When Feelings Get In The Way
Sermon Delivered on February 20, 2011While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown."
When he said this, he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Luke 8:4-8
Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away.
Luke 8:13
God is ______________, Like No Other
Who among the gods is like you, O LORD? Who is like you — majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
Exodus 15:11
Can you fathom the mysteries of God?
Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
They are higher than the heavens — what can you do?
They are deeper than the depths of the grave-what can you know?
Their measure is longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.
Job 11:7-9
He is the Rock, his works are perfect,
and all his ways are just.
A faithful God who does no wrong,
upright and just is he.
Deuteronomy 32:4
I Can Be ______________ and __________________, Too
He has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature.
2 Peter 1:4
Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:7
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
John 17:14
I Show My Love by ________________ ____ for His Word
Sanctity of Life
From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God.
Psalm 22:10
Sexual Purity
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
God’s Design for Marriage
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
Follow Jesus’ Example of Commitment to __________________
Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 15:3
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him in the face.
John 19:1-3
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me." For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
