Our Time To Apprehend, Accomplish, and Advance is Here!
Ro. 13:1-14; Mt. 21:17-19

INTRO: We need to get ready to move advance for the Lord today. Not tomorrow, next week, next month, come fall, this winter, or next spring or summer. How easy it is for us to put off getting serious for the Lord! Are you ready to get serious for God? Jesus died for us! Are we going to do what He needs us to do? Then, let us do it now!!! The time for us to hear Him and heed Him is here.

Matthew 21:17-19 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
18Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
19And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.

 

  1. Christ Expects us to Bear Fruit - Mt. 21:17-19
    1. Many have nothing
    2. Many have leaves only
  1. Christ Expects us to Bear Fruit Today - Mt. 21:19
    1. Disappointed when we do not try to bear fruit
    2. Determined that we should bear fruit

 

Romans 13:1-14 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
8Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.


 

  1. Bearing Fruit Depends on One Key – Love Ro. 13:8-10
    1. What do we owe all men? LOVE- vs. 8
    2. What are good guidelines for us to live by?

What is fulfilling the law? LOVE

 
  1. Bearing Fruit will not get easier, but it’s time is here! - Ro. 13:11-13


Gary Marcum - New Beginnings Church - 072802pm

First preached - East 38th St. FWB - 020198am