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Joy to the World: Dreamers
Pastor Rollan Fisher
Focus: We find the greatest joy in life when we allow God’s plans to become our plans.
Our Plans
God’s Plans
Our Salvation
Our Plans
We all start out with dreams of how we think life should go, that which we think will bring us the greatest joy.
Matthew 1:18-25
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
We are continually tempted to build lives with ourselves at the center.
God’s Plans
The goal is to discover whether our plans are, in fact, God’s plans.
When circumstances upend our plans, we don’t need to simply substitute the next best thing.
We need to seek God to discover how he wants us to turn in our plans for His plans.
When we truly meet God, He gives us a different dream centered around his Son and stewarding HIS plans.
The significance you are looking for is found in being a submitted vessel to God’s eternal purposes.
Our Salvation
Our great salvation and greatest joys come when we begin to build our lives on Jesus Christ.
Jesus and his salvific work at the cross are the centerpiece of human history.
The purpose of God’s shaking is that we might begin building our lives on Christ, around Christ and for the glory of Christ as we bring his good news to the world.
Second City Church - Joy to the World, Pastor Rollan Fisher 2020