This is how this is going to work: I'm going to go back and study my notes and what not from each day of the week. After I study a day, I'll sum it up on here. So, this year's Falls Creek blog is going to be broken up in sections.
Monday Night- Tabernacle
"My people have comitted two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns that cannot hold water." Jeremiah 2:13
- People follow, give themselves to, or trust in whatever they think will give them life.
- There are two things people think give them life, but are broken cisterns:
They trust in things that have no life at all.
They pour themselves in things they think will fulfill their needs.
Ex. Intellect, Popularity, Relationships, Sex, Substance Abuse, Individualism, Pursuit of Money,..
- When people put themselves in those things they forsake Christ
- Christ IS Life.
- Jesus should always our first love because He is the fountain of life.
"That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, "Let us go over to the other side." Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"- Mark 4:35-41
"Jesus went narcoleptic boat rider!"- Andy Harrison
- Where is your faith?
"If Jesus is on the boat, it isn't sinking, He's like a human bobber!"- Andy Harrison
- In Jesus there's an overflow of water.
- Have you forseken Christ for something else?
- Christ is life....but people are prone to reject him.
"Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, 'I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute." Jeremiah 2:20
"You will also leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not be helped by them." Jeremiah 2:37
- The REAL problem is that we're empty- sex, drugs, and alcohol are only symptoms from digging our own wells.
- What idols have you set up?
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10
- Satan is like a prowling lion, seeking whom he may devour.
"Go, proclaim this message toward the north: Return faithless Isreal, declares the Lord, I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful, delcares the Lord, I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt- you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me, delcares the Lord." Jeremiah 3:12-14
- God just wants you to ask for forgivness and come back to him.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." John 3:16-17
- God is forgiving- He doesn't want you to have to suffer the consequences of digging your own wells.
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