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whole life. I have known these two characteristics to give me uncertainty and even fear. They have been a curse to

me and not even a close blessing. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT) For God has not given us a spirit of fear and ti-midity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

However, I have also seen where boldness turns into brashness and brings harm to the cause of Christ.

This happens when we push our own desires and our own causes. The kind of boldness that we need is demon-strated and modeled for us by Jesus. This boldness starts with an undying and unwavering confidence and trust in the absolute goodness and righteousness of God and all of His ways. This means that whenever He reveals His will and commandments to us, we will have a boldness to carry out and follow His will. We become bold because we know that His ways are always good and righteous.

I know this is an area that I am weak in. Whenever I write an article or preach a message that I am weak in and when I am struggling with that issue, God always sends one of you to remind me of what I wrote or preached about. Therefore, to write about this, puts me into greater ac-countability to the Lord and to all of you.

Timidity & shyness about me may be okay, but timidity & shyness about the Lord is never okay. This is an area that I find a lot of difficulty with. I tend to let my timidity & shy-ness about myself bleed over into my relationship with the Lord Jesus. Because I am a timid & shy person, it is easy to allow myself to be the same way in my relationship to my Lord.

Allow me the opportunity to let you know the two areas that have been the most greatly affected in my life. The first area is in witnessing to others. It has never been easy to witness to others for me. I have always been timid and shy in this area. It is a constant battle to witness to people, but the Lord has allowed me to see limited victory in this area. The Lord has been gracious and has allowed me to be a part of the salvation experience in scores and scores of lives. I know that it has not been because of my elo-quence or my boldness for I have entered into the majority

of these experiences with fear and trembling. However, the Lord has taught me the reality of 2 Corinthians 12:9-

10 (NLT) 9 Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. 10 That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

In my weakness (when I am covered in fear, shyness, and timidity) God has shown Himself to be so strong and pow-erful. However, I have to confess that in the majority of times, my weaknesses have overcome me and I have suc-cumbed to the devil and retreated rather than obeyed the Lord and advance. This is where my shame and remorse has overcome me. I know that there is forgiveness in the Lord, but I struggle to forgive myself because I should know better. I have therefore come to know personally the love and patience of the Lord as He has waited on me many times. I am now trying to run into His arms of love and forgiveness instead of crawling into them.

The second area where timidity and shyness has had a deep impact on me is in the area where God confronts me with the truth of His Word, the Bible. There have been so many times that God convicts me as I study His Word. He sometimes convicts me to the point where He reveals to me that I have been wrong in my understanding of certain portions of scripture. He also convicts me of a wrong ap-plication of that same scripture. As I get on my knees and ask Him for forgiveness, I sense His quick and complete forgiveness. However, because I am a pastor leading a lo-cal church body, He usually convicts me to reveal it to you and to begin the cor-rect application of that passage.

On many occasions it has been a battle royal, as I would rather hide it but, God has said "No." His desire is that His light would be brought into the

ISSUE

1-2 Boldness, Once God Reveals

Himself

3 The Gospel and Race

4-6 IMB’s Platt sends open letter

to SBC family

7-10 Announcements

11 Calendar

12 Sermon

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Timidity and shyness are not good characteristics that we should strive for as we mature in Jesus. Christ. However, for me, these are qualities that I am well familiar with for they have hounded me my

Boldness, once god reveals himself Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro

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Boldness, Once God Reveals Himself

State Offering

Goal

$115,000

darkness so that the right application can be applied to it. One of the biggest areas has been in the area of salvation.

God has confronted me on the fact that there is no scriptural evidence where one can pray a prayer and that prayer be so powerful that they are therefore saved. Scripture reveals that salvation comes through a changed life where one comes to love the Lord their God with all of their heart, mind and soul. Scripture also reveals to me that there is no such thing as a lukewarm Christian, because in Revelations 3 it says that being lukewarm repulses the Lord and He will spit you out of His mouth.

