WE are The Church (3)

We want to continue our talk the subject “ We are the Church.”

We started by declaring according 1Corinthians 12:12-27

That we are One body with many members.

For We are baptized into one body. Regardless if you are Jews or Gentiles, bond or free.

And the Spirit is the common denominate.

We are all connected

The foot, hand, eye are of the body.

The since of smelling and hearing.

God has placed together (tempered) us

WE not design to be a DEAD SEA

RECEIVING AND NEVER GIVING OUT ANYTHING.

1.WE NEED ONE ANOTHER (CAN’T BE DIVIDED

2.WE DEPEND ON EACH OTHER

3.GOD SET US HERE.

1 Corinthians 12:27–31 AV

27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. 28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? 30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

1 Peter 5:8 AV

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

SATAN WANTS TO ISOLATE SEPARATE YOU

IN ORDER TO DESTROY YOU IN END.

SO

LET US

1.” DRAW NEAR TO GOD”

2.”LET US HOLD FAST”

3.LET CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER.

IN OUR FINAL TALK

Every believer has been given a mission by God to advance his kingdom and get back his lost children.

We will share the good news with others when we have a missional mindset, not a selfish one.

$10,000 Reward

God paid the ultimate expense—the life of his only Son—in order to restore the lost to himself. This news story tells of a woman who would stop at nothing to get her missing dog back: http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20130604/NEWS/306049961. If a woman would go to such lengths to get her dog back, how much more can you imagine a loving Father doing whatever is necessary to save his lost children? God went “all out” to redeem us and bring us back into right relationship (John 3:16), and we should be willing to go “all out” to be a part of it.

John 3:16 AV

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I Gotta Find Bubba

Forrest (Grump)and his platoon are under severe attack in a heavy combat zone. He risks his own safety over and over again to save the lives of his friends:

God has a purpose for keeping us on earth and not taking us immediately to be with him in heaven once we become his: to share Jesus with others so they may be rescued from sin and to relationship with God, too. Every believer has been given a mission by God to advance his kingdom and get back his lost children. We may never become a world-renowned evangelist or pastor. But we are all called, nonetheless, to share whatever it is we do have: be a witness, to testify of our own experience with the living God, to proclaim what we know is true in order to rescue a dying world.

: Savior, Rescue, Hero, Danger, Safety, Life, Death, Helping, Mission, Evangelism, God's Nature, Battle, War, Camaraderie, Sanctity of Life, Military, Urgency, Duty, Risk, Selfless

Romans 10:14 AV

14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Hear, Believe and Call

Romans 10:15 AV

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

Caring, Praying, and Sharing

Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the New Testament Chapter 10

The sequence here is as follows: (1) messengers are sent; (2) they declare the Word; (3) sinners hear the Word; (4) sinners believe the Word; (5) they call upon Christ; (6) they are saved! The argument here is simply that sinners cannot be saved apart from the Word of God, for “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”

Believer’s Bible Commentary B. Israel’s Present (Chap. 10)

10:15 God is the One who sends. We are the ones who are sent. What are we doing about it? Do we have the beautiful feet which Isaiah ascribed to Him who brought glad tidings of good things (Isa. 52:7)? Isaiah writes of the beautiful feet of Him—that is, the Messiah. Here in Romans 10:15 the “him” becomes “them.” He came with beautiful feet 1900 years ago. Now it is our privilege and responsibility to go with beautiful feet to a lost and dying world.

Isaiah 52:7 AV

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!