Every Generation Needs Jesus

Notes: Every Generation Needs Jesus

Pastor Greg

Sunday morning

Scripture:

Romans 9

Series:

Relentless Grace: Paul

https://harvest.org/resources/webcast/every-generation-needs-jesus/

Did you know you have been chosen by God?

He chose you to be His child.

Good knows all things, and He STILL chose you!

Deuteronomy 7:7-8 NLT

[7] "The LORD did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! [8] Rather, it was simply that the LORD loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

He chose you because He loves you.

Try to explain election and you may lose your mind, try to explain it away and you may lose your soul!

John 3:16 NLT

[16] "For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:6-8 NLT

[6] When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. [7] Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. [8] But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Christ died for the whole world.

Revelation 22:17 NLT

[17] The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." Let anyone who hears this say, "Come." Let anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who desires drink freely from the water of life.

God wants all to believe.

God predestines every man to be saved. The devil predestines every man to be damned. Man casts the deciding vote.

Lord save the elect, and then elect some more. - D.L. Moody

1. God chose me to become more and more like Jesus everyday.

2. God chose you so you will become a Spiritually fruitful Christian.

Romans 10:13 NLT

[13] For "Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved."

Romans 9:3 NLT

[3] for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed-cut off from Christ!-if that would save them.

1. Everybody needs to hear the Gospel, no matter who they are.

Psalm 145:4 NLT

[4] Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.

2. The religious person needs the Gospel as much as the pagan person.

You need to have your own faith.

One of the easiest places to get your hearts hardened is in the church.

Romans 9:17 NLT

[17] For the Scriptures say that God told Pharaoh, "I have appointed you for the very purpose of displaying my power in you and to spread my fame throughout the earth."

After miracles being witnessed, Pharaoh hardened his heart. Eventually God helped harden Pharaoh’s heart.

Harden can be translated to, strengthen or stiffen.

Romans 9:19-20 NLT

[19] Well then, you might say, "Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven't they simply done what he makes them do?" [20] No, don't say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, "Why have you made me like this?"

We are like a lump of clay on a potters wheel.

God’s plans for you are better then your plans for you, but you can sabotage His plans.

Philippians 2:12 NKJV

[12] Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

“Don’t wrestle, just nestle” - Corrie ten Boom

Have you been chosen by God?

The greatest inoculation against the Gospel is the Gospel when it is heard but not heeded.

Jesus Christ holds the missing piece to your life.

Tons of Religion Without an Ounce of Salvation

Notes: Tons of Religion Without an Ounce of Salvation

Pastor Jeff L

Harvest Valor

3/5/19

Many people have tons of religion without an ounce of salvation.

Romans 10:4 NKJV

[4] For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

The work of redemption was finished with Jesus on the cross.

If you add to the Gospel, you actually subtract from it.

The Gospel is plain and simple truth.

The Gospel is received by faith.

Divine sovereignty does not remove human responsibility.

If Christ has not risen then our faith is in vain.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, the only question is if we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

The Gospel is for everyone.

The worst form of human badness is when human goodness becomes a substitute for faith.

Isaiah 28:16 NKJV

[16] Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone for a foundation, A tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; Whoever believes will not act hastily.

Deuteronomy 30:10 NKJV

[10] if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Joel 2:32 NKJV

[32] And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the LORD has said, Among the remnant whom the LORD calls.

The Gospel must be shared.

Romans 10:14 NKJV

[14] How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

We must never allow our theology to rob us of our responsibility!

Romans 10:21 NKJV

[21] But to Israel he says: "All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people."

Revelation 22:17 NKJV

[17] And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

God does not want you to try harder, He wants you to trust Him deeper.

All Things

Notes: All Things

by Greg Laurie on Mar 3, 2019

Event:

Sunday morning

Scripture:

Romans 8

Romans 8:28-29

Series:

Relentless Grace: Paul

https://harvest.org/resources/webcast/all-things/

Romans 8:28 NKJV

[28] And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Ephesians 1:11 NKJV

[11] In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

Psalm 119:67 NKJV

[67] Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.

Psalm 119:71 NKJV

[71] It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.

Psalm 119:75 NKJV

[75] I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are right, And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Matthew 5:4 NKJV

[4] Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

We aren’t in the explaining business, we are in the trusting and praying business.

Sometimes a disappointment can turn into an appointment with God.

Perfecting

Protecting

Correcting

The three types of storms in a Christian’s life.

Genesis 50:20 NKJV

[20] But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

After Romans 8:28 is 8:29...

Romans 8:29 NKJV

[29] For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

To be predestined, means God chose you before you chose Him.

Romans 8:28 NKJV

[28] And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:28 is only for the Christian

Jesus died on the cross for me.

Jesus Revolution: The Rapture and Revival

Notes: Jesus Revolution: The Rapture and Revival

Greg Laurie

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Series: Jesus Revolution

1 Thessalonians 4

Music: Brennley Brown, Harvest Worship Band

https://www.harvest.org/watch-and-listen/webcast/watch/jesus-revolution

There was a sense of expectancy at church services.

The teaching of the rapture.

What is the rapture?

Harpazo Rapture means to take forcib

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NKJV

[16] For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. [18] Therefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 NKJV

[13] But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

It’s not God’s desire to conceal but to reveal.

