KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: As it applies to a local church, integrity means ALL members are functioning in their God-given roles (ala Ro 12:1-8). Every God-given role in a local assembly is a servant’s role. Integrity has no “quit” in it; otherwise, it is no longer integrity. Don’t be in bondage to your circumstances, […]
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Think about the power of stopping/starting something FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE AROUND US (even if you don’t “feel like it”). Think about how you can affect your loved ones going forward, in both of your families (natural and church). Your greatest responsibility to your family is your SPIRITUAL leadership!!!
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OPENING: Psalm 100 KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Commitment to the local church means that, as a member, you are committing to God’s will for your church. Of principle value to this commitment is your obedience in the church (e.g., to the Word and to God’s delegated authority). Commitment, in God’s eyes, is very simple.
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TODAY’S VERSE: 1 John 3:1a “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” As we conclude our study on Eternal Security in prep school, we have been blessed to learn about how God gives us proof that we will always be
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How wonderful is it to know that “God is love”?!! Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. – 1 John 4:7-8 If there’s one aspect of God worth
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Freedom isn’t found in autonomy. Freedom is found in serving the One who created you. We are always a slave. Freedom and slavery are not mutually exclusive terms (that’s what Satan wants you to believe). Freedom is found in DOING the Word of God. LOVE is not a vapid emotion
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “Freedom comes through servitude.” – Pastor Barfield of High Plains Fellowship Church We are always a slave. Freedom and slavery are not mutually exclusive terms (that’s what Satan wants you to believe). LOVE is not a vapid emotion that “feels” its way to righteousness. Love isn’t love if it lacks
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: SIMPLY NOT QUITTING is an excellent, God-given quality called endurance, or steadfastness. It’s because we know HE WILL NEVER MOVE that we’re able to go “all in” without ANY apprehension. Deu 32:4 To be selfless like Christ leads us to freedom, and to maximum glorification of God. Jesus knew our
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal”; to “personally make a call”; refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. People love to be made church “members”, but they don’t always accept the responsibilities that come with it. The
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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: Living in His love, through things like encouragement, lends to joy and peace together as members of the Body of Christ. Embrace the brotherly love we are called to live in. It’s what makes life worth living. It’s what fills our cup, and the cup of others around us. How
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