The Sermon What Are You Looking For by Doe Rogers
Jul 15, 2012
What Are You Looking For (18:13)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 6:31-34; Romans 14:17; Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:10-12; Romans 15:33; Galatians 5:22; Isaiah 26:3; Psalm 119:165; Isaiah 32:17; James 3:17-18; Psalm 34:14; 1 Peter 3:11; John 14:27; Colossians 3:15; Mark 4:35-39;
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Matthew 6:31-34
31) Therefore don‘t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?‘, ‘What will we drink?‘ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?‘
32) For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33) But seek first God‘s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added to you.
34) Therefore don‘t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day‘s own evil is sufficient.
Romans 14:17
17) for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 64:6
6) For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Romans 3:10-12
10) As it is written, "There is no one righteous. No, not one.
11) There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
12) They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one."
Romans 15:33
33) Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Galatians 5:22
22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Isaiah 26:3
3) You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
Psalm 119:165
165) Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Isaiah 32:17
17) The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
James 3:17-18
17) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18) Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Psalm 34:14
14) Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
1 Peter 3:11
11) Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
John 14:27
27) Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don‘t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
Colossians 3:15
15) Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body. Be thankful.
Mark 4:35-39
35) On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let‘s go over to the other side."
36) Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
37) There arose a great wind storm, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
38) He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don‘t you care that we are dying?"
39) He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace. Be still." The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
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Him hang out with your drinking edit the business, working as a friend once again good morning you have the again staff. The program think you are sending this morning is one of women again in Matthew six thirty one degrees and jump around a little bit, but this is where I want to begin at the start with reading this enamel to vacuum up in a few things so do not worry, saying such outlawry saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink for what shall we wear for the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. The first thing I want to look at and I ask myself the question, and I thought about it from Monica Lewinsky. You believe that the kingdom of God begins in your life. It has the kingdom of God is only think about the kingdom of God is it something that works waiting for it to keep economies if this event. It were waiting for Jesus to come and be taken with him. Yes, it is something about. But when does the Kingdom of God really begin in my life. It starts at the moment that we are saved. Okay, so we need to realize this truth, the kingdom of God is not only a far-off event or a near event impishly don't have the time or day, but it begins here and now, we accept Christ into our lives. So it here. We see these the accident description here that they were worried over their temporal needs and thinking about food, clothing, drinking and today is not much different because you know we did think about how the hell to get home again, and I have enough to get my finger on aware, you know, still hot underwear today. Here are just different things they think about that we get consumed with everyday living, and we think about the same thing I thought about in Bible times, you know in our memory. Whenever I first received the Lord, and I think about these people be so I was a stupid, but you know, so self-absorbed that something years later, it's made me estimate because you know what we do the same things did back then. And it's funny after you. You have a perspective shifting your thinking and seeing things differently so today is the same, and we still see the people strive for the same things, and some people strive for even more that seem important here and now that the big picture. It's not that important. So he tells this year the fans working pages of living if it do not worrying about all these things, and he says our heavenly father knows that we need them. He tells them first. Thirty three but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things are beginning to you as well so as to seek means to search for two look out for that Jesus is simply saying, put God first and seek for the things that matter to his heart and he'll take care of our needs some simple doesn't it, why can't we just grasp the simple things we always have to blow my proportion and make things harder than they have to be there was one put ourselves in a picture we complicate everything that went whatever ways are relying on ourselves instead of dieting. It's too complicated so. You take care of our needs. And you know I have experienced in my life that when I am focusing on Christ and my relationship with him. Not only that he meets my needs, but sometimes it's been my experience that he gives me things that I don't necessarily need that may be a want when I'm walking with him and my obedience. So you know& physical things that God wants to bless his people. He loves us and he wants to bless us, the reader can remember those things. So what is God 's kingdom is it just like I said is what were waiting for it to happen, but a what are we looking for, and now were going to get