Sermon Title: DIVINE GUIDANCE
Scripture Text: VARIOUS TEXT
Sermon Series: HERE I STAND: BUILDING A STRONG FAITH
Sermon Notes:
JOHN 15:15 ESV
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
PSALMS 119:105 ESV
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Reinhold Neibuhr, 1892-1971
Reformed theologian & professor
I. THE PREMISE OF DIVINE GUIDANCE
What is the difference between a believer of Jesus Christ and a non-believer?
JOHN 15:15 ESV
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
JOHN 16:12-13 ESV
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
JUDGES 6:17 ESV
17 And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speaks with me.
“God speaks to friends.”
JOHN 15:13 ESV
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
ROMANS 5:10 ESV
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
“Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee.”
II. THE PROCESS OF DIVINE GUIDANCE
PSALMS 48:14 ESV
14 that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
PSALMS 139:4,16 ESV
4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
ACTS 17:26 ESV
26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
DEUTERONOMY 29:29 ESV
29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
“God is not interested in showing you your personal future. He wants to show you the next step.”
PSALMS 119:105 ESV
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
ACTS 22:10 ESV
10 And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’
ACTS 16:6-8 ESV
6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
8 So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.
Principle:
GOD IS COMMITTED TO SHOWING YOU THE NEXT STEP
“Missing God’s will cannot happen to a Christian who truly wants to do the will of God.”
‘When we focus on the Lord, the decision will take care of itself.”
“The best place to know God’s will is to walk closer with him.”
The PREMISE: Relationship
The PROCESS: One step at a time
PROVERBS 16:33 NIV
33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
PROVERBS 16:33 NLT
33 We may throw the dice, but the LORD determines how they fall.
“God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things that I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did,
this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;Trusting that You will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen”– The Serenity Prayer –