Sermon

MESSAGE - 5/15-16/2021 - CONFIRMATION WEEKEND
EASTER TRIUMPH! EASTER JOY! “Living In Obedience To God”
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
THEME: Live a life obedient to God by His freedom-giving grace in Jesus Christ.
INTRODUCTION:
1. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5:   For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
2. Numbers 13:30, 33:   But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
I.   WHAT HAPPENS                     YOU OR                      YOU?
1. _____________ stuff will happen.
     Philippians 1:12-13: I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,  so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
2. _____________ is greater.
     Philippians 1:14: And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
II. THE ____                                  LIFE…
1.   _________________ God for the good that happened and the bad that didn’t.
     Romans 8:28: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
2. Take every thought ___________________ to Christ.
     Matthew 22:37: 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.
3. _________________ on God’s goodness.
     Romans 8:31: What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
CONCLUSION: Philippians 1:21: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
WORDS: bad, captive, focus, God, in, obedient, thank, to.

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