The Church of Eleven22

What do you do when you find yourself in a seemingly hopeless situation? You remind yourself every day that your faith is NOT in the temporary circumstances of this world, but your faith is in your Sovereign Savior. Jesus is the only legitimate source of hope.

Following Jesus starts with the first step of FAITH (not works) and is followed by a lifelong journey of one step at a time. What is your next step?

The LAW and FAITH are eternally connected gifts from God. The Law shows us our NEED FOR faith. Faith gives us the ABILITY TO uphold the law. To neglect one is to neglect the fullness of the Gospel.

Have you placed your faith in Jesus?

God is faithful even when we are not. This truth is not a license to sin, but an invitation to serve the sovereign Savior.

Any person or religion that tries to work its way to God will not work. Righteousness (a right standing with God) is a gift of God through the finished work of Christ.

If we find ourselves looking down our noses at others for what they are doing it is only because we have taken our eyes off of the cross of Jesus Christ and what He has done for us.

The only POWER that is able to save you and set you free is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I am praying that this year you and I DEEPEN our relationship with Jesus Christ. 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family[c] in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21

The Point of ROMANS is the Gospel. The Gospel: the reconciling of sinful peoples with a Holy God through the substitutionary atoning life, death, and resurrection of Jesus in accordance with the scriptures for the Glory of God.

The Church of Eleven22 is a movement for all people to Discover and Deepen a relationship with Jesus. - Don’t miss this: Eleven22 is NOT the point, JESUS is the POINT.

The greatest thing in which we can look back on and the greatest thing we can hope towards is the Gospel: the good news that Jesus Christ came to save sinners like you and me for the glory of God.

Christmas is a reminder that the mission of the Spirit of God is to make sure we don’t miss Jesus.

For Christ to be Before All Things in my life: - I know that the purpose of my life is to point to Jesus (John 1:31) - He must increase I must decrease (John 3:30) - At the end of my life I would know HE is my treasure (Hebrews 11:35)

Mary is a picture of what happens when the Spirit of God moves in you: faith, surrender, and worship. 1. Faith is trusting that “nothing is impossible for God.” 2. Surrender says “behold, I am a servant of the Lord.” 3. Worship is our response to God. “My Soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”

Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up every possibility of love and contentment. Jesus is the cure, He is truly our only hope.

An idol demands sacrifice. - When MONEY is your idol it will SACRIFICE your relationship with God, people, and peace. - When JESUS is Before ALL things in our lives, HE made the sacrifice and we receive a relationship with God, His people, and PEACE. “ He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliot

FLEE sexual immorality. Repent = Run away from sexual temptation and run to Jesus.

God LOVED so God GAVE. If you BELIEVE, you RECEIVE eternal life.

It is not love to merely meet physical needs and neglect to share the good news of eternal life.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:7-11

Love accepts because at the cross of Christ God accepted us even when we were unacceptable.

Who is my neighbor? is the wrong question. It limits love. Be neighborly to whomever God puts in your path.

In a GOSPEL AWAKENING the Holy Spirit: 1.Initiates revival 2.Glorifies JESUS (not the participants) 3.Draws people to surrender their lives to JESUS.

Holiness is not a hindrance to our freedom, but true freedom is only found in being a slave to God. Revival will only come when we desire God with all of our heart, pray to God with all of our might, and live for God with all of our lives.

Humble prayer is a desperate cry to a merciful God.

One of the purposes of pain (and Psalm 42) is to ween us off the insecurity of hope in our circumstances and cleave us to our Sovereign Savior’s.

Don't be conformed to the pattern of this world. Do not fall into the trap by letting this world tell you who to be…but be transformed by the renewing of your mind; be the woman God created you to be. Don’t make Eve’s mistake and let the serpent rob you of joy because of promises of bigger and better things outside God’s will. *The use of the trademark "Act Like Men” is with the express permission of Harvest Bible Chapel (www.actlikemen.org)."

Jesus is our perfect Redeemer. - Jesus has the right to redeem: He became our “kinsman” by becoming a man. - Jesus has the resources to redeem: He lived a perfect life and died in our place. - Jesus has the resolve to redeem: He loves us and was willing to pay the price for His glory.

Spend less time looking and MUCH more time becoming. Instead of looking for someone to “complete you”, look to complete the mission that God created you for.

Are you grateful or entitled? You cannot simultaneously look up at what Christ did for you on the cross and look down on your current situation.

We work FROM favor, not FOR favor.

Sometimes we suffer pain because of us, sometimes because of the enemy, but always under the sovereign hand of God…but God is always good. He always has a purpose and a promise.

A small amount of faith in an infinitely powerful God is infinitely more powerful than enormous faith in a powerless “god”.

Don’t waste your life. Don’t waste your time, your talents, your treasure...but use all the treasures that God has given you to treasure Christ before all things.

Have you been flirting with Jesus on your own terms? Are you ready to follow Jesus on His terms?

God did not give you all that you have so you could have all you want, but so others could have all that they NEED.

Give glory to God; your joy depends on it. No one can give you what God has not and no one can keep you from what God has for you.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s not even thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more and more and more about the glorious nature of Jesus until we forget to even think of ourselves at all.

Prayer is about who you are praying to not just what and how you are praying. When we RIGHTLY see God for who He is, then we will rightly respond in desperate, persistent, humble prayer.

To be rich toward God is to GLORIFY GOD by leveraging your temporary RICHES for the building of God’s eternal Kingdom, not your temporary kingdom.