ACBC: The Covenant Part 5
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Lost Opportunity
Lost Opportunity
When I lived in SC there was the guy that would wander around out small town. He was a little on the crazy side. When you talked to him you knew he wasn’t playing with a full deck. However, in our small community people treated him kindly with a hint of sadness. As time went on I learned this man’s back story.
In high school he was a great basketball player. So great that he won a full ride at one of the top colleges. They had given him a check to buy a bus ticket and on the day he was supposed to go he cashed the check and instead of buying a ticket he drank, smoke, and sniffed the money.
He lost the best opportunity he could have had. The potential that he had was gone in an instant. He never got an education and he drank, smoked and sniffed the rest of his life away.
He could have pulled his family out of poverty. He could have led a highly successful life. The only thing he had to do was behave himself and do the right thing.
The Covenant
The Covenant
We agree, by the aid of the Holy Spirit:to walk together in Christian love, faithfully seeking by all means to grow in grace and in understanding of the truth of God;to pray and work for the kingdom of God, seeking to have His will done in our lives, in our homes, in the affairs of our community and world, and to contribute to the support of the Church at home and abroad;
We agree, by the aid of the Holy Spirit:to walk together in Christian love, faithfully seeking by all means to grow in grace and in understanding of the truth of God;to pray and work for the kingdom of God, seeking to have His will done in our lives, in our homes, in the affairs of our community and world, and to contribute to the support of the Church at home and abroad;
to walk together in Christian love, faithfully seeking by all means to grow in grace and in understanding of the truth of God;
to walk together in Christian love, faithfully seeking by all means to grow in grace and in understanding of the truth of God;
to pray and work for the kingdom of God, seeking to have His will done in our lives, in our homes, in the affairs of our community and world, and to contribute to the support of the Church at home and abroad;
to pray and work for the kingdom of God, seeking to have His will done in our lives, in our homes, in the affairs of our community and world, and to contribute to the support of the Church at home and abroad;
to be faithful to our commitments, watchful of our manner of life and speech, and careful to guard the name of the Church and its members;to faithfully take the Word of God as the guide for our conduct, to remember each other in prayer, aid each other in sickness and distress and do unto others as we would have them do unto us, remembering always to set a worthy example.When we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other Christian Church where we may carry out the principles of God’s Word.
to be faithful to our commitments, watchful of our manner of life and speech, and careful to guard the name of the Church and its members;to faithfully take the Word of God as the guide for our conduct, to remember each other in prayer, aid each other in sickness and distress and do unto others as we would have them do unto us, remembering always to set a worthy example.When we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other Christian Church where we may carry out the principles of God’s Word.
to faithfully take the Word of God as the guide for our conduct, to remember each other in prayer, aid each other in sickness and distress and do unto others as we would have them do unto us, remembering always to set a worthy example.
to faithfully take the Word of God as the guide for our conduct, to remember each other in prayer, aid each other in sickness and distress and do unto others as we would have them do unto us, remembering always to set a worthy example.
Today we attack the next line in the covenant that we made when we became members of ACBC. And if you are not a member today, that’s fine. Wherever you attend, this is a promise that every Christian should be making to each other.
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When we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other Christian Church where we may carry out the principles of God’s Word.
When we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other Christian Church where we may carry out the principles of God’s Word.
to be faithful to our commitments, watchful of our manner of life and speech, and careful to guard the name of the Church and its members
to be faithful to our commitments, watchful of our manner of life and speech, and careful to guard the name of the Church and its members
I’M GOING TO HIT THESE QUICKLY FOR THE SAKE OF TIME AS THESE ARE LIKE THE BUS TICKET TO A FULL RIDE TO SUCCESS. YOU ONLY HAVE TO DO ONE THING..... BEHAVE YOURSELF.
Faithful to Our Commitments
Faithful to Our Commitments
Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
Manners Matter
Watchful of What We Do and Say
Watchful of What We Do and Say
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
James 2:
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;
James 2:21
These verses mask off.
Despite the fact that God’s grace is sufficient, it does not excuse us from our actions.
Romans asks us...
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
rp 6:1-2
Romans Tells Us
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.
ro 6:
So We Think and Practice
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
Ro 6:
Guard the Church. Guard its Members.
Guard the Church. Guard its Members.
We build, not tear down.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Righteousness comes from God and God alone and our cause never helps
Hebrews 3:
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
Command with a Promise
Command with a Promise
Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, “Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father. And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”
1 ki 6:
So Joseph got to work read 1 kings 6:14-....
Now I am not a detail person. I like getting to the basic truth of a matter. If it is true that all commands are fulfilled by loving your neighbor as yourself, then if at anytime I ask myself if what I am doing comes from a heart of love, and the answer is no, I need to change what I’m doing.
Other people are detail people. They want to know what the rule is because they feel that God is worthy of us making sure that we follow every rule. Solomon took great care to get everything right.
Most of us are somewhere in the middle. We follow some rules perfectly and others we don’t care that much about. We behave in this area while we expect God to understand while we let other areas go slack.
God is somehow perfectly both. It is from Him that we see following one command makes us follow all commands. It is from Him that we see the great detail with which He created every little thing down to the freckles in our skin.
When we behave ourselves,
EVERY PROMISE GIVEN IN THE BIBLE TO MANKIND IS AVAILABLE TO US!!!
EVERY PROMISE GIVEN IN THE BIBLE TO MANKIND IS AVAILABLE TO US!!!
Here’s what is important.
We need to be mindful to do everything we can to follow every part of His word.
We need to be mindful to do everything we can to follow every part of His word.
We need to understand that God’s great grace is that He sent His Son so that when we sin....
We need to understand that God’s great grace is that He sent His Son so that when we sin....
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 jn