May 26, 2024

Background:

• Some people have expressed discontentment
• Discontentment - a lack of satisfaction with your current status, situation, or possessions
• Discontentment can be temporary and can be considered a grievance
• How important is your peace of mind?
• Keys represent access, authorities, insight
• To bind or loose things in heaven means that God must be behind it (Matthew 16:19; Matthew 18:18-20
• Whenever we are discontent, then we must find a way to get out of the discontentment

Key Sermon Points:

1. The Eternal key
   1. The key that belongs to God
   2. We should always have a mindset to rejoice in the Lord no matter what else is going on
   3. Jesus stated that he would leave a Comforter that will dwell within us everyday (John 14:16-17)
   4. We can talk to God the Father to deal with our discontentment
   5. The Trinity all work together
   6. The Holy Spirit will help us with discontentment
   7. Prayer is making your request known to God as you adore and worship him
   8. If we put anything in front of God, he can move it
   9. Supplication is an earnest sharing of our needs and problems
   10. Thanksgiving is appreciation and gratitude
   11. The Holy Spirit will point us in the direction of Jesus Christ (John 14:26)
2. The Internal key
   1. What's on the inside - the internal spirit of a man or woman
   2. The internal must be God-sustained
   3. Something is always beckoning us
   4. We are trying to keep up with technology that can process faster than us
   5. We need to take a moment to stop to regather ourselves
   6. We are missing a lot because we are moving too fast
   7. We will suffer sometimes (Philippians 1:29)
   8. Our responsibility is to build the inner man
   9. The hearts and mind represent the inner man The peace of God will keep our hearts and mind (Philippians 4:7)
   10. We should have the mindset of Christ
   11. There should be a time of fasting for the internal spirit
3. The Horizontal key
   1. The eternal key (the vertical key) is a relationship with God
   2. When the eternal key is right, then the horizontal key will be right
   3. The horizontal key is our relationships with each other
   4. The brethren helps us (Philippians 2:1-3; Philippians 4:2-3)
   5. There are people around you that can bless you if you let them
4. The Whatever key
   1. The whatever is whatsoever God says - things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, that is virtue and praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8-9)
   2. The whatsoever should be influential
   3. The mindset that must govern our world view
   4. We need at least one accountable person
   5. Our mind should be focused on the whatsoever disposition
   6. We need each other and we need cohesion
   7. We are to do the things that we have learned and seen