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Formed For God’s Family
Hebrews 2:10-11
We're continuing in our series on 40 Days of Purpose.
Recently, Adelina Dominguez died in San Diego.
She was the oldest living American at 114 years of age.
When she was asked the secret of her longevity, she said, "I knew God had a purpose for my life."
Now, we're in this 40 days series on God's purpose for your life.
Last week, we looked at His first purpose, which is to get to know Him and to love Him.
The Bible calls that worship because you were planned for God's pleasure.
And today, we're going to look at the 2nd purpose, which is you are formed for God's family.
Hebrews 2:10-11 says, "/God is the one who made all things, and all things are for His glory.
He wanted to have many children share His glory./"
God wanted a family.
That's why we're here.
He wanted children.
So, He planned the universe so we could be born, share in His glory, and be part of His family.
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“His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ."
/ This entire book, is the story of God building a family.
That's what it is all about.
It is an eternal family.
You were made to last forever.
So, God wants you to begin to focus and start practicing on His 2nd purpose for your life in I Peter 2:17 "/Love your spiritual family/."
That's what God wants you to do.
You see, God says I want you to learn to love the people in your family.
Why?
Well, there are several reasons.
1st, your physical family is going to eventually fall apart.
But your spiritual family is going to go on forever.
So you're going to spend more time with your spiritual family than you do with your physical family.
So, God wants you to learn to love them.
Why does He want us to learn to love them? 3 reasons: 1.
It makes us more like God, because God is love.
2. God wants His children to learn to get along together.
Do you parents want your kids to get along with each other?
And 3. It’s practice for eternity.
In eternity, you're going to love God.
And you're going to love the other believers that are there.
It is going to be a place of love.
So God says, “I want you to practice now learning to love other believers.”
So:
*My second purpose in life is** Fellowship.*
That's the word that the Bible uses to describe loving each other.
This word, like the word we looked at last week, *Worship*, is often misunderstood.
If I went out and asked people on the street, “What do you think of when I say the word ‘fellowship’?”,
some would say a casual conversation, some would say eating out together, some might say going to church.
After this service is over, there will be a couple guys out on the front walk, and they will be talking and one of them will say, "Hey, how about them 49ers?”
And a guy will go "Well?" "You doing okay?” "Yeah, I’m doing okay.”
"Well, we'll see you next week."
"Okay, see you next week.
Nice fellowshipping with you.”
Now, did they just fellowship?
No!
They just chewed the fat.
They were just talking.
That's not fellowship.
“*Fellowship is** loving God's family.”*
I John 4:21 says, "/The person who loves God must also love other believers/."
We have to love other believers.
How do you do that?
The Bible gives us clear instructions in 1 Timothy 3:14-15 Paul said, "/I’m writing so that you'll know how to live in the family of God.
That family is the church/."
Notice the word "/family/” and the word "/church/," because the church is a family.
It is not a building; not an institution; not an organization; or a club.
It is a family.
A lot of people say, “I’m going to go to church,” as if church is a place you go to.
That's not correct.
Church is not a place you go to, it’s a family you belong to.
And in God's family there are *four levels of fellowship:*
*Level 1 is Membership:* *Choosing to belong.*
That's the most basic level.
It means you find a church family and you choose, you choose to get connected to it.
Look at Ephesians 2:19.
"/You are members of God's very own family and you belong in God's household with every other Christian/."
The Christian life is not just a matter of believing.
It is matter of belonging, and we choose to belong.
When you were born, you automatically became a part of the human race.
But you have to choose to belong to the family of God, the church.
It is a choice.
It is a membership choice.
Some people say, “Well, I’m a Christian, but I don't want to belong to any church.”
That's like saying, “I’m a football player, but I don't want to be a part of any team.”
It doesn't work.
That's like saying, I’m a soldier, but I don’t want to be a part of a platoon.
A Christian without a church family is an orphan.
God meant us to be a part of a family
This week in the Purpose Driven Life book, we're going to read six reasons why you need to be a part of a church family.
Romans 12:5 says, “/In Christ we who are many form one Body, and each member belongs to all the others/."
I know the word "membership," is a funny word to some of us.
But did you know that this word originally was a Christian word that came right out of these verses in the Bible?
I know that today it is used for being a member of every kind of club and signing up for this and joining that.
But originally, the meaning was being a member of the Body of Christ.
Just like your hand is a member of your body, that's how tightly we're tied to each other.
This is about belonging to each other, making the choice to belong to a family.
Did you know, it is only in America that we have floating believers, who go from church to church to church?
If you're floating from church to church it's like you were the liver in the Body of Christ, you can't un-attach yourself from one body and try to go attach yourself to another and then to another.
If you tried to do that, if you did that with an organ, it would shrivel up and die.
And the same thing happens to us as believers.
We need to attach ourselves to a group of believers, where we’re a part of what's going on.
Jesus loves the church.
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