SUNDAY SERVICE SERMONS: APPLE & ORANGES

SERMON notes 

Jeremiah 12:5

“If racing against mere men makes you tired,

how will you race against horses?

If you stumble and fall on open ground,

what will you do in the thickets near the Jordan?

 

BACKGROUND:

 

Jeremiah 11:23

Not one of these plotters from Anathoth will survive, for I will bring disaster upon them when their time of punishment comes.”

 

Jeremiah was impatient to wait out and see the plan of God. Jeremiah 12:1-4, Jeremiah seeks swift justice despite what God had already promised. The end of plotters from Anathoth has been determined. However, they seemed to prosper and producing fruit. This rub off Jeremiah in a bad way kind off. Jeremiah complained to God regarding the prosperity of the wicked. Verse five is Gods answer to Jeremiahs impatience. The answer does not address Jeremiahs questions directly. 

 

 

You desire to understand God and have answers to everything. He wants you to trust and believe him always...

 

You want the reasons for COVID 19 - yet the Lord wants you to have faith.

 

Apples and oranges

 

Definition 

“used with reference to two things that are fundamentally different and therefore not suited to comparison.”

 

The sin of benchmarking 

The problem with dreams is that they are framed by the known and therefore the always introduce a sense of limitation or some kind of glass ceiling. The things that God wants to do has not entered the mind or heart of man. Therefore, benchmarking introduces a sense of Limitation and therefore contradicts God. 

The sin of  benchmarking! Benchmarking determines your altitude. In a sense that you are scored based on the known. You are only as good as the standard set. Living the life of the kingdom requires us to live outside the system of this world, we’re we have no limitations. 

 

Principle: Things of the kingdom cannot be benchmarked at least by humans. That is like comparing apples to oranges, both are fruits but they are not the same. 

 

Why you must fix your eyes on Jesus Christ

Benchmarking, focus on you against the world. The bible teaches that we must Focus on Christ. Not ourselves. We don’t preach about ourselves, but Christ. Be determined to know nothing but Christ crucified. 

 

The danger of looking at what God is doing in other peoples lives is that If God dealt with all of us according to what we deserve, non of us will be here. What you see in other peoples lives is the grace of God, and therefore you cannot compete with grace. 

The non believer see the extension of Gods grace daily as God allows prosperity in their lives. 

The believer on the other hand has to partner with God and work in tandem with the grace of God. The believer has to work in tandem with the anointing 

As a believer you move into a dimension were you run out of luck and begin to create successive breakthrough by the power of God working mightily in you. The life I now live, is be faith in Jesus Christ. 

1. Learn to run now and we’re you are with your eyes fixed on Jesus Christ
2. Learn to succeed in times of less adversity, with your eye fixed on Jesus Christ
3. Learn not to look at your environment because that is when you drown, Fix your eyes on Jesus

We all don’t know what 2021 has for us, yet we have learnings from 2020

 

We all don’t know what 2021 has for us, yet we all can cultivate habits that can help us to become the best that God has for us

The habits you cultivate today set you up for the following year

Winning the small battles prepares you for the greater challenges of the year to come

In the small battles you win daily you discover that the battle is the Lords. Victory belongs to Jesus 

 

 

You are still here - you owe God faith in the form of GRATITUDE

• A lot could have gone wrong but you are still standing, praise God

First things first:

1. He wants you to taste victory in small matters first 
2. He wants you to taste victory in private battle first

 

 

Public victory is preceded by years of private training 

Overnight success you say. You actually mean 15 years of private hard work (a wise businessman )

1. The God who brought you private victory will bring you public victory 
2. The God who brought you the small victory will bring you the big one 
3. The God who brought you victory against the lion will give the giant into you hands 
4. THINK ABOUT DAVID AND GOLIATH - apple and oranges.