C. S. Lewis said, "God whispers to us in our pleasures; he speaks to us in our work; he shouts at us in our pain."

Pay Attention - "Pay attention to this, Job. Stop and consider the wonderful miracles of God!" Job 37:14

Be B.O.L.D.  (Believe/Obey/Learn/Depend)

Outwork Yesterday

Philippians 3:13-16  "Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained."

"Lord Jesus, You are the way, the truth, and the life; hear us as we pray for the truth that shall make all free. Teach us that liberty is not only to be loved but also to be lived. Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. It costs too much to be hoarded. Help us see that our liberty is not the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to please to do what is right."   Peter Marshall

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."   2 Corinthians 3:17

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."   John Diefenbaker

FOUNDATION for FREEDOM is CHRIST

Freedom rings TRUE

THE BIGGER THINGS ISSUE (Love over, NOT against, Knowledge)

"Lord, I offer my heart to you, promptly and sincerely."  John Calvin

"Having dismissed earthly things, I applied myself to explorations of the heavens."  Galileo

"Improvise.  Adapt.  Overcome."  The Green Berets Motto

Living and SACRIFICE can go together...

Don't kid yourself

Identify, Surrender, Improve, Serve.  -  How would you complete these sentences?

God has given me skill in the area of  _______________.

On a 1 to 10 scale, I am using it at the level of  ___________.

      4. Live by the Spirit and here is the test... love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control

1 Corinthians 7

"Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and co-founder of The Future of Life Institute, looks forward to what he calls Life 3.0. Here's how he outlines his three stages of human development: Life 1.0: Our biological origins. Life 2.0: Humanity develops culture and early technology. Life 3.0: The merging of the human body with artificial intelligence."

We Do Need an Upgrade or to Realize We've BEEN Upgraded – "She said to him, 'Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.'"  John 11:27

"Jesus has said to his disciples, 'I will rise on the third day.' He said it in Mark 8, again in Mark 9, and yet again in Mark 10. Given that repetition, something curious is going on."  Tim Keller

We Do Need an Upgrade or to Realize We've BEEN Upgraded

Remember to NOT Forget

"Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection."  Watchman Nee

 

TODAY is the day for New Beginnings

"There can never be an increasing love for Jesus without an increasing abhorrence for sin."  Sinclair Ferguson

"Love and do what you will."   Augustine

Salvation and all of life IS God-centered

LOVE GOD & HATE SIN

LOVE ONE ANOTHER ACTIVELY

PRAY... PRAY... PRAY

1 Peter 1:22-23  "Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God."

"We should not ask, 'what is wrong with the world?' For that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, 'What has happened to salt and light?'"  -John Stott

A DIFFERENT STANDARD  –  "Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe."  -Augustine

A DIFFERENT APPLICATION  –  Mountain Movers