Live It Out Church
In this sermon starting in 1 Corinthians 1:2 Pastor Bill McMinn challenges us to “Live it out Church”
-The church is sanctified in Christ
-The Church Is Called to Holiness
-The Church Calls on the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ
Where Is God?
READ: Jeremiah 2
CHALLENGE: Stay in Line with God
A.WHAT ARE YOU SEEKING?
V5 – This is what the Lord says: that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves.
· Are We Checking Our Thoughts About God?
· Are We Drifting from Our Spiritual Connection with God?
· Are We Prioritizing the Things that Don’t Matter, Rather Than God?
B. DO WE SEARCH ANSWERS FROM GOD?
V6 – They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord,who brought us up out of Egypt?
V7 – I brought you into a fertile landto eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land.
V8 – The priests did not ask,‘Where is the Lord?’.
C. DO WE GIVE UP BETTER THINGS FOR LESSER THINGS?
V8b –
Does not profit you. There’s no gain. In other words – it’s not helping you. It does you no good to go in the direction you’re going.
V11 – Has a nation ever changed its gods?(Yet they are not gods at all.).
V13 – “My people have committed two sins:They have forsaken me,
and have dug their own cisterns,water
V19 – Your wickedness will punish you;your backsliding will rebuke you..
Where is God? Where is God in all of this. God is calling you back.