The Sermon Title
Come Out Of
Pastor Kim's sermon notes
Joel 3:7 “But I will bring
them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back
for everything you have done.
Story
of God’s Plan – coming out of
Noah/family
– out of world via a flood
Abram - out of Ur of the Chaldeans
Lot
– out of Sodom and Gomorrah
Egypt – out of Egypt (sin)
Moses
– flees Egypt
– trained and sent back.
-Society around you has tremendous
influence
-Slavery is the word used – manner
most people live
-Bondage with plenty seemed better than freedom with scarcity.
-Clearly, God had ordained the route that took them into
the wilderness; inescapably, God had led them into places void of food and
water. They grumbled because they did not trust God’s guiding hand.
-God performed miracle after miracle – people ruled by
fear, then anger.
-Trials – mostly self-made – came upon the people with the
new freedoms they were given.
James 1:2- 4 2- Dear
brothers and sisters,[a] when troubles of any kind come your way,
consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For
you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. Let perseverance finish its work so that you
may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Testing Your Faith
James 1:1-27 (NASB)
1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad:
Greetings.
2
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various
trials,
3 knowing that the testing of
your faith produces endurance.
4 And
let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing.
5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to
all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for
the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For that man ought not to expect
that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8
being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
9 But the brother of humble
circumstances is to glory in his high position;
10
and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because
like flowering grass he will pass away.
11
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and
its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the
rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
12 Blessed is a man who
perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown
of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being
tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not
tempt anyone.
14 But each one is
tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good thing given and every
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom
there is no variation or shifting shadow.
18
In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of
truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
19 This you know, my
beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and
slow to anger;
20 for the anger of
man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
21
Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that
remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to
save your souls.
22 But prove
yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.
23 For if anyone is a hearer of the
word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;
24 for once he has looked at
himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.
25 But one who looks intently at the
perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a
forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he
does.
26 If anyone
thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives
his own heart, this man's religion is worthless.
27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of
our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their
distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Verse for Today
1 John 3:1
1- "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.”
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