There are a lot of people who find it difficult to love and be loved. Love is not about feeling. The only way anyone gets saved is if God opens our hearts. He takes away the heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh. If the Apostle Paul had not been mistreated in Acts 16, the jailer would not have been saved. Is is believed that the church at Philippi, in part, begun by this jailer and his family. No one can escape God, we will either face Him as His dearly loved child or as His enemy.
Three are the most important questions in life are:
Who do you think you are?
Where do you think you are going?
What do you think you are doing?
Pastor Wood teaches about these questions and how they shape our lives. Everything we do now is of eternal significance because we should be doing it for Jesus. Our greatest point of blessing is often tied to our greatest pain.
Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord! Our God is a consuming fire and He will judge the earth with fire. When that happens, there will be no place to run. When we die, what do we expect and what are we hoping to take? The things that our world holds dear are not important, what is important is whether or not our lives are hidden in Christ. We are not to fear what the people of this world fear, Christians are only to fear with reverential awe, the Lord our God. The world cannot destroy the Kingdom of God! Jesus died and rose again so that we might live.
In the Book of Hebrews, God reminds us that we should not stray from the truth. We need to remember this, especially during times of trial.
During times of drought, should we do as the Lord commands? What if that means putting ourselves last? The woman to whom Elijah came to visit, does the correct thing.…
What is our response to false teachers and people who sin? Real freedom is not about doing a bunch of things that destroy us. Pleasing and loving Jesus should be more important than anything else in the world.
Bible Text: Acts 9:32-43 | Pastor: Pastor Jim Wood | Series: SAS Chapel: Acts