Sermon Notes - Grace Church - 24

All scripture King James Version. These notes are what I got from sermon, not necessarily what was preached. Sermons are available to view/listen to at Grace Church website for approximately 1 month from time sermon preached.

Grace Church

Chuck McConkey (Councilor Department Head)

Feb 21, 2007

The only chip that matters is the one for today. When you say you cannot do this anymore, when you can not give a long term guarantee, you can make it or guarantee it for one day. There are very few scriptures that mention today. There are a lot more that mention tomorrow.

Isa 43: 18 -19
Phil 3:13

We cannot change the past. We are not to worry about tomorrow. Work on today. A solider would not carry all the old boots and uniforms. He carries what he needs and no more. We carry our past and want God to share it with us. Why do we carry it. James says to confess our sins so that we can be healed. Maybe they are related.

What would happen if we believed that today was all we had.

This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad. Encourage someone while is it still light. Do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Can you do it today? Can you do it tomorrow? Worry about that tomorrow not today. God's mercies are new every morning. You can do it today. Die daily to the flesh.

Psa 1:2 KJV
(2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
What day? Today! You can think he has no life, but you have to do so to be the person that you need to be. You may not be able to do it forever, but you can do it today.

Give us this day our daily bread. Today take every thought captive. Husbands love your wife today. Wives respect your husband today. You can do it today. If we really believe these things would we do things a little different?
Let no corrupt communications come out of your mouth, today. Be kind, do not give up, prefer others, do not force will on others, do not fly off handle, do not keep score on others, trust, TODAY. Can you do that, you can do it today. If I am given tomorrow then it will be today.

The only book with a guarentee (conditional though it is) is the Bible)

Exo 8:1-9 KJV
(1) And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
(2) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
(3) And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
(4) And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
(5) And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
(6) And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
(7) And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
(8) Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the LORD, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
(9) And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?

What are the frogs. They are the secret things in your life. They are with you no matter where. In your bed, your food, etc. Pharaoh ask for the frogs to be removed and Moses said you tell me when you want them to go.

Exo 8:10 KJV
(10) And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.

What person in his right mind will say get rid of them tomorrow. Why do we wait for tomorrow to get rid of our frogs.

Salvation is in three tenses in the Greek. We were saved. We are continiously being saved. We have future in heaven.
2Co 6:2 KJV
(2) (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Today is the day we can get delivered.

NASCAR and their rules

Stewart forced to meet with NASCAR; car held: "Stewart met with officials at 7 a.m. EDT, and NASCAR did not let his Joe Gibbs Racing team unload its car from the transporter until that meeting ended at 7:35 a.m. Other competitors had unloaded their cars and begin work when the garage opened at 7 a.m."

I thought that NASCAR said they were not going to punish Steward for his actions and words. Any delay in letting his staff unload the car is a punishment. It may not be the monetary/points that they normally do, but it is a punishment.
I have been a fan of NASCAR for a few years now. Try as I might, the other types of car racing are not more than a passing interest to me. Like Tony I am getting fed up with phantom cautions and the selective enforcement of rules. I am also not fond of the top 35 being locked in. NASCAR is going down in my estimation. While it will still interest me, it is getting to the point, that cutting the grass, a job I am not that fond of, is getting to me to be more interesting than watching the races.

From the I Never Check the Facts Department

Tulsa the state capital??? - FOX23 News: "Yvonna Coulter found the card listing the state tree as the redbud, state bird as the scissortailed flycatcher, state animal the buffalo and the state capital - as Tulsa."

Kind of makes you wonder about the quality control that companies put in to their products, doesn't it?

From the Really Dumb Criminals Department

Guess They're Watching 'CSI' in Detroit

EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — Norman O. Wheeler probably wishes he would have finished his cinnamon bun.

Police say they used DNA evidence from a partly eaten pastry to arrest Wheeler in a 2004 car theft.

The 40-year-old Detroit resident already was serving time for another auto theft when authorities made the DNA match in the Dec. 11, 2004, theft. He pleaded guilty April 2 and faces sentencing May 22.

Eastpointe Officer Ed Lulko answered a car-theft call at a drug store parking lot, and a witness told him she saw a man arrive in one car, break out the windows of a second car and drive off, according to police in the Detroit suburb.

'Officer Lulko found the partially eaten pastry in the car and sent it to the Michigan State Police crime laboratory with hopes that the DNA left on the roll could lead to the identity of the perpetrator,' Detective Eric Keiser told The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens.

As a convict, Wheeler had a DNA sample on file in a state database, enabling the match."

Sermon Notes - Grace Church - A Battle Cry

All scripture King James Version. These notes are what I got from sermon, not necessarily what was preached. Sermons are available to view/listen to at Grace Church website for approximately 1 month from time sermon preached.

Grace Church

Rob Yandian (Youth Minister)

Feb 18, 2007

Role of youth pastor is to back up the parents. Parents are not to dump the children off on Sunday morning with a list and pick them up later with all problems resolved. Who were the youth pastors in the Bible? The parents. The Bible does not say 'children obey your youth pastor,' it says obey your parents.

Ron Luce wrote a book, A Battle Cry for a Generation. He says 4% of youth are Christians today. They are a vocal group tough.

Parents need to be the moms and dads that are called to be. We are not to be their friends.

Luk 15:3-7 KJV
(3) And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
(4) What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
(5) And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
(6) And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
(7) I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

One percent of the sheep are gone and the Shepard goes after them. We as adults even if we do not have kids should be involved in sheparding the youth. Yes we are to go into all the world and it starts in your neighborhood. Will you let the neighbor's teens got to hell. We are in a war. What happens when a solider gets hurt, do they leave them behind. No, then why do we do so with the teens.

Rom 12:4-5 KJV
(4) For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:
(5) So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

1Co 12:20-26 KJV
(20) But now are they many members, yet but one body.
(21) And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
(22) Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
(23) And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
(24) For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked:
(25) That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
(26) And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Each member needs each other. Teens you need your parents. Adults need teens. Parents have experience that youth need to hear. Even if times have changed, things have not changed that much that the experiences are not worth comparing to youths needs. Parents, you know what MySpace is? Parents can use the energy of the youth.

Instruction in the word of God is for the most part is aimed at parents. For the youth there is one main command, Children obey your parents. Youth, parents are not perfect, they will make mistakes. Parents, when you make a mistake, apologize to your children. Teens want to be respected parents. They are sons and daughters of the Lord, just as you are. Talk down to them and you come off as superior and that will cause them to shut you off. Do not show them fake respect. A boss treats you with respect and you feel good, if they tread you bad you feel bad. You are not much different than your teen. Teach them to hear the voice of God and follow it. It will do well with them when they are free.

Responsibilities

• Pray
  2Ch 7:14 KJVR
  (14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
  Pray to see if you should get involved.
  Eze 22:30 KJVR
  (30) And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
  Pray for the youth. Of your home, your neighborhood, your city, etc.
• Lay down the house rules and keep the. Children should not have a choice if they go to church. You should go and they should go with you. They knew about that exam they had to study for. They need to plan their time better. They do not need a friend, they need an authority figure. Authority means you tell them what the consequences are going to be when they break the rules and then follow through on them. Authority is not about yelling, it is about getting people to follow the rules. It can be a calm word that does it, not yelling. Enforce rules about their computer use, including their MySpace page and other online things.
  

Elders need to mentor the younger people.