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September: Recovery Month
Responsible Ministry: Usher Ministry
Theme: “Deliverance Is Available”

Sermon Series: “Deliverance Is Available”
Texts: Romans 6:15-23; Philippians 2:3-4; Job 36:15; 2 Corinthians 10:4-6; Psalm 147:3

 

Sermon #1: Deliverance Is Available from Sin
Text: Romans 6:15-23
SCI: We Should Be Slaves to Righteousness Instead of Slaves to Sin
Billboard: OVERCOME SLAVERY TO SIN!

Sermon #2: Deliverance Is Available from Selfishness
Text: Philippians 2:3-4
SCI: God Wants Us to Be Selfless Instead of Selfish
Billboard: OVERCOME SELFISHNESS!

Sermon #3: Deliverance Is Available Through Suffering
Text: Job 36:15
SCI: God Can Deliver Us From Suffering—But God Can Also Deliver Us Through Suffering
Billboard: OVERCOME THROUGH SUFFERING!

Sermon #4: Deliverance Is Available from Strongholds
Text: 2 Corinthians 10:4-6
SCI: Earthly Weapons Can’t Break Strongholds—But Heavenly Weapons Can Break Strongholds
Billboard: OVERCOME STRONGHOLDS! 

Sermon #5: Deliverance Is Available from Sorrow
Text: Psalm 147:3
SCI: God Is Not a Good Physician for Sorrow—God Is the Best Physician for Sorrow
Billboard: OVERCOME SORROW!

 

Each Sermon Central Idea is developed in the form of an indicative.
Each Billboard is developed in the form of an imperative.


Sermon Series Overview and Outline
Prepared by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for September 1, 2024 – September 29, 2024

Helpful Quotes

  • “God hears, and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.” – Joyce Meyer

     

  • “Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength, and wiping out our resistance.” – Aiden Wilson Tozer

     

  • “Nobody appreciates deliverance like those who’ve nearly been destroyed.” – Beth Moore

     

  • “The wise man in the storm praises God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

     

  • “Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.” – Oswald Chambers

     

  • “How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.” – David Wilkerson

     

  • “I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin... I appreciate the blessed fact of God’s forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am.” – Watchman Nee

     

  • “In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on God alone. When no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God--and God alone!” – Charles Spurgeon

     

  • “Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.” – Teresa of Avila

     

  • “But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.” – Amy Carmichael

     

  • “As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.” – Joyce Meyer

     

  • “I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.” – John Bunyan