03/09/2025 Church service

周日礼拜

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  A New World  新世界 

Romans 11:33-36: Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways! For who can know the LORD’s thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice? And who has given him so much that he needs to pay it back? For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.
羅 馬 書 11:33-36: 上帝的怜悯是何其地丰富，他的智慧和知识是何其地深奥！他的判断是何其难测！他的道理是多么地难以理解！ 正如《经》上说的那样：“谁知道上帝的心思？谁能当上帝的参谋？”“谁先给过上帝什么，使他不得不偿还呢？”万物都是上帝创造的。万物都是通过他，也是为了他而存在的。愿荣耀永远属于他！阿们。 (page 1839)
Joel 2:12,13: That is why the LORD says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.
约珥书 2:12,13: 耶和华说：“现在，你们要禁食、哭泣、哀号，全心回转归向我。”你们要撕心般地悔改，而不是撕裂衣服。归向你们的上帝耶和华吧，因为祂有恩典和怜悯，不轻易发怒，有无限的慈爱， 不忍心降灾祸。(page 1480)

2 Chron 7:14: if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
历代志下 7:14: 而这些被称为我名下的子民若谦卑下来，祈祷、寻求我的面，离开恶道，我必从天上垂听，赦免他们的罪，医治他们的土地。(page 721)

2 Tim 1:6: I’m writing to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindle the fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you.
提摩太后书 1:6: 因此我提醒你，要把上帝在我把手按在你身上时赐给你的恩赐充分发挥出来。 (page 1929)







 

 

 

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A New World
Romans 11:33-36

Give a Great Speech: 3 Tips from Aristotle
• Tell them what you’re going to tell them.
• Tell them
• Tell them what you’ve just told them.

So… I am going to begin today with a summary of what you’re about to hear.

“Nothing in your life can ever really change if you’re way of thinking remains the same.”

Your first thought may be, “I know what he’s going to say. He’s talked about this before.” If that is your thought right now, you definitely need to hear this message.

Have you ever tried to talk to someone and they say “I know” as soon as you start talking?
…or worse yet, they start filling in the… blanks? Finishing your… sentences?

It was once said: “Knowing it all is nothing but an illusion of knowledge.”

The impulse to tell ourselves that we already know something is a conditioned response.
The “know-it-all” is programmed to believe that way – and they don’t even know it.

Here’s a super-big challenge for us today:
First of all, can you admit that maybe there is something in your life that is not quite “perfect” just yet? ( )
If you’re honest enough to admit that – even if only to yourself, then this might just indicate that you don’t quite know it all yet.

Encyclopedias were great, but…

“You can’t use an old map to explore a new world”

Can you embrace this opportunity right now to approach today with a grateful heart to be able open GOD’s Word together accept the challenge to learn and grow?

To find new answers today?

Isaiah 55:8,9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,”declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

“What are you giving up for lent?”

For this fresh new Lenten season, maybe what we should “give up” is our own presuppositions about Who God is – and what He wants to do with us in 2025?

Romans 11:33-36: Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways! For who can know the LORD’s thoughts?
Who knows enough to give him advice? And who has given him so much that he needs to pay it back? For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.
“Nothing in your life can ever really change if you’re way of thinking remains the same.”

Being a “know-it-all” and being negative minded usually seem to go together.

It makes sense – because if you already “know” everything, where is the HOPE of learning more – ? - or things getting better for you?

Welcome to Lent 2025.
Are we willing to give up what we “know” for what God is trying to reveal to us?

The most used scripture for the start of the Lenten season is from the book of Joel:
That is why the LORD says, “Turn to me now, while there is time.
Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
13 Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.”
Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate,
slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.
(Joel 2:12,13)

I started pastoral ministry with very little traditional Methodist background.

My two Methodist pastors were both very non-traditional. And they were both two of the strongest voices in my life as mentors and as Godly men who lived by example.

We learn – and we grow.
Our understanding expands as we allow ourselves to become teachable.

Horace said, “Men cease to think when they think they know it all.”

We build our faith on a foundation of scripture and tradition, so we have to make sure we are always building it on truth.

There are many well-meaning but misguided people who would minimize what GOD is able to do in your life today –
- despite what is happening all over the planet -
- and it is all because they have been taught wrong.

You cannot have faith for something that you don’t believe is the will of GOD.

Right Believing will produce Right Results.

A limited Gospel is a powerless message that will not change this world.

My trip to Wales
My one desire for that trip was to visit where the Welsh Revival bagn.

Historically, the revolutionary prayers of Evan Roberts and a small group of praying people changed an entire nation.
Had they not had the faith to believe that “all things are indeed possible to those who can believe” – what would have happened?

Would there have been a Welsh revival?
Would thousands have been saved and multitudes of lives transformed?

Evan Roberts: “The Power of the revival in South Wales is not of men, but all of God. He has been close to us and has shown us the way.

… I have merely preached the religion of Jesus Christ as I myself have experienced it.
God has “made me glad,” and I am showing others the great joy of serving Him, a joy so great and so wonderful that I shall never be able to express it in its completeness.

We are teaching no sectarian doctrine, only the wonder and the beauty of Christ’s love, the love of man for Him, and the love of man for man.

I have been asked concerning my methods. I have none. I never prepare the words I shall speak. I leave all that to Him.
I am not the source of this revival. I am only one agent in what is growing to be a multitude. I am not moving men’s hearts and changing men’s lives; not I, but “God worketh in me.”
I have found what is, in my belief, the highest kind of Christianity. I desire to give my life, which is all I have to give, to helping others to find it also. Many have already found it, thank God, and many more are finding it through them.”

The Prophet Joel: ‘In the last days,’ God says,‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour out my Spirit
even on my servants — men and women alike — and they will prophesy.

People all over the world are praying for and expecting a new “Great Awakening”
like we read about in times past.

An awakening where men and women’s hearts are once more turned to the Lord in repentance and submission to GODs Word.
When their eyes are opened to the truth and are no longer blinded by the lies of the world – the media – the carnal globalists who want to strip you of your uncompromised faith.

We know that revival – the Great Awakening – starts with the believers.

2 Chron 7:14: “ …if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

Jung's idea is that we don't see God because we don't look low enough.
We have to humble ourselves and pray and seek GOD’s face and turn from our wicked ways.

…Just like they did in England… in Germany – in Wales – with the early settlers in America - and anywhere that GOD moved and changed the landscape with the truth of the Gospel.

We must take the limits off of what GOD can do by building our foundation of faith on the truth of GODs Word and no longer believing for anything less than true Holy Ghost revival in our lives – in our churches – and in our communities.

2 Tim 1:6 reminds us to “stir up the gifts that are inside of us.”


? Is your heart cold and un-stirrable today – or can it yet again be touched by Holy Spirit’s still small voice today?

Heb 3:11: "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion."

“Nothing in your life can ever really change if you’re way of thinking remains the same.”

If you’re ready to change today – you will have to learn to look forward again.

You will have to be open to hearing a New Word from GOD today.

One word from God today can change your life forever.

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

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