Sermons About Anointing
GOSPEL CONFIDENCE IN DAILY LIFE FOR YOU AND ME (1Jn 2:18-28 * Message #5/14) 11-15-09
{NOTE: To receive these Sermon notes below via email, in an outline form (which is easier to understand), please email your request to Pastor Marcus Johnson: efcamarcus@sbcglobal.net}. INTRODUCTION: an Eschatological View of Time – “History has changed its direction, says Newman. It runs ‘not towards the end, but along it, and on the brink of it; and is at all times near the great event, which did it run towards it, it would at once run into. Christ then is ever at our doors.’ Since the coming of Jesus, history has a new urgency, a sense that its end is at hand and the powers of the future are impinging upon it. … Thus at any moment history could lapse over the line and bring about the end. And history’s proximity to the line (The End) will be signaled by the devastating events described here and elsewhere in the New Testament. (*Gary M. Burge, Letters of John, p.126-27). JOHN’S WARNING & HIS REASSURANCE – (1) Walk in Spiritual Discernment (vs18-19): --> Regarding “the Last Hour” (v18); --> Regarding Antichrist & Antichrists (v18); --> Regarding False Believers: “Leaving Us & being Exposed” (v19). (2) You know the Truth of Jesus Christ! (vs20-23). (3) Abide in Christ as the Gospel Abides in You! (vs24-28): --> Abide in Christ by letting the Gospel abide in you (vs24-25); --> Abide in Christ because the Gospel abides in you (vs26-28). GOSPEL CONFIDENCE IN DAILY LIFE – (1) We know the “True” Jesus and God’s “Revealed” Word. (2) We Trust the Power and Promise of the Gospel.
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The Anointing
As we learn from this story in Mark 14, cherishing Jesus is incredibly important even though it often gets overlooked for other good works. And when we truly cherish and worship Jesus first, our mission should flow out of that.
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The Holy Spirit: What does He want with you?
The Holy Spirit wants to be your Authentication, your Activation, your Audacity (Boldness), and your Anointing.
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The Spirit's Annointing to Bless the City
David connects with the Spirit, David develops in maturity to be able to live in the disparity between the promise and current reality; David is released to serve in the power of the Spirit.
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God Cares - Independence Day
Like David, it doesn’t matter how old you are, and like the disciples, it doesn’t matter how poor or rich you are, or how well educated you are or not. It doesn’t matter if you have a house, a family, and responsibilities, or if you have no money, or poor health. When God decides your faith is equal to the task he has for you, the only response is to accept the authority to accomplish the task. When God is ready for you to go, you need to go – He will provide the staff and the power.
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God Cares - Divine Delay
There’s an old Norse word for religion that translates into English as “trying again.” Perseverance grounded in faith can hold us together when life unravels around us. In this story of two miracles we learn about holding fast to our faith and “trying again” as many times as necessary. Perhaps our unanswered prayers are simply divine invitations to “keep trying.”
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God Cares and Raises Up Leaders
Jesus told his disciples that when he was no longer with them physically, and they could not see him anymore, he would not leave them orphaned – that he would come to them through the Holy Spirit. All believers are indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God at the point they give their hearts to Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It is the inheritance of all who believe. But throughout the Old and New Testaments, the saints of God are called, anointed for special tasks and specially gifted – specially equipped – for the task by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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House Rules Part 4
As we prep to jump into our passage this week at Sovereign King, we need to keep in mind several themes that are running through the book of 1 John. Let's keep in mind that John is trying to describe what it looks like to be part of the family of God. A few weeks ago, we saw a list of attributes that define the family. o A believer will be characterized as being humble understanding that they are a sinner. o Recognizing that sin means that the child of God will live a consistent life of confessing that sin to God. o That confession and repentance will cause them to walk in the light or live a consistently growing life of obedience. o Walking in humility, confession, and obedience, will cause them to be honest about that sin never pretending to be perfect. o Each individual believer then will be part of the fellowship of other believers in a community designed by God before the foundations of the world. Building on those characteristics, John also has been developing a few themes. For example: o A child of God will be in Jesus and Jesus will be in them. o A child of God will be in the word of God and the word of God will be in them. o However, the child of God will be in the world, but the world will not and should be in the child of God. That was the theme last week where John talked about not loving the world and all that is in it, but instead, we are to have our hearts and lives centered on the cross of Christ and all that Jesus has done for us. This week, however, John takes a turn in his teaching. Instead of explaining what the child of God looks like, he is going to describe a person who is NOT a child of God. What characterizes their lives, and what attributes describe them? Though we could probably assume the opposite of everything said about the child of God, John wants to be very specific. Now before we get started, we are going to run across some controversial language in this passage. We are going to see John use the word "antichrist" this week. As we move forward, I will make the same comment that I made when we saw the word come up in the book of Luke. o Every single generation since the day Jesus ascended heaven has declared that this is the generation that Jesus is coming back. o Every single generation has picked one or more really bad people and labeled them the one and only anti-Christ o And guess what? Every single generation has been wrong. That does not mean that being mindful of the times and the people of those times is not important. It just means that we should tread lightly and carefully before we start throwing labels and titles around. To be honest, we have made a joke out of Christianity in most every generation. o We have been so quick to declare that Jesus is coming around the bend that we have neglected our responsibilities in the here and now. We have been content to let this world go to h-e-double hockey sticks in a handbasket. o And any one that we didn't vote for or any terrorist on the landscape has been declared the anti-Christ. And you know what? We look like idiots, folks. Let's not let give the impression to the world that we are ready to start stockpiling weapons and freeze dried meals in order to stock our militia camp in the woods with a bunch of hillbillies that look like the guy from the front porch of the movie Deliverance. Instead, let's be wise students of scripture and our time, all the while holding to the mandate to proclaim Jesus while demonstrating love, mercy, and justice to a hurting world. Having said all that, this week at Sovereign King, we will examine this section of 1 John looking to see what the life without Christ looks like.
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The Anointing of the Holy Spirit
Understanding the Anointing of the Holy Spirit for our lives.
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