What Should I Do? // Sunday, August 30, 2020

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Sunday, August 30, 2020

What Should I Do?

Hezekiah

2 Kings 18: 2 – 7;  Isaiah 38: 1 – 5

Ephesians 5: 15 &16 (NLT)  So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. 

2 Timothy 2: 21 (ESV)  …if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.

What should I be doing with my life?

1. Build my life around God.

Luke 10: 17 (ESV) …You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.

  • Prioritize worship

Philippians 4: 7 (NLT)  Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

2. Love God’s Family

Hebrews 10: 25 (NLT)  … let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

  • Prioritize fellowship.

Acts 2: 41, 42 & 46 (NLT)  Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all. 42 All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer… 46 They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity.

The pattern:

1.     Believe

2.     Baptized

3.     Discipleship

4.     Fellowship

5.     Worship

3. Mature in my faith.

Hebrews 6: 1 (NLT)  …let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding.

  • Prioritize discipleship.

Hebrews 5: 12 (NLT) You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.

4. Contribute.

1 Peter 4: 10 (NLT) God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.

  • Prioritize ministry.

Psalm 116: 12 (NLT)  What can I offer the Lord for all he has done for me?

5. Communicate the Good News.

2 Corinthians 5: 18, 20 (NLT)  …all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him… 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

Prioritize witnessing.

2 Corinthians 6: 1 (ESV) Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.