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Welcome & Announcements (Bubba)
Good morning family!
Please take your seats.
5 Announcements:
1) Connect Card
Thank guests for attending
Explain what the Connect Card is, where to find it, and where to return it
2) Baby Bottle Campaign
To support the ministry of CareNet, a gospel-minded ministry on the front lines in the fight against abortion
Grab a bottle, fill up with money, and return on or before Feb 26
Bottles available at the Missions wall
3) Members Meeting tonight
Potluck at 5:30 (we’ll eat what you bring!), meeting at 6
Encourage people of the importance of attending
Packets available at the exits
4) Theology Week at Temple Baptist Church
Jan. 15-18
Dinner at 5:30, teaching from 6-7:30 pm
Childcare is provided
Teaching from Wes Taylor (Temple Baptist) Nathan Cecil (Fox Hill Road Baptist), Kenny D’Auria (Reformation Christian Fellowship), Hopson Boutot, and Jeff Mingee (SBCV)
5) NextGen Vision Luncheon
Parents, teachers, and NextGen volunteers join us immediately following the Sunday morning service on the 22nd from 12:30-1:30 for the NextGen Vision Luncheon.
This will be a great opportunity to ask questions, learn more about how we plan to disciple your kids from lost to leader, and to engage with other parents.
For more information you can speak with Sam at the blue flag after the service.
Now please take a moment of silence to prepare your heart for worship.
Call to Worship (Psalm 86:8-10)
Prayer of Praise (Penny Adams)
Great Things
Lovingkindness
Prayer of Confession (Ronnie Evans), sinful words
Let the Nations Be Glad
There is a Fountain
Scripture Reading (Matthew 12:33-42)
Pastoral Prayer (Bubba)
SERMON
START TIMER!!!
In 2011, Alex Bedolla was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and had a defibrillator installed.
Several years later, he had a stroke that affected his mobility, and his health was rapidly deteriorating.
"I was getting weaker and weaker," Alex remembers.
"I couldn't walk a few steps without stopping to take a breath."
Alex’s only hope to stand was a new heart.
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Most of us may never know what it’s like to be on a heart transplant list.
But whether we realize it or not, all of us have more in common with this man than we think.
Turn to Matthew 12:33
Controversy in Jesus’ ministry
Pharisees just accused Him of casting out demons with the power of Satan
Jesus’ response to the Pharisees isn’t just directed to them, but to all of us.
Our only hope to stand before a holy God is a new heart.
Six truths that support this big idea:
1) All People Bear FRUIT
12:33—Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.
Pharisees have just accused Jesus of casting out demons with Satan’s power
They look holy, sound holy, probably even smell holy, but the words they’re speaking are evil.
Jesus is saying, “make up your minds! are you guys good or evil?!?
If you’re good, quit speaking evil words!
If you’re bad, why do you act like you’re good?”
Then He says “the tree is known by its fruit.”
This is very similar to Jesus’ words in...
Matthew 7:17-20—So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.
A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
In both instances, Jesus is saying that the way to tell what type a person you’re dealing with is the fruit of their lives
Examining ourselves for communion—do our lives bear fruit of belonging to Jesus?
The Bible doesn’t say our lives must bear fruit perfectly.
Does an apple tree have to be perfect to be healthy?
Even on a healthy apple tree there are unproductive branches, and the occasional bad apple.
Not to mention there’s plenty of critters who love to gnaw at that fruit whenever they can reach it.
So too a Christian may have unproductive places in their lives, as well as sin struggles that gnaw at the good fruit the Spirit wants to produce in their lives.
But there are some apple trees that are so diseased at the root that they don’t bear a single useful apple.
That tree may even look more healthy than an ordinary apple tree.
But once you slice the apple you see it’s rotten to the core.
It’s an apple tree in name only—it doesn’t bear good fruit!
The unbeliever won’t have good fruit at all.
And what appears to be good fruit is rotten to the core.
It’s self-serving, bitter, and proud.
Which one are you?
Recognizing all people bear fruit is the first step to understanding why our only hope to stand before a holy God is a new heart.
Maybe you’re concerned so you decide to try harder to bear good fruit this year.
This is like stapling apples on an unhealthy apple tree
The problem is not fixed by focusing on the fruit, but on the root!
The same is true spiritually...
2) All Fruit Comes from the HEART
12:34—You brood of vipers!
How can you speak good, when you are evil?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
In verse 33 Jesus was talking about the bad fruit of the Pharisees’ blasphemous words
Here he says they’re speaking that way because of a deeper, root problem: the human heart.
Let me remind you what I said a few months ago about the word “heart” in the Bible...
Not the blood-pumping organ in your chest
Not entirely right to view the heart as your feelings either.
The Bible divides you into two pieces—outer self and inner self
Body = outer self
Bible uses many terms for inner self: mind, emotion, soul, spirit, will
Those words are summarized by the word HEART
Paul David Tripp— “This term [heart] is used in almost a thousand passages of Scripture.
It’s one of the most well-developed themes in all of the Bible. . . .
The heart is your directional system.
The heart is your steering wheel.”
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Dane Ortlund—“The heart, in biblical terms, is not part of who we are but the center of who we are. . . .
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