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Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
WHATS NEXT?
So whats next… for our world? Our Family, our church?
**There are going to be more and more churches that build amazing ministries… Worship, drama, video, life application messages, social services, youth and young adult ministries… AND THEY WILL GROW… but they will not have the power of God - they will attract the world and be worldly and religious - well intentioned… but far from God.
What is the climate of Christianity in the USA?
1. More churches are in significant decline.
2. Aging leaders and aging congregations.
3. Increasing resistance to change - good and bad. Worship styles, deliverance ministry, theology
4. Navigating changing worship experiences -
5. Exhausted pastors - ministry is harder than it has ever been. To stay anointed, in his presence, time demands, to lead in spite of what the world wants, in spite of what the church wants…
What are the Problems of the Church in USA
- Lack of emphasis on evangelism and outreach.
*If we had a month of services where I said you cannot come to church unless you bring a non-Christian… would it
- Offend you
- Challenge you
- Cause you to not come that month
- Depress you
- Excite you about our emphasis on outreach and growth
- Cause you to go to another church
1. Affirming the Sufficiency and Authority of Scripture
By ‘sufficiency of Scripture,’ I mean that the Bible has everything necessary for faith (doctrine) and practice (how to live one’s life in a way that pleases God). By ‘authority of Scripture,’ I mean that the Bible has authority over what Christians and the church believe and how they organize and conduct their lives.
2. Consistent Prayer
It will not be a surprise to many that prayer in churches is dwindling at a rapid rate. Whereas many churches used to host prayer meetings on Sunday and Wednesday evenings, now many churches do not host any type of consistent prayer meeting. The bottom line is that churches are not praying as much as they used to pray.
We are told by Jesus to pester God with our petitions and he will give us justice (Luke 18:1–8),
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
The David Alliance
- A covenant is identity - Two lives become one:
In covenant you become identified with the other individual and there is a supernatural commingling of two lives.
Covenants have blood spilled. It is not just an oath, but an oath built on spilt blood. The woman’s body has a Hyman which has no specific purpose or biological purpose other than when she has her first sexual experience it tears and blood is shed. The curtain that separated the holy of holies had no real purpose… in itself it was not holy… but when Christ blood was spilled the curtain tore open to let the whole world know there is a new covenant.
SEX IS YOUR IDENTITY - VIRGINITY IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE YOUR IDENTITY WITH YOUR HUSBAND IN A COVENANT.
- - A Covenant has a Hierarchy - A line of command… WHY? he created a chain of command in order to hold the man responsible.
1 Cor. 11:3
This has nothing to do with quality of being or importance, but rather responsibility.
A woman has to respect, submit and obey her husband as long as he himself is obeying and submitting to God. Otherwise the hierarchy is broke and you don’t get to tell her what to do.
If a United States Colonel goes rogue the private under him does not have to obey him.
FINALLY
We get married - LIVE A COVENANT
in order to practice Gods love and likeness. You say I am in a horrible marriage…
Could Jesus live in that marriage? Yes, he could. So the real question is “how much do you have to be like Jesus” to live in that marriage… because that is the point of our walk with Christ… to be more like him!
The Mystery of Marriage EPH. 5: 32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
How do we love each other the way Christ loved the church? Only through the power of the God.
You can’t build a strong nation, country on marriages based on feelings. But you can on a country based on covenants.
We live in a world where we can be Christians but still not honor Gods command “no sex before marriage”. And because of that… we get married on a weakened “feelings” based foundation. Thus… breaking a marriage covenant is easy because it was based on feelings to begin with.
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
WHEN SATAN WEAKENS YOUR MARRIAGE HE WEAKENS YOUR ABILITY TO RULE AND REIGN
But these three purposes are to be
lived out in a covenant.
The unseen benefits of a covenant
- When you understand what a covenant is, you make a more serious choice regarding if YOU want to get married and WHO you will marry. You don’t want to marry someone who does not marry on a covenant understanding.
- Covenants are hard… they are meant to be hard.
There are no shortcuts.
1864 The Donner party with 80 plus people all from one family we’re going to travel from Illinois to California where life would be better. Half way through the journey they met an old explorer Lansford Hastings… cut up north thru Utah…it will save you lotts time. Just the opposite, first they hit deserts… no water for days, then mountains with snow peaks and drifts 15-20 ft. high. They tried to camp out and survive but the party started to die off quickly… and the only way the last few could survive was through cannibalism. **You can take other peoples advice about your marriage… to “save time” - to “be Happy” - to “do whats fair” - to “live in the worlds standards”… but you will ultimately cannibalize your marriage and all other relationships.
