Sticking Like Velcro: Using "Sticky" in Our Lives

1. Series: Sticking Like Velcro In This Coming Year How We Can Use “Sticky”

2. How We Can Use “Sticky” “It is good to speak of God today.” Thank You for coming and listening.

3. How We Can Use “Sticky” James 4:8(KJV) 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

4. How We Can Use “Sticky” Sewing to wear Matthew 9:14-17(NKJV) 14Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?” 15And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

5. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Sewing to wear • Use the Lord’s fix in your life

6. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Sewing to wear • Use the Lord’s fix in your life • You cannot “sew” a new life onto the one you have

7. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Sewing to wear • Use the Lord’s fix in your life • You cannot “sew” a new life onto the one you have • You need to let the Lord (“Velcro”) attach a new life

8. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Sewing to wear • Use the Lord’s fix in your life • You cannot “sew” a new life onto the one you have • You need to let the Lord (“Velcro”) attach a new life • He can mend your life better than you can (make a mess)

9. How We Can Use “Sticky” Hanging to remember Matthew 23:1-23(NKJV) 1Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. 4For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.

10. How We Can Use “Sticky” 6They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, 7greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’ 8But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. 9Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. 10And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. 11But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. 13“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

11. How We Can Use “Sticky” 14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. 15“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. 16“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ 17Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? 18And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’ 19Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

12. How We Can Use “Sticky” • 20Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. 22And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. 23“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. • Phylacteries are small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers

13. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • Deuteronomy 11:18(NKJV) 18“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

14. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • We can hang the important things in our lives upon us (Jesus is the “Velcro”) • God’s Word – Deut. 11:18

15. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • We can hang the important things in our lives upon us (Jesus is the “Velcro”) • God’s Word – Deut. 11:18 • Justice - Mt. 23:23

16. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • We can hang the important things in our lives upon us (Jesus is the “Velcro”) • God’s Word – Deut. 11:18 • Justice - Mt. 23:23 • Mercy - Mt. 23:23

17. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • We can hang the important things in our lives upon us (Jesus is the “Velcro”) • God’s Word – Deut. 11:18 • Justice - Mt. 23:23 • Mercy - Mt. 23:23 • Faith - Mt. 23:23

18. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • When we are attached to the Lord by the Lord • We are different

19. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • When we are attached to the Lord by the Lord • We are different • We are close

20. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • When we are attached to the Lord by the Lord • We are different • We are close • We are accurate

21. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • When we are attached to the Lord by the Lord • We are different • We are close • We are accurate • We are usable

22. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Hanging to remember • When we are attached to the Lord by the Lord • We are different • We are close • We are accurate • We are usable • We are noticed

23. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Securing for safety • Eternal life • John 3:15(KJV) 15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

24. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Securing for safety • Eternal life • Right direction

25. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Securing for safety • Eternal life • Right direction • John 6:68(KJV) 68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. • John 5:39(NKJV) 39You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. • 1 John 5:11(NKJV) 11And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

26. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Securing for safety • Eternal life • Right direction • Protection and help • Psalms 46:1(KJV) 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

27. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Securing for safety • Eternal life • Right direction • Protection and help • Great confidence • Romans 8:38-39(KJV) 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

28. How We Can Use “Sticky” Attaching for convenience

29. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Attaching for convenience • We go where He goes

30. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Attaching for convenience • We go where He goes • We talk like He talks

31. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Attaching for convenience • We go where He goes • We talk like He talks • We love like He loves

32. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Attaching for convenience • We go where He goes • We talk like He talks • We love like He loves • We practice righteousness like He does • 1 John 3:4-10(NKJV) 4Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

33. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Attaching for convenience • We practice righteousness like He does • 7Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

34. How We Can Use “Sticky” Repairing our fragile lives Mark 5:1-20(NKJV) 1Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. 2And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, 4because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. 5And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him.

35. How We Can Use “Sticky” Repairing our fragile lives 7And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment me.” 8For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” 9Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” 10Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country. 11Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. 12So all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.”

36. How We Can Use “Sticky” Repairing our fragile lives 13And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea. 14So those who fed the swine fled, and they told it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had happened. 15Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. 16And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed, and about the swine. 17Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region.

37. How We Can Use “Sticky” Repairing our fragile lives 18And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him. 19However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.” 20And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

38. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Repairing our fragile lives • The Lord’s “Velcro” bound him better than man’s bindings – 3-5

39. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Repairing our fragile lives • The Lord’s “Velcro” bound him better than man’s bindings – 3-5 • The Lord’s “Velcro” repaired his broken and hurtful life - 15

40. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Repairing our fragile lives • The Lord’s “Velcro” bound him better than man’s bindings – 3-5 • The Lord’s “Velcro” repaired his broken and hurtful life - 15 • The Lord can repair our live Just as easily as He did this man - 16

41. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Repairing our fragile lives • The Lord’s “Velcro” bound him better than man’s bindings – 3-5 • The Lord’s “Velcro” repaired his broken and hurtful life - 15 • The Lord can repair our live Just as easily as He did this man - 16 • The Lord can set us on the right path – 19

42. How We Can Use “Sticky” • Repairing our fragile lives • The Lord’s “Velcro” bound him better than man’s bindings – 3-5 • The Lord’s “Velcro” repaired his broken and hurtful life - 15 • The Lord can repair our live Just as easily as He did this man - 16 • The Lord can set us on the right path – 19 • The Lord’s “Velcro” can change our lives and amaze our friends - 20

43. How We Can Use “Sticky” Something to consider... Are you running around trying to do “good” on your own? Are you attached to the One who can help you do right, be right, know right and show right?