The Rock Church – 2/15/09

Two questions:

1. Do you believe in the afterlife?
2. What are you doing to prove it?

• You have faith in gravity and oxygen, love and God.  You’ve never seen these things, but you trust them.
• We are all creatures of faith
• "You get saved… You get equipped… You get sent out"

1.  Identify a specific burden you want to help someone carry

• There is some burden in your family (or elsewhere) that you are called and equipped to help
• Who do you feel burdened to help – who / what does your heart break for?
• Nobody can help everybody
• Who has God called me to help?
• 2 Cor 5: 17-21… God has given us the ministry of removing the barrier between people and God and He’s given us the message of reconciliation.  He is pleading through us, to somebody.
• Ask God – who is it that for me?  Who do you want me to focus my energies on reaching?
• Honor God with not only your money, but also your time, and you will be so blessed, you will overflow
• Everything you have is borrowed

2.  Identify a friend you can serve with

• God created us to be dependent upon one another
• Humans are the most evolved creatures, yet are fully dependent on one another

3.  Spend time planning ahead and thinking out of the box on how you can carry that burden.

• God, show me how I can help them
• What does your faith in God look like?;
• The answer should be:  I faithfully serve, pray, study the Word
• You don’t need to go to work saying "I’m a Christian".  Live it, and they’ll see it.  The best evidence of who you are is what you do.
• God’s power is in His word.  The Bible, creation, healing, etc
• God only forgives those who ask for forgiveness and repent
• God’s greatest work is what he’s able to do in people

4.  Deliver the person to Jesus

Rock Church – 2/8/09 service

• Spiritual gift examples:
  • Giving
  • Teaching
  • Organization
  • Exhortation
  • Helps
  • Faith
  • Miracles (healing)
• Spiritual gifts are weapons for the Holy Spirit to use through you to free people from the devil.
• Give two hours to ministry per week to start – then you’ll be hooked
• People get saved in stages – one of the last parts to get saved is your wallet
• The more you surrender to Him, the more He can work with
• A drug high is the devil’s version of a spiritual high
• God is saying "How much do I have to bless you in order for you to bless Me back?"
• Don’t do it just to do it (giving time), do it to identify what God wants you to do
• God has a frequency with which He wants you to hum (spend your time)

The Rock San Diego – 1/25/09 – Treasure Potential

• Treasure is something that has exchangeable value
• Wealth is having a bunch of stuff that has exchangeable value
• Stewardship is how you manage your treasure and to what end do you manage it
• Someday money will be worthless
• Riches cannot protect you from judgment
• Riches cannot protect you from the devil
• Your riches do have eternal impact

1 – The stewardship of your earthly treasure will identify your eternal master

• Your checkbook is a theological document
• You don’t even belong to yourself
• He is trusting you with your earthly treasures

2 – The stewardship of your earthly treasure will reveal the intent of your heart

• God will adorn you based on how faithful you were on earth
• If your intent was faithfulness, you will be adorned accordingly
• If your intent was selfish, you will be adorned accordingly
• Tithing (10%) is just the beginning
• Tithing is an issue of trust
• The only time the Bible says to test God is with tithes and offerings ("I dare you to trust me")
• God always provides to those who are faithful

3 – The stewardship of your earthly treasure will indicate your investment in the kingdom of God

4 – The stewardship of your earthly treasure will determine your eternal worship experience

• We reflect the glory of God – like diamonds
• Works are tried by fire – selfish works will burn up in smoke
• You can’t fake the fire – even with all the trash you may talk
• Your faithfulness are being kept by account in heaven
• Faith in the spiritual world is risk in the physical world
• It feels like sacrifice because you think it’s yours

The Rock San Diego – 1/18/09 – Talent Potential

• When you are born into Christ, God gives you abilities and talents to overcome and defeat Satan
• You shall receive explosive power
• He’ll globalize your witness if you are obedient
• There is no power in your spoken word, unless it is of the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit expresses power through each person uniquely

1 – Be personally set free from spiritual bondage

• Repent – don’t be a slave to sin
• You are becoming more and more free every day
• Take your gift and use it for God’s glory 
• You are Heaven’s army – equipped with spiritual weapons
• Do your part as a part of the body of Christ

2 – Liberate other people

• If you’re not using your gifts to liberate other people, the devil has you very successfully distracted from your purpose

3 – Provide leadership over systems that protect spiritual liberation

• Don’t become like the Dead Sea – don’t hoard spiritual truth
• Get in the battle
• Rewards in Heaven are based on your faithfulness

The Rock San Diego – 1/11/09 – Time Potential

• God has given you time potential 
• Potential of time, talent and treasure
• Consider your potential not in worldly perspective, but from God’s perspective
• You will be judged based upon what you did with what God gave you
• You will be graded based on your personal potential (what God has given you)
• To whom much has been given, much is required
• Before you were born, God knew you, and He knew how He wanted to use your gifts and talents
• Chronos time = the duration of something
• Hairos time = a moment, an event
• In heaven, your chronos time and your hairos moments are the same…
  • He sees it all now
  • A thousand years is one day and one day is a thousand years

