BEING KNOWN

PROV. 20:11

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Pastor Rick Jackson

Everyone is known, to some degree, for something. Some are known for more than one thing, but often one thing is enough. Michael Jordan? Elvis? Pelosi? Noah? Lincoln? Fanny Crosby? What if I called out your name?

I. YOU WILL BE KNOWN FOR YOUR TESTIMONY

1. This Includes Your Doings [Pr. 20:11, Isaiah 1:16, Jeremiah 21:14]

- Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

- But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD

2. This Includes Your Sayings [Mt. 12:33-35]

- Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

3. This Includes Your Moderation [Phil. 4:5]

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

 

II. DON’T BE KNOWN FOR SIN! [Hitler, Jack the Ripper, Judas Iscariot]

1. Satan is known for his Rebellion [Jn. 8:44]

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

2. Cain is Known For Murder [1 Jn. 3:12]

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

3. Demas is Known for Forsaking Paul [2 Tm. 4:10]

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica

 

Don’t let your sin overshadow the rest of your life

 

III. BE KNOWN FOR YOUR FAITH [Heb. 11]

1. Have Faith in God [1 Th. 1:8, Mk. 11:22]

-For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

- And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

2. Have Faith in Christ [Jn. 14:1]

3. Have Faith in God’s Word [Rm. 10:13-17]

 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.