SPORTS SUNDAY
“A REAL FAN ”
New Life Bible Church
Allen S. McLauchlin, Pastor
June 29,2008
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things,
holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
Matthew 4:8
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?
Run in such a way as to get the prize.
Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict
training.....Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight
like a man beating the air.
1 Corinthian 9 :24-26
.because we are not wrestling with blood and flesh.
Ephesians. 6:12
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us
throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let
us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Hebrews. 12:1
“ARE YOU A REAL FAN OF THE LORD”?
1. A
real fan
IS NEVER LATE FOR SERVICE.
I rejoiced with those who said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the LORD."
Psalm 122:1
2. A
real fan
IS TOTALLY FOCUS ON GOD IN SERVICE.
He read it aloud from daybreak till noon (six hours) .... And all the people
listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
Nehemiah . 8:3
3. A real fan
NEVER LEAVES SERVICES EARLY.
Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on
talking until midnight. (12 hours)
Acts 20:7
4. A real fan
WANTS TO SIT ON FRONT PEW OR CLOSE AS CAN
.
They replied, "Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in
your glory."
Mark 10:37
5. A
real fan
NEVER OR VERY SELDOM MISS SERVICES.
Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.
Acts 2:46
6. A
real fan
DOESN’T MIND GIVING FINANCIALLY TO GOD’S WORK.
Therefore we ought to support pastors, that we may be fellow workers with the
truth.
3 John 8
Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty
welled up in rich generosity.
For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their
ability. Entirely on their own,
they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this
service to the saints.
2 Corinthians. 8:2-4
7. A real fan
STUDIES AND UNDERSTANDS SCRIPTURE.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to
be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy. 2:15
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You!
Psalm 119:11
"You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and
these are they which testify of Me.
John 5:39
8.
A real fan is not ashamed to
SHOUTS PRAISES
to the LORD because Christ is
victorious.
having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and
which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to
the cross. When He had disarmed the
rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over
them through Him.
Colossians 2:14,15
For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet, the last
enemy that will be abolished is death.
1 Corinthians 15:25,26
Praise God in his sanctuary; praise
him in his mighty heavens. Praise
him for his acts of power; praise
him for his surpassing greatness.
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
praise him with tambourine and dancing,
praise him with the strings and flute,
praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.
Let everything the has breath PRAISE THE LORD.
Psalm 150
VICTORY PARADE:
And most of the multitude spread their garments in the road, and others were
cutting branches from the trees, and spreading them in the road.
And the multitudes going before Him, and those who followed after were
crying out, saying, "Hosanna to the
Son of David; Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the
highest!" And when He had entered
Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"
And the multitudes were saying, "This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth
in Galilee."
Matthew 21:8-11