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Sermon On The Mount - The Secret To Getting High

Pastor Neli this week continues our series of Sermon On The Mount but this week is all about getting to our place of secret to have an in depth relationship with God.  Every time Jesus wanted to pray to God He went to a hillside or on top a mountain to be close with His Father in secret.  Do we have a secret place?  Where do we go to be close to God?  The secret to your success in life is the success in your secret life.

And your Father, who knows all secrets, will reward you.

- Matthew 6:4 (TLB)

Sermon On The Mount - I Am The Law

Sermon On The Mount Part 3.  I Am The Law.  This week Pastor Neli unpacks Matthew 5:7-48 and shows us the intention of the law written in The Old Testament.  The New Testament is The Old Testament fully revealed and shows Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law. Jesus is clarifying what was already written.  He is not changing the law, but going to the heart of why the law exists.  We must not be challenged to fulfill the law, but to be guided to the one who has fulfilled it - Jesus Christ.

Sermon On The Mount - Take The High Road

A new series begins this week.  Sermon On The Mount.  Possibly one of Jesus' most popular sermons.  Tune in this week as Ps Neli goes through Matthew Chapter 5:1-12 and listen to how Jesus is going to change the way we used to think.  This week is about taking the high road.  When Jesus spoke to the crowd he positioned himself high on the mount, and his disciples followed Him because they didn't want to become a "crowd" Christian, they wanted to have a deeper relationship with the Son of God.  This is what we must do.  We must say, "I refuse to be part of the crowd.  I want to walk with You"

Small Things BIG Difference - Love is a Verb

Small Things BIG Difference series concludes this week.  A strong topic to remember and have in our hearts as the days go on.  Love is a Verb.  PS Neli will teach us to ABIDE in God's love.  Christians live for God and in loving God, we want to live by His commands but there are things the enemy will use to detach us from the vine God has placed us on.  The Enemy will Disconnect us, Distract us, Discourage us.  But to be fruitful we must stay connected on the vine.  We must Remain Connected, Remain Focused, Remain Encouraged.  Our relationship with God is worth fighting for.  

Small Things BIG Differences - Up To Bat

Part Four of our Small Things BIG Difference series. This week Pastor Neli Talks about coming Up To Bat.  Baptizing And Teaching where we baptize and teach people about the word of God.  But to reach those God has sent us to, we must first let go of what's comfortable so we can reach out to those with difference perspectives and interests.   It is by doing this we are able to baptize them with water and build in them a new relationship with God.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

- 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)

Small Things BIG Differences - Who You Wit'?

Part 3 in our Small Things BIG Difference series.  This week we truly find out who we're with and who is with us always.  In the Great Commission Jesus Christ tells us He will be with us always, until the end of age.  Jesus wants to dwell within us, not just visit us.  The way we live our lives are based on the beliefs we hold in our hearts.  So let us be empowered by the Holy Spirit and dedicate our lives to Christ Jesus.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

- Acts 1:8

Small Things BIG Differences - Come and Go

Part 2 in our Small Things BIG Difference series and Ps Neli reaches out for us to listen, Come and Go.  Come in the presence on The Lord and go to where He has called us to go.  Coming is invitational but going is a commandment.  The Lord has already called us to go out and make disciples but how many other times have we either ignored our calling because we are too comfortable in our comfort zone.  Let us step out in faith and continue to do the great works God has planned for us.

Small Things BIG Differences

Ps Neli begins a new series this week.  Small Things, BIG Differences.  At Every Nation Brisbane we are crazy about God and we are committed to grow in the knowledge of who He is in our lives.  We all have an opportunity to lean on Jesus Christ when we deny ourselves and follow God.  We all have a choice to follow God as our beliefs grow.  When we have our beliefs rooted in Christ, our values and how we put them into practice will see a natural growth in His Kingdom.

"Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life."

- John 5:24

More Than A Song - In Times Of Injustice

Ps. Taulu Schuster keeps our series coming with Part 4 this week about worshiping God in the times of injustice.  In times of injustice we want to get even, we want to get justice for these wrongdoings.  We let the ideas of this world rule us in the area of injustice.  We therefore become lead by things of this world rather than being lead by the Spirit. Worship is what we do to trust God for what He does for us.  

God will protect us (Psalm 7:1)

God will vindicate us (Psalm 7:8)

God's people will worship Him (Psalm 7:17)

God is our vindicator when we worship Him in times of injustice

More Than A Song - Worship Through The Seasons

Part 3 in our series on More Than A Song.  This week Roisin Welsh shows us the seasons we go through with God.  There's a time for everything and God has made everything beautiful in His timing. God is in charge of both the times and the seasons.  What season are you in?  Will you listen to the voice of God for direction or witness a repeat of the lessons God is teaching you?

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.

- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8