Sunday Notes 05/19/2024
Message Title: Membership
Church Notes from 05/19/24 The Lord Through Pastor Michael
Pr. 3:9
Give Honour to the Lord. Ex. 20 says to honour thy father and mother.
If we refuse to honour the Lord there will come a sense of dullness or burdensome-ness
Substance means wealth in hebrew.
Honour the Lord with your wealth.
Deut 8:18
Increase means Income in hebrew
Jesus multiplied what the people gave to him the fish and the loaves to the 5000 people.
The only time when obediance might seem burdensome or heavy is when there might not be a will to obey.
Trust and Obey God, thats the only way to be happy.
Lord told him to "Teach on Membership" You are members in me "The Lord".
Ro. 12:
We need to prefer one another. We must live a life that is selfless.
The World teaches you to base things on how they affect us or how they make us feel. That is wrong.
You must base things on the scriptures.
To follow Christ we must deny our selves and give ourselves for the betterment of the world and others.
Phil. 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Even when you don't want to God can help you to do it with joy.
In Christ we are one body, but many different parts.
1 Cor. 12:26 If one member suffer, all the members suffer with it.
When christians are hurt, Christ is hurt.
When you hurt, the other person hurts in Christ.
If you talk your brother down you are talking youself down also because in Christ we are one body.
Ro. 12:15
We must learn empathy for one another.
Luke 10:17-21
1 Cor. 6:
The key to following Jesus is looking upward to Jesus, outward to others
1 Cor. 6:15-20
7:1-2
Song of Sol. 2
Be as holy as you can and God will give you a spouse biblicaly.
1 Cor. 6:16 members means limbs
Separate yourselves from those who walk in lust, lying, pride, smoking, sin, drugs, hatred,
2 Cor. 6:
After fornication he said came regret.
If you have a prayer meeting, maybe not do it in your bedroom or something.
2 Cor. 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
Drama and trama comes when there's sin.
Keep the light of Christ in your life and the darkness of Satan will go out of your life.
The body of Christ is a family or unified whole. A society in the midst of the unsaved world around us.
We are different from non christians.
We are spirit beings. Those who are still in sin are not one with God.
He that committith sin is of the Devil. 1 John 3:8
He said all existence is about being in God's presence.
1 John 1:9 says if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us.
There must be separation in my life for there to be true biblicaly intimacy in Christ.
Separate yourselves from sin, drugs, lust, ungodliness
Most of the temptation you experience in your life will come from the Devil through a person.
Numbers 6:1-6 A nazarite vow. Samson knew not to cut his hair. He was a nazarite.
In Judge 14:8-9 he saw a carcase of a lion and ate the honey in the lion. Toying with the anointing.
Samson did not know he was limbs of the messiah Christ and he messed up with a harlot.
Watch who is talking to you (They are sowing seeds into you) Godly or ungodly.
One of the greatest times for backslidings for believers are college, family reunions.
They look in the mirror and forget what manner of man they were in Christ.
Samson did the wrong thing, but Paul did the right thing.
John 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
1 Timothy 5:
1 Cor. 12:
One of the greatest destructive patterns in the world is Kangaroo christians. Going from church to church.
They never get planted so they never grow. When you grow a plant you have to prune it. leave it in the ground so it can grow.
The Lord wants to prune things away from you that you dont need in your life.
Blessings come by doing the Lords will not our will.
It doesn't matter if we like church or we dont. Do you like work all the time? You still do it.
Pastor seen people who go from church to church they dont grow.
If people cant take root they cant bear fruit.
Samson by not staying with the people of God he died.