February 21, 2010 by PastorDave.

#379, Becoming an Effective Steward, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday 02-21-2010

Text: Romans 14:12

Introduction

We have come to the last message in our series Letting Christ Change Us, connecting our vision with our values.
(Show the circles) We have come full circle I guess you could say as today we focus our attention on the call to effective stewardship.
Steward = one to whose care anything has been given, a manager, an administrator, guardian.
We are all stewards for the Lord. Each of us had been given a life, time, talents, gifts, abilities, money and possessions. God is the owner of all of these things and we are his managers, guardians, administrators.
Romans 14:12 – So then, each of us will give and account of himself to God.
There are 2,350 verses in the Bible on handling money & possessions.
There is one verse that helps explain why so many Christians struggle in this area of their walk with the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8-9 – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
In the area of finances, possessions we do not think like God thinks, nor do our ways line up with God’s ways. So this is a delicate subject but one that must be preached.

TRANSITION: What I would like to do today is look at five key areas of our lives and see what God thinks and says about them in regards to being good stewards of God’s stuff.

WORK

1. Colossians 3:23-24 – Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men; since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
2. “Whatever” here means whatever! It doesn’t matter what you do as long as it is with all your heart. In work God isn’t looking at the what He is looking at the heart!
3. Do you see yourself everyday going to work for God or men? This will change how your work?
4. Our reward is not from men (our employer/boss) but God! We all work for the Lord!
5. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 – If a man will not work, he shall not eat. (Do you remember what happens in Genesis chapter 3? Man sins!)
6. Genesis 2:15 (before sin) – The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
7. Work is not sin or a curse! But part of God’s design for man to fulfill his purpose while he is here on this earth.

PERSPECTIVE

1. Philippians 4:11-13 – I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
2. The world around us teaches us that circumstances dictate action. But the apostle Paul wants us to see a different perspective.
3. Whatever the circumstances (in need or in plenty) if we are living by God’s principles we can do everything through the Lord!

DEBT

1. This is a touchy subject indeed, especially in our day. But we need to let God’s Word speak to every area of our lives.
2. Proverbs 22:7 – The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
3. 1 Corinthians 7:23 – You were bought at a price; do not become slaves to men.
4. The dictionary defines debt as money that a person is obligated to pay to another.
5. Debt puts us in the role of a servant or (according to 1 Cor.7) a type of slave.
6. The Bible does not say that debt is sin, but it discourages the use of debt as we can see from these previous verses.
7. There are two things that debt does that are dangerous.
I  Debt presumes upon tomorrow. When we get into debt we presume that we will earn enough or our jobs will continue for a long time and be profitable. James 4 says, you do not know what you life will be like tomorrow.
II Debt often denies God an Opportunity to show Himself Mighty. (Share story of young man who wanted to go to seminary to become a missionary. He had no money and would be $40,000 in debt on a loan but would never be able to pay it off on a missionary’s salary. So he enrolled without a loan and was amazed how God provided as he went to school & worked.
8. Romans 13:8 – Let no debt remain outstanding…(if we owe God expects us to pay)
9. Getting into debt (beyond a mortgage or well planned out financial decision that does not put undue stress on the budget) is usually a surface symptom of a deeper problem. Show the slide of the iceberg.
10. Before we move on let me say two things, consider a change of life style (used cars, second hand stores, local vacations, cooking at home) cut up credit cards; secondly DO NOT GIVE UP. You can do all things through Christ. Just have to be willing!!

GIVING

1. Acts 20:35 – “It is more blessed to give than to receive.
2. 1 Timothy 6:18-19 – Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasures for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
3. God is a giver and is looking for givers. Someone once said if you want to be sure that you are in control of your money and not the other way around; give it away to the Lord’s works!
4. The true test of giving is not what you give but what you have left after you give.

