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Pastor Jack Graham
8-17-14
Pastor Greg introduced Jack
Graham as a man of integrity, from a church in Dallas Texas.
Pastor Jack said the faith of the
Harvest Church is well known.
Pastor is talking about not
getting any younger. How your memory goes with time.
The book of Ephesians speaks of
our wealth in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3 NKJV
[3] Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in
the heavenly places in Christ,
The bible is not a book to be
learned, it is a book to be lived.
Ephesians talks about the walk of
the believer and then finally the warfare.
The hinge in the book of
Ephesians is in Chapter 3. When Paul prays on his knees. Where his Jailhouse
became a church house.
"Prayer is the slender nerve
that moves the omnipotence of God."
Ephesians 3:16 NKJV
[16] that He would grant you,
according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His
Spirit in the inner man,
Verses 14 to 21 is the longest
actual sentence in the bible.
The pastor is talking about the
persecution of Christians in the world today. However, God sees his church as
glorious.
He talks about how he has been
going to church since before he was born.
The pastor learned that the Bible
is "the story of Jesus and his ministry". He learned that the church
will be there for you when no one else will be. "Jesus will walk in when
everyone else walks out."
He is talking about how
Christians are there doing crisis across the world when no one else is.
He says he is not preaching to go
to church. He says when you start to know Jesus, you will learn that Jesus
loves the church.
Ephesians 3:20-21 NKJV
[20] Now to Him who is able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that works in us, [21] to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all
generations, forever and ever. Amen.
None of it is about you, it is
all about the glory of of God. The message of Jesus is where the focus always
has to stay.
Jesus has changed our lives, He
found us when we were lost, He gave us hope, He gave us meaning. Jesus says he
came to seek and save the lost. That is why you always need to focus on Jesus.
All of the Bible is about Jesus,
from Genesis to Revelation. You can see Him all through it or you are missing
the point.
The pastor tells about how even
the donkey knew the parade was for Jesus on that first Palm Sunday.
God is unable to fail, Gods power
is the power that has saved us and is in us.
Ephesians 1:19-20 NKJV
[19] and what is the exceeding
greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His
mighty power [20] which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead
and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
Whether we are serving Christ or
going through struggles, we have that power in the Holy Spirit inside us.
The secret of the spirit filled
life is Christ in you and the hope of glory.
What do you need God to do in
your life to finish His works? Depending on your own strength will be failure.
When we are the weakest, God is
the strongest in us. You can not out dream, pray or do God. You need to let God
take over for you.
The pastor is talking about how
Christians seem to be saggy in the middle like an old bed. At the headboard, we
are saved and at the foot board we know we are going to Heaven, but we are not
doing what we are suppose to during our life.
The Christian life is
supernaturally natural and naturally supernatural.
Jesus says the gates of hell will
not prevail over His church.
When the storms of life come, it
will be Jesus that will always be there.
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