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Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Sermon Notes: Ephesians 2:1-10
Series: Text Messages
Title: The New You in Christ (Baptism Sunday)
Date: 9/4/22
Location: Lake Perris SDA Church
Ephesians 2:1 (NLT)
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.
Colossians 2:13 (NLT)
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.
Point number 1 in your notes:
You were not made to live the way you have been living.
Ephesians 2:2 (NLT)
You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
2 Corinthians 4:4 (NLT)
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ,
Ephesians 2:3 (NLT)
All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
Point number 2 in your notes:
You were made to be changed by God.
Ephesians 2:4-5 (NLT)
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)
Colossians 1:21 (NLT)
This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.
Galatians 5:16-17 (NLT)
So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. 17 The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other,
Point number 3 in your notes:
To love God is to love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
Ephesians 2:6 (NLT)
For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:8 (NLT)
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
1 Peter 1:3-4 (NLT)
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
Ephesians 2:9 (NLT)
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Point number 4 in your notes:
Who you are when you come to Jesus Christ should be noticeably different from who you were and from our world.
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Leviticus 20:10 (NLT)
“If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman who have committed adultery must be put to death.
Point number 1 in your notes:
KING DAVID, THE GIANT SLAYER, THE LEADER OF THOUSANDS, THE LOVER OF GOD, KNEW WHAT WAS PERMITTED AND WHAT WAS NOT.
2 Samuel 11:2 (NLT)
Late one afternoon, after his midday rest, David got out of bed and was walking on the roof of the palace. As he looked out over the city, he noticed a woman of unusual beauty taking a bath.
2 Samuel 11:5 (NLT)
5 Later, when Bathsheba discovered that she was pregnant, she sent David a message, saying, “I’m pregnant.”
2 Samuel 11:25 (NLT)
“Well, tell Joab not to be discouraged,” David said. “The sword devours this one today and that one tomorrow! Fight harder next time, and conquer the city!”
2 Samuel 11:26-27 (NLT)
When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 When the period of mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to the palace, and she became one of his wives. Then she gave birth to a son. But the Lord was displeased with what David had done.
Point number 2 in your notes:
Our sins are the results of OUR choices. There is no one else to blame.
2 Samuel 12:13 (NLT)
Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the Lord has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.
2 Samuel 12:14 (NLT)
Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the Lord by doing this, your child will die.”
Point number 3 in your notes:
The depth of your faith is not enough to counter the worldly consequences of your sin.
2 Samuel 24:17 (NLT)
When David saw the angel, he said to the Lord, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”
1 Chronicles 21:13 (NLT)
“I’m in a desperate situation!” David replied to Gad. “But let me fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is very great. Do not let me fall into human hands.”
Psalm 38 (NLT)
4 My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear. 8 I am exhausted and completely crushed. My groans come from an anguished heart. 9 You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh. 10 My heart beats wildly, my strength fails, and I am going blind. 15 For I am waiting for you, O Lord. You must answer for me, O Lord my God. 17 I am on the verge of collapse, facing constant pain. 18 But I confess my sins; I am deeply sorry for what I have done. 21 Do not abandon me, O Lord. Do not stand at a distance, my God. 22 Come quickly to help me, O Lord my savior.
Point number 4 in your notes:
Forgiveness is a gift offered from God, not a privilege God owes to us.
Psalm 51 (NLT)
1 Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins. 2 Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. 3 For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night. 4 Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. 5 For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.6 But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there. 7 Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 9 Don’t keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. 16 You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NLT)
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done
Point number 5 in your notes:
God has a glorious plan to get us out of the sinful situation we get ourselves into.
Romans 3:24 (NLT)
Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Sermon Notes: Ephesians 1:15-23
Series: Text Messages
Title: Revelation
Date: 8.14.22
Location: Perris Valley Church
2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
Ephesians 1:15-16 (NLT)
Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God’s people everywhere, 16 I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly,
Romans 1:8 (NLT)
Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.
Point number 1 in your notes:
When a church is dedicated to Jesus, other people know about it.
Ephesians 1:17 (NLT)
asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.
Ephesians 1:17 (NIV)
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Colossians 1:9 (NASB)
For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it, have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Point number 2 in your notes:
Revelation is the activity of God, not the ability of man.
