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Jesus on faithfulness


We continue our series Pre-Decide at The Community Fellowship, and yesterday we talked about being faithful as we pursue our God and choose to be in relationship with the God who loves us so much.  There are so many great outcomes if we simple continue to follow.


Jesus taught his disciples how to understand and live by faith.  It isn’t easy, but it is right.  The outcome is worth the struggle.  In fact, as God says, our responsibility is to be obedient to God.  His responsibility are all the outcomes.  Just do what is right, and leave the results to God.


Listen in to what God says and guides us to understand…


Faithfulness our choice that has excellent outcomes because it is in God’s hands, not ours.  How is is this applied?  What Jesus said & didn’t say? 


As the disciples worried, Jesus spoke to them


Like 12:22  NASB

And He said to His disciples, “for this reason I say, Do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat, not for your body, as to what you will put on.


Don’t worry about that.  In fact read on in Luke 12 or in Matthew 5.  God cares for the little things and for us.  We simply seek Him.  


There was a woman caught in adultery by some men who wanted to trap Jesus.  Yet as Jesus challenges the men who accused this lady, something awesome happened.


John 8:10-11  NLT

Then Jesus stood up again and said to the women, “Where are your accusers?  Don’t even one of them condemn you?  No Lord, She said.  And Jesus said, “Neither do I.  Go and sin no more.


Our God changes lives.  He calls us to live by faith and to live holy lives.  Our accusers lose their power as we follow Jesus.


Peter denied Jesus three times, but the outcome of his relationship with Jesus left and those around him completely changed.

John 21:17  NLT

A third time he asked him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”  Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time.  He said, “Lord, you know everything.  You know that I love you.”  Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.”


Jesus knew that man’s heart.  Though Peter stepped out and denied Jesus, the future isn’t determined by Peter’s failure but by his desire to be faithful to Jesus.  The same is true for you and me.  Be obedient to how God leads you, and leave all the results to God.


Yesterday’s message was formed within the following verse, and I leave this for us all to think through and seek to live out!


Habbakuck 2:4 NLT 

“Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are  crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God. 

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