Oak Community Church Sermons
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What's In Your Last Lecture?
Randy Pausch captured the hearts of America with his book, "The Last Lecture". Faced with his eminent death, Randy compiled all that was important to him in an effort to leave his three young children a picture of who he was and how he thought. God's word encourages each of us to do the same. Randy put on a sprint at the end of his life to accomplish the task, Let's see what God's word has to say about making our legacy a daily part of living, instead of a part of our dying.
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Let God Be God
Letting the peace of God rule in your heart wasn't something the Apostle Paul just wrote about, he practiced it. While lying beaten and tired in a prison cell in Philippi, the peace of God so filled the hearts of the Apostle Paul and his young companion Silas they joyfully sang praises to God. Paul surrendered to the peace of God. The peace of God not only encouraged the two of them, God's power manifested itself in an amazing way to those around them. As Paul and Silas sang, God shook the prison, all of the cell doors sprange open and the chains of each prisoner fell off. The account is a metaphor that can't be ignored. Don't miss this. Here comes the BIG IDEA. God's peace frees us and those around us from the shackles of fear and hopelessness. As the story continues, Paul and Silas are freed and the jailor and his family come to faith in Christ. What if we are all missing the boat, letting circumstances determine our joy instead of God's peace filling our hearts? What if enjoying what we believe turned out to be not only what we need to be free and have peace, but what those around us need to find the peace we have in Christ?
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God's Fashion Makeover
Do you remember the "coat of man colors" that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph? In many ways that varied colored coat is a visual metaphor of the clothing that God gives us to wear as Christ followers. The colors of that coat reflect the variety and diversity of Christ's character given us to wear in our daily and eternal lives. The Apostle Paul listed seven attributes of Christ that now belong to us. They are: compassion kindness humility gentleness patience hearing and forgiving love
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Clean Out Your Closet!
Everything kept in our old-self closet is a fascination with the very thing that tried to destroy us. Charles Spurgeon reasoned, "Can you imagine the sanity of someone mauled by playing with lions continuing to go back to their den? Or someone playing with matches after they themselves were severly burnt?" Even though it is hard to imagine, the reality is people have. Just like them, we have refused to clean out our closets and continue to wear the very attitudes and ill character traits that are foreign and disfiguring to what Christ has planned for us.
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An Up Perspective
In spite of the fact that God has provided tremendous blessings for each of us who believe, let’s call them our faith benefits package, we still carry around baggage that keeps us from fully enjoying those faith benefits. If we’re going to enjoy what we believe, it’s going to require more than wishing it will happen. It will require a new UP perspective, a wardrobe makeover and just letting God be God.
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Answer
We have a tendency to complicate man things in life. Some of those things are very insignificant or even laughable, but what about those areas of importance? What about the most important issue facing every person? In John 3, Jesus has an encounter with a man who was completely confused about the Gospel message because he spent most of his life taking something God made simple, and complicated it. Jesus gives this man an Unthinkable anser that could even change your life 2000 years later.
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Command
Jesus always used His power for the good of others. Although that is such a unique characteristic in our world, God calls us to do just that. The other option which we see all to often in our culture is poeple using their power to protect their power. The scene that unfolds in John 11 is a classic study in a contrast of leadership styles. On one hand we see Jesus give an unthinkable command that displayed HIs awesome power and impacted lives around him. On the other hand, we see a man named Caiaphas who used his power to protect his position and lost everything.
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Question
Why does it surprise us when God does something that is Unthinkable? What holds us back from understanding and realizing the fullness of God? Could it be that we have a pre- disposed idea of how God works or doesn't work? Each of us has a God box. In other words, a lens in which we look through to make sense of God.
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Event
Just when you think you have figured God out, He does something ... Unthinkable. Watch as we explore how God works and His purpose for our lives.
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See It Happen!
See-It-Happen is a message focused on taking a moment step back and really see what God is doing!
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