03/02/2025 Church service

周日礼拜

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 Lift by Love 以爱扶持

Job 22:29: When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
約 伯 記 22:29: 人遭贬抑时，你说，‘使他们升高吧。’
上帝就会拯救他们 (page 855)

Mark 9:23 - Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.”
馬 可 福 音 9:23: 耶稣对他说∶“你刚才说‘如果您能，就请帮帮他吧’，对相信的人，一切事情都能办得到。” (page 1635)
Matthew 25:21: Commending his servant, the master replied, ‘You have done well, and proven yourself to be my loyal and trustworthy servant. Because you have been a faithful steward to manage a small sum, now I will put you in charge of much, much more. You will experience the delight of your master, who will say to you, “Enter into the joy of your Lord!”
马太福音 25:21:“主人说，‘做得好！你真是个又良善又忠心的奴仆。既然你在小事上忠心，我要把更大的事交给你。进来分享你主人的快乐吧！’ (page 1606)

Matthew 25:28,29: But because you were unfaithful, I will take the one thousand gold coins and give them to the one who has ten thousand. 29For the one who has will be given more, until he overflows with abundance. And the one with hardly anything, even what little he has will be taken from him.’ 马太福音 25:28,29: 你们把这袋银子拿走，交给那个掌管十袋银币的奴仆。 只有充分利用手中一切的人，才能得到更多的东西，甚至得到比他所需要的还要多。如果不充分利用自己所有的人，甚至连他所有的一切也会被拿走。 (page 1606)

Psalm 63:8 - With passion I pursue and cling to you. Because I feel your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to your heart.
诗篇 63:8: 我的心依恋你，你的右手扶持我。(page 942)



 

 

 

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Lift by Love
Job 22:29
You either grow bitter or you get better. It's that simple.

You either take what has been dealt to you (or even the mess you’ve created all by yourself) and allow it to make you a better person, or you just allow it to tear you down.

The choice does not belong to ‘fate.’

It belongs to YOU. …and me.

How’s that for a challenging intro?
“When I leave this earth, I want to leave a legacy that my family will be proud of.”
Do you ever think about that?
legacy: the long-lasting impact of particular events, actions, etc. that took place in the past, or of a person’s life.
We all start somewhere – and we will all end up somewhere.
What we do in-between will determine our legacy.
Truth: For the most part, we are forgotten by most folks shortly after we shed this mortal coil. But not if we leave our message in someone’s heart.
When your legacy is written on the hearts of those your life has touched, the impact can go on for generations to come.
Our earthy assignment always involves service to other people.
One of the greatest gifts we can give others is to listen, to support, and to encourage.
To show people that their lives matter, and that they, too, have a purpose, a legacy to fulfill.
Job 22:29: When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, ‘There is lifting up!’ And He shall save the humble person.
When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
Maybe you don’t feel qualified to be that person.
“If you’re feeling help-less, one KEY is to become more help-ful.”
What if I told you that there are people in your life right now that are looking to you to be the One?
The One who takes the family – the business – the culture – to a higher level.
The one who breaks free from the gravitational pull of what some might call “generational curses.”
It will take extra effort to push against the comfort zone.
To think higher thoughts. To defy the odds.
To rise up and rise above and leave behind the constraints of what once was.

Remember in Back to the Future, the school principle got in Marty McFly’s (Michael J. Fox) face and said, “Why even bother, McFly? You haven't got a chance. You're too much like your old man. No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley.”
Ok – so that reference is just from a movie
What about the movie Hillbilly Elegy? A movie almost too painful to sit through, and yet, the story is about a young man’s struggle to overcome a severely dysfunctional family and continue to fight to get through school, go to college and then to law school.
That man is JD Vance. He is now our Vice President.
Vance's Hillbilly Elegy became a national bestseller for its raw, emotional portrait of growing up in and eventually out of a poor rural community riddled by drug addiction and instability." Vance's account anecdotally confirmed the report's conclusion that family stability is essential to upward mobility.

When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
What will our legacy be?
You either become miserable or you become better. It's that simple.
You either accept what you are given and make it better for you, or you let it break you.

The choice is yours. It belongs to you.
Someone may be hoping that One will be YOU.
You were called for more – but it won’t happen by accident:
• Faith (if you can believe)
• Intention (have you set your intention to serve the Lord through your talents?)
• Association (Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise)
“This is what I was born to do”
If you think God is not deeply concerned about you developing your talents and gifts – - of you becoming more than you have been – then you are not familiar with the stern warning Jesus makes through the Parable of the Talents.
It’s not just a nice story.
? How serious does God take the intentional development of our talents – our gifts?
The Parable of the Talents is a Bible story from Matthew 25:14–30 that tells of a master who entrusts his property to his servants. The parable is about responding to the Gospel with faith and using one's talents to do good.
Jesus gives these earthly stories to express heavenly truths. Much of Jesus’ teachings came through parables. I love the Parable of the Talents. In this story a master who went away and gave three servants different talents according to their ability.
The master expected those servants to do something with those things they have been entrusted with.
Jesus has left us with talents and abilities that he expects us to do something with.
? How did the Master respond to the one who did not use those talents?
GOD expects us to use our gifts to:
1) Multiply the Kingdom 2) Edify our brothers and Sisters 3) Grow Individually
One great thing about our Savior is that He has not left us here on Earth helpless.
Jesus did not leave us with the Great Commission helpless to carry it out.
He has given us talents, he has given us gifts that we can use to accomplish the task we have been commanded to do.
Someone is counting on YOU. Are YOU “The ONE?”
“We Lift by Love”
? Maybe you have tried to step up to a new level?
You tried to set a new standard for you and your loved ones, but opposition you had never faced before came out of nowhere.
There are forces of darkness that don’t want you to take new ground.
Follow the commands of Jesus:
Love the Lord your GOD Love your neighbor as yourself
“We Lift by Love” Everything hinges on this.
Out of this intentionality will arise the Kingdom gifts God has placed inside of us.
Job 22:29: When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, ‘There is lifting up!’ And He shall save the humble person.
When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast.
AVOID the “Ministry of Condemnation” – both in the receiving and the delivering.
(don’t let anyone do it – and don’t do it to yourself)
We lift by love – we point others to the cross
Spurgeon: God first gives us Grace and then rewards us for it! He works in us and then counts the fruit as our work. We work out our own salvation, because “He works in us to will and to do of His own good pleasure.”
We are to go out and do the works God has called us to do, not based on our merit or level of perfection, but because of the Greater One Who lives and moves in us.
We are branches.
Matthew 7:11, Jesus tells us God gives good gifts to His children. Good Things.
What are we waiting for? Do we really have an endless supply of time?
Eph 5:16: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
“Make your life a mission – not an intermission.”
Your service to God is the fruit of your life based on His Grace
Psalm 63:8 - With passion I pursue and cling to you. Because I feel your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to your heart.

Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
Pastor: Mike J Koger

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