ETERNITY

1. Mark 8:36 – What good is it for a man, to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
2. More times than we care to admit, people choose the possessions & wealth of this world over following God’s ways.
3. Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12:16-21; Turn and read NIV)
a) V.19 – You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat drink and be merry.
b) V.20 – But God said, you fool! This very night your life will be demanded of you.
c) The rich fool was a fool not because he was rich, but rather his focus was on this life and taking it easy. God’s focus is on eternity.
d) V.21- Store up things for yourself but are you rich toward God?
4. “Take care of your body as though you will live forever; take care of your soul as if you will die tomorrow.”
5. Eternity is not a place for the things of this world; it is a place for the soul.
6. 1 Timothy 6:7 – For we brought nothing into this world, and we can take nothing out of it.
7. Our failure to view our life through God’s lens of eternity is a major hindrance to seeing our lives and our possessions in their true light. (don’t think 30 yrs from now think 30 million)

CLOSING

1. We started off by saying that God’s thought & ways are not ours. In the area of stewardship to allow His ways to lead us will bring great blessings in the end.
2. Matthew 6:20, 21 – Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
3. God wants every one of you to be storing up treasure in heaven. Now is the time when we do that.
4. Prayer for work, debt, getting Gods perspective with money, being a Godly giver or having an eternal perspective.

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February 7, 2010 by PastorDave.

#377, Building the Body of Christ, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday 02-07-2010

Text: Ephesians 4:11-15

Introduction

• We are in the 5th Sunday of our series Letting Christ Change Us. Connecting our vision with our values.
  Last week we saw how we need each other like a healthy body needs all of its parts.
• Today we are going to focus our attention on our 5th core value; a healthy relationship with ministry.
• Once we have been born-again, Jesus is our Lord & Savior, the Bible is now our source for direction in life, we are growing healthy relationships with our families and with one another we are in position for God to do a mighty work with all of us collectively.
• Because once the “Body of Christ” gets healthy; I mean we are searching the Scriptures for answers and drawing near to God, and our family life is improving and our relationships with one another are growing; once this is taking place and we are growing into a healthy “Body” of believers, God wants this healthy body to do something.
  And that something is called MINISTRY. Say that with me, Ministry.
• Just like and individual believer is saved for good works according to Eph. 2:10, so is the local body called to work the work of ministry.

GOD’S GIFTS

1. Eph. 4:11-15 – And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: that we should no longer be children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ.
2. The source of all this is found right at the beginning of these verses, “He Himself gave.”
3. The He is Jesus; Jesus is the one that put this whole plan together.
4. What did Jesus give? Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.
5. Here we find the five offices of the church. People are gifted and called to fill these offices. Jesus gave them to the church; they are His gift to His Church.
6. Each one fills a different role although they certainly cross over.
7. So the first thing we discover is that God created apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, he gifted people to fill these positions and gave them to His Church.

THE PURPOSE OF THE GIFTS

1. Why did God give His Church these five gifts? We find the answer is verse 12.
2. “For the equipping of the saints.”
3. Equipping = take something that is unusable and make it usable. A recovered wholeness as when a broken limb is set and mends.
4. So in other words God gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, preachers and teachers to train the people of God to be usable for God.
5. So equipping involves some steps:
a) Discipleship: we must first say to every believer, follow Jesus, obey Jesus. Jesus said follow me and I will make you fishers of men. 1 John 2:5 – But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him.
b) Surrender: We have to yield to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Romans 12:1 – I beseech you…that you present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
c) Teaching: Every person must see their need to be taught the things of God. Even if you are an expert in an area, God’s ways are not our ways. We must be teachable. John 14:26 – But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things. Titus 2:11-12 – For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us… Both the Holy Spirit & the grace of God are looking to teach us.
d) Relationships: A Christian learns the likeness of Christ from a relationship with the Word of God & relationships with people who are also following Jesus. Sharing our lives, studying & praying together that’s how the Christian lifestyle manifests itself in the real world we live in. 1 Thessalonians 2:8 – So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.
e) Service:   The church is commanded by the Word of God to stress to everyone James 2:17 – Faith by itself, if it does not have works is dead. Teaching without ministry involvement will prove to be fruitless in the end.
6. So when Ephesians 4:12 reveals that God has given these gifts; the apostle, prophet, evangelists, pastor and teacher, God also shares they are for the purpose of equipping the saints.
7. Which is why people called to these offices have a passion to lead people to obey Jesus’ words (disciple) to understand all who live for Jesus will suffer persecution (surrender), Jesus’ ways are not our ways (teachable), we need each other (relationship) and the greatest among you will be the servant of all (service)
8. Now all these equipping has a purpose: FOR THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY!

