The document discusses the dangers of greed and materialism, explaining that greed stems from coveting what we see and want more of. It outlines three steps to greed - I see, I want, I take - and recommends controlling greed through spiritual practices like Bible study, prayer, contentment and generosity. The overall message is that we should not view God's blessings as incentives for worship or expect rewards, but should instead focus on him and living gratefully.
Second in the series on How to Pray for Revival. The first message was on why we need to pray desperate prayers. This one says we must pray repentant prayers. We use the Asbury College Revival on February 3, 1970 as a beautiful example of this truth.
Series unchained message – part 3 - mercy – sunday 04-17-16LifePointe Church
This is the third message in Pastor Chuck Bernal's series, "UNCHAINED" (Breaking Free From The Pain, The Power And The Prison Of The Past). The message is titled, "MERCY - Understanding The Power Of Forgiveness". In this message Pastor Chuck talks about the negative impact of anger, hatred and bitterness in our lives and why it is a "poison". He then encourages us to replace bitterness with forgiveness and show mercy to anyone that has hurt us or wronged us. This message was delivered at LifePointe Church on Sunday, April 17, 2016.
Jesus was god's angel protecting israelGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus as God's angel protecting Israel. Jesus was the angel of the Lord who guides and protected the people of God all through the Old Testament.
The title of this message by Pastor Chuck Bernal is "The Person God Uses". In this message Pastor Chuck discusses how God chooses and uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. He shares 8 Biblical insights about the kind of person God uses and how we can be used by God in our own lives. This message was delivered on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
The title of this message by Pastor Chuck Bernal is "The Person God Uses". In this message Pastor Chuck discusses how God chooses and uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. He shares 8 Biblical insights about the kind of person God uses and how we can be used by God in our own lives. This message was delivered on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.
The title of this message by Pastor Chuck Bernal is "You Are Worth It". In this message Pastor Chuck talks about the four ways to determine the value of something and how these show our intrinsic worth to God. This message was delivered on Sunday, May 22, 2016 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.
Second in the series on How to Pray for Revival. The first message was on why we need to pray desperate prayers. This one says we must pray repentant prayers. We use the Asbury College Revival on February 3, 1970 as a beautiful example of this truth.
Series unchained message – part 3 - mercy – sunday 04-17-16LifePointe Church
This is the third message in Pastor Chuck Bernal's series, "UNCHAINED" (Breaking Free From The Pain, The Power And The Prison Of The Past). The message is titled, "MERCY - Understanding The Power Of Forgiveness". In this message Pastor Chuck talks about the negative impact of anger, hatred and bitterness in our lives and why it is a "poison". He then encourages us to replace bitterness with forgiveness and show mercy to anyone that has hurt us or wronged us. This message was delivered at LifePointe Church on Sunday, April 17, 2016.
Jesus was god's angel protecting israelGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus as God's angel protecting Israel. Jesus was the angel of the Lord who guides and protected the people of God all through the Old Testament.
The title of this message by Pastor Chuck Bernal is "The Person God Uses". In this message Pastor Chuck discusses how God chooses and uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. He shares 8 Biblical insights about the kind of person God uses and how we can be used by God in our own lives. This message was delivered on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.
The title of this message by Pastor Chuck Bernal is "The Person God Uses". In this message Pastor Chuck discusses how God chooses and uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. He shares 8 Biblical insights about the kind of person God uses and how we can be used by God in our own lives. This message was delivered on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.
The title of this message by Pastor Chuck Bernal is "You Are Worth It". In this message Pastor Chuck talks about the four ways to determine the value of something and how these show our intrinsic worth to God. This message was delivered on Sunday, May 22, 2016 at LifePointe Church in Crowley, TX.
This is a study of Jesus encouraging charity. He said it is more blessed to give than to receive. He wanted believers to be generous to those who had needs.
This is a study of Jesus blessing the giver. He said it is more blessed to give than to receive. This quote is not in the Gospels, but was a verbal memory of many of the followers of Jesus.