To understand this, is one thing, but to apply it is quite a different thing. Trying to communicate this to Valley Isle Fellowship has been one of the most difficult things that I have had to do in all my years of ministry. This is because I have had to confront a casual faith in Christ as being a lukewarm faith. Some don’t understand and some get angry with me. However, as a pastor (and as a Christian), I should never be seeking to be pleasing to the people of Valley Isle Fellowship, but rather to be pleasing only to the Lord. For if I am pleasing unto the Lord, He will make me pleasing to the people of His choice.

These have been hard lessons, but lessons that I would never have learned if I had yielded to timidity & shyness. I know that timidity & shyness can be conquered because I know the Word of God says so. However, I am still striving to see that victory in my life. There are brief times of victory but too many times of defeat. I will not give up in this struggle because I don’t want to go back to that life where there was only timidity & shyness. This was a life that pulled me into the muck and mire of fear. I want a life of Christ-like boldness!

Sue Nishikawa served as WMU

Director for the Hawaii Baptist

Convention from 1954-1980. The

offering was named after Sue in

1981 for her dedication to

missions and ministry.

Church Work Day at Waikapu property

Saturday, October 3, 2015

8:00am – 12:00pm

Looking for 8 Men to help with weed whacking

Need 2 more men working with (2) Manual Brush Cutter Mowers that

will take care of the major areas we will be working on.

Lunch will be provided

Sign-up on back table!!!

Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro

The Gospel and Race

9 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,10 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:9-10

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If you have turned on the news or been on social media in the past year, you probably have seen, heard and read about the ugliness of racism and hate that exists in our world today. From Christians and ethnic minorities being slaughtered in the Middle East to the shores of the European Union who are turning away migrants fleeing war torn Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan by the thousands, to the killing of an unarmed African-American man by a police officer that sparked huge hate filled riots in Ferguson, Missouri; we have seen people choose to hate people not like them and to keep building up walls. The world is wrestling with the brokenness of humanity and how to fix the hate that fills the heart of every man and causes us to look down on, hate and ignore those less fortunate and broken around us. But, the amazing truth is we, as believers, can speak truth into these situations like no one else can because of Jesus.

You see as Christians, there are two amazing truths that help us understand and speak life into this horrible sin of racism and prejudice. First, we believe that “…all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God…” (Romans 3:23). We believe that every person on this earth no matter their color, age, social status, mental capacity or skin color are beggars at the foot of the cross. We are all broken, desperate, blind and deserving of the wrath of God. Thus, if we are all beggars, there is no one superior race or culture. The Bible tells us that man came from dust (Genesis 2:7) and if we are all dust, how can one race be more superior than another? So, in God’s eyes, all humanity, regardless of skin color, needs rescue.

Secondly, we believe that scripture tells us that in Christ, there is no hierarchy, no one race better than another and that in the kingdom of God there is no ethnicity but one new people in Jesus. (Colossians 3:11) Jesus told Peter that there was no divide between Jew and Gentile (Acts 10) and finally the apostle John saw a vision of heaven in which people from every tribe, language, people and nation sang one song of worship (Revelation 5). Thus, if in Christ there are no divisions between race, ethnicity, skin color, socio-economic status, money or popularity, the church must strive to image and display this unity.

With all that being said, it is easy for humanity to refuse to

self-reflect and consider “what are my biases, prejudices, or hints of racism?” It is much easier to look at another person, country or culture and point the finger at them. Let me ask this again in another way: Does our culture (Hawaii/local culture) possess biases, prejudices, racism or hate that distorts the picture of the kingdom of God? I believe this is important for us as a church to think about because God is calling us, His church, to display and proclaim His kingdom to a lost and dying world around us.

So, I think it’s important for all of us who live here in this great state to ask the question: “As a member of this culture, are there any assumptions, biases, prejudices or racist beliefs that keep me from participating with the church to display the kingdom of God to the world around me?” It’s important for us in Hawaii to ask these questions because it is easy for us to quickly categorize division, racism and prejudice as an “other” problem and not our own. For people from Hawaii, we can look at the black/white race talk as not relevant to us but I know we have our biases, divisions and prejudices.

