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Welcome, introduce yourself.
Invite guests to the Parlor following service.
Today, we are having our annual special service recognizing our students who are graduating from high school.
If you’re a guest today, things are going to be a bit different from normal, just to give you a heads up.
This afternoon from 3-5, there will be a come-and-go reception in Miller Hall for 7 of our graduates hosted by their parents.
Directions to Miller Hall.
Next Sunday is Mother’s Day, and on Mother’s Day every year, we take up a special one-day offering in support of the New Mexico Baptist Children’s Home in Portales, NM.
This is a great ministry that has a positive impact for Christ in the lives of so many children.
Our goal for this one-day offering is $3,600.
Pray and be prepared to give what God would lead you to give next Sunday morning.
Beginning
And now, I present to you the Eastern Hills Baptist Church Student Ministry Graduates for 2019.
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Have them stand, present with gifts, short conversation with them, Trevor will pray over them.
Have them be seated.
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You have different language markers in your life.
I still use words like “sick” and “groovy.”
To me “chill” always means calm or relaxed.
To you, it means more cool or fun.
I admit it: I’m out of touch.
Because of that, you might be tempted to not listen to me today.
You may be tempted to tune me out, because I have nothing useful to bring.
But just because some of our markers are different doesn’t mean that they all are.
Sure, we have different life experiences, but that doesn’t mean that mine are of no value to you.
This is because we all share a common journey called life.
While our pathways and our viewpoints might wildly differ from each other, there’s a similarity in the process of doing life.
I’ve been (sort of, at least) where you are: looking out at the ocean of your future, wondering what’s out there beyond the horizon.
What may surprise you is that I still find myself in that place often.
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As you look back on the path of your life, there are going to be some places or times that were critical: that something powerful happened, or you had to make a decision, or there was a big change because of something.
These things are markers: life markers, if you will.
Signposts that you can reflect on and see “this is why my life looks like this.”
As you look back on the path of your life, there are going to be some places or times that were critical: that something powerful happened, or you had to make a decision, or there was a big change because of something.
These things are markers: life markers, if you will.
Signposts that you can reflect on and see “this is why my life looks like this.”
Today might be one of those markers.
You’re being recognized by your church family for your accomplishments in reaching the cusp of “adulthood.”
When I look back on my own life, graduation was one of those markers for me as well.
Some other markers you might have could be when you started high school, made a team of some sort, got your driver’s license, or got your first car.
But what about your spiritual life?
Can you look back at your life and see places where there was a big change in your walk with God?
Some of them probably even coincide with some of the other markers that we’ve just mentioned.
Give them each a stone
I want to give you each a stone this morning, because in each of the passages we’re going to look at today, a stone was of great prominence: they were set up as markers.
They were markers that represented both a big moment in someone’s life direction, and also a big moment in someone’s spiritual direction.
And when these people set these stones up as markers, they put them up so that they would remember.
So they would remember what God had said to them.
So they could remember how God had revealed Himself to them.
So they could remember how God had restored them when they had fallen.
As you go from here, I want you to remember some of these same things:
Remember when God spoke
The place we’re going to begin is with a man named Jacob.
You probably know who he is.
But in case you don’t… Jacob was the grandson of Abraham.
He was a twin, but the younger of the two.
He was a bit of a shyster... he had no problem lying to get what he wanted, he wasn’t above manipulating someone in order to win a prize.
Well, after he successfully received a blessing from his father Isaac that his brother Esau felt that he deserved, Jacob ran away.
He fled, at his mother’s instruction, to visit some relatives until his brother calmed down.
As he ran away, he had an encounter with God:
So the Lord comes to Jacob in a dream and tells him that He will bless Jacob, and that Jacob would receive the land that he was lying on, which God had promised to Abraham and his descendants.
This stone ends up getting a name: Bethel, which means “house of God.”
And later on, this exact thing happened.
In , we see the rest of the story.
Jacob returns to Canaan, to Bethel, and is there reminded of all that God had done for him along the path of life’s journey.
You see, the stone that Jacob set up was something to remind him of what God had said.
And when he saw the fulfillment of the promise of God, it led him to worship the Lord.
For me, a major spiritual marker in my own life took place right out there in the prayer room.
That’s where I realized that I needed Jesus, and I surrendered my life, repented of my sins, and placed my trust in Him for my salvation, believing that He died in my place, rose from the dead, and was going to come again.
It’s a marker that I go back to over and over and over.
Why?
Because my life’s trajectory changed that day, and since then, the course of my life is completely different than anything I thought it would be… that’s a good thing.
So when was a time that the Lord spoke to you?
Not necessarily audibly, but on the inside.
Maybe it was when you realized that you needed a Savior.
Maybe it was a time that you had your mind completely blown away by something you read in the Scriptures.
Maybe it was a sermon or a lesson in Bible study or a teaching at camp where you knew exactly what God was saying to you and how you needed to respond.
And then you did respond, and you can look back at that time as a marker: a reminder of what God said and what it meant, and how the course of your life changed after that.
It’s in remembering what God has said to us that we will be better equipped to recognize the voice and leadership of God in the future.
So we need to remember those spiritual markers of when we heard God speak.
Jacob set up a stone as a marker and an altar, dedicating himself to God.
Give this some thought: what is a spiritual marker in
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Remember when God worked
Not only do we need to remember when we heard God speak, but we need to remember to set up markers so that we can remember when we saw God work.
For this marker, we’re going to jump over to the book of Joshua, chapter 4, which was where our opening Scripture reading came from.
Joshua and the Israelites had just finished their wanderings in the desert.
Moses has died, and they are about to come into the Promised Land to begin their conquest of it.
Joshua ran into a little problem: the Jordan river stood between them and Jericho.
And it was flooded over its normal banks.
How are they going to cross it?
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