APGAR

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Virginia Apgar came up with a test to check babies at 1 minute and 5 minutes after they're born.

A - Appearance
P - Pulse
G - Grimace
A - Activity
R - Respiratory

We are born again so we need a spiritual "APGAR" test, a checkup for our soul.
2 Corinthians 13:5

APPEARANCE:
It's not everything, but it is something.
Always try to be more like Christ!
God change me and clean me.
There are always people watching out lives.

1. Appearances can be deceiving.
Things are not always as they seem.
Hebrews : walk by faith and not by sight.
Proverbs 31:30
1 Samuel 1

2. Appearances can be revealing
Where there's smoke there's fire.
Absolom 2 Samuel 14:26
2 Peter 2:22
Avoid even the appearance of evil.
Blameless.
Keep good balance of being in the world, but not of the world.

3. God does not like false advertising.
Mark 11, Matthew 23 - God saying he hates hypocrisy.
He hates it because He hates what it does to His name, what it does to actual Christians, and what it does to the one who is living the lifestyle.

4. Your true colors will come out in the end.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
You can fool all of the people some of the time.
But you cannot fool God any of the time.
We are all a work in progress.
It only matters what God knows is true of you on the inside.