The Intentional Life
Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 39:31
0 ratings
· 21 viewsFiles
Notes
Transcript
25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
Life is filled with noise
++Noise on the outside
++Noise on the inside
7 Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played?
Noise on the outside
++Physical sounds
++Inspiring Sounds
++Distracting Sounds
What are the sounds that you hear?
++Boredom
++Business
++Bias
The loudest voices come from within us
The loudest voices come from within us
Voices of
++Fear
++Frustration
++Failure
22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Life can be filled with internal noise
Life can be filled with internal noise
12 And the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.
13 So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.
God told Moses
++To declare His covenant
++To teach His word
++How to possess the land
We are not called
++Just to exist
++To occupy
++To dwell in
We are called to possess
++To take ownership
++To work to deserve the win
1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea,
2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
3 all ate the same spiritual food,
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
Being together was not enough
Being together was not enough
They all
++Were under the cloud
++Passed through the sea
++We baptized unto Moses
++Ate the same thing
++Drank the same drink
Why did they fall?
Why did they fall?
6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
We are called
The Intentional life
The Intentional life
25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
The Intentional Life
++Makes the necessary sacrifices
++Stays focused on the goal
Focus on the Prize
Focus on the Prize
It is worth the sacrifice.
27 “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Stay in the Fight
Stay in the Fight
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
Intentional life is
++Connected to what you are hearing
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
In the midst of all the noise God speaks.
In the midst of all the noise God speaks.
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
The blessing is in the one who is listening
The blessing is in the one who is listening
27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.