Building Blocks For A Better Church Part 4 – Fulfilling Awareness.

Building Blocks For A Better ChurchPart 4 – Fulfilling Awareness

Fulfilling Awareness

“It is good to speak of God today.”

Thank You for coming and worshiping.


Aware of the Devil

John 8:44NKJV 44You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.


Aware of the Devil

Fraudulent nature of the Devil


Aware of the Devil

Ferocious attacks by Satan

1 Peter 5:8-10NKJV 8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.


Aware of the Devil

Ferocious attacks by Satan

Ezekiel 22:25-26KJV 25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. 26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.


Aware of life and death

Fragility of life

James 4:14NKJV 14whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

1 Chronicles 29:15KJV 15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.


Aware of life and death

Finality of death

Hebrews 9:27KJV 27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Ecclesiastes 8:8NKJV 8 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.

Psalms 49:10NKJV 10 For he sees wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, And leave their wealth to others.


Aware of God’s plan

Romans 5:8-11NKJV 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.



Familiarity of God

He knows us and our need



Familiarity of God

He knows us and our need

Favor of God (through His Son)

He has met our need through Jesus Christ


Aware of servanthood

Galatians 6:2, 10 KJV 2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 10As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.



Matthew 10:42KJV 42And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.



Matthew 25:22-23NKJV 22He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’ 23His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’



Function as a godly servant




Find time to serve




Find time to serve

“He was a dedicated member of Our Blessed Savior Lutheran Church of Alexandria, where he served in several positions including deacon and vice-president of the church council. Leon was one of those church members who would step in and do whatever was needed for the church, but he was very devoted to the maintenance of the church.”


Aware of important relationships

Proverbs 17:17KJV 17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.



Ecclesiastes 4:9-10KJV 9Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.



Romans 16:3-4NKJV 3Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.



Friendships



Friendships

Family

Deuteronomy 4:9KJV 9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

Proverbs 22:6KJV 6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.


Aware of His return

Acts 1:6-11KJV 6When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. 8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 9And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.


Aware of His return

10And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.


Aware of His return

Fact of His return

Jesus is coming again.


Aware of His return

Fact of His return

Jesus is coming again.

Future return

Has not happened yet, but will happen soon?

Are you ready to meet Him?


Are you aware?


What are you going to do about it?

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