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Sunday, March 29th Worship and Sermon
Build My Life, Pat Barrett
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, Michael W. Smith
Living Faith in These Troubled Times
Please have your Bibles ready and follow with my notes. I have included the scripture references in the notes.
ENGLISH SERVICE: https://youtu.be/ga3g1EikuIs
CHINESE TRANSLATION: https://drive.google.com/file/
CHINESE TRANSLATION: https://drive.google.com/file/
Congregational Prayer
Scripture Reading: Galations 5: 19-26
Foxes Book of Martyrs: “what
is life without Jesus Christ?” There is
no life without Him! Therefore I choose
Jesus! Even if I have to forfeit my life
here.
Persecution and Martyrdom around the world today: Who
is this person, Jesus, that people will die for? And how do they live such joy filled lives in
the middle of all the persecution?
3
simple questions:
What
should faith look like in our lives?
Should
faith look any different in the times of great trial than when things are more
normal and routine? Or, Do our times
determine how our faith should be lived out?
How
are we to live our lives in the midst of our current crisis?
Pastor Robert Chapman: ‘Chapman really believed in the power of and practiced prevailing
prayer. And he had supreme confidence in the power of the word faithfully and
prayerfully preached to transform people. And he determined to be doggedly
patient and tender with the people.’ (Jon Bloom)
Charles
Spurgeon called Chapman "the saintliest man I ever knew".
Quote
of Robert Chapmans is: “When a man’s
chief business is to serve and please the Lord, all his circumstances become
his servants!”
Galatians 5: 22, 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control.
2nd Corinthians 11: 23-28
23 Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors
more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths
often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three
times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked;
a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 in journeys often, in perils of
waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the
Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the
sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— 28
besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the
churches.
Yet through all the perils and suffering of Paul, his mind and heart desires most for that which Christ Himself desires
most for!
Suffering for Christ builds in us a level of faith and perseverance
not found in any academic or theological discussion. It is because in our times of trial and
suffering, we look to Jesus.
WHY?
John 8:12
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He
who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
Robert M. McCheyne wrote in 1840: ‘It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy Christian [minister] is an powerful instrument [awful weapon] in the hand of God.’
Robert M. McCheyne wrote in 1840: ‘It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy Christian [minister] is an powerful instrument [awful weapon] in the hand of God.’
Hebrews 12: 2
…and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set
before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12: 2
“who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
JOY! What a funny word to use when so much suffering and pain go hand in hand
with it.
Joy, because we are doing it out of love for Him, and out of love for
others!
We are called to be that holy Christian!
We are called to be that holy Christian!
1st Peter 1: 3-5
13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your
hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ; 14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former
lusts, as in your ignorance; 15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be
holy in all your conduct, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
JOY! An acronym, ‘Jesus, Others, You,’Sets in our minds the order for our
own priorities.
Jesus First in all
matters of our lives.
Others because our will becomes Jesus’s will: the salvation of all men and women
You are a central part of that. We are like trees planted in a vineyard. We are the seeds which God nurtures and
waters. And we grow up to be trees that
produce bountiful fruit.
John 4: 10, 13-15
10 Jesus answered
and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you,
‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living
water.”
13 Jesus answered
and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but
whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the
water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up
into everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to
Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
**Joy
found in the fruit of the Spirit as
He lives and breathes and moves in us and through us to others.
Are you willing to
lay your own life down for Jesus?
Isaiah 6: 8
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who
will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
If I
keep my eyes on Jesus, no matter what is happening around me, He always leads
me in joy and contentment.
BENEDICTION:
1st Thessalonians 5: 16-24
"16 Rejoice always,
17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thank for this is the will of
God in Christ Jesus for you.
19 Do not quench
the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all
things; hold fast
what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
23 Now may the God
of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and
body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who
calls you is faithful, who also will do it."
Lord, grant us these things in our lives every step of our days.
Amen.
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