THE MINISTRY

1. Eph. 4:12 – For the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.
2. Ministry = serviceable labor; it is work. Performance of labor.
3.    So the equipping is done by the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors & teachers, and the ministry is done by the saints of God.
4. “The work of the ministry is the enterprise of each member of the body of Christ and not the exclusive charge of select leaders.”
5. “A healthy church involves every member in ministry.”
6. Three Common Myths of Ministry:
a) Ministry is for Professional ministers: my goal is to get them to church and let the professionals take over.
b) Ministry is making sure the program keeps going: When the people begin to serve program instead of the program meeting the need of the people it’s time to reflect.
c) Ministry always happens in the church building: Leader said: I have never shared my heart, my fears, failures and needs inside the walls of this church. But I have outside them.
7. Ministry is build around the call/commission Jesus gave to the church: Lead people to follow Jesus by obeying His Word. That is what all ministry should be doing.
8. It may look different when you are ministering to children, couples, addicts, elderly, youth, mothers, fathers, singles, divorced, the sick, the poor, the prisoner etc… However the goal of ministry is simple, lead people to follow Jesus by obeying His Word.
9. Because everyone does not have the same challenges to overcome in the pursuit of following Jesus.
10. Example: 16 yr. old teenager struggling in his relationship with his parents & alcoholic; the goal of ministering to both of these would be lead them to follow Jesus by obeying His Word. But each has different challenges/obstacles in the way.
11. John 15:16 – You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain.
12. Matthew 20:28 – Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Altar Call

• This was not a message to guilt you into joining a ministry.
• But rather to exhort & encourage you to understand that God had called you to serve
• His Church needs you; your life & relationships with God will grow.
• Minister to you, hurt by ministry, prayer for help & direction, prayer for your ministry….

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January 24, 2010 by PastorDave.

#375, Lasting Impact of a Godly Family, Pastor Dave McIntosh, Sunday 01-24-2010

Letting Christ Change Us series

Text: Esther 2:10-11

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December 27, 2009 by PastorDave.

#371, Walk in the Light of Christmas, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday 12-27-2009

Text: John 8:12

Introduction

• Last week we discovered the light of Christmas. Today we want to examine what to do with this discovered light!
  It is one thing to discover something. It is another thing altogether to apply the discovery to my life in a way that makes a lasting impact.
• Light is an incredible thing to meditate on as it relates to our spiritual health.
• Genesis 1:3-4 – And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
• Here we discover that God spoke light into being, God said light was good and that God separated light from darkness.
• John 1:1-2; 4-5 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning…In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
• We see that light again is from God and is in contrast to what is called darkness.
• John 1:9 – The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
• With all this in front of us today, Listen to what Jesus said (the Light) to us in John 8:12 – I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of light.
• So the key to the “light of life” and the way out of “darkness walking” is not the discovery of the light of the world, but rather following the light of the world!

QUESTION: NOW THAT WE HAVE DISCOVERED THE LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS HOW DO WE WALK IN HIM?

1. TURN AWAY FROM ALL DARKNESS
a. John 1:5 – The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
b. Light & darkness do not mix. The first thing we must do in order to begin to walk in the light is to turn away from darkness. (Repent)
c. Acts 28:18 – I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God.
d. You have to “tell on yourself.” Expose all things to the light!
e. 1 Cor. 4:5 – Judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts.
f. Understanding this, it is of great benefit for us to just confess and repent now!!

2. LOOK UNTO JESUS
a. Because repent literally means to change and turn from, we turn from darkness to the Light, to Jesus. We can look up to the Lord in our prayers and enjoy intimate fellowship with Him.
b. Psalm 4:6 – Many are asking, who can show us any good? Let the light of your face shine upon us, O Lord.
c. Psalm 89:15 – Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord.
d. Hebrews 12:2 – Let us fix our eyes Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.
e. Look unto Jesus, call on His Name, fix your gaze upon Him, walk in His light, let His light shine upon you and your life will be changed, transformed forever!!

