Staff FOBBC

How many of us want to be better for God?

Sermon: How We Get Better | Pastor Julian Davis

⁃ Improve your service

⁃ Improve your sacrifices 

⁃ Improve your obedience 

Unfortunately- it’s a lot easier to talk about change than to change!

Because change is difficult!

⁃ change requires discipline!

To be better for God we must have the spiritual discipline to change based on faith in God!

Or we change because of the discipline we get from God!!!

⁃ God loves us too much for us not to get better!

Verse 6 “because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

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⁃ Discipline is Proof of God’s Love 

John Mc Arthur “Instead of looking at our troubles, we look at our Father’s love, and thank Him that even the troubles are proof of his love”

Darryl Coley “He is Preparing Me”

⁃ He is making me ready because he cares for me!

⁃ He is maturing me!

God will transform us by disciplining us!

Tom Landry (Famous Dallas Cowboys Coach)

“The job of a coach is to make men do what they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they wanted to be”

God is the ultimate coach!

He made us and knows all about us!

⁃ He disciplines us to change us 

Martin Luther King Jr

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”