Sunday Morning June 17, 2012
scriptures: 1 Corinthians 11, John 14, Hebrews 12, Ephesians 6, Ephesians 5
keywords: Fathers’ Day, communion
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COMMUNION
1 Corinthians 11:23-28
The purpose of communion is to remember Christ and what He has done for you.
You may be surprised how many things you do in your life without thinking about Christ. You need to ask yourself how often do you think about His love.
People often forget to give thanks to the one who deserves it. Gratitude is what worship service is all about.
Don’t forget that God has feelings and emotions, He created them. Do you think about whether or not you make Him happy or cause Him grief?
Realize that God has given you the opportunity for forgiveness, to repent and move on in worship, taking communion in the right way.
To refuse God is to refuse life. You can’t walk away from forgiveness and assume that it is going to be ok.
You have to be able to get serious when it is time to get serious.
People sometimes do not put God first. When you consider the song I Surrender All, what have you surrendered? If you don’t serve, surrender, or worship God as God, then He’s just not God to you.
Surrender everything to commune with Him.
Love brings about action.
John 14:12-21
When you say someone loves God, are you talking about the emotion or the devotion?
God has provided the Holy Spirit to restrain us and to give us comfort. Do you live knowing that God is always present in your life and situations?
vs. 21 How do you know that you love God? How does God know that you love Him?
A lot of people are directed by their hopes and desires, instead of based on the word of God.
You have to determine what is your highest priority in life. It has to be in God.
Have you asked God for His Spirit and presence lately?
How do you give yourself to God? You give your time, passion, energy, devotion, love.
Do you have love for God today?
John 14:22-27
You’re not going to get anywhere without obedience. When you are obedient, then God gives you the power to do more. God gives you help.
1 Corinthians 11:28
Hebrews 12:1-3
You have to realize that God loves you.
FATHERS’ DAY
Ephesians 6:1-4
Fathers’ Day tends to get less attention to Mothers’ Day. Do we often talk about how a father should be?
There are fathers who are absent and who don’t treat teaching their children about God as their responsibility.
There is a difference between fathers and mothers. This difference is not an excuse for abuse or disrespect between men and women, but there is an undeniable difference in that God made men and women.
Fathers are responsible for teaching and leading their children and not to abuse or provoke children. Not for some false sense of manhood, but as a person that thinks about Christ.
Nurture – training to have skills and be appropriate
Do you have a strategy for bringing your children up to be godly?
Sometimes people want the control without the responsibility.
Ephesians 5:13-33
You have to realize that time is God’s time. You have to take the time and make it valuable for God.
Are you talking about godly music and encouraging each other in God.
Submit to each other. Mutual respect for each other’s responsibility. Men are supposed to be head in their families, to be loving and leading spiritually.
Men have to be loving sacrificially. Husbands should desire that their wives are godly and growing in Christ.
God will hold husbands/men accountable. Take responsibility for what God gives you responsibility for.
Choose wisely and be responsible.