Sermon Notes

Matthew 16:18

“I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”

 

Making your way in the world today

Takes everything you've got

Taking a break from all your worries

Sure would help a lot

Wouldn't you like to get away?

 

Sometimes you wanna go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna be where you can see

Our troubles are all the same

You wanna be where everybody knows your name

 

Romans 12:5

…Since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.

 

 

The Open Area (Quadrant 1) 

 

Matthew 23:5

“Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long.”

 

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.” 

 

Hidden Area (Quadrant 2)

 

2 Corinthians 4:2

Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

 

2 Corinthians 4:2 (MSG)

We refuse to wear masks and play games.…Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open…

 

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”

-C.S. Lewis

 

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.

 

The Blind Area (Quadrant 3)

 

Proverbs 27:6

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

 

Hebrews 3:12-13

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

 

Unknown Area (Quadrant 4)

 

Proverbs 27:17

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

 

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”

 

Jeremiah 29:13

If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

 

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