We must be willing to see our own biases in order to correct it. We don’t like looking at our own flaws. It is so much easier to look at others and blame “others” rather than seeing our own brokenness and sinfulness. So, brother and sister in the Lord: how are we doing bridging the gap between local and mainlander, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, single and married? Are we striving to

love one another, accept differences and commit to loving one another for the sake of the kingdom? How are we working to become a unified church of love where “the least of these” can find acceptance, repentance and grace? For the gospel to take root deeply in our hearts, we must be willing to look for any attitude, assumption or belief that distorts the message of grace through Jesus Christ, repent and live out the radical message of grace that God has called us to.

Pastor Jeremy Kaneshiro

IMB's Platt sends open letter to SBC family

by IMB staff, posted Friday, September 04, 2015 Reprinted wit permission from Baptist Press. Article may be found at

http://bpnews.net/45432/imbs-platt-sends-open-letter-to-sbc-family

RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- International Mission Board President David Platt released an open letter to Southern Baptists Friday (Sept. 4), related to the organization’s financial plan announced Aug. 27.

In the letter, Platt addresses several concerns and criticisms raised related to the plan, specifically the announcement that IMB will reduce its missionaries and staff by 600-800 people over the next six months. See related stories here and here.

Platt also calls on Southern Baptists to “pray that God will provide grace, wisdom, strength, and unity across the IMB family as we navigate the various challenges” in the coming months.

Full letter included below:

September 4, 2015

Dear SBC Family,

By now many of you may have heard that last week, IMB announced a plan to reduce the total number of our personnel (both here and overseas) by 600-800 people over the next six months. Since the moment this announcement was made, we have sought to communicate the details of this decision as clearly as possible to churches, state conventions, and national entities across the SBC (see this article and this FAQ document, in particular). In the middle of it all, though, I simply want to take a moment to share my heart with you.

This is certainly not an announcement that I, in any way, wanted to make. At the most recent meeting of the SBC in Columbus, I shared with messengers how IMB spent tens of millions more dollars than we received last year. In our budgeting process over the last couple of months, other leaders and I have recognized that we will have a similar shortfall this year, and we are projecting another shortfall of like magnitude next year. In fact, when we stepped back and looked at IMB finances since 2010, we realized that IMB has spent a combined $210 million more than people have given to us. By God’s grace, we have been able to cover these costs through reserves and global property sales. But we don’t have an endless supply of global property to sell, and our cash reserves are no longer at a desirable level for good stewardship going forward.

When staff leadership realized the severity of our financial situation, we knew that we needed to take significant action. We spent hours on our knees praying and at tables discussing potential options for balancing our budget, ranging from sending fewer missionaries to cutting various costs. We poured over financial models and looked at the long-term impact of each of our options. However, with 80% of our budget being devoted to personnel salary, benefits, and support expenses, we inevitably realized that any effort to balance our budget would require major adjustments in the number of our personnel. When we gathered with our trustees at our most recent meeting, the same conclusion was clear. Though board policy did not require an official trustee vote, and though these brothers and sisters agonized over the thought of many missionaries stepping off of the field, there was resolute and resounding recognition across the room that our financial situation required such action.

Some pastors have asked me over this last week, “Why doesn’t the IMB just ask the churches to give more money?” This sounds like a simple solution, but the IMB has been asking churches to give more money for many years. In many ways, we have told the church about our need and called the church to give to meet that need. Here’s just a small sampling of headlines and articles we have published:

2008 -- “IMB reports cautionary finance news that could have a significant impact on the Board’s work around the world next year.” Later that year, our trustee chair said to churches, “I am sounding the alarm. The IMB budget is under strain to support growth in our missionary force.”

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2009 -- “Economic challenges…IMB anticipating another tough financial year…IMB in budget shortfall crisis [that] could affect 600 positions.”

2010 -- “IMB lamenting financial declines, trying to balance budget…IMB sending 30 percent fewer long-term personnel than would be sent if there were no financial constraints.”

2011 -- “IMB having difficulty balancing budget…IMB lowering the missionary force.”

2012 -- “IMB preparing for another sobering financial report…IMB working through a painfully difficult process of trying to balance the budget.”

2013 -- “IMB urging for greater support from churches…IMB laments Christian callousness…IMB trustees vote for substantive proposal changes across the SBC.”

