"Have this attitude"
KJV
"Let this mind"
This is a choice
Jesus existed in the form of God
He didn’t cling to His Deity but embraced His humanity
In His humanity He became as a bond-servant
Remember, a bond-servant was one who chose to serve, even though they were free to choose not to
Being made in the likeness of men
He humbled Himself when He became obedient
Jesus humility was one of suffering
He served even when it was hard and humiliating
Today’s Christian needs to remember that humility is not weakness
Jesus humbled Himself as a man to be obedient to God
To show us exactly how we should serve God
Today we can serve in many ways even in our own church
Jesus humbled Himself and was obedient even to the point of death on the cross
He obediently suffered for the whole world to see
Are you willing to obediently serve God today that others may see Jesus?
- Oct 16, 2022Service
Service
"Have this attitude"
KJV
"Let this mind"This is a choice
Jesus existed in the form of God
He didn’t cling to His Deity but embraced His humanity
In His humanity He became as a bond-servant
Remember, a bond-servant was one who chose to serve, even though they were free to choose not to
Being made in the likeness of men
He humbled Himself when He became obedient
Jesus humility was one of suffering
He served even when it was hard and humiliating
Today’s Christian needs to remember that humility is not weakness
Jesus humbled Himself as a man to be obedient to God
To show us exactly how we should serve God
Today we can serve in many ways even in our own church
Jesus humbled Himself and was obedient even to the point of death on the cross
He obediently suffered for the whole world to see
Are you willing to obediently serve God today that others may see Jesus?
- Oct 12, 2022Bible Study – Exodus 5
Bible Study – Exodus 5
- Oct 9, 2022Who’s In The Mirror?
Who’s In The Mirror?
Toddlers under 18 months don’t often recognize themselves in the mirror
We notice things in the mirror
This passage is describing the mirror which is the Word of God
If we are doers of the Word, when we examine ourselves, we see the Word
When the world looks at self-proclaimed believers today, how many reflect the Word?
Do you see the Word when you look in the mirror, or something else?
Ever looked in a funhouse mirror? It is still you, but looks wierd
Perhaps a version of the Word, yet distorted
Perhaps you see something broken that needs repair
When things are broken, they are not able to function properly
Some people hate to look in the mirror, but do nothing to change that
The only way to see Jesus, when you look in that mirror, is to be that doer of the Word
This is what our world needs today, believers who do what they read in God’s Word
Only you have the option to change what you see in the mirror
Do you want to see Jesus?
- Oct 5, 2022Bible Study – Exodus 4
Bible Study – Exodus 4
- Oct 2, 2022Jesus Calms The Storms
Jesus Calms The Storms
We live in a stormy time
I’ve heard it said that each of us is; either in a storm, coming out of a storm, or about to go into a storm every day.
With storms being on all our minds this week, I want us to remember something: Jesus Calms The Storms!Our text today isLet’s look at 35-39Jesus rebukes the storm
Let US cross over
Took Him how He was
A storm arose
He was asleep
He was awakened
He rebuked the storm
Jesus rebuked His disciplesHow is it that you have no faith
The disciples were fearful
Who can this be?
Jesus was fully man and fully God and the disciples just saw both
Are you locked in the storms of life?
Do you need a savior?
Trust Jesus! He is the only One that can calm the storms!
- Sep 28, 2022Bible Study – Exodus 3:7-22
Bible Study – Exodus 3:7-22
- Sep 25, 2022Bad Choices
Bad Choices
We make many choices every day
Some good and some bad
Moses was given instructionsSometimes choices are made because we have no guidance
Sometimes we choose to go against the guidance
Why would Moses, someone who saw God’s miracles, choose to go against God?
Why would we make that same choice?
Sometimes choices really have no consequence, but sometimes they have major consequences
Any choice to willfully go against God is a bad choice
Every bad choice has bad consequences
Moses’ consequence
Even choices we make out of ignorance can be bad choices
It is our responsibility to be educated so we can make good choices
God will never steer us wrong!
Moses’ choice cost him the opportunity to enter into the promised land
God did, however, forgive him
Our sinful choices today do cause us to bear the consequences on this earth
God’s grace, mercy and forgiveness still offers us an eternity in heaven
Do you have the assurance of that today?
- Sep 21, 2022Bible Study – Exodus Chapter 3:1-6
Bible Study – Exodus Chapter 3:1-6
- Sep 18, 2022Prayer
Prayer
- Sep 14, 2022Bible Study – Exodus 2
Bible Study – Exodus 2(Moses Is Born)1 And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi.2 So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months.3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it.6 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother.9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”(Moses Flees to Midian)11 Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.12 So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?”14 Then he said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”So Moses feared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.18 When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”19 And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”20 So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”21 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.22 And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”23 Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.
The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
- Sep 4, 2022Knowledge Is Painful
Knowledge Is Painful
I don’t mean that knowledge makes your head hurt
Ignorance is bliss!
"I know best how to take care of me"
Solomon was the wisest man in the world
In all his exploration and wisdom, he found, that with man, everything is striving after the wind
Our own knowledge tells us without God it is impossible
It is painful for us to believe we can’t do it alone
As far back as Adam and Eve, man has sought knowledge
If we could go back, before all this knowledge, wouldn’t that be great?
The true knowledge comes from God
Are you ready to seek true knowledge?
- Aug 31, 2022Bible Study – Exodus 1
Bible Study – Exodus 1(Israel’s Suffering in Egypt)1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.5 All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already).6 And Joseph died, all his brothers, and all that generation.7 But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.”11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses.12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah;16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.18 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive?”19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very mighty.21 And so it was, because the midwives feared God, that He provided households for them.22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
