Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

James 4:13-17

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

2 Peter 1:3-10

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Southeast Baptist Tabernacle

Psalm 37:23-24 The importance of our steps You need to take the next step The next step is… Obey the authority Make your bed Take out the trash Don’t miss the next step You won’t do anything great if you don’t just take the next step Delight in his ways joy in what God has called him to do Though he fall It’s assumed that he’s going to fall If we don’t try we won’t fall but it means we aren't taking a step Yes, I’m stumbling but I’m not going to stay there I’m not going to stay down Because God with uphold us with his hand God sustains us

If any of my stuff/text pollute or hurts my walk, take it away or break it Challenge with a promise to God Social media Ephesians 4:29; col. 3:7-8; Philemon 6 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of any social media Worthless, pointless communication If you have nothing good to post, don’t post it at all Filthy communication col. 3:8 it’s out of relational context At 2am- go to bed Do we need help with our carnality with Snapchat? It does matter how we view it, if it’s wrong it’s wrong Our communication ought to honor God Philemon 6 Is there anything that reveals I am a child of God? What we need to do…. get rid of it Need some serious work We all need accountability

Hosea 5:3-4 Framing our doings We composite for everything except for our carnal nature Israel will not change the way they roll even though they know they should authority trumps everything Conscience trumps We know some things that are wrong We know some things that are right Pre-decide Good-better-best If we mess up in best we land in better We meet up in good we can land in sin Do your best for the glory of God

Bad news and good news Death is what we all fear Death- separation 1 thess. 5:23 Body- what we see, who we are Spirit- part that worships God, god conscience Soul- what makes you, you We are all going to die-separation Revelation 20:12-14 1. Cor 15 Jesus beat death He did what we could never do for myself Now I don’t have to be separated from my creator Believe what Christ did on the cross was enough

Genesis 4 Anger- what to do with the emotion of anger We all struggle with it it because we all love something God given energy to solve problems fuel in a vehicle to get to the right destination Anger rules anger is not allowed to… Motivated by pride Say destructive words Allowed to linger Distort gods purpose Attack the wrong doer God rejected coins sacrifice Cain gets angry and it affects his face Anger is a getting us to a destination. Either the wrong direction- sin, or the direction to change to something profitable We get angry because… injury- damage to a tangible part of our life fix the tangible Injustice- the violation of what is right or just for someone assist to change it Identity- insults at a person no solution except for a new identity Example- Leah She could only find her identity in God

Sibling relationships We cannot be numb to the fact that the Holy Spirit is living inside of us. Put off… Bitterness- bitter spirit, resentfulness, harness Wrath- quiet harness, swelling Clamour- yelling Iron illustration- swelling and pain, wrath to clamour We don’t need to say everything that is true but everything we say should be true Evil speaking- weaponizing truth Put on… Kind- be gracious for the well being of the other person kindness is not right when you want or get something from it Kindness is when you show it with wanting nothing in return Tender Hearted- takes strength to be tender We have to work through some junk to get to forgiveness Forgiveness- giving to others what God has giving to you we to often take the place of God and want to give out punishment and not forgiveness Work through my mess for forgiveness

Daniel 6 Bullying- identifying and seeing the consequences of being a bully Brut, brutish- stupid Bullying is going after someone that is vernable there are more bullies than you think… including you bullies are hurting just like who they bully bullying is not to be observed or ignored What is/are a bully Daniel’s bullies were envious Envy always follows with strife and division There is fear there Daniel’s bullies were critical The consequences of Daniel’s bullies grew v.5 Started for his job then ended with wanting to take his life Daniel v. 10 Prayed for his bullies everyday Bullies will pay for what they say/do Matthew 12:36

Ruth 1:11-18 We are not making good decisions or bad decisions we are making no decisions Ruth didn’t have anything going for her. She just made a decision Have I ever made a decision that people can see it? Make 1 decision this week