StoneBridge Church // Sermon of the Week

When we are neglecting God's plans for our lives, He will often frustrate our plans to get our attention and turn our focus back to Him.

God isn't interested in doing business with you, He wants to be in a relationship with you. When we negotiate with God we fail to realize that everything we already have is his.

We all have a Mara in our lives (someone who has become bitter from their circumstances). If we reach out to them in love and devotion, God will orchestrate things so we can introduce them to the One who redeems.

We are all headed for Judgment. The question is whether we want to be judged based on what is written in the book of our life or the Book of Jesus' Life.

The Great Prostitute described in Revelations 16-19 represents the End Time anti-Christian Kingdom. What we will see in the End Times will differ only in scope and intensity from what we experience now. We must learn to engage with Jesus to combat the pull towards the worldly values of politics, lukewarm religion, and economics.

We need the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life. The Holy Spirit seals us through tribulations, confirms Truth in our Spirit to keep us from being deceived, strengthens us to stand firm, and empowers us to do the work of ministry and evangelism.

It is important to be able to identify deception. Satan's strategy is to get us to believe anything other than the Gospel. As we become firmly planted in the Truth, and know the voice of God, we will be able to distinguish Truth from the lies.

We don't want to be people with no roots. We are to be firmly planted in the love of God so that when tribulations come, we can stand firm to the end.

When we understand that God is a God who not only wants us, but pursues us with relentless love, it transforms our lives and fuels our passion to seek Him.

We don't know the day or the hour when Jesus is coming back, we just know He IS coming. What can we do to prepare and be ready?