The Blessed Life Part #1
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The Blessed Life
The Blessed Life
Today we are going to be starting a New Series Called the Blessed Life. Now anybody in here like opposed to living a Blessed. ANTBODY LIKE TO LIOVE A LIFE FULL OF STRESS AND TUMOIL. LISTEN BEING STRESSED ALL THE TIME IS NOT A SIGN OF BE SUPER SPIRITUAL. Now in this series we are going to be talking about living a blessed life, and we will talk about your money, but its not the Only thing that we will be talking about and today we will not be talking about your money today. Because I believe there are some prerequititives for you to live a blessed life that go beyond your money and they go straight to your heart. You see when God has your heart, He will have your money, He will have your everything, and when you come into that sort of relationship with the Almighty, nothing will be impossible for you
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Here in the Book of God gives a blueprint
Now show of hands, who in here want to be blessed. i have great news for you today, God wants you to be blessed more than you want to be blessed. On Verse 3
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
This should be a picture of your life. You should be like a tree planted by the streams of Water. Who leaf does not wither, bearing fruit in its season, In all that He does it prospers. Are you tired of just being a stick in the mud? Would you like to resemble a person that has tru life pulsating through your being? Do you want to be happy?
Then listen up....
Now notice that He says that this healthy, fruit bearing tree, is planed beside some streams of Water. Let me give you 4 streams that you must practice in order to be the person that God has created you to be.......
Stream #1 You must be a Born- Again Disciple.
Stream #1 You must be a Born- Again Disciple.
You must be a Born- Again Disciple.
You must be a Born- Again Disciple.
I prefaced born again, because you can be religious and not born againm. You can be nice, pay all your bills, have a perfect credit score and a fat bank account and still be on your way to hell. You can work in a church, attend church meeting, and even enter into the ministry and not be saved.
In John chapter 3 A man named Nicodemus came to Jesus in the middle of the night to speak to Jesus. He was about as religious as they come, a teacher of Israel, He was a Pharisee, which today is used as a negative term, but they were about as devoted and as pious to the True God that one can get, But yet Jesus told him something that someone never told him before, Nicodemus, unless you are born again you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
You say how does one become born again?
John 3:5
13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
John 3:
John 3
13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
If you are not familiar with the story of Moses lifting up the serpent, Its found in the Book of Numbers
The people of Israel sinned against the Lord,
In that they spoke against the Lord and attacked Moses God’s anioted servent Moses, and the Lord sent
5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”
Numbers 21:4
The And because f their grumbling and complaining the Lord sent poisons snake into their camp. And many of them died. we will egt to spiritual warfare in a few moments, but the snakes and their poison, are symbolic of the devil and our sin. If you find your life in a mess right now, Crap cosnatly going wrong it could mean that God is in pursuit of you. And the only remedy for this particular problem was a bronze snake, and as Moses lifted up this serpent, Jesus said it was a picture, a prophecy when he would be lifted up on a cross. yOU SEE EVERYTHING YOU ARE NEEDING THIS MORNING IS AT THE CROSS, AND THERE IS NO WAY AROUND IT. iT IS NOT YOU STRIVING, ITS YOU TRUSTING, TRUSTING THE oNE tHE lORD jESUS cHRIST, THAT BORE IT ALL AT THE CROSS
And if every one was who was bitten by the serpents when they looed to the Serpent lifted up, they would be healed. Jesus was lifted up, But when He was lifted up the Great Servent, the devil, was stripped of all of His power!
EMPHASIS THEIS AGAIN WHEN YOU GET TO THE HEALING
EMPHASIS THEIS AGAIN WHEN YOU GET TO THE HEALING
Listen if you don’t love people, youre not born again, if are a person that can never quite bring themselves to say that you are sorry and you will hold a grudge and hate people, and act bitterly, and cause problems… I am telling you, do not die and go to hell thinking that you are saved! You are not, you need to be born again!
Listen if you don’t love people, youre not born again, if are a person that can never quite bring themselves to say that you are sorry and you will hold a grudge and hate people, and act bitterly, and cause problems… I am telling you, do not die and go to hell thinking that you are saved! You are not, you need to be born again!
Why do I say that? Because people who are born again are born again of Gods love, and His love changes you from the inside out. You say who are you to say something like that, well I am just repeating what I heard,a nd I heard it from God!
Why do I say that? Because people who are born again are born again of Gods love, and His love changes you from the inside out. You say who are you to say something like that, well I am just repeating what I heard,a nd I heard it from God!
9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 2
1John
13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
1 John 3:
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16
Disciple---- Now what is a Diciple. A disciple is one who follows a teacher, and
Remember we are talking about the blessed life
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
First of all if youa re going to be a disciple. You must learn to walk with God. Yes learn wisdom, yes learn how to be discerning, but more than anything learn how to waklj with Giod
God gives his people insight into the unknown…
How are you going to navigate all the landmines of life? HOw aae you going to know if this new relationship comes along, if it is going to be blessed or are they going to turn out to be destructive.
God gives His people uncommon wisdom… There will be times in your life when you will not know rather to tun left or turn right… How are you going to know? Especially if the turn to the right looks good
Story of Lot and Abraham- Lot looked
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis
This decision seemed good but in the end it was disastrous. He moved towards Sodom, BTW thats where you egt the word Sodomy… And whne God destroyed the city it destroyed his life.
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
This special knowledge comes from meditating on the Word, nboth day and night. Learning a new way. Not just reacting, but learning how to be led
Learnign reson yes, but walking by faith
It was there
EMPHASIS THIS AGAIN WHEN YOU GET TO tHE healing
EMPHASIS THIS AGAIN WHEN YOU GET TO tHE healing
God blesses disciples, He answers the prayers of disciples
When God Blesses He blesses long term.
He moves mountains for disciples. Are you a disciple of jesus Christ?
We are not trying to build a big church, we are trying to build disciples. Jesus had twelve
God gives Special revelation, GHod gives uncommon wisdom. God may call you to step out on the waters, and if you have obeyed him in that. He will cause you to walk on them
Stream 2: Counsel-
Stream 2: Counsel-
The Holy Spirit
Stream 3 Heaoling
Healing---
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Stream 4: Spiritual warfare-
People hearing voices
The aura that the enemy sets around people
The torment of the soul
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God Blesses his Disciples
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