A Faith That Does (Full Service)
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The Common Thread
READ: Genesis 12:1
CHALLENGE: Walk by Faith, not by sight.
A. FAITH IS STRONGER THAN THE BROKEN BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY TREE
1. Faith is Stronger Than the Branch of Dysfunction
Genesis 11:27-30 – This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth..
2. Faith Works in the Root of Normal
B. FAITH MOVES FORWARD WITHOUT ALL THE ANSWERS (vv1-4)
V1 – The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[b]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
· Faith Moves Us Past Our Comforts
· Moves Us Past What’s Certain
2 Corinthians 5:7 – For we live by faith, not by sight.
C. FAITH LIVES BY GOD’S PROMISES
Vv2-3 – “I will make you into a great nation,and I will bless you;I will make your name great,and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you,and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
· Promises Are Based in God’s Plan
Jeremiah 29:11 – For I know the plans.
John 3:16 – For God so loved.
1 John 1:9 – If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins.
· Promises Give Us Tremendous Confidence
D. FAITH IS AN ACTION
VV5-6 – He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there..
Unified
Pastor Bill and Mark discuss being unified as a church.
Ephesians 4: As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Unity takes
• Humility
• Gentleness
• Patience
• Bearing with one another
• Making every effort
• Keep the peace
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Session 274: Unified
Pastor Bill and Mark discuss being unified as a church.
Ephesians 4: As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love…
Contented
Pastor Bill and Mark discuss what is stealing joy. They look at the concept of being content. Discontentment is an issue for people.
*** Envy Is a Joy Thief
*** Lack of Contentment
*** Human Pride
*** Unmet Expectations
*** Sin in Your Life
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Session 273: Contented
Pastor Bill and Mark discuss what is stealing joy. They look at the concept of being content. Discontentment is an issue for people.
*** Envy Is a Joy Thief*** Lack of Contentment*** Human Pride*** Unmet Expectations*** Sin in Your Life
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The Common Thread (Full Service)
Thank you for joining Eagleville Bible Church. We are so glad that you have decided to spend some time with us, and we hope that as a result you will be drawn closer to God as you worship with us today. God bless.
If you want to give in support of this ministry, please click here; http://eagleville.church/give. You can also send a check to 1981 St. Rt. 45 Rock Creek, OH 44084.
Making Transitions
Pastor Bill McMinn and Brad Brobst talk about making transitions.
One of Bill’s mantras in life is this – nothing stays the same forever. Things are always changing.
Ecclesiastes 3: There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human
race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;
yet [a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
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Session 272: Making Transitions
Pastor Bill McMinn and Brad Brobst talk about making transitions.
One of Bill’s mantras in life is this – nothing stays the same forever. Things are always changing.
Ecclesiastes 3: There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity u…
Taking A Stand
READ: Genesis 6:5
CHALLENGE: Stand for What’s Right
This is a Bible. It’s not old fashioned or out of date. If anything, the Bible keeps us from devolving into the worst mess of humanity. If you want to talk what’s old fashion, it’s sin. Murder was in the beginning. As was immorality and violence and injustice. That’s what’s old fashion in the world.
A. YOU DON’T HAVE FOREVER TO GET IT TOGETHER
V3 – Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend withhumans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
1. God’s Spirit Strives with People
Job 34:14-15 – If it were his intentionand he withdrew his spiritand breath,15 all humanity would perish together.
John 16:8 – When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:
Job 33:14-18 – For God does speak—now one way, now another—though no one perceives it.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on peopleas they slumber in their beds,16 he may speak in their ears.
2. Enough is Enough – You Can Push God Too Far
2 Peter 3:8-9 – But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
B. KNOW THAT SIN IS AN ENDLESS and DANGEROUS SLIDE
V5 – The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
1. Sin is an Endless Hallway so Don’t Take the First Step
2. Sin Wants More and More of You
Romans 1:24-25 – Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
C. CHOOSE TO DO THE RIGHT THING
Vv8-9 – But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
· Noah Found Favor
Galatians 1:10 – Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Don’t be afraid to be different. I’m not saying, weird.
· Righteous
To be righteous means that you have a standard that you live by. The standard here is set by God.
“The root basically connotes conformity to an ethical or moral standard. It originally referred to something that was straight. It refers to an ethical standard. A moral standard is found in the Old Testament. The standard ultimately resides in the nature and will of God”.
Righteousness is not something that just impacts you personally. Righteousness “tries to preserve the peace and prosperity of the community by fulfilling the commands of God in regard to others”
Job 29:12-17 – because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to assist them.13 The one who was dying blessed me; justice was my robe and my turban.15 I was eyes to the blind.
What is righteousness? Rescuing the poor and helping widows and protecting people. In chapter 31 he says that he was not lurking at his neighbor’s door hoping to sleep with his wife.
When it says that Noah was righteous it means that he was moral. But his morality included love for those around him. Being faithful to your spouse is righteous. But so is packing lunches for the kids on Friday and Operation Christmas Child.
James 1:27 – Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after.
· Noah Was Above Reproach
· Noah Walked with God
1. Doing the Right Thing Counts
2. Don’t Take Your Morals from the Crowd
Romans 12:2 – Do not conform.
3. Remember that the Choice is Yours
What do you believe? What are your non-negotiables.
Job’s wife said, curse God and die, why are you holding onto your integrity. That’s a sad statement! Job had to know his course and no matter how big the storm or how much he suffered, he knew that he couldn’t and wouldn’t curse God.
You have to know where you stand. It takes a lot of commitment to do the right thing. But in the determination is the blessing.
No one can force you to do what you don’t want to do. You say no! No – I’m not doing it.
Know your beliefs and don’t compromise! Daniel resolved himself not to drink the wine or eat the kings food. He could not be talked out of his stand. He found great success.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were spared in the furnace.
My encouragement. If Noah could live right in his world, so can you!