Full

Full

Opening question: What are you full of? What does full mean? How do we use that word?

1. He has a full life…
2. You're full of it…
3. I'm full…

We all want…
1. A full tank of gas.
2. A full bank account.
3. A full stomach

The opposite of full is empty, right?

What are you filled with?

Body:

"I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it."
Psalms 81:10 NIV

God wants to fill us! He wants to be the source of our fulfillment!

What does that mean?

What does God want to fill us with?
Galatians 5:22
• Filled with the spirit
• Filled with joy
• Filled with love
• Filled with peace
• Filled with kindness
• Filled with gentleness
• Filled with self control

What does the world want to fill is with?
Galatians 5:19
• Immorality, impurity, anger, envy…

All those things leave you filling empty!

Share about being full of angry

What are you filled with?

It's our choice what we are going to be filled with! "Open wide your mouth"

How do we open our mouths wide to God?
• Prayer, Gods word, faith and deeds, seeking his will, etc…
• Full with no room for anything else!

Why do you think that God started the verse by pointing back to Egypt? What was/is God trying to communicate to them and us?

Closing:

What are you filled with today?
What will you be filled with tomorrow?
Make a decision to open your mouths wide to God and let him fill you up!

Ambassadors for Christ

Ambassadors for Christ

Opening Question: What kind of foods do you really hate?

Fun Fact: Our sense of smell is responsible for about 80% of what we taste.


2 Corinthians 5:16-21

"So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

• Who is the "US" in vs 18?
• You and I, right?
• What does it mean to be reconciled to God?
• What is the "ministry of reconciliation" in vs 18?
• Is this just for ministers?
• How cool is that to be chosen by God to deliver his message of reconciliation to the world
• Vs. 20, "we are therefore, Christ ambassadors"
• What is an ambassador?
• an accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country.
• Do you feel accredited as a christian? You should!
• What is the role of an ambassador?
• To represent, role model, show best face, advocate, communicate…etc
• How should Christ's ambassador behave?
• When your on the highway?
• When you have a dispute with your neighbor?
• When your order is wrong in the restaurant?
• When there is a conflict at work?
• Where is the hardest place for you to be Christ ambassador?

Closing:

• Vs 20 - God is making his appeal to the world through us?
• That puts us into two categories
• The ones who are doing the appealing and the ones who need to be appealed.
• How you determine which one you are depends on if you have been reconciled with God?
• Vs 21. Reconciliation is through Jesus
• "We might become the righteousness of God"

The Prophets!

The Prophets!

The law of Moses was so much more than just laws. It was Gods justice, morality, heart, and passion! From social boundaries that were written to create a thriving nation to rules and order on how to worship!

The prophets were sent to call people back to Gods original desires to have a sanctified people to himself.

2 Kings 2:11

Elisha requested a double portion of God's spirit. Only Jesus was a man that walked the earth with more!

Elisha was one of those profits! Many of Elisha's miracles were similar to the miracles Jesus performed!

2 Kings 6:8-15
Ephesians 6:13

When we are focused on the things and troubles of this world we are permanently surrounded! Fight with spiritual weapons and you are able to defend yourself!

2 Kings 6:16-17

Elisha refuses to be drawn into a worldly battle from a worldly perspective! I have to approach worldly problems and conflicts with the spiritual forces that God has supplied!

What did it take for the servants eyes to be open? Prayer! Prayer is not of this world! Prayer is the start of spiritual action. Prayer is more important than action!

2 Kings 6:18-23

Elisha fought for a spiritual victory! What is victory in this moment? It did not end with Elisha killing anyone! What is victory in my moment?

What victory are you looking for? A worldly victory or a spiritual one? They are not the same and they do not look anything alike!

Just like Elisha, Jesus walked into jeruslam and purposely got himself surrounded by people that wanted to kill him!

God’s righteousness

God's righteousness
What are we saved from? God's righteous judgement!

• Normally we reflect, lets experience it as well.

"Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."
Hebrews 4:13 NIV

• Everything you have done and ever will do is known by God and some day you will have to give Him an account!
• In this court room, God is the judge, the bible is His law and you are the defendant!
• Court is in session!
• What are the charges against the defendant?!?

sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.
Galatians 5:19-21 NIV

• God asks, "Who will defend this man?"
• Will you represent your self?
• I've tried to be a good person. I'm not as bad as…a murderer
• You cannot defend yourself.
• Guilty as charged!
• You need a savior!

"Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Romans 8:34-35 NIV

• Jesus stands between you and God
• I represent him!
• Your Honor/Father he is guilty as charged; however, on April 7, 1991…
• Justice has been served, I have paid the price for his sins!

"God made (Jesus) who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in (Jesus) we might become the righteousness of God."
2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV

• What should our response be?
• Have you made Jesus Lord of your life? Have you accepted Jesus as your savior?
• How are you going to respond?