Unbelievable
PART 2
Worship
through Song
Video
What Kind of Life Are You Living?
Offering
New Soul
Yael Naim
Video
Low Life
Message
Pastor Clare Loughrige
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UNBELIEVABLE PT 2
1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(a)
Kind of UNBELIEVABLE Life Has God Promised?
The High Life = The Abundant “Zoe” Life of God
John 10:10 (NKJV) the thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy. I have come that they
may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
The New Testament uses three distinct Greek words,
all of which are translated “life” in English.
bios: duration of life, the
present state of existence.
Luke 8:14
(NKJV) Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard,
go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no
fruit to maturity.
psuche: refers to the heart,
mind, and soul—the natural life.
Luke 12:2
(NKJV) "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you
will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.
zoe: life in the absolute sense. When used in these
scriptures it is life in the absolute sense as God has it.
John
Matt
Don’t
live the Low Life
Ephesians
4:17-19 (NIV) 17So I tell you this, and insist on it
in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility
of their thinking. 18They are darkened in their understanding and
separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to
the hardening of their hearts. 19Having lost all sensitivity,
they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of
impurity, with a continual lust for more.
2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(b)
believes the UNBELIEVABLE MESSAGE of ABUNDANT LIFE?
Isaiah
53:1-6 (NIV) 1Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of
the Lord been revealed? 2He
grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He
had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that
we should desire him. 3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of
sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4Surely he took up our
infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten
by him, and afflicted. 5But he was pierced for our transgressions, he
was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon
him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6We all, like sheep, have gone
astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the
iniquity of us all.
3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(c)
do you receive the abundant life? BECOME CHILDLIKE.
Matt
Matt 18:1-5 (NKJV) 1At
that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the
kingdom of heaven?” 2Then
Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3and
said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little
children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. 5Whoever receives one little child like this in My
name receives Me.”
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what do you do with abundant life? TURN YOUR HEARTS TOWARD THE CHILDREN
Luke
Conversations
in Life Group:
How do you keep your
faith in the young and BELIEVING?
Where are you TOO wise
and prudent?
Where are you living the
God kind of life?
Where are you living the
low life?
How is your faith
connected to children?
Spiritual
Practice:
Reach out THIS WEEK to a
child or children through your time talent or treasure (money.)
Prayer
this week:
God I pray that I would
have the faith of a child and live in a place where you can do mighty miracles
for me and through me. Let me esteem childlike faith in myself and honor the nurturing of the faith of a child. Show me how to welcome a
child in the life of God. Let me live the God kind of life. A life that is full because it
sacrifices and looks for the one who has less than I do.
Resources:
Today’s message is available in the bookstore
on CD or DVD.
Streaming audio and videos of today’s message
are also available on our website:
ccmonline.org.
Go to our website and click on the “Following the Star” devotional
for Lent.
READ:
Whose Child Is This? Bill Wilson
Answers:
a. What b. Who c. When d. Then
© 2008 Clare Loughrige