Wednesday night recap (1/25)!!!

This past Wednesday night was another great night at flipside!! Worship was awesome and the message seemed to challenge everyone once again!! Several students raised their hands at the end of the message to not look at their relationship with God as a bunch of “rules & rituals” but to look at it as a relationship that requires sacrifice.  Don’t forget 10:10!!! You can really tell a difference in flipside services because students are making an effort to read their Bibles and spending time in prayer. We all can spend 10 minutes praying and 10 minutes reading our WORD!!! Here is a quick recap of the message (Part 4 of “not a fan” series) :

• We can so caught up in doing what is right and totally miss what is important.
• There are so many people that think they are “followers” when in reality they are just “fans” because they have been so consumed with doing right and totally missing the mark .
• We can easily find ourselves so caught up in the “rules and rituals” that we totally put Jesus to the side.
• Instead of following hard after HIM we follow hard after making sure that we are doing right and everyone else see that.
• In Matthew 23, Jesus tries to get the attention of a group of “fans” known as the religious leaders.
• These people were so consumed with how they were seen by the general public that they totally put Jesus to the side
• When Jesus is not concerned with the outside but He is more concerned with what is taking place inside of us
• At this time there was 2 different types of religious leaders…
• Sadducess- Their faith was something they were born into. It usually wasn’t something they chose.
• Pharisees- They would measure their faith by their hard work at learning and following the law.
• You can easily see these religious leaders in us at times as well.
• The main problem that Jesus has with these leaders was they were hypocrites!!!
• The word hypocrite means a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion.
• It was like putting on a mask and playing many different characters at the time.
• These people were so fake that Jesus goes on in Matthew 23:5 (READ)
• These religious leaders teaching, in no way was reflected in their lives!!!
• In the same way can be seen in our lives
• We say and do one thing in public and we completely do another when we are in private or around certain people
• Jesus doesn’t expect us to be perfect but He calls us to be authentic!!
• We can’t have compromise in our lives!!!
• Fans are inconsistent and are so consumed with how they are perceived and totally have lost focus.
• Followers are consistent and are more consumed with how Jesus sees them!!!
• Read Matthew 11:28-30…
• Just following the rules is not going to get you a seat in heaven!
• Truly following hard after Jesus and not being worried about what others think will get you there!!!

If you missed this past Wednesday we missed you and we hope to see you next Wednesday night!!!

-Pastor Leo and Rebekah Colon