A New Way

A New Way
Joshua 3:3-4

Sermon by Jack Nazary

Colonial Hills Baptist Church - December 1970

Introduction: As we face the new year we have not passed this way before.

We will meet situations we cannot forsee.
We do not know who will live and die.
We do not know whether we will be in this place or that.
We do not know if good health or broken in health.
Many things about the future we do not know.
So we need to take heed.
Time for a new start, time for resolution and goals for the New Year. I want to talk with you about it.

I. A time for confession: sin and failure
want things to be different
repentence needed - confession essential

II. Start right by praising God for blessings

III. Setting goals for the future
1. read bible through in a year
2. memorize scripture
3. pray more
4. win others to Christ

Do better by trying than by not trying.

The Bible!! What so ever your hands find to do, do it with your might.

Galatians 6:9 - Let us not be weary in well doing.
2 Corinthians 9 - He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully.
1 Corinthians 15:58 - Therefore, my beloved brethren be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

IV. Time for refreshing from the Lord

V. Time to be saved now
2 Corinians 6:2 - now is the accepted time
Hebrews 3:15 - today if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts

Realize you are lost
Realize you cannot save yourself
Recognize Jesus only as Savior