AVERAGE JOE
INTRO: DO YOU EVER JUST FEEL LIKE YOUR AVERAGE?
1: CAN GOD USE PLAIN OLE ME?
A) YES!!!!
B) HE CAN AND HE WILL
C) THERE ARE PLENTY OF EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE
POINT: A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY DON’T MEET THE EXPECTATION OR STANDARD FOR GOD. TRUTH IS WE ALL FALL SHORT OF GLORY ONLY THROUGH CHRIST CAN WE EVEN BEGIN TO ACCOMPLISH GOD’S PLAN FOR OUR LIVES.
2: NOAH
A) GENESIS 7:1
B) A MAN AN ORDINARY MAN WITH A FAMILY
C) GOD CALLED HIM TO BUILD AN ARK HE DIDN’T POSESS ANY SPECIAL SKILL
D) HE WAS JUST OBEDIENT TO GOD AND DID WHAT GOD WANTED HIM TO DO.
POINT: ONE ORDINARY FAMILY MAN SAVED HIS ENTIRE FAMILY FROM A WORLD WIDE FLOOD.
BODY: NAME SOME REAL EVERYDAY PEOPLE
1: YOUR PARENTS
A) REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A KID
B) YOUR DAD WAS INVINCIBLE HE COULD DO ANYTHING
C) YOUR MOTHER COULD MAKE THE HURT GO AWAY WITH JUST ONE KISS.
POINT: WE ARE ALL SPECIAL TO SOMEONE, IN SOMEBODY ELSE’S EYES WE ARE MORE THAN AVERAGE.
2: ROMANS 5:6,8
A) JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS HE GAVE UP HIS LIFE’S BLOOD TO RECONCILE US TO GOD
B) IN THE EYES OF CHRIST WE ARE SPECIAL
C) WE ARE BELOVED
POINT: FOR GOD TO SEND HIS SON TO DIE WE HAD TO BE VERY SPECIAL TO HIM, THE WORLD WILL MEASURE US ON HOW MUCH WE HAVE AND HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE WANT TO BE LIKE US OR AROUND US BUT GOD SEE’S US FOR EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE AND STILL LOVES US!!!
3: THE AVERAGE JOE SYNDROME
A) MOSES HAD IT WHO AM I LORD
B) JOSEPH WAS THOUGHT OF TO BE A FOOL AND HATED BY HIS BROTHERS BUT HE SAVED EGYPT FROM A FAMINE
C) ESTHER BECAME A QUEEN AND SAVED THE ENTIRE NATION FROM EXTERMINATION IF I PERISH, I PERISH
D) DAVID WAS A UNDERSIZED YOUTH WHEN HE FACED GOLIATH
POINT: ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAD MOMENTS IN THEIR LIVES WHEN GOD CALLED THEM TO BE ABOVE AVERAGE BUT HE NEVER LEFT THEM NOR FORSOOK THEM
CLOSING: LOOK AROUND, WHAT DO YOU SEE?
LET’S TREAT EACH OTHER WITH EXCELLENCE AND EXPECT EXCELLENCE FORM ONE ANOTHER. ALL TO THE HONOR AND GLORY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
