Look What The Lord Has Done
Pastor Erickson preaches from Romans 12:1 and 1 Corinthians 6:20, using the proverb of the spider in the king's palace to say that none of us deserve where God has brought us. Pointing to Jacob, Paul and our adoption as children of God, he calls people to give their bodies to God as their reasonable service, to stay humble and thankful, and to repent, be baptized in Jesus name and receive the Holy Ghost.
The message in 6 points
Present your bodies, you are bought with a price
He reads Romans 12:1 and 1 Corinthians 6:20 and gives his title, Look What the Lord Has Done, the words of a new song the church has been singing.
55:02A spider in the king's palace
Proverbs says the spider takes hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces. He grew up in a small church his parents planted in Upstate New York, and he wonders how, out of 8 billion people, God chose him. He warns against feeling entitled to the blessings of God's house.
57:25Jacob gets a new name
Jacob the deceiver took Esau's birthright, yet God gave him another chance and a new name, Israel. His limp reminded him what the Lord had done. Pastor Erickson tells how God opened and closed doors in his own life to bring him where he is.
1:07:53Paul and the thorn that kept him humble
Saul the persecutor became Paul, and a thorn in the flesh kept him from being exalted above measure. He prays to stay humble and never let talent or good speaking replace the anointing.
1:17:45Not a slave but a son
We are bought with a price, so our body belongs to God, and the church was purchased with his own blood. He says God's purchase is an adoption, not slavery, so serving God is not something we have to do but something we get to do as his chosen generation.
1:22:50I choose to be a Christian
Sharing a song he loved as a boy, he says living for God is a choice, not a restriction. He calls people to thank God for what he brought them out of, repent, be baptized in Jesus name, receive the Holy Ghost and ask the Great Physician to make them whole.
1:33:18
In his words
“I would say a second chance, but it's far more than just a second chance. It's a third chance and a fourth chance and a fifth chance. I, I'm so glad that God is a God of mercy.”
“I never want to think, Lord God, that talent replaces anointing, that good communication skills replaces anointing.”
“When we say it's just my reasonable service to give my body, it's not because I'm a slave, it's because I'm a child, it's because I've been adopted.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
Romans 12:1
1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
King James Version.
1 Corinthians 6:20
20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
King James Version.
Proverbs 30:28
28The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
King James Version.
Genesis 25:29-34
29And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: 30And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? 33And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
King James Version.
Genesis 32:28
28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
King James Version.
2 Corinthians 12:6-8
6For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
King James Version.
1 Corinthians 6:19
19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
King James Version.
Acts 20:28
28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
King James Version.
Romans 8:14-16
14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
King James Version.
1 Peter 2:9
9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
King James Version.
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