Sunday VT – 5/11/2014

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Speakers:

• Steven Atherton
• Megan Atherton

Scriptures used:

• Lamentations 3:19-23
• Hebrews 6:18-20
• Hebrews 7:19
• 1 Peter 1:13
• Proverbs 31:1-31

Subject:

• Scriptures on hope.
• Our hope cannot lie in doing everything right.  It is of the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed.
• Hope is an anchor of the soul.  Sure and steadfast.  The hope of salvation.
• It’s not about us and how we do things.  Our hope is in Jesus and that’s how we are able to draw nigh to Him.
• Choose where you’re going to place your hope.  Our hope has to be in Jesus Christ.  This is an effort.
• Gird up the loins of your mind.  That is where the battle takes place.  He didn’t die for us because we’ve done everything right.
• Don’t give the nonsense place.  It’s going to be there, but who cares.  Don’t give it any place because Jesus has set us free.
• As you serve the Lord, as you bring hope unto others, and it will also come to yourself; it builds your faith too.
• Our physical feelings often try to keep us back from serving the Lord.  His strength is made perfect in weakness.  We can do it if we choose.
• We do not have to be subject to how we feel.  Determine and get mad, and don’t let it rule you.
•  Ask how we can serve the Lord today.  Then things will come to you to do,   Service to the Lord is the key to hope and to faith.
• The story of Ruth, a Moabite, a descendant of Lot.  She chose rather than to be with her people, to go back with a widow woman and care for her with no expectations for herself and made herself of no reputation.  She ended up being in the line of Jesus, and called a virtuous woman in the bible.
• Ruth was not how we are by nature.  She didn’t care whether she could find a husband in Israel.  She had lowliness of mind that sprung a strong hope.
• The heart of the husband of a virtuous woman safely trusts in his wife.  Pretty amazing thing.  The husband likes being with her.
• If you are lowly, as the virtuous woman,  you are constantly seeking to serve others.
• The virtuous woman works willingly with her hands.   Always looking for the best for her household.  She’s willing to travel to get it.
• She gives her household the best start possible so that they can get a good start that day.
• She is not afraid of doing what is necessary to get things done.
• She is not taken by surprise.    She is mindful continuously of those around her, and when she sees someone in need she is pleased to serve and minister unto them.
• She considers others better than herself and because of that, can have the law of kindness in her tongue, and serve others with love.
• A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.