Oakwood Community Church
Solid Ground - Acts 28
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Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your value
• Your happiness
• God’s faithfulness
• Your value
• Your happiness
• God’s faithfulness
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your Value
“The native people showed us unusual kindness… it had begun to rain and was cold.”
Acts 28:2
• Your Value
“The native people showed us unusual kindness… it had begun to rain and was cold.”
Acts 28:2
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your Value
“When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks… a viper came out… and fastened on his hand.”
Acts 28:3
• Your Value
“When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks… a viper came out… and fastened on his hand.”
Acts 28:3
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your Value
“No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Acts 28:4
• Your Value
“No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Acts 28:4
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your Happiness
“The chief man of the island… received us and entertained us hospitably.”
Acts 28:7
• Your Happiness
“The chief man of the island… received us and entertained us hospitably.”
Acts 28:7
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your Happiness
“They also honored us greatly… they put on board whatever we needed.”
Acts 28:10
• Your Happiness
“They also honored us greatly… they put on board whatever we needed.”
Acts 28:10
Don’t use Circumstances to determine:
• Your Faithfulness
“When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.”
Acts 27:27
• Your Faithfulness
“When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.”
Acts 27:27
How do you usually answer these questions:
• Value – “I matter because…”
• Happiness – “I’m happy because…”
• Theology – “I believe God is good because…”
• Value – “I matter because…”
• Happiness – “I’m happy because…”
• Theology – “I believe God is good because…”
Establish your value and happiness on the Faithfulness of God:
• “I matter because…”
• “I’m happy because…”
• “I matter because…”
• “I’m happy because…”
• “I matter because… God made me”
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.”
Psalm 139:13
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.”
Psalm 139:13
• “I matter because… God loves me”
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us.”
1 John 4:10 (NIV)
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us.”
1 John 4:10 (NIV)
• “I matter because… Jesus died for me”
“He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
1 John 4:10
“He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
1 John 4:10
• “I matter because…God has a plan for my life”
“We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand.”
Ephesians 2:10
“We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand.”
Ephesians 2:10
• “I am happy because… God is with me”
“Be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’”
Hebrews 13:5
“Be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’”
Hebrews 13:5
• “I am happy because…God is enough for me”
“Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Psalm 37:4
Is God Enough for you?
Is God Enough for you?
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
~ C.S. Lewis
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
~ C.S. Lewis
• “I am happy because…Jesus conquered sin and death”
“Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:57
“Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 15:57
• “I am happy because…Jesus is coming soon to fix everything”
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command… Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command… Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Don’t use circumstances to determine:
• Your value and happiness and the faithfulness of God
Use the faithfulness of God to determine:
• Your value and happiness
• Your value and happiness and the faithfulness of God
Use the faithfulness of God to determine:
• Your value and happiness