SOAKED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS #3

GETTING DRUNK AND BOUNCING BACK

August 24, 2008

with Adam Waters

INTRO
· Children have an amazing talent that adults DO NOT HAVE!
· Tell a story of Zeke/Ethne recovering quickly from pain.
· Dogs have an amazing stubbornness… tell story of Layla.
· Adults have that same amazing stubbornness.
· READ Genesis 9
· DID YOU REALIZE THAT GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE LIKE NOAH?
· Did you realize that sometimes we’re a whole lot more like Ham/Canaan?

BODY
Sometimes we forget what God has done for us…
Ø What had God done for Ham and/or Noah?
Ø What has he done for you?
Ø What has he done for the Orchard church?
What will it take for us to react like Noah for the rest of our lives and not like Ham?
Ø It appears Noah came back in line (no more stories of sin). It appears Ham did not (from him cane the Canaanites, the Babylonians, the Philistines… enemies of both the Jews and the world. (chapter 10)
Ø What will it take for us to jump back into the vision God has for our lives? (Noah’s depression v. our own)
Ø What will it take for us to jump back into the vision God has for our church?


WRAP IT UP
Do you realize that God is looking for people like NOAH?
· Are you ready to commit?
· Commit to a life of obedience, closeness… righteousness?
· Are you ready to sacrifice?
· Are you ready to live a life of worship?
· Put yourself on the altar?
· Put your most precious things on the altar and give them to God?


Are you ready for confession… tell God all your sins and move forward into his way… into the Way… into a life spent chasing Jesus…. Sometimes, confession of sin is what holds us back!
Sometimes it’s just a life spent on self.