“A Diamond or A Broken Piece of Glass”
Sunday Morning, November 11, 2012
scriptures: Acts 2, 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Thessalonians 3, 2 Timothy 1
keywords: edifith, interpret, tongues, apps, worship, extend, fervently
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NOTES
A lot of people claim and pretend to be Christians but there is a difference between glass and diamonds
The word allows us to determine what’s real from what’s fake.
Do you have a diamond or a broken piece of glass?
God has given you a brain use it.
People sometimes read the bible with their own feelings instead of with understanding.
The word anointing is used a lot but for what reason?
What is good about the word is that you can look and see when God corrects things.
1 Corinthians 14:4
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
When someone is speaking the word they are edifying the church, if not they are lifting their own self up.
1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
-1 Corinthians 12:4-11 gives examples of gifts of the spirit.
– 1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
You don’t want people saying amen ignorantly all the time.
They begin to use amen out of their emotion rather than the use of something that is actually true.
Don’t be so simple minded, know what speaking in tongues mean according to the bible.
“Tongues are not for those that believe, but for those who believe not”.
Today, we have apps that can interpret what you are saying.
There are different rolls but God is in control of all of them.
Tongues was not for worship but for prophesying.
We are all suppose to work together.
Make sure you understand that when we fellowship, it is important for all of us to work together.
You know Christians by the love that they have toward one another.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
How have you made sure you love people with a pure heart fervently?
Fervently means they extend their self out to others.
If your going to be a Christian, your going to extend yourself out.
Scripture for the Week:
2 Timothy 1:7
“For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”.
When you serve a God that is so powerful and loves you, you have no need to be afraid.
Play your part for God, don’t let fear of the world stop you.