Text: Psalm 119:9-16 Beth
Theme: purity
Date: Sept 12 2010 PM
Location: FBC Almyra
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What is the key to purity?
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We live in an impure world, just as the Psalmist did
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The questions are the same:
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How about personal purity?
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How about business purity?
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How about purity of worship?
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The answer is the same:
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It's not by hiding ourselves completely and becoming an impenetrable holy huddle, rather it is by:
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By living according to the Word of God:
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In our personal life
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In our family life
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In our business life
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In our church life
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In our national life
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By teaching according to the Word of God:
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We cannot fail to teach our children about God's Word
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We cannot fail to teach ourselves more about God's Word
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We cannot fail to teach in our church about God's Word
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Realize: it's not hypocrisy if your every endeavor is to get it right and you fall short. It's hypocrisy if you have no intention of following it!
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We must, with a loving heart, reach out to win the world for Christ
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Then, as we grow disciples, we will see an expansion of purity
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However, it cannot be done just out of a personal desire for purity:
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It's not about the eyebrow piercing or the tattoos
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It's about the love of Christ and the love for Christ
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We must love and teach all, equipping them to search the Scriptures themselves
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Even if that means they never reach identical conclusions.
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Text: John 1:1-4
Theme: Creation
Date: September 12, 2010 AM
Location: FBC Almyra
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All things
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Come into being through Him
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Recognize that:
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Everything you see
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Everything you don't see
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Natural
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Supernatural
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Not a bad spot to stop and consider the marvel of Creation
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No things
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Come into being without Him
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Remember that all creation came from Him
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Even those things which are now evil
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Notice also: this isn't limited to 6 days: has come at any point.
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This means you.
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Life originates with Him
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We would do well to keep this strongly considered
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What truly matters originates within the Word of God
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What makes mankind truly different is our ability to respond to what He says
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Don't be to wrapped up in what others tell you life is about
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Allow the Word to drive your understanding
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Only HE can bring life
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We cannot find life apart from Him
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We need to understand that those apart from Christ are lifeless
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And that dead acts dead
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And smells like it too
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So, what should we learn?
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Be reminded of the eternal pre-existence of Christ
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Be reminded of His work in Creation
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Any effort to remove God from creation is not a good idea within our faith
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Since sincere science deals with observable fact, there can, at the core, be no actual contradiction
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So, what should we do?
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Accept life from the life giver
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Man was created with physical life and spiritual life
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without Christ, one cannot get spiritual life back
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Live!
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We are not made to live just for this world, but for eternity
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We are made to embrace and follow Christ.
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