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Pastor David Lix

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We’ve all heard that if you want to make a significant impact or if you want to make lasting change, then you need to work it from in the inside out, that it’s easier to work within the system. The Church in Antioch took the opposite approach and became the mission-center of the world. Missionaries out of Antioch were said to have turned the world upside down. But they were all outsiders; outsiders who became insiders. God can use anyone. And it may surprise you who He chooses to use and to what great extent He uses them. It may surprise you – it may shock you – to learn that He chooses to use you. You may discount your usefulness in numerous ways, but God often chooses outsiders over insiders to make a significant impact.

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The Fruit of the Spirit is a single cluster of fruit, like a cluster of grapes with distinct, individual grapes making up that cluster. That means that the Holy Spirit is working this entire cluster in me, not just one or two of those listed. One of those individual distinctives is self-control. If the Holy Spirit is in control of my life, as I have been filled by Him, then He is going to grant me the desire and the ability to have self-control. We are in a war, and the battleground is our mind. As much as our enemy is after a person’s heart and soul, the frontline is the mind. Self-control, as a product of the Holy Spirit living in us as we walk with Him, is desperately needed to win this fight. The good news is the Bible says, “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ.”

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The most famous verse in all the Bible is the greatest verse in all the Bible. Some have called it the “gospel in a nutshell.” You probably memorized it as a child going to Sunday School or Vacation Bible School. It’s John 3:16. Really, everything a person would need to know to be saved is in this single verse. John 3:16 is only twenty-five words long. What other 25 words could be compiled and arranged to have the impact of these 25 words. Nothing is as profound, nothing is as sure, nothing is as grand, nothing is as universal, nothing is as impactful as the 25 words that make up John 3:16.

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The Fruit of the Spirit is a single cluster of fruit, like a cluster of grapes with distinct, individual grapes making up that cluster. That means that the Holy Spirit is working this entire cluster in me, not just one or two of those listed. One of those individual distinctives is gentleness. Because God deals gently with us, we ought to deal gently with others. Almost immediately after telling us that the Holy Spirit will produce gentleness in us as a fruit, He demands of us that we use that gentleness He has given us to restore a fallen brother or sister in the faith. It is an immediately applied Fruit of the Spirit.

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The Fruit of the Spirit is a single cluster of fruit, like a cluster of grapes with distinct, individual grapes making up that cluster. That means that the Holy Spirit is working this entire cluster in me, not just one or two of those listed. One of those individual distinctives is faithfulness. Because God is faithful in all things, He empowers me to be faithful in all things as well.

Faithfulness is one of the greatest Christian attributes that reflect the nature of God. When we are faithful, as believers, we testify to the character of God and we help give people a reason to trust Him.

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Change is coming. Someone has said that the only constant in life is change. If change is coming – and it is – it is for my best and for God’s glory when He initiates that change preceded by a clear call that I follow obediently. Moses at the burning bush is a great example of this.

John Maxwell summed up change with this trio of truths:

· People won’t change until they hurt enough that they have to.

· People won’t change until they know enough that they want to.

· People won’t change until they receive enough that they are able to.

All three elements were present when God called Moses to lead one of the biggest changes imaginable: the deliverance of God’s people from Egyptian bondage.

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Who is Jesus? That’s the question of the ages. It is the question that matters most. Even King David asks the question similarly. He wrote twice in Psalm 24, “Who is this King of Glory?” Jesus was asked by Pilate if He was indeed the King of the Jews. The truth of the matter is He is the King of all. Paul will even refer to Him as the King of all other kings and the Lord of all other lords. He, and He alone, is the King of Glory.

If Jesus is the King of Glory, how can we sinners ever hope to stand before Him? In Psalm 24, David says that the only person who can stand before the King of Glory is the one whose hands have been cleaned and whose heart is pure. Only Jesus can cleanse us and purify us; we certainly cannot do that for ourselves. So, if you will be made right with God through the Person and Work of Jesus Christ, you will be able to stand before God in holiness.