1 Corinthians 14:6 (NLT)
Dear brothers and sisters, if I should come to you speaking in an unknown language, how would that help you? But if I bring you a revelation or some special knowledge or prophecy or teaching, that will be helpful.
Revelation 1:1 (NASB)
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,
Galatians 1:12 (NASB)
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:18 (NIV)
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT)
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
Point number 3 in your notes:
Something that has been enlightened, was formally darker than it is now.
Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Romans 8:24-25 (NIV)
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
1 John 3:2 (NASB)
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
Ephesians 1:19-22 (NLT)
I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms. 21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come. 22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.
Ephesians 1:23 (NLT)
And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself.
Point number 4 in your notes:
It is the parts of the body that are to complete the desires of the head.
2 Timothy 4:3 (NIV)
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Sermon Notes: Ephesians 1:7-14
Series: Text Messages
Title: When a Good Plan Comes Together
Date: 8.7.22
Location: Perris Valley Church
Ephesians 1:7 (NLT)
He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.
Ephesians 1:8 (NLT)
He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.
1 Corinthians 1:20-23 (NLT)
So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. 21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. 22 It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. 23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.
Ephesians 1:9 (NLT)
God has now revealed to us his mysterious will regarding Christ—which is to fulfill his own good plan.
Point number 1 in your notes:
God has always had a plan but only revealed his plan to who He wanted to when He wanted to. Still, not everyone knows God's plan.
Colossians 1:27 (NASB)
to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles is, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Ephesians 1:10 (NLT)
And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth.
Ephesians 1:10 (NIV)
to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
Point number 2 in your notes:
God’s plan is to bring His entire family home through Christ.
Philippians 2:9-11 (NASB)
For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Colossians 1:16 (NASB)
for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Romans 11:25 (NLT)
I want you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud about yourselves. Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ.
Ephesians 1:11 (NLT)
Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.
Point number 3 in your notes:
Part of God’s plan is to give an inheritance to ALL members of the family.
Titus 2:14 (NLT)
He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.
Ephesians 1:12 (NLT)
God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God.
Ephesians 1:13 (NASB)
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise,
Romans 10:17 (NIV)
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
John 1:12 (NJKV)
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Ephesians 1:14 (NLT)
The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.
Point number 4 in your notes:
Christians have already received the first payment of their inheritance.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 (CSB)
Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us. 22 He has also put his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Series: Text Messages
Title: Paul said: Did you know that God wanted you?
Date:7/31/22
Location: Perris Valley Church
Transformational Point: You are planned, and important, and you have the power and ability to please God.
Ephesians 1:3-4 (NLT)
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.
Point number 1 in your notes is this:
You are not an accident. You were planned and chosen by God.
Point number 2 in your notes is this
You were planned, wanted, and chosen to be holy.
Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Matthew 25:34 (NLT)
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.
Colossians 1:22 (NLT)
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Ephesians 1:5 (NLT)
God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.
Romans 8:29 (NLT)
For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Philippians 2:13 (NLT)
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.
Point number 3 in your notes is this
You are here because it pleased God to create you, and He gave you the power and ability to please Him.
Ephesians 1:6 (NLT)
So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace
Point number 4 in your notes:
Our best is not even close to good enough. Because of our weakness, God offers us the gift of a voucher, but you can’t unlock it if you don’t accept the gift.
Romans 3:24 (NLT)
Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Series: True[ish]
Title: Al long as I'm Happy
Date: 7.10.22
Location: Perris Valley Church
1 Peter 1:15 (NLT)
But now you must be happy holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is happy holy.
When the bottom line is my happiness, happiness becomes the standard by which I judge my actions.
Psalm 37:4 (NLT)
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires.
Psalm 97:12 (NLT)
May all who are godly rejoice in the Lord and praise his holy name!
God doesn’t want you happy when it causes you to do something wrong, unwise, or sinful.
Proverbs 14:12 (NLT)
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
God doesn’t want you happy when your happiness is only based on the things in this world.
1 John 2:15 (NLT)
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.
Psalm 1:1-2 (NLT)
Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. 2 But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night.
God does not want you happy - He wants you blessed.
John 16:23-24 (NLT)
At that time you won’t need to ask me for anything. I tell you the truth, you will ask the Father directly, and he will grant your request because you use my name. 24 You haven’t done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.
