Pastor John Samuel Barnett delivers an important but seemingly forgotten declaration from God’s Word. As Christians, being changed in the likeness of Christ, we are to live differently from those around us. The way we raise our families, the way we act in traffic, the way we conduct business, and even the way we do the most mundane things should declare the glory of God to the world. Let us take this important challenge and willingly assess what we say to the world. Is Christ proclaimed?

https://youtu.be/_VUCXRfOHxk
(From 2016FEB07 – SWS-11 – Why Should We Be Praying Every Day For God To Deliver Us And Every Believer We Know From The Evil One)

To start the beginning of the work week we look at Pastor John Samuel Barnett’s final areas of the pathway to honor and serve God that we began with last week.

In sin, the chief goal of man is to feed his pride. In faith, the chief goal of man is to limit himself and glorify God. In today’s lesson, we see that we can do this by decreasing our selfish desires and sinful deeds. We also listen to ourselves less and obey God more. We also slay our pride daily and seek to look at God as the Ultimate Being that He is. We must decrease and He must increase.

https://youtu.be/iMIm6KBf90M
(From 2016JAN24 – SWS-10 – Following Christ – The Path Jesus Left For Our Safety)

This week’s Q&A is a little different this week. For the past month, Pastor John Samuel Barnett has been covering Roman Catholicism, the Reformation, and the Church. The video is the collection of all those in one place. It is an amazingly valuable resource especially for those of us who have friends or family who are RCC. Please feel free to share this with anyone who would benefit from this great teaching.

https://youtu.be/YWJIBMUBl6U
(From Q&A-123, 124, 125, & 126)

Pastor John Samuel Barnett series on the Lord’s prayer shows us that prayer is a valuable tool in the Christian’s life. It sets us on the pathway to God and resets us when we fail. Prayer, in today’s short lesson, is the means by which we can have fellowship and trust with the Creator of the universe.

https://youtu.be/QT0R_g3RS5Q
(From 2016JAN24 – SWS-10 – Following Christ – The Path Jesus Left For Our Safety)

Books like “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand and “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier, among others, have a common theme of an individual standing up against the status quo of society. These types of books are interesting to us because we like seeing the individual take on the group and hope to win. It makes for a good struggle story, good drama, and allows us to want to identify with characters like this.

As Christians, we are told to be in the world but to be separate from the world and what most people do. After all, we were called out from the world at salvation and we should have no desire to seek reintegration. Pastor John Samuel Barnett provides this lesson from God’s Word. We should surrender to God alone and fight against our desires to be like the world.https://youtu.be/mCqOkRAywLM(From 2016JAN24 – SWS-10 – Following Christ – The Path Jesus Left For Our Safety)

Youtube is an amazing service. It gives people the ability to see and experience things that happen in other places/culture that are different than our own. For example, there are videos of sheep from different flocks grazing on the same patch of land. Then one of the shepherds whistles and calls out and his sheep break from the pack and go back home with him.

Is it no wonder that Christ used this same imagery for His teaching on the salvation of His elect people? Pastor John Samuel Barnett ties this image of salvation as the very first need in order for anyone to follow the will of God.

https://youtu.be/pgNnbWy0zis
(From 2016JAN24 – SWS-10 – Following Christ – The Path Jesus Left For Our Safety)

To start off the new work week, take a moment to take confidence in this illustration of God’s sovereignty that Pastor John Samuel Barnett provides for us out of God’s own description of Himself in His Word.

https://youtu.be/kzc5fDV9xi4
(From 2016JAN24 – SWS-10 – Following Christ – The Path Jesus Left For Our Safety)

This week we looked at the Christian’s call to be in the world yet set apart from the world. We saw the commands in God’s Word to seek Him and not our own desires. The Christian life isn’t an easy path to walk. In 1 Thessalonians 5 we are told to rejoice always. A difficult command for sure. But in John 11, we see that Jesus wept.

In this week’s Q&A, Pastor John Samuel Barnett shows how these two passage are compatible with each other and the implications they have in our walk after Christ.

https://youtu.be/sPyAXaWYV60
(2014JAN26 – Q&A-54)

When we give into our sinful desires we will ultimately come to ruin. The people dangled before you become objects instead of imager barers of God. The things that you own end up owning you. The label given to you by others is how you end up defining yourself. These are worldly desires and outcomes.

A Christian desires not these things. As Christians our desires should be for God and to do His will. We should desperately seek His face in all things. Our chief end should be to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

That’s the challenge given to us by Pastor John Samuel Barnett from God’s Word.

https://youtu.be/gAvHAJHwi_w
(From 2016JAN24 – SWS-10 – Following Christ – The Path Jesus Left For Our Safety)

Two other areas that work closely with the adage of “sex sells” is the desire for things and the desire for status – lust of the eyes and the pride of life.

We see this with the pushing and shoving that comes every year on Black Friday and we see it with people who fall into debt who “need” what they see others have and they don’t. Pastor John Samuel Barnett shows that God warns us about these as a status of our fallen human condition to warn us to be on guard against them.

https://youtu.be/8WLiQ___DBM
(From 2016JAN17 – SWS-09 – Lessons from Christ’s Temptation for Our Resisting the Devil’s Attacks)