Just Do It! The Seed

Sermon Text: Hebrews 11: 17(b) He who had received promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,

Sermon Title: Just Do it! The Seed

Point 1: The seed must be sown Genesis 18: 10 – 12 Then the Lord said, I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son. Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. (11) Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. (12) So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

Point 2: The soil must be good Genesis 18: 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.”

Matt 13: 5ff A famer went out to sow his seed. (4) As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. (5) Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. (6) But when the sun came up, the plants scorched, and they withered because they had no root. (7) Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. (8) Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.

Point 3: The sacrifice must be right vs.17(b) He who had received promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,

John 12: 24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Rom 11: 16 if the first is holy then the lump [rest] is holy… God gave his first fruit, which was Jesus according to James 1: 18

Life Application [why--to obey God’s word, grow your faith which pleases God, receive your blessings for being obedient:

1.  Sow your first fruit today

2.  Now that you have heard the word plan to do it little by little before Resurrection Sunday

3.  Also sow love, kindness, trust in God

The 90 10 Principle Remix: The Test!

Sermon Text: Hebrews 11: 19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from the death.

Sermon Title: The 90 10 Principle Remix: The Test!

Point 1: The test has a purpose in your life vs. 18 even though God had said to him, ‘It is through Isaac that you’re your offspring will be reckoned.

Formula:

A. First there is the…

B. Then it’s the requisite…

C. Next it’s the test…

Point 2: The test is about your future God uses your present vs 18 even though God had said to him, ‘It is through Isaac that you’re your offspring will be reckoned.

Point 3: The test is a two-way test Malachi 3: 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse…Test me in this, “says the Lord Almighty, and see it I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

Definition: Reason & Offered

Life Application:

1.  Put God to the test…

2.  Put God to the test…

3.  Put your budget to the test…

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Rehobath 2017...MySpace

Text: Gen 26:15-22

Title:  Rehobath 2017…MySpace

Point 1: Keep digging - vs. 1Now there was a famine in the land

Point 2: Keep deciding – vs. 17 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled

Point 3: Keep declaring – vs. 18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Point 4: Keep depending – vs. 22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,[e] saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

Point 5: Keep your destiny – vs. 3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Life Application:

·         Just Do It

Increase my Faith

Sermon Text: 2 Chronicles 20: 20  

Sermon Title: Increase My Faith 

Point 1: Called for a fast vs. 3 Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved toinquire of the Lord, and proclaimed a fast for all Judah.

Point 2: They got in the face of God vs. 5, 6 the Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple…(6) O Lord…

Point 3: They faced their enemy’svs 15, 16 …This is what the Lord says to you: “Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. (16) Tomorrow march down to them… (17) you will nothave to fight…

Point 4: They increased their faithvs 20 Early the next morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa…Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the Lord your God…

Point 5: They praised God with their fellow leader’s vs 21 …Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and praise him for the splendor of his holiness…Give thanks to the Lord, for his mercy endures forever.”

Point 6: The enemy fell in disarray vs 23 …they helped to destroy one another

Point 7: God filled their needs to overflow vs 25 …There was so much plunder it took three days to collect it. 

+Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr.
Bishop Geoffrey V. Dudley, Sr., D.Min.
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Just Do It. Facebook Faith

Sermon Text: James 2: 18

Sermon Title: Just Do It Pt 4 Facebook Faith

Point 1: The Broken Face of Facebook Faith James 2: 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believethat—and shudder. 

Point 2: The Abraham Faithbook account James 2: 21 Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar.

​You can see this in the life of Abraham.

1. They move when they here God Hebrews 11: 8 – 9  

a. They follow instructions

2. They put it all on the line Hebrews 11: 17 – 19 

a. Determine to please God

Point 3: The Rahab Faithbook account James 2: 25 In the same way, was not Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?

Life Application:

1. Sign up for small group to learn more about how to live by faith

2. Stop talking and start doing… "Faith is like calories. You can't see them but you can sure see the results."

3. Write down your goals for 2017 and what you will do to accomplish them by faith

Just Do It! No Limits

Sermon Text: James 2: 18(b) …Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.

Sermon Title: Just Do It! Pt 2 2017 No Limits!

Point 1: Just Believe It James 1: 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

Romans 1: 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Matthew 17: 20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Point 2: Just live it

Philippians 4:13 ESV I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

James 2:17 ESV So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:14 ESV What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

James 1:22-25 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Point 3: Just Give It

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Malachi 3:10 ESV Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Luke 6:38 ESV Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Life Application:

1.  Start the year off come to Wednesday night family night and small groups

2.  Just give your life to him or rededicate your life today

3.  Pick up a prayer journal and do the Daniel fast