Message Title: Who Are You and Who Do You Serve?
Scripture: Joel 2:12-13; 1Kings 18, 21.
We all have friends and family you don’t
believe in God. We all have people we know you say they are Christians and
don’t show it at all. Do you ever wonder why someone you know does not believe
in God the way you believe? I’m not talking about the random person at the
store or gas station you just bumped into. I’m talking about your friends,
family. Why do they not know God the way who do? Could the problem be you?
In the verse’s we are about the read I
want you to notice that the author tells the people for them to first get right
with God and then make a stand. Either God is real and I serve him with
everything I got or he’s not.
“Now, therefore,” says the Lord,
“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm Joel 2:12-13.
“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
13 So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm Joel 2:12-13.
Later
in the chapter God says my people shall never be ashamed but, before that
happened they need to first refocus their heart on him. Let us look at 1 Kings.
And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you
falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal,
follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.
1 Kings 21
What he’s saying here is, pick a side.
Are you going to serve God or something else? At this point in the story they
really need a miracle and at the end of the passage they could not answer him.
In other words when things get hard in your life, do you continue to serve God.
Proclaim his goodness or do we now keep our mouths shut and remain silent.
36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the
prophet came near and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be
known this day that You are God
in Israel and I am Your servant, and that
I have done all these things at Your word. 1 Kings 18
He says, “I am your servant…” and Fire comes down from heaven.
39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and
they said, “The Lord,
He is God! The Lord, He is God!”
It was after Elijah took a stand that the fire came down and
then the people believed.
So, I ask do your friends and family know who you are and who
you serve. Not who you preach about to them all the time. Not who you tell them
who will punish their sins all the time. The God you count on when you need a
miracle. Make a stand let God work is this season in your life and watch how
they view God will change.
Be blessed in Jesus
name.
Music Worship Leaders:
JW & Sharon Peck
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