DON’T GET TEMPTED BY SHORTCUTS… Anything outside of scripture is a shortcut.
Live your covenant according to scripture!
- Covenant - No feelings allowed
As Christ loved the church. Jesus did not want to die on the cross according to his feelings… but he chose to do so according to his love for humankind.
There is nothing that will pollute, and kill a marriage faster than one spouse living by their feelings.
…if its not best for me
… if its not easiest for me
… if it doesn’t feel good
… if it is hard…
I won’t do it - especially for my spouse.
Feelings killed the potential and the future of that marriage.
How many incredible MARRAIGES never happened…
How many wrecked roads of potential….
DUE TO FEELINGS.
- It is till Death… (to cut, spill blood) They are life or death
When a couple in Christ day got marriage they would cut up an animal in half and the bride and groom would walk in-between them on the way to the altar…signifying death if either of you break this covenant.
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Covenant: A divinely created relational bond. The administration for the paperwork was done up in heaven… it was divinely created.
From Mark 10, Eph. 5
From these, God’s purposes for your marriage are clear.
1. Reflect the Image of God (Genesis 1:27)
Note the phrases “in our image” and “in our likeness” in Genesis 1:27. God is clearly stating that He made Adam and Eve to reflect Him.
There is nothing like marriage to show you how poorly of a reflection you have of Christ!
2. Reproduce a Godly Heritage (Genesis 1:28)
In Genesis 1:28 we learn that couples are to be “fruitful and increase in number.”
God Himself adopts us as His own children forever when we trust Christ as our personal Savior (Romans 8:15, 23; Galatians 4:4–6; Ephesians 1:5–6).
*Your greatest witness, your strongest pull to the gospel for nonbelievers I believe is your marriage and the family you raise.
3. Reign in Spiritual Warfare (Genesis 1:28)
According to Scripture, the third purpose for marriage is to steward, or care for and cultivate, everything God entrusts to you—spiritual, physical, and relational.
*Your marriage is under attack because he knows it speaks loudly of Gods grace,
*He knows it is your source of strength and encouragement
*He knows One will chase a 1000, Two will chase 10,000… throw in my 2 boys and their wives we will take out a country, and my grandkids…. We can rule he world for Jesus.
WHEN SATAN WEAKENS YOUR MARRIAGE HE WEAKENS YOUR ABILITY TO RULE AND REIGN
But these three purposes are to be
lived out in a covenant.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
The David Alliance
God’s intention for marriage is not to be a contract that needs both parties to hold up their end of the deal—as 1 Corinthians 13:1 says, “…love keeps no records of right and wrongs.” God’s purpose for marriage is different from the world’s.
It’s a covenant—binding and irrevocable because of His love. I Cor. 7 states you can leave, but you can’t divorce… this is covenant talk, not contract talk.
Covenant: A divinely created relational bond. The administration for the paperwork was done up in heaven… it was divinely created.
**Have you gone through the FOR BETTER FOR WORSE portion of your marriage… and wondered why the worse seems to come around more than the better? Because we focus on the immediate - a covenant focuses on the eternal.
There is far greater judgement on Adultery than on fornication. WHY? One is breaking a covenant.
Proverbs 6: 26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life. But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool,
for he destroys himself. 33 He will be wounded and disgraced. His shame will never be erased. 34
For the woman’s jealous husband will be furious,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35 He will accept no compensation,
nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size.
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
THE DAVID ALLIANCE
Intro: As much as I hate Hallmark movies (and that channel is on 24/7 at our house during Xmas) It does teach the world the mindset of marriage.
We all know what happens in a Hallmark movie… one woman, 2 men, one from the past or small town… ultimately has to choose one and someone has to give up some type of dream… but they live happily ever after.
HOLD ON… I don’t mean it taught us what to expect in our lives… what it does do is teach us to build a pattern around what we expect in marriages today… i.e. fall in love, think it will last, hit some hard times and divorce to do it over again.
Marriage is harder than it looks and not as fun as it might seem.
Everyone in life has a moment or two when you did not realize the power behind that choice…
listening to that voice if you will: My mom telling me you cannot go with your best friends dad to go see him graduate at boot camp… and it saved my life.
AND THERE ARE TIMES… you see a choice you did make and you wonder what life would have been like without that choice…
THIS IS MARRIAGE - BUT AGAIN you don’t realize it till years after you got married.
LIKE ME - AND MOST - you think what would my life have been like…in a good way and in a bad way and in a self reflective way… But everyone who gets married has that thought… wow the change in my life because of that one person.
- This is why a covenant is so important to marriage. It holds our feet to the fire until we can see the beauty of the decision to stay with that person even if they are the wrong one.
The best things that ever happened to me were due to the hardest things that ever happened to me. Because I understood a covenant - I learned to understand that in marriage.
Understanding a marriage covenant helps you change your expectation… from This will make me happy (an unrealistic high selfish expectation) to this will make me more like Jesus (a realistic lowly achievable Holy expectation).
Marriage is a covenant We see in Gen. 2: and Mark 10
Mark 10 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Eph. 5:31-33 31“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. 33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.…
God’s intention for marriage is not to be a contract that needs both parties to hold up their end of the deal—as 1 Corinthians 13:1 says, “…love keeps no records of right and wrongs.” God’s purpose for marriage is different from the world’s.
It’s a covenant—binding and irrevocable because of His love. I Cor. 7 states you can leave, but you can’t divorce… this is covenant talk, not contract talk.
Covenant: A divinely created relational bond. The administration for the paperwork was done up in heaven… it was divinely created.
**Have you gone through the FOR BETTER FOR WORSE portion of your marriage… and wondered why the worse seems to come around more than the better? Because we focus on the immediate - a covenant focuses on the eternal.
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
The David Alliance
Think of it this way… if the word jog was in the Bible, but not the word jogger or runner… and I asked you what a runner did or a jogger did, and you would talk about all the shoes they have, the shorts they wear, the routes they run the apps that track their progress, the marathons they have medals for, the runner magazine they read… but you never mention they run… Runners Run. And disciples make disciples - period.
***The church has magnified and glorified becoming more like Jesus, but not doing what Jesus does.
The power behind “becoming more like Jesus” comes from learning our need/lack/void of leading people to Christ.
My job is not to teach you, lead you equip you, pray for you, comfort you, grow you, heal you, love you, encourage you… outside of it making you a better DISCIPLE maker… or its pointless, its selfish, it is only self gratifying.
You go to tell someone about Jesus and they are trans, gay, atheist, Muslim.
You go to pray for someone in witnessing and they are not healed, freed or delivered.
You get asked a question that you can’t answer….
THIS IS THE CATALYST OF YOU BECOMING MORE LIKE CHRIST- MORE THAN YOUR BIBLE READING… HELLO???? DID YOU HEAR THAT?
We are the body of Christ… a body eats, sleeps, works, rests, exercises… but if the body never reproduces… ?? Is it really doing its job? It is a selfish short lived existence.
When do you know a body is healthy… when an organism is healthy? When it can reproduce.
Stolen Valor is a term used by those who pretend to have served in the Armed Forces… (lots of videos on YouTube) But its disgusting to those who have served. They did not serve, they did not lose their brothers and they did not sacrifice…. DISGUSTING.
*Isn’t it the same if you call yourself a disciple and you have not served, You haven’t lost people to hell you tried to save, you have not sacrificed for the gospel?
IS THAT CHRISTIAN STOLEN VALOR?
- Some churches are more concerned with funding programs than creating disciple makers. THIS IS WHY Christianity has plunged in the last 100 years in our country. **you say well sin has gotten worse… I say it is because we have not made disciples to combat the war on sin.
Ez. 22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice. 30I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one. 31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”…
The whole chapter concedes that God was looking for anyone
The mindset here is that God was looking for anyone to call the people to repentance - aka make disciples… But there was no one.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
The David Alliance
In trying to live, preach and win people to Christ we find the point in us where we understand how much we need Christ.
There are over 30K books on Amazon about discipleship… BUT IM GOING TO TELL YOU THE BEST WAY TO BE A DISCIPLE IS TO EVERYDAY TELL PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS - it stirs you in ways a book, a sermon, a song, a movie, a special speaker, DVD could ever do
You really want to know the secret of knowing God, seeing his power move and hearing his voice? TELL PEOPLE ABOUT JESUS - PERIOD!
If you are to become a master chef… You go to the schools in France, you read books, you work side by side next to some of the greatest chefs, you cut up veggies, you make sauces, you butcher meat, you create sauces and dips… but you never make a meal, you never serve a meal… have you truly been discipled as a chef?
