Iron Sharpens Iron: Afternoon Main Session

Iron Sharpens Iron: Afternoon Main Session

3/21/2015

Kenny Luck

⚫️Take the step and get into the boat to go to the other side as Jesus commanded.

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." (‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭33‬ NIV)

⚫️The purpose of revelation is application. If there is revelation without application, there is hallucination.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (‭Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭24‬ NIV)

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. (‭Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭35-36‬ NIV)

⚫️Jesus' obedience to the will of God killed evil.

We need to maintain our confidence like Jesus did, who aligned with God's will.

We need to fight the good fight.

For, "In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay." And, "But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back." But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. (‭Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭37-39‬ NIV)

⚫️Those who shrink back will be destroyed.

F.A.I.T.H.

Facing a moment of decision.

💬we have to choose...

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live (‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭30‬:‭19‬ NIV)

Acting on what you believe.

💬by our actions our faith is revealed...

But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. (‭James‬ ‭2‬:‭18-22‬ NIV)

⚫️Living faith results in living works which glorify God.

Intentionally put yourself at risk

💬to do what matters most...

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. (‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭24-26‬ NIV)

⚫️We are to discipline ourselves to do what God considers significant.

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. (‭Mark‬ ‭8‬:‭35‬ NIV)

Trust God's person

💬He has our best interest at heart...

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭6‬ NIV)

⚫️Your life in God will never outperform your trust in God.

⚫️God is bigger and with us. He can help us overcome any obstacle.

Hold on to your hope

💬stand firm!

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭16-18‬ NIV)

⚫️Fix your eyes on Jesus.

⚫️We got to keep our rudder firm so we don't veer off course.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭25‬ NIV)

And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. (‭Hebrews‬ ‭11‬:‭32-40‬ NIV)

⚫️Will we shrink back, or advance?

⚫️In this world we'll have tribulation, BUT God is with us.

Lionel