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• 1 Kgs. 20:1-4 Total commitment confessed

• 1 Kgs. 20:5-9 Total with certain limitations

• Rev. 3:19-20 Jesus seeks to enter our lives

• He enters to redecorate our dwelling

• Terms: Rebuke, Chasten, Repent

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• Would He find us hospitable I Pet. 4:9

• Would He find evidence of the wrong guests II John 10-11

• Will we allow Jesus to be

Lord over our companions or is that going too far?

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• Difference in our house and the Lord’s– God’s house is not for common I Cor. 11:20-22– His is a house of prayer Matt. 21:13

• Our meals should not be physical only

• Not by bread alone Matt. 4:4

• “What shall we eat” Matt. 6:25, 33

• Will Jesus be Lord over our appetites?

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• Micah had a house full of gods Jdg. 17:5

• Family Room: TV, Stereo, Books, Computer

• Teens: “Don’t touch my music”

• Dads: “Don’t touch my sports on TV”

• Will Jesus be Lord over our entertainment and the time and money spent on it?

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• Marriage begins with God’s rule Gen. 2:24

• Marriage ends with God’s rule Matt. 19:9

• And every spot in between is under His command Col. 3:18-19, I Cor. 7:1-5

• Will Jesus be Lord over our marriages?– Will He tell us who to marry? how to treat our mate? – Will we leave an adulterous marriage?

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• Immodest clothing I Tim. 2:9-10, I Pet. 3:3-5

• Skeletons in our closets (shameful past)

• Phil 3:13... forgetting those things which are behind... (pride in past accomplishments, or sorrow over previous failures)

• Is Jesus Lord over our past: our regrets, our anger, our burdens, our failures?

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• Cabinet filled with medications for stress, depression, anxiety, nervousness,…

• Problems: medical or spiritual?

• II Kgs. 20:15 “What have they seen in thine house?”

• Lord without limitations Luke 9:23