Some Blatant Plagiarism

 (From time to time most preachers will preach someone else’s sermon. While its uncouth to do so too often, it can be very effective to take another’s sermon and re-work it till it fits you and your audience. That is what I have done here and I hope it is true to the original lesson {Acts 17:22-34})

Men of Hope,

 I noticed that this is a very religious community. As you walk around the streets, you don’t have to go far to see many different churches each claiming to worship God but in very different ways. It seems that we might not exactly know how he wants us to worship him. But there is a right way. Let me tell you what I’ve learned about from His own Word.

    

  The One True God, is a creator, a designer, Designers have plans for what they want in their creation. If he designed the world that way, you better believe he has a design for his Church.  He has made everything just how he wants it and just how it needs to be. He doesn’t need man’s input to figure out what to do. Man’s traditions are not equal to God’s commands. We need to listen to him, not try to tell him what needs to be done. God made us from one blood to be unified, thought we done poor job staying that way.

  God from the very beginning has tried to make it clear to us and given us the light of his word, the light of his Son, but we still stumble around with our eyes closed, occasionally bumping into some semblance of what we are supposed to be doing. That’s sad since he standing right there like a Father trying to help his children, but we fumble around insisting ‘we can do it ourselves’.

  If we are his children should we actually be listening to him?  God isn’t something we create to our whims, fashioned by our own desires and wants. Idols are made in man’s image, God made us in His image. Let’s not get this backwards.

  It is a hard truth but this foolishness has gone on for too long, we need to make a change. Whatever group we might belong to or where we find ourselves, we must conform to his Truth. God’s tired of us doing our own way; we need to go back to His Way, His Word.  Jesus set the standard with his New Testament, which is what will judge us in the end. What some preacher said or what we always done isn’t the measure, Jesus and his word is!

  Jesus has proven himself the son of God. His word will judge us. So what are we going to do?

(Now I know that for some, the idea of just doing what we see in the New Testament is a joke. Other might agree in pretense but will never make the necessary hard changes required. But I know there are some that will listen and obey what God has set for us!)