What Difference Does It Make?
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I. My Goal As A Pastor
> To Affect Each Individual & Family In Three Areas Of Life
> To Serve Enough Jesus & Kingdom Principles So That Everyone Can
* Make A Living
* Make A Life
* Make A Difference
> It Is Easy To Understand What It Takes To
* Make A Living
* Make A Life
> But How Can We
* Make A Difference?
The Question:
II. What Makes A Difference?
> What we listen to makes a difference
* Mark 4:24 Take heed what you hear
> Mark 5:25ff The woman with the issue of blood heard
> Numbers 13 & 14 The Israelites at Kadesh Barnea heard the evil report
* 2 Peter 2:7-8 Lot, vexed by the unrighteous conversation of Sodom
* Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart with all diligence … issues of life
> What we think makes a difference
Note: Now you may not think that what you think makes a difference, but if you do not think what you think makes a difference than what you think about not thinking what you think making any difference actually is making a difference in what you think about what you are thinking not mattering but see, it does! Now what do you think about that? I tell you what I think: I think that what you think makes a definite difference. Why don’t you think about that for a while and see if it makes any difference.
* Proverbs 23:7 As a man thinketh in his heart so is he
* Romans 12:2 Renewing the mind will transform the person
* 2 Corinthians 10:5 There is a war going on for what you think
* Joshua 1:8 Meditate day and night on the Word of God and you will prosper and be successful because you will be bless-able and blessed
> What we believe makes a difference
* Mark 9:23 All things are possible to him who believes
* Matthew 13:58 & Mark 6:5 Unbelief stopped the work of Jesus
> What we say makes a difference
* Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue
* Proverbs 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth
* Numbers 14 Joshua and Caleb verses the rest of the Israelites
* Luke 6:45 Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
> note: this is why we guard our hearts with all diligence because out if it flows the issues of life … words! Proverbs 4:23
> What we do makes a difference
* Matthew 25:31ff I was hungry and you fed Me
* 1 John 3:17 Having this worlds goods … how dwells the love of God in you
* James 1:22 Be doers of the word and not hearers only …
* 2 Corinthians 5:10 Every man shall give an account of himself unto God for the things done while in this body
* Those who make Jesus Lord of their lives
III. The Conclusion Of The Matter
What Difference Does It Make?
* What you listen to will shape what you think
* What you think will affect what you believe
* What you believe will control what you say
* What you say will guide what you do
* What you do will determine your destiny in this life and the life to come
What you think can change your mind
What you believe can change your life
But only What you do can change your world
Make A Living
Make A Life
Make A Difference
