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Choose Life Church Sermon Ministry Message type (offering, object, sermon): sermon (adult) Life Message: God designed His family to look a certain way; and if we don’t know that then we don’t become that… Title: Household of faith//My church family Bible Text: (see attached) Proposition: God designed His family to look a certain way; and if we don’t know that then we don’t become that… Introduction: •

Tonight, Pastor Dean asked me to talk to you about the significance of your church family…

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In many cases depending on how we grew up, in our personal families and then how we learned to relate to and be a part of church, we may be misinformed and lack understanding about what church life is really all about…

Message: God created family and God created church. God created our personal families to function like our church family. 1 Corinthians 14:33 (LB)//God is not one who likes things to be disorderly and upset. He likes harmony, and he finds it in all the other churches. When you are in your place, there is grace.

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Places Places

Personal Family

Church Family

Devotion

DAD

Pastor

MOM

Pastors and her leaders

KIDS

All the people

Direction Discipline Mission Motivation Obedience Safety Support Dad’s place// #1 devotion Matthew 19:5 (LB)//and that a man should leave his father and mother, and be forever united to his wife. The two shall become one—no longer two, but one! If the dad is not devoted to the family, forsaking all other, it will fall apart. Dad’s place// #2 direction Genesis 2:20 (LB)// So the Lord God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever he called them, that was their name. If the dad doesn’t know what to do from the Father, it doesn’t matter what else he is good at, or how much money he makes, it will fall apart.

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Choose Life Church Sermon Ministry Dad’s place// #3 discipline Ephesians 6:4 (YLT)// And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord. If the dad doesn’t take responsibility for the discipline when kids are involved, the family will fall apart. Mom’s place//#1 mission Proverbs 31:10-31 If the mom doesn’t make the direction from the dad happen, the family will fall apart. Mom’s place//#2 motivation Proverbs 31:10-31 If the mom doesn’t motivate and encourage the kids to be disciplined as their dad has said and go in the direction their dad has said, the family will fall apart. Siblings place//#1 obedient Ephesians 6:1-3 (LB)// Children, obey your parents; this is the right thing to do because God has placed them in authority over you. 2 Honor your father and mother. This is the first of God’s Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. 3 And this is the promise: that if you honor your father and mother, yours will be a long life, full of blessing. If kids are not obedient and honor their parents, the family will fall apart. Sibling’s place//#2//support and safety Romans 12:10 (LB)// Love each other with brotherly affection and take delight in honoring each other. 3

Choose Life Church Sermon Ministry Galatians 6:1-4 (LB)// Dear brothers, if a Christian is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help him back onto the right path, remembering that next time it might be one of you who is in the wrong. 2 Share each other’s troubles and problems, and so obey our Lord’s command. 3 If anyone thinks he is too great to stoop to this, he is fooling himself. He is really a nobody. 4 Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done and won’t need to compare himself with someone else. 5 Each of us must bear some faults and burdens of his own. For none of us is perfect! If the siblings don’t love, honor and help each other, the family wil fall apart.

Complications… If you didn’t have a mom and dad that filled the roles they were made to fill you will struggle with attitudes of independence and you will be driven by performance and perfection. If you grew up in a home without communication then you adopt and attitude of “that’s on them” with others. If you grew up in a home with strife and rebellion in church you will resent and make fun of order and disciplines.

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We are a house of faith! Hebrews 10:38 (LB)//And those whose faith has made them good in God’s sight must live by faith, trusting him in everything. Otherwise, if they shrink back, God will have no pleasure in them. Romans 10:8 (NKJV)// But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): Matthew 21:21-22 (NKJV)//So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. 22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Galatians 6:10 (NKJV)//Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (LB)//We know these things are true by believing, not by seeing. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV)// For we walk by faith, not by sight. Luke 7:20-22 (LB)// The two disciples found Jesus while he was curing many sick people of their various diseases—healing the lame and the blind and casting out evil spirits. When they asked him John’s question, this was his reply: “Go back to John and tell him all you have seen and heard here today: how those who were blind can see. The lame are walking without a limp. The lepers are completely healed. The deaf can hear again. The dead come back to life. And the poor are hearing the Good News. 23 And tell him, ‘Blessed is the one who does not lose his faith in me.’”

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Choose Life Church Sermon Ministry faith//living by the activity and vision of the Word and Spirit not by your senses. Faith is where hope and love come together to work. 1 Corinthians 13:13 (LB)//There are three things that remain—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. (our house cheatsheet…I will go over it and it needs to be on the screen!)

Faith

vs.

activity based on supernatural

Feelings activity based on sight, opportunity, talent, demographics

hope directs perspective

senses direct perspective

Word establishes vision

how you feel determines what you do

Proverbs 20:27 (NKJV)//The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart. God guides from the inside. Its not just your hunger for the Word of God but the Spirit of God, your hunger for the atmosphere or the spiritual place He has for you, that matters. (like a doctor example)

Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV)// Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. If your sights aren’t set, you won’t have anything with which to aim your faith. (bull’s eye)

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Choose Life Church Sermon Ministry 2 Timothy 3:16 (LB)//The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right. Proverbs 22:15 (NKJV)// Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him. Without vision and accountability you have rebellion and take what God designed and turn it into the enemy’s playground.

We’re all in this together  Hebrews 10:23-25 (Phillips)//In this confidence let us hold on to the hope that we profess without the slightest hesitation—for he is utterly dependable— and let us think of one another and how we can encourage each other to love and do good deeds. And let us not hold aloof from our church meetings, as some do. Let us do all we can to help one another’s faith, and this the more earnestly as we see the final day drawing ever nearer. If we walk away from the only thing that can save us, faith, and we don’t demand it of ourselves and others consistently, what are we really walking in to...a life of separation from Him. Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)//But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

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Choose Life Church Sermon Ministry Altar Call •

Salvation



Commit to get out of feelings and into faith (bull’s eye)



Get into your place at home (cheatsheet)



Get into your place at church (cheatsheet)

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