Come to Life Again
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Call to worship
1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Offering
35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Introduction
I Have been here 20 years sometimes I forget you haven't.
I just want to go back to the heart of things and do a refresh today.
In Christ all things are New.
In Christ all things are New.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
if you are in Christ old things have passed away and behold all things have become New.
many of us ended up in addiction really early. because of that we seem to be stuck in Jr. high.
many of us can only feel God’s presence in life when He is rescuing them.
if that is true many people go back and forth between the new and the old.
Growth requires new eyes.
Growth requires new eyes.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
before the “Old Life ever got a hold of you God created you with plan and purpose.
Just cause you went down a rode doesn't mean that God has turned his plan for your life.
People may not see it but God will.
King Davids natural father didn’t see it either but it didn’t change Gods mind or plans.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
you have to have more faith in the God that saved you than you do in past sin.
God will use your guilty past for his Glory
what stops most Christians from growing is they want to fake it till they make it.
what stops most Christians from growing is they want to fake it till they make it.
22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.