Sermon Note

Pastor Lian

Every single generation blessed by the gospel. 

Something about this year’s theme is just so special 

This year of the Much More, it is not about doing, but this year, it is about the spirit. 

Isaiah 61:3 NKJV

3 To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV

7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

1 Corinthians 2:12 NKJV

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

We have the spirit of God, to walk in the Much More, the spirit of God will give us the revelation of the things freely given to us and we will walk in the Much More

The different kind of spirit -

Spirit of the world

Spirit of God

Spirit of the world -

1 John 2:16 NKJV

16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

When you lust after something, you want more and more but still not satisfied 

Spirit of the world, try and not real

We do not receive the spirit of the world

We have the wisdom that is from above

It is good to have desires. Example we want to go to certain schools. It does not mean if we don’t get in, we are not successful 

The Lord was with Joseph and he was a successful man

The world likes to label the youth as strawberry generation

The worth comes from a heavenly Father who loves us so much that He gave up His Son

We are so valued that God will give up His Son to die for us

Deuteronomy 32:10 NKJV

10 “He found him in a desert land

And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;

He encircled him, He instructed him,

He kept him as the apple of His eye.

God came for me 

David’s thoughts and feelings

Psalm 52:8 NKJV

8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;

I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

A person who lives in the Much More; is a person who does not allow the circumstances to determine who he is and what his future will be. 

I am a Green olive tree, i am in the house of God

A person who walk in the Much More, he goes in the presence of God

Let the Lord be the One who will restore to you. Let the Lord pours the wine

Psalm 52:8 NKJV

8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;

I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Isaiah 11:1 NKJV

1 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,

And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.

Anointing came forth from Jesus

This branch came and brought salvation to us all. 

Oil press 

First press of the oil is the extra virgin 

This year, let the Lord speaks into your situation. The light the revelation and wisdom 

Second press of the oil is for medicine

Strokes after strokes and by His stripes, that is our medicine, we are healed. 

The third press makes us clean. In Him we have redemption and forgiveness of all our sins according to the riches of His glory