Pastor Josh here.
I would like to give you a preview of our Sunday morning service
on October 20 here at Middletown Baptist Church.
We're going to continue on in our study in the book of second Corinthians.
We're going to be in two corinthians chapter six, and we're
going to be looking at a sermon entitled open your heart.
The Bible tells us that there's going to be times in our
service to the Lord where we're going to go through ups and
we're going to go through downsitive.
And sometimes it's easy to get focused on the difficulties and get
overwhelmed with those difficulties.
But the Bible says when we keep our eyes fixed on what God has
done for us and his love and we enlarge our hearts.
As two Corinthians chapter six says, when we open our hearts to
the love of God and we're open to the opportunities to see his work
in our life, we are able to move forward with that endurance
that we talked about last week.
Our theme verses are going to be really found in two Corinthians
chapter six, verses eleven through 13.
Paul says this in the inspiration of scripture, o ye corinthians,
our mouth is open unto you.
Our heart is enlarged.
So what Paul is saying here is that, hey, we've opened our mouths
to you.
In the truth of God, our hearts are open to you.
Our hearts are open to the Lord.
Now, you have to remember, the Corinthians were against Paul.
They were actually challenging him on his love for them.
But what Paul says is, hey, you can't blame me.
He says, ye are not straight, straightened or constrained or constricted
in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels or your own affections.
Meaning it's not our fault that you are falling down from the
pains of this life, but it is really, ultimately, you have turned
your heart to the love of your own flesh, your love of your own
Materialism in this world.
And so he says, now for recompense, in the same I speak as
unto my children, be ye also enlarged, meaning widen or open your
hearts to the love of God and to the love of others that God calls
us to have in our lives.
And so I'm joined here with someone that I really love in my
life.
That is my son, Micah.
Micah, go ahead and say what you want to say about love.
What is a good thing about God's love in your life?
He can.
If we love him, then he can do stuff for us.
Yeah, well, he can do stuff for us all the time.
But when we love him and we understand the Bible says that we
love him because he first loved us and so we can love him more
by understanding his love for us and our lives.
So Micah and I would love to see you on Sunday morning here at
Middletown Baptist Church.
If you're not able to make it to us here in person we are going
to be posting this on the podcast stream on Monday morning
but also we live stream on Facebook and YouTube and we would
love for you to be a part of the service in some way here this
Sunday.
So remember, open your hearts to the love of God, understand what
he has done for you and as we understand that love we can turn
around and show that love back to him and to others and so looking
forward to seeing what God can do with us as we submit ourselves
to him.
Well hope you have a great weekend.
We will see you Sunday.
God blessed.