Where is your bread buttered

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Vision To provide a supportive and fun - filled
wider church environment, where youth are able to
experience and share Gods love, and to lead them
into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ,
and into a mature faith, based on a foundation of
biblical principles and family values.
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Where is your bread buttered?

• Whenever I went begging to my mom she would often
  say You know where your bread if buttered and
  jammed dont you?

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Our readings have everything to do with our
personal relationship with the Living God!
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Jonah 31-5

• The reluctant evangelist
• Despised the Ninevites.
• Couldnt believe that God would really save them!
  Those beasts from the other side of the road!
• Baulked at Gods call on his life even ran away
• Ultimately proclaimed the message of salvation
  through repentance and..

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Horror of Horrors

• The Ninivites repented!!!
• AND Gulp!!
• God graciously forgave them..
• When God saw what they did and how they turned
  from their evil ways, he had compassion and did
  not bring upon them the destruction he had
  threatened.

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Psalm 62 ..MY TEXT FOR TODAY!

• Rest
• secure!

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A wise spiritual director once said, We are like
a jar of river water all shaken up. What you need
is to sit still long enough so that the sediment
can settle and the water can become clear.
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So, Paul says in 1 Cor 729-31

• 2 points I want you to hold
• verse 29 The time is short!
• verse 31 do not be engrossed in the transient
  things of this world. (my words)

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Jesus said Mark 114-20

• The Time has Come
• (verse 15)
• So
• Come, Follow me!!
• (verse 18)

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Or to use the well known text

• Matt 1128-29
• "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
  and I will give you rest.

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This in stark contrast to.

• Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the
  world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is
  on its way out.
• 1 Cor. 731 (Message)

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So to summarize thus far

• There is rest available
  - Psalm 625
• We find it in one who really knows us, loves us
  and has compassion on us and who can restore us
  again to the salvation that is ours
  
  Jonah 310 Psalm 6211-12
• We will not find anything like it in the world
  1 Corinthians 731
• We cant mess around the time before us might
  not be as extensive as we think
  Mark 115

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Psalm 62

• 1. My soul finds rest in God alone my salvation
  comes from him.
• 2. He alone is my rock and my salvation he is my
  fortress, I will never be shaken.

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Rock of Salvation
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Rock of Refuge
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Rock of Provision
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Rock of Hope
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Conclusion

• Rest secure!