2014 -- Just two months before I stepped into my role, one article read: “IMB must soon come to grips with the demands placed on us by years of declining Cooperative Program receipts and Lottie Moon giving. We will be hard-pressed to continue supporting a mission force of our current number, much less see a greatly needed increase in the number of fully supported career missionaries on the field.”

I share all of this simply to say that we haven’t kept our financial position a secret. By God’s grace, the church has responded in many ways, including various special offerings like “Christmas in August” in 2009 and increased giving to the IMB through both the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering over the last four years. Yet while IMB has been asking churches to give and setting aggressive goals accordingly, the reality remains unchanged: IMB has spent $210 million more than we have been given. Simply put, we cannot keep operating like this.

Do I hope that churches give more to the IMB through the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering this year? Absolutely, and we are working zealously with churches, state conventions, and national entities toward this end. But I want to be crystal clear: I don’t blame the church for putting IMB in our current position. I love the church, we as IMB want to serve the church, and we believe the best way for us to do that right now is by operating within the means provided to us by the church.

Similarly, no blame should be assigned to previous IMB leadership. Previous leaders knew these financial realities, and they put in place a plan to slowly reduce our mission force (through normal attrition and reduced appointments) while using reserves and global property sales to keep as many missionaries on the field as possible. I praise God for the resources He provided to make that plan possible, and I praise God for leaders who chose not to sit on those resources, but to spend them for the spread of the gospel among the unreached. Ultimately, I praise God for the people who came to Christ over these last years because missionaries stayed on the field, and because we used our resources to keep them there.

Yet when staff and trustee leaders alike looked at the realities before us, we realized that plan is no longer viable, for we cannot continue to overspend as we have. For the sake of short-term financial responsibility and long-term organizational stability, we must put ourselves in a position in which we can operate within our budget, which necessarily means reducing the number of our personnel.

Words really can’t describe how much a sentence like that pains me to write, and pained me to communicate last week. For “600” and “800” are not just figures on a page; they are people around the world. For many of you, they are your family, friends, and fellow church members. They are brothers and sisters whom I love, and brothers and sisters whom I want to serve and support. I not only want as many of them as possible to stay on the field; I want multitudes more to join them on the field. But in order to even have a conversation about how to mobilize more people in the future, IMB must get to a healthy financial place in the present.

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I hope that all of this information helps give you a small glimpse into why IMB is taking these steps at this time. You can go to the links I referenced above to learn more about the two-phase process we are walking through over the next six months to reduce the number of our personnel. Our aim is to make this process as voluntary as possible, starting with a Voluntary Retirement Incentive, and then moving to an opportunity for other personnel to say voluntarily, “I believe the Lord may be leading me to a new assignment.” As the Lord leads 600-800 brothers and sisters into new places and positions over these days, we want to honor every single one of them with generous support, realizing that the longer we wait to take this action, the less generous we can be.

The comment I have appreciated most from pastors and church members during these days has been, “How can we help?” One way is obviously to give. To be sure, IMB is committed to operating within our means in the days ahead, yet we are praying that those means might increase so that we can stop pulling missionaries off of the field and start sending multitudes onto the field. Indeed, the field is ripe for harvest, and the time is now to take the gospel to those who have never heard it. Further, in light of all that I have shared, I would also encourage your church to consider how you might care for one of these missionaries who will soon be moving back to the United States. I am trusting that our Southern Baptist family will welcome these brothers and sisters with open arms as they integrate into our churches here, making disciples of the nations God has brought to our own backyard.

Finally, and most importantly, I would ask you to pray for the IMB during these days. Please pray that God will provide grace, wisdom, strength, and unity across the IMB family as we navigate the various challenges that we are walking through together over the next six months.

Ultimately, please pray that God will use these days to set the stage for this 170-year-old missions organization to thrive for decades to come or until Jesus returns. In this historic coalition of churches called the Southern Baptist Convention, may we strive together toward that end.

For His Glory,

David Platt

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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November14

Women’s Fellowship

“Contentment”Because the Lord is my

Shepherd I have

EVERYTHINGI need

Psalms 23:1

Calling Women of ALL ages!!! Join the women of VIF as we celebrate one another

and invite our community in a reflection time of

Guest speaker will be Robin Jones Gunn, a Maui

resident who is an award winning, best-selling author

of 82 books including the Christy Miller Series for

teens and the Sisterchicks® novels for women.

