October 22nd, 2023 CHASING CARROTS The Pursuit of a Counterfeit Comfort Speaker - Billy Holden
Sermon Overview: This is the last week of the series. The Pursuit of a Counterfeit Comfort. Chasing comfort reveals spiritual emptiness, & Eliminates need for faith. 15Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15 NASB
Notes: - Reveals spiritual __________.
15Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15 NASB 14For Christ’s love compels us … 15that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NIV
- Eliminates our need for__________ .
6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6 NIV You cannot pursue __________ and walk by faith.
-Embrace the __________.
4Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 NIV
- Embrace divine __________ .
2Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4 NASB 3Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5 NIV
- Embrace that this isn’t your __________ life.
18Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Romans 8:18-19 NLT Trying to fulfill an eternal longing with temporary comfort will lead to an empty life. 25If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. Matthew 16:25 NLT 9That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT
