Charting a New Course
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What do you feel about change?
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++A change of job
++A change of situation
++A change of circumstances.
People do not like change.
People do not like change.
What are some reasons people resist change?
What are some reasons people resist change?
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Change is
++Uncomfortable
++Difficult
++Hard
How is change related to Destiny?
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Destiny is a call for change
++Change is unavoidable
++Change is inescapable
Sin has become
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++A common position
++A normal existance
++The way of the masses
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Mat 7:
The Course of Sin
++Easy to find
++The way of self
To move into our destiny we must change.
To move into our destiny we must change.
Salvation is
++The greatest miracle of life
++The response of a change
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Being in Christ
++Is the choice to be made
++Results in Personal change
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Ezekiel
What happens when a heart is changed?
What happens when a heart is changed?
The Heart is
++The core of who a person is
++The seat of emotion
++The Value tank
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
What do these scriptures tell us about the heart?
What do these scriptures tell us about the heart?
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And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
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And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?
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And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
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Deut
And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
God’s plan to change people begins with the heart.
God’s plan to change people begins with the heart.
2 sam 16:2
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
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But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
Salvation is a big change
Salvation is a big change
What happens after salvation?
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But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
++Will change still be necessary?
++Will change still be hard?
Great Commission
Great Commission
What does God tell his disciples?
++All power belongs to me
++Go into all the world
++Preach the Gospel
++Baptize people
++Teach what I have taught you
What did they do?
What did they do?
What did they do?
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
++Continued
They
++Continued
Baptized new beleivers
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
++They were
They
Act 2:
Continued
++Were together
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 2:47
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Continued
Were together
++Grew the church
Did they Go to all the world?
++Go to all the world
Deut
++They were in unity
++God’s goal was destiny
Destiny is connected to our willingness to change.
Destiny is connected to our willingness to change.
In business
++Some companies react to change
++Good companies respond to change
++Great companies anticipate change
Comfort is the enemy of destiny
Comfort is the enemy of destiny
2 And the Lord spake unto me, saying,
3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
God brought Israel to the Mountain of God
God brought Israel to the Mountain of God
It was there
++They met God
++The recieved his command
It was a good place
++It was only the begining
++It was the starting place
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God has a plan for you.
God has a plan for you.
Jer
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
God orders all things.
++Our steps are ordered
Better Things
Better Things
++God determines our make up
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts 17:24-28
Better Things
Better Things
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
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God’s destiny for us
++Built on better things
++Established in Greater works
++Relies on a greater promise
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
John 14:12
I Keep Moving Forward
I Keep Moving Forward
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Phili
Moving forward
++Focus on the promise
++Free yourself from the past
++Forge ahead
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
The Help of the Spirit
The Help of the Spirit
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
The Help of the Spirit
The Help of the Spirit
The Holy Spirit
++Helps us pray
++Is truth
++Will not lead you astray
++Is worth paying attention to
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Stay Focused
Stay Focused
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25 Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
What is God’s dream for you?
What is God’s dream for you?