2023 Wk 7:
I Believe • Sermon • Submitted
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Song
Song
I Saw the Light
2 Minute Break
Grab a Life Card
So you will be ready to Take Notes that Grabs the Heart
SUPER BOWL PLUG
The Philadelphia Eagles vs the Kansas City Chiefs Tonight!
The Eagles will be playing in their fourth Super Bowl, but the Eagles have only won one of those Super Bowls.
Whereas the Chiefs will be appearing in their fifth and they have won three.
AND WE WILL ALL WIN... BECAUSE WE CHOSE TO HANG OUT TOGETHER, EVEN IF WE DON’T REALLY WATCH FOOTBALL OR CARE ABOUT FOOTBALL!
RIGHT?
The 2022 Super Bowl saw the largest audience in five years, averaging:
112.3 million viewers across linear television and
11.2 million viewers across streaming.
TOTALING: 123.5 Million viewers!
That is a year-over-year increase of 15.9 million. WOW!!!
Thinking about just how big is 123.5 Million
Oklahoma 3.9 million
New York 8.4 million
Florida 21.7 million
Texas 29.5 million
------------ That is only 63 million, just over 1/2 of the views.
In View of those top 5 Fastest Growing Religions we talked about last week:
(DO YOU REMEMBER?)
5th Buddhism (400 million)
4th Christianity (Largest, 2 billion)
3rd Sikhism (25 million)
2nd Hinduism (1 billion)
1st Islam (1.8 billion)
In 10 years, THINK ABOUT IT, the Super Bowl will entertain more people than those who profess to be Christians in the USA providing that Football Viewers keep increasing and Jesus Followers being to decline.
it’s possible:-/
2021 STATS suggest that of the entire U.S. population was 332 million
with about 63% being Christian. That’s about 210 million.
Let’s PURPOSE IN OUR HEARTS Not let the MESSAGE of GRACE be diminished on our shift! So,
Let’s be Worshipers, Passionate Worshipers!
Let’snow prepare our hearts for Worship so we can fill up and strengthen our Spiritual Core: Our Heart, Mind, and Soul.
Give your attention to the Flat Screens… BAND!
BUMPER VIDEO
Band take the Platform
ARE YOU READY TO WORSHIP?
Songs
Songs
Miracle Power
Build My Life
Too Good To Not Believe (chorus/bridge)
How Great is Our God (chorus and outro)
Lesson Intro
Lesson Intro
Current Series…
“I Believe” A series to look at Jesus through a heart of asking,
“is there enough evidence to prove that — I Believe?”
Write Down this Scripture for it is our Memory Verse this Series::
Acts 16:30–31 (NLT)
30b “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household.”
It’s time to Wake up!
I’m not trying to be rude.
This is just where we are today.
Many are trapped in a lifestyle that can be described as easy, entertaining, and filled with mediocre smooth living.
They believe that everything is to be provided for for them, an entitlement that keeps them imprisoned to just get by and pursue the dreams God has placed inside of them…OUCH!
Paul equates this as “dead living”. (oxymoron)
Paul encourages us to not live like those in darkness, but know that we are to be children of the light—and to wake up!
14 for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,
“Awake, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.”
So, today you can write this as my thought provoking sermon title:
WHAT & WAIT
What--a Miracle?
Wait...can God really do that?
YES, I BELIEVE GOD IS A MIRACLE WORKING GOD!!
3 POINTS
1. Faith is NOW.
2. The Mention of His Name invokes Faith.
3. Miracles still happen today.
1. Faith is NOW.
6 And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
“must believe that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him”
WHAT MIRACLE DO YOU WANT TO SEE TO BELIEVE?
Sickness, Mental Health, Financial Need…?
THOMAS AND JESUS
29 Then Jesus told him, “You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.”
Thomas’ need was healing to cure his DOUBT
THE GREATEST MIRACLE for ME...
Salvation
Yet, tell me is there more?
I mean...
What is your story?
That’s what we have been busy doing is Building Stories!
Think about it. What is your story?
I BELIEVE that you have one, you may not be telling it, but you have one!
This is one of the primary reasons I feel that being a
CarePortal Responder with 111Project is so Important
for You—because it turns the page for a new chapter to be added to your story.
???
A Harbor is made for boats…
The sea life, the food, the unique boats all adds to a massive nautical community brought together from the four corners of the world.
We have learned about the harbor through sit coms like
Flipper,
Sea Hunt with Kirk Douglas,
The odd thing is...
BOATS ARE NOT MADE FOR THE HARBOR...
Boats are made for the voyage!
Love Boat,
the early part Walt Disney’s Moana w/the Rock,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with John Richard Basehart,
But Sometimes we have those perils in life...
The Perfect Storm,
The White Squall,
The Poseidon Adventure, and even
The Titanic.
