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The Ripple Effect…

The Ripple Effect…. All of our thoughts and actions have an impact. Psalm 19:14 “Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.”. Part 1: Understanding Influence (Your Worship Has a Ripple Effect).

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The Ripple Effect…

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  1. The Ripple Effect… All of our thoughts and actions have an impact. Psalm 19:14“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.”

  2. Part 1: Understanding Influence (Your Worship Has a Ripple Effect) • Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion • To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction: or the forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions. • When a person walks: they push against the floor, and the floor pushes against the person. • Psalm 37:23 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.”

  3. Influence Defined • The act or power of producing an effect without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command; the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways (Webster)

  4. In the classic film, It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey is given the opportunity to see what life would be like without him. The world has no memory of his existence & George is dismayed by the plight of his friends and family. Without his influence, their lives lack the warmth & richness he is accustomed to seeing. Clarence, his guardian angel, sums up the lesson that he hopes George will learn from the experience. • "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"

  5. Three Basic Truths about Influence • Everyone has influence. • We choose the nature of our influence. • We have to work to earn the influence we desire to have.

  6. Five things that determine and shape our influence: • Our Values (What we believe) • Our Priorities (How we actually live) • Our Stewardship (How we manage and model what we have; our leverage) • Our Relationships (Who we hang around, choose your team wisely) • Our Duplication (Our Fruit and offspring)

  7. 2 Types of Influence • Positive • 1 Timothy 4:12 ESV “Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” • Matthew 5:13 ESV “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.” • Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” • Proverbs 13:20 ESV “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.” • Matthew 28:19 ESV “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,”

  8. 2 Types of Influence • Negative • The Power of Sin: • 2 Samuel 11:1-5 ESV “In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”

  9. The Ten Commandments • All About our Worship • Exod 20:14 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” • Exod 20:3-5 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

  10. Adultery • Defined in the Hebrew as a great apostasy (Turning Away) and idolatrous worship (Giving honor and glory to another) • Violation of our Covenant with God & Man • Causes Death • Negates our worship (Negative Shift in the Atmosphere)

  11. Observe: • The Cognition • Matt 5:28 “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her” • The Conception • Seed of lust produces unGodly offspring • The Cover Up • The only remedy is repentence • The Consequences • The Death of the Child

  12. But, Praise Be to God • The Compassion in God’s Grace (Psalm 51)

  13. Ps 51:1-19 “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

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