1 John 3:3 NKJV

[3] And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

We should live everyday as it’s the last day, because one day it will be.

Revelation 2:4 NKJV

[4] Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Repent means to change your direction.

Revelation 2:5 NKJV

[5] Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place-unless you repent.

Remember, Repent, Repeat

How to Live a Spirit-Led Life!

Notes: How to Live a Spirit-Led Life!

Greg Laurie

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Series: Relentless Grace: Paul's Letter to the Romans

Romans 8

Music: Harvest Worship Band

https://www.harvest.org/watch-and-listen/webcast/watch/how-to-live-a-spirit-filled-life

Depression is real and you know it when you experience it.

It usually comes down to three things:

1. You are haunted by something in your past.

2. You are anxious about your future.

3. You are weighed down by something presently.

Where do you put your hope?

Job 8:13-15 NKJV

[13] So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish, [14] Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider's web. [15] He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure.

Hope has a name and it’s Jesus Christ.

God tells us how we are covered in the past, future and present:

Romans 8:1 NKJV

[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Your sin is behind you.

Romans 8:38-39 NKJV

[38] For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, [39] nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:28 NKJV

[28] And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:1-4 NKJV

[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. [3] For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, [4] that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

1. A spirit led believer lives a condemnation free life.

John 8:7 NKJV

[7] So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."

She became a believer right then,

John 8:11 NKJV

[11] She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

The Bible says we are a person at conception.

God does not see you in your sin, He sees you in His Son.

God sees you for what you are, not what you were.

2. The best way not to go backwards is to go forward in the Spirit.

Romans 8:2 NKJV

[2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

The secret is the Holy Spirit working in your life.

Ephesians 5:18 NKJV

[18] And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

God is saying everyday He commands us to fill our sails with the Holy Spirit and let God help us.

3. Spirit led people are spiritually minded people.

Romans 8:5 NKJV

[5] For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:14-16 NKJV

[14] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. [15] For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." [16] The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 8:26-27 NKJV

[26] Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. [27] Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

I am adopted, I am loved and I am cared for.

God chose me!

In contrast to living a spirit filled life is to live a worldly one.

Romans 8:5 NKJV

[5] For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Matthew 6:33 NKJV

[33] But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Psalm 42:9 NKJV

[9] I will say to God my Rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

Psalm 42:10-11 NKJV

[10] As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" [11] Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

You need to remind yourself of what God says. That is why you need to commit Scriptures to memory.

Is the Holy Spirit at home in your heart?

5. Spirit led believers overcome the old life.

Romans 8:12 NKJV

[12] Therefore, brethren, we are debtors-not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

Romans 8:14 NKJV

[14] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Are you a child of God?

How to Overcome the Power of Sin

Notes: How to Overcome the Power of Sin

Greg Laurie

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Series: Relentless Grace: Paul's Letter to the Romans

Romans 7

Music: Harvest Worship Band

https://www.harvest.org/watch-and-listen/webcast/watch/how-to-overcome-the-power-of-sin

2 Corinthians 7:1-16 NKJV

[1] Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. [2] Open your hearts to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one. [3] I do not say this to condemn; for I have said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. [4] Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation. [5] For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were troubled on every side. Outside were conflicts, inside were fears. [6] Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, [7] and not only by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. [8] For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. [9] Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. [10] For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. [11] For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter. [12] Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you. [13] Therefore we have been comforted in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. [14] For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, even so our boasting to Titus was found true. [15] And his affections are greater for you as he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him. [16] Therefore I rejoice that I have confidence in you in everything.

1. If you want to win the battle of sin, you must admit your faults.

Conversion has made our hearts a battlefield.

After you have you have been a Christian for a while and you still do things you shouldn’t, it’s called carnality.

2. To be carnal is to be in an arrested state of spiritual development.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2 NKJV

[1] And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. [2] I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

Hebrews 5:12 NKJV

[12] For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

A carnal Christian is one who has never grown up.

3. You don’t have to be carnal if you don’t want to be.

Romans 7:8 NKJV

[8] But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.

2 Corinthians 7:1 NKJV

[1] Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

1 John 2:15-16 NKJV

[15] Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the Father but is of the world.

All sins fall into these categories:

Flesh

Eyes

Pride

Genesis 3:6 NKJV

[6] So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

4. Realize the problem is you, not your circumstances

Romans 7:14 NKJV

[14] For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

“I have more trouble with myself than any other man!” - DL Moody

Jesus did not eliminate but, rather, elaborated the commands in the sermon on the mount.

The commandments show me I need God.

Romans 3:19 NKJV

[19] Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

The old nature knows no law, the new nature needs no law.

5. Our only hope, in the struggle with sin, is Jesus!

6. We need to cry out to God for help.

Romans 7:24 NKJV

[24] O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Admit we are under its power.

Romans 6:6 NKJV

[6] knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

We can live in the victory Jesus has purchased for you.

Call your sin what it is and attack it!

Whom the son sets free is free indeed.

Romans 8:1 NKJV

[1] There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Chapter 8 starts with “no condemnation” and ends with “no separation.”

How are we to live a life from the power and control of sin?

Zechariah 4:6 NKJV

[6] So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' Says the LORD of hosts.