Summer At Connect 2017_pt3: Life in His Hands
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Summer At Connect Church 2017_pt3: Life in His Hands
Summer At Connect Church 2017_pt3: Life in His Hands
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
What is this command?
What is loving the Lord with all your heart/soul/strength?
[PAYOFF] - Dad’s, we lead our families in this!
Our children learn this from us!
[SO] - What is this command? How do we do this?
These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
[SO] - How do we do this? How are we an example to our kids?
As dad’s we provide. And that is what we are most proud of...
[BUT] - Our greatest provision for our familes isn’t what our hands can produce…
[PAYOFF] - It is pointing them to the hands that provide LIFE!
As heads of our families, we must show them life in His Hands!
Life in His Hands
Life in His Hands
[BUT] - Before we can start being an example, we’ve got to understand and believe it ourselves - we’ve got to be there!
It can be tough to always see/do/remember!
We can get caught up in our own responsibility to provide for ourselves and families that we forget that it is ONLY BY HIS ABILITY!
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
In his hand is the life of every creature
and the breath of all mankind.
We need to remember, His strength carries us through everything...
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
This isn’t just for NBA Championships (Steph Curry)
This is for good bad and ugly times!
[PAYOFF] - Putting all your hear/soul/strength into Him is committing to living in His hands.
[3 THINGS] - for living in His hands!
These come as you lay your life down on the altar...
Where is that altar? His hands!
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Willing to sacrifice!
Willing to sacrifice!
My own desires/dreams/time
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
[TRANSITION] - But, Abraham wasn’t always so willing. There was a time he and Sarah through they could work this out themselves, and help the process along.
With sacrifice, must also come...
Willing to obey!
Willing to obey!
[STORY] - Moving across the country… we knew we had to.
While driving, seeing the clouds in the sky, knowing I could never appreciate these moments without being in obedience to Him…
[EXAMPLE] - God called Moses to go back to Egypt and free His people.
Moses had no interest, he was done with Egypt – now on the other side of the country, doing his own thing now…
I don’t need those people, I don’t need that life!
But God spoke to him…
And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
But Moses wasn’t always so obedient,
Just as he set out on this world’s-greatest-mission...
At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)
Exodus 4:
[PAYOFF] - God wants our obedience, even in the small things!
Well, I’ve been doing good lately, so it’s okay if I slip here…
Willing to face any challenge!
Willing to face any challenge!
[SETUP] - David and Goliath
As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
It’s so important to face these challenges, because they set the tone for the next…
David, fleeing Saul, came across that same sword!
But there was another challenge, later, that David failed!
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home.
David stood up against a giant opposing an entire army…
But in this moment, he failed with this giant – that probably seemed like a very small thing.
[PAYOFF] - This is where is all comes together – We’ve got to be willing to sacrifice, to obey, and to face any challenge – That is living in God’s hand.
It’s here that He can begin to use us!
[REMEMBER] - The right tool for the job...
[BETTER] - The right tool in the RIGHT HAND!
HIS hands!
Take Away
Take Away
Back to Dads – We lay this foundation for our families, as if we ourselves, guide our children to God’s hands.
Dad’s our impact on our kid’s lives is much greater than we can imagine…
Part of the sacrifice we have to make for them, is putting aside our own issue, in order that they have the best chance.
[PAYOFF] We can’t let our own sin, or hurts get in the way of our kid’s best life.
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. While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
Genesis
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
Our decisions impact our destiny!
Our decisions impact our destiny!