Sermon Title:
How To Live Confidently In A Chaotic World -
Stay Consistent
"Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him. I write to you, dear children, because the darkness has blinded him. I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His Name. I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, becasue you have known the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth."
This coming week I will speak on the need to be consistent in our lives and faith. Dr David Jeremiah, in his book, Living With Confidence In a Chaotic World, writes the following concerning the consistent living:
"The truth is, the world itself is inconsistent enough. Our stock market is the very study of inconstancy with its roller-coaster gains and losses. Nothing is stable about international politics, and on a social level, we see marrriages struggling and careers going bust. The only consistent things about our world is that it's inconsistent. What about you? Are you the same person on Mondays that you are on Sundays? Do solid biblical principles guide each section of your life? These are hard questions, and issues that aren't always pleasant to consider. But one of the biblical essentials for getting through times like these is to live a life of solid consistency - to be one person through and through, to be an example of tough-minded integrity that does not throw out the game plan just because things have gotten tougher."
Consistency is in short supply in our world today. On Sunday, we will talk about how to be consistently confident, compliant and consistent. Hope to see you then!
"Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him. I write to you, dear children, because the darkness has blinded him. I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of His Name. I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, becasue you have known the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth."
This coming week I will speak on the need to be consistent in our lives and faith. Dr David Jeremiah, in his book, Living With Confidence In a Chaotic World, writes the following concerning the consistent living:
"The truth is, the world itself is inconsistent enough. Our stock market is the very study of inconstancy with its roller-coaster gains and losses. Nothing is stable about international politics, and on a social level, we see marrriages struggling and careers going bust. The only consistent things about our world is that it's inconsistent. What about you? Are you the same person on Mondays that you are on Sundays? Do solid biblical principles guide each section of your life? These are hard questions, and issues that aren't always pleasant to consider. But one of the biblical essentials for getting through times like these is to live a life of solid consistency - to be one person through and through, to be an example of tough-minded integrity that does not throw out the game plan just because things have gotten tougher."
Consistency is in short supply in our world today. On Sunday, we will talk about how to be consistently confident, compliant and consistent. Hope to see you then!
