We were delayed by a cold but we were not taken out! The LFYS team is back this week with the Application & Activation episode in our Be a Good Receiver series. This week we are hoping to stir up your thinking and present you the gospel with fresh eyes and talk through SEVEN points and counterpoints that are major blockers in your walk to be a good receiver and how to overcome them. 

Show Notes

Fun stuff:

Count of Mounti Cristo reference

Who’s ready for A LOT of bible verses?! Yeah, me too. Here we go:

(In order mentioned)

Romans 3:23
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”

John 16:7
”But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.”

1 Corinthians 12:2
”Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.”

John 14:6
”Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Matthew 7:13-14
”“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”

1 Corinthians 6:20
”you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”

2 Corinthians 1:22
”set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.”

1 Peter 2:8
”A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”

Matthew 6:14
”For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”

1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Peter 2:22
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

Matthew 11:30
”For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”