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“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” Heb. 6:10
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“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” Heb. 6:10
The Labor of the Church
Preach/Teach the word2 Tim.4:2 “Preach the word”Matt. 28:19-20 “teach all nations”Acts 8:4 “went everywhere preaching”
Help those in Need - Gal. 6:10 - Jas. 1:27
Live Pure Lives Jas. 1:27 “unspotted from the world”Tit. 2:12 “live soberly, righteously, godly”
There are Few Laborers
Matt. 9:37 "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.;”
Matt. 9:38 “Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
John 4:35-38 “they are already white for harvest!”
Labor of Love
I Thess. 1:3 “Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;”
“the toil prompted by your love” TCNT
Work of Faith - under severe persecutions
Patience of Hope - future blessings and joy
Labor of Love
Hebrews 6:10 “For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.”
He will not forget
It is not in vain1 Cor. 15:58 “always abounding in the work of the Lord …knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
Laborers with God
I Cor. 3:8-9 NKJV “Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building.”
I Corinthians 3:6-7 NKJV “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.”
Never unemployedNever retire
Rev. 14:13 “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “that they may rest from their labors and their works follow them.”
Are you laboring for God ?
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road
Evans, Ga. 30809
706-855-1249
[email protected]@bellsouth.net
www.evansgachurchofchrist.orgwww.evansgachurchofchrist.org
Sunday Morning July 14, 2013
