WORSHIP SCHEDULE

                                         Outline of Sermons 

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​        ​​​​​​            Sunday Morning Lesson: 8/23/26, Luke 4-13

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    The Season - a season of "head games" – a disconfiguring time. Satan is confusing -- unless you’re able to think clearly.

1)  God said to preach the word   2) Being old enough to do it

We don’t know about the wiles of the devil and can’t stay clear of it. We are in a fight, and his job is to confuse us. We are fair game.

Head time -- bringing something to a head:  The season in the wilderness as Jesus faces the devil, wanting things to come to a head.

We wrestle with sonship -- whoever and wherever we go. Satan knows that. You can’t show your identity outside the kingdom because they’re messing with your identity out there. All of them have their portion of it. Telling us what we want to hear – those who wrote the books. Hopefully, you want to be a child of God, nurtured by the word of God.

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The three temptations:

1 In the head season, make sure your senses and sensitivity don’t drive you. The devil says to Jesus to make the stones bread, but Jesus wouldn’t. It’s not by our senses, but what God says. The world wants us to live by our senses. In Deut 6:8, it states the teachings (his degrees, laws, and statutes) that God wants us to obey. Go in there with something. Is Earth getting tired of America? We don’t care anymore (especially Black people don’t care anymore).

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We need a dove-diet. It doesn’t eat everything, being careful about what it eats, not messing with other stuff. The dove looks for seeds, grains, and berries because it is being careful about what it eats.

Taste and see that the word of God is nurturing to the spirit, soul, and mind. Be careful of what you let into the three. You can’t trust what people tell you because they won’t tell you the truth. To Satan, killing us is more important than the truth. The devil told Eve that she wouldn’t die. She was confused! Stay away from Satanic people.  Does the ritual mean more to you than the word of God?

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We preach the word of God which sustains and nurtures what God said and what he wrote, so we don’t get confused about our identity. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.”  You are not sin-free. Everybody needs Jesus and the salvation that comes in Jesus Christ. Watch your diet! It’s okay if you eat nothing at all (as Jesus). Your spirit can eat, and your body has eaten nothing. Man lives by what God says. So do it!

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2  The devil said to Jesus, “Fall down and worship me.” We are so messed up by what we see, but don’t forget God, his laws and teachings – being a child of God, following his word.

Worship means “bend the knees” with outstretched hands, send a kiss to God – an outward, on your knees gesture (submission coming out of understanding). Man should worship the Lord God. Him only should he serve. Ultimately, whatever you worship is what you serve, so keep yourself from idols. Watch what you worship.

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Watch devotion – give it only to God. There are those who handle the word of God deceitfully. The devil takes Christ onto the pinnacle of the temple. (Don’t go high or low with the devil.)  He says to Jesus to throw himself down (Psa 91 is what the devil stabs at quoting). The devil quotes around the text, and then, strategically leaves out the context of the text. The devil goes off script a little bit, which does matter! In verse 4 & 8, Jesus says, “It is written.” He says, “Don’t tempt him.” God is a trustworthy God. He shields us. Satan says for Christ to step upon the shelter and then jump – that the angel will pick you up. God will bring a sight that will be a cross-rising not a temple-falling. The cross-rising will be all about you, me, and them. See the cross. God’s plans are purposeful so that everyone involved can see the blessing.

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Don’t go off script with God. Don’t tempt Him. Don’t follow stuff that God hasn’t written about or told us. Going off script is tempting God. Even Jesus says, “Don’t tempt Him.” God follows His own script. Follow Him scripturally.

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             Sunday Morning Lesson: 9/6/26, I Peter 2:25

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The church has been called to suffering without flinching. We are following Christ’s footsteps as we suffer, which is a pattern of the gospel. The instructive pattern teaches us to suffer, modeling Christ in our mistreatment. We need to stay with the shepherd and have comfort in our suffering.

Sin is the curse, but suffering is comfort (Isa 53:6).  Peter summed up verse 24 . . . by Christ’s wounds / stripes we are healed (I Pet 2:24).

