Notes from CR 2/13/06

Notes from CR 2/13/06

What leads to sin is the HALT method…

H.A.L.T.:

• Hungry

I am hungry and don’t feel well, which can lead to misled feelings in other areas… a short temper and exhaustion.

• Angry

Resentment of someone or something… leads to sin out of hurt feelings, maybe even revenge.

• Lonely

Despair and feelings of nobody caring… another form of resentment, which can lash out in the form of “nobody cares anyway, so I might as well…”

• Tired

It is more of a simple “not thinking things through.” Being tired can lead to anger, due to lack of sleep. Sometimes when people are tired, hunger is normally associated… and when we eat, normally more exhaustion follows from a full stomach, complicating the matter further.

Homework:

• Stop 1 Thing


• Start 1 Thing

The Matrix – viewing things differently than everyone else

Solid Food vs. Milk: The difference in spiritual maturity

“The Train Trip” – Asking for blessings on others whom we don’t even know…

Matthew 3:8
8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

In 1906, 100 people converted 100,000 people. A decision they made was taking out everything that was questionable in their lives and became beyond reproach.

Acts 5:31
31 God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Revelation 2:21
21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

God grants forgiveness and repentance.

A mourners’ bench is a bench for mourners or repentant sinners placed at the front in a revival meeting.

God mediates with repentance…

Mediate (verb):

• To settle or reconcile differences.


• To have a relation to two differing persons or things.

Immediate (adj.):

• Occurring at once; instant.

Repent (verb):

• To feel remorse, contrition, or self-reproach for what one has done or failed to do; be contrite.


• To feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it.


• To make a change for the better as a result of remorse or contrition for one's sins.

Contrition (noun):

• Sincere remorse for wrongdoing; repentance.


• Sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation.

David writes a letter…

2nd Samuel 11:14-15
14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."

The next thing that David writes is this:

Psalm 51:1-9
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. 5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

God did this in a mediating fashion… And how did he do it?

2nd Samuel 12:1-7a
1 The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.”

4 “Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him.”

5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity.”

7 Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!”

I am that man… I have to see my sin in this way.

John 16:6-11
6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 7 But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

Revelation 3:19
19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.