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Wednesday Night 3/16/22 • Sermon • Submitted
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Outputting what we Input
Outputting what we Input
RISK IT GAME!
Thankfully… we weren’t playing with real money tonight you were just risking fingers.
But, what we invest our time in matters.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You get out of it what you put into it.”
There’s a lot of truth to that statement.
For example:
What is something you’ve studied and you really love?
Sport? Person? Technology? History?
What first drew you in to study or love that thing?
*Let kids talk*
Transition:
Right now, March Madness is about to happen.
Lots of people will make brackets attempting to guess who will win the entire tournament.
People invest lots of time researching teams and paying attention to who is playing well right now and who is not and then they make their picks based on that information.
This doesn’t help my point tonight, but it is funny I feel like the more time I invest into march madness, the worse my bracket does…
But that’s not true with most things in life is it?
No, what’s true most of the time is that:
A successful response comes from successful preparation.
As we’ve been studying the Bible, I have a question for you…
Who or what is worth worshiping more than God?
Who or what is worth investing in more than the God of the universe?
Why wouldn’t you invest in His word?
What are you going to do with His word once you invest in it?
Why should I study God’s word?
Get it into your life so that it then flows out of you and into your life and those around you.
We need to input God’s word so it will output from our lives and affect us and others.
Read Hebrews 4:12-16.
Why should I study God’s Word?
The Living Word changes you.
Who in here likes to get your way?
What is something you really like to go your way and you get upset when it doesn’t?
Winning the game?
A favorite food your parents never buy?
What do you do when you don’t get your way?
Get frustrated
complain?
I hear the mantra alot, “Just do what makes you happy.”
Is that true? Should we just let anyone do what makes them happy?
Imagine your married with a family in 10 years.
In the middle of the night, a man breaks into your home.
What if breaking into your home makes him happy?
Shouldn’t we let him do that? Why not?
Because he’s breaking the law! But not just American law, God’s law too says “You shall not steal.” Exodus 20:15
You see, what if what makes someone happy stinks…
What if it’s evil?
We are quick to call the guy breaking and entering evil…
but we read last week in Romans 1 all kinds of things God calls evil.
Including Homosexuality, lust, and many kinds of sins.
You know what happens when you just do what makes you happy?
Romans 1:21–23 (ESV)
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
It’s not easy… but God’s word is living and active.
Hebrews 4:12 reminds us the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing us to the deepest parts of who we are (soul, spirit, joint and marrow).
The bible doesn’t just convict other people of their sin, it convicts me too!
So when we approach the Bible it’s going to cause you to do one of two things.
reject it.
accept it.
By Rejecting it, we reject God and everything he says.
By accepting it, we accept God and everything he says.
And it gets hard guys when we see real people, right in front of us, living out what makes their heart happy…
but their heart is far from God.
That hurts.
That makes us question if we really believe in God or not.
But stand firm!
How do I do that?
Get into God’s word so that when we are tested with these hard times, we know what God’s word says and not just what our heart says.
2. Invest in what God’s Word Says.
Somewhere in your 20s, you begin to care about stuff you never cared about before.
Plumbing, electrical, roofing…
All of a sudden you have a light switch break in the house you own and you realize, If I don’t wire this correctly… I could burn my house down.
So what do you do?
If you’re like me, I can’t afford a professional, so I invest my time in learning how to fix it!
I call my dad, I call my father in law, I watch youtube videos.
I get truth in my life (how to fix the problem) and then I apply the fix to my problem.
vs. 13 says, we are naked and exposed before God guys.
We can’t hide from Him.
When you think about it, this is such a beautiful, beautiful verse in scripture.
Can you imagine if people knew everything about us…
Nobody would like me.
If everyone around me knew my thoughts all the time, even less people would like me than the few who do currently.
Yet God knows everything… And He wants you.
Because of that, I want to make my heart love what He loves.
I want to set my mind on what He things.
Romans 12 says, “don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Yes… I don’t want to just fix a light switch and hope it works.
I want to know the truth of how it works and then apply the proper fix!
If I don’t know what God’s word says about Him and what He says about me, man… then I’m living this life without a purpose.
Invest in His word.
3. Rest in Christ.
Rd. Hebrews 4:14-16
Drawing near to Christ should fill us with confidence that God will be faithful!
He will give us grace and mercy to help us!
He has experienced all we have.
What a beautiful truth.
If you go back to vs. 11 the writer of Hebrews says,
“Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.”
You won’t fix a light switch if you don’t invest in the time it takes to learn to do so.
You probably won’t pick the winning march madness team unless you invest a lot of time in college basketball.
We can’t be filled with Jesus if we aren’t investing in His word.
But
When life is most difficult, the truth of God’s word will flow out of your life if you’ve been investing in Jesus!
That’s what matters most!
Get God’s word into your life daily so that it flows out of you daily to yourself and those around you.
Jesus is Mighty to save.
He is the author of creation.
ANd he wants us to rest in Him.
If we are not investing in HIs word, then we are not resting.
We are restless, stumbling through this life.
Reacting to all the problems we face day in and day out.
Rest in Jesus.
Invest in him daily so that he flows out of your life daily.
Let’s make that the mission of our life today.