to regular Romans fourteen and seventeen. This in itself little bit about God 's kingdom is and is not confined here for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in his face. Pleasing God and approved by men right there is the key element look at according to Romans. There is says that there's three things that are the kingdom of God. The first one he says is righteousness. Okay, and now we're not talking about us, because we cannot be righteous. It's about God egging us right with God, and if God 's righteousness is his holiness and his very nature. It seems he is and God is total light. He is total elimination. There is no darkness no evil in him, so our human righteousness. It's a social quality you are really doing good and avoiding certain sins they think wealthy looked this way and act this way and don't do this or that her then we made its we try to act things out. We try to make ourselves good enough for God. Guess what doesn't work as we can never be good enough on her own. That's why Christ came. That's why we have the salvation of free gift of God 's righteousness that makes us the net right relationship with him. That's nothing that we can do, and Isaiah sixty four success that our righteous acts are as filthy rags to guess what all these outward things we try to do to make themselves good enough that says that they are useless. The problem is that man's idea of righteousness is to be different from God 's view of righteousness, because our human rights. This falls way short of God 's. He has a totally different concept to me, can't be right without him, but we have to get the reminds that is what we need and everything that we do out of that is out of our love for him. He shows us the things and he expects from us, what our heart attitude should be so, whether by nation are individually God 's people found no outward deeds are of any good if your heart isn't part of the righteous act so whatever righteous man may have is only by virtue of his relationship to God. These are the things we have to understand our righteousness is simply putting God first in being a reflection of his holiness, said we complicate things so much we try to do so much and try to be whenever going to say relax and be yourself. I'll show you where you need to be show you leave me to be what it would complicate things for human him, because we don't feel because we know they were inferior, then we do make mistakes and I think at least try to compensate it is tried to think it will find you all these things don't make me good enough. It's not even doing its and who we know and who we are sent as being a child of God. The second one. He says his righteousness, peace, no peace is a calm assurance and complete trust and Romans fifteen thirty three, says God is called God of all peace and peace is a gift from God and is also a fruit of the spirit refinancing. Galatians five twenty two, so our appropriation of these grand of these grants. Our preparation of peace that God grants is conditional on three things in one look at a few scriptures here. The first one is Isaiah twenty six three, he says, you will keep in perfect peace whose mind is steadfast interest in you. So the first thing is that we have to trust him. We have to come to the place that we trust Christ. We accept him and that is where the level of peace comes from answer begins in a second one is a mood. Psalm one nineteen one sixty five sister that you servant according to your word of Lord said the love for God 's word is another thing for our peace comes from third is Isaiah thirty two seventeen this is the fruit of righteousness will be peace effective will be peace and effective righteousness quietness and confidence forever. So we see that that's the work of God 's righteousness as well. So these three things work together that am honestly, our level of peace, but this is what we've seen our piece from our trust in God, love for his words and the work of God 's righteousness, in-house monitoring righteousness now, and some thirty four fourteen and first Peter three eleven find that he talks about seeking peace and we must seek peace and pursue it. So we have to learn to cultivate peace in our lives. This is not something that's automatic is something that we need to cultivate that we need to really delve into them. Pray about and pray for John fourteen twenty seven, says Jesus has a positive peace in our hearts so that we may suffer many trials because of Christ's peace. We should always have serenity of mind and inner tranquility as the piece is and may not be absence of conflict, but it is just having a serenity in your mind and inner tranquility equity things in turmoil all around you that you have that peace of Christ is just knowing who's in control when you feel like things are spiraling out of control. We know that we just need to hold onto God because he is an honorable peace, and in Mark four thirty five through thirty nine. This is where we see Jesus become the storm by speaking peace to let is a big turmoil, so it was from that, we need to learn to speak peace to the storms in our lives when so many things are grabbing for our attention here. My feeling this way and that way and you have so many things going on. Sometimes he does that say peace be still at this. Everything just be gone for a minute so I can just relax the assignment to only spend time in God 's word that we can find that piece getaway get that quiet time so that we can just relax and know we aren't recharged as well so that system really where God wants us to be righteous. This piece in the last three talks about eschewing the Holy Spirit, now enjoy is this not being happy, happy all the time. Joyce is that constant satisfaction assurance the confidence that we talked about earlier today. Knowing who we belong to. We discovered in Sunday school. That confidence is a gift and we don't use our copper gift of confidence. We can't use any other gift that God gives us that interesting and effective benefit domestic violence and incompetence is a gift. I will be on these gifts of the spirit and everything that we can't even use them if we don't exercise against the confidence