Blessing Your Neighbor
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The Blessing • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 36:37
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· 57 viewsOne day, a long time ago, God called a man out of Babylon and commanded him to go share a blessing with the world. What followed was a series of adventures--and misadventures--as God's people made their first attempts at their grand mission: to love their neighbors.
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The Adventure Begins
The Adventure Begins
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The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation,
and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”
God COMMANDED Abraham to go on a MISSION.
Have you ever had to move a long distance like Abraham? What was it like? What were the best and worst parts?
God promised to be PRESENT and ACTIVE in Abraham’s life.
Why is it a blessing to have God active in your life? Is it ever a curse?
God promised to ACT through Abraham in his NEIGHBORHOOD.
How do you think Canaan was blessed by having Abraham in it?
God promised to PROTECT Abraham in his MISSION.
God promised to SPREAD Abraham’s blessing to EVERYONE.
What We Have to Do
What We Have to Do
We have to GO TO our neighbors.
By definition, our neighbors are already near us. What does it look like to “go to” them?
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
We have to SHARE the blessing.
Do you think of God’s presence as a blessing you can share? How can you share it?
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
We have to TRUST God’s plan.
What fears keep us from following through on God’s plan?
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
What God Will Do
What God Will Do
God will PROVIDE the blessing.
What blessings has God provided you with that you can share with others?
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
God will PROTECT us in our mission.
What is the difference between saying that God will protect us from everything, and saying he will protect us in our mission?
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God will make the blessing GROW.
How is it encouraging to know that God is the one who makes blessings grow? How is it frustrating? How does it give us hope?
What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.