We hear it again and again… discipleship is to be more like him… BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DID HE DO?
He taught, he loved, he healed, he rebuked, he restored, he hung with sinners, he served, he confronted hypocrisy, he spent time with the Father… but all for what purpose? To reach the world for Christ!
BUT WHAT WAS HIS MOTIVE BEHIND ALL OF THESE?
WHAT WAS HIS END GAME?
To win people to Christ.
Its easy to fall into a mindset and lifestyle of Christianity that serves us… I love Gods promises, his blessings and his comfort - who doesn’t!! But Discipleship is about denying ourselves…
Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
The biggest failure of the 21st century church is they have lost the idea behind what true discipleship is. Discipleship is making disciples - PERIOD!
***The church has magnified and glorified becoming more like Jesus, but not doing what Jesus does.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Theres a good chance today Im going to make you mad: simply by asking you what you do, who you are, What you are, if you are…
IM’A make YOU MAD TODAY…
What does a mechanic do?
What does a ballerina do?
What does a chef do?
What does a NFL receiver do?
What does a crab fishermen do?
What does a Christian do?
What does a disciple do?
The term discipleship never occurs in the Bible… and it can be very overdressed or underdressed in English.
Only the word DISCIPLE -
So with no clear form or function what is discipleship… are we disciples if we don’t know what discipleship is?
NOTE: The danger is dressing up what “discipleship” is when we are simply called to be disciples. Nuanced? Yes… but worth a closer look at.
HOWEVER…
Mathetuo- make disciples. Matt. 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
GK one who follows both teaching and teacher (mimics the teacher)
**Discipleship is life on life. Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica, “Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well” (1 Thessalonians 2:8).
What is the fruit of discipleship?… well we may think short sided like saying “to be more like Jesus”… but what does that mean?
He made more disciples… that in and of itself might be the one missing key ingredient in our lives.
To think that discipleship is simply knowing more of the Bible…
OR
Being kinder, sweeter, sin less and less…
Still misses the point of who Jesus was and what he did: if we are to mimic him!
He was Gospel, he lived the gospel, he came to seek and save the lost. If discipleship does not move into that on a regular basis… you are not a true disciple.
Our motive is always to share the gospel/make disciples.
Yesterday at the gym… I had a water bottle. But the young kid said hey you brought a water bottle you don’t have to borrow one of ours…. Long story short I said Im not worried about getting sick - he said you are probably immortal - and I said WHY YES I AM - DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? …do you see where this is going?
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
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The David Alliance
Col. 1:9, 10 some tings are just not understood unless spiritually
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
How do know his will?
How do you make decisions?
How do you know right and wrong?
How do you know what to do when both options seem right?
What do you do when you feel like the right decision is the wrong decision?
Paul is stating a principle for life… WE NEED KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM THROUGH THE UNDERSTANDING HIS SPIRIT GIVES. and not just general decision… yes we need to seek God on day to day big decisions, but at the same time understand that it is the small decisions that push us in the direction of our full time life direction.
When I was a sophomore in high school I had a crappy stereo. I love music, still do… and my best friends dad who had a killer massive stereo system was selling it at a really good price. This was 4 speakers, dual cassette deck, a balanced turntable, equalizer and to top it off a wood case for the stereo…. A Gusendorf to be precise.
My mom and dad said NO. not now, too much. I tried my best to tell them it was a STEAL… they did not care.
Does God care if you get a stereo? Does he care if you spend to much?
A friend of mine told me a story of a young newly married man who came to church and asked for prayer… he needed a vehicle to get to and from work… his died. The next week he came into church and was bragging about the new truck he got… My friend said, that’s not Gods will… I asked him how he knew that… he said because God told me to give him mine… and he pulled out his title and then slipped it back into his pocket.
God cares about the small decision, the middle decisions, the medium decisions, the massive decisions and the seemingly non-consequential decisions. BUT YOU GOTTA MAKE THEM TUNED INTO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GODS WISDOM.
Mans wisdom does not cut it… you know scientists back in the day said… even if we could create a car that went 100mph it would not be safe for humans… because if you stuck your head out the window to breathe your lungs would blow up….
Ahhh mans wisdom is folly.
Seek his voice, seek his wisdom and be willing to make mistakes following his lead. That is how you learn to distinguish Gods wisdom and yours.
And for the record