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Acts 7 Place and Position or Relationship? - Kevin Thoman - Interim Senior Pastor

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Kevin Thoman - Interim Senior Pastor

Date Taught: May 30, 2021

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Acts 7:)

In order to pursue the things of God for your life, identify those things which are holding you back and cut ties with them.

Life Lesson (Acts 7:)

Jesus desires that each of us would receive the call He has for our lives, and allow Him to do the transforming work in order to fulfill that mission.

Life Lesson (Acts 7:)

When you seek and serve the Lord, He will make you more aware of His work happening in your life.

Life Lesson (Acts 7:)

The life that you have been gifted is meant to be lived as an offering and a sacrifice to the one who gifted His life for you.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Luke 16:10 NLT

10 “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.

1 Timothy 3:13 NKJV

13 For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Luke 9:23-24 NLT

23 Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me. 24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.

Jeremiah 1:4-5 NKJV

4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified[a] you; I [b]ordained you a prophet to the nations."

Romans 12:1-2 NKJV

I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your [b]reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Matthew 11:28-39 NKJV

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am [f]gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Philippians 1:6 NKJV

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Hebrew 10:4-7 NKJV

4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”

Psalm 51:16-17 NKJV

For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.

Matthew 5:17-18 NKJV

17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one [b]jot or one [c]tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

1 Corinthians 1:18 NKJV

18 For the [g]message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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