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It's Not About You
May 21, 2017
Sermon Notes—"It's Not About You"
"We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ."
Colossians 1:28 (NIV84)
Lesson Text:
11Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.' 12"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' 13"Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing. 14Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams? 15But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway, 16making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head. 17Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity." 18Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words." 19Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. 20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 21Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. 22May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. 23Yet you, O Lord, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Jeremiah 18:11–23 (ESV)
19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:19–20 (ESV)
26Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and give no opportunity to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26–27 (ESV)
When is it ok to be angry?
Reality #1: Most people would rather sin and SUFFER for it than to SUBMIT to God and enjoy His blessings.
Reality #2: People who reject God's authority will eventually direct their ANGER at those who STAND for Him.
Jeremiah WAS RIGHT, but his anger was UNRIGHTEOUS because it was rooted in SELFISHNESS.
Righteous anger is being angry at the RIGHT THINGS in the RIGHT WAY.
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By May 21, 2017
Sermon Notes—"It's Not About You"
"We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ."
Colossians 1:28 (NIV84)
Lesson Text:
11Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.' 12"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' 13"Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing. 14Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams? 15But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway, 16making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head. 17Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity." 18Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words." 19Hear me, O Lord, and listen to the voice of my adversaries. 20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them. 21Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle. 22May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. 23Yet you, O Lord, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.
Jeremiah 18:11–23 (ESV)
19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:19–20 (ESV)
26Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and give no opportunity to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26–27 (ESV)
When is it ok to be angry?
Reality #1: Most people would rather sin and SUFFER for it than to SUBMIT to God and enjoy His blessings.
Reality #2: People who reject God's authority will eventually direct their ANGER at those who STAND for Him.
Jeremiah WAS RIGHT, but his anger was UNRIGHTEOUS because it was rooted in SELFISHNESS.
Righteous anger is being angry at the RIGHT THINGS in the RIGHT WAY.