Pastor Jeremy | BFBC-Glendive | Sunday

The Barna study on the state of church/religion in this

next generation.

● Church, marriage, family, & truth are all on the

chopping block.

● Today we are fed this “do what you want” agenda

that is opposite christianity’s assignment of

denying yourself & serving others.

1 Thes 2:13 For this reason we also thank God without

ceasing, because when you received the word of God

which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word

of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also

effectively works in you who believe.

● They heard the Word - selective hearing or paying

attention

● They received the Word - daydreaming or meditating

● They welcomed the Word - critical Carl or faith

● They became imitators of the Word - doer or hearer

only

● The Word began to work in their lives.

○ It became operative, productive, functioning

○ (TPT) And the word continues to be an

energizing force in you who believe.

Rom 10:13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD

shall be saved.”14 How then shall they call on Him in

whom they have not believed? And how shall they

believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how

shall they hear without a preacher?

● Preach the Word

● Hear the Word

● Believe in Him

● Call on Him

● You’re saved!

Parable of the Sower Matt 13

● The sower and the seed in this story are both

consistent.

● The variable in the production is the soil.

Family: Eph 6:1, Col 3:20, Prov 22:6

Marriage: Gen 2, Eph 5, 1 Peter 3