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| Christ Centered Relationships 1
Francis and Lisa Chan
so like its Rayson taking notes =] don't expect much haha
- Frances stares at Lisa's legs when shes talking =]
- 1st Corinthians 7:29-31
- The time is short, Christ can come at any moment so marriage isn't everything.
- God is bigger than your marriage. A happy marriage comes after, is a byproduct of putting Christ first.
- This world as we know it, will not stay. You won't be married forever, marriage is not eternal. In the resurrection there won't be marriage.
- God has prepared something for us that when we get to be with him, it will be so great we will not focus on anything else nor will we ever even think about anything else.
- Colossians 3:1
- Our true life is hidden away with Christ, our life here on Earth is temporary. Marriage is one of the ways we can show Christ's love to the world. God uses marriage to refine us, sanctify us. Show us how selfish we really are.
- Christ will appear at any time and when he does appear, we will appear next to him in his glory.
- No time no time no time. Especially for old people. No time no time no time.
- Live for eternity, live for christ
- 1st Corinthians 7:32-35
- Live like you are not married. An unmarried man looks to live for the lord and how he can please the Lord. A married man looks to live for his wife and how he can please his wife.
- there IS something bigger than the relationship between you and your wife. The relationship between you and God. Undivided devotion to the Lord.
- Before Frances was married he was bad at ministry, preaching as a single man and looking at ladies hands, "oh she doesn't have a ring i'll definitely talk to he afterwards, see if she needs some counseling." =] "Hey Lisa I'm not going to make any money, you're going to be a pastor's wife!"
- "...If you believe this is what God tells you to do, I will stand beside you 100%." - Lisa
- if all you think of yourself; then you'll be miserable
- you may be married/single; but you're still a child of God
- commitment to the Truth
- undivided devotion;
- scuba image; if you fill up the tank with other than the Scriptures then you'll sink
- having a Christ-centered heart
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Rayson&I just started to listen to sermons together. yah.
you can tell who typed what. x]
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| Exposing "The Da Vinci Code"
Francis Chan- Love the word of God; does not matter about the speaker because it's still the word of God
- PIerre Plantard planted documents which was fake.
- Dead Sea Scrolls; found 'hidden gospels'. Dead Sea scrolls were written by Jews before the time of Christ.
- John 14; Jesus is God.
- Unity not close, wife&husband are close but Jesus and God are in unity
- Rejected by the church because new ideas came 100years afterwards
- Col. 2 : 8-9
- All of the fullness and everything from God dwells in Jesus, who is in bodily form
- Heb.1 : 1-3a
- Isaiah 9:6
- 700years before Christ and says that a child with all those titles
- Titus 2:13
- 'great God and Savior' ; Jesus Christ
- 'gospel of Thomas'; fake. LOL. Women has to become Men so they can go to the kingdom of heaven
- But Jesus lifted up women and says that women are fellow heirs of the kingdom of heaven
- 666 planes of glass is fake; actually have 673
- Leonardo DaVinci didn't name Mona Lisa
- 19th Century; people started to call it Mona Lisa; Mona = Madonna [Madame]
- 'gospel of Judas'; the God who created the world is evil.
- every cult attacks the deity of Christ; not Hindu or Buddha, etc; cause its the truth
- everything's against God,
- God in Heaven is a loving God, to women and man, He's a just God, has to punish, it's fair
He punished Jesus, His own Son instead.
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it's been awhile ;D
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| song: 'prayin` for you' - lecrae
God, his condition is worsen since we were last conversed
and I'm with
him now and he ain't doin' well and this I'm certain.
He say he tryin'
trust you, doesn't wanna disgust you
but he was in the mist of sinners
and did not discuss you
and just today his anxiety's got the best of
him,
he knows Christ but for hours refuse to rest in Him,
he's not the
best of men
but Lord I know he really loves you
and I can't understand
why lately he's not thinkin' of you.
People trust this dude, you could
crush this dude,
Father he needs more of you
I pray you touch this
dude, what can I say to him?
I'm determined to pray for him Father
empty and break him
I pray you'll just have your way with him,
cause
there's a change in him and the effects are strong,
I pray he'll open up the sixty-six book love letter you wrote
and soak
it up coz he ain't hearin' You
and he ain't feelin' me
and God I know
it's killin' You
because it's killin' me
and matter of fact there's
somethin' else he's concealin' see,
the person that I've been prayin'
about is really me...
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do i have to say more?
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| okay after like five minutes searching for the add new web blog, i found it.
this time it isn`t a sermon.
Well, Asian Club is over, it was quite a success.
Dragon Boat is coming up, April 19th.
Then that'll be over.
God is seriously so mysterious.
Praise Him In This Storm - Casting Crowns
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| More and more, I seem to be losing interest in God and church.
And more stress now is added unto me.
Food program, leading, really I'm becoming more and more tired.
My feet aches, my spirit screams but I choose to ignore it.
For a minute, I was lost and confused.