This is a study of Jesus being incompatible with the devil. He is an example of how believers in Jesus are to be incompatible with those who are not believers. Good and evil just do not mix.
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The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
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What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
3. We must be grateful for the generous blessings
God gives us. Nevertheless, should those
blessings be our incentive to worship Him?
On the other hand, we should understand how
greed affects us, so we can fight the deception of
wealth and consumerism effectively.
The prosperity
gospel.
The three steps of
greed:
1. I see.
2. I want.
3. I take.
Controlling the greed.
4. “In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their
extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they
gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability.
Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege
of sharing in this service to the Lord’s people.” (2 Corinthians 8:2-4 NIV)
The “prosperity gospel” says: “Follow God and He will
make you rich with earthly goods.”
That motivation is very different to the one we see in
the Corinthians or the poor widow (Mark 12:41-44).
God can shower us with
material blessings, but He
won’t do it because of what
we give Him.
God loves a cheerful giver,
not a giver that expects
something in return
(2 Corinthians 9:7).
5. “Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to
death.” (James 1:15 NIV)
There are three
steps from greed
to sin:
Greed becomes a sin in the second step. Therefore,
our first defense is to look away from the things we
could covet.
In that process, how can we separate needs from
wants, necessities from preferences, or basics from
embellishments?
6. “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.” (2 Corinthians 4:18)
Wealth is not bad, but it can deceive us, and it may require excessive attention.
That’s why we are encouraged to fix our eyes on Jesus and not on material things
(Hebrews 12:2)
Potiphar’s wife let greed in when she “cast longing eyes on Joseph.” (Genesis 39:7).
Looking at material things with desire can
make us desire them more than the
spiritual things. That’s how greed is
planted.
In the parable of the sower, Jesus explained
that the seeds that fell among the thorns
were choked by “he worries of this life and
the deceitfulness of wealth.” (Matthew
13:22 NIV).
The poor worry because they don’t have
enough. The rich worry because they need
more.
7. “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.” (Genesis 3:6)
Materialism creates new needs
and provides a way to satisfy
them.
That worked in Eden. Another
example was Ahab; he saw the
vineyard of his neighbor and
wanted it. Then, he made a fuss
until he got it (1 Kings 21).
How can we fight the materialism
that inflates our selfishness to
foster greed?
We must use spiritual realities to
fill the void that materialism tries
to fill (Matthew 12:43-45).
8. “Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went
to the chief priests and said, ‘What are you willing to
give me if I deliver Him to you?’ And they counted out
to him thirty pieces of silver.” (Matthew 26:14-15)
When greed lives in our heart, we unceasingly look for a
way to get what we want.
That happened to Eve, Ahab and Judas. That’s also the
root cause of wars between nations and tribes, and the
ruin of families and people.
It’s important to recognize when we’ve let
greed into our hearts. If we do, we’ll be able
to repent from our sin on time, and avoid the
future terrible results of greed put into action.
Remember that “I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)
9. CONTROLLING THE GREED
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and
to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control,
perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness.” (2 Peter 1:5-6 NIV)
Bible study, prayer and Christian service can build a defense against natural
inclinations like greed.
Contentment and generosity are also tools to fight against greed.
Peter encouraged us to have self-control.
We must surrender all our thoughts,
passions and energy to God’s control.
Winning over sin is God’s work in us. That’s why
we must make decisions that let God control our
lives, and He will replace greed with contentment
in us.
10. What are the three steps in the process of
coveting?
What attitudes about life can nourish the
gentle and meek spirit that naturally fosters
contentment?
How can we experience the Holy Spirit’s
control over our wants and desires when
discontent is everywhere we turn?
What are some fundamental daily practices
that should be incorporated into one’s
lifestyle in order to implement successfully
a godly lifestyle plan?
Think over the next
questions for some time:
Let’s develop plans to live a lifestyle focused on contentment
and thankfulness for God’s generous provision.
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