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  • sin that dwells within me

    14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. Rom 7:14–20

    I have been stuck here for way too long but I cannot read this without feeling a ton of emotion. I live this battle everyday and I find it very interesting that Paul, one of the pioneers of our faith, battled with the same things! Also kind overwhelming at the same time! As a believer I hoped that I can get over that hurdle in my walk with Christ and never have to look back… I hate the fact that I continue to do things that I hate and that my love and my appreciation for what Christ has done sometimes isn’t enough to stop me from making a selfish sinful decision. Lord please give me mercy! On one side I’m trying to stop doing things that don’t honor God and then on the other I’m just supposed to be OK with this flesh inside me making decisions that I don’t really want… How do I go on like that?? I want to destroy my flesh. Let it stay dead and nailed to the cross! Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Without Him I would be completely lost. Thank you Lord for saving me when I didn’t deserve it! For making a path for lost souls like me to find you and get to experience life with you today! Lord please remove the sin that dwells inside of me and help me to follow You! I am not OK with allowing sin to live inside me and I pray You give me the strength and courage to remove it!

    APPLICATION:

    Stay in the Word. I need to keep God’s Word at the front of my mind when I’m going through my day. Believe with faith all the truths of God! Don’t listen to any lies in my head! Stay humble! I don’t deserve anything!!! Pray more and serve others!! Put my family first! Have mercy on me Lord!

  • The Transformational Power of the Gospel

    Sermon notes Pastor Kobe Orr

    10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him. Col 2:10–15

    In baptism we testify to the transformational power of the gospel. WE WERE DEAD IN YOUR SIN! vs.13 You can’t change the dead. Dead people cannot think for themselves or help themselves. We have never been good, and especially not good enough to merit a rescue from God with Jesus Christ. We were spiritually dead and without hope.

    GOD RAISED US TO LIFE! vs.12-13 The same power “The Holy Spirit” that raised Jesus also raised us to life. Our salvation was birthed in the heart of God! We could not and do not contribute anything! GRACE ALONE IN CHRIST ALONE! Eph 2:8 Even the faith we have to believe any of this truth is a gift of grace from God! God loved us from the beginning!

    GOD FORGAVE OUR SINS! vs.13-14 All our debt is cancelled. NAILED TO THE CROSS! All sin is ultimately committed against God. Ps 51:4 Penalty for ALL sin is death. Jesus did it all. Took our criminals death in our place. Jesus absorbed the wrath of God that was meant for us. God cancelled all the written records of all our sins and because of Christ it was nailed to the cross. In Christ our sin has been put to death! My new life will be lived for Him out of thanks for all that He has done! Don’t conceal your past. Your testimony screams of God’s grace. God’s grace should be shouted from the mountain tops! In Christ your testimony no longer belongs to you. It’s not about your old life but about your new life lived with God!

    GOD CONQUERED SIN AND DEATH FOR US! vs.15 Death no longer has the final word! 1Cor 15:55 Death is now a reward and life is now made to serve and glorify Him! Life will be hard but the battle is over and our hope is secure and our salvation is eternal! How will you respond?

    APPLICATION:

    Give God my testimony. My life no longer belongs to me! Shout Gods grace from the mountain tops! Stop relying on my old ways of thinking! Live a life of obedience and service for Jesus out of love and thanks for all that He has done for me!

    IN HIS NAME

  • serve in the new way

    4 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. 5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way… Rom 7:4–6

    That is the gospel right there in 3 verses! Christ took our sinful bodies to the cross and died for us! So we could be released from the law and could be united with something better! All the fruit we had before Christ is just meaningless. It says we were bearing fruit for death! Being held captive by our sinful passions. But NOW… Jesus came when we were hopeless and gave us a path to Him! He took our sin and gave us holiness! Thank you Jesus!

    I no longer want to bear fruit for death!

    APPLICATION:

    Keep my mind focused on the Truth and keep God’s word in the front of my mind! Read it everyday!

  • Fervent/Earnest Prayers

    Sermon notes Pastor Kobe Orr

    Give!!! Matt 6:21

    13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. James 5: 13-18

    God desires and responds to the fervent prayers of His people. Earnest and fervent means to pour yourself out. Give it all you got! Make sure you’re right with God! God hears the prayers of a righteous person! Deal with your sin first! Don’t let your sin hinder your prayers! And ask with the correct intentions! James 4.

    God desires our fervent prayers! God is not bothered by our prayers with our constant talking to Him. Jer 33:3/ Ps 50:15/ Ps 145:18 Jesus is God and Jesus knows us and feels our pain! He has went through every temptation and He did it without failure. Col 1:15/ John 11:35 Jesus had experienced all the feelings and effects of a sin broken world. He will meet us with compassion every time! King Jesus hung on the cross for us! He is not immune to suffering. Ps 56:8 He is with us in our suffering!

