Sunday Sermon Preview - Join Us for a Heartfelt Sermon on Love and Resilience - October 20, 2024

Pastor Josh here.

I would like to give you a preview of our Sunday morning service

on October 20 here at Middletown Baptist Church.

We're going to continue on in our study in the book of second Corinthians.

We're going to be in two corinthians chapter six, and we're

going to be looking at a sermon entitled open your heart.

The Bible tells us that there's going to be times in our

service to the Lord where we're going to go through ups and

we're going to go through downsitive.

And sometimes it's easy to get focused on the difficulties and get

overwhelmed with those difficulties.

But the Bible says when we keep our eyes fixed on what God has

done for us and his love and we enlarge our hearts.

As two Corinthians chapter six says, when we open our hearts to

the love of God and we're open to the opportunities to see his work

in our life, we are able to move forward with that endurance

that we talked about last week.

Our theme verses are going to be really found in two Corinthians

chapter six, verses eleven through 13.

Paul says this in the inspiration of scripture, o ye corinthians,

our mouth is open unto you.

Our heart is enlarged.

So what Paul is saying here is that, hey, we've opened our mouths

to you.

In the truth of God, our hearts are open to you.

Our hearts are open to the Lord.

Now, you have to remember, the Corinthians were against Paul.

They were actually challenging him on his love for them.

But what Paul says is, hey, you can't blame me.

He says, ye are not straight, straightened or constrained or constricted

in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels or your own affections.

Meaning it's not our fault that you are falling down from the

pains of this life, but it is really, ultimately, you have turned

your heart to the love of your own flesh, your love of your own

Materialism in this world.

And so he says, now for recompense, in the same I speak as

unto my children, be ye also enlarged, meaning widen or open your

hearts to the love of God and to the love of others that God calls

us to have in our lives.

And so I'm joined here with someone that I really love in my

life.

That is my son, Micah.

Micah, go ahead and say what you want to say about love.

What is a good thing about God's love in your life?

He can.

If we love him, then he can do stuff for us.

Yeah, well, he can do stuff for us all the time.

But when we love him and we understand the Bible says that we

love him because he first loved us and so we can love him more

by understanding his love for us and our lives.

So Micah and I would love to see you on Sunday morning here at

Middletown Baptist Church.

If you're not able to make it to us here in person we are going

to be posting this on the podcast stream on Monday morning

but also we live stream on Facebook and YouTube and we would

love for you to be a part of the service in some way here this

Sunday.

So remember, open your hearts to the love of God, understand what

he has done for you and as we understand that love we can turn

around and show that love back to him and to others and so looking

forward to seeing what God can do with us as we submit ourselves

to him.

Well hope you have a great weekend.

We will see you Sunday.

God blessed.