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1   Sin always scatters the sheep  

In Isaiah 3, Israel was always scattered, following the ways of sin rather than salvation (verses 25-32 – continually going astray). They were deceived by paganism. (We love seduction more than hearing the truth, wanting to be lied to).

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Black culture has a strong hold on folks. The seduction / deception seems to make us think that we own culture. This culture is seduction / destruction. In church, we don’t seduce but we save folks. Many folks fall for the illusion of Satan. People seduce to glamorize sin.

Diana had some influencers, always in confusion. Sin will have you fighting when you don’t know why you’re fighting. Many people don’t see the cross due to following the culture / the serpent. The serpent is still seducing people. When messing with God’s order, you’re messing with God. Sin distracts people from God’s purpose – a purposed oriented God. It’s for His pleasure that He made us, not our own. The cross brought us back to God when sin scattered us from God.

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Satan is still trying to live in the garden. Reject the life of pleasure. Scatterers of Satan seduce, who have agendas that are not from the Lord – wanting to praise man because they want the praise of man. In Acts 20, Paul suggested with his leaving that men will enter, bringing harm and scattering the flock. What you are is what you do (the scatterers). Seduction belongs in Egypt. Salvation is found outside of Egypt. Israel’s heart was still in Egypt (their wandering). Allow God to shift your heart. John was in the wilderness with God, having his heart with God. We’re not having to wander anymore but walk with God, having a leader, seeing where we’re going. With God, you don’t have to wander but to walk with Him.

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2   The shepherd gathers us to himself (Matt 25:31-46).

God separates the sheep from the goats. The sheep are living a life of salvation, but the goats are living a life of selfishness. In church, we are sheep folk, focused on the shepherd. We have returned to the shepherd and guardian of our souls. We changed our beliefs and lifestyles, recognizing our sins as a seducer taking from you, learning to turn to salvation, desiring deliverance and salvation from Christ.

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There are no gospel preachers in denominationalism. Jesus Christ built the church while man goes to a church. It’s only one church. If there’s a God, there’s a source – one source. Salvation is turning away from seduction and sin. Isa 41: The shepherd will feed his sheep/his flock. In suffering, God is feeding us, freeing us from sin.

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Psa 23: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. (We have everything we need – saved and satisfied). What can’t save you can’t satisfy you. We have a shepherd who is the only one able to feed / save us.

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Denomination means to divide, to scatter you. When Christ becomes your shepherd, you have everything that you need – home (covenant sheepfold) via covenant agreement (the gospel). The world thinks we can be members of any church. The church is only one choice – the Son going to the cross to build only one church.  Christ oversees our comfort, guarding our soul, and guiding us in our suffering.

 

John 10:4 – The good shepherd and how the sheep hear his voice: The voice of the shepherd can only be heard in the church of the shepherd, purchased with his own blood.

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Stop listening to the thieves, but listen to Christ, the teacher. Allow the redeemer to give you salvation. Jesus is the redeemer to bring us home to his church. God is saying, “Come home.”

 

Give up everything so God will become your everything. You either want the best or you want the mess. Christ went to the cross for our mess; thus, we’re getting the best in our life.

 

You come to Christ to come home where there’s salvation – being a sheep, not a goat. It’s all about the Lord.

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​               Psalm/Hymn/Edification of the week:

 

 

 

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. (Eph 5:19)

 

Proverbs 20:29 -- The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.​​​​​​​

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                             I’m Learning to Lean

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                   I’m learning to lean, learning to lean

                   Learning to lean on Je-sus,

                   I’m finding more power than I’ve ever seen

                   I’m learning to lean on Je-sus.

 

                   I’m learning to love, learning to love

                   Learning to love like Je-sus,

                   I’m touching more people than I’m aware of

                   I’m learning to love Je-sus.

 

                   I’m learning to pray, learning to pray

                   Learning to pray like Je-sus,

                   I’m gaining more courage day after day

                   I’m learning to pray like Je-sus.

 

                   I’m learning to lean, learning to lean

                   Learning to lean on Je-sus,

                   I’m finding more power than I’ve ever seen

                   I’m learning to lean on Je-sus.                       

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