    God responds to our fervent prayers! We are not the only thing that changes when we pray. Ps 50:15/ Ps 34:17 Pray with expectancy! Pray with confidence knowing that God is there and willing. Matt 8 Desperation leads to passion and action! Learn to pray fervently and boldly! Approach the throne of grace boldly! Don’t forget what prayer is. Your talking to the King and He cares! Don’t wait and bring others!! Get connected! God is always there and He is always awake and always there to hold you and listen. So pray and then have the faith to leave it up to Him. Eph 3:20/ Rom 8

    “Celebrate the yes, trust the no, and pray your way through the wait!!” Such a good quote from Kobe! So true! Pray Pray and Pray more!!

    Fervently Pray for Nick /Megan

    IN HIS NAME!

  • inspecting your members…

    19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. Rom 6:19

    John MacArthur compares our members to a vicious animal when it comes to our appetite for lawlessness and sin. And that it will continue to grow if you feed it… Like your body can just go on auto sin mode and just start spinning out of control… Might seem like a funny analogy but it is really close to what happens. One sin leads to another. One little lie leads to a little bit bigger lie and then before you know it your stuck under a huge story and has been untrue since the very first words… Sometimes things happen so fast and sin happens so easily and naturally that you can end up in some pretty scary situations and It can be a place that you really don’t want to be. Stop what your doing, find the truth and start using your members to honor God and not yourself! Remember Christ broke that bondage to sin. We don’t have to be slaves to ourselves anymore!

    I think about all the unrighteous things I did growing up and all the shame that comes along with those choices. But now I can live differently. Live for Christ! Put all the guilt and shame of my past away and live free for Him today! When you’re not living for yourself and not doing unrighteous things you have freedom and your actions bring life pleasure and comfort like seeing your family happy and taken care of… A way better way to live! So inspect your members like you would inspect your own house. All it takes is one leaky window to let enough water in to destroy the whole foundation! Protect the truth at all times and enjoy the fruit that only sanctification from the Lord can bring! Lord please have mercy on me!

    APPLICATION:

    Inspect myself more often. Make sure my life is matching my words. Help me to remove the things in my life that don’t bring You glory! Fill me with your spirit! Please help me to be better! Continue to fill me with Your Word so that it controls and guides my thinking! Stay humble. I don’t deserve anything! Thank you for everything I have!!

    IN HIS NAME!

  • instruments for righteousness

    13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. Rom 6:13.

    Such a profound way to look at your sin. It’s like the members of your body will just automatically sin if we are not watching what they’re doing. We were born playing the wrong tune with our instrument and we need to stop and learn a new way to play. Get out of the worldly grove and song that is slowly marching its people to their lonely death. Thank God that He made a way for us to get out! Christ died and broke the bondage of that sin! Christ put to death our old lives so that we could live new with Him today! You can physically feel the difference when you are doing something that is righteous or not. Lord help me to choose righteousness every time! Living righteously not only builds yourself up but it builds up those around you. Be a shining example of Jesus and only use words when necessary.

    APPLICATION:

    Lord please Help me to listen to the Holy Spirit! Don’t squelch the voice that is always there to guide me. Stay in the Word so that I am always filled with scripture and I will be more likely to choose the righteous route in any situation. Stay humble. I do not deserve anything! Thank you Lord for giving me a better life than I will ever deserve!

    IN HIS NAME

  • old self nailed to the cross

     6 We know that our old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. 7 For the person who has died [with Christ] has been freed from [the power of] sin. Rom 6

    Our old self was nailed to the cross with Jesus. Really let that sink in. He took all the punishment that I deserve so that I could have a relationship with Him. And He did it when I did not deserve it. The thankfulness and the love that comes from that is what drives me to want to be better. It’s what brings that freedom. Christ took my sins to the cross. Through Him my old self is dead! I’m now dead to sin and alive with Christ! Freed from the power of sin. Sin only has the power in my life that I allow. It no longer has master over me. I have been redeemed by Christ! And with His strength I’ll be able to remove all the sin from my life!

    APPLICATION:

    I need to preach the gospel to myself daily! Don’t forget how fast sin can sneak in the back door. Stay in the word. Be better at getting into the word daily and praying more often. Stay humble and be thankful!! My life is so much better than I deserve! Thank you Jesus!

    IN HIS NAME

  • Protect the TRUTH

    Sermon notes Pastor John Walker

    Who and what shapes how you think? The ideas you allow to play in your head matter! The truth about Jesus matters! We need to protect it! Do not get trapped by empty promises and empty ideas. Jesus is the dividing or deciding line.

