Sunday, January 17, 2010

College and Career: Sermon

This is my College and Career outline, but before I go into that I want to apologies for not getting a post out sooner. As I said early the time between posts does not necessarily reflect my walk. This time it defiantly did not, I have so much that God has blessed me with that I haven’t shared yet but want to. I just didn’t listen to my own advice and I was waiting to have a huge block of time with nothing to do so I could work on my blog, because that’s one way I get closer to God. When I could have just done a little here or a little there, or not worry so much about how it reads, His word never comes back void, I am not writing a great American novel, I am sharing the love He bestowed on me.
Now, this is my outline for the first half of my sermon

The Steps of Trusting

I contemplated the theme of the message I was going to bring today switching several times form what it means to be a Christian, to Christmas day has past but the Spirit is not done and many other in between. Why? Why was it so hard for me to know what His will was and is for me to lead on? I was in pray about it, I am doing it to bring glory to His name so why is He not answering me?

Interactive: How many of you have been in a similar situation, wanting Gods guidance but not knowing where you are being lead, or having difficulty trusting Him and following Him? It is hard when our fleshly temptations contradict the spiritual nourishment we need, the flesh or the brokenness of this world is growing in power daily it seems. Even when we keep in mind the Spirit is always stronger if we utilize the strength the Lord gives us, because admittedly doing what we our called to do can be difficult at times, for it requires submitting ourselves to our deserving God. However I find this process can sometimes be just as difficult, if not more so when many of the options before you seem good and godly. That is why I was and am so diligent about my selection on what message to bring. It’s because it doesn’t always have to be a fight against right and wrong. It’s about doing our best to follow the path that He HAS guided for us. Is anyone willing to share their story of a time when you had a chose to make and you either chose to follow the Lords path or chose to ignore His guidance? It doesn’t have to be a life changing thing the truth is God is relevant to our entire life. Some may argue that if we add up all our daily chooses we make in a year and could somehow measure the impact it had against three of the biggest chooses in our life the daily chooses would make a larger impacted.
(Feel free to take time to answer this question with a comment, but I urge you to at least take time to think about the answer for yourself)

Alright now my question is what’s the difference, why do we listen to Him one time but not some other time? He always gives us the means to not only hear Him but obey Him as well. It ultimately comes down to trusting Him to be the Lord of your life if you truly trust Him then you will know His will is what’s best for you. It also helps to dive in to His word this verse popped in my head when I was activity trying to figure what to lead on “…You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so now I will give you many more responsibilities… Matthew 25:21 I didn’t remember the line verbatim, or where in the Bible I read it I just knew it was the inspired word of God, therefore the truth.

I know Jesus could do a much better job of explaining just how significant that single sentence is. I would like you to follow along as I read Parable of the Three Servants, and underline and write down things you find interesting about this chapter or any thoughts you may have on these verses.
Matthew 25:14-30

(At this point I proceeded to read Matthew 25:14-30 than lead a group discussion on it. I lead it similar to how Inner Varsity or IV runs. This method is to make observations about the text, interrupt the meaning and apply the text to our lives today. Unfortunately I left my copy of that at home because I hand write it.)

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