Revive Us Again
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
It is so good to be back preaching God’s word to my family here and to have each of you hear when I did so.
I’m thankful for the recovery I have had and the blessings of all the prayers and and God’s providence through this ordeal I have endured.
I’m not done yet, and still have a ways to go, but I’ve been very blessed and God is to be glorified.
As you and I know we all will have those time when we are stronger spiritually than at other times.
It’s those “down spiritual times” I want us to focus on today because from time to time we all need a little “spiritual revival.”
That brings me to our lesson this evening as we turn our attention to the title “Revive Us Again.”
Our text will be found in Deuteronomy 10:12-13 if you would like to open your bible there as we go through this sermon.
With that in mind let’s examine our lesson.
If we are struggling spiritually and find ourselves in need of a spiritual revival God can indeed revive us again if we refocus on him firstly with the…
Right Attitude
Right Attitude
We Need To Fear The Lord.
We Need To Fear The Lord.
In Deuteronomy 10:12 we read…
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 (ESV)
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
Fearing God i.e., respecting his majesty and judgment, is the beginning of knowledge.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
This is where knowledge begins because if prompts us to study more about him (Romans 10:17).
Fearing God i.e, obeying him, is our “whole as mankind.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13–14 (ESV)
13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’ ”
Fearing God i.e., walking in righteousness, leads to growth.
31 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
Summary
Summary
What must we do if we find our selves in need of a spiritual revival?
We get the right attitude by “fearing the lord our God”
We also need to go in the…
Right Direction
Right Direction
We Need To Walk In “All” God’s Ways.
We Need To Walk In “All” God’s Ways.
Again in Deuteronomy 10:12-13…
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 (ESV)
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
God has never said…
“A little” of his ways.
“Some” of his ways.
“Most” of his ways.
Joshua 22:5 (ESV)
5 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Notice walking in “all his ways” is separated from “keeping his commandments” as there is more to imitating God’s ways than just keeping his commandments.
Widow gave more than the rich (Matthew 12:41-44).
Jeremiah 7:23 (ESV)
23 But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
We can most certainly “walk in the ways of our own heart and the sight of our own eyes” but we will be judge by such.
9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
Summary
Summary
What do you and I need when we are in need of a spiritual revival?
We need to turn into the right direction and “walk in all His ways.”
Thirdly, when we are in need of a spiritual revival we need the…
Right Affection
Right Affection
We Need To Love God.
We Need To Love God.
In our text, Deuteronomy 10:12-13 we read…
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 (ESV)
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
In the same way we are to “walk in all God’s ways” we are to love the Lord our God will our “all.”
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Summary
Summary
What do you and I need when we are in need of a spiritual revival?
We need the right affection, in other words, we need to identify those things that we love more than God, turn, repent, and love God with our all.
Next, when we are struggling spiritually and are in need of a revival of spirit we need the…
Right Behavior
Right Behavior
Serve God With Our “All.”
Serve God With Our “All.”
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 again says…
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 (ESV)
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
Getting back focused on God requires we turn our attention to “serving God with our all.”
Jesus beautifully demonstrated this in John 13 with the washing of the disciples feet.
12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
Paul also, in striving to get the Jew and Gentile brethren to “love each other” wrote this in Romans 12:9-13.
9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. 11 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.
12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. 13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
Summary
Summary
What do you and I need when we are in need of a spiritual revival?
We need to turn our attention from “self” to “others.”
We need to turn our attention to “serving God with our all.”
Lastly, if we are in need of a spiritual revival we need to turn to the…
Right Action
Right Action
We Need Faith & Faithfulness.
We Need Faith & Faithfulness.
Let us read from Deuteronomy 10:12-13 once again.
Deuteronomy 10:12–13 (ESV)
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
Having faith or trust in God is great and as we just noticed needed.
However, we also need the right actions to go along with that faith, in other words, we need faithfulness.
Faithfulness is “obeying his voice and holding fast to him.”
Deuteronomy 30:19–20 (ESV)
19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Remember Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE.
As life for you and I he has said how we can demonstrate our “love” actively towards him, the Father, and Spirit.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
Summary
Summary
What do you and I need when we are in need of a spiritual revival?
We need to obey the voice of the Lord through his holy and perfect law of liberty and life.
Conclusion
Conclusion
The end of Deuteronomy 10:13 says…
“which I am commanding you today for your good.”
God isn’t asking us to listen to him because he knows it will stop us from “having fun” or “living it up” in this life.
No God is asking us to listen to his voice, through his inspired word, so that we will have a “good life” here on earth that leads us to a perfect life in heaven with him.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
