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  • No means no!

    8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Rom 8:1–2

    No means no! This is the place where the enemy can get into my mind and really do damage. Like a Rolodex of the past my mind can throw up thought after thought of my mistakes and the horrible things that I did from my past just pound my mind and show me reason after reason of why I deserve condemnation and why I definitely couldn’t and wouldn’t get a gift of grace like this from anyone let alone the creator of the universe… How fast my mind can fill with real things that I have to face everyday in direct results to my horrible mistakes. Real consequences my whole family has to endure because I chose to be disobedient. But Thank you Lord for this promise. For lifting the heavy weight of sin off of my chest. Giving me a path to you and the freedom that comes from your grace and mercy and love!

    No condemnation means no condemnation! I can now fight without all the wight of the past weighing me down. I have freedom to fight! Freedom that comes from knowing that Christ has already won the battle! He has done all the hard work and now I can fight along with Him. I don’t have to worry about all my mistakes and make choices out of fear but I can be confident knowing my savior loves me and He is for me no matter what I do! That love ignites a passion for wanting to be obedient out of thankfulness! It tells me that I do not have to earn my place in His family! I have already been called His child so that gives me the freedom to keep going even when I screw up. I know my Father is there and He loves me! That pushes me to want to be better every day!

    APPLICATION:

    Today I will not let the weight of my mistakes weigh me down. Christ nailed ALL of my sins to the cross so I don’t have the right to keep bringing them up. Lord give me mercy and the freedom and strength to never go back to the old passions of my flesh! Help me to serve you in my mind and thoughts and allow you to continue to destroy my flesh! Thank you for everything!

    IN HIS NAME!!

  • body of death

    21 So I find it to be the law [of my inner self], that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature], 23 but I see a different law and rule of action in the members of my body [in its appetites and desires], waging war against the law of my mind and subduing me and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is within my members. ROM 7 amp

    It is kind of scary how much this scripture fits into my life. I battle everyday with dying to my old self and trying to remove all the things that don’t glorify God. I want to do good and follow Christ but I can see the desires of the flesh and there are times when I fail and I give in. Is it because I’m not good enough or I love my sin more than I love God? I know that statement is not true! Thanks to God’s word I know what to do! I will serve God with my mind and my thoughts! And pray God gives me grace and helps me remove all the rest!

     24 Wretched and miserable man that I am! Who will [rescue me and] set me free from this body of death [this corrupt, mortal existence]? 25 Thanks be to God [for my deliverance] through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind serve the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh [my human nature, my worldliness, my sinful capacity—I serve] the law of sin. ROM 7 amp

    Thank you God for knowing I was going to need you! For knowing everything I need before I even do. Thank you for reaching me! Thank you for delivering me from my corrupt immoral existence. You are the answer! I pray you have mercy on me for I am a wretched man that needs your grace and forgiveness!

    APPLICATION:

    Read the bible every single day! No excuses! I need to stay connected to the source! Keep my mind and my thoughts completely flooded with God’s Word! He is the answer. He is the way to true happiness and freedom from the corruption of sin and the flesh! Read and pray! Stay humble! I don’t deserve anything!

    IN HIS NAME!

  • 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