Paradox - Liferoads Church https://liferoads.org Helping people become Fully Alive in Christ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:09:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://liferoads.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-cross-100x100.jpg Paradox - Liferoads Church https://liferoads.org 32 32 Paradox – Part 6 https://liferoads.org/sermons/paradox-part-6/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:09:00 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=3271 How can we be free yet slaves at the same time? Before Christ, we are slaves to sin. Through Christ, we have been set free from sin but in so doing, we have become. slaves to God. We have to make a choice who we will be slaves to: sin or God.

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Romans 6:12-19
Romans 6:20-23
1 Timothy 1:15
James 4:6

  1. Consider yourself dead to sin
  2. Present yourselves to God
  3. Understand the power of sin and the power of grace

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]]> Paradox – Part 5 https://liferoads.org/sermons/paradox-part-5/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:07:42 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=3268 The paradox this week is seeing the unseen. Faith is the key to being able to "see" that which is unseen. Not that the unseen is able to be seen with the physical eyes, but the spirit perceives the unseen through faith.

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]]> 2 Corinthians 4:5-15
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Hebrews 11:1-3
Hebrews 11:13
2 Corinthians 3:18

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]]> Paradox – Part 4 https://liferoads.org/sermons/paradox-part-4/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:06:45 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=3265 What do you do with your weaknesses? We all have areas of our lives that are not as strong as we would like them to be. God uses our areas of weakness to show his strength.

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]]> 2 Corinthians 12:1-4
1 Corinthians 2:9
Romans 8:18
2 Corinthians 12:5-10

“My grace is sufficient for you.”
“When I am weak, then I am strong.”

Your weakness + God’s strength = Unlimited strength

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]]> Paradox – Part 3 https://liferoads.org/sermons/paradox-part-3/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:59:54 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=3258 How can one be sorrowful yet also be rejoicing? The key is knowing that though life is hard and painful, God is good and we are able to rejoice in Him. "Joy is the serious business of heaven." C.S. Lewis

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]]> 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
Romans 8:28
Romans 5:3-5
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Philippians 4:11-13
Philippians 4:4

  1. There is no such thing as meaningless suffering.
  2. God can bring good out of sorrowful situations.
  3. God uses difficulties to refine us and grow us.
  4. God never wastes trouble. God can use you to minister to others who are going through what you went through.
  5. We are never alone. Jesus is with us in our difficulties.
  6. To rejoice is a choice.

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]]> Paradox – Part 2 https://liferoads.org/sermons/paradox-part-2/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:36:00 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=3255 Peter needed to understand what is required to follow Jesus. The paradox is that in order to find his life he had to lose it. This requires a change of mindset; take your mind off the things of man and put it on the things of God.

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]]> Mark 8:31-38
Mark 8:35-36
Galatians 2:20

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]]> Paradox – Part 1 https://liferoads.org/sermons/paradox-part-1/ Sun, 02 Feb 2020 22:22:41 +0000 http://liferoads.org/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=3251 A paradox is one truth along side a seemingly contradictory second truth. How do we deal with two truths that seem to contradict each other? Scripture presents many paradoxes, and we will explore how to deal with a few of them in this new series.

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]]> Ephesians 3:14-21
Isaiah 55:8-9
Job 42:1-6

The invitations of paradox:
1. We are invited to know our limits
2. We are invited to see God as a person more than an idea
3. We are invited to orient ourselves and the way we see everything to Jesus

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