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FOOD
There is a coffee shop here in Kaitaia, where you can watch TV while you are drinking your coffee.
It seems to me that whenever I go there for a cup of coffee, I watch a food programme. Do you know which verse from the Bible comes to my mind? The answer is Philippians 3:19. It says there:
…, THEIR GOD IS THEIR STOMACH, …”
Sermon Outline – NT – NIV
“For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears,
Philippians 3:18,19
Intr.:
many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
1. Their destiny is destruction,
2. their god is their stomach, and
3. their glory is in their shame.
4. Their mind is on earthly things.”
End:
Two Tests for ME!
YOU WHO TELL OTHERS NOT TO DO WRONG, DO YOU DO WRONG?
(You find more questions like this in Paul’s letter to the Romans, in Romans 2:21-23)
I am going to divide the above sentence into two parts:
YOU WHO TELL OTHERS NOT TO DO WRONG, …
I did that only yesterday.
… DO YOU DO WRONG?
And straight after that I had to prove that I do not do wrong.
First of all I was given two dollars too much change and secondly I found a beautiful mobile phone and sunglasses in a toilet. I cannot remember when I received too much change the last time and I cannot remember ever finding a mobile phone and sunglasses.
I gave back the two dollars and handed in the sunglasses and the mobile phone.
“A CLEAN CONSCIENCE MAKES A SOFT PILLOW.”
“Don’t sweat …”
“Before me every knee will bow; …” – Isaiah 45:23
When a lady in our church service prayed that the day will come on which everyone will kneel down before the Lord Jesus Christ, something stirred within me.
“I must remember that, when I talk to people again about what the Lord has done for me,” (Personal Evangelism, short P.E.) I told myself.
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
Philippians 2:9-11
Intr.:
that at the name of Jesus
1. every knee should bow,
a. in heaven and
b. on earth and
c. under the earth, and
2. every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
End:
to the glory of God the Father.”
Please read also Isaiah 45:23 and Romans 14:11.
In Ephesians 3:14 the apostle Paul says that he is kneeling down before the Father and in Psalm 95:6 the Psamist says to us: “COME, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel down before the LORD our Maker; … ” Why should we do that? The Psalmist gives the answer, “For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.”
Most of the people we talk to do not bow down before the Lord and do not confess to God, but I know now afresh that the day will come that they will bow before God and will confess to God and I will tell them. Read Romans 14:11
I am thankful to the Lord that I am bowing down before him already!
War Cry Giveaway
To win a copy of A Field for Exploits,
tell us how you plan to grow spiritually this year.
For a long time I have kown the song for children “Read your Bible and pray every day …”
Looking for it, I found it eventually on the internet. Here is the first verse:
“Read your Bible and pray every day,
Pray every day, Pray every day.
Read your bible and pray every day
and you’ll grow, grow, grow!
1. Read your Bible every day
2. Pray every day
3. Read devotional books .The following I read:
UNTO THE HILLS by Billy Graham
MORNING AN EVENING, Daily Reading by C. H. Spurgeon
RENEWED DAY BY DAY, A Daily Devotional by A. W. Tozer
And I have also devotional books in German.
4. Read other good books.
By other books I am thinking about books like COMPETENT TO COUNCEL by Jay E. Adams
5. Church
Find a church that is vibrant, a church that is alive.
I have followed that course of action in the past and I think it will also work in the year 2013!