the gift that God gives us that that is pretty neat. This morning, so am doing well. Join Holy Spirit is a constant satisfaction in its fellowship with the Holy Spirit and the joys also fruit of the spirit, so that's also when the person in the first of the spirit, we have to be growing in them constantly made that effort when you think of it keeps coming apartment right replenished alley. There's always more you know is always more fruit sound and always comes that there is more and more to get out. So it's something that should be growing that we should keep coming back into the outbound so this joy can only be manifestly knowledge the spirit and allow him to lead us in all of our ways. Sometimes it's not easy either, because there is a S word submission. Yes love you don't like that word submission because it means like how I got to give up now that you know what we were following. It's not so hard, you know, whenever I know that my father in heaven only wants what's best for me it's not so hard to say can have your will. You go ahead and take the reins because if I get myself a mini get in the way. Now get everything with his blowup that it is gas emission is a bad thing, and the word sounds like now you hate it, but it's not a bad thing. Now, especially when it means good for you means good for each and every one of us. I'd rather let God. I like the Charles Stanley says look to see how the thing again. Anything below the consequences to God. I forget how invasive the money into sermons, he says, and leave all the consequences to God stay in God 's word and leave all the consequences to God Internet like this submitting to the Holy Spirit and the consequences know him because were doing what's right were walking with God, so I thought that really need out there right now. Next time I hear same thing I said that you meet all the consequences to God, so I do like that so we go it alone, we find discontentment and turmoil is not a place to be, especially whenever we face is storms in our lives. Whenever we face the tough things that really bring us down as the worst place to be is by yourself or trying to do it ourselves because were tough. We can handle it. Merriman by daughter Nicole was little and she would get to default on its great something that is how to love it. She looks geeky stuff in making tough because he has you want to try and be off the island little scrape was in a stalker but utilizes a letter submits that her he discovers a new peace talks now. So, but sometimes it's okay to be soft before. It's okay to be pliable, it's okay to be brokenhearted and binds up the brokenhearted, is with us whenever we hurt, so it's okay to let him in and let him have control, so righteousness, peace, joy, and holy ghost is are things you are hearing now they need to take advantage of this here and now and not only of the event of Jesus calming is can prepare us. This will make us more content and looking even more forward to that coming. But this is what we half, righteousness, peace, join the Holy Spirit righteousness that God 's righteousness. He made us right with him. Nothing I do piece speaking peace in our lives and just use them having that confidence at quiet confidence even in the midst of turmoil, enjoying the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit guide us but him take control of this area, infinity roses and soft kittens, but you now have a good things are always good. We give God the reins so what are we looking for me to take time slow down and make a list of our worries and start seeking God first ever these worries walking his righteousness, and speak peace to our storms that have fellowship with the Holy Spirit and see what he's speaking back to us. We can never go wrong if we do these things so we need to enjoy the kingdom of God, now and then, women pray father really thank you crazy for your goodness that our kingdom of God starts with right here right now, righteousness, peace and joy in Holy Spirit, we thank you for the gift board for your gift sent from salvation. For your peace that passes all understanding and for the Holy Spirit leads us in our daily lives. We thank you that you don't leave us alone if you give us that comforter. We thank you father that you strengthen us and you look over us and that you do love us his praise and bless your holy name of Jesus name amen. Thank youHim hang out with your drinking edit the business, working as a friend once again good morning you have the again staff. The program think you are sending this morning is one of women again in Matthew six thirty one degrees and jump around a little bit, but this is where I want to begin at the start with reading this enamel to vacuum up in a few things so do not worry, saying such outlawry saying, what shall we eat or what shall we drink for what shall we wear for the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. The first thing I want to look at and I ask myself the question, and I thought about it from Monica Lewinsky. You believe that the kingdom of God begins in your life. It has the kingdom of God is only think about the kingdom of God is it something that works waiting for it to keep economies if this event. It were waiting for Jesus to come and be taken with him. Yes, it is something about. But when does the Kingdom of God really begin in my life. It starts at the moment that we are saved. Okay, so we need to realize this truth, the kingdom of God is not only a far-off event or a near event impishly don't have the time or day, but it begins here and now, we accept Christ into our lives. So it here. We see these the accident description here that they were worried over their temporal needs and thinking about food, clothing, drinking and today is not much different because you know we did think about how the hell to get home again, and I have enough to get my finger on aware, you know, still hot underwear today. Here are just different things they think about that we get consumed with everyday living, and we think about the same thing I thought about in Bible times, you know in our memory. Whenever I first received the Lord, and I think about these people be so I was a