Fellowship, Asian Club, Dragon all crammed into one day.
I have to skip two on-boat practices to go and lead fellowship.
And I really think these beginning three months of the year is going to be very unpleasant.
But as the little key chain Jane gave me for Christmas said;
'With God all things are possible.'_____________________________
Well, this is the first sermon of the year. I really wished I had listen to more but somehow I found an excuse.
Now leading Haggai, I feel obligated to listen to this one. For the people who are leading should know what they are talking about. Kayy, let's go!
01/29/06
Priorities Part 1(out of 4, I believe.)
Haggai 1
Francis Chan
- God is usually the first thing to be booted out of our priorities.
- Learn to say 'no', so you can say 'yes' to the best things.
- We tend to give leftover time to God.
- Everyone has time to serve God, give money to God, etc.
- Can't fit God and our desires onto our 'plates'.
- Someone to deny himself, and to follow Him.
- Haggai 1:1; 'In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month,
the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubabel son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua a son of' Jehozadak, the high priest.'
-In the beginning, all there was was God, I am.
The earth was a thought, what if God never thought of creating an earth.
We are a thought in His head. What if never thought of creating us?
- Genesis 6; Floods the earth except for Noah, who pursues God.
The flood was to destroyed all the rebellion.
Genesis 11; Different tongues and separate religons; don't want to follow God.
Abram changes his name to Abraham(plural). Have him has kids, about 100 years old.
God wants everyone to see Abraham's God to be the real One.
Jacob changes his name to Israel had 12 kids, the 12 tribes. Enslaved by Egypt.
Then God sends Moses to release His people.
After all the plagues, Pharaoh released them.
Then changes his mind and chases them.
Walking through the Red Sea, God drowns the Egyptians in the sea.
Not only they were released, they were promised land.
They sent spies and they reported back;
they said it was beautiful and just like God had said
BUT there's stronger and larger guys over there.
And doubts themselves forgetting how
God was able to slay ever firstborn in Egypt and they think I can't defeat them?
So He causes this generation to die.
After the 40 years, the children who grown up and takes the land.
Israel becomes powerful and requests a king.
God provided them with Saul, he was a terrible king.
So God provided Israel with another, David.
Solomon takes over the kingdom and he builds a temple in Jerusalem.
Then splits in half by the two leaders. And started to sin.
Assyrians come and attack the northern kingdom of the promise land.
The southern were okay, the king was a follower of God.
But soon the kings change, the Babylonians came and takes over the southern part.
After this there was Persians, the king Cyrus allowed the Jews to go back to their land.
- Haggai 1:2; 'This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people say, '
The time has not yet come for the LORD's house to be built.'
- Haggai 1:3-4; 'Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
"Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your
paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?'
- A bit of sarcasm;
So you have time to make your nice paneled houses as Mine
remained untouched and unbuilt. They are living in luxury.
- Double standard, still happens today;
If it's stuff I want to do, I don't need to hear it from the LORD,
but when it's stuff I don't want to do, I wait for an exact 'calling'.
- Large gap; Creator to created. From God to us.
- Haggai 1:5-11; 'Now this is what the LORD Almighty says;
"Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much,
but your harvested little. You eat, but never enough. You drink,
but never have your fill. You put on clothes,
but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a
purse with holes in it." This is what the LORD Almighty says;
"Give careful thought to your ways.
Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house,
so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored." says the LORD.
"You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.
What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty.
"Because of My house, which remains a ruin,
while each of you is busy with his own house.
Therefore, because of you the heavens have
withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains,
on the grain, the new wine, the oil, and
whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle,
and on the labor of your hands."
- Expected everything to be according to our plan but we can't.
God is the only way to have fulfillment.
- When we reach an earthly goal and we reached it.
We're never be satisfied. Cause we prioritized ourself before God.
- Supposed each one of us are in a car,
and along the road of life; we hear about Jesus.
We say we need Him and how He is our Lord and Savior.
So we say 'Hey Jesus, get in the trunk.'
So that we can go to Him only in our needs.
We call Him 'Master' but what we really want is a slave.
Some of us say, get in the passenger seat. We can talk,
You can help me with some things. But I''m still in control.
But what we should really do is that let God take the wheel.
He will guide us to stuff we never imagined doing.
- Haggai shows this; the people did what they want to do,
but God is really in control.
- Whether you want to or not, the control is still God's.
- Haggai 1:12-13; 'Then Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel,
Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and
the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice
of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai,
because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people:
"I am with you." declares the LORD.
So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
arid the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak the high priest,
and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people.
They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty,
their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month
in the second year of King Darius."
- They obeyed because they feared the LORD.
They didn't say okay. They did something, and went up to the mountains.
- God is honored by action.
- Godly sorrow leads to repentance.
- When the people go and began their work,
God responds with "I am with you." The I am, Creator, is with you.
- Matthew 28: 18; "...Though I am with you, always."
- Strive for what He wants, strive for obedience towards Him,
and strive for Him to be the Master of your life.
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