God Is: The Cross

Keeping Your Eyes On The Cross

NOTE: Cross holds no power. Power is in Who the cross held.

Can idol worship– bury mary to sell house – buy a kit online – SATAN COUNTERFEITS

God creates – devil counterfeits – We Turn Glory into Gloom.

Jesus told disciples He would die and return. Eyes OFF cross – glory to gloom.

Eyes on the Cross - NOT EVERYTHING IS AS IT SEEMS – Glory to Gloom

Allow the Cross to be your example!

Flood – Here comes the rain NOT God’s redemptive grace poured out on Noah.

Samuel Visits Jesse – That boy stinks like sheep NOT God anointed David as King.

Goliath – That giant is big NOT our God is much bigger.

Jesus Incarnation – That’s just a baby NOT the Messiah is born.

Crucifixion – Jesus was dead NOT the King has risen.

End Times / Book of Revelation – Times are going to be hard NOT the King is returning.

Rapture – I miss my life on earth NOT I’ll rejoice with God in heaven.

Eternity – That’s a long time in heaven NOT It’s better than the alternative.

*** Thanks to the CROSS, we can cling to the assurance of Romans 8:28.

How Did Jesus Suffer?

- Jesus was nailed to a wooden cross to die of asphyxiation (no air in lungs)

- Pain so horrendous a word invented—excruciating—which literally means “from out of the cross.” Original Latin is excruciare.

- Psychological warfare –120 miles / 6000 - Public intimidation of people. Just like Satan does to us.

- The most powerful force on the earth (Rome) unleashed their full fury on Him as a substitute for the Jewish agenda.

- The most powerful force of all (God) unleashed His full mercy on us through the substitute for the redemption agenda. Jesus was our substitute for sin’s death.

How to Suffer Well:

- Suffering is an opportunity for God to do something good in and through you.

- Suffering allows you to rejoice not in the pain but in what can accomplish for the gospel.

- Suffering is not wasted but used for God’s glory, your joy, and others’ good.

- Suffering returns your eyes to the cross.

For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. - 1 Peter 2:19

- Suffering fixes our perspective on higher things.

NOTE: In Jesus’ greatest physical and spiritual suffering, He:

- Gave a criminal hanging next to Him entry into heaven,

- Had compassion on those who loved and hated Him,

- Asked His father to forgive those who crucified Him because they didn’t know what they were doing.

- Assigned legacy care of his mother to John

- Chose the moment when He gave up His spirit.

- Glorified God the Father.

Are Your Eyes On the Cross?

- Is your life a public spectacle? Getting bashed at home, on social media or at work?

- Feel like the crowd is screaming Crucify him / her?

- Feel like you’ve been buried and forgotten?

- Haters in full effect?

- I told you so’s having a field day?

- Feel like your hanging up there all alone?

What the enemy meant for evil, God will use for good

GLORY not GLOOM

God Is Series - Image

God Is – Image (02-06-2022)

God Is: IMAGE

Five Stones Church Dr. Scott Silverii (02-06-2022)

Let’s lay another stone on the foundation of what we are creating here. 

-Trinity 

-Revelation 

-Creation 

-IMAGE 

"I want to know what God looks like so I can look like God." 

– ONE word best describes you? Life-shaping. Identity rooted in that ONE Word - what we do - where we work - mistakes we’ve made - trauma we’ve endured - successes we achieved and simply - who we perceive ourselves to be. Yet, we still struggle with - “Who am I?” 

“I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam,” Popeye the Sailor Man.

"But, because of God’s grace, that is what I am. And his grace that he gave me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But I was not really the one working. It was God’s grace that was with me.)" 1 Corinthians 15:10

Popeye relied own ability and spinach, We are: - Created to mirror the image of God. 

- Anything else is a counterfeit identity narrative. 

NEVER know fullness of JOY outside of God’s image. 

STOP rejecting who God said you are 

STOP allowing everything else define you. 

Bible tells us: 

1. Who God is 

2. Who we are. 

Any revelation outside of God is fake, self-created and Satan celebrated.

YOU ARE GOD's IMAGE BEARER

‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27

How to Change My Word / IMAGE? 

Four P’s of Gaining God’s Image 

1. Put on new self – repent and believe Jesus is Savior and Lord Colossians 3:10 - “and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” 

2. Pursue knowledge (revelation) of who God is – Bible James 1:5 –“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” 

3. Practice sanctification of His image through living righteousness and holiness Ephesians 4:24 – “and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” 

4. Possess the image of God through being conformed Romans 8:29 – “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.”

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