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Your King Has Come - Indelible Grace
Here are some of my notes from the sermon Pastor Butch preached on Sunday, 12/31/06. These are just some of the main points from Butch’s message that day. I encourage you to listen to the audio if you can. Butch submitted this resolution:
Resolved: To be kingdom Christians
- salt – preserves what is good
- light – leads out & overcomes darkness
- yeast – effects its surroundings through permeation
- ALL THREE HAVE A TRANSFORMING PRESENCE WHEN THEY ENTER SOMETHING
Keeping this resolution means at least FIVE things:
- Pray without ceasing
- Prepare our minds for action
- Redeem the time
- Strive to continuously sharpen one another
- Be ever mindful of our ministry of reconciliation
1. Praying without ceasing involves praying for:
- Involvement in the culture
- Protection from the culture
- Awareness of our weaknesses
- Wisdom
- The mind of Christ
- “Thy kingdom come” – The fulfilling of God’s plan
2. Prepare our minds for action
- We have got to work on our minds – 1 Pet. 1:13
- Seek God’s truth in all things ( is your mind oriented that way?)
- Most Protestant minds are at total rest. How to prepare our minds:
- Reading & Studying
- Meditating on God and His Word – PS. 119:38
- Be diligent in Bible reading (not content in only a cursory reading)
- Use other books that may help
- Improve conversation with others to this end
- Practice according to what knowledge you do have (live it)
3. Redeem the time – Eph. 5:15
- Teach us to number our days – Ps. 90:12
- We are people with a mission
- Our goal should be that everything we do must be seen in light of this holy & supreme calling as the people of God
- Ex. – Reduction in channel surfing, the mindless playing of pop songs and saying, “I’m bored” – If you’re a Christian, how could you ever be bored?
- Must re-evaluate our involvement in various activities – Are there better things I could be doing with the time God has given me?
4. Sharpen one another
- “as iron sharpens iron” – Pr. 27:17
- “stir up aone another” – Heb. 10:24
- Throw ourselves intgo the one-another’s of the NT
- Strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace
- Who are you sharpening? Who are you being sharpened by?
- Speak the truth in love
- Love Christ and His kingdom
- Why would you best friend be someone who is not a believer???
5. Be mindful or our ministry of reconciliation
- 2 Cor. 4:1 – 5:21
- v.20 – Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Again, if you can, please listen to the audio of this sermon.
