Last Word for 2018

Genesis 50:24-25

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

IN THE BEGINNING GOD…

...A COFFIN IN EGYPT.

Malachi 4:5-6

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Revelation 22:21

…may the grace of the lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Proverbs 6:16-19

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Matthew 27:4

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.

John 2:9

His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

MANY TIMES, HOW WE ARE REMEMBERED DEPENDS UPON HOW WE WERE WILLING TO REMEMBER WITHIN OUR LIFETIME.

John 14:26

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

Psalm 103:2

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits…

I WANT TO REMEMBER

OPENDOOR STATS

* We had 1,311 salvations

* 249 church services

* And 52 prison services

* We had 3,434 first time visitors

* 39 food outreaches

* And 13 homeless outreaches

* Fed over 116,000

* Over 5 million pounds of food

* $180,000 in local benevolence

* Over $70,000 in support for small churches & other ministries

* $125,000 in support for Israel

* 16 mission trips

* And $390,000 for missions

* Liberated 859 girls from sex trafficking

2 Corinthians 11:23-33

I speak as if insane - I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. 24 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. 26 I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren; 27 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

28 Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern? 30 If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, 33 and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

MANY TIMES, HOW WE ARE REMEMBERED DEPENDS UPON HOW WE WERE WILLING TO REMEMBER WITHIN OUR LIFETIME.

Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

About me from my website www.troybrewer.com:

Troy Brewer is the founding and senior pastor of OpenDoor Church in Burleson, Texas. He is known for his relevant and authentic teachings, amazing insights, and studies on the wonders of God including astronomy, numbers, typology, and times and seasons. He has a radical love for Jesus and a passion for serving people beyond the norm.

As a sixth generation Texan and descendant of Henry Brewer, who fought at the battle of San Jacinto, Troy also has a passion for all things Texas. Troy has been married to his beautiful wife, Leanna, since 1989, has four grown children and six grandchildren.

Troy has a passion for “reaching Christians for Jesus” and is seen by a world-wide Internet audience every Sunday and Wednesday from OpenDoor Church. His unique style and revelatory perspective brings clear and simple understanding to complex Kingdom issues and principles. He likes to say he has the “gift of realness,” and that ability helps him reach both the lost and the saved with the transformational teachings of Jesus Christ.