Live Right And Patiently Persevere - Pastor Greg Kritz March 12, 2017

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Living Right Means Living With Awareness That God Is In Charge

James 4:13-14 (NLT)

13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.

James 4:14-15 (NLT)

What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

My life is not technically mine anymore 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT)

19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,20 for God bought you with a high price.

Jesus is 100% in charge of the universe

  

Matthew 28:18-19 (NLT)

18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Go into all the nations…

God put everything under Jesus’ authority for our benefit

Ephesians 1:22 (NLT)

22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made Him head over all things for the benefit of the church.

Jesus rules over kings, presidents and prime ministers 

Revelation 1:5 (NLT)

He (Jesus) is the faithful witness to these things, the first to rise from the dead, and the ruler of all the Kings of the world.

Because Jesus is 100% in charge, it’s arrogant of us to live like He doesn’t exist.

James 4:16 (NLT)

16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

Anyone Who Does Their Plan At The Expense Of God’s Plan Is Guilty Of Sin.

James 4:17 (NLT)

17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

What’s In Your Box Of Plans? 

 

James 5:1-6 (NLT)

James warns rich oppressors who built their wealth on the backs of the innocent

James 5:7 (NLT) 

7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.  

I patiently endure 
because God will 
settle the score.

Romans 12:19 (NLT)

19 Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say,

“I will take revenge;

     I will pay them back,”

     says the LORD.

I Can Patiently Endure Suffering Because God Will Make It Right.

James 5:8-9 (NLT)

8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near. 

9 Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

Preparing Myself In Advance For Whatever Is Ahead Will Help Me To Patiently Persevere.

Jesus Will Return When You’re Not Expecting It.

Luke 17:28-30 (NLT)

28 “And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business—eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building— 29 until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. 

Luke 17:28-30 (NLT)

30 Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Matthew 24:42 (NASB)

42 “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.

Mark 13:33 (NASB)

33 “Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.

Revelation 3:3(NASB)

3… I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

Matthew 24:6-8 (NASB)

6 You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that