Date: 10-18-2009

Message: The Housekeeping Choice

Series Title: Life’s Healing Choices (Part 4)

The Housecleaning Choice. “I openly examine and confess my faults to myself, to God and to someone I trust.”

Matthew 5:8 (TEV) "Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!”

John 10:10 (TEV) “I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness.”

Jesus doesn’t want me to be __________________,
He wants me to be ____________

John 11:43-44 (NKJV) ⁴³ He [Jesus] cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!" ⁴⁴ And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go."

Galatians 5:1 (NIV) “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.”

John 8:36 (NIV) “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

A PURE HEART

Romans 5:8 (NIV) “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

1. ________________________ does not produce a pure heart

2. ______________________ does produce a pure heart

3. a pure heart is ________________________

4. The basis for a pure heart is not how good
. ________________________. The basis for a pure
. heart is how good ____________

IT’S A PROCESS

Psalms 139:1 (NCV) “Lord, you have examined me and know all about me.”

My role is to ________________________with God in
becoming what I ________________________.

1 John 1:9 (NIV) If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

Lamentations 3:40 (NCV) Let us examine and see what we have done and then return to the Lord.

Why the exam?

1) it frees us to ________________________

Luke 7:47 (NIV) “he who has been forgiven little loves little."

2) it frees us ____________________________________

Philippians 1:6 (ESV) “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.”

Philippians 2:12-13 (NLT) “¹² be even more careful to put into action God's saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. ¹³ For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.”

Luke 19:10 (GW) “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save people who are lost.”

Psalms 32:5 (NLT) Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the LORD." And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

Before Your Next Group READ Chapter. 4 of

John Baker’s book: “Life’s Healing Choices” Pay particular attention to the stories from Lisa and Charlie at the end of the chapter.

Daily Doses:

For those with extremely busy schedules: Take just a minute a day to start out with a Word from the Lord. Read it! Listen Again! Write down how it applies to you. Finally pray about it.

qMon. John 10:10	qWed. John 8:36	qFri. 2 Cor. 5:17
qTue. Gal. 5:1	qThr. Philp 1:6	qSat. 1 Jn.1:9

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