Room To Grow - Luke 2:41-52 (KJV)

1)     We Grow Closer to Him

2)     We Grow to Rely on Him more

3)     We Grow Stronger in our Faith and in our Willingness to Trust Him

I.  Growth Is Critical To Our God-Given Assignment

1. Mental Development 
2. Physical Development
3. Spiritual Development
4. Social Development

Passover – Jewish Festival that commemorates the Exodus of the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt

II.   Growth Requires An Intentional Process

1. Set aside Time to Grow (1-4 should appear on same slide, one at a time)
2. Determine your Specific Area(s) of Growth
3. Find Resources in this Area(s) of Growth
4. Apply what you begin Learning

III.  Growth Involves A Willingness To Change

• If we don’t Change, we don’t Grow
• You will never Change Your Life until you Change Your Habits
• ·Life without Jesus is a Hard Life to Live

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Fresh Wind Fresh Fire - What God Wants From Me

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Mark 10:46-52 (KJV) 

• Verse 46 (KJV)
• Jericho – “Palm Tree”
• Joshua 6:26
• Jericho – “The City With A Curse”
• “Bar” – Son of
• “BarTimaeus” – Son of Timaeus
• “Timaeus” – polluted, defiled, dirty, or nasty
• Verse 46 (KJV)
• Dogs don’t bark at parked cars
• Verse 47 (KJV)
• He focused on What He Had rather than focusing on What He Didn’t Have
• Romans 10:17 (KJV)
• When you can’t See your way clear, go by what you Hear
• You don’t need anything you Lost to Bless you
• Verse 47 (KJV)
• What you have will work Wherever you are
• Proverbs 18:16 (KJV)
• Verse 48
• Verse 49

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•  Jesus is trying to get us to Remember Him
• “Growing Pains of the Soul” – Dr. Joel Gregory
• Anterograde Amnesia – the inability to remember new information, but can recall events prior to the trauma
• Retrograde Amnesia – the ability to recall events that occurred after a trauma, but can’t remember events preceding the trauma

 Spiritual Amnesia

1.  Genesis 9:16 (NLT)
2. Exodus 20:8 (NLT)
3. Numbers 15:39 (KJV)
4. Deuteronomy 8:2 (NLT)
5. I Chronicles 16:12 (NLT)
6. Nehemiah 4:14 (NLT)
7. Ecclesiastes 12:1 (NIV)
8. Luke 24:6-7 (NLT)
9. 2 Timothy 2:8 (NLT)

 I.  Focus on the Meal

• “If there was one thing you could point to in the world that would symbolize you, what would it be?” 
• Verse 26

 II. Focus on the Master at the Meal

• Verse 17 (KJV)
• Verse 21 (KJV)
• Verse 22 (KJV)

 Don’t get so excited about what’s On the Table that you Forget the one who Prepared the Table!

•  Verse 28

 1.     Relationship 

 2.     Remission of Sin

Takeaways:
1)     Remember the one who made it ALL possible
2)     Remove the obstacles
3)     Re-commit to the path of obedience

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John 8:1-11 

Sermon Series: Can God Love Someone Like Me?

Caught In The Act

I.  Public Predicament – Verse 3

• The Primary Purpose of the church is not for the members; but for those who are Non-Members – Luke 14:2

II.  Public Persecution Verses 4-5

III.  Public Protection – Verse 7

• Grace first – Truth second
• He chose a Complicated situation of a woman being Caught in the act of adultery and use it to give her life abundantly.

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Luke 19:1-10 

•  Would you Love God if He didn’t Love You?
•  Romans 5:8 9 (NLT)
•  Romans 8:38-39 (KJV)
• I Corinthians 13:13 (NKJV)
• John 13:34 (NLT)
• Very few people get Judged into a life change – Far more get Loved into it
• Hearts that Love and Hands that Help are greater than Lips that Judge
• Luke 18:31-33 (KJV)
• Luke 18:35 (KJV)
• Bartimaeus – “Son of Timaeus”
• Luke 19:1 (KJV)
• Luke 19:2 (KJV)
• Zacchaeus – means “Pure and Justified”
• Verse 2

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• How could God Love Somebody like me?
• Instead of being a “Conduit of His Mercy” we’ve become “Ecclesiastical Polices” patrolling who does and does not get into The Kingdom of God 
• Romans 3:23 (KJV)
• There is no Sinner without a Future (Same slide as next bullet but appear one at a time)
• There is no Saint without a Past (Same slide as bullet above but appear one at a time)

1. Romans 8:38-39 (KJV)
2. Luke 18:31-33
3. Luke 18:35 (KJV)
4. Bartimaeus – “Son of Timaeus”
5. Luke 19:1 (KJV)
6. Luke 19:2 (KJV)
7. Zacchaeus – means “Pure and Justified”
8. Verse 2

 I.                Paradoxically

II.             Position

III.           Popularity

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Mark 9:1-10 

• They got a “Pre-Resurrection Glimpse” of a “Post-Resurrection Christ”

1. His Divinity Shining through His Glory 
2. His Identity That Comes From His Sovereignty 

• Tune In to God
• Tune Out things that oppose God
• Turn Up with what God has spoken

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