Dollar Bill Club 2025 Through Sept 14 = 38 Weeks
$ 400 - Camp Joy
$1,500 - Crossroads Clinic
$1,500 - God’s Food Bank
$1,500 - Hands of Jesus
$1,500 - Hope House
$1,500 - Logan County Council On Aging
$1,200 - Langston BCM
$1,000 - Springs Christian Radio – Guthrie
Matthew 13:31-32
31 ...“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.
32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
Ephesians 6:12
“We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
God’s Kingdom in a Divided World
1. God’s Kingdom... Starts Small 2. 3. 4. 5.
God’s Kingdom in a Divided World
1. God’s Kingdom... Starts Small
2. God’s Kingdom... Grows Despite Opposition 3. 4. 5.
God’s Kingdom in a Divided World
1. God’s Kingdom... Starts Small
2. God’s Kingdom... Grows Despite Opposition
3. God’s Kingdom... Offers Shelter
4. 5.
2 Timothy 2:24–25
24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth
When We Disagree
1. We Should Listen For Understanding
2. 3.
James 1:19
“Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.”
Proverbs 18:13
“The one who gives an answer before he listens—this is foolishness and disgrace for him.”
When We Disagree
1. We Should Listen For Understanding
2. We Should Speak Without Anger
3.
Proverbs 15:1
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
Ephesians 4:29 “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs.”
When We Disagree
1. We Should Listen For Understanding
2. We Should Speak Without Anger
3. Respond With Biblical Wisdom
John 8:6
“Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground”
Matthew 16:15
“Who do you say that I am?”
1 Peter 2:23
“When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.”
James 3:9–10
9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
God’s Kingdom in a Divided World
1. God’s Kingdom... Starts Small
2. God’s Kingdom... Grows Despite Opposition
3. God’s Kingdom... Offers Shelter
4. Our True Enemy
5.
Matthew 16:23
“But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
God’s Kingdom in a Divided World
1. God’s Kingdom... Starts Small
2. God’s Kingdom... Grows Despite Opposition
3. God’s Kingdom... Offers Shelter
4. Our True Enemy
5. Persevering In The Last Days
2 Timothy 3:1–5
1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
2 Timothy 3:14-15 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it 15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Plant Mustard Seeds
1. Seeds of Prayer.
2. Seeds of Peace.
3. Seeds of Reconciliation
Romans 12:21
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Father in Heaven, Thank You for reminding us that Your Kingdom grows even in the darkest of times.
Forgive us where we have let anger, fear, or division take root in our hearts. Teach us to plant mustard seeds of faith, of peace, of reconciliation. Make us a church that provides shelter in a weary and broken world. May Your Kingdom come, and Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Matthew 17:20
20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
17:5–6
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
