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Doing Good
The underlying requirement to be effective witnesses as a body of Christ
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!!! Announcements
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Call to worship
!!!!!! Bible Verse
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.
O LORD, You preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is Your unfailing love!
Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
(Psalm 36:6-7)
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The Lord’s Prayer (we sing it – remaining seated)
!!!!!! Blessing
Grace to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord
!!! Hymn: /“We will give thanks” (Screen)/
!!! Scripture Reading /Psalm 34:1-16 /
!!! Prayer of Adoration and Confession
!!! Declaration of pardoning
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
(Isaiah 55:6-7)
!!! Hymn /“I love my Lord” (Screen)/
!!! Offering and Dedication
On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income.
(1 Corinthians 16:2)
!!! Prayer for others
!!! Hymn no 496: /“In my hour of grief or need”/
!!! Scripture Reading
!!! Sermon
!!!!!! Introduction
We journeyed through the letter of Peter to those scattered in Pontus, Cappadocia, Asia and Bythinia.
They were addressed as God’ chosen people.
They are, like us, people with a past, people with a glorious hope in Christ – but they addressed as people who need to live in the present.
They need to love as holy people, because they are purchased in the blood of Christ.
They are urged to see that things are up to standard among themselves as people of God.
They are reminded of the fact that they are a people, called out of darkness into the light, to be God’s holy people.
They are God’s spiritual temple and their task is to proclaim the glories of Him who called them out of darkness.
The apostle reminded of the fact that they, I their task of living towards the glorious goal of being with God into all eternity, are just sojourners on earth.
They are foreigners who should guard against living like those who do not know God.
He addressed these, the elect – the holy body of Christ – as workers, wives and husbands, to submit to all authority instituted by God.
This is because it pleases God.
They had to remember this high calling: Live amongst the heathen so that your Father may be glorified.
Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
(1 Peter 2:12)
Now he sums it up, “Finally, all of you”.
All the people addressed in the preceding paragraphs are now addressed.
And once again it speaks about that special way of living that separates Christians from the rest of the world.
!!!!!! Underlying requirement to be effective witnesses as a body of Christ
Love one another
When Christ was on earth, He commanded his disciples to love one another.
He said:
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
(John 13:34-35)
Just a bit further up in that same chapter, the Lord gave them a visual example of what He meant by this.
He washed their feet.
And then He said:
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
(John 13:14-17)
The uniqueness of the Church of Christ lies in its relationship with Christ.
The effectiveness of its message lies in its ability to live as the Lord commanded.
The underlying prerequisite to be effective in its witness as body of Christ, lies in its ability to stand together.
Point is, if Christians cannot under and in amongst themselves live in harmony, displaying the unity of love in the Lord Jesus Christ, it destroys all possibilities to be attractive to the world.
Like-mindedness
In this sense, Peter urges the church to be like-minded.
The idea is “being of the same mind or having the same thoughts as someone else”.
Share the same thoughts.
Basic to this of course is to all revere and respect the authority of God’s Word.
The Word provides the basis for our thinking.
As we study the Word, we know the mind of God.
And as we know the mind of God, we will know how others think, or how they are supposed to think.
We will share the same ethic and ethos based on the Word of God.
Many churches suffer from “unlike-mindedness”. Everyone has it own ideas.
There is strife and disunity.
And while the infighting is going on, Satan goes on holiday.
In such a church nothing happens to the positive as far as the Gospel is concerned.
Harmony
“live in harmony”.
The word is “feeling sympathy for someone or something”.
It is perhaps better to understand the word if we describe the opposite: “apathy”.
A church where there is apathy, is a church made up of individual members.
Every looks after himself, and does what brings personal gain.
If there is no personal gain, people drop out.
But this is not God’s plan for his church.
We cannot exist without one another.
We need to understand and sympathies with one another.
That way we will be aware of and able of the shortcomings of the other.
Love as brothers
The word is philadelphos.
That is to love one another as if we are blood family.
As if we have the same mother and father.
Our family is the family of Christ.
Remember, all of us were once lost, living in darkness.
We were not even considered to be a people.
But God rescued us from the present evil age, He called us out of darkness and made us a people with special privileges.
We are his people, saved by Christ.
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