Build My Life

It is urgently necessary that the church continues to grow in maturity

We all have a part to play in the kingdom.

All of our efforts in building life and ministry will one day be judged as if by fire.

From Rhapsody to Rebuke

v 1-4

Rebuke: you were infants before, but you’re still infants now.

milk vs meat

Hebrews 5:11–14 “11 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. 14 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”

Colossians 3:2 “2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” (what is your expectation: growth or stagnation?)

Farmhands Needed

v 5-9

rock pickers

sod busters

soil cultivators

seed planters

harvesters

True and False Foundations

v 10-15

Jesus is true

False= prosperity, signs and wonders (NAR), Word of Faith, Hyper-Grace, Neo-Phariseeism (hyper-religious), Jesus Calling, Jesus + anything

Jude 11–13 “Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.”

Trial By Fire

Hebrews 4:13 “13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” Hebrews 12:29 “29 for our God is a consuming fire.”

Revelation 1:12–16 “12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, 15 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.”

2 Thessalonians 1:5–12 “5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— 6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. 11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Not the activity, but the heart.

These do not impress God:

evangelism

worship music

Bible memorization

You are God’s Temple

You is plural in v16 and 17

God is praised amongst His people