harvestoc.net blog, Monday, November 9, 2009
Audio, Gen 26:24d 'Promises' (8-Nov-09 Morning Sermon)
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1) God’s promises are truths to rest in, because they are already true before what is promised actually happens
2) Certainty of future blessing is a big part of believers’ lives on earth
3) We are to enjoy already things that have not yet happened because God has promised them
4) We are to respond already to things that have not yet happened because God has promised them
5) God with us is the only way that we can ever truly do our duty
6) God’s plan isn’t to make us independent of Him but entirely dependent upon Him
7) Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of God with us
8) God’s promise of multiplying offspring is primarily a spiritual promise
a. It is a spiritual promise for natural children
b. It is a spiritual promise for the objects of evangelism
c. Jesus is the ultimate recipient and fulfiller of the promise for spiritual offspring
9) On this side of the cross, we have certainty of God’s promises:
a. Because God is the One who made them
b. Because of Christ’s finished work, and Christ’s prayer on the basis of that work
Questions for application:
1) Do I treat God’s promises for the present and the future as if they already happened?
a. Do I ever stress as if they might not happen?
b. Do I think much about going to be with the Lord, or the resurrection on the last day, or the everlasting life of joy in the New Heavens and New Earth? Do my mind and heart go regularly to these for encouragement to my current duty or comfort in my current trials? Do I enjoy already their certainty? Do I respond already with gratitude and service to God?
2) Do I consciously depend upon God in my duty?
a. Is my hope and strength for duty sapped by my personal condition or circumstances around me?
b. When my duty does get done, is my exulting closer to boasting pride in self or amazed gratitude toward God?
3) Do I view spiritual multiplication as one of the main promises of God to me and one of the main objectives in everything I do?
4) Is spiritual multiplication the single greatest object of my parenting?
5) Am I impressed with the certainty found in a promise’s having been made by God?
6) Am I impressed with the impossibility of something not coming true if Christ has earned it by His life and death?
Am I impressed with the certainty of Jesus’ getting everything He asks for … and how much of what Jesus asks for is actually directly and individually connected to me? Labels: Sermons
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