Are You Mind Full Or Soul Full?

(USE SONG "His Eye Is On the Sparrow) Chester-born and raised in Philadelphia, Ethel Waters was an African-American jazz singer and actress of legendary stature. Born in horrendous conditions, she triumphed over all adversity with the sheer power of her will and talent to become both a Broadway and Hollywood star. her signature number,

- "His Eye is On the Sparrow." Used the title for her autobiography. - She sang it at a Billy Graham Crusade

- Ethel Waters sings Eyes On The Sparrow. Song from the 1952 movie "The Member of the Wedding"

Nebraskan State Senator Ernie Chambers brought suit against God to "cease certain harmful activities and making of terroristic threats."

Chambers claimed that God "directly and proximately has caused, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, plagues, famines, droughts, wars, birth defects, and the like." in order to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, terror and uncertainty, in order to force obedience to Defendant’s will."

On Tuesday, Douglas County District Court Judge Marlon Polk ruled that under state law a plaintiff must have access to the defendant for a lawsuit to move forward.

“Given that this court finds that there can never be service effectuated on the named defendant this action will be dismissed with prejudice, (meaning the case is over, it can nerve be filed again)

❶ Mind Full

- We are mindful of floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, plagues, famines, droughts, wars, birth defects, fuel costs, home foreclosures unemployment, financial crises, next week election

- Being mindful is the problem

- We lose sleep because our minds are full.

- We’ve already got too much stuff in our heads.

- This leading to fearfulness & abandonment

- Reality IS tough

- People are suffering

- People are losing Future Security (retirement packages)

- People are losing Present Security (their home)

- People are turning to their own ways

Proverbs 14:12KJV

12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Judges 21:25KJV

25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Ruth 1:1KJV

1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

- Moab an idolatress nation (Chemosh)

- Ruth listened to her mother-in-law council

Ruth 1:16KJV

16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Philippians 4:8-9KJV

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

❷ Soul Full

1. BE PEACEFUL

- Know Your Standing – Psalm 8:5KJV

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

- “Little Lower” We are confined in and limited by flesh, and subject to death

REALIZE OUR GLORY

Better Feast – Only saints come to the Marriage Supper

Better Clothing – Clothed with the Grace of God

– Washed by the blood of God

Better Song – Angels will never experience Salvation

Better Position – Angels in the throne room

– Saints sit upon the throne

2. BE BOASTFUL

Philippians 4:13KJV

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Romans 8:37KJV

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

1 John 4:4KJV

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Matthew 10:29KJV

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

Luke 12:6KJV

6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

- Farthing. ‘A tenth of the Roman penny (the smallest copper coin)

- Sparrows were one of the cheapest items sold for poor people’s food in the marketplace, the cheapest of all birds.

- Less than an hours work

Matthew 10:29NASB95

29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

3. BE THANKFUL