Whats So Special About 40 Days

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Whats So Special About 40 Days?

• Sunday
• March 2nd 2003

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Biblical Significance Of 40 Days

• NOAH 40 days of rain in the Ark
• MOSES 40 days on My Sinai
• 12 SPIES 40 days exploring promised land
• DAVID challenged by Goliath for 40 days
• ELIJAH lived for 40 days after one meal God
  provided
• NINEVEH was given 40 days to turn to God
• JESUS spent 40 days in the wilderness
• DISCIPLES spent 40 days with Jesus after the
  resurrection

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So What are these 40 Days about?

• Acts 1336
• For when David had served Gods purpose in his
  generation, he fell asleep.
• Habakkuk 32
• Lord I have heard of Your fame. I stand in awe
  of Your deeds O Lord. Renew them in OUR day, in
  OUR time make them known

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3 Questions for 40 Days

• What does God want from me?
• What will it take?
• Why should I do it?
• Ephesians 515-17
• Therefore, be CAREFUL how you live, not as
  unwise but as WISE, making the most of every
  opportunity because the days are evil. Therefore,
  do not be foolish but UNDERSTAND what the Lords
  will is.

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Q1. What Does God Want?

• All Of Me!
• Rom 613
• ..but rather OFFER yourselves to God as those
  who have been brought from death to life, and
  offer the parts of your body to Him as
  instruments of righteousness.
• C.S. Lewis
• Christianity can never only be moderately
  important

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Q1. What Does God Want?

• Deuteronomy 1012
• what does the Lord your God ask of you? But to
  FEAR the Lord your God, walk in ALL His ways, to
  LOVE Him, to SERVE the Lord your God with ALL
  your heart and with ALL your soul.
• Matthew 624
• You cannot serve God and mammon
• Matthew 818
• Lord let ME FIRST.
• Luke 1415ff
• What excuses are we giving to God?

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Q2. What Will It Take?

• Discipline
• 1 Timothy 47b
• train yourself to be Godly
• Discipline Of CASTING OFF
• Hebrews 121
• Therefore. let us THROW OFF everything that
  HINDERS and the SIN that so easily entangles, and
  let us run with perseverance the race marked out
  for us

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Q2. What Will It Take?

• What are the things that hinder?
• Weights
• NOT wrong but intrusive
• Allow God TIME and SPACE to work in us
• Do I need to cut some things out?
• Luke 10 40-42
• only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what
  is better.

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Q3. Why Should I Do It?

• 2 Corinthians 515
• He died for all that those who live should no
  longer live for themselves but for Him who died
  for them and was raised again.
• Ephesians 210
• For we are Gods workmanship created in Christ
  Jesus to do good works which He prepared
  beforehand for us to do.
• Romans 121
• Therefore I urge you brothers, in view of Gods
  mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices

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Are You Ready To Commit?

• What Does God Want?
• All Of Me
• What Will It Take?
• Discipline
• Why Should I Do It?
• Because Jesus Bought You With His Life