HEY JUDE, HOW CAN I FACE THE NEW YEAR?

Pastor Rick Jackson

Whether it be the New year, a new day, a new job, new challenges or new problems the child of God can face them with a certainty, a peace, a comfort, an assurance with the Lord on his side, at his side and inside!

 

I. FACE THE NEW YEAR WITH THE OLD FAITH [Jude 1-3]

1. Face the New Year with Christ the Saviour [Jude 3-4, 21]

2. Face the New Year with Christ the Keeper [Jude 1, 24; 1 Peter 1:3-5, 2 Tm. 1:12]

-Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

-I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

3. Face the New Year with Christ the Coming One [Jude 14]

 

II. FACE THE NEW YEAR WITH THE OLD BOOK, THE WORD OF GOD

1. Read it Faithfully [Jude 3-5, Isaiah 34:16]

- Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

2. Read it Fully [Jude 5, 7, 11, 17-18, Luke 24:25-27]

- Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

3. Read it to Feed [Jude 20, Job 23:12, Acts 20:32, Colossians 2:7]

- Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

- And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

- Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

 

III. FACE THE NEW YEAR WITH THE OLD WAYS [Jeremiah 6:16]

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

 

1. Be a Prayer Warrior [Jude 20, Lk 18:1, 1 Th. 5:17, 1 Tim. 2:8]

-And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

-Pray without ceasing.

-I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

2. Be a Powerful Witness [Jude 3, 22-23]

3. Be a Persistent Worshipper [1 Tm. 3:15, Acts 14:27, 1 Corinthians 11:17-18, 20, 33-34, 14:23, 26]

-But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

- And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

Notice with all the problems the Corinthians had Paul didn’t say stop coming- he merely worked to straighten out the problems.