Resurrection Life Church
It's time for the church to be the church and stand and speak God's word to a generation and world that is in desperate need. That word is like a fire shut up in our bones. We should be so on fire that we as the church are looking for and building relationships with others so that we can, in the context of a loving relationship, share that life changing word. Today we have friend and special guest speak Bishop Bart Pierce to share that word that is a fire shut up in his bones.
A. THERE COMES A TIME IN OUR LIVES THAT WE’VE HAD
ENOUGH!
Key – We’ve heard the words Enough is Enough!
1 Chronicles 4:10 – “Jabez was more honorable than his brethren… He called on God saying, “Oh that thou would bless me indeed and enlarge my coast…”
Key – Jabez boldly prayed for money, power and influence.
Nehemiah 2:3, 4-8, 9 - “Why should my face not look sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins and it’s gates have been destroyed by fire.”
Key – Joshua and Caleb
Numbers 13:30-33
• We should go up and take possession of the land for we can certainly do it.
• The other ten said there were giants there and we are like grasshoppers.
1 Samuel 16:34-37
• David’s story facing the giant Goliath
Key - Isaiah 59, 58:3
B. WHENEVER THE CHURCH GETS OFF, IT IS BECAUSE IT GOT
AWAY FROM THE WORD OF THE LORD!
Key – The world has picked this fight!
• Revelation 2 & 3:14, 3:20-21 (Neither hot nor cold…lukewarm)
• 1 Chronicles 2:1-10 Solomon is going to build the house of God, not David
because he was a man of war.
• Proverbs 10:1 At the end Solomon asks how will his children rule.
• 1 Kings 12:6-11, 16-17 Rehoboam became king.
• Judges 17:6, 21:25 Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Key Genesis 49:16-18 Tribe of Dan
• The snake is in the path. It bites the heel of the horse. Satan bites the heel of Jesus and God’s servants.
Key Judges 18:1-4 They built a golden calf
Key vs. 18-20, They put a priest over this idolatry
Key vs. 25-31 Don’t let your voice be heard. Don’t offend anyone. This is where the church leadership is today – the body. We have our own hand over our mouth.
Key Exodus 20:2-3, I brought you out. You shall have no other God’s before me!
C. 1 KINGS 18 ELIJAH KILLED 500 PROPHETS. JEZEBEL CHASED
HIM AND HE HIDES IN A CAVE.
Key 1 Kings 19:18 God says he has 7000 who haven’t bowed before Baal.
Key There were 7000 prophets hiding in caves!
Key 1 Kings 22:1-8
• Ahab the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat joined together to fight a common
enemy.
• Ahab asked if he should go against Ramoth Gilead to battle or should he wait.
• Micaiah told Ahab that he saw a deceiving spirit enter into the false prophets.
Key Remember that Jezebel worked for the government. Her husband Ahab was king.
• She told the prophets, “Listen to me and I’ll feed you and cover all your
needs.”
“It will be the fault of the pulpits in America, if she falls.”
--Charles Finny, the great revivalist, said in 1800’s
Jeremiah 38:1-13, They put him in a mud pit to shut him up.
Jeremiah 20:9 He said, “if I don’t speak it’s like fire shut up in my bones!”
