-JOSHUA 24:15 SERVING GOD • Eph 2:8-10-NKJV-8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. LIVE A LIFE, A L I V E! •THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN LIFE IS NOT DEATH BUT LIVING W/O SERVING YOUR PURPOSE! JESUS IS ALIVE Alive in Worship Loves Fellowship Involvement in Discipleship Visible Maturity through Ministry Enlarging God`s Family through Mission: Sharing the GOSPEL REASON FOR SERVING GOD 1. SERVING GOD IS • 10 For we are His THE REASON / workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good PURPOSE OF OUR works, which God SALVATION & prepared beforehand that INCLUSION INTO HIS we should walk in them FAMILY, THE CHURCH • SAVED for good works, NOT by good works • WE ARE SAVED TO SERVED! REASON FOR SERVING GOD 1. SERVING GOD IS THE SSS THE SSS THE REASON / PROBLEM: SOLUTION: PURPOSE OF OUR • SIN SURRENDER TO THE SAVIOR SALVATION & INCLUSION INTO • SEPARATION STUDY/ SEACH THE HIS FAMILY, THE SCRIPTURE/BIBLE CHURCH • WE ARE SAVED TO • SATAN SERVING THE SERVED! SAVIOR REASON FOR SERVING GOD MATT 22;37-38-37-NKJV- Jesus said to him, 2. SERVING GOD IS "'You shall love the Lord your EXPRESSION OF OUR God with all your heart, with LOVE TO HIM all your soul, and with all your • WE LOVE THE mind.' 38 This is the first and INVISIBLE BY great commandment. 39 And SERVING THE the second is like it: 'You shall VISIBLE! love your neighbor as yourself.' REASON FOR SERVING GOD QUESTIONS FROM THE PDL: • 3. WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO 1. WHAT IS THE BEST USE OF LOVE? LIFE? • ANSWER: NOW! ANSWER: USE IT TO LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL
2. WHAT IS THE BEST
EXPRESSION OF LOVE? ANSWER: THE GIVING OF TIME, TALENT ,AND TREASURE REASON FOR SERVING GOD 3. SERVING GOD • Matt 6:24-NKJV BECAUSE HE IS 24 "No one can serve two LORD!- (ONLY masters; for either he will MOTIVATION) hate the one and love the • IF JESUS IS NOT other, or else he will be LORD OF ALL, HE IS loyal to the one and NO LORD @ALL! despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. REASON FOR SERVING GOD • Matt 6:33-NKJV- UNAHIN But seek first the kingdom of God NATIN and His righteousness, and all LAGI these things shall be added to ANG you. • DON’T RUMBLE, BY SEEKING THESE THINGS IST! DIYOS MODEL OF SERVING Matt 20:27-28-NKJV
just as the Son of
Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." MODEL OF SERVING 1 Peter 5:2-4-NIV 2 Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers — not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away. CONCLUSION: JOSHUA 24:15 BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD -JOSHUA 24:15
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