REVIVAL TALK

All of us have heroes.   People we admire, emulate, and look up to.   Some even worship their hero.   Cults replace the worship of God with some human personality.   That personality becomes a hero to those who follow him/her.   When Moses came to the end of his life God buried him away from the Israelites so that they wouldn’t set up a shrine or go to his grave and worship.   God does not share His glory of worship.   Jesus said in Matthew 22:37 ,“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.”   In recent years, our nation has had a hero deficit.   We tend to lavish our attention, resources, and adulation upon the wrong kinds of heroes.   Here are the top ten celebrities on Instagram: Selena Gomez: 133 million followers. ... Cristiano Ronaldo: 121 million followers. ... Ariana Grande: 117 million followers. ... Beyoncé: 111 million followers. ... Kim Kardashian: 108 million followers. ... Taylor Swift:

Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”          We serve an unchanging God.   The Prophet Malachi wrote these inspired words in Malachi 3:6,   “ For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.”   When everything around us is changing at an accelerated pace the Lord we love and serve does not change.          The news today is filled with rapid changes.   The rise and fall of regimes, economic and political changes.   The economy is good and then it is bad, but the God we serve never changes, and He never fails.   Man may fail you.   But God will never fail you.        Hebrews 13:8 offers these encouraging words, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. ”   We serve an unchanging God.   His love, His mercy, and His purpose have never changed.   The Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth for a purpose.   That purpose is found throughout the pages of the New Testament.   Here are a few of th

--> 1 Corinthians 3:1 – “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to   spiritual  people  but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.” A serious problem we face today is carnality.   One of the problems Paul addresses in the church of Corinth was carnality.   He writes in 1 Corinthians 3:1, “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.”   We learn in verses 3-4 this carnality had caused envy, strife, and divisions.   Verse 4 reads, “For when one says, ‘I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?’” Donald Stamps in The Full Life Study Bible defines carnality, or what we would term as the flesh, “as the sinful element in human nature with it corrupt desires.” [i]   The Free Life Dictionary defines carnality as “the practice of finding satisfaction in activities related to fleshly desires and appetites.” [ii] The Corinthian’s carnality kept them in infancy as believers.   1 Cori