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§ I am thankful that God gives us directions for a happy New Year.
A. God is the giver of new things.
§ When you come to Jesus by faith, He gives you a *new* *birth*.
He puts in your heart a *new* *spirit*.
§ Then you have a *new* *nature*.
You have a *new* *family*, *the* *church* of the Lord Jesus.
§ And you have a *new* *destiny* called heaven.
§ And one day God says that He will say to us, "behold I make all things new."
§ We are going to praise God in a new city, the New Jerusalem, in a new heaven and a new earth.
B. And now God has given to us a brand new year.
§ The old year with all of its problems, all of its mistakes, and even with all of its victories is gone.
§ Last year is behind us and now we are on the threshold of a wonderful new year.
§ I believe it’s going to be the greatest year for reaching people for Christ in the history of this church, don't you?
§ The signs are abundant on every hand: the unity of our people; the fact that we are praying and moving in the direction of reaching our community for Christ is wonderfully encouraging to me.
§ It is going to be a wonderful new year.
C. If you are going to have a happy new year, you are going to have to follow the directions of God.
§ It is important that you do that on this first Sunday because the way you begin is so important.
§ The way a team begins a ballgame is important, the way a singer begins a song is important, so it is important that you begin this New Year in the right way.
I. WE MUST REMEMBER (Genesis 35:1)
§ God is saying Jacob I want you to remember some things that are important.
§ I am giving you a new beginning.
I am giving you another chance.
§ But as you begin, I want you remember when I appeared to you, when you made that vow to me.
§ I want you to remember that time when I was so real in your life.
§ We need to remember that time when we were closest to God.
§ That time when Jesus Christ was so precious to us and so real to us.
§ Remember that time when you invited Jesus to come into your life.
§ Or when Jesus helped you with that problem you had in your family and He was with you.
§ Do you remember that time in your life?
Do you remember where you were?
§ It may have been in a revival service, it may have been in this very church, in your parents' home.
A. Remember the forgiveness of God.
§ We have failed at times in this past year and are going to make mistakes in the coming year.
§ When we make mistakes, we need to remember that God is a God of forgiveness.
§ God is saying, Jacob I forgive you for what you’ve done, I give you a new opportunity.
B. Remember that God is a God of patience.
§ God has given us the whole past year to serve Him and do things we ought to do.
§ Sometimes we haven't done them.
And we need to remember that God hasn't given up on us yet.
§ God has given us another year in which to serve Him, another day in which to serve Him.
§ We have failed God but we have not exhausted His patience.
§ We have not done everything God has wanted us to do, but God is loving, generous, and patient.
§ God is saying to us, I have given to you now the beginning of the New Year.
C. Remember this may be the last year to serve Him.
§ Time is so uncertain.
There were people in our congregation last year who are not with us today.
§ And when we meet at this time next year, if Jesus tarries, some of us will not be here.
§ We need to live this year as though it was the only year we will ever have.
§ God said Jacob arise and go to Bethel and I will give you another chance.
§ Luke 13:6-8.
– Parable of the barren fig tree.
§ God may be saying to us, I will give you one more year.
I will give you one more chance.
§ And we need to live as though this were the last year that we will ever have.
II.
WE NEED TO REPENT (35:2)
§ If you want the blessing of God in the coming year, the joy of the Lord in the new year, if you want power and prayer then you are going to have to repent.
§ You are going to have to put away every foreign god, every strange god.
§ For every single idol in your life, for everything in your life that is more important to you than God there has to be a burial service if you are going to have a happy new year.
§ Because those idols will stand between you and God and they will keep you from being what God wants you to be and you will not have the joy of the Lord that God wants you to have unless you are willing to repent.
A. What does repent mean?
It means a turning, it means a change, and it means a new direction.
§ There are sins we need to repent of and there are idols we need to repent of.
§ There are things in our lives that keep us from being what God wants us to be.
§ God says I want you to have a burial service and I want you to lay them before me.
§ Are you willing to repent?
Are you willing to make Jesus Christ Lord of your life?
§ Jacob came back to Bethel but had to bury everything that stood between him and God.
III.
WE NEED TO RESOLVE (35:3).
§ There are some resolutions that we need to make.
§ Not in the energy of our flesh but in dependence upon the Lord.
A. Some of us need to resolve concerning salvation.
§ Jacob said I will go back to Bethel and make an altar to God.
Some here need to say.
"I will".
§ This morning you need to say *I will give* my life to Jesus Christ.
§ *I will repent* of my sin.
*I will make* Him first in my life.
§ There are some of you who have been thinking about being saved; you have been thinking about walking down the aisle and making public your profession of faith in Christ.
§ You have been putting it off and you said you were going to do it last year.
§ Last year has come and gone and you are still lost.
§ Don't you realize this morning that hell is filled with people who didn't plan to go there.
§ Hell is filled with people who said next Sunday I will walk down the aisle.
B. Resolution about service.
§ The Bible says Jacob built an altar to the Lord and that altar was a symbol to his service to God.
§ He was saying, “One thing I am going to do is serve my God.
§ Jacob had not served God, as he should.
He had gotten away from God, turned his back on God.
§ He had not been faithful in his service to God even though he knew God.
§ Now that describes many of us last year.
We were not really faithful in our service to God.
§ Many of us served God some of the time but are not really committed servants of Christ.
§ And we need to come today and make a new commitment regarding our service.
§ It would be a great day for this church if every one of our people would come today and drive down a stake and make an altar unto God and say rain or shine, God can count on me.
§ I am going to serve Him, be faithful to Him, live for Him, be faithful to His church.
§ And you need to come today and make a resolution about your service.
C. Resolution about stewardship.
§ Do you know that no one is good Christian unless a faithful steward w~/all that God has given him?
§ That means our time, our talent, and our treasure.
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