PLEASANT PLACES – STUCK IN SECOND GEAR

PLEASANT PLACES – STUCK IN SECOND GEAR

“The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.”

Psalm 16:6

BIBLICAL TRUTH: Healthy lead to healthy , and healthy people have healthy .

PEOPLE PROBLEMS

• People will .
• People will make .
• People can be .
• People might .

¹⁵ So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. ¹⁶ Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. ¹⁷ Don’t act thoughtlessly but understand what the Lord wants you to do. ¹⁸ Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit, ¹⁹ singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves and making music to the Lord in your hearts.²⁰ And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Ephesians 5:15-20

COMMITMENT: Deciding in , irrespective of the .

IN ADVANCE….

1. I choose to you.

²⁵ For husbands, this means love your wives…”

Ephesians 5:25

¹⁶ We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So, we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.”

I John 3:16

         2. I choose to you.

²⁵ …just as Christ loved the church.”

Ephesians 5:25

        3. I choose to you.

²⁸ In the same way, husband’s ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. ²⁹ No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church.”

Ephesians 5:28-29

        4. I choose to you.

²⁶ to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. ²⁷ He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.”

Ephesians 5:26-27

³² This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ, and the church are one. ³³ So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

Ephesians 5:32-33

THIS ONLY WORKS IF…

Jesus is .

³⁶ “So let everyone in Israel know for certain that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, to be both Lord and Messiah!”

³⁷ Peter’s words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”

³⁸ Peter replied, “Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ This promise is to you, to your children, and to those far away all who have been called by the Lord our God.” ⁴⁰ Then Peter continued preaching for a long time, strongly urging all his listeners, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

⁴¹ Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all.

Acts 2:36-41