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Sunday Morning Sermon Summary

Pastor Paul Lundberg

Note to the visitor:  These are Pastor Paul’s sermon notes from Sunday Morning.  They probably won’t make much sense if you weren’t in the service.  Feel free to contact Pastor Paul if you’d like more detailed information.

Series: If our church wasn’t here (would anyone miss us)?
Part 3: Live, Love, and Leave a Legacy
(Deuteronomy 30:19-20)
February 18, 2007 

Deut 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

What’s our “business”? To be a disciple is to be undeniably recognizable as the people of the one true and living God (Stuart Briscoe)

How’s business? Would we be missed? 

1.  LIVE Deut 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life

John 10:9, 10 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.  

Football game: 110 K in the stands, 22 on the field;

Fun matters, Joy matters, Confidence matters, “Miracles” matter 

2.   LOVE (God and people) - Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.  

Matt 22:37 (Mark 12:30-31) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'   31 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." 

To love God with all your heart is to be constantly growing in knowledge and appreciation for who He is (knowledge/appreciation for neighbor)

To love with all your soul is to place God as first priority (neighbor ahead of self)

To love God with your mind is to focus on conscious obedience (be always thinking of ways to serve your neighbor) 

To love God with all your strength is the action part of loving

      Real loving starts when feelings end; Real loving is hard, sacrificial, work; “Love is something you do!” 

To love God with your strength happens when God is not “performing”

To love your neighbor with all your strength happens when your neighbor isn’t lovable.

3.   LEAVE A LEGACY – Begin with the end in mind

For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

1 Cor 1:4 I always thank God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. 5 For in him you have been enriched in every way-in all your speaking and in all your knowledge- 6 because our testimony about Christ was confirmed in you. 7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8 He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful 

Visualize your funeral - What do want your spouse to say?  Your kids?  Your neighbor? Your boss?  Would a perfect stranger want to speak? 

CONCLUSION:

1. Those shall have life that choose it:

2. Those that come short of life and happiness have No one to blame but themselves! 

People who know how to live, who love with heart, soul, mind, and strength are people who will be missed

A church that bristles with a visible spirit of joy and rejoicing, that knows how to have hilarious, over-the-top fun, that knows how to “go for the gusto”, that loves God, each other, and their neighbors, with heart, soul, mind, and strength will be a church that would be missed. 

Vision for ABChurch:  Here making disciples when Jesus comes

2007 a year of renewal and revival for “the land” (life, family, future, church) - - - a year of learning to share what the land produces - - - a year of learning to depend on God for the small things

Benediction: Phil. 1:9-11
 

Green: Mission and Vision
Blue: Illustrations and quotes
Red: Scripture

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