Date: Saturday, November 14, 2015

Time: 8:30 a.m. - noon

Place: VIF High Street Sanctuary

Cost: $5.00 (available in back

following service)

Sign-up for childcare

“Contentment”

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field

of family psychology. He is syndicated in approximately 225 newspapers nationwide and

has written eleven best-selling parenting books. John has devoted his time to speaking

and writing and is known for his sound advice, humor and easy, relaxed, engaging style.

He will be speaking at the MACC McCoy Studio Theater from 2:00–5:30 pm. To

register visit www.waterhouselecture.org or call (808)732-5561 ext. 204.

Maui Conference

Place: McCoy Studio Theater, MACC

Date: Sunday, November 15, 2015

Time: 2:30-5:30 p.m. (2:00

registration)

Topic: Parenting with Love and Leadership

-From Tots to Teens

Announcements

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Offering Goal $115,000

Evangelistic Ministries and Healthy Churches—30% HPBC affiliated churches and organizations can request an allocation for Evangelistic Ministries—such as block parties, camps, and outreach ministries in the community. Churches can request an allocation for workshops or training for the church to stay or become a healthy church.

State and Associational Ministries—25% Ministries sponsored by the state or association can receive an allocation for Baptist Collegiate Ministries, International Ministries, youth or children’s camps and other ministries such as Seafarers’ Ministries or Crisis Pregnancy Ministries.

Financial Assistance for Students—8% This allocation of the Sue Nishikawa Offering assists Baptist youth and adults with tuition assistance. Recipients of this assistance include Hawaii Baptist Academy and Wayland Baptist University. Assistance can be received for Leadership Development courses.

Disaster Relief Ministries—5% This allocation is used to fund resources needed in times of disaster. It is also used to purchase equipment needed in disaster relief.

Church/Mission Emergency Fund—2% This fund is available to HPBC churches and organizations to help in times of crisis.

State or Association Sponsored Camps/Retreats—15% Scholarships make events possible for people to attend HPBC or associational sponsored camps or retreats. Assistance requirements include a scholarship of up to one-third of registration fees or $100 per person for airfare, not to exceed 10 persons of $500 for airfare per church.

WMU Administration—10% This fund supports and carries out the administration of the WMU and Missions Education programs.

Promotion and Communication—5% This allocation is used in production and mailing of materials promoting the offering to HPBC churches.

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Church

Cleaning

Ministry call Church

Office 244-0865

280-5810 Jenn.mpcmaui@gmail.com

Crisis Care Ministry Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro

419-8100

Andy Sniffen

264-0526

call Church Office

244-0865

PHILIPPINE FALL MISSION 2015 A CALL TO PRAYER

Two Thirds World Network is once again putting together a mission in the Philippines this Fall. Please begin praying how God may use you to impact lives for Jesus Christ in the Philippines. God is amazing in the way he uses us to love like Jesus in our backyards and across oceans. Often we go in thinking we will be an instrument in God’s Hands to change other’s lives when in reality we find that it is our life that is changed. Won’t you seriously consider joining us this Fall to see how God can work in miraculous ways for His Glory? We would love to have YOU!!

Tentative Schedule: November 6-20 , 2015

Mission Focus: EVANGELISM, MEDICAL MISSION, CONSTRUCTION

If interested or would like more information: please contact Vince Bagoyo (808) 357-3842

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Support the Malama Pregnancy Center through Foodland’s “give aloha” Program during the month of September.

“Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”

Colossians 4:2 (ESV)

Here are opportunities to gather together in prayer

Sundays 6am (Pastor Jeremy’s Office)

Mondays 10 am & 6:30 pm (High St Sanctuary)

Gather together to pray for God to move within

ourselves, our church, community, nation and world. Please join us for these very powerful times

with the Lord and our brothers and sisters.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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High Street Cleaning Schedule

Week of Sept 24-26

Shum Ohana

Week of Oct 1-3

Edwards, Kaneshiro,

Reimann

Week of Oct 8-10

Blando Ohana

Week of Oct 15-17

Powell Ohana

6:00 am Prayer Meeting

(Pastor Jeremy’s Office)

7:00 am Set-up

9:00 am Worship Service

(no childcare)

10:30 am Sunday School

(High St Property)

6:00 pm

Evening Service (High St Property)

TWO THIRDS WORLD NETWORK

5th Annual Fun Run

will be held on Saturday, October 10, 2015.

