in natural and spiritual.

Isaiah 55:2

Colossians 3:2

Romans 12:1

 

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Stuck

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Genesis 12:1-4 and Genesis 11:31

STUCK

Self-Absorbed
Tomorrow
Unwilling to return to God
Comfortable staying sick
Kept Looking Backwards

Never say “Things will never change.”

With faith in God anything can change.

Put your strength in helping others.

Lifting others up brings strength to you.

Re-identify yourself as a person of faith.

Believe Him for things that are impossible.

How do you break free from the stuck place?

Abraham got free:

  1. Because there was a death.
  2. There was a separation. Genesis 13:5, Haggai 2:3-5
    There will be times that you are going to need courage.
  3. You must break free of the fear of starting.  Break free –>  Clean House.

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Starting Over at the End of the Road Part 2

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Genesis 25:7-8

Continued from this morning.

6.  Principles

Those six things must be a part of your new start.

There is nothing else to do but to pave a new way.

2 Main things to Do to Yourself

  1. Redefine Yourself.  We get stuck in what we were and refuse to become what we could be.
  2. Reboot Yourself.  We need a time of healing in our lives.

Isaiah 40:31

PURPOSE

  1. A purpose that’s compelling.  Challenging you.
  2. A purpose that has a reason to follow through.
  3. A purpose that you revive in your life daily.

2 Things to do

  1. A fire in you.
  2. The difference between the push and pull. The purpose will pull you through.

PRIORITIES

What to let go of and what to hold on to.

POWER

  1.  Receive power through knowledge – study the Word of God.
  2. The anointing of God – The Holy Spirit.
  3. By your company – those around you will either empower you or drain you.

PERSISTENCE 

Don’t quit!

POSSESSIONS

What possesses me and what do I possess?

PRINCIPLES

Make a survey of your principles in life.  Set new principles for yourself.

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The State of the Church

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Acts 2

The DNA of the Church

The whole call upon the church is to present the presence of God – to present life.

Acts 2:42

The Spiritual Call of God for the Church

4 Things

  1. They continued in the WORD OF GOD.  3 things to give yourself to the Word.

I.  Study
II.  Submit
III.  Conform

We will be transformed by the word of God.  Acts 12:24 – The Word of God Spreads

Acts 13:43, Acts 19:20

2.  Fellowship – “in common”

3.  Worship – lifestyle leading to praise

Praise –
1. an antibody
2.  Praise is the spiritual pulse of your life.
3.  Praise is a method of thanksgiving.

True praise is that you praise him when he’s done, what he is doing and what you are praying and believing Him for.

4.  The desperation of Prayer – genuine prayer.  Acts 4:31

  1.  Pray until something shakes.
  2. Pray until the Holy Spirit comes.
  3. Pray until you’re ready to preach.

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God is Holy

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Revelation 4
Leviticus 20:26

We are called to Him and therefore we are Holy unto the Lord.  Holiness is of the heart.

Heaven – the place of its origin.

Other – other than everything else

Living – twice dead and forever alive when you are God’s

Yolk – We are yoked to Him.  Forever with a partnership.

1 Peter 2:9 there is no other

Holy is the only way into God’s presence.

If you do not belong to him you do not come to Him and do not spend eternity with him.

Holy is like faith. There are degrees of faith and there are degrees of holiness.  You can have as much faith as you want and you can be as holy as you want.

Isaiah 29:13

People try to draw near to God with lip service.

Things, Places & People

God is not for our purpose, we are for His purpose.  The first thing that became holy was in the Garden of Eden.  It was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The ground can become holy – Moses & the burning bush.

God made Abraham holy.  He separated him from everybody.  The family became holy and then a nation.  From that nation, Jesus was born.

Times become holy. The Sabbath Day is a Holy day.  God made part of our income, our tithe holy.  Places of meetings became Holy – the tabernacle.

1 Peter 2:9

2 Corinthians 6:17

1 Corinthians 6:17

2 Timothhy 2:19

Holiness is a chore. You make a choice.

Romans 12:1

Holiness in God exceeds his love.

God’s holiness demanded that God turn from his own Son on the cross because He became sin.

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