Intersections

Title: Intersections 

Focus: Seeing Past The Bumper 

When we take a glimpse into just a moment of someone's life sitting at the stop light we might see them singing or looking at their phone or deep in thought and we immediately begin to formulate who we think they are or what's going on or even may judge what type of person they are by that moment. 

Proverbs 16:9 A man plans his ways but the Lord Directs his steps.

One of the most important Intersections we go through is the Cross and the redemptive power of Christ and our heart.

Psalms 37:23 Steps of a Righteous Man are ordered of the Lord And He delights in his way.

Green: is go.

Yellow: caution be aware of what is happening 

Red: It changes when you are are on your journey 

No turn on red: Don't go when God says to wait He may Just be saying not yet 

The Little Girl was an answer to the request of a 80 Year old Woman asking how do I find you God.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

Repentance is one of the main reasons young people have stayed with the faith. 

It's also the main reason that they have left the faith they never saw repentance demonstrated to them by their parents, by their leaders, by ones that were to show them the gospel. 

If you want to keep the next generation in the faith and not walk away, get real and honest with your sin.  show them the Gospel is real and works.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

2 Timothy 2:24-26  Repentance Grant us repentance Lord. 

24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

We must teach our sons and daughters to repent. The process and that the good news of the gospel is, It redeems us, restores us and makes us whole. 

2 Samuel 12: 13 So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

Psalms 51:1-12 David's Prayer of repentance highlights

Blot out my transgressions.... Wash me whiter than snow....  Create in me a clean heart and renew in me a steadfast spirit in me....

Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

 Restore the joy of my salvation.

The most important lesson I can teach my son is how to repent, how to come to God honestly and openly and allow forgiveness and restoration.  The good news of the gospel to come alive in his life. 

We must fight to keep The Presence of God to not be separated from God.

I can't just tell him I have to show him.  Showing the process, showing the submission, showing the change and showing the evidence that once I've done it God made a difference in my life. 

David was a man after God's Own Heart who quickly repented because he wanted to restore his relations with God. Not just get back his famous status or position.

What was your experience Worshiping and Gathering together in the city?

How did Repentance and its importance change in your understanding?

What part of this message came alive to you?