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LESS STRESS LIFE: TRUSTING GOD
Romans 15:13
INTRODUCTION
Read verse: Filled with joy and peace AS YOU TRUST in Him!
Less stress = joy and peace - last week we looked at Peace, the peace
that only Jesus can give. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to
you…” John 14:27.
Another key to a Less Stressed Life is trusting in Christ, not only will
you have peace but a life lled with joy!
T.S.
Trust = faith
How do we trust, or how do we have faith?
1ST - TRUST IN JESUS FOR SALVATION
ROMANS 10:8–13 (NIV84)
8 BUT WHAT DOES IT SAY? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU; IT IS IN YOUR
MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART,” THAT IS, THE WORD OF FAITH WE ARE
PROCLAIMING: 9 THAT IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH, “JESUS IS
LORD,” AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE
DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED. 10 FOR IT IS WITH YOUR HEART THAT YOU
BELIEVE AND ARE JUSTIFIED, AND IT IS WITH YOUR MOUTH THAT YOU
CONFESS AND ARE SAVED. 11 AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, “ANYONE WHO
TRUSTS IN HIM WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.” 12 FOR THERE IS NO
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE—THE SAME LORD IS LORD
OF ALL AND RICHLY BLESSES ALL WHO CALL ON HIM, 13 FOR,
“EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.”
T.S. Once you are saved the next step is to start to walk with
Jesus
2ND - WALKING WITH JESUS BY FAITH
When we turn from our sins, believe in Jesus as our Lord and
Savior we are baptized, showing our commitment to Jesus. Paul
writes to the Believers in Rome this:
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ROMANS 6:4 (ESV)
“WE WERE BURIED THEREFORE WITH HIM BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH, IN
ORDER THAT, JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD BY THE
GLORY OF THE FATHER, WE TOO MIGHT WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.”
In the NIV it is translated “we too may live a new life”
Walking and living is the same thing…When we trust in Jesus for our
salvation, then we start to walk with Him by faith, or by trusting Him in
our daily lives.
“WALK” many times in scripture stands for the whole manner of a
person’s life and conduct, and to the attitude which God takes up
towards them, so that God can say: ‘If you … walk contrary to me, then I
also will walk contrary to you’ (Lv. 26:23–24).
Fitzsimmonds, F. S. (1996). Walk. In D. R. W. Wood, I. H. Marshall, A. R. Millard, J. I. Packer, & D. J. Wiseman (Eds.), New Bible dic onary (3rd ed., p.
1228). Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
When Jesus called His disciples to follow Him, they literally stopped
what they were doing and started walking with Him daily. Listening
to His Word (BIBLE), talking with Him (PRAYING), applying what
He taught to their lives (OBEDIENCE). They were walking a new
life in Christ.
3RD - WALKING BY FAITH PLEASES GOD
Faith is necessary to please God in our walk, living by faith means that
you submit to the will of God over the long haul.
In the scriptures there are some awesome examples of people that
walked with God…one is Enoch…
ILLUS: ENOC
GENESIS 5:18–24 (NIV84)
18 WHEN JARED HAD LIVED 162 YEARS, HE BECAME THE FATHER OF
ENOCH. 19 AND AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF ENOCH, JARED
LIVED 800 YEARS AND HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 20
ALTOGETHER, JARED LIVED 962 YEARS, AND THEN HE DIED.
21 WHEN ENOCH HAD LIVED 65 YEARS, HE BECAME THE FATHER OF
M E T H U S E L A H . 2 2 A N D A F T E R H E B E C A M E T H E FAT H E R O F
METHUSELAH, ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD 300 YEARS AND HAD OTHER
SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 23 ALTOGETHER, ENOCH LIVED 365 YEARS. 24
ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; THEN HE WAS NO MORE, BECAUSE GOD
TOOK HIM AWAY.
Hebrews 11:5–6 (NIV84
BY FAITH ENOCH WAS TAKEN FROM THIS LIFE, SO THAT HE DID NOT
EXPERIENCE DEATH; HE COULD NOT BE FOUND, BECAUSE GOD HAD
TAKEN HIM AWAY. FOR BEFORE HE WAS TAKEN, HE WAS COMMENDED
AS ONE WHO PLEASED GOD. 6 AND WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
TO PLEASE GOD, BECAUSE ANYONE WHO COMES TO HIM MUST
BELIEVE THAT HE EXISTS AND THAT HE REWARDS THOSE WHO
EARNESTLY SEEK HIM.
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For 300 years Enoch walked with God!
Walking by faith means giving up what you want because you would
rather have what God wants. Too many of us don’t want to walk with the
Lord, we want to walk with ourselves and our friends…that is to live to
please ourselves and others. But that doesn’t require faith. Living by
faith means I submit my will to God’s will. I submit myself to God.
What gave Enoch the strength to go 300 years? That is a long time to be
walking with God. The answer is in JUDE 14-15.
JUDE 14–15 (NIV84)
14 ENOCH, THE SEVENTH FROM ADAM, PROPHESIED ABOUT THESE
MEN: “SEE, THE LORD IS COMING WITH THOUSANDS UPON
THOUSANDS OF HIS HOLY ONES 15 TO JUDGE EVERYONE, AND TO
CONVICT ALL THE UNGODLY OF ALL THE UNGODLY ACTS THEY HAVE
DONE IN THE UNGODLY WAY, AND OF ALL THE HARSH WORDS
UNGODLY SINNERS HAVE SPOKEN AGAINST HIM.”
Enoch looked ahead as a prophet and saw the coming of the Lord! And
because he saw that he proclaimed the coming of the Lord and walked
with God! So because Enoch saw the future he could live in the present
by faith. We have God’s word that proclaims the future too! We can
walk by faith too, for the long haul!
CONCLUSION
Do you want a LESS STRESS LIFE? Then walk with the Lord by faith
every day!
The Scripture has this warning about not walking with Him…
1 John 1:6–7 (NIV84
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WE CLAIM TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM YET WALK IN THE
DARKNESS, WE LIE AND DO NOT LIVE BY THE TRUTH. 7 BUT IF WE WALK
IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH ONE
ANOTHER, AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS, HIS SON, PURIFIES US FROM
ALL SIN.
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6 IF
Are you walking DAILY with the lord by faith?
TEXT:
Filled with joy and peace AS YOU TRUST in Him!