The Better Life

1. OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.

2. The Better Life Week 3 – Increase “Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.”Proverbs 15:16

3. The Better Life Increase Jesus said – “Give, and it will be given to you.” Luke 6:38 Solomon said – “Cast your bread upon the water and after many days you will find it again.” Ecclesiastes 11:1 “A man who has friends must himself be friendly...” Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV) Jesus said – “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24 Apostle Paul says – “...what you sow does not come to life unless it dies.” 1 Corinthians 15:36

4. The Better Life Increase 1Corinthians 3:1-8 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labour. (NKJV)

5. The Better Life Increase First Thought There is a deadly factor 2 Corinthians 10:12 “For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” Focusing on comparison

6. The Better Life Increase 2 Corinthians 10:12 “For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.” First Thought There is a deadly factor Focusing on comparison Philippians 3:13-14 “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

7. The Better Life Increase Second Thought God is a God of increase • vs.6 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” Genesis 1:11 “Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”

8. The Better Life Increase Second Thought God is a God of increase • vs.6 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” Acts 2:47 “And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.” Parable of the Wheat & Tares (Matthew 13:24-32)

9. The Better Life Increase Second Thought God is a God of increase • vs.6 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” Colossians 2:19 “(taking of Christ), from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.” Parable of the Wheat & Tares (Matthew 13:24-32)

10. The Better Life Increase Third Thought The Needed Increase in Godliness 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” Three kinds of people on planet earth The Unregenerated The Spiritually Alive The Carnal

11. The Better Life Increase Third Thought The Needed Increase in Godliness 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 “But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more”

12. The Better Life Increase Third Thought The Needed Increase in Godliness 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 “But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more” 1 Thessalonians 3:12 “And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you”

13. The Better Life Increase Third Thought The Needed Increase in Godliness The Pride Poem: Pride there is of rank, a pride of birth, A pride of learning, and a pride of purse, A London pride there be on earth A host of prides, some better and some worse. But of all the prides since Lucifer’s attaint, The proudest swells a self-elected saint.

14. The Better Life Increase Third Thought The Needed Increase in Godliness Proverbs 14:3-4 “In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; but much increase comes by the strength of an ox.” Colossians 4:5“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.”

15. The Better Life Increase BLUE SKY Vision for 2014 New pastoral ministry • Youth & Family Pastor • School Chaplin • Manor Lakes Youth Group

16. The Better Life Week 3 – Increase “Better a little with the fear of the Lord than great wealth with turmoil.”Proverbs 15:16

17. OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.