VCU Church Sermons

WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?

What We Do And How We Do It Tends To ______________ Who We Are As People.

Is There Anything That I’m Doing With My Life That Will ____________ After I’m Gone?

Is Your Love For Jesus So ________________ That They Identify You In That Manner Or Is It Something Else That May Not Be So Flattering?

The Reason That Many Frustrations Arise In The Lives Of Christians Today Is Due To The Fact That They Have Failed To Establish ________ and _________ Defines Them.

What Is The Importance Of Faithfully Following And Serving Jesus In His Kingdom Work?

Are There Benefits To Living A Life Of Faithful And Consistent Service?

Does God Openly Honor Those Who Faithfully Serve His Kingdom?

The World Hates Christians And What We Believe In. If We Are Faithful To Follow And Serve Christ, We Will Experience __________________ And _________________ For Doing So.

Daniel Persevered _____ The Trial Because He Was Faithful To Trust God __________ The Trial.

TAKE-AWAY: What Good Are We If We Fail To Be Faithful To ___________ _________________ The One That Died For Us?

ONE BEGGAR TO ANOTHER

___________________: One Beggar Telling Another Beggar Where To Find Bread.

Going From Desperation to ________________.

God Is Sovereign In Regards To The Circumstances That Surround Our Lives And He Keeps His Promises Both To The ________________ & _________________.

Many People Are So Dependent On The Government, Materialism, Human Ability, And Human Reasoning, That They Give Little Thought To The Fact That ________________ In This World Can Provide What We All Really Need And That Is To Trust In God.

When We’ve Finally Come To The End Of Ourselves And Choose To Seek Salvation, We Will Find That God Has ________________ Made Provision For Our Life.

We All Have A Type Of Leprosy Called _______ That Cripples Us And Makes It Impossible To Live As We Were Intended To. It Cause Us To Be Blinded To Truth, And Eventually Become Toxic To The Point Of Death.

Take-Away: God Keeps His Promises To _________ The Faithful And The Unfaithful.

WILL THE REAL ME PLEASE STEP FORWARD!

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Relational = “concerning the way things are connected”

David Knows That His Tendency Is To Drift Away From The ________________ ______________ That God Wants Him To Experience.

Am I Being Real or Just ________________?

Unchurched People Aren’t Interested In Christianity Because It Doesn’t Seem To Bring About Any _________ ____________ In People’s Lives.

Within The Church, There Seems To Be, At Times, No _____________ ___________ For Those Who Profess To Be Followers Of Jesus.

Can People _______________ Me As A Follower Of Christ By My Behavior Away From The Church?

Was David Concerned That His Prayers Had Become A ___________ To God Rather Than A Sweet Aroma?

Maybe David’s Behavior Didn’t ________ ____ With The Prayers That He Offered Up?

Is Our Lives _____________ With The Same Love For People That Jesus Had?

We Will Never Be Effective _______ Christ Until We Are Able To Show The Love ____ Christ Through Our Words.

Is Your Love For Jesus ______________ Enough To Cause Any Significant Changes In Your Behavior?

How Do Other People ______________ You?

TAKE-AWAY: Because I’m A Child Of God, Will The _______ ____ Please Step Forward?

You are the outline this week.

AM I COMPELLED?

“People Who Were Nothing Like Jesus __________ Jesus!”

The Reason The Church Doesn’t Reach More People For Christ Is Because We Don’t ___________ Or _________ Like Christ.

When I Learned To Love Jesus, The Natural Outflow From My Life Would Be To _____________ Him.

A Christian Is _________ Guilty Of Sin!

When Paul Realized That Jesus Loved Him And Accepted Him Just The Way He Was, It _______________ Him.

You Will Never Be “Compelled” Until You Are “_______________”.

It Will _____________ Our Decisions In Life.

People Who Have Never Experienced The Freedom That Comes From Knowing And Loving Jesus Always Feel A Sense Of Loss Rather Than A Realization Of ___________.

Reconcile = To Take Two Incompatible Things And Make Them _________________.

Reconciled People ________________ People To God!

Take-Away: If We Are Truly _______________ By Christ’s Love, Maybe, Just Maybe, Others Will Get It Also!

GIVE CAREFUL THOUGHT TO YOUR WAYS!

We Are A People By Nature That Are ________________ _____________ And We Tend To Evaluate Everything We Do According To The Outcome.

Are The Choices That I’m Making In Life Allowing Me To Have A ____________ Impact Or A ___________ Impact On God’s Kingdom?

Are We Making Most Of Our Decisions Based On How They Will ______________ Us Or How They Might _______________ Us To Be More Available To Be Used By God In His Kingdom?

They Placed Their Focus On ________________ ____________.

