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This Week’s Theme: Support God’s Work
Word for the Week is Servanthood: The biblical understanding of servanthood has its foundation in people serving God in worship. The terms for “service” and “worship” are often interchangeable.
Memory verse: Deuteronomy 10:12 (NKJV) “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Sermon Passage: 1 Chronicles 28:7-10
Moreover I will establish his kingdom forever, if he is steadfast to observe My commandments and My judgments, as it is this day.’
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.
“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”
Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it.
But God said to me, ‘You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.’
However the Lord God of Israel chose me above all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for He has chosen Judah to be the ruler. And of the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel.
And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons) He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
Now He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Father.
I. TOGETHER
I. TOGETHER
Now David assembled at Jerusalem all the leaders of Israel: the officers of the tribes and the captains of the divisions who served the king, the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officials, the valiant men, and all the mighty men of valor.
Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made preparations to build it.
David Called Israel’s leaders
NEVER MEANT TO BUILD ALONE
II. BE THOUGHTFUL
II. BE THOUGHTFUL
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.
AND KEEP (observe, celebrate, keep (sabbath or covenant or commands), perform (vow)) out all the commandments of the LORD your God,
“Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you.
“Therefore you shall be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
“Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,
that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.
Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’
For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, be careful to seek out all the commandments of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.
be careful to seek (it means practice, study, follow, seek with application)
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that you may possess (seize, dispossess, take possession off) this good land, and leave [it] as an inheritance for your children after you forever.
III. BE TOUGH
III. BE TOUGH
Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”
DON’T ALLOW DISTRACTIONS TO STOP YOU
DON’T ALLOW DISORDER
CHAOS IN THIS WORLD - C
CARES OF THIS WORLD - RECREATIONS
CHASE FOR RICHES - TRYING TO BE WEALTHY
A. Don’t Forfeit His PROTECTION
A. Don’t Forfeit His PROTECTION
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
See! Your house is left to you desolate;
Don’t Forfeit His PRESENCE
Don’t Forfeit His PRESENCE
“Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Don’t Forfeit His PEACE
Don’t Forfeit His PEACE
Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Peace
Peace
Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble.
Happy
Happy
My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands;
For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you.
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord!
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!
Favor
Favor
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
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