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The Great Expectation: God Expects you to Win - June 22, 2008
Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 21:05.
I have to say: I've been soooo hype to get this podcast out to you all! This is definitely a message that the Body of Christ needs to hear.
When God wrote Christianity HE WROTE VICTORY, NOT DEFEAT! However, most Christians have been taught that they are defeated before they even try to live for God. Have you ever heard this: "aww, we all fall short" or "we won't be holy 'til we enter glory" or "God know's you're going to sin?" MAN! Where's the hope?!? When you look in the Bible you don't see this type of talk, you see examples of victory. Look at King David, when he trusted in the Lord, he was always victorious in battle. The woman that had been bleeding, EXPECTED that when she touched just the hem of Christ's garment she would have victory over her disease.
How can we have victory over sin if we don't expect victory? We know more about what to do when we sin, than what to do to keep us from sinning. It's so sad, before people even trying to live for the Lord they are already content with coming in 2nd or 3rd place. They don't know that God expects us to come in 1st place - to have the victory.
The amazing thing about God is that HE GIVES US HIS POWER, HIS SPIRIT, WHICH ENABLES US TO GET THE VICTORY! Pastor Cox shows you how the very Word of God breaks the chains of defeatism in the Christian's life and gives us His Spirit to overcome our flesh, the world, and the evil one. Amen!
So You Sinned...Now What? - 8 June 2008
Submitted by La-Aja on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 09:00.
When you first get saved it is so exhilarating! You're pumped and ready to witness to everyone you come into contact with. You can just feel the Holy Spirit moving through you and using you. Am I right? You feel like nothing can bring you down.
And then you sin. ugh.
Sin affects us in so many ways. Psychologically, your thoughts begin to change. Emotionally, the shame you feel from knowing the same friends and family you were just witnessing may be aware that you've just sinned, can discourage you from ever wanting to share the Gospel again. And even worse than that, the devil knows that you've sinned and will use that moment of weakness to try and take you out of the faith for eternity.
You hear alot of people say, "well even David sinned" and that is true, but what did David do after sinning? Instead of condemning himself, David prayed for restoration and vowed to teach sinners the Lord's ways (Psalm 51). Listen as Pastor Cox pushes you to get back up and keep running the race of faith even after stumbling. Just imagine how much louder the crowd roars when the team they thought would lose comes up from behind and wins. We too have more influence after getting up. When the enemy thought he had us defeated we come back even stronger!
