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1 Corinthians 16:6-10 Behind Door Number Three - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: October 30, 2011

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 16:7)

Blessed are the flexible; they shall not be broken. Even Paul was unsure of what his future held.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 16:8)

We must spread the Good news or Gospel at personal inconvenience and at times, great cost.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 16:9)

Spiritual opportunities and spiritual adversaries often go together. You shouldn't run from adversity.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 16:9)

Opportunities come with responsibilities. We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 16:11)

Look for open doors and look for closed doors. An obedient heart helps give us listening ears.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

James 4:13-15 NLT

13 Look here, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit." 14 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog-it's here a little while, then it's gone. 15 What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."

Psalms 37:4 NKJV

Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6 NLT

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

Proverbs 3:5-6 CJB

5 Trust in Adonai with all your heart; do not rely on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him; then he will level your paths.

Psalms 37:4 NKJV

Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Philippians 2:13 NLT

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

Acts 23:6 NKJV

But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

James 4:7 NKJV

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Acts 14:27 NKJV

Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 2:12 NKJV

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

1 Corinthians 16:10 NLT

When Timothy comes, don't intimidate him. He is doing the Lord's work, just as I am.

1 Corinthians 16:10 AMP

When Timothy arrives, see to it that [you put him at ease, so that] he may be fearless among you, for he is [devotedly] doing the Lord's work, just as I am.

1 Timothy 4:12 NKJV

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.

1 Timothy 4:12 NLT

Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.

Isaiah 6:8 NKJV

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

Revelation 3:8 NKJV

"I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.

Romans 10:14-15 NKJV

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"

Romans 12:1-2 NLT

1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice-the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Acts 16:6-10 NKJV

6 Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. 7 After they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. 8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." 10 Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

Acts 8:26-27 NKJV

26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desert. 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship,

Mark 4:35 NKJV

On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side."

Mark 4:39-5:2 NKJV

39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 40 But He said to them, "Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?" 41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!" 5:1 Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

John 4:4 NKJV

But He needed to go through Samaria.

John 4:25-26 NKJV

25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things." 26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He."

John 4:34-36 NKJV

34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

John 17:4 NKJV

I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

2 Timothy 4:7 NKJV

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV

8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Revelation 3:20 NLT

"Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends.

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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