Westside Sermons

What is the source of fuel in your relationships? It's easy to replace the Holy Spirit as a fuel source with kids, traveling, and other things. They are all good things, but they are not infinite. They will run out. The Holy Spirit is infinite, and he must be the source of fuel for our relationships.

There is a process we see in Acts 2 that will determine your destiny here on this earth. Through faith in Jesus, your eternal destiny has been determined. When you follow Jesus, there is a process that will determine your earthly destiny. But in order for this process to take place, you must begin.

Your greatest potential in life always involves loving and serving others. God has given you specific gifts to be used to become more like him and to love and serve others. As we study what becoming like Christ looks like, we must maintain a perspective that views God as the author and transformer of our life.

The Holy Spirit calls people through faith to fellowship in his church.

And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. Acts 2:46-47 (ESV)

42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Acts 2:42 (ESV)

Reaching your greatest potential in Christ involves a person and a process. 

The person? Jesus Christ.
The process? Believe, Belong, Become, Begin

Believe What? This is how we begin our study in Acts 2. 

5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned
John 15:5-6 (ESV)

Jesus is the true vine. 

When we keep Jesus' commands, we abide in him. The key to producing fruit in your faith is through abiding in Jesus.

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 (ESV)

The primacy and preeminence of Christ must rule over all. He rules over your reasoning, your relationships, and your requests.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. 

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”​ John 8:12 (ESV)

Jesus is the only light of the world. He makes a way to the Father through his light. As we look at what Jesus says, we learn the impact of his statement on humans on a grand scale and on you as an individual.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst." John 6:35 (ESV)

What does Jesus being the bread of life mean for you? Jesus is the word of God made flesh, prepared by the Father. Through the bread, God gives us life in Christ.

Sin distanced us from God, but as believers, it is inexcusable to be intentionally distant from God. Everything we have is his and everything we do is for him. 

John 15:4 says, "4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me." 

Believers in Jesus must abide in Christ daily. We must continually seek the presence of God.