True Love Community Podcast

Passage: Ephesians 6:5-9 Sermon Notes: Intro: 1. Rhythm Series a. Based on the background belief that you know who your Savior is. 2. How are you sure of your salvation? Is it... a. Because you have tried your best to be a good Christian? b. Because you believe in God and tried to do His will? c. Because you believe in God with all of your heart? 3. Any of those answers reveals that Jesus is NOT your Savior. a. The only right answer to the question, “how are you sure of your salvation,” is “because I am sure of my Savior.” 4. What does this have to do with work? a. As a sign and seal of your salvation, the result is God is now working in you convicting and changing you in areas of your life, to conform you more into the image of His son. b. One of those areas is how you conduct your life with Work. I. Elephant in the Room (Slavery) vs 5 a. The bible condemns kidnapping and slave trading (1 Timothy 1:10; Deuteronomy 24) b. Slavery in the scripture is equivalent to Bankruptcy Laws i. Inden

Passage: Isaiah 65:17-23 Sermon Notes: Sermon in a Sentence: When under pressure, redeemed people look forward to redeemed work. Point 1: Looking forward means placing joy Point 2: Looking forward means freedom Point 3: Looking forward means persisting

Passage: Genesis 1:1-2 & 2:1-4 Sermon Notes: Point 1: Our work is God’s story Point 2: Our work bringing human flourishing for the glory of God

Passage: Matthew 18:1-20

Passage: Matthew 16:13-19

Passage: Psalm 24 Memory Verse: John 1:9, 1 John 1:9

Passage: Mark 2:13-17

Passage: 1 John 1:5 - 2:2

Passage: Joshua 22

Passage: Romans 8:15 Sermon Notes: 1. Experiential a. By the Spirit, He makes the objective truth of your position more real to you b. The Spirit of God pulls us deeper and deeper into the reality of the status of our position i. Prayer makes the objective truth into experiential reality ii. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing ~ C.S. Lewis Prayer Point: Pray to the Father in a Fresh way! Seek His reality and His presence, by meditation on your position and who He says He is to you. 2. Communal a. Jesus gave us a corporate model of prayer i. When you pray say, “Our Father!” ii. Because we can never see more of God on our own. iii. God is infinite and there’s so much of God to be revealed. If I

Passage: Romans 8:15 Sermon Notes: Intro: The way we pray to the Father is indicative of our spiritual relationship to Him. a. The prayer of His children i. Primal ii. Real iii. Positional 1. Primal: ‘we cry, ABBA’ a. Abba—closer to a child saying DADA i. Instinctive call of a child who just wants their Father ii. Language of wonder b. Praying in the Spirit i. As infants of God we receive a new language—a desire to speak to Him. ii. Without the spirit, our prayers are more hypocritical—we pray only when we want something. Prayer Point: Is your prayer life hypocritical or primal? Evaluate if your prayers are mechanical or is it spiritual? 2. Real: ‘we CRY, Abba’ a. Represents someone in distress calling out i. Reminder that Christians suffer like everybody else, there’s no special treatment if you’re a believer. ii. Only thing special is how we handle it b. Christians cry in the midst of the world’s sorrow, is the cry for the coming joy. i. This cry, matures you, fortifies you, shields

i: 1 Chronicles 29:1-20 Sermon Notes: Intro: Financial generosity is a key component in having a true encounter with God Three Things We will Learn: 1. What David wanted for His People 2. How David gave it to them 3. How we can have it even more 1. What David Wanted for His People a. David desire to get the presence of God into the midst of his people i. Ark Prayer Point: How far would you go, how much would you risk, how much will you work to ensure that the presence of God is in the midst of those around you? Maybe it’s time to start PRAYING for the passion and desire to have God’s presence in the midst of the people God has placed before you (colleagues, co-workers, friends, business partners, family). 2. How David Gave it to Them a. His generous gift to the building of the temple i. The amount was staggering ii. The motive behind the amount was staggering grace of God in David’s life b. Seeing David’s heart respond to the grace of God, the leaders and people were moved i. Their hearts was

Passage: Genesis 18:16-33 Sermon Notes: Sermon in a Sentence: As friends of God, intercede for your city Point 1: A friend of God knows God’s heart Point 2: A friend of God prays for his enemies Point 3: A Friend of God intercedes for the nations

Ephesians 1:15-23 Sermon Notes: Intro: Do you pray for our church? 1. How have you prayed for our church and its people, it’s leaders, it’s work? How have you pray for the people you minister to? How have you prayed for your Salt? I want us to look at when Paul is passionately praying for his church, and notice how He is praying. 2. He prays that they would know the riches of what they already have in Christ Context: 1. Paul never prays about the church’s circumstances 2. He almost always pray that they might know the richest of what they have in Jesus Prayer Point: Maybe it’s time that we pray differently for the people we are leading. Instead of primarily praying for their circumstances to change so life can be more comfortable, maybe our primary prayer should be that our people grasp the reality of the riches that they have in Christ. Who are the riches for? vs 15 1.Those who have faith in the Lord a. Faith in Jesus is what saves you b. Faith will always lead to a life of change. Prayer Poi

Passage: 1 Samuel 1:4-11, 17-20 Sermon Notes: Intro: 1. Rhythm of prayer is to dive into deeper intimacy with God in prayer and then responding to it towards the various areas of our lives. 2. We will dive into the area of prayer for our family, through Hannah’s prayer a. Understanding Hannah’s Pain b. Seeing the Change in Her Heart Understanding Hannah’s Pain vs 4-8 1. Hannah’s Pain came from her oppressive culture a. Having Children was a matter of life and death b. Therefore, the pressure on a woman to conceive was enormous c. We still live in an oppressive culture i. Maybe it’s not as family oppressive as it once was, but it’s more individualistically oppressive. 2. The only way to escape the cultural idol system of your particular culture is by having God more important to your heart. Prayer Point: 1. Some of us need to be hearing from God at this moment. For a lot of us comes from collective family culture that puts unbelievable amount of pressure on us. Maybe instead of hating and unfor

Note: We'd like to apologize for the absence of the full sermon. Due to connectivity issues, we were unable to livestream the complete message. Passage: Exodus 33:12-23, 34:1-8 Sermon Notes: Do you want God? Three things today: 1. Moses’ Prayer for Our Glory 2. Moses’ Prayer for God’s Glory 3. God’s answers to all the Prayer I. Moses’ Prayer for Our Glory a. God offers the people all the identity markers of glory minus Himself b. Big Idea: Unless our identity is in God, all other glory will fade II. Moses’s Prayer for God’s Glory a. Moses wants to experience God’s Glory b. God’s Glory is to find God beautiful, not just useful c. But our nature and God’s nature makes it impossible for us to experience His Glory III. God’s Answer to All the Prayers a. God’s glory is His goodness b. God’s complete goodness is both Love and Justice c. Jesus Christ on the Cross is how God’s goodness is completely played out d. In Christ we can have God! We can behold His beauty without being consumed

Passage: Hebrews 4:1-11

Passage: Hebrew 4: 7-19

John 1:5-7; 2:7-12

Galatians 5:26 - 6:05 Tune in to discover why we need to develop a rhythm with Christ!