Sermon Outlines from Yesterday Morning and Evening

Sunday Morning, November 15th, 2009

"A Godward View of Money According to Ecclesiastes"
Ecclesiastes 5:10-20, 6:1-6

Three Ways Money and/or Possessions are Meaningless in these Verses:

I. Wanting a lot of Money as Meaningless from Earth’s Perspective
(5:10-11)

II. Having A lot of Money as Meaningless from Earth’s Perspective
(5:12-17)

III. Owning A lot of Stuff as Meaningless from Earth’s Perspective (6:1-6)


The Key to a Joy-filled Life: Contentment with God (5:18-20)

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14

Philippians 4:11-13
1 Timothy 6:6-8


Moving Toward a Life with Contentment and Joy in God:

1. Work toward putting a cap on your current lifestyle.

2. Getting more money is to be viewed as a direct means of demonstrating your supreme love of God.

3. Believe that this current economic recession or strenuous year for a farmer as a means of God’s protective grace for your soul.

4. Ecclesiastes 5 and 6 is not only true of an individual or a family, but true for the way a church operates as well.

5. Do an honest evaluation of your heart to, seeking as to whether or not your hope and joy is found in money or in God.




Sunday Evening, November 15th, 2009

“For GOD Has Done…” cont’d
Romans 8:1-17

How is it that one can know for certain that this has actually happened? (vs. 5-17)

(3). There is a longing to destroy the sinful works of the flesh (vs. 12-13).



What we must recognize right up front in Romans 8:12-13:

(a). Recognize where I get this third way to be certain of salvation.


(b). Recognize that there is a direct connection between verse 12 and what has gone before it (“So then…”)


(c). Recognize that the Christian life is war with one’s self.



Ways to fight indwelling sin according to Romans 8:12-13:

1. Ponder and embrace why Paul does NOT say that believers are debtors to the Spirit.

2. Be confident that you already have the power to fight sin by the Spirit that is in you.

3. Know clearly, however, what your role is and that overcoming sin is not automatic.

a.Recall that the war is not with the deeds themselves but within the spirit before
the deeds are committed – Ephesians 6:10-12
b.Fight inferior pleasures with a superior pleasure – John 16:13-14
c.Fight lies with truth – Ephesians 6:17
d.Fight by hoping in the greater outcome: life – Hebrews 12:1-2