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Announcements
Charlie Hall and Robbie Seay Band in Concert
Calvary Chapel Tallahassee is pleased to announce Charlie Hall and Robbie Seay Band in Concerton Sunday, March 14th at 7:30 pm. Charlie Hall became one of the country’s best known worship leaders with the release of the Passion ’99 Better is One Day project. Since 1991, Hall has been traveling, songwriting, and sharing his life with people in his home of Oklahoma City, across the United States, and around the world. After creating several diverse albums, the latest of which is The Bright Sadness (Sixstep Records, 2008), Charlie expresses the desire to be “honed into God.” Robbie Seay Band is known for their alternative worship style that features raw, insightful lyrics coupled with a equally edgy and engaging sound. Their recent hit "Song of Hope" can be heard frequently on 88.1 Way FM. Tickets are available at The Chapel Bookstore on online at our Web Store.
Church-Wide Dinner
Calvary Chapel Men's Ministry is hosting a Church-Wide Dinner on Wednesday, March 24 beginning at 5:15 pm. Come enjoy chicken, burgers, beans & coleslaw along with great fellowship prior to the Wednesday evening Bible Study. Tickets (adults - $6, children 3 to 11 - $3, under 3 - free) are available in the church lobby.
Rodney Dangerfield was famous for the line, "I don't get no respect." His very first "no respect" joke was "I get no respect. I played hide-and-seek, and they wouldn't even look for me." Rodney's success as a comedian was built largely on tapping into a vein shared by so many in his audience, and by so many of us; the search for significance, the longing for recognition, the need for respect. And just as indicated with his first joke, respect begins with a look.
In Leviticus 26:9 God begins "For I will have respect unto you..." (KJV). Other translations read "I will look on you" or "I will turn to you." Nothing shows more of a lack of respect than being ignored. Conversely, when someone turns and looks at you, they are demonstrating an interest in you or a regard for you. Respect is thus equated with turning and giving someone your full attention. Not many things can be more significant than having the attention of Almighty God.
So what causes God to look on us, to have respect for us? There are several verses to indicate that God’s respect is not earned by any position we hold or works that we do (Acts 10:34, Rom. 2:11, Eph. 6:9). God’s respect is based on one thing; the condition of our heart in relation to His covenant with us. 2 Chron. 16:9 says “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him.”
1 Kings 8:61 characterizes a perfect heart as one that walks in His statutes and keeps His commandments. So, as explained in Lev. 26:3, “If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them,” then our Heavenly Father (Lev. 26:9) “will have respect unto you.” This covenant of Moses, with its statutes and commandments and blood sacrifices, has been replaced in the New Testament by a new covenant based on the blood of Jesus Christ. If your heart is perfect (sincere) toward Jesus, then naturally you will want to know Him, walk with Him and follow His ways.
So the question then becomes, are you ready to give Jesus your respect, your full attention? Are you ready to turn to Him and to look on Him with a perfectly sincere and open heart? Are you ready to accept His new covenant of love for you, based on His perfect sacrifice? If so, then be prepared to receive the respect of Almighty God, and so much more. For what was lost is now found.
