BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE
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This Week’s Theme: Serving Together Faithfully
Word for the Week is Faithful: God’s people are called to reflect His faithfulness by being truthful and dependable in their work and ways.
Memory verse: 1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.
Sermon Passage: Jeremiah 36:4-8,16-18; 45:1-5
INTRODUCTION: MINISTRY IS NOT MEANT TO BE DONE ALONE. CHRISTIANS NEED OTHER CHRISTIANS TO ASSIST, TO ENCOURAGE, TO BUILD UP, AND TO WORK WITH IN UNITY. Yet, our enemy, the devil has instituted a vicious attack against this mindset. He has convinced many believers that they don’t need the brothers and sisters in the body of Christ.
LISTEN TO Jeremiah 36:2-3
2 “Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adversities which I purpose to bring upon them, that everyone may turn from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
I. BE AVAILABLE
I. BE AVAILABLE
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him.
EXPLAIN: BARUCH WAS AVAILABLE WHEN THE CALL CAME. HE DID NOT MAKE EXCUSES WHEN CALLED BY JEREMIAH THE PROPHET.
Matthew 4:20-22 20 And they straightway left [their] nets, and followed him. 21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James [the son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. 22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
ILLUSTRATION: IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 6, ISAIAH THE PROPHET SAY A VISION OF THE THRONE ROOM OF GOD
Isaiah 6:8 (NKJV) Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here [am] I! Send me.”
APPLICATION:
SOME OF YOU ARE NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE
MADE OTHER THINGS A PRIORITY
MADE OTHER THINGS A PRIORITY
59 Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
61 And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
THIS IS WANT PAUL MEANT WHEN HE SAID IN Philippians 2:21
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.
SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE
FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY
FORSAKEN THE RIGHT WAY
15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
DON’T BE LIKE JONAH, WHO RAN FROM GOD
DON’T HAVE YOUR TESTIMONY BE LIKE DEMAS
10 for Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and has departed for Thessalonica—Crescens for Galatia, Titus for Dalmatia.
FREE YOURSELF
FREE YOURSELF
(LAY ASIDE)
BE AVAILABLE
II. BE AMENABLE
II. BE AMENABLE
6 You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written at my instruction, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord’s house on the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.
13 Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the hearing of the people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
15 And they said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
EXPLAIN: BARUCH FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY JEREMIAH
46 “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?
47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:
50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
THE BIBLE PROCLAIMS IN James 4:17
17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
ILLUSTRATION:
APPLICATION:
ARE YOU FOLLOWING CHRIST’S COMMAND
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
DON’T BE
Uncontrollable AND Unruly
DON’T BE
Hardheaded AND Headstrong
DON’T BE
self-willed AND stubborn
ARE YOU FOLLOWING CHRIST’S COMMAND
20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
DON’T BE
Defiant AND Disorderly
DON’T BE
Incompliant AND Insubordinate
FOLLOW INSTRUCTION
13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
DON’T BE
Rebellious AND Resistant
DON’T BE
Wayward AND Willful
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
BE AVAILABLE
BE AMENABLE
III. BE ADAPTABLE
III. BE ADAPTABLE
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the Lord.
6 You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written at my instruction, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord’s house on the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities.
13 Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the hearing of the people.
14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
15 And they said to him, “Sit down now, and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
EXPLAIN:
ILLUSTRATION: Acts 16:7–10 “7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. 8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10 Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.”
APPLICATION:
BE FLEXIBLE WITH PEOPLE
BE FLEXIBLE WITH PEOPLE
BE AVAILABLE
BE AMENABLE
BE ADAPTABLE
IV. BE ATTENTIVE
IV. BE ATTENTIVE
2 “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:
3 ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.” ’
4 “Thus you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land.
5 And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh,” says the Lord. “But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go.” ’ ”
EXPLAIN:
9 Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren,
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
2 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;
ILLUSTRATION:
APPLICATION:
FOCUS ON CHRIST NOT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES
FOCUS ON CHRIST NOT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES
BE AVAILABLE
BE AMENABLE
BE ADAPTABLE
BE ATTENTIVE
God will reward your faithful service.