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Seeking Jesus First Aug. 18, 2025

Psalm 127 Laboring and Prospering with the Lord Unless the Lord builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the Lord guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread

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Seeking Jesus First Aug. 14, 2025

Be even more diligent to make your call and election sure. “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things

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Seeking Jesus First Aug. 13, 2025

Teach these things with all authority. “But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much

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Seeking Jesus First Aug. 12, 2025

Remember These Things… “Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and

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Seeking Jesus First Aug. 11, 2025

We are honorable vessels. 2 Tim 2:20-26 “But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. 21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for

Seeking Jesus First July 23, 2025

We’re following Jesus Christ “We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings;

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Seeking Jesus First July 22, 2205

We’re Following Jesus “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” (Matthew 10:38–39, NKJV) “Then Jesus said to

Seeking Jesus First

Seeking Jesus First July 18, 2025

Unity in a church is extremely important. “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the

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Seeking Jesus First July 17, 2025

Desire Spiritual Gifts “Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation

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Seeking Jesus First July 16, 2025

Love is the foundation for faithful Christian living. Everything we do by faith must be built upon love. “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy,

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Seeking Jesus First July 14, 2025

You are the temple of God and you are holy. 1 Cor. 3:16 “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of

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Seeking Jesus First July 10, 2025

What did God say? If you don’t care what God said, you won’t hear what God says. Once again, if you don’t care what God has already said, how can you expect to hear what He is currently saying? Let’s use the metaphor of a house

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Seeking Jesus First July 9, 2025

What is The Church? The Church is the body of Christ living in the earth. The Church is The ‘Ekklesia’. It is not just a congregation. The Church is made up of Jesus Christ, in the person of The Holy Spirit, operating as The Head of The Body of Christ

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Seeking Jesus First July 8, 2025

Apostle Paul wrote this to Pastor Timothy “Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is

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Seeking Jesus First July 7, 2025

When God brings us out of something, He is bringing us into our inheritance. We have to let go of something to take hold of something new and better. “Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He

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Seeking Jesus First July 3, 2025

When God speaks to us or shows us signs, it is because He wants us to seek Him. When seeking Him, we are easily swayed into looking for Him in the same manner as we have already seen him. When He is speaking to us, it is likely that he

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Seeking Jesus First July 2, 2025

Our Father God kept secrets. Our LORD Jesus revealed the secrets. “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.” (Matthew 13:35, NKJV) “To them God willed

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Seeking Jesus First July 1, 2025

Mustard Seed Faith “So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17:

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Seeking Jesus First June 30, 2025

If you had faith…, you would say… “So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible

Sermon Scriptures

Sunday June 29, 2025

There is an important connection between faithfulness and righteousness. * God is righteous. God is faithful. “I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness In the great assembly; Indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lord, You Yourself know. I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have

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Seeking Jesus First June 27, 2025

61 times in the New Testament, we read the phrase, “It is written”. Christ Jesus used the same phrase three times in Matthew 4 when being confronted by the devil in the wilderness. “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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Seeking Jesus First June 26, 2025

Is sin connected to bad things happening? Jesus taught that sin is connected to bad things happening to us. “Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”” (John 5:14, NKJV)

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Seeking Jesus First June 24, 2025

Why do we fight with Scripture? Why do we wrestle against The Word of God? As believers, even as those who are “spiritually mature”, we may seek to justify ourselves rather than allow the word to justify us. We are sanctified and justified by The Word of God - not

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Seeking Jesus First June 23, 2025

Our inheritance is the fullness of God and Christ Jesus. “And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.” (John 1:16, NKJV) “which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Ephesians 1:23, NKJV) “to know the love of Christ which

Confessions

Seeking Jesus First June 20, 2025

Fruit of the spirit daily confessions I sow to the spirit and reap abundant and everlasting life. Because I have and speak the words of Christ Jesus, who is the High Priest of my confession, the words that I speak are spirit and life. The love of God fills my