    Freedom and fulfillment are ultimately found in Jesus! Protect this truth! Jesus is SAVIOR, so we don’t make ourselves the hero of the story… vs.8 We are not the ones who save anything! You cannot save yourself or fix yourself! Rom 1-5 We don’t have the ability to create a new creation. Freedom and fulfillment can only come from Jesus!

    Jesus is supreme over everything, so we start our thinking there. Col 1:15 If you want to get to know God then get to know Jesus! Col 2:23 Start your thinking with the truth! He took all the wrath and punishment that we deserve. In feelings of helplessness start with Jesus! Lift Jesus up above you. Are you beginning your day thinking about the truth of Jesus?

    Jesus is sufficient for everything, so we rest in that truth! Jesus is more than enough! We have been filled! vs.10 We have the membership! Through Jesus all of His promises apply to my life! Right now today! Rest in those TRUTHS!

    APPLICATION:

    Protect what goes into my head through my eyes and ears! Fill myself with scripture so that it overflows to everyone around me. Try to use scripture as I go through my day in my thinking and decision making. Think before I speak. Be humble! Remember where I get my fulfillment! Jesus is more than enough!

    IN HIS NAME

  • BY NO MEANS!!

    6 What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] grace may increase and overflow? 2 Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer? 3 Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. ROM 6:1-4

    How can we, the very ones that died to sin continue to live in it? What a question! A powerful and quick way to check yourself! If I have habitual sin in my life then I’m not living for Jesus! Christ did what He did to break the bondage sin had on our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin and it does not master over us. We have a choice! Are we going to choose ourselves or are we going to follow the Word of God. Are we going to live out the faith we claim to have or am I going to do what’s easy and more comfortable…? Don’t be ignorant! Don’t be stupid! Choosing God is not going to be easy or comfortable but it’s worth it because it is the only path to true lasting happiness and peace.

    Each day I have to choose to bury my old self with Christ! I don’t have to sin anymore. I can choose a different path. My way is not the only way. Fill your mind with God’s Word and He will light the path for you to follow! A path that brings happiness and peace and true comfort. Such a wonderful promise! Be raised with Christ through the glory and power of the Father! So cool! SO… we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. I love seeing words like habitually when it comes to serving God because I have been habitually addicted to something and I know how strong that word is and what it represents! So I want nothing more then to be habitually addicted to Jesus! Addicted to following His Word and habitually making choices that bring God honor and not myself! Those are the kinds of habitual actions I want in my life. Prayer, service, kindness, being humble enough to put everyone above yourself! All that is really easy to say so above all let my actions speak louder then my words. Live out scripture daily and walk in the newness of life that can only come from grace and faith in Christ

    APPLICATION:

    Abandon all the old ways of thinking. Don’t be afraid of change. Let the faith and belief in what Christ did guide me and direct my thinking. Stay focused on God’s word and know that He is sufficient! Stay humble and put others first! Don’t take advantage of the grace and forgiveness of God but let that kind of love change you from the inside out. We should be obedient because He deserves it!

    IN HIS NAME!

  • abundance of grace

    17 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Rom 5:17

    I love this verse. Paul speaks of that life which springs out of justification, in contrast with the death which springs from sin and follows condemnation. I can think of my past and how fast sin would grow and how fast bad things just piled up… In the same way as I live in the abundance of Christ’s grace and with His gift of righteousness I can enjoy my life and things like peace and comfort and faith will grow.

    18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. Rom 5:18

    Jesus won the battle and He paid the cost for our sin. And He paid it with His blood. That drives me to want to be better. Makes me aware of things I might not have thought about before. The more I read the Word the more sin gets exposed. So thankful for His promises and that I can believe with faith that Christ died for me! Thank you for promising to never leave me or forsake me and that your Word is ALWAYS true.

    21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom 5:21

    Thank God for Him giving us grace that leads to our righteousness! Thank you for making it crystal clear that I did nothing to deserve my justification and that there is nothing that I can do to lose it! I was unworthy before I knew about Jesus and I’m still completely unworthy today! Living and believing with faith that Christ did all this drives me to want to be better! That’s what drives me to be righteous! Out of love and thankfulness you remove and change the things that are not honoring God. Thank You Jesus!

    APPLICATION:

    Stay in the word. Filter my thoughts with scripture! Remember what Christ did and why He deserves my obedience. Stay humble. Remember the amount of grace God gives me everyday and so I should give more grace to others. Serve others and remember I don’t deserve anything but death. Pray more. Lord please help me to be better because you deserve it!

    IN HIS NAME