Lie #13 Your Greatest Responsibility Is TO Serve God

After the “BUT”

1 Corinthians 2:1-5

My message and preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, BUT in

demonstration of the SPIRIT and power

After the “BUT”

How do you like your pastor?

Kevin is a nice guy, we’re lucky to have him as our pastor, he preaches good sermons, and people in the community like him, BUT he preaches too

long, only preaches grace, and has never called to see how I’m

doing.

Unfortunately, Christians typically put the wrong things before and after the “but”.

“I know God loves me, BUT it doesn’t seem like it, everything is falling apart.”

“I know God is my sufficiency, BUT I don’t really have what I need.”

“I know that God promised me wisdom, BUT all I have is confusion

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become character.

Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

“I feel awfully weak, but Christ is my strength”

“I am feeling fear, but Christ is my peace”

“I feel sick, but Christ is my healer”

“I feel sorrow, but Christ is my joy”

“I have a need, but Christ is my supplier”

Jas 3:10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Jas 3:11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?

Jas 3:12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.

Luke 5:1-8

2Co 4:8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;

2Co 4:9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

2Co 4:10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

Psa 13:1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psa 13:2 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Psa 13:3 Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Psa 13:4 lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him," lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

Psa 13:5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

Psa 13:6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Mat 4:4 But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

The Call:To begin to live in faith, To See and Say what God says and

sees rather than what we say and see.

I will acknowledge the circumstance, but my trust will be in Christ.