1. Collide Change

2. You put yourself In the path of God's Voice

3. He presses, pushes Applies

4. A Plan is made For changes that will Please God

5. A Plan is made For changes that will Please God "Lord, help me to…"

6. In that moment The battle is lost

7. Change won't happen…

8. We train disciples to change their world for Jesus by Teaching the Scriptures for real life-change

9. …and intentionally creating opportunities for Community, Prayer and Worship…

10. …so that God will be glorified and people will become whole - Our Purpose Statement

11. Real life-change

12. 1) God Presses 2) I make a Plan- new behavior 3) "God, help me to…" = Fail

13. How were people Right with God Before Jesus?

14. The righteous shall live by faith - Hab. 2:4

15. Abraham- Covenant of Circumcision

16. Abraham believed God And it was credited to him As righteousness - Gal. 3:6

17. Abraham… Left and walked Trusted and readied the knife Believed God, then circumcised

18. Moses= 10 Commandments

19. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter

20. …choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin - Heb. 11:24-25

21. It's always been By grace through faith

22. God isn't interested In mere obedience

23. God wants obedience like: Wife wants to hear, "I love you" Without you ever giving her your heart

24. God wants obedience like: Child wants to hear, "Uh-huh" a lot without actually having your attention

25. God wants obedience like: Family pet wants food and water, without pats of affection or excited words of encouragement or love

26. God does not want Your obedience*

27. God does not want Your obedience* *Without your heart Prompted by faith

28. These people…honor me with their lips. But their hearts are far from me

29. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules… - Isaiah 29:13

30. "I don't want You I just want to the blessings Of being right with you"

31. David screwed up

32. Why did God Receive him back?

33. "For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased…

34. I can't make a plan And do something To please you and Make it right

35. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise" - David, Psalm 51

36. contrite heart= Worn or bruised. Deeply affected with grief Or sorrow for sin. Humbled and Repentant

37. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise"

38. Religious Leaders Were called names

39. Religious Leaders… Began with good intentions

40. Religious Leaders… Came up with their plans

41. Religious Leaders… Came up with their plans To help God

42. Religious Leaders… Came up with their plans To help God And lost…God

43. When God presses And I decide to change And ask for some help

44. It's not God I want It's being good with God By doing things for God

45. It's not God I want It's being good with God By doing things for God Which will never please God

46. God, please bless the plan I came up with to please you Independent of you

47. God, please bless the plan I came up with to please you Independent of you Exercising zero faith

48. God is relentless- He wants you heart Broken by the weight of your sin Grateful for the grace Of his forgiveness

49. "For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased…

50. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise" - David, Psalm 51

51. Repentance: A change of mind That results in a change of man

52. Without repentance There is no real change

53. God presses Make a plan and pray

54. My Plans- however good- Will always bypass God's Power

55. God presses I thank God I'm not as bad as…

56. God presses I get broken I repent I obey as God leads and Praise him as he grows me

57. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness - 1 John 1:9

58. Change occurs

59. "So that God will be glorified And people will be made whole"

61. What needs to be dealt with Today?

62. "He who has the Son has life. He who does not have the Son Does not have life. These things I have written that you may KNOW you have eternal life" - I John