"I'm 'scoping' Jesus, because I've got a race to run!

Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. We lack endurance, because we're not keeping our eyes on Jesus as the "Finisher."

Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Philippians 1:6 NKJV

6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49030241

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DO YOU NOT KNOW?

Your life doesn't belong to you.

You were bought at a price.

Your life cost Jesus His life. He paid the debt that you were never able to repay.

Your body is a temple of Holy Spirit.

You are joined to the VINE - IF you abide in Jesus!

"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s." 1 Corinthians 6:15-20

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full." John 15:5-11

1 Corinthians 2

1 Corinthians 6

John 15:5-11

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What wouldn’t you do to GET TO JESUS?

Guest speaker Matt Woodruff shares his story of addiction, redemption, and the freedom that comes from Jesus Christ ALONE.

"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬ ‭(NLT‬‬)

"I know what it means to lack, and I know what it means to experience overwhelming abundance. For I’m trained in the secret of overcoming all things, whether in fullness or in hunger. And I find that the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty." Philippians 4:12-13 (TPT)

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Main Scripture References:

Mark 5:25-34 NKJV ( a Woman Healed)

Matthew 14:13-21 NKJV (Feeding the Five Thousand)

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"I have something you can't take from me.

I have something that endures forever." -Pastor Chad Everett

We won't grow and be like Jesus in easy times. We become like Jesus through adversity. Persecution is coming, and God is saying that it is time for us to be prepared, to ENDURE. What we have, what we own, what is in our bank accounts - THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL OF THIS IS TEMPORARY.

WE CAN NOT PUT OUR FAITH OR HOPE IN EARTHLY THINGS.

We have to put our faith AND our hope in an ENDURING possession.

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49016749

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But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

“For yet a little while,

and He who is coming will come and will not tarry.

Now the just shall live by faith;

but if anyone draws back,

my soul has no pleasure in him.” Hebrews 10:32-39 (NKJV)

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If Christ fasted, should Christians fast?

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God is wanting to prepare the Bride for the days ahead, and fasting is a key tool that will help us be prepared. Fasting is something EVERY Christian should do.

Fasting is difficult! Pastor Chad Everett said “I do not feel led to fast! I feel like eating!” What we feel doesn’t determine our direction. What Jesus says determines our direction. (Matthew 6:16)

Therefore, we must ENDURE difficult things (like fasting; see last week’s sermon) to PREPARE ourselves for what is ahead. We are grateful to Holy Spirit for using this teaching to encourage us, and prepare us for the temptation ahead of us.

Temptation IS coming, temptation IS real, and temptation IS coming to us all.

Main Scripture References:

“Now, therefore,” says the Lord,

“Turn to me with all your heart,

With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”

Joel 2:12 (NKJV)

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:1-4

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49013634

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Our faith grows stronger through adversity. Are we willing for Jesus to lead us into difficult situations? When we allow the Spirit to lead us, He will lead us into places we don't like.

Satan will lead us into temptation with the agenda to trap us, causing us to fail and walk away from God. The Spirit will also lead us into an encounter with the enemy, not to hurt us, but His agenda is to reveal strength in us against the accuser that we didn't know was in us. We must be prepared, and recognize the difference as we encounter difficult seasons.

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49011295

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LEAVE ALL. RISE UP. FOLLOW HIM.

Jesus gives the invitation to "Follow Me." Just like Matthew, what we decide to do after the invitation determines the relationship. There should be a measurable difference in our lives when we choose to follow Jesus.

What are you not willing to leave for God? Is it holding you back from truly following Him?

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49008487

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Faith - is it a matter of it being too small? Does our Faith really need to grow? Or is it that we need to increase our kŏinōnia - our partnership, our fellowship, our communion with our faith given to us by God, and eliminate our kŏinōnia with everything else? What if rather than "increasing our faith," we realize that we're partnering with too many other things, other than our faith, and what God says?

If we, as believers are communing with unbelief, with fears, with discouragement and disappointments, asking we're others, and not God to speak into our situations, and we kŏinōnia with them, guess what?! We get the benefits and privileges attached to those partnerships. Whatever is being produced in and out of that communion, will begin to produce out of you.

Who are you hanging out with, what are you listening to and watching, what are you embracing? We have to sit down with Holy Spirit and ask where we kŏinōnia with the wrong things. Until we do, we will never walk in freedom.

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49001763

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The disciples were instructed by Jesus to "go" with nothing - not even food or extra clothing, and when He asked them if they lacked anything on their journey, they replied, "Nothing."

Do you lack anything? Or is Jesus enough? Is there anything you are dependent on that if you are given a choice between it and Jesus, you'd choose it over Jesus? A job? A bank account? A house? Things we all "need?"

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It's only after Jesus speaks to us and shines into our lives does it create opposing forces operating in our lives. Before Jesus, only darkness leads us. With Jesus, we now have His light shining on the things of darkness, exposing them. It isn't once I find Jesus, I have no struggles, but rather, once I find Jesus the struggle begins. "Am I going to follow the Lord, or No?" The body of Christ hasn't endured the struggle, because we've believed for too long that once we find Jesus, it's going to be a utopia. The struggle is real! We must endure!

SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/48994115

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