“Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.”

Romans 12:10 NLT

Luke 24:5–6 (NLT) “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead!”

Premise: What looks like the end in your life is often the very place where God is about to reveal resurrection power.

“This Ain’t That” Means: is a declaration that what you’re looking at is not what you think it is

Truths

1: This Ain’t What It Looks Like

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT) “For we live by believing and not by seeing.”

2: This is NOT The End

Philippians 1:6 (NLT) “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished…”

3: This is not about Who You Were, but indeed about who you are BECOMING!

Romans 6:4 (NLT) “For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead… now we also may live new lives.”

Insight

Point 1: What Looked Like Defeat Was Actually The Setup

Luke 23:46 (NLT) “Then Jesus shouted, ‘Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!’ And with those words he breathed his last.”

Point 2: The Grave Was Not The End… It Was The Transition

Matthew 27:60 (NLT) “Then Joseph placed the body in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.”

Point 3: Resurrection Is God’s Response To What Tried To Kill You

Luke 24:6 (NLT) “He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead!”

Genesis 12:1 (NLT) “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.’”

Genesis 13:14–15 (NLT) “After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, ‘Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.’”

Lot: a person,thing,or place. Anything we want to keep and its standing between you and Gods promise.

Point 1: Some people are meant for a season, not the promise.
Genesis 13:6 (NLT) “But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together.”

Point 2: Your Lot can create unnecessary conflict.
Genesis 13:7 (NLT) “So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.”

Point 3: God speaks clearly after separation.
Genesis 13:14 (NLT) “After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram…”

Genesis 13:14–15 (NLT) “After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, ‘Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession.’”

3 Action Steps (Application)

1. Ask God for discernment.
Pray: “Lord, reveal who belongs in this season of my life.”
2. Stop carrying people God never assigned to you.
3. Trust God with the separation.

“The man with a deformed hand was there. Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus’ enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath. Jesus said to the man, ‘Come and stand in front of everyone.’ Then he turned to his critics and asked, ‘Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?’ But they wouldn’t answer him. He looked around at them angrily and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, ‘Hold out your hand.’ So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!”

Mark 3:1–5 NLT

“A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. ‘If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,’ he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be healed!’ Instantly the leprosy disappeared, and the man was healed.”

Mark 1:40-42 NLT

For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” '

Luke 19:10 NLT