The Better Portion

1. Better than Busy
   •     Mary and Martha
     • Luke 10:38-42
     • If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease? – Leonard Ravenhill
     • My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF…my GOD.  – Leonard Ravenhill
2. Better than Safe
   • Peter walking on water.
     • Matthew 14:22-33
     • The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity. – Leonard Ravenhill
3. Better than the “Known”
   • Abraham and the promise land.
     • Hebrews 11:8
4. Better than Our Best
   • Ananias and Sapphira
     • Acts 5:1-11
   • The Cheaters
     • Malachi 1:14
5. Church at Ephesus
   • Initial State
     • Ephesians 1:11-23
   • State in Revelation (40 Years Later – I know thy works)
     • Revelations 2:1-7

GOAL: THAT I MAY KNOW HIM

• Philippians 3:7-11
• David and the Census (Bad Choices) – 1 Chronicles 21 (Satan stood up against Israel and moved David…)
• Closing Quotes
  • Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for? – Leonard Ravenhill
  • But you know if God should stamp eternity or even judgment on our eyeballs, or if you’d like on the fleshy table of our hearts I am quite convinced we’d be a very, very different tribe of people, God’s people, in the world today. We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We invest our time as the world invests it. We’re supposed to be a different breed of people. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. We’re all going to stand one day, can you imagine it- at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. This is what- this is the King of kings, and He’s the Judge of judges, and it’s the Tribunal of tribunals, and there’s no court of appeal after it. The verdict is final. – Leonard Ravenhill

Other Ravenhill Quotes:https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/159020.Leonard_Ravenhill