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There’s An App For That

There’s An App For That. Recap. Some More Magical Apps designed to make your life better/easier/more awesome. The Fruit of the Spirit. Simple but Difficult Uncomplicated but Challenging.

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There’s An App For That

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  1. There’s An App For That

  2. Recap

  3. Some More Magical Appsdesigned to make your life better/easier/more awesome

  4. The Fruit of the Spirit

  5. Simple but Difficult • Uncomplicated but Challenging

  6. Galatians 5:22-26But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

  7. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

  8. Lamentations 3:22-24Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

  9. Beautiful isn’t it?Greeting card material

  10. What if I told you that the people who were saying this appeared to be abandoned by God?

  11. Historical Context

  12. Israel was a pawn • Resulted in destruction

  13. To destroy a city-state’s temple meant you vanquished their god. • Israel’s neighbors believed God had abandoned them.

  14. Have you ever felt abandoned by God?

  15. If you could connect an image with that feeling, what would it be?

  16. Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor

  17. So what makes people who for all intents and purposes appear to have been abandoned by God... praise God for being faithful?

  18. Do they know something we don’t?

  19. Sung during Tisha de ab on the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem

  20. Thomas Obadiah Chisolm & The Story of a Hymn

  21. Greatness eluded him • Mediocrity surrounded him • His dreams were dashed • His body betrayed him • Success was never a reality

  22. So what did he have to sing about?

  23. He knew that God was faithful

  24. He knew that without God he would be filled with...

  25. Self-pity • Remorse • Guilt • Sorrow

  26. Hebrew word for “faithful” - Muna

  27. trustworthiness, integrity, steadfast love • characteristic of God • no matter how bad things seem...God is faithful

  28. Greek word for “faithful” - Pistis

  29. trustworthiness, integrity, steadfast love • characteristic of Jesus-followers • no matter how bad things seem...They is faithful

  30. Questions to ask myself

  31. When things seem desperate, am I faithful? • When people let me down, am I faithful?

  32. When I don’t get what I desire, am I faithful? • When life doesn’t work out as I planned, am I faithful?

  33. The simplicity of following Jesus: follow, believe, obey

  34. you can’t manufacture faithfulness • it grows when you are attached to the true vine • it is evident when you walk with Christ

  35. There’s An App For That

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