Sermons About Zeal
King Jehu And The Work That God Gave Him To Do
Jehu was given the task of God to eliminate the house of Ahab. In II Kings we see Jehu completing this task. Along the way Jehu takes the time to encourage Jehonadab in his zeal and desire to serve the LORD. °Jehu challenges Jehonadab regarding the state of his heart asking him, "Is your heart right?" A right heart is the first requirement for doing God's work. Are our hearts right so that we can do God's work for us? °Jehu offered to share the burdens with Jehonadab "Give me thine hand". Together, the two went out and accomplished God's work. We must share each others burdens and share the load among our Christian brothers and sisters to accomplish God's will. Each of us must be willing to give up our personal desires to work together and achieve the tasks God has placed before us. °Jehu had a holy zeal to follow the Lord. Do we have a zeal to follow after the Lord or are we 'lukewarm'. We can not diligently accomplish our tasks from God if we are not fully committed.
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A Zealous Heart
Pastor JR Vassar teaches on David and Goliath and shows us that we are not David; we are cowering Israel needing our King to rescue us from our greatest threats.
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Live Passionately
“Living with No Regrets” Live Passionately Luke 5:18-26 When you think about it, we don’t have control over many things in life. We didn’t get to decide where we were born, who are parents are, or which time period or culture we live in. We don’t get to decide the dates on our gravestone. Only God knows when out time is up on this earth. It could be next week or next year or decades away. But there is one thing we have a vast amount of control over. We get to decide how we are going to live today! “So love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.” Mark 12:30 (Msg) “Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.” Rom. 12:11 (NIV) 1. Step out of the routine and do something drastic (verse 18) Realize its do or die! 2. Push back when meeting the unexpected (verse 19) Miracles seem more frequent beyond the point of our normal response. 3. Create space for God where there seems to be no space (verse 19) 4. Accept the grace He extends to you (verse 20) 5. Keep a reminder of the remarkable things you see each day. (Verse 24-26)
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God's Word an extension of God's Character (Ps. 119:137-144)
Gods' Word reflects God's righteous character and produces righteousness in His people, therefore God's Word is the food and joy of His servants. We often don't think of it that way, yet God says that He exalts His Word to the level of His Name. When the Bible speaks, God speaks, God is eternal, His Word is eternal. God is righteous, His Word is given in righteousness. The list could go on. God has communicated Himself in His Word and to embrace this reality by faith produces God's character in His people, and HIs Word becomes a source of inexhaustible strength and joy.
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Passion, Do You Have It?
To believe in something strongly enough you must have passion. Passion is what causes a sports fan to stand up and shout at a television. Christians should have the passion to see our world turning to Jesus Christ.
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Zealous love for God (Psalm 119:113-120)
When we think about commitment to Christ and to the kingdom we so often put it into a context of mediocrity and we see it around us and start to think that is the standard of zeal. The psalmist confronts with our apathy and models for us a man who is sold out for Christ; a man who has set his heart toward things eternal; because he has set his heart toward the Eternal One. In this section the psalmist displays a zealous love and reverence for God! 3 Evidences of a Passionate love for God (1) Zealous Commitment (113-115) (2) Zealous Prayer (116-117) (3) Zealous Fear (118-120)
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A Dying Church
A Dying Church A church dies when: 1. The members become selfish. 2. The members have interest without commitment. 3. The members have lost their zeal. 4. The members no longer center on Christ. When members think more of themselves than others, nothing can make them happy. The church building is too hot or too cold! Don’t like the way this one looks, or the way that one dresses! Jesus said “I am the vine and you are the branches.†The church dies in the heart of its members! It’s never too late to repent and draw closer to our savior Jesus Christ!
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Nehemiah #11 - Seeing the Work Through to the End- No Compromise
Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem to find that Eliashib, the high priest, has given a room to Tobiah, the Ammonite. Other problems Nehemiah faced were an assortment of foreign wives married into God's family. Nehemiah demonstrates a "no compromise" attitude toward all these violations of God's law.
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2 Samuel 21:1-14 - The Cost of Covenant Breaking
Chapter 21 starts a new section (21-24) in closing the book of 2 Samuel. Some thing think that this secion is an intrusion to our the them of transition (David to Soloman). But I believe that the author is making a conclding point on how God's kingdom is to be goverend. In our passage in 2 Samuel 21, David's kingdom is experiencing a famine which causes David to pray to find out its cause. God says it is because the bloodguilt on Saul because he put the Gibeonites (who had made a Covenant with Israel in the name of the Lord (see Joshuah 9)) to death. David Doesn't pray for a solution but seeks atonement with the Gibeonites who want 7 men to pay with their lives. The difference between David and Saul is show by David loyality to the covenant he made with Jonathan to protect Mephibosheth (Jonathan's son). it ends with showing Rispah love for her son in protecting the bodyas and David giving Saul, Jonathan and the other that were hanged to bury them. We learn how misplaced zeal can cause us not to rely on our covenant with God and his mercy.
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Purify Your Church
Jesus cleanses the Temple, the Church and the heart. May Jesus cleans the American Church before it is to late.
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