Sunday VT – 04/12/2015

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Speakers:

• Steve Atherton
• Charles Hocker

Scriptures used:

• John 1:1-3
• Matthew 27:39-53
• Romans 12:3
• Romans 5:1-9
• Hebrews 4:12
• John 1:10-12

Subject:

• Everything Jesus created, He created by faith. He always had that faith, had faith in himself that it would be accomplished.
• There is a testimony before us in all that we see of Jesus faith.
• How many times do we lose faith? When Jesus went to the cross, and gave up the ghost, that separation from the father occurred, and he had to endure three days of hell. He knew that after a time He would be resurrected and it would be accomplished.
• When we come to the Lord we don’t have a faith in the Father like Jesus did. We need to learn these things.
• The tests of our faith to learn to get our faith out of the world and into Him.
• We have to go through these times so that the Lord can set us free.
• Jesus wants us to get to the point that we know He is always with us. He never departs from us. He is there for us.
• We have to get focused on what He did, when we go through these periods of darkness, each day it gets a little bit lighter.
• My God, why have you forsaken me? It is really us forsaking Him.
• The only way to hope through that darkness, is to realize he is there, even when he was separated from the Father He knew He would pass through that.
• The one thing that will never be taken from you is your free will.
• When you believe on Him, what He says, you are given power and you become the sons of God.
• What is it to be a son of God? A son of God does the works of God. First one who raised someone from the dead: Elijah. Also, Jesus, Peter, and people to this day.
• Jesus is bigger than any situation you find yourself in, if you would choose to believe God.
• When you recognize Him as savior, it makes you small enough to fit through the eye of a needle. That’s us.
• Go forward in the sufficiency of what He has done, what He is doing and what He will do.
• When we look at the word, Jesus says of my own self I can do nothing.
• We can do likewise. When we realize how we can do nothing, what is hard about it?
• When we are willing to be nothing, we can do all things through Him.
• Let it go when we realize we are nothing. It’s not a news flash to Jesus, it’s a news flash to us! Let it go, He has given us the blood of the lamb, we just need to receive it. Walk free and care not for the things of this world and the things of the flesh.