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  • NEXT – Part 3

    Part 3 – What Matters

    (Psalms 90:12 NIV) Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

    (Ephesians 5:15-17 NLT) So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.

    WHAT MATTERS

    • God matters

    (Philippians 3:7-8 NLT) I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ…

    (Luke 12:20-21 NLT) “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’ “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”

    • People matter.

    (Galatians 5:13-15 NIV) …serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

    (Matthew 25:35, 45 NIV) For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in… ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

    • Eternity matters.

    (Luke 12:15 NIV) Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

    (Matthew 6:19-21 NIV) “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths 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.

    LEAVE A LEGACY

    1. Know your purpose.

    (Psalms 139:13-15 NIV) For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well… All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

    (Colossians 1:16 MSG) For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible…everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.

    1. Grow to your potential.

    (Proverbs 27:17 NIV) As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

    1. Sow the seeds that benefit others.

    (2 Corinthians 9:6-7, 11 NIV) Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver… You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

     

  • NEXT – Part 2

    Part 2 – Celebrating the Journey

    (Philippians 3:13-14 NIV) Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

    (Exodus 6:6-7 NIV) “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God…”

    THE FOUR CUPS OF PASSOVER

    • The Cup of Sanctification.

    (Exodus 6:6 NIV) …I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

    • The Cup of Deliverance.

    (Exodus 6:6 NIV) …I will free you from being slaves to them…

    • The Cup of Redemption.

    (Exodus 6:6 NIV) …I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

    • The Cup of Praise.

    (Exodus 6:7 NIV) I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.

    CELEBRATING THE JOURNEY

    (Ephesians 1:11-12 MSG) It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

    1. Be saved and set free.

    (John 8:34 NIV) Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

    (Titus 3:3-7 MSG) It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come–an eternity of life!

    1. Be healed and delivered.

    (Luke 4:18 NIV) “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,

    (John 8:34-36 NIV) Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

    1. Be discipled and equipped.

    (2 Corinthians 3:18b MSG) …our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

    (Ephesians 4:7, 11-12 NIV) But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it… (God gave pastors) to equip his people for works of service…

    1.  Be empowered and fulfilled.

    (Ephesians 1:18-19 NIV) I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.