Breaches along the way

-We have issues to deal with in our family and day all along the way
-Thamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary
-These women have in common that they were drafted and brought in to where they wouldn't have gone themselves

Matthew 1:3-6
2 Samuel 12:7-10
1 Kings 1:11-17
Luke 2:34-37
Hebrews 5:1-10

1. There are many breaches in our world today and in our own families
2. God has sent us into territory of breaches to make reconciliation
       -you need somebody to back you up
3. We did not come here of our own volition even though God makes it our volition
*God can work in us to repair the breaches... do you see them and do you want to?

It's Me

1 Peter 4:12-19
Genesis 38:24-30
-Our faith aught to be in God and we get judged for it not being there
-It is not so much what somebody did to us, but our faith in God
-We are hasty to judge certain situations that we are presented with
-Our first reaction is, what is this saying about me?
-Once we see out lack of faith and then get the proper faith in God we can then handle situations in an eternal way

1. We are blaming our lack of happiness and prosperity and judging others
2. Our faith needs to be toward God and should have developed past some things
3. Judgement must begin with us and our faith, then we will see into eternity
*I ready to stop running over people in my mind

Leave Not Thy Place

-Thomas the apostle was mid way down the list of apostles and clearly the most significant (in terms of recorded history) were named first and the least liked was named last.
-Thomas was named after the resurrection of Jesus a number of times, but the order he was named in changed
-Where God names us and the order of significance he gives us is important. We cannot say we don't need each other
-However, we do say we don't need the position God has given us and therefore forfeit the power therein and the opportunity to be promoted.
-We feel abandoning our post will accomplish something
-what God has for me it is for me.

Scriptures

John 20:19-29
Genesis 40:1-5, 13-14 41:8-9
John 21:1-4
Romans 8:38-39
Ecclesiastes 10:4

Sermon sequence

1. The two causes of forfeiting our position... highs and lows.
       -God's given you a part, and he can change your name to fit that part
       -We feel abandoning our post will accomplish something
       -Thomas wasn't there the first time and then tried to dictate the terms of his faith
2. We need storage of God's word to make it through the temptation to leave our position
       -But when God does speak, you need to go into sponge mode
       -Sometimes we were collecting things in storage when we didn't realize what it was for
       -Why did God have to tell Joseph twice that his brothers would humble themselves to him?
3. Jesus' resurrection was for us to believe and be renewed/upgraded in belief
4. We can find ourselves back-slidden, but we need to remember our position and God will resurrect us to it.
*Palm Sunday is God saying, this place is mine and I haven't abdicated off the throne
*It's time you told the Lord "I haven't forgotten you and I remember what you have for me to do"