PASTOR GEORGE SPEAKS ON THESE LAST TWO CHAPTERS OF HOSEA. AS ALL THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL-HOSEA WAS PUT ONTO ISRAEL AS A SPOKESMAN FROM GOD. ISRAEL WAS INTO IDOLATRY-HAD FALLEN AWAY FROM THE LORD AND WAS RECEIVING JUDGMENT FROM GOD FOR IT'S BACKSLIDDEN CONDITION. AS IN OUR VERY INDIVIDUAL LIVES-GOD HAS A PLAN A FOR US TO LIVE AS A CHILD OF GOD. TO NOT OBEY WE WILL LIVE THE PLAN B FOR US. MANY ARE LIVING PLAN B. THEY ARE BLIND TO THE SIN GOING ON IN THEIR LIVES. HOSEA MARRIED AN UNFAITHFUL WOMAN AS AN EXAMPLE TO ISRAEL AS TO WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

ARE WE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES-24-7 OR IS IT JUST AROUND THE BODY OF CHRIST?

PASTOR GEORGE IN THE CONCLUSION OF THIS MESSAGE EMPHASIZES THE NEED OF SERVICE IN THE CHURCH. IN THIS THE REALITY OF EVERY SINGLE PART OF THE WORK DONE EACH SUNDAY IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT. IT IS SAID ONLY 8% DO 100% OF THE WORK. PART OF THE FAITHFULNESS TO THE LORD IS OBEYING THE CALL OF GOD IN OUR INDIVIDUAL GIFTS AND ABILITIES.

ARE YOU PLAYING CHURCH OR ARE YOU PLUGGED IN AND SERVING??

THIS TRUE STORY OF A SOLDIER IN THE ROMAN ARMY, RECORDED BY LUKE , NOW TAUGHT AND INTERPRETED BY PASTOR STEVE PRICE, HAS IN IT THE POWERFUL INGREDIENTS IN WHAT IT IS TO LEAD- A VERY TOP PRIORITY FOR EVERY PERSON WHO HAS RECEIVED JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOR AND NOW DESIRES THIS DISCIPLINE OF MATURING IN THIS CHARACTER THAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO BE. AGAIN-AS IN ALL THE CHARACTER TRAITS OF A BORN-AGAIN PERSON'S LIFE-THIS IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN TO WITHOUT THE POWER OF THE LIVING CHRIST ENABLING ONE TO DO THIS.

LISTEN AS PASTOR STEVE BREAKS IT DOWN-THE PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP.

WHAT IS IT THAT KEEPS A PERSON WHO HAS NAMED THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST AS LORD FROM MATURING? IS IT SATAN? IS IT THE WORLD? PASTOR STEVE PRICE TAKES THIS PART OF THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT IN WHICH JESUS SPEAKS ON HYPOCRISY AND SHOWS JUST HOW REAL THIS PROBLEM IS IN ALL OF OUR LIVES. IT IS THOSE BLIND SPOTS IN WHICH WE CAN'T SEE (AND YET WE SEE THE BLIND SPOTS IN OTHERS VERY CLEARLY) THAT KEEP US UNDER THEIR BONDAGE. AGAIN WE WILL SEE THAT IT MUST BE A SUPERNATURAL POWER OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES THAT CAN GIVE US THIS VICTORY OVER OUR FLESH-THUS CAUSING A MATURING IN OUR LIVES IN CHRIST.

IN THE BOOK OF ACTS A SITUATION CAME UP IN WHICH JEWISH BELIEVERS WERE BEING TOLD THAT UNLESS THEY WERE ALSO CIRCUMCISED THEY WERE NOT REALLY SAVED. IT WAS BELIEF IN JESUS PLUS A WORK TO SEAL THE DEAL OF SALVATION.

PASTOR STEVE SPEAKS ON USING MUCH SCRIPTURE THAT OUR BEING SAVED IS DONE BY THE CROSS OF CHRIST IN WHICH WE ARE TO INDIVIDUALLY BELIEVE THAT WAS DONE FOR US AND WE CANNOT IMPROVE ON THIS AND IN THE SAME EXACT WAY-OUR BELIEF IN JESUS EMPOWERS US OR CONTINUES TO MAKE US WORTHY AND ENABLES US TO WALK THIS IMPOSSIBLE WALK OF FAITH HAVING VICTORY OVER THE FLESH. “IT IS NO LONGER I, BUT CHRIST WHO LIVES IN ME.”

REPRICOCITY: ONE WORD THAT DEFINES THIS SAME WORD IS: “TOGETHERNESS”. IN A MARRIAGE GOD HAS SET UP MUTUAL BENEFITS FOR BOTH PARTIES. MANY DO NOT BELIEVE THIS FACT OF LIFE OR LAW OF GOD. SATAN WOULD HAVE US TO BELIEVE IT'S: “WHAT I BENEFIT” IN A SITUATION- TO THE DETRIMENT OF THAT RELATIONSHIP. IT'S CALLED SURRENDERING OUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS TO THE BETTERMENT OF A RELATIONSHIP. “SUBMITTING ONE TO ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF GOD.”