FIVE KEYS TO FAITHFULNESS (2 OF 3)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Genesis 7:1-24
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Five Keys to Faithfulness (2 of 3)
Series: Lessons From the Ark
Craig Smith
Genesis 7:1-24
Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. We're three weeks deep into a series on Noah's Ark which may be the most familiar and least understood story in the whole bible.
So far in our look at this incredibly important story from the bible, we've seen two main things.
First, we've seen that, as God's people, our faithfulness matters more than we think. It's not just that our faithfulness matters for our own relationships with God. Our faithfulness matters for the world...it matters for our community...it matters for our company...it matters in our family. In fact, as we saw two weeks ago, the faithfulness of even a few may hold back the flood of God's judgment. Or, more positively, God may reward the faithfulness of a few with great grace. And when even the faithful few stop living faithfully...that's when things get really bad. That's what led to the Flood...not just the wickedness of the world, but the fact that even the faithful few had stopped living faithfully.
Which leads to the second thing we've seen in this series. Last week Reza showed us that how we view sin matters more than we think. One of the reasons we sometimes struggle with the story of Noah's ark is because we don't think that sin is a big deal. And the story of Noah's ark forces us to reevaluate the way we think about sin...and not just about the sin of the world that led God to send the flood, but about how we think of our own sin. Because it's really easy to look back and go, ''yeah, they must have been really terrible back then'' or to look around now and go, ''yeah, they're really terrible out there.'' But Jesus made it really clear that we need to spend more time looking in the mirror than out the window.
So as we continue our look at the story of Noah's Ark, the question we want to ask ourselves is, ''what does this teach me about living faithfully?''
And today we're actuall ...
Series: Lessons From the Ark
Craig Smith
Genesis 7:1-24
Introduction
Welcome to Mission Hills. We're three weeks deep into a series on Noah's Ark which may be the most familiar and least understood story in the whole bible.
So far in our look at this incredibly important story from the bible, we've seen two main things.
First, we've seen that, as God's people, our faithfulness matters more than we think. It's not just that our faithfulness matters for our own relationships with God. Our faithfulness matters for the world...it matters for our community...it matters for our company...it matters in our family. In fact, as we saw two weeks ago, the faithfulness of even a few may hold back the flood of God's judgment. Or, more positively, God may reward the faithfulness of a few with great grace. And when even the faithful few stop living faithfully...that's when things get really bad. That's what led to the Flood...not just the wickedness of the world, but the fact that even the faithful few had stopped living faithfully.
Which leads to the second thing we've seen in this series. Last week Reza showed us that how we view sin matters more than we think. One of the reasons we sometimes struggle with the story of Noah's ark is because we don't think that sin is a big deal. And the story of Noah's ark forces us to reevaluate the way we think about sin...and not just about the sin of the world that led God to send the flood, but about how we think of our own sin. Because it's really easy to look back and go, ''yeah, they must have been really terrible back then'' or to look around now and go, ''yeah, they're really terrible out there.'' But Jesus made it really clear that we need to spend more time looking in the mirror than out the window.
So as we continue our look at the story of Noah's Ark, the question we want to ask ourselves is, ''what does this teach me about living faithfully?''
And today we're actuall ...
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