FOR THE NEW YEAR 2016 Colossians 31217 Preached at ChristWay UMC on 132016 By Rev Daniel Yang 7 COMMITMENTS FOR 2016 COMMIT YOURSELF TO FORGET YOUR FAILURES COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE UP YOUR GRUDGES ID: 594881
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A NEW COMMITMENTS
FOR
THE NEW YEAR (2016)
Colossians
3:12-17
Preached at
ChristWay
UMC on 1/3/2016
By Rev. Daniel YangSlide2
7 COMMITMENTS FOR 2016
COMMIT
YOURSELF TO FORGET YOUR FAILURES
COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE UP YOUR GRUDGES
COMMIT YOURSELF TO RESTORE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
COMMIT YOURSELF TO TURN YOUR BACK TO TRANSGRESSIONS.
COMMIT YOURSELF TO LOVE
COMMIT YOURSELF TO SERVICE
COMMIT YOURSELF TO CHURCHSlide3
Read
Colossians 3:12-17Slide4
12
You are God's chosen people. You are holy and dearly loved. So put on
tender mercy
and
kindness
as if they were your
clothes
. Don't be
proud
. Be
gentle
and
patient
.
13
Put up with each other.
Forgive
the things you are holding
against
one another. Forgive, just as the
Lord forgave you
. Slide5
14
And over all of those good things put on
love
. Love holds them all together perfectly as if they were one.
15
Let the
peace
that Christ gives rule in your hearts. As parts of one body, you were appointed to live in peace. And be thankful. Slide6
16
Let Christ's word
live
in you like a
rich treasure
. Teach and correct each other wisely. Sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing with thanks in your hearts to God.
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Do everything you say or do in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Always give thanks to God the Father through
Christ.
Let Pray!Slide7
What are some of the activities at the Hmong New Year?
Ball Tossing (
Pov
Pob
)
between two persons during the Hmong New
Year. We have no so called “dating” in our culture.
Courtship in public means taboo or bring shameful to the parents and relatives. Courtship was only allowed at night after the parents fall sleep. Therefore, New Year is the only time the parents allowed their sons and daughters to courtship publicly in front of the people. Slide8
With “
Pov
Pob
” the girls hold their balls and pick the guy she likes to have a conversations or perhaps is attractive to her. New Year is the time that parents allowed their sons and daughters to marriage. Hmong believe that it is a good month to marriage and start their lives together
. Slide9
Bull Fighting
(
Nyuj
Sib
Nraus
) – Attractive to all people.
Top
Spin
– Attractive to the men.
night
to stay warm and having
conversation
with each other. Children
learned
their story through Grandfather's
foretold
story. Slide10
Eating Bread without Yeast
– just like the Israel people in the Bible eat their unleavened bread
for 7 days to remember when God brought them out of slavery. God instructed them to prepared unleavened bread because it quick to made it.
Every family will prepared bread and eat at night to stay warm and having conversation with each other. Children learned their story through Grandfather's foretold story. Slide11
Well it’s that time of year again when in a fit of optimism many of us make great promises to ourselves about what we are going to do in the New Year that we usually abandon about the second week in January.
I am not sure about your, but certainly I did most of mine. Slide12
How many of
you
feel you have achieved your dreams in 2015?
How is your resolutions last year?
How may of you kept to your diet
in 2015?
For 2016, I have
7 new commitments
for us to start in the New Year that will please God and help us to have great relationship with each other called
“The ChristWay’s family.”
How many of you actually kept going to the gym past February?Slide13
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. COMMIT YOURSELF TO FORGET
YOUR FAILURES
“Forgetting what is behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for which God has called me heavenwards in Christ Jesus.” Phil 3:13-14
That advice from God’s Word has stood the test of time. I don’t know of any more relevant and practical advice for us at the start of 2016 then that!Slide14
Proverbs 24:16 - "Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them."
Don’t let your failures prevent your future… Slide15
Jeremiah 8:4-5 - "The LORD said: People of Jerusalem, when you stumble and fall, you get back up, and if you take a wrong road, you turn around and go back. So why do you refuse to come back to me? Why do you hold so tightly to your false gods?"
For 2015, we might stumble and fall but we need to get up and stay focus in 2016.Slide16
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.
COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE
UP YOUR GRUDGES
For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. Matthew 6:14-15 (NIV
)
And
when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. Mark 11:25 (NIV
)
Bear
with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13 (NIV)Slide17
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.
COMMIT YOURSELF TO RESTORE
YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Be Sure All are Committed With
Love
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13
But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: Ephesians 4:15
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Ephesians
4:26-27Slide18
4
.
COMMIT YOURSELF TO TURN YOUR
BACK ON YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS.
Transgression
refers to presumptuous sin. It means “to choose to intentionally disobey; willful trespassing.”
David was referring to this kind of sin when he wrote, “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered” (
Psalm 32:1
). When we knowingly run a stop sign, tell a lie, or deliberately disregard an authority, we are transgressing.Slide19
5.
COMMIT YOURSELF TO LOVE
John 13:34-35
34
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Romans 12:10
“Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above
yourselves.
First John
4:7-8
“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is
love.”Slide20
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. COMMIT YOURSELF TO SERVICE
Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many
.”
Philippians 2:5
-7
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of menSlide21
7. COMMIT YOURSELF TO CHURCH
Hebrews 10:24-25
:
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
How many churches have opened or closed? Church closed down not because they don’t give but because they don’t come to church. If they are in the church they should give. Slide22
Psalm 122:1-9
A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David. ...
Let make church is our priority in 2016… Everyone are committed to come to church unless you sick, work on Sunday or travel. Without YOU the church will be closed because YOU are the church. Slide23
Conclusion
Let remember that we need to committed ourselves to
COMMIT YOURSELF TO FORGET YOUR FAILURES
COMMIT YOURSELF TO GIVE UP YOUR GRUDGES
COMMIT YOURSELF TO RESTORE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
COMMIT YOURSELF TO TURN YOUR BACK TO TRANSGRESSIONS.
COMMIT YOURSELF TO LOVE
COMMIT YOURSELF TO SERVICE
COMMIT YOURSELF TO CHURCH
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