Serve God from the Inside Out
Sunday Morning January 8, 2012
scriptures: Romans 2, Galatians 6
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NOTES
Romans 2:28-29
You have to make sure that you have a personal, internal commitment to God. It has to be intimate.
From the inside you have a spirit of excellence in God and for the things of God.
Think about what it is you can do to help yourself be better. And how you can provoke others to be better.
Being distracted easily from the service of God is concerning. Is there a passion in you that keeps you on track?
Inwardly you should have things working for God. You cannot have church be the place that you are least successful.
If you need a touch from God, you should also be striving to touch the heart of God. Complacency is unacceptable.
Galatians 6:4-17
Do you show that you are doing everything that you can be in your Christian life? Is it up to God’s standard?
Have I put God effort in this? Is it acceptable?
Everyone should be pulling his own weight. We will be individually held responsible, even if the work of God gets done.
Are your struggles to be a Christian or struggles as you are a Christian?
Don’t be fooled that people can get away doing wrong. God sees all and will respond to what is done.
People who live for themselves get punished. Those who live for the things of God get things of God.
Don’t be tired of doing good. God will reward your service as well.
Many people are not doing a lot of good as a Christian anyway. Their “weary” comes from doing things for the flesh.
Consider last week: Were you busy sowing good things, doing good unto all men?
Even further, last month, last year, what have you done that is good?
Especially for believers that you are related to in Christ, the household of faith.
Some people will care about the outward show, but our glory is in Christ dying for us.
In Christ, all that matters is if you are a new person in Him. How do you look new?
Self: What do you do good, especially to the household of faith?