Luke 6:22-23 (NLT)
What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man. 23 When that happens, be happy! Yes, leap for joy! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, their ancestors treated the ancient prophets that same way.
1 Peter 3:14 (NLT)
But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it. So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats.
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Series: True[ish]
Title: Where does truth come from?
Date: 7.3.22
Location: Perris Valley Church
Transformational Point: To find the truthful source of truth in our lives.
John 1:14 (NIV)
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
What you believe determines how you behave.
John 14:6 (NLT)
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
John 18:37 (NIV)
“You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
Jesus says, “I am the Truth.”
John 10:25-27 (NIV)
25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
We accept living in lies when we settle for True[ish].
John 8:38 (NIV)
I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.”
John 8:39-42 (NIV)
“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the works of your own father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.
You always have access to the Truth. Are you going to listen?
1 John 5:20 (NIV)
We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ.
John 8:31-32 (NIV)
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Series: The Four-Letter Word
Title: Priorities: Work
Date: 6/19/22
Location: Perris Valley Church
Point number 1 in your notes:
Just as easily as we can say no to family because we have to be at work, we can say no to work because we have to be with family.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
Point number 2 in your notes:
Being made in the Image of God means that we share many of His qualities, including the ability and obligation to work.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
Point number 3 in your notes:
If your work priority is not in its correct spot, you are putting pressure on somebody else to pull your weight.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NLT)
Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”
Proverbs 18:9 (NIV)
One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.
Point number 4 in your notes:
God never designed us, or gave us permission to be lazy.
Proverbs 14:23 (CSB)
There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.
Proverbs 13:11 (NLT)
Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.
John 5:1-18 (CSB)
After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. 3 Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.
5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”
8 “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.
Now that day was the Sabbath, 10 and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”
11 He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 “Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked. 13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.” 15 The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.” 18 This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 (CSB)
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Series: Priorities
Title: Priorities: You Belong Somewhere
Date: 6/12/22
Location: Perris Valley Church
Hebrews 10:25 (NLT)
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NLT)
A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
Point Number 1 in your notes:
God knows you need community, fellowship, and belonging.
Genesis 2:18 (NLT)
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
Acts 1:14 (NLT)
They all met together and were constantly united in prayer, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, several other women, and the brothers of Jesus.
Proverbs 27:17 (NLT)
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
Point Number 2 in your notes:
God knows an aggressive, unspiritual community wants you to join their family.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 (NLT)
These people are false apostles. They are deceitful workers who disguise themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 But I am not surprised! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is no wonder that his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. In the end they will get the punishment their wicked deeds deserve.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NLT)
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will reject the truth and chase after myths.
Romans 12:2 (NLT)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
John 14:6 (NLT)
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Point number 3 in your notes
Satan has prepared a community and a place for you to belong.
1 Peter 5:8 (NIV)
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
John 6:37 (NLT)
However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.
Acts 2:42 (NLT)
All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.
Point number 4 in your notes:
You are never alone. You choose who is in your company.
Romans 12:4-5 (NLT)
Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5 so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
2 Corinthians 6:14 (NLT)
Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?
John 1:12 (NLT)
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Series: Priorities. Doing the First Things First
Title: Priorities: Family Must be Number Two
Date: 6/4/22/22
Location: Perris Valley Church
Point number 1 in your notes:
The Healthy Family System Always Puts God First.
Point Number 2 in your notes is this:
Nothing comes between God and family on the list of priorities.
Point Number 3 in Your Notes:
God’s direction for your family might not be your preferred direction for your family.
Genesis 2:22-24 (NIV)
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Exodus 20:12 (NIV)
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (ESV)
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
Colossians 3:19 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Ephesians 5:25 (ESV)
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
1 Corinthians 11:3 (ESV)
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Proverbs 31:10 (ESV)
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 14:1 (NLT)
A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.
Titus 2:4-5a (NLT)
These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good,
Proverbs 31:25-30 (NLT)
She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. 26 When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness. 27 She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness. 28 Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her: 29 “There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!” 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.
Point number 4 in your notes:
Your children know what your family priorities are, or aren’t.
Ephesians 6:1-4 (ESV)
6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
1 Timothy 3:4 (ESV)
4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
Colossians 3:20 (NIV)
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
1 Peter 3:1 (ESV)
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
1 Peter 3:7 (ESV)
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.