Welcome to theGreen Meadow

Church of Christ

“an agreement or pledge to do something; being obligated, bound, or emotionally impelled”

COMMITMENT

• School / Education

• Career Goals• Financial

Obligations• Health• Marriage / Family

COMMITMENT

“For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.” Matt 12:50

God Wants Relationship

“Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’” Gal 4:6

God Wants Relationship

But, challenges await…Matt 13:20-21

COMMITTEDto the LORD

God Committed Himself• Why?• LOVE ! • John 3:16,

Rom 8:38-39• How far was He

willing to go?• Rom 5:6-8

• He obligated Himself• Heb 6:13-19

• Jesus became poor so He could give riches to you!

Jesus Committed Himself

“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.”

2 Cor 8:9

Jesus Committed Himself

• Jesus became poor so He could give riches to you!– 2 Cor 8:9,

Phil 2:5-8, Heb 2:9, 14-17

• His commitment was crucial

Jesus Committed Himself

YOU Must Commit YourselfGod requires something from you

Rom 12:1-22 Cor 8:1-5

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30

YOU Must Give YourSELF

Self-made?

Dan6:1-10

“For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day.” 2 Tim 1:12