First General Baptist

Message: I can’t get you out of my mind  

Text: 2 Timothy 1:3-7  

Vs 5 – First: Do you really have it?  

Next: Pass it on to someone.  

Pass it on…  

Vs 3-4 – Willie Nelson, “You Were Always On My Mind.”  

Vs 5, 7 – Your faith when they have lost faith in themselves. Apostle Paul’s facebook account.  

Vs 6 – Fan into flames the inner fire.  

1. How many people are more faithful to Jesus because of your faithfulness?

2. How many people are less faithful to Jesus because of your lack of faithfulness? Or, how many people would be more faithful to Jesus if you would be?

3. Are you affecting anyone at all by your faith?

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 2:10  

“Perfect” means complete, mature, finished.  

When did Jesus’ suffering begin?                         

When did your suffering begin?  

Shaping to the perfect fit.  

 Abraham Lincoln, "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this, but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise…we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains.Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay."

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 2:6-9  

What is man?...  

From telescope to microscope  

Psalm 8 David studying the universe  

Psalm 139 David studying himself  

Why man?...  

There is something wrong with each of us, and Jesus knows what that is. So why us?                                        

 Your worth is not what you are, but whose you are.  

Why Jesus?...  

Jesus is not watching you, He wants to be with you.  

“But we see Jesus.”  

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 2:1-4  

“Drift away” is a nautical/mariner term—a boat slowing drifting away, almost unnoticeable.  

What is the ultimate goal of your life? Where is your life leading you, where are you going?  

“Neglecting” is not rejecting, it is indifference. It’s the point where you no longer care that you don’t care.  

C.S. Lewis, “And as a matter of fact, if you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away.?”  

Take back control of your boat!                             

“More earnest heed” (More close attention) Not less, not the same, but more.

Message: The Letter to the Hebrews

Text: Hebrews 2:5-9

The curse and the cure of sin—death

Genesis 2:16-17, Romans 6:23

The only way Jesus could suffer death is to be made like us, who are under the curse of death, because of our sin.

The application first…

Your life is the most you have. No one can give more than their life, or their death. Life and death is the ultimate. The death of Jesus takes away the lesser options.

Reconsider casual Christianity

Justice + Mercy = Grace.

Justice was poured out on Jesus. Grace is poured out on us. Grace isn’t fair…that’s the point.

Jesus is always reaching down, waiting for you to reach up.

Message: The Epistle to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 1:1-14  

Jesus is better than…  

Jesus is: 1) By inheritance, the owner of everything. Everything is His. 2) The creator of everything.        3) The very image of what God is. 4) The sustainer of everything (it’s one thing to create it, it’s more to keep it going once created) 5) The savior of everyone who will receive Him 6) His saving work was finished on the cross.  

Jesus is better than…the angels.  

The best is not always replaced by the worst, but more gradually, by the good.  

So, Jesus is better than ________? 

Message: The Epistle to the Hebrews  

Text: Hebrews 1:1-2  

This letter was written—and probably spoken—to a group of Hebrew Christians who had never seen Jesus. Because of persecution they were being tempted to go back to Judaism, this letter encourages them to go forward with Jesus, not back.  

“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”  

Jesus is God’s final Word to man. He has spoken!  

The Word is God breathed—it’s what God thinks, it’s who He is. Nothing can change the Word…ever!  

God has spoken to us through Jesus Christ, what did He say? Seeing Red 

Message: The Lord’s Supper

Text: 1 Corinthians 11:17-33

11:17-26, 33 Look around you…

“The character of a society can be measured by how they treat the weakest among them.”

The fast wait for the slow, the strong wait for the weak.

Did you come today to get or to give?

Who is the slowest person here today?

Who is the weakest person here today?

11:27-32 Look within you…

One day that slowest…weakest person may be you.

Ridding yourself of self.

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus…”

Message: The gospel according to Luke  

Text: Recap  

Luke 8:40-56 (48, 50)  

Hope! / Not sure of hope / Hope! / No hope / Hope!  

“He is not far from each one of us.” (Acts 17:27)  

Luke 8 Jairus’ daughter  

Luke 7 Widow’s son  

John 11 Lazarus  

Jesus came for you!  

Luke 2:10-11  

Luke 15 Lost sheep / Lost coin / Lost son  

Luke 19:10

Message: The gospel according to Luke

Text: Luke 24:50-53 The End (And The Beginning)

Westminster Shorter Catechism

Question: What is the chief end of man?

Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.

(106 more questions)

For every generation worship is a work in progress…every generation learns again what it means to worship and praise.

Worship: When you see yourself for who you really are and you see Jesus for who He really is and you see the difference.

It’s hard to worship If: you are haughty, proud, self centered, self satisfied.

It’s hard to worship if: you are bitter, vengeful, angry, disappointed in Jesus.