sermon 9 October 2016 By Tyron Nel

2. “life is a small percentage of what happens to you and
a big percentage of how you respond.” – Lou Holtz

3. 2 Samuel 9:3 (NIV)
The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house
of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” Ziba
answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is
lame in both feet.”

4. Start With You
“The King Asked “Is there no one still alive from… (NIV)
• You Initiate

5. Start With You
“The King Asked “Is there no one still alive from… (NIV)
• You Initiate
• God sees your heart

6. Start With You
“The King Asked “Is there no one still alive from… (NIV)
• You Initiate
• God sees your heart
• Motivation - Jesus

7. Perform for an Audience
of one
2 Samuel 9:3 - The king asked, “Is there no one still
alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God’s
kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of
Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.” (NIV)

8. Perform for an Audience
of one
• Saul was Dead

9. Perform for an Audience
of one
• Saul was Dead
• Between You and God

10. Perform for an Audience
of one
• Saul was Dead
• Between You and God
• About Worship

11. Keep Perspective
2 Cor 4: 17-18 –
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us
an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our
eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since
what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
(NIV)

12. Keep Perspective
• Bigger Picture

13. Keep Perspective
• Bigger Picture
• Inwardly we are renewed day by day

14. Keep Perspective
• Bigger Picture
• Inwardly we are renewed day by day
• Fix your eyes on what is unseen

15. Keep Perspective
• Bigger Picture
• Inwardly we are renewed day by day
• Fix your eyes on what is unseen
• Have hope in the quiet workings of the Father

16. Walk the Opposite Spirit
2 Sam 9:3 –
The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house
of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” (NIV)

17. Walk the Opposite Spirit
• David never knew the outcome

18. Walk the Opposite Spirit
• David never knew the outcome
• Be more concerned about Obedience

19. Walk the Opposite Spirit
Hosea 11:8 –
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over,
Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make
you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my
compassion is aroused. (NIV)

20. Walk the Opposite Spirit
1 Cor 4:13 –
When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we
endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have
become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right
up to this moment. (NIV)
2 Cor 4:10-12 -
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that
the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who
are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so
that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then,
death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. (NIV)

21. Walk the Opposite Spirit
2 Cor 6:8-10 -
Through glory and dishonour, bad report and good report;
genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded
as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet
not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making
many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
(NIV)

22. Walk the Opposite Spirit
• Joseph
• Daniel

23. Walk the Opposite Spirit
• Joseph
• Daniel
• Jesus

24. Walk the Opposite Spirit
Matthew 26:39
Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if
it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as
You will.” (NIV)
Obedience was a greater position than the pain

25. HOW?
• Start with you
• Perform for an Audience of one
• Keep Perspective.
• Walk the Opposite Spirit

26. Walk the Opposite Spirit
‘People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centred;
Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse
you of ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you find
Happiness, people may be jealous; be happy anyway. The
good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do
good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may
never be enough; Give the world the best you've got
anyway.
You see, in the end, it is between you and your God; It
was never between you and them anyway.’
– Mother Teresa