But In Your Voyage of Uncertainty
WE RISE UP IN FAITH,
WE AWAKEN FROM OUR DARK DEADENED WORLD AND
WE DISCOVER THAT GOD GIVES US HIS LIGHT...
Psalm 23:4 (NKJV)
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 27:1 (NLT)
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation— so why should I be afraid?
The Lord is my fortress, protecting me from danger, so why should I tremble?
Isaiah 41:10 (NLT)
10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
Hear me out== I did not say God will work everything to be FUN for us…
Father’s WORKING EVERYTHING FOR OUR GOOD…may be working us out of our comfort zone, to develop and release His design in Me, to bring about Character and Kingdom
So, this is one of the primary reasons I have come to believe that being a CarePortal Responder with 111Project is so Important for You—and me.
That is why we preach…
2. The Mention of His Name invokes Faith.
We Preach that others may know our Redeeming God.
We Preach that they may come to experience our God of Restoration.
We Do NOT Preach for vain glory, but to help us to grow and learn the ropes so we can hit the high seas and be Fishers of Men!
COVID fed us many lies—
one was, that we can just stay home, be segregated and not have genuine interactions as the Body of Christ.
Hebrews says—Don’t forsake getting together… (right?)
25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
ANOTHER COVID lie—
that we can let other people do our part of the Gospel.
NOPE— YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST AND YOU NEED THE RICH INTERACTION FROM BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
Children and Youth suffered greatly and are still suffering— loneliness, depression,
If you can’t come, can’t travel the high seas, can’t be encouraged from a distance—because you are overwhelm, sick, distraught, fearful, depressed, or don’t have gas...
then you must call and make a plan for an intervention for hope and faith.
You and I are to Speak His Name and Never give Up.
let’s do it together!!
say this with me. 1.2.Go
20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
WE MUST DO WHAT JESUS DID...
Jesus Met the Physical Needs of People
SO, HERE IS ANOTHER REASON FOR BEING A
CarePortal Responders
Like Jesus, you too can meet the Physical Needs of People
amen or oh me!
3. Miracles still happen today.
Read it…
Matthew 8:16–17 (NLT)
16 That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and he healed all the sick.
17 This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,
“He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.”
Greater Works...
12 “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.
Go—Make Disciples—Do the Miraculous
15 And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. 16 Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned. 17 These miraculous signs will accompany those who believe: They will cast out demons in my name, and they will speak in new languages. 18 They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink anything poisonous, it won’t hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick, and they will be healed.”
PLAINLY, ANOTHER REASON FOR BEING A
CarePortal Responders
GO HAS OPENED A DOOR...Annette Langley
Meeting Physical Needs
take care of the Orphans and Widows
those who are Marginalized
Responders Day at Cornerstone is Feb. 19th with simple training to follow that next Sunday with a light lunch, Feb. 26th.
1 Church 1 Family 1 Purpose
Working together Works!
OKLAHOMA
22,243 Children Served
$8,931,397 Economical Impact to Communities
653 Response Teams
OKMULGEE
16 Children Served
$5,107 Economical Impact to Communities
11 Response Teams
OKMULGEE FOURSQUARE
HOW MANY Children Can We Serve?
HOW MUCH Economical Impact can we make in our Community?
HOW MANY Responders can make up our Team of HOPE?
QUOTE:
“Holy Spirit, think through me till Your ideas are my ideas.” Amy Carmichael
LET’S CELEBRATE / PRAY!
Ephesians 1:17–23 (NLT)
17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.
18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.
19 I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power
20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms.
21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come.
22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.
23 And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself.
Offering
Offering
Mickey
Mickey
Update
Update
Doors Open at 10am…
Cafe’ Hope… It will refresh the soul and your thirst.
Upcoming MidWeek Stream
Book Study with Christine Caine started last Wednesday “Stop Acting Like a Christian… Just Be One.” It’s about “Living from the Inside Out”.
#bettertogether
The Chosen Part 3
Tonight at 6pm at the First Nazarene Church. Bring a snack to share and come to connect as we see the Story of Jesus Through the Eyes of Those Who Followed Him.
Some of the viewers will come over to Cornerstone for some of the Super Bowl… TONIGHT!
Super Bowl 2023… This special time will be fellowship and fun as we connect around your favorite Soup and snack! Starts 5:30pm till we get tired!
Doors open at 5:00pm.
REMEMBER...
Men’s Breakfast Is this coming Saturday...Feb. 18th at First Naz. at 8am. “Who will you bring?”
Followed by FriendDay on the next Day, Sunday 19th!
CarePortal Responder’s Day
Stand to your feet
Stand to your feet
COME ON LOOK TO THE PERSON TO YOUR RIGHT AND SAY...
“Let’s be CarePortal Responder’s”