Runners/walkers will gather at 5:00 am at Valley Isle Fellowship and make their way at 5:30 am to Kihei’s Kalepolepo Park, a total of 10 miles. If you would like to participate, sponsor a participant, or if you would simply like more information, please visit the website: http://twothirdsworld.org or contact: Grace Motonaga (cell: 357-4553). We are ON MISSION FOR CHRIST by building leaders and shaping the future.

Registration packets available on back table

Valley Isle Fellowship 2015 Calendar

September 2015

20 6 am - Prayer Time (Pastor Jeremy’s Office)

9 am - Pastor Stephen

10:30 am - Sunday School at High St Property

6 pm - Pastor Stephen

21 10 am - Prayer Meeting @ Sanctuary 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting @ Sanctuary

23 6:30 pm - Youth Group “Fuel” @ Sanctuary

27 6 am - Prayer Time (Pastor Jeremy’s Office)

9 am - Pastor Stephen

Lord’s Supper

10:30 am - Sunday School at High St Property

6 pm - Pastor Stephen

28 10 am - Prayer Meeting @ Sanctuary 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting @ Sanctuary

30 6:30 pm - Youth Group “Fuel” @ Sanctuary

October 2015

3 Workday at Waikapu Property

4 6 am - Prayer Time (Pastor Jeremy’s Office)

9 am - Pastor Stephen

10:30 am - Sunday School at High St Property

6 pm - Pastor Stephen

21 10 am - Prayer Meeting @ Sanctuary

Sunday Evening

Service

VIF Church Sanctuary

6:00 pm

Associate Pastor Darren Sarmiento

Cell: (808) 757-1651 Email: darrenvif@hawaii.rr.com

Associate Pastor Jeremy Kaneshiro

Cell: (808) 280-2780 Email: vifjeremy@gmail.com

Valley Isle Fellowship

473 S High St, PO Box 886, Wailuku, HI 96793

ph: (808) 244-0865 vifoffice@hawaii.rr.com www.vifmaui.com

www.facebook.com/valleyislefellowship

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Sunday Morning

Services

Wailuku Elementary School Cafeteria 355 S High St. Wailuku, HI 96793

Service - 9:00 am

Sunday School - 10:30 am

*Children & Youth Sunday School at High Street property* @VIFMaui

Senior Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro

Cell: (808) 419-8100 Email: icastephen@gmail.com

121 Ho`owaiwai Lp #801 Wailuku, HI 96793

Today's Worship Songs

I Will Stand

Our God

I Am Not Alone

Jesus Is All You Need

Corrie ten Boom - “You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”

I. It’s All About _______________ - Philippians 3:7-11

A. It’s not about _____________.

B. It’s not about the _____________ of this _______________.

C. It’s not even about being deeply ___________________.

D. Jesus is so important that you are willing to go through _______________ ________ and

__________ Him.

II. It takes _______________________ and ____________________ - Philippians 3:12-14

A. It will be ___________________ and _____________________.

B. It will cause you to _______________ and _______________ every __________________ that you have.

C. You will need to ________________ the ______________.

D. You cannot _________________.

III. Either __________ or ________________ Him—Philippians 3: 18-19

A. ___________________ Him— Matthew 6:24

B. __________ Him—Matthew 6:20-21

IV. Living in _______________ - Philippians 4:4-9

A. Faithful Living is full of ____________ for all to ____________.

B. Faithful Living takes the long view and ______________ is ___________________.

C. Faithful Living _______________ God.

D. Faithful Living ______________ and _______________________ your thoughts (v. 8).

E. Faithful Living puts into practice all that you have ________________ and _________________ from the

Lord.

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Pastor Stephen Kaneshiro