stupid, but you know, so self-absorbed that something years later, it's made me estimate because you know what we do the same things did back then. And it's funny after you. You have a perspective shifting your thinking and seeing things differently so today is the same, and we still see the people strive for the same things, and some people strive for even more that seem important here and now that the big picture. It's not that important. So he tells this year the fans working pages of living if it do not worrying about all these things, and he says our heavenly father knows that we need them. He tells them first. Thirty three but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things are beginning to you as well so as to seek means to search for two look out for that Jesus is simply saying, put God first and seek for the things that matter to his heart and he'll take care of our needs some simple doesn't it, why can't we just grasp the simple things we always have to blow my proportion and make things harder than they have to be there was one put ourselves in a picture we complicate everything that went whatever ways are relying on ourselves instead of dieting. It's too complicated so. You take care of our needs. And you know I have experienced in my life that when I am focusing on Christ and my relationship with him. Not only that he meets my needs, but sometimes it's been my experience that he gives me things that I don't necessarily need that may be a want when I'm walking with him and my obedience. So you know& physical things that God wants to bless his people. He loves us and he wants to bless us, the reader can remember those things. So what is God 's kingdom is it just like I said is what were waiting for it to happen, but a what are we looking for, and now were going to get to regular Romans fourteen and seventeen. This in itself little bit about God 's kingdom is and is not confined here for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in his face. Pleasing God and approved by men right there is the key element look at according to Romans. There is says that there's three things that are the kingdom of God. The first one he says is righteousness. Okay, and now we're not talking about us, because we cannot be righteous. It's about God egging us right with God, and if God 's righteousness is his holiness and his very nature. It seems he is and God is total light. He is total elimination. There is no darkness no evil in him, so our human righteousness. It's a social quality you are really doing good and avoiding certain sins they think wealthy looked this way and act this way and don't do this or that her then we made its we try to act things out. We try to make ourselves good enough for God. Guess what doesn't work as we can never be good enough on her own. That's why Christ came. That's why we have the salvation of free gift of God 's righteousness that makes us the net right relationship with him. That's nothing that we can do, and Isaiah sixty four success that our righteous acts are as filthy rags to guess what all these outward things we try to do to make themselves good enough that says that they are useless. The problem is that man's idea of righteousness is to be different from God 's view of righteousness, because our human rights. This falls way short of God 's. He has a totally different concept to me, can't be right without him, but we have to get the reminds that is what we need and everything that we do out of that is out of our love for him. He shows us the things and he expects from us, what our heart attitude should be so, whether by nation are individually God 's people found no outward deeds are of any good if your heart isn't part of the righteous act so whatever righteous man may have is only by virtue of his relationship to God. These are the things we have to understand our righteousness is simply putting God first in being a reflection of his holiness, said we complicate things so much we try to do so much and try to be whenever going to say relax and be yourself. I'll show you where you need to be show you leave me to be what it would complicate things for human him, because we don't feel because we know they were inferior, then we do make mistakes and I think at least try to compensate it is tried to think it will find you all these things don't make me good enough. It's not even doing its and who we know and who we are sent as being a child of God. The second one. He says his righteousness, peace, no peace is a calm assurance and complete trust and Romans fifteen thirty three, says God is called God of all peace and peace is a gift from God and is also a fruit of the spirit refinancing. Galatians five twenty two, so our appropriation of these grand of these grants. Our preparation of peace that God grants is conditional on three things in one look at a few scriptures here. The first one is Isaiah twenty six three, he says, you will keep in perfect peace whose mind is steadfast interest in you. So the first thing is that we have to trust him. We have to come to the place that we trust Christ. We accept him and that is where the level of peace comes from answer begins in a second one is a mood. Psalm one nineteen one sixty five sister that you servant according to your word of Lord said the love for God 's word is another thing for our peace comes from third is Isaiah thirty two seventeen this is the fruit of righteousness will be peace effective will be peace and effective righteousness quietness and confidence forever. So we see that that's the work of God 's righteousness as well. So these three things work together that am honestly, our level of peace, but this is what we've seen our piece from our trust in God, love for his words and the work of God 's righteousness, in-house monitoring righteousness now, and some thirty four fourteen and first Peter three eleven find that he talks about seeking peace and we must seek peace and pursue it. So we have to learn to cultivate peace in our lives. This is not something that's automatic is something that we need to cultivate that we need to really delve into them. Pray about and pray for John fourteen twenty seven, says