WILL I CONFESS?
INTRO: HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD I TOUCH?
1: WHO’S WATCHING YOU?
A) WE ARE THE ONLY BIBLE SOME EVER READ
B) WE ARE THE ONLY JESUS SOME EVER SEE
C) PRETTY SACRY IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT
D) LOST PEOPLE LOOKING AT YOU AND ME AND HOW WE LIVE AND REACT TO THINGS
POINT: SOMETIMES CHRISTIAN PEOPLE ARE TO RESERVED WE TEND TO GO WITH THE FLOW OR JUST ACCEPT THINGS WHEN WE SHOULDN’T. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS ARISE WHEN PEOPLE WE DON’T REALIZE NORMALLY ARE WATCHING. WHO’S WATCHING YOU?
2: THINK ABOUT WHEN JESUS SENT HIS APOSTLES OUT
A) MATTHEW 10
B) GO PREACH THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND
C) DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR PHYSICAL PROVISIONS
D) BE AS WISE AS SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES
POINT: PEOPLE WERE WATCHING THE APOSTLES AND THEY KNEW IT. JESUS SENT THEM TO PREPARE THEM FOR THE GREATER TASK OF FOUNDING AND UPHOLDING THE FIRST CHURCH AT JERUSALEM. EVERYTHING THEY LEARNED AND DID WOULD AID THEM IN THEIR MINISTRIES AFTER THE CROSS.
BODY: THE HOUSE TOPS.
1: MATT 10:27-33
A) WHAT I TELL YOU
B) IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE ENTIRELY TOO MUCH
C) STUDY HIS WORD IMPLY IT UPON YOUR OWN HEART
D) PRAY AND MEDITATE ON THE GREAT COMMANDMENT AND THE GREAT COMMISSION
E) THEN TAKE IT AND DECLARE IT EVERYWHERE
POINT: ON THE HOUSETOP WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WELL MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT COMFROTABLE SHARING THERE FAITH WITH OTHERS. THEY FEEL UNABLE OR NOT SMART ENOUGH TO SHARE WHAT THE GOSPEL SAYS. JESUS SAID PREACH IT UPON THE HOUSETOPS LET EVRYONE KNOW YOU BELONG TO HIM AND ARE SENT AND COMMISSIONED BY HIM.
2: GOD KNOWS US
A) HE KNOWS US BETTER THAN WE KNOW OURSELVES
B) EVERY HAIR
C) WE ARE OF SUCH A GREAT VALUE TO GOD
D) WHY WOULD WE NOT WANT TO TELL ALL OF HIS LOVE AND GRACE
POINT: GOD KNOWS US AND HAS OUR NAMES WRITTEN DOWN BEFORE OUR OWN PARENTS EVEN KNOW WE EXIST, HE KNOWS US AND WOULD NEVER ASK ANYTHING OF US WE CAN’T HANDLE OR ANYTHING WE ARE NOT CAPABLE OF.
THIS IS THE QUESTION, WILL I CONFESS HIM?
CLOSING: WHOSOEVER
1: ANYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF JESUS
A) JESUS WANTS US TO BE VESSELS
B) IF WE CONFESS HIM AS SAVIOR HE WILL CONFESS US AS SAVED
C) IF WE DENY HIM HE WILL DENY US
POINT: SAVED, BORN AGAIN, REDEEMED, HOWEVER YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SALVATION CONFESSING CHRIST IS THE FIRST STEP, US AS CHRISTIANS HAVE TO BE WILLING TO CONTINUE TO CONFESS AND SPEAK OF HIS LOVE MERCY AND GRACE.
SO WILL YOU CONFESS HIM?
