When God Speaks Wk.6 // When God speaks it reveals

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A pastor confesses his struggle to prepare for worship, revealing how dry Sundays can become without intentional focus.

The episode opens with the pastor emotionally reflecting on the importance of preparing for worship, confessing times he wandered in unprepared. He introduces the sermon series 'When God Speaks' and the main idea: God's word opens our eyes. Reading Psalm 119:41-48, he focuses on God's faithful love and salvation as promised. The first point is to pray for God to open our eyes to Him, emphasizing that faith comes by hearing God's word repeatedly. He discusses God's unfailing love, referencing 1 Corinthians 13 and 1 John 4:8, and explains salvation as deliverance, help, and safety, using the Hebrew word 'teshua'. The pastor then shifts to opening our eyes to ourselves, highlighting the need to die to self and not defend against taunts. He cites Isaiah 50:6 and Luke 22:63 to show Jesus' example of enduring mockery without defense. Arguing against the excuse 'that was Jesus', he uses Philippians 2, John 14:10-12, and 1 John to assert believers can walk like Jesus through the Holy Spirit. He emphasizes that being 'born again' in John 3:7 is about transformation, not just a prayer for heaven. The sermon concludes with a call to forgive hurts and receive salvation, ending in prayer and transition to communion.

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A warm, insistent sermon about seeing God clearly, examining oneself honestly and finding assurance in Christ.

This sermon asks two closely connected questions: who God is, and how worshippers should see themselves. After an emotional opening about arriving prepared for worship, it turns to scripture and presents Christ as salvation, deliverance, help and hope.

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Press play when you need reassurance that accusation is not God's voice and hope in Christ is more than a guess.

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