3. FORGIVE OFFENDERS
a. The greatest producers of darkness in our lives are the bitterness & hatred we allow to grow toward those who have offended us.
b. 1 John 2:9;11 – Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness…But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
c. Light and unforgiveness cannot co exist. This is so powerful that you can think your living in the light but unforgiveness has blinded you and you really are walking around in the dark.

4. STUDY & MEDITATE ON THE SCRIPTURES
a. Psalm 119:105 – “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
b. V.130 – The unfolding of your words gives light, it gives understanding to the simple.
c. To walk in the Light of Christmas we must be engrafting God’s word into our souls!

5. GATHER WITH OTHER BELIEVERS
a. 1 John 1:7 – But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
b. We need to meet together in this building and outside of this building and encourage one another so that our light is not diminished, but brightened!!

HOW WILL GOD USE OUR LIGHT?
1. 1 Peter 2:9 – But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
2. Our light is a sign that we are chosen and belong to God. He wants to shine this light in a dark world and use it to draw others to Himself.
3. 1 Peter 2:12 – Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
4. Our light is our good works (not good words) that God wants to display to a lost & dying world!
5. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven, Jesus said in Matthew 5.
6. John 3:21 – But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.

CLOSING
1. When we turn from darkness, fix our gaze unto Jesus, live in a spirit of forgiveness, become students of the Scriptures and delight to gather with other believers our light begins to grow and become bright.
2. And this light is a sign to a lost & dying world that we are in fact a people belonging to God.
3. And who we are and what we do will be seen plainly as a work of God!!
4. Someone once said people are tired of hearing good sermons, they want to see one!

ALTAR
1. Invite you to use this altar as a meeting place, for you to meet the Light of the World and express your hunger to live in His light!
2. Eph.5:8 – For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
3. Php. 2:15 – so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
4. Come to the altar, meet with the Light of Christmas, share your hunger to live in the light and shine like stars in the universe!!

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November 29, 2009 by PastorDave.

#369, Remember Who You Are, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday, 11-29-2009

Title: Remember Who You Are
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:17

Introduction

• We are in the 4th Sunday of a series focused on healthy relationships. We have looked at taking care of offenses, family relationships, our attitude, today we want to focus on the most important person you talk to every day: YOURSELF.
• What we say to ourselves each day often determines the kind of person we become; which directly affects our relationships with other people.
• What we believe about ourselves is often controlled by other people, culture around us, or it’s just what I want to believe.
• The question we need to be asking ourselves is: What does God and His Word have to say about who I am?
• 2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
• “But when we live more according to our own design than God’s we suffer. We have our own ways of coping with life and its hurts instead of searching for God’s principles that will lead us into the light.”  –How People Grow—
• For many of us, the biggest obstacle to healthy relationships is us! We have believed lies about who we are and even though we became born again by repenting and receiving Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we still believe the old lies and have not understood who we have become in Jesus. (“The old has gone the new has come!)
• It is my desire today to share two things: Remind you who you are and expose old lies that still control our relationships in life.

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

1. 2 Corin. 5:17 – “new creation” (the old has gone; the old ways, the old relationships)
2. 1 Peter 4:3,4 –For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery (pleasure without restrain), lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation (extravagant waste), and they heap abuse on you.
3. In Jesus Christ your relationships are not rooted in the activities or the lifestyle that you used to live in. In the world, most of our relationships are based on this way of living.
4. You are a “new creation.” And here is the thing that makes everything about who you are and what you do NEW:

5. John 14:15-17 – If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
6. The Holy Spirit (Spirit of Truth) lives inside of you!
7. John 14:23 – If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.  (YOU HAVE NEW ROOMMATES)
8. What are the results of the Holy Spirit living in my spirit?
9. 2 Peter 1:3 – His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”
10. Result: DIVINE POWER (inside of you lives a power to make the right choice ever time)
11. 2 Peter 1:4 – so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
12. Result: PARTICIPATION IN THE DIVINE NATURE (inside of you lives a nature that is perfect & sinless)
13. You are a new creation, which means that the Holy Spirit lives inside of you and is making His home with you. This results in a divine power & nature that now live in you giving you the power to escape the evil desires of this world and become the person you’ve always wanted to be for God!!     HOW MUCH POWER IS IN YOU?
14. Romans 8:11 – And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
15. Resurrection power lives in you. The Spirit that has enough power to raise Jesus from the dead (resurrection power) lives in you. Now that is power. (STOP & PRAISE GOD)
16. See, we forget who we are when we become a born again child of God.
17. If we would remember who we are in Christ and surrender to it and believe it in faith then we could overcome the lies we believe about ourselves.

