Sunday VT – 3/30/2014

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Speakers:

• Steven Atherton
• Charles Hocker

Scriptures used:

• Ephesians 4:21-32
• Hebrews 6:4-6
• 1 Corinthians 10
• Psalm 12:6-7
• 1 Peter 1:3-9

Subject:

• Are you allowing the old man to come back into your life?
• Why do I have to put off the old man? Why is it important? Why wouldn’t the Lord just put off my old man? Why do I have to continue putting off the old man? If I hadn’t had to fight the battle and reject those things, I would grab hold to those things again. If I can put them off here, in heaven where the flesh will not be dragging me down it’ll be easy to not pick those traits back up.
• Be willing to let go of the things the Lord tells you to.
• Why would we want anything this world has to offer? Why would I not want to put off the old man?
• If we’re not willing to put the old man off, if we enter into heaven, we’re not going to stay allowing the old man to come with us.
• The Lord is calling us, purging us; let us stand fast and be willing to let go of things.
• Go forth as the Lord did.
• Only way to go forth, is to cling to the vine and produce love, if not, we’ll be purged.
• To all be of one mind, we have to go through the purging, the refining.
• Desire for the fire to continue refining you.
• The seasons of our lives give us opportunity to love others. When others are having a season, we know we too have had them.
• The times that were the hardest brought the most precious lessons. Lessons the help us endure, go forward and minister to others to endure and go forward.
• Learn from the experiences and choose to come through.
• If you’ve lost the lively hope, go back to the source, Christ.
• If you compare yourself to Jesus, are you right and justified?
• Choose to do that which is right in the situation, even if you can’t currently see the profit.
• Exercise yourself in faith, faith is those things you cannot see.
• Choose the Word despite anything else, that’s faith.
• The only way to see the power of God move is if you cleave unto Him by faith.
• You can’t be of one mind without love and humility. We come to love by passing through the refining fire, which is God’s love.
• Are you going to reject His love or are you going to be thankful for it?
• Believing is a choice. Not believing is an easy choice, it doesn’t take any effort at all, it doesn’t hurt. Choosing to believe can hurt.