The Loss Of Blessings Should Be The ______________ Consequence That Is Consistent With Removing Oneself From An _______________ Relationship With God.

They Began To Become More ___________________ And Their Focus Turned Away To Their Own Comfort And Desires So They Became Negligent Of The Things That Would Keep Them Close To The Lord.

Under The New Covenant, The Bible Says That You And I Are The Temple Of God’s _______________ In The Person Of The Holy Spirit.

How Are We ______________ Up Our Own Spiritual House And In Doing So, Are We Tending To The Things That Pertain To __________ ______________?

The Church Is Full Of Good And _______________ ________________ But Most People Often Never Get Around To Doing Them Or Those That Do Seem To Be Dissatisfied With The Outcome.

When We Work _________ God, Not _______ Him, The Things That Concern Us Just Seem To Take Care Of Themselves.

Their Concerns And Worries Caused Them To Neglect Their First Purpose In Life And That Was To Bring Glory To God By _________________ An _______________ In Their Relationship With Him.

Take-Away: Are You Shooting Holes In Your Boat Because You’re ________________ The Intimacy With God And The __________________ To Work With Him As He Blesses All That You Do?

NOTES:

Ezekiel 12:2

When Everyone’s Thinking Is Worldly, Then Everyone’s Thinking Is _____________!

There Are Two Things That Should Concern Us Most;

Mankind Does Not Have The _______________ To Create A Better World In Which To Live. Only The Lord Is Capable Of That!

Blessings And Freedom Can Often Become A ______________ If Not Guarded Carefully!

There Is A _______________ Of Rebellion And Hatred That Is Driving People’s Behavior On Every Level Of Society.

We Too Often Put Our Hope In The Things Of This World And We _______________ Ourselves On Matters Of Life That Are Destined To _____________.

The Influences Of The World Can Cause Us _________________ _________________ If We Aren’t Careful To Remember His Promise Of Coming Back.

When We Think Like The World Rather Than As Our Father Would Have Us Think, We Become Ineffective In Regards To The Thing That Is Most Important, ___________________________________.

Take-Away: It Is A ___________ To Know And Believe That The Lord Is Coming Back.

COMPOSURE!

Anxiety/Sense Of Being Under Pressure

Satan Is Not _________________ Which Means All Knowing. Therefore He Doesn’t Have Access To Our Thoughts.

Satan Is Not _________________ Either Which Means That He Cannot Be Everywhere At The Same Time.

When Our Environment Is Conducive To Chaos, Because Of Our ________________, We Will Naturally Tend To Become Affected By It.

Doubts Arise From _______________ Our Own Thoughts. No One Can Make Us Doubt. We Can Only Be Tempted To Doubt.

Temptations Arise From _______________ Our Thoughts. It Is Our Own Desires And Doubts That Make Us Give In To Temptation.

Satan, As The Ruler Of This World, Creates An Environment That Tempts Our Thoughts To _________________ Us.

3 Enemies In Life; __________ The ____________ Our ___________ _______________: to remain calm

Composure Is Not Something That We Can Muster Up On Our Own Simply Because We Set Our Minds To It But It Is Something That The Holy Spirit _____________ As We Yield To Him.

How Does The Holy Spirit Teaches This To Us;

_______________ A Relationship With Jesus

Worry Is A Direct By-Product Of _______!

What Do We Pray About;

Take-Away: The Way We __________ Reflects How We ____________.

WHEN THE MUSIC IS GONE?

God Will Often Use ____________ _______________ To Break The Will Of His People In An Attempt To Get Them To Turn From Their Sinful Behavior.

The Tactics That God Uses May Sometimes Feel ___________ And ____________ But In Reality They Simply Reflect The Love That He Has For His People And His Efforts To Prevent Them From Perishing.

Because Of Israel’s _____________ To Trust God And Follow Him Only, Life Became Far More Difficult Than It Needed To Be.

When Things Happen In Life That We Don’t Understand, We Stand In Danger Of Our Relationship With God Becoming _____________ Because Of Our Lack Of Trust.

Most People Worship God Because Of What He ___________ ____ Rather Than Worshipping Him For Who He Is.

God Brings Discipline Upon His Children Because He _________ Them And Wants Them To Enter Into A Life That Brings Joy & Peace.

Can You Live Your Life Trusting That God Has ____________ __________ In Store For You Even If It Doesn’t Seem Like It Right Now?

Habakkuk 3:16-19 (NLT) 
16 I trembled inside when I heard this; my lips quivered with fear. My legs gave way beneath me, and I shook in terror. I will wait quietly for the coming day when disaster will strike the people who invade us. 
17 Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, 
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! 
19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights.