07/30/2023 Midtown Church Elk Grove
“FROM SECRET TO SACRED”
Pastor Christa Armstead
- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
- Don’t you wish it was that easy to shake it off
- Words hold immense power
Proverbs 18:21 (NIV)
The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
- Educate Us
- Power to Encourage
- Connect & Build Relationships
- Sway Opinions & Change Attitudes
- Words can be used Discriminate, Damage and to Destroy
Proverbs 15:4 (NIV)
The soothing tongue is a tree of life,
but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.
James 3:8-9 (NIV)
…but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.
Proverbs 18:21 (NIV)
The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.
- Definition of Illegitimate
- People’s opinions carry some weight but God’s Words outweighs any human perspectives.
Psalms 139:13-18 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.
- Your Words / Testimony have power
- Believe the Lie
- Brush with Death
- Help Others Dispel the Lies they might believe
- He saw beauty others didn’t see
- The untrained eye does not always see the value that the Creator of the masterpiece sees
Genesis 1:26 (NIV)
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
- You & I are made in the image of God
- Exchange the lies for Truth
WE’LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK MIDTOWN!
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