Common New Year’s Resolutions:
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New Year’s Resolutions • Good? Bad? Indifferent? • “Reset” • Do you make resolutions? What are they? • Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-bound
Common “Christian” Resolutions? • Read the Bible “more” • Read through the Bible in a year • Go on a mission trip • Pray ___ times a day • Go to church “more” (can’t GO to church ) • Tithe __%
Doing vs. Being • Is doing something & being something the same thing? – Motivation (heart) • So what do we, as disciples of Jesus Christ, need to resolve to BE?
Ephesians 5:13-17 • “when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, • for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says , ‘Awake , O sleeper, & arise from the dead, & Christ will shine on you .’ • Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, • making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. • Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is .”*
Ephesians 5:13-17 • Be honest about your life. – Not Facebook “honest” – Imitating God? • Being? – Spiritually asleep? • Doing, only?
Psalm 90:1-9 • Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. • You return man to dust & say, ’Return , O children of man!’ For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. • You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. • For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. • For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.*
Psalm 90:1-9 • Are you too busy with what’s not important? – “Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead” • Overinflated sense of importance – “It” does not depend on us • We do not prop… we should Be propped – Trust God – “but…” God.
Matthew 6:25-34 • “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? • Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Matthew 6:25-34 • And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? • And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Matthew 6:25-34 • But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? • Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
Matthew 6:25-34 • For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. • But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. • “ Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble .”*
Matthew 6:25-34 • Examine your priorities • Resolve to align everything in your life by what you should seek First. • “Fear not” – “do not be afraid” – “have no fear” – “do not be timid” -- “ BE bold” -- • Know that I am God & I am with you Always
Resolve to… BE
Bear Fruit
Follow Jesus… L1, L2
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