Starting the New year Right- Serving God
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Call to worship
1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
Offering
38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
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10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1) The call to discipleship is not one of being served but of service.
1) The call to discipleship is not one of being served but of service.
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
many people in the house of God have a country club mentality toward the Church.
they come when it’s convenient, because they have a country club mentality. we should not come to church just to be served, we should not be merely consumers we should be commited.
there is no one in the body of Christ is unfeigned.
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
because each one of us has been given a gift we are are to use them in Lord both inside and outside the house of God.
there are some reasons we don't serve God.
2. Before we can serve to full capacity we must be saved.
2. Before we can serve to full capacity we must be saved.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
one of the things that makes me nervous about serving the recovery community is are you saved or Just spiritual.
is Jesus your Lord, or your home boy.
do you realize that you would not be here if the Holy spirit had not drawn you?
have you surrounded to the Lordship of Jesus Christ?
did you come to repentance or are you just walking in someone else’s foot steps?
salvation comes from realizing that I am a sinner.
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
I could do nothing through my own work to earn my salvation.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
31 that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”
14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
a. Jesus is the perfect lamb of God ( he lived a perfect life.)
a. Jesus is the perfect lamb of God ( he lived a perfect life.)
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”
40 But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”
43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”
19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
My question today is… have you been saved?
Do you know Jesus as Lord.
Has your heart become convicted of sin.
do your realize that you can only come to Christ through surrender to Christ?
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
we will not serve a God we do not love!
we cannot love God fully until we are born again.
3. once our salvation is sure our service is solid.
3. once our salvation is sure our service is solid.