Lifepoint Church - Messages From The Stewarts Creek Campus

People don’t suffer because God’s not good; people suffer because we’re not good. There’s suffering because our world is broken by sin.

If you are believer and possess the Holy Spirit, you will be moved to engage the sin in your life. Once you know who you are, and fortify your spiritual position you will be led onto the front lines against the sin in your life.

The Spirit says forgive but the flesh says get revenge, hold a grudge. The flesh leads to death and misery, but the Spirit leads to life.

Being in Christ doesn’t mean you never sin; it means sin is no longer how you order your life. You don’t walk in sin. You grow in holiness. You grow to love His word, His church, His people, His law. It means God didn’t justify you and declare you not condemned so you could do whatever you want; He justified you to sanctify you. God’s work of justification is inseparable from His work of sanctification. We no longer try to keep the law to be right God, but to be holy like God. The purpose of Jesus' life and death wasn’t just to take us to heaven when we die, but to make us holy on earth now.

As we talked last week, prayer is vital to our spiritual health...problem is, none of us consider ourselves to be pros at prayer. If we’re honest, prayer is sometimes more duty than desire. We know we need to pray but we struggle in desiring to pray because we don’t feel we know how.

As we talked last week, prayer is vital to our spiritual health...problem is, none of us consider ourselves to be pros at prayer. If we’re honest, prayer is sometimes more duty than desire. We know we need to pray but we struggle in desiring to pray because we don’t feel we know how.

As we talked last week, prayer is vital to our spiritual health...problem is, none of us consider ourselves to be pros at prayer. If we’re honest, prayer is sometimes more duty than desire. We know we need to pray but we struggle in desiring to pray because we don’t feel we know how.

Prayer is confusing. Think about it, everybody prays. Something happens and people say, I’ll pray for you or simply respond on social media with prayers. But, do we really think people are really praying or has that just become a better way to say, Dang, hate that for you?

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The three offices of Christ are Prophet, Priest, and King. Jesus was all of these and he was the best version of each of these. It is important for us to understand and believe Christ’s role in each of these offices.

The three offices of Christ are Prophet, Priest, and King. Jesus was all of these and he was the best version of each of these. It is important for us to understand and believe Christ’s role in each of these offices.

The three offices of Christ are Prophet, Priest, and King. Jesus was all of these and he was the best version of each of these. It is important for us to understand and believe Christ’s role in each of these offices.

The three offices of Christ are Prophet, Priest, and King. Jesus was all of these and he was the best version of each of these. It is important for us to understand and believe Christ’s role in each of these offices.

The three offices of Christ are Prophet, Priest, and King. Jesus was all of these and he was the best version of each of these. It is important for us to understand and believe Christ’s role in each of these offices.

Everybody likes to talk about money if we’re talking about how to get more but not many want to talk about how to give more. Every Christian will say they love Jesus and Jesus is Lord, but stats prove that we want Jesus to be Lord over our salvation, but not Lord over our money. What many “Christians” do with their money proves they love money more than Jesus.

This is the third parable that Jesus tells after He gives the command to watch. So basically, He’s saying, “I’m going to return, you’ll be held accountable for your life, so watch.” The most popular of those stories, and the one we are studying today is the parable of the talents.

Jesus doesn’t want us to feed our greed; He wants us to be freed from greed.

The parable of The Good Samaritan. It’s so well known that both Christians and non-Christians commonly use it as an idiom to describe anyone who performs a selfless act. Many use this parable as a poster child of social gospel/justice. Hollywood and media love to jump on the social justice bandwagons. It’s not bad to fight hunger, trafficking/poverty but, hopefully, today, you’ll see that Gospel driven mercy is totally different. Kingdom life is motivated by the gospel not guilt.

These parables are teaching us the value of the kingdom of God but they are also meant as a warning to us.

Many Christians question their salvation because they continue to commit the same sins. But, only people who've been redeemed are truly burdened by their sin. If not, you don’t care, and if you don’t care, you’re not redeemed.