2. Plenary 4
THE STRUGGLE: WANTING IT ALL!
(Mat. 6:19-24)
what is the greates
darkness in life ???
3. The Struggle:
The clash of two wills
1. Our Human inclination
The fear of lossing control
The illusion of control
2. God’s will
We don’t control any future
4. The key to restedness:
Simplicity!
Simplicity is a singularity of
focus.
(Mat. 6: 19)
1. Single eye
2. Single treasure
3. Single master
5. The Single eye
The meaning the eye not the part of
body.
It’s the focus
Your focus to important thing
Eye the lamp of the body
Your see your prespective
So, if your eyes is healthy, your
whole body will be full of light.
6. Don’t live your life from wrong
perspective
“what I seek defines who I am”
“who I am determines what I see”
“what I see directs how I live”
7. The Single treasure
• Put treasure in Heaven
• Simplicity your purpose
• Simplicity your priorities
• Simplicity your possessions
8. The single master (Mat. 6:24)
• Two loves in a single heart
• Really knowing the one who really loves me.
• Know Jesus who loves me so much, he give His life.
• 2 category of Christians
1. wordly-minded Christians, those who are on fire
for God
2. Double-minded Christians, destroys discipleship.
9. Two spiritual dangers
• Beware of a double life
• Beware of a divided loyality
Their core value haven’t changed
1. Wordly temptation
2. Weak foundation
3. Spiritual consumerism
4. Spiritual compartementalization
5. Discipleship defict
10. Conclusion...
The key to stop struggle is
contentment and gratitude.
Contentment come when gratitude
Theology contentment is theology
give thanks
11. PLENARY 5
THE SURRENDER: Yielding It All!
SURRENDER is dirty word
Surrender is not giving up but giving in
Surrender life is a mark of spiritual maturity
Have commitment to surrender is about, behold
and bring God not only talk.
12. 4. Developmental tasks of a
disciple (Col. 1:10)
In Greek Not “word” but “conduct”
1. Walking in a manner worthy of the Lord, so,
conduct your life
2. Pleasing Him in All aspect = obedience
3. Must fruit in every time
4. Increasing in the knowledge of God, Knowing
God is the first and important
13. 4. Important truths
1. Totally sovereign
2. Gloriously redemptive
3. Sometimes puzzling
4. Always perfect
We are too much on the
appreciation of the truth
but to little on the
application of it.
14. Contrast: Daud and Goliat
1 Sam. 17:33
You’re not able
A youth
A warrior from his youth
Two other sets contrasts
1. Daud and the army
2. Daud and king Saul
15. Not going through the
motions (1 Sam. 17:20,21)
Not passing the buck (1 Sam.
17:25)
The king will enrich the man who
kills him.
David’s defining moment
1 Sam. 17:37, “the Lord who
delivered me..... God is
Faithfull”
David have big vision and deep
conviction
16. Conclusion ???
•Fear makes it hard to
surrender
•Theocentricity builds faith
•Faith make it easy to surrender
17. Plenary 6: THE SERVICE: GIVING OUR ALL!
(Psalm. 100)
• Discipleship and
serventhood cannot be
divorced, because from
that we can do anything.
• Became the true disciples
if have servent hearth
18. 1. The misconception of servant
leadership is leadership
2. Leader position is God
entrust to you
3. Servanthood is position are
to down
19. Joy: the missing dimension of Christian service.
So, what we do??
Burnout!
1. Lack appreciation, we
serve the God with
gladness
2. Misunderstandings, go
hand and hand, don’t
lose hearth
3. Fear? We respon with
love and acting.
20. Joy robber in our service
•Our heart, our
mind
•Problem
•Don’t love God
21. RECAPTURING OUR JOY IN SERVICE
• We Except serve people because
God
• What we Experience, God is the
first that serve us
• What we Encounter, God is
encounter him, God will fill him
through our servant
• What we Enjoy? We love one
another
22. “ENAF IS ENOUGH!”
1. Managing our Expectations
Unspoken, i’m setting up my
self for do that, keep learning
and doing
2. Managing our Needs
Management your own, quite
23. 3. Managing our Anger, don’t
do good for God.
4. Managing our Focus
Focus in God not on our self
24. The chief strategy of satan
3 deceiving spirits
Spirit of rejection,
i’m unwanted
Spirit of
condemnation, i’m
unworthy