New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

December 26 Sermon:  I�m Looking For More

Scripture:  Luke 2:41-52

Sermon delivered by Pastor Williams

 

 Are you satisfied as you reflect on the years past to the last Sunday in 2004?  I need to ask �Are you satisfied�? 

 As you look back on how God has brought you through and blessed you, are you satisfied or are you looking for more?  Whatever you have or need, God�s got it.  He�s ready to take you to another level and pour out blessings that you won�t have room enough to receive.

 You would think at the age of 12 that Jesus would be thinking like most teenagers, the first one out of the door after benediction has been said, to hang out with their friends.  As Mary and Joseph prepared to go back to Nazareth, Jesus hung back talking to the doctors and lawyers.  He was looking for more.  At the age of 12 a Jewish boy was moving into the age of manhood.  Many of us are satisfied to show up, to have our name on the roll, to pay the same amount of money every Sunday and you aren�t looking for more.  Thank God for what He has done and what He�s going to do.  But I�m not satisfied with where I am.  I want more.

 Jesus separated himself from the group in order to learn more from His Father.  You will never get the blessings from the Lord until you walk away from your life style, living in sin.  You have got to separate from your old way of thinking.  Satan has tricked you into thinking you are going to be this way forever, after all your mama was this way.  You have got to learn to tell Satan to get away.  Tell him �See ya; I can�t hang out on the cuts anymore because I�m hanging with Jesus�. 

 The reason we don�t have more is because we are hanging out with folks that don�t have more.  Some of us have to let go of old religious notions.  Some of us are so religious we won�t fellowship with the CME, but if you want more you need to let go of those old thinkings.

 If you want more, you have got to seek God and all His righteousness.  If you want more joy, money, seek after your father�s business.  If you want it, look and pray towards Jesus.

 There is more healing and deliverance for your life in Jesus.  Is there anybody here that wants more?  Read the last passage of the text, it says �And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature.....� 

 

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