Front Porch Confessional

We are back!  After a year and a half we have a new focus of walking through a verse from every chapter in the gospels.  

In this episode we look at the genealogy in the first 16 verses and realize that most of those people had no idea they were apart of ushering in the Messiah.  But what does that mean for you?  As you listen and reflect on this truth you will discover how important you are.

Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

It has been my great joy to be with you all over the last 5.5 years.  This podcast has been the journey of my life with Christ and with you all.  Along the way, Solomon inspired by the Spirit of God has helped me discerned my days.  

THANK YOU

 Ecclesiastes 7:13 Watch the way God works and fall in line, don't fight the ways for God, for who can makes straight what God has made crooked.

You are powerful, but do you know where that power comes from?

1 John 4:4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

We are afraid of our sin...so we avoid and run away from it.  David models a life lived in the presence of God, and he is not afraid to confess his sin.

Psalms 51:3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

We tend to trust ourselves when we shouldn't.  Solomon is trying to show how arrogant and prideful this is, and ultimately leads to death.  Jesus wants to give us life and life to the full...trust in him.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

This is so hard, but you can protest God and have hope in him.  He is greater than your circumstance.

Job 13:15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face

We struggle with God's timing.  We believe we know what's best.  God makes decisions with all of eternity in mind and Pastor Peter is reminding us and this church, to rest in God's timing.

2 Peter 3:8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

We are always returning to the Lord!  In Jeremiah 29 the Lord is laying out a plan to the Israelites on how they will go away and the will faithfully have them return.  We need to learn to return to the Lord with our whole hearts.

Jeremiah 29:12-13 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 

Jesus says it so beautifully here...eternal life is not just something we experience in heaven, it starts right now!!!

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

As humans, we're control freaks.  We believe as we hold on we're gaining something instead of realizing what we're losing.  Jesus knows, and he trying to help reorient us

Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.