LIES WE BELIEVE THAT HINDER HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

1. “I AM WORTHLESS” This is a lie that results from us living inside of the painful memories & consequences of our past failures & bad choices. Not only do we now live with the power to change the future but our value is not based on our achievements, our value is based on the eternal truth that we are God’s workmanship!
2. Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
3. “I AM A FAILURE” This lie results from the thought that we can achieve our own success and that we will be judged on our success rather than our faithfulness.
4. Luke 18:8 – However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?
5. “I DO NOT FIT IN” The lie here is that we are supposed to fit in with our secular culture. We are not called to fit in; we are called to be a light in a dark place!
6. Romans 12:2 – Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
7. “I MUST HIDE MY FAULTS” The lie here is that if people really know who I am they will despise me and laugh at me. The second lie is thinking that no one else has faults like I do. (most people admire those who can humbly share their faults, it is inspiring)
8. James 5:26 – Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed.
9. “I AM ALL ALONE” This lie twists the truth about loneliness. Loneliness is not the absence of people but the fear of sharing my inner most thoughts and feelings with another person. (no one wants to do this with you more than God does)
10. Hebrews 13:5 –I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
11. “I CAN NEVER CHANGE” This lie is based on the thought that change depends on our human efforts or performance. True change does not happen by the efforts of our intellect, emotions or will, but by building a new believe system in our hearts based on the Word of God and letting the Holy Spirit be in charge.
12. Philippians 4:13 – I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

OUR PART

1. In Jesus Christ we are new creations. The Holy Spirit lives inside of us and pours out divine power & nature in our lives. It is resurrection power, because it is the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead.
2. With this truth, we have great value, we are God’s workmanship, we are lights in a dark world, our faults & weaknesses can be used by God for His Glory, we are never alone and we have supernatural ability to change and be transformed!!
3. But this does not mean that we do not have to do anything!!
4. “We have to risk. We have to love, open up, confess, reach out, repent, obey, and do all the things we are commanded to do. Our part is to live the life.”  –Dr. Henry Cloud—
5. Ephesians 3:16-19 – I pray that our of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted and established in love, may have power, together will all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

ALTAR: Altar of Filling (Divine power/nature) Freedom (lies) Faith (live the life)

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November 15, 2009 by PastorDave.

#367, Fight for Your Family, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday, 11-15.2009

Text: Nehemiah 4:14

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October 4, 2009 by PastorDave.

#363, Getting Better, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday, 10-04-2009

Text: Luke 10:38-42

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October 4, 2009 by PastorDave.

Jesus, speaking in John 4:24, declared, “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” Jesus made it clear that God has worshipers, and they “must worship.” Earlier in this same chapter, Jesus revealed that God the Father seeks worshipers! God desires for us to worship Him! God is looking forward to having you worship Him this morning in spirit and in truth. So, I want to encourage you to lift your hands, open your mouth, and, from your heart, worship the Lord your God! Now is our time to worship. May we seize the time we are given this day to gather together and worship our God!

Pastor David McIntosh

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September 27, 2009 by PastorDave.

#362, Discipleship Relationships II, Pastor David McIntosh, Sunday, 09-27-2009.

Text:  Luke 6:40

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September 27, 2009 by PastorDave.

Luke 6:40 states: “A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.” We have been talking about discipleship these past few weeks and what a disciple of Jesus truly looks like. From this verse of Scripture, we know that Jesus is our teacher, and we are not above Him. We also see here our need to be fully trained—not half trained, but fully! The end of the verse says it all: “…will be like his teacher.” Oh, to be like Jesus! To think like Him and feel like Him and act like Him … this is the highest call … this is a disciple! As we worship together this morning, may the cry of our hearts be: “Holy Spirit, make us like Jesus!”

Pastor David McIntosh

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