Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 04/08/2010

1 Chronicles 28

Life Lesson (verse 1 Chronicles 28:1)

It takes a team and a leader for a church to perform its mission well.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Chronicles 28:3)

Always stay flexible to God's plan. His plan is always best.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Chronicles 28:4)

God chooses each of us to be His child and for specific roles or tasks in life.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Chronicles 28:10)

When it comes to serving the Lord..."Be Strong and Do It."

Life Lesson (verse 1 Chronicles 28:14)

We should give to the work of the kingdom and to God's house.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Chronicles 28:19)

God is a creative God.

1 Cor 1:27-29 NLT

27 Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.

Deut 7:6-8 NKJV

6 "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; 8 but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

John 15:16 NKJV

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

1 Peter 2:9-10 NKJV

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

John 1:12 NLT

But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

1 Chron 28:8 NLT

"So now, with God as our witness, and in the sight of all Israel-the Lord's assembly-I give you this charge. Be careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God, so that you may continue to possess this good land and leave it to your children as a permanent inheritance.

Deut 30:19-20 NKJV

19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

Phil 2:14 NKJV

Do all things without complaining and disputing,

2 Tim 2:13 NKJV

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

Matt 28:20 NKJV

teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

Phil 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;

Phil 2:13-14 NLT

13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. 14 Do everything without complaining and arguing,

Heb 12:1-2 NKJV

1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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