Mt 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
NKJV = Make Disciples
Matt. 28:20 “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
End of the Age
I. Members were Dedicated
Required for growth
Dedication Crisis today
Jobs
Marriages
2 Cor. 10:5 - submission
Dedication
Commitment
Set aside to a purpose
Rom. 12:1-2 “sacrifice”
To give in charge or trust
Determination to do the will
II. Purity of Life
Jas. 1:27 “unspotted from the world” ESV “unstained”
2 Pet. 2:20 “escaped the pollutions of the world”
1 Pet. 2:9-10 called out of darkness
Impure lives cannot attract
Life of Christian is different
Some members source of reproach
Impurity kills desire to serve God
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom. 8:7-8
III. Fear of God
Reverence - Terror, Dread
“No place for terror” ???
“No fear in love” 1 Jn. 4:18
“Judgment to Come” is part of the gospel - Acts 24:25
“Everlasting Punishment”
Hell is a reality
Fear of Going There
Concern about others
Acts 19:17,18 “fear fell on them all” “many believed”
Am I really concerned about the growth of the church ?
The church today can grow
Examine our own life
III. Fear of God
II. Purity of Life
I. Members were Dedicated
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 Evening November 15, 2009