Your Story is about the Weight of His Glory | Week 2 | Christmas
Big Idea: Your Story is about the Weight of His Glory!
Weight
1 Kings 8:10-11 - “Kavod”
3 Words that bring the Weight of His Glory this Season
Faith/Hope/Love
1 Corinthians 13:4-8,13
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil (transgression) but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails…13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The Weight of Faith that Gives
2 Corinthians 9:1-2 (TLB)
1 I realize that I really don’t even need to mention this to you, about helping God’s people. 2 For I know how eager you are to do it, and I have boasted to the friends in Macedonia that you were ready to send an offering a year ago. In fact, it was this enthusiasm of yours that stirred up many of them to begin helping.
Macedonian Churches
1. They gave more than what was easy or comfortable
2. Did it on their own
3. Insisted -Considered it a privilege
All this was possible because they gave Themselves First to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 9:3-8 (TLB)
3 But I am sending these men just to be sure that you really are ready, as I told them you would be, with your money all collected; I don’t want it to turn out that this time I was wrong in my boasting about you. 4 I would be very much ashamed—and so would you—if some of these Macedonian people come with me, only to find that you still aren’t ready after all I have told them! 5 So I have asked these other brothers to arrive ahead of me to see that the gift you promised is on hand and waiting. I want it to be a real gift and not look as if it were being given under pressure. 6 But remember this—if you give little, you will get little. A farmer who plants just a few seeds will get only a small crop, but if he plants much, he will reap much. 7 Everyone must make up his own mind as to how much he should give. Don’t force anyone to give more than he really wants to, for cheerful givers are the ones God prizes. 8 God is able to make it up to you by giving you everything you need and more so that there will not only be enough for your own needs but plenty left over to give joyfully to others.
Finish: Planting the Promise
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The Weight of Hope that Heals
Isaiah 40:28-31
Hebrews 11:1-4, 6
1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
2 This is what the ancients were commended for. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. 4 By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
The Weight of Love that lays down Life
John 15:9-17
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
Addendum
Love is Love/False
1. God is Love
2. Receiving His love is to abide in Truth
1 John 4:7-21: God is Love,
John 14:15 If you love God, you adhere to His truth. If you Alter the Word of God you end up Wrecking your Life
Anything your normalize, you can’t be Saved from-take away the NEED to be Saved from your Sin
1 John 2:4 In the Church –If you say know him, but you don’t live by his Truth-you are a Falsifier