For a DIVINE CALLING

FRESH OIL
February 6, 2011
Message One

Career Ministry
Fellowship
...making a career of living
for the Lord!

JESUS, INTERRUPTED: OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE CROSS

Luke 12:13-21
AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF BLINGONOMICS • A ________ is someone who lives with no thought of
1. Last year most people in our country __________ God, no concern for others, and not counting for
more money than they made eternity
2. Last year more people in America declared
____________________ than graduated from college Man’s Myth: ________ consists in the abundance of
3. We are saving less because we are spending more, your stuff.
because it is so cheap to ________ money to do so I. A MAN AND HIS MONEY,
13-15
A. A Temporal Petition, 13
Point 1. No one ever finds life in their B. A Timeless Principle,
14-15
______________________, but for many people today,
1. The Response, 14
materialism masks the cross. 2. The Rebuke, 15
II. A PREACHER AND HIS
Point 2. Everybody dies, but right now you have PARABLE, 16-21
________ of the rest of your life to carry the cross and A. The Danger: A Man and
His Material, 16-17
bring others to Christ.
1. An Abundance of
Fruitfulness, 16
2. An Analysis of
DEFINITIONS Foolishness, 17
• __________ B. The Decision: A Man and
THESIS is not defined
His Mistakes, 18-19
1. Desire, 18
Jesus knew become an by what 2. Delusion, 19
our desire obstruction something C. The Destruction: A Man
to ________ to the cost, but by and His Memory, 20
would cross III. THE SAVIOR AND HIS
what it has
SENTENCE, 21
cost you
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HOW NOT TO BE A FOOL Getting Equipped with the Conviction
1. Stop trying to meet your need to Sacrifice
for self-worth with your ______
worth, because the only place Mark 8:35 For whosoever will
FAST FACTS
you can get self-worth is in the save his life shall lose it; but
scriptures, not in your goods whosoever shall lose his life for Get Discipled! Step to
2. Stop trying to meet your need my sake and the gospel’s, the the signup table and see
for self-security in your same shall save it. what Directions is all
_________________, because the about!
Gym Setup for Career
only place you can get security is Phil. 4:11-13 I have learned, in
Class, Sundays 7:30A.M.
in the Sovereign, your God whatsoever state I am, therewith
3. Stop trying to meet your need to be content. I know both how KCBT 2011 Bible Reading:
for self-satisfaction in your to be abased, and I know how to http://kcbt.org/reading/
________, because the only place abound: every where and in all
you can be satisfied is in service things I am instructed both to be
by utilizing your spiritual gifts full and to be hungry, both to
abound and to suffer need. I can
do all things through Christ which
Point 3. What you ________ does strengtheneth me.
not either define or confine who
you are or what you are here for.

Point 4. Your worth is established

by your ______________.
Next Time!
Jesus, Affronted,
Point 5. Carrying your cross allows Mark 5:1-6
you to construct something in http://kcbt.org/adults/career/
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tarnish. Safe  Prayer Diary
Luke 12:13-21 Facebook.com
Point 6. Stuff alone does not “Join” KCBT Career “group
page”
deliver satisfaction, because Rev. W. Alan Shelby
satisfaction is a spiritual _________ www.facebook.com/ashelby
of consecration to the cross.

Only one life, 'twill FRESH CONSECRATION FOR A DIVINE CALLING!

soon be past, only ELIMINATING OBSTRUCTIONS TO THE CROSS
what's done for
Sun, Feb 6 Jesus, Interrupted: Obstructions to the Cross, Luke 12:13-21
Equipped with the Conviction to Sacrifice—Don’t Play it Safe
Christ will last.
Sun, Feb 13 Jesus, Affronted: Impediments to Christlikeness, Mark 5:1-6
And when I am
Enchanted with the Character of Christ—Don’t Become Passive
dying, how happy I'll
Sun, Feb 20 Jesus, Interrogated: Hindrances to Crucifying Self, Luke 15:11-18
be, if the lamp of my Effective with the Courage to Come Correct—Don’t Be Irrelevant
life has been burned Sun, Feb 27 THE SUMMIT
out for Thee.
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