Sunday June 3 2018

Sermon : “Darkness Pt 2” 
    Pastor Kim Wenzel

The Lamp Of The Body
Matthew 6: 22-24 NKJV
²² “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is ^[g]good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is ^[h]bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
 You Can Not Serve God And Riches
²⁴ “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and^[i]mammon.

 Isaiah 58: 1-3 NKJV
1 “Cry aloud, ^[a]spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
² Yet they seek Me daily,
And delight to know My ways,
As a nation that did righteousness,
And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching God.
³ ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?
Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’

“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And ^[b]exploit all your laborers.

Instead of crying aloud and sparing not, they are practicing a selfish feel-good-religion

John 8:12 NKJV

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

John 3:18-21 NKJV
 ¹⁸ “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. ²¹ But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

Proverbs 6:16-19 NKJV

 ¹⁶ These six things the Lord hates,
Yes, seven are an abomination to ^[h]Him:
¹⁷ A^[i] proud look,
A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood,
¹⁸ A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that are swift in running to evil,
¹⁹ A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren.

Matthew 6:33-34 NKJV

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Footnotes
g. Matthew 6:22 Clear, or healthy
h. Matthew 6:23 Evil, or unhealthy
i. Matthew 6:24 Lit., in Abram.  
riches Mammon /ˈmæmən/ in the New Testament of the Bible is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain. "You cannot serve both God and mammon."
a. Isaiah 58:1 do not hold back
b. Isaiah 58:3  Lit. drive hard
h. Proverbs 6:16 Lit. His soul
i. Proverbs 6:17 Lit. Haughty eyes

Today's Verse 
1 John 5:14
 This is the confidence
we have in approaching
God: that if we ask anything
according to his
will, he hears us.