In this sermon, we are looking at the Lord’s Table and its implications for our individual and church lives. This is part of the continuing series where we are casting of our vision for 2018 “to love one another” and we are doing so by obeying the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.”
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Jim Sole
One of the great motivators of our joy is to see the role God the Father has in our union with His Son. We are in Christ because of the Father’s sovereign grace and love. He is the initiator of our union in His Son and that leads to a fullness of joy in the believer.
In this sermon, we are looking at the second goal to pursue in the practice of fellowship – spiritual strengthening of one another. We continue casting of our vision for 2018 “to love one another” and we are doing so by obeying the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.”
The truth of our oneness in the Lord Jesus is the key to understanding our salvation and living the Christian life with joy. And one of the great motivators to this joy is to see how the Lord Jesus views this union of us with Himself and what He calls us as a result – His beloved, Hid delight, His sheep, and His bride.
In this sermon, we are looking at the goal to pursue in the practice of fellowship – spiritual encouragement and spiritual strengthening of one another. We continue casting of our vision for 2018 “to love one another” and we are doing so by obeying the Scripture mandate to “examine ourselves.”
The truth of our oneness in the Lord Jesus is the key to understanding our salvation and living the Christian life with joy. We continue our sermon series titled “Our Union in Christ” by exploring the four metaphors which paint a beautiful picture of our oneness in Jesus – marriage (intimacy), the body (life), a plant (fruit), and a building (stability).