Evening Prayer Service

The ordinances are an opportunity to share the gospel. We reserve that an ordinance is a showing of the gospel.

Evangelical once meant gospel, now it is port railed in a different way.

Once a week is not often enough to focus on the gospel. We need to preach the gospel to ourselves EVERYDAY because I will forget it everyday.

Present the gospel to myself everyday possibly through these three steps
Guilt
Grace
Gratitude

"A gospel primer for Christians"  - book

Reasons to rehearse the gospel daily…
I. The gospel prevents and or corrects my thinking that trails are my enemy.
• What is my response to trails? - is my thinking gospel?
• Jesus learned obedience through suffering…. This is the gospel….Christ humbled himself to die on a cross, to come and serve.
• The cross was not an enemy, the cross brought joy to Christ.
• Romans 5 , 8

II. The gospel prevents/corrects my thinking that sin is my friend
• There is felting pleasure in sin
• The gospel turns the light on
• Anything can become a routine - specific scripture, the Lords table, etc

 I NEED TO PRAY UNTIL I PRAY


Do I REALLY pray? How do I REALLY pray?Do I think until my soul sings?

A Humble Response to God and His Grace

James 4:1-10

The Characteristics of Godliness

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I. A choice for Him v. 7

Do you want God resisting you or do you want to resist the Devil?

We enter spiritual warfare with the fam at our side

god has placed specific spiritual authority

- don't fight their authority

The Devil is god's Devil, God is all knowing the devil is not

If god is resisting me there is no hope, if the devil is resisting there is hope

Romans 6

II. A Closeness to Him v. 8a

v. 5 Yearns Jealously

Revelation 3 - The church sounds much like America

This is us

III. A cleansing by Him v. 8b

this is a command not a promise

This is what we do

Clean our hands (external) and hearts (internal)

I John 1:7

I John 3:3

We are responsible to clean up our lives

IV. A contribution towards Him v. 9

We are commanded to mourn and weep our sins

Psalm 73:28

Romans 7 and 8

V. A confidence in Him v 10

VI. A concentration on Him v. 5-6

The main focus

DO YOU KNOW GOD? - This is the issue