Jesus has a positive peace in our hearts so that we may suffer many trials because of Christ's peace. We should always have serenity of mind and inner tranquility as the piece is and may not be absence of conflict, but it is just having a serenity in your mind and inner tranquility equity things in turmoil all around you that you have that peace of Christ is just knowing who's in control when you feel like things are spiraling out of control. We know that we just need to hold onto God because he is an honorable peace, and in Mark four thirty five through thirty nine. This is where we see Jesus become the storm by speaking peace to let is a big turmoil, so it was from that, we need to learn to speak peace to the storms in our lives when so many things are grabbing for our attention here. My feeling this way and that way and you have so many things going on. Sometimes he does that say peace be still at this. Everything just be gone for a minute so I can just relax the assignment to only spend time in God 's word that we can find that piece getaway get that quiet time so that we can just relax and know we aren't recharged as well so that system really where God wants us to be righteous. This piece in the last three talks about eschewing the Holy Spirit, now enjoy is this not being happy, happy all the time. Joyce is that constant satisfaction assurance the confidence that we talked about earlier today. Knowing who we belong to. We discovered in Sunday school. That confidence is a gift and we don't use our copper gift of confidence. We can't use any other gift that God gives us that interesting and effective benefit domestic violence and incompetence is a gift. I will be on these gifts of the spirit and everything that we can't even use them if we don't exercise against the confidence the gift that God gives us that that is pretty neat. This morning, so am doing well. Join Holy Spirit is a constant satisfaction in its fellowship with the Holy Spirit and the joys also fruit of the spirit, so that's also when the person in the first of the spirit, we have to be growing in them constantly made that effort when you think of it keeps coming apartment right replenished alley. There's always more you know is always more fruit sound and always comes that there is more and more to get out. So it's something that should be growing that we should keep coming back into the outbound so this joy can only be manifestly knowledge the spirit and allow him to lead us in all of our ways. Sometimes it's not easy either, because there is a S word submission. Yes love you don't like that word submission because it means like how I got to give up now that you know what we were following. It's not so hard, you know, whenever I know that my father in heaven only wants what's best for me it's not so hard to say can have your will. You go ahead and take the reins because if I get myself a mini get in the way. Now get everything with his blowup that it is gas emission is a bad thing, and the word sounds like now you hate it, but it's not a bad thing. Now, especially when it means good for you means good for each and every one of us. I'd rather let God. I like the Charles Stanley says look to see how the thing again. Anything below the consequences to God. I forget how invasive the money into sermons, he says, and leave all the consequences to God stay in God 's word and leave all the consequences to God Internet like this submitting to the Holy Spirit and the consequences know him because were doing what's right were walking with God, so I thought that really need out there right now. Next time I hear same thing I said that you meet all the consequences to God, so I do like that so we go it alone, we find discontentment and turmoil is not a place to be, especially whenever we face is storms in our lives. Whenever we face the tough things that really bring us down as the worst place to be is by yourself or trying to do it ourselves because were tough. We can handle it. Merriman by daughter Nicole was little and she would get to default on its great something that is how to love it. She looks geeky stuff in making tough because he has you want to try and be off the island little scrape was in a stalker but utilizes a letter submits that her he discovers a new peace talks now. So, but sometimes it's okay to be soft before. It's okay to be pliable, it's okay to be brokenhearted and binds up the brokenhearted, is with us whenever we hurt, so it's okay to let him in and let him have control, so righteousness, peace, joy, and holy ghost is are things you are hearing now they need to take advantage of this here and now and not only of the event of Jesus calming is can prepare us. This will make us more content and looking even more forward to that coming. But this is what we half, righteousness, peace, join the Holy Spirit righteousness that God 's righteousness. He made us right with him. Nothing I do piece speaking peace in our lives and just use them having that confidence at quiet confidence even in the midst of turmoil, enjoying the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit guide us but him take control of this area, infinity roses and soft kittens, but you now have a good things are always good. We give God the reins so what are we looking for me to take time slow down and make a list of our worries and start seeking God first ever these worries walking his righteousness, and speak peace to our storms that have fellowship with the Holy Spirit and see what he's speaking back to us. We can never go wrong if we do these things so we need to enjoy the kingdom of God, now and then, women pray father really thank you crazy for your goodness that our kingdom of God starts with right here right now, righteousness, peace and joy in Holy Spirit, we thank you for the gift board for your gift sent from salvation. For your peace that passes all understanding and for the Holy Spirit leads us in our daily lives. We thank you that you don't leave us alone if you give us that comforter. We thank you father that you strengthen us and you look over us and that you do love us his praise and bless your holy name of Jesus name amen. Thank you