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FOCUS Sermon Series WEEK 2: Focus on Christ

Introduction

Welcome back to our second week of our new series, “Focus.” Last week, we started to lay the foundation for our focus when we talked about our thoughts. Are they positive or negative? Paul talks seriously about the things we are thinking about, and the importance of aligning our thoughts with Christ. Today, in week 2, we are going to be speaking about our eyes. Because out of all the things that tend to lose focus within us, our eyes often go first.

Focus Series: Main Scriptural Text: Philippians 4:8 Supplemental Scriptural Texts: Ephesians 4:29; Psalm 1:2; Romans 12:2

Big Idea: Much of what we choose to focus on is triggered by what we think about. As we begin this series, Paul talks about the importance of this concept. Our thoughts have the power either to drag us down to an emotional and spiritual valley of death, or to lift us high to a mountaintop. As a foundational rule, focusing on the negatives will make it very difficult for us to see the positives.

Spiritual Wisdom

! Corinthians 2:10-16

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1 Corinthians 2:1-9

Christ Power and Wisdom of God

WE men think that we are wiser than God. Paul calls on the wisdom of God and fooliness of God s wiser than men