MESSAGE - 2/27-28/2021
CHURCH - “Support”
1 Thessalonians 5:11
 THEME:   The Church provides you a God’s family.
 INTRODUCTION: 
1. 1 Thessalonians 5:11: Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.  
2. Romans 12:4-5:  For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.  
 I NEED THE CHURCH TO…
 I.                                        WITH ME.
1. Hebrews 10:25:  Do not neglect to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
2. The church is _______________________.
    Ephesians 4:15-16:  Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
 II.                                       WITH ME.
1. Ephesians 2:10:  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
2.  The Church ____________________ me.
    Galatians 6:10:  So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
 III.  ______________________OUT FOR ME.
1. Philippians 2:4:   Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
2.  The Church _____________________ me.
     Ecclesiastes 4:10:  For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
 IV.                                       WITH ME.
1. 1 Corinthians 12:26:  If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
2.  The Church ____________________ me.
     Romans 12:15:  Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
 V.  ______________________WITH ME.
1.  John 13:35:  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
2.  The Church _____________________ me.
     1 Timothy 1:7:  For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
 CONCLUSION:  Colossians 2:6:  Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him.
 WORDS: community, consoles, empowers, encourages, sustains, walk, watch, weep, witness, work.
​MESSAGE - Lent II - 2/24/2021
G-O-S-P-E-L “Our Sin Separates…”
Genesis 3:8
 THEME:   For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
 INTRODUCTION: 
1.  Genesis 3:8:  And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 
2.  Romans 5:12:  Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned
 I.   SIN                                              GOD’S CHARACTER.
1.  Genesis 2:16-17: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
2. 1 John 2:15-17:  Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, 
 II.  SIN____                                       EVERYTHING.
1.  Their eyes were “____________________”
     Genesis 3:7:  Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
2.  Their relationship with God was _____________________.
     Genesis 3:8-9:  And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
3.  Their eternity was __________________.
     Genesis 2:17:  but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
 III.  SIN                                                   EVERYONE.
1. Romans 3:10-12:   as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.  All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
2.  Genesis 3:12-13:  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
 CONCLUSION:  1 John 1:9:   If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
 WORDS: affects, broken, changed, opened, sealed, violates.
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Washington, MI 48094
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