THE RIGHT MEASUREMENTS

Pastor Tony Silveira

How do you Measure up?

You need to have a framework that identifies exactly what you’re trying to measure.

MEASUREMENTS…

MEASUREMENTS…

The requirement to enter Heaven…

God has a very high God has a very high requirement when it requirement when it

comes to entering heaven. comes to entering heaven. God says, "Only those who God says, "Only those who

are as righteous as My are as righteous as My Son, Jesus Christ, may Son, Jesus Christ, may

enter My holy heaven!" enter My holy heaven!"

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

Romans 3:10,11As it is written:  "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

How do you Measure up?

Do you measure up to God’s righteous requirement or do you come short (Romans 3:23)?

Romans 3:24

and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

How far are you from God? Because of sin,

man is separated from God

Man is also separated from God because of religious beliefs

FAR AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY

Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.

SEPARATED FROM SEPARATED FROM GODGOD

SINFULL MAN

HOLY GOD

SEPARATION

Isaiah 59:2

Acts 17:27So that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him, although He is not far from each one of us.

HOW TO CONNECT WITH GOD?God is not far from any of us, but the problem is that most people are not connected to God in the right way.

John 14:6Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.

Man is also separated from Man is also separated from God because of religious God because of religious beliefsbeliefs

GOD AS A MEASURING

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Amos 7:7This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Amos 7:8And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;

GOD’S PLUMB LINE IS FOR HIS PEOPLE…

Religion has one measurement but god has another…

Churches will always have to be re-aligned!

The decline of church discipline is perhaps the most visible failure of the contemporary church.

the contemporary church sees itself as a voluntary association of autonomous members, with minimal moral accountability to God, much less to each other

1 Pet. 2:9-10But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 Pet. 2:9-10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy

This is God’s This is God’s pattern...his pattern...his

measuring tape for measuring tape for the Church but often the Church but often Christians cross the Christians cross the

line because of line because of character issuescharacter issues

3 John 1:9I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us.

3 John 1:1010 So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.

3 John 1:11Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God

The pattern in people that corrupt the purity of a Church is always the same1.They love to be first and to

have everybody’s attention2.They use malicious gossip

about the Church Leadership

3.They put people out of the Church because of their lack of brotherly love

Man is also separated from Man is also separated from God because of religious God because of religious beliefsbeliefs

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Revelation 2212Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit.

Revelation 2213I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last (the Before all and the End of all).

Revelation 2214Blessed (happy and to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city.

Revelation 2215[But] without are the dogs and those who practice sorceries (magic arts) and impurity [the lewd, adulterers] and the murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and deals in falsehood (untruth, error, deception, cheating).

How Valuable are you?

There may be some people who do not think you are worth very much at all…

Matthew 10:29-3129 Are not two little sparrows sold for a penny? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's leave (consent) and notice.

Matthew 10:29-31But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Fear not, then; you are of more value than many sparrows.

HOW VALUABLE ?

HOW VALUABLE ?

John 3:16For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 6:20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

How do you Measure up?

It’s so important to understand the right measurements in God’s Kingdom!

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WAY!

GOD’S PLUMB LINE IS FOR HIS PEOPLE…

ALLOW GOD TO MEASURE YOU UP TODAY!