Going Deep - Summary Series

God wants to change some wine skins. It is time that we started looking around and saying what I did yesterday is not going to work for today.

Wine skin attitudes: bitterness, forgiveness (how long will I live in their world, or let them live in my head), resentment (how long will I stay mad), failure (can only live in this for so long), victory (can only maintain me for so long)

Insanity: Albert Einstein “ Doing the Same thing over and over again and expecting different results”

New Things

Isaiah 43:18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

I don’t know about you but I have seen some desert places and some wastelands. God wants to change that. God wants to do a new thing but some old things have got to change.

Mercies Renewed Every Morning

God is a God of renewal.

Lam 3:22-23 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. (23) They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

MSG Lam 3:21-23 But there’s one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope: (22) GOD’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up. (23) They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!

What this tells me: 1) God’s mercies and favor never runs out 2) today’s favor is better than yesterdays 3) I got to let go of old stuff to get new.

New Bodies

Rom 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. (2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Rom 12:1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. (2) Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Insanity: Albert Einstein “ Doing the Same thing over and over again and expecting different results”

Mercies: favor, kindness,

The Heart - Mark 4:1-9 Good Ground

Another area that needs to be prepared is my heart. It must get ready to receive. Read Mark 4:1-20. You will see God’s preparation for the heart. We see this as a message of receiving the gospel but what if it was also a message to us about receiving his word, receiving a Word from God, a revelation from God.

The Wayside – Satan takes

Stony Ground – no depth, tribulation and persecution comes they stumble