1. Because in heaven chronos and hairos times are established, we can plan accurately

• Reclaim the power of your time!
• If you can get in touch with God, He can give you your future
• There are some things that you have never seen and never heard that God wants to reveal to you now
• Ask God to show you yourself
• The Holy Spirit is there to assist you in making the right decision
• Let God guide your decisions.  If you don’t get an answer, keep asking and obeying.
• If you’re not good at something, maybe you’re not supposed to be good at it

2 – Because in heaven chronos and hairos are combined, our time can be accelerated

• Joes 2:25 – I will restore what the locusts have eaten in your life
• God can catch you up – relationships restored, physical restoration

3 – Because in heaven chronos and hairos are "now" in the eyes of God, chronos time can be converted to hairos time

• Your life can be one special moment 
• Your whole day – each second – is a hairos opportunity
• You can create hairos opportunities
  • Pray, thank someone, tell someone they are a blessing
• Acts 17: 24-38

4 – Because in heaven chronos and hairos are protected, we can be confident that we can finish what God has established us to do

• There is specific work that God will appoint only to you
• As long as you’re obedient, no one can take God’s appointment for you
• Follow the crumbs and you’ll get there
• Even "bad" moments can become hairos moments
  • Praise God for each moment and look for the opportunity to learn
• Find your ‘sweet spot’ where you can’t wait to wake up in the morning

5 – Because in heaven chronos and hairos are final, it is time for urgency

• Jesus Christ is coming back and you will be judged
• We are diamonds – we have no light in ourselves – our job is to reflect God’s glory back to Him
• He doesn’t want your power, He doesn’t want your ideas… He wants His 
• MAKE EVERY MOMENT A HAIROS MOMENT
• You needed saving because who you were was not good enough
• Satan will give you every reason that exists to continue to float through life

• At the beginning of each week, make a list of things you will do / accomplish in the coming week.

The Rock San Diego – 1/4/09

• Just because you obey God, you could disobey God in the process (by choosing your own method rather than trusting and obeying)

1 – Ask God himself to be the one who punishes you according to His mercy

• God, I’m wrong, I’m sorry (repentance has no defense)
• Being able to admit you are wrong is liberating

2 – Ask God to show you the consequences of your sin

• Pain is a gift of God
• Jesus came felt pain in the same way we do – so that He can personally relate
• It’s impossible to know how your actions / behavior affect others (ripple effect)

3 – Make a meaningful sacrifice to God for His forgiveness

• Don’t offer God something that cost you nothing (in your heart)
• Change your behavior
• Just do what God tells you to do – don’t worry about anyone else
• Nothing should be so dear to you that you’re not willing to let it go to be more holy
• Show God you value your relationship with Him – show Him you mean it
• Don’t leave your sin still on you
• Pain teaches you change behavior

– Expect eternal value from a good confession

• 2 Chronicles 3:1-2
• Quit the game and admit you’re wrong, ask forgiveness, sacrifice, and repent
• Let go – stop holding on to stuff dragging you down

The Rock San Diego – 12/21/08

• God wants you to be on His ‘mighty men’ list – a list of go-to people in the game
• In the end, God wins this game – even though it may not look like that day to day
• Every one of us is in spiritual hand to hand combat each and every day – with the devil (not with flesh and blood)

1 – David’s mighty men were known for individual actions that inspired corporate achievement

• The most common way to inspire someone is to do something yourself
• If your spiritual gift were to be imagined as a color (blue), what Satan does is makes you feel guilty for NOT being another color ("you’re not a good red") – your response should be, "I’m not trying to be a red, because I need to be solid blue" – don’t try to be purple, and recognize if you’re sky blue and become navy blue
• When you do one thing really well, there’s a ripple effect – but when you try to please everybody, and be everything, you usually get nothing done

2 – David’s mighty men made their bodies their slaves

• Does your body control you, or do you control your body?
• Your body is not you – you are not your body – it is the covering of who you are
• You are to present your body as a sacrifice to God
• Your mouth, ears, eyes, etc are your slaves
• Is your body subjected to you, or are you subjected to your body
• Successful people are disciplined

3 – David’s mighty men placed themselves in the middle of the action

• Some people will play, and some people will never play
• Get in the game – don’t be a bench warmer
• If you see someone is having a bad day, ask if you can pray for them – "Dear God, I pray for Mary, I pray you encourage her today, and I pray that if there’s any way I can help her, she would let me know.  In Jesus’ name, amen."
• Look for someone to pray for.  If you don’t find someone, ask someone who’s doing ‘fine’ anyway
• We need the practice anyway
• Don’t live your life so you don’t hurt – bear someone else’s burden

The Rock San Diego – 9/21 sermon

• Even in Eden there was:
  1. Work
  2. Consequences for behavior

The Rock San Diego – 12/7 sermon – Party

• Death = Life
• The word ‘party’ has been stolen and claimed by Satan as his own
• ‘Party’ truly belongs to God
• Christ’s death (one death) atones for all believer’s life
• God loves you as much as He’s ever going to love you, right now
• It is finished

Reason for Everything

As I have been compiling my journal entries from my Word doc into this program, I realized that the whole reason why I felt led to dive back into K-House Revelation study was likely because on 10/31, I listened to the session that introduced me (again) to The Rock Church in San Diego.  Since then, I have been very engaged in learning from their sermons, which has brought me to learn how to pray more effectively and brought me into a more personal relationship with the Lord.  God is amazing!