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Springhill M.B. Church. A church determined to Exalt the Savior , Elevate Society , and Edify the Saints with Creativity , Excitement and Excellence . God’s Will . Reading and Applying God’s Signs for Your Life. Lesson 2 The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question.
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Springhill M.B. Church A church determined to Exalt the Savior, Elevate Society, and Edify the Saints with Creativity, Excitement and Excellence.
God’s Will Reading and Applying God’s Signs for Your Life Lesson 2 The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question I. What it means to yield • Attitude of Distrust • Absolute Yielding • Absolute Commitment Romans 12:1-2
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question What Does it Mean for Jesus to Be Lord? • Life above lip service – Luke 6:43-49 • Obedience above oratory – Matt. 21:28-32 • Doing = Knowing – John 7:17
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question Barriers to Obeying the Yield Sign • Partial Obedience = disobedience (1 Sam. 15) • Saul was Concerned with image • Saul was Self Centered • Saul was Prideful
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question Barriers to Obeying the Yield Sign • Pride • Pride keeps us from yielding to God’s will while hindering us from hearing him. • Vanity keeps us worrying about other’s opinions.
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question Barriers to Obeying the Yield Sign • Conditions • Yielding with conditions is not yielding • Compare James 1:5 & 1:8
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question Barriers to Obeying the Yield Sign • Self – Centeredness • Concerned with our interest rather than God’s • We cannot find God’s will while performing our’s.
The Yield Sign: Settling the Lordship Question “ God’s will is filtered through His omniscience (He is all knowing); it is attended by His omnipresence (He is ever present); and it is accomplished by His Omnipotence (He is all powerful).”