Hebrews-Part 2 -- " Drift Proofing Your Life" Series

Giving your bodies

Your minds

Your heart and souls to God

Takes discipline

Not going with the flow

Swimming against the current takes self discipline

Not blending in with the world around us

Takes great self discipline

When you don’t have self discipline it is very easy to

Go back to the Gate

To drift back to you old life

You are a new creation

But no one can tell

Because you have drifted away from Jesus

Maybe so far away that no one can see Jesus in you

A growing, maturing Christian walk takes tons of self discipline

Buckets full

Truck loads

We must change the way we think as Romans says

That means we must have enough self discipline to avoid like the plague the old things of our old lives

The things that can cause us to turn away

Loss of focus

Loss of priority

Loss of passion

Loss of self discipline

The next warning sign that you may be drifting is

Loss of Commitment

Loss of commitment

Matthew 22:37-38

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.

Hebrews 10:25

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.

Commitment to the Lord takes work

Commitment to your church takes work

Do you fight to build the church?

Or fight to tear it down

Are you committed to discipleship?

Evangelism

Do you get excited when you think about people being saved?

Do you get excited when you know your church is involved in worldwide evangelism?

And lives are being changed

Are you committed to the great commission?

Lack of commitment can kill a church

Lack of commitment can stifle, stunt or completely disable your personal walk with Jesus

Lack of commitment

Can destroy our outreach efforts

Lack of commitment

Can devastate our evangelistic efforts

Matthew 22:37-38

Is very clear on our commitment to God

‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.

The bible also speaks of our commitment to each other

To our church

To our community

To the gospel

And lack of commitment shows sever signs of drifting

Next is loss of compassion

Loss of compassion

Lose of compassion is a late and very dangerous sign of drift away from God and his word

The bible tells us in many places

Both from the Old and New Testaments

That compassion is a mark

A sign

A characteristic

Of anyone who is striving to be more like Jesus

Jesus was compassionate to a fault

No one

Listen to me no one

Not a leper

Not the deaf

Not the blind

Not the demon possessed

He showed them all compassion

A woman that suffered for years from bleeding

Another woman trying to hide the shame of her adultery

The lame

The dirty

The outcast

The forgotten

All of these and many more came to Jesus

And asked for compassion

And all of them found that compassion

I will go even further

All of us

The born again believers

The children of the living God

Once came to Jesus in our sinful state

And we begged Jesus for compassion