29 Jun Comfort And The Cross
Pastor Vincent - 9 January 2014
Right Before God, Unity With Brethren
What is delightful in God's eyes is always a sore in Satan's eyes. How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! (Psalm 133:1 NIV). While God loves His children to live in harmony and grow in love towards one another, Satan hates it to the core and tries to stop. As a result, misunderstandings, distrust, suspicions and Pharisaical issues arise even within churches. While it is a difficult battle to fight, for evil and cunning is the thief who works through all ways to steal away the peace and joy of children of God. But to children of God, He always provides a way out. When things get messy and out of hands, look to Him and seek Him carefully. Continue to dwell in His word, meditate and confirm it repeatedly until it becomes the unshakeable anchor point in your life. When you look to the Word with a believing heart, the Word gives you a God-revering spirit, a spirit that is fertile to the guidance of Holy Spirit. Learn from Phinehas confrontation and defense of the Eastern Tribe in Joshua 22. When we want to be right before God first, the leading of Holy Spirit will do His work in uniting the brethren's in love and grace, leaving no foothold for Satan.
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1. The traps of Comfort.
- “Suffering”: Abstract
- The problem of “not having problems”
- Resistant to even little inconveniences
- Stay in comfort zones
- <Lk 9> 23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
- Spiritual battles faced in comfort:
- People proud toward God (no need for Him)
- God-loving spirit put to sleep
- Flesh is stirred up
2. Be intentional about carrying the cross in the midst of comfort.
- [one slide] Cross and Comfort: Opposites or Correlated?
- If we do not carry cross intentionally:
- Devil will get us
- World will consume us
- Many things other than God will influence us
- Accusations grow
- Get listless about “God-stuff”
- Evangelism becomes non-urgent
- People who want to live by the truth will remain in a constant state of battling and tension
- Carry the Cross: Centre on God, Gospel and Kingdom
3. The importance of gatherings.
- <Heb 10> 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- <Mt 18> 19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
- Value creates Momentum
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