Sermons About Glory
The Impact of a Servant's Heart
Love must be the foundation of anything we do as a servant and glory to God must be the goal. Humility must be the attitude we demonstrate and others must be the target of our service.
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Worshiper Warrior Week 2
In week 2 of Worshiper and Warrior, "The Demand of Praise", Our Worship, Mark teaches the Balance of the Demand from Psalm 96:9, which is a balance of Holiness and Beauty. He finishes his training with insight into the Beauty of the Demand, which is to produce GLORY!
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Declaration of (in) Dependence Part 25
Coping with problems ultimately comes down to our perspective. Granted, if someone has no hope in Jesus Christ and their only hope rests in their own strengths and abilities, despair seems pretty appropriate. But knowing the promises of God and the fulfillment of those promises in Jesus Christ, despair for the believer is a matter of perspective. With Christ, all things are possible. With Christ, all hope is gone. When we lose that perspective (all hope because of Christ), we fall into despair – a state in which many people are living in at this moment. Francis Chan in his book “Crazy/Love” does a good job of helping us find that perspective. Imagine that you are an extra in a movie. There is a crowded scene where you stand with about a hundred other folks, and once your day day of shooting is done, the back of your head accounts for about 2 seconds of screen time. Now, this is not a huge debut for your movie career, but the back of your head makes 2 seconds of screen time among another 100 folks, so I guess you are in showbiz. So in light of your debut, you rent out a local movie theater and invite all of your friends and family. You tell them that they are invited to see the movie made about your life. Of course everyone shows up excited, but once they realize that the back of your head makes up about two seconds of screen time and you have billed the movie as the movie of your life, they all think your crazy. Obviously your perspective is skewed at the least and you are crazy at the worst. Unfortunately, as Chan notes, this perspective most of us take before God. In the grand scheme of God’s work and the unfurling of His plan and character, we make up about 2 seconds of head time, yet we yell and scream that this world and this life is about us. We shake our fists and God and yell, “How dare you do this!” We yell, “Why have you done this to me? I’ve been faithful.” Most folks lose perspective that this world is the unfurling of God’s eternal plan to bring glory to Himself and not to cater to our whims. The hope though in the midst of that is that God is pledged Himself to you in love so much so that He gave His only son, Jesus Christ, so that you might be with Him both now and in eternity. So in light of that, our perspective should change. Yes, God cares about you and is about your well-being, but it is His plan at work, it is His glory, and His movie if you will. Finding our selves in it instead of trying to make God fit into ours corrects our perspective. When it comes down to it, God is only going to meet His expectations and not going to conform to yours, mine, or anyone else’s. The question is, can you worship that God? Big Picture Question: How is a God who meets His own expectations more worthy of praise than a god that meets your expectations?
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Gratitude!
What motivated your Christian life? Often times we are motivated by guilt and fear. One recent study by a psychologist declares that faith has nothing to do with good behavior rather it is an innate sense that we must measure up to cultural standards and our own feelings of guilt that really make the difference. Some churches teach that guilt is wrong and that religion teaches us to find what is godly within us and than as soon as we can dispense with our feelings of guilt we can live for God. Interesting as they may be, we must compare these ideas to what the Bible says about this subject just as we must with any subject. Take a look with me at Paul's letter to the Colossians and see what he says is the motivation to live for Christ.
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That My Glory Would Sing His Praises!
In the 30th Psalm, The title tells us that it is presented at the "Dedication of the House of David." How are we to understand this? Is it the dedication of a building, or is it more significant than that? As I studied it I came to the conclusion that David is more likely dedicating his family and his posterity. Do you want to dedicate your family to the Lord? You should. Listen to what David prayed and sang as he did.
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The Church in Smyrna: Revelation 2:8
The church in Smyrna was made up of poor people who had endured many hardships. Jesus, the First and the Last, who defeated death, knows their tribulation, poverty, and the slander from the Jews that they have endured. Jesus tells them that he hears them, and yet they continue suffering. Not only does he call the church to not be afraid, he calls them to be faithful by treasuring him above all else, even to the point of death. He promises that the sufferings we experience right now, no matter how heavy they are, will one day seem light and momentary compared to the glory that he holds in store for his people. He suffered to end our suffering. He suffered so that no matter how much we have suffered at death, it is over. We will have an eternity with him.
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Worship - Treasure
Why is God so interested in being in the position of glory? Why does He insist on being worshiped? Tonight we want to look at Jeremiah 2 to find the answer to these questions.
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