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Living Right
by Steve May
Text: Isaiah 1:10-18
Topic: How to live in holiness
Big Idea: Repent and turn back to God.
Keywords: Depression; Despair; Holiness; Repentance; September 11
Introduction:
- How do we deal with the blues?
- We have to be honest with ourselves and with God about our emotions so that we can deal with them.
- Isaiah 1:7, 18-19
- Seize this opportunity (September 11) to draw closer to Jesus, to follow him in obedience.
- Big Idea: Repent and turn back to God.
Start with your heart.
- Isaiah 1:11
- Deuteronomy 10:12, 16
- Living holy is first and foremost a matter of the heart.
Get serious about sin.
- Isaiah 1:16
- God wants to forgive your sin.
- God wants to eradicate your sin.
- Isaiah 1:25
- Illustration: May tells of a conversation between a father and disobedient son, where the father assures his son of his presence and support when the son feels like disobedience.
- God wants you to know he is there to help you.
- Holiness is a process of learning through concerted effort.
Cultivate compassion.
- Holiness is best expressed in the way we treat others.
- -Isaiah 1:17
- -Illustration: May tells the story of asking a
- group of children how they would please God and
- discovering the children only knew of Sunday morning
- worship, not our conduct during the week.
It's a matter of choice.
- Isaiah 1:18
- Isaiah 1:19-20
- Joshua 24:15
Conclusion:
- A commitment to holiness is your best weapon against the blues.
- When you focus on holiness, you focus on the God in whose presence is joy.
- Nehemiah 8:10
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