UNTRAPPED from Yourself Part 2
Pastor Aaron Morris
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Welcome
Today’s Passage: 2 Cor 3:4-5
How to connect: Text
How can we pray for you?
21 Days of Prayer
SHARE:
[SHARE] - Keep time change or get rid of it?
[SHARE] - Keep time change or get rid of it?
Connect
A relevant illustration or story to hook interest in today’s idea
SERIES INTRODUCTION
31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
RECAP PREVIOUS WEEKS IN SERIES
God can free you FROM your prison or he can free you IN your prison
God can free you FROM your prison or he can free you IN your prison
Isolation
Finances
Broken Relationships
Past
Yourself
SHARE:
[SHARE] - What has been the most impactful thing you have learned during this series.
[SHARE] - What has been the most impactful thing you have learned during this series.
Last week
[False Belief #1] - It’s about me.
[False Belief #1] - It’s about me.
[False belief #2] - It’s up to me.
[False belief #2] - It’s up to me.
It’s not about you.
It’s not about you.
It’s about HIM - Abandon Your Agenda
It’s about HIM - Abandon Your Agenda
It’s about US - Push back on your Preferences
It’s about US - Push back on your Preferences
It’s about THEM - Relinquish your Rights
It’s about THEM - Relinquish your Rights
CONNECT THIS WEEK’S MESSAGE
Now we move to the second false belief. It is up to me.
EXPLORE
PRIMARY SCRIPTURE
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF THE SCRIPTURE
Paul is answering objections to his apostleship. He does not defend himself. He leans on the Lord as being sufficient.
MAIN IDEA
Transition from scripture to main idea
THE MAIN THING:
[THE MAIN THING] - God is sufficient. You are not.
[THE MAIN THING] - God is sufficient. You are not.
Explore the Main Idea
SHARE:
[SHARE] - What is one area of your life that you have felt inadequate? (not good enough)
[SHARE] - What is one area of your life that you have felt inadequate? (not good enough)
Explore Point 1
[1] - You aren’t enough, and you never were going to be.
[1] - You aren’t enough, and you never were going to be.
9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. 10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
Explore Point 2
[2] - God is enough, and he always was.
[2] - God is enough, and he always was.
Text
8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
SHARE:
[SHARE] - What is something you have tried and tried to do, but haven’t succeeded?
Explore Point 3
[3] - Your attempts to be enough, keep you from seeing God is enough.
[3] - Your attempts to be enough, keep you from seeing God is enough.
Text
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Transform
Coming Back to the Main Thing
[COMING BACK TO THE MAIN THING] - God is sufficient. You are not.
[COMING BACK TO THE MAIN THING] - God is sufficient. You are not.
Bring to Primary Application
[RED LIGHT]
STOP trying to be what you aren’t.
STOP trying to be what you aren’t.
[YELLOW LIGHT]
SLOW down so that you can be intentionally dependent.
SLOW down so that you can be intentionally dependent.
[GREEN LIGHT]
GO to God first.
GO to God first.
Lead Application to Commitment
Commitment steps
Invitation
Announcements and Service Closing