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Introduction:
What do you want most in life?
I wan’t God’s blessing.
On my family.
On my ministries.
On my disciple-making relationships.
On our church.
This passage talks about how to get God’s blessing.
God’s blessing in the Old Testament was different than it is today.
God’s blessing was primarily physical in the Old Testament.
God’s blessing is primarily spiritual in the New Testament.
We are going to go through this passage backwards.
1. God’s blessing comes when we make obedience our priority.
(1) A. When we don’t obey, God will discipline us.
(1) B. When obedience is our priority, we will gain true blessing from Him.
God’s blessing is the most important thing we can have while we work.
God has already given us all the blessings we need.
The scope of our blessings is all encompassing.
ALL
Every possible blessing for time and eternity.
The nature of our blessings is spiritual.
Spiritual blessing.
Especially mentioned in vs 1-14
choosing us
making known the mystery of His will
adopting us
giving us an inheritance.
The place of our blessings is heavenly.
These are the blessings we want.
Our citizenship is there.
Our treasure should be there.
Our mind and affections should be there.
The place of our blessings is heavenly.
Our hope is there.
So… If...
God’s blessing is the most important thing we can have when serving Him.
AND… we have already been given ALL blessings.
Why don’t we always see God’s blessing?
Five things that may cause us to miss God’s blessing.
1.
We are not submitting to God’s will.
Simply put, we are not obeying.
When they started submitting, they recieved blessing.
Blessing meant restoration with God!
2. We have not asked for God’s blessing.
This is not about asking God to bless what we are doing.
Rather, we are aligning our hearts with His.
2. We have not asked for God’s blessing.
Then continuously recognizing that we need Him for this to be anything at all.
3. We have wrong motives.
3. We have wrong motives.
We are doing it because have to.
We are trying to do it with our own abilities
We are doing it for our own good.
We are doing it to please someone else.
4.
There are other areas of unconfessed sin in our lives.
We talked about sin.
5. We are not willing to do it God’s way.
5. We are not willing to do it God’s way.
Now that we have seen the importance of and how to not miss God’s blessing, let’s understand a couple more things...
God’s blessing is not always seen immediately.
The seeds were planted.
They were waiting on the harvest.
These are days of trusting God’s promise even though you cannot see it yet.
We don’t like to wait for anything.
Especially God’s blessing.
We always need to remember God’s TIMING.
God’s blessing is not always seen immediately.
God’s blessing does not mean we have no problems, but that He will work them for our good and His glory.
The Jews were still under foreign rule.
Enemies were still on their borders.
They were still just a small remnant with a huge job.
The greatest blessings we receive are not earthly blessings.
The best blessings are those that are waiting for us in glory.
The ones we will never see on earth, but are eternal.
The bible tells us that to receive those blessings, we need to walk through struggles here.
God’s blessing does not mean we have no problems, but that He will work them for our good and His glory.
THEME: Obedience brings blessing!
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