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Chosen

6/30/2019

Sermon Passage: 1 Peter 2:9-12
Sermon Title: Chosen
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

The Church is God's chosen people
1. In the Old Testament, God had chosen the Israelites
  1. Immanuel
  2. God made covenants and promises only to the Israelites
  3. God's goodness and faithfulness is not based on our goodness and faithfulness
  4. Marriage in the Old Testament
2. In the New Testament, salvation was for those who believed (Romans 1:16)
  1. Gentiles were accepted into Judaism at the end of the Old Testament (Isaiah 42:6-7; 56:6-7)
3. Did God change? No.
God chose the Israelites to teach what a chosen people means (Deuteronomy 7:6-10)
1. God's chosen are treasured
2. God keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and his commandments
3. God's chosen are called to be a light to the nations
Are you chosen?
1. God has already initiated through Christ
2. Being chosen gives you freedom from fear
3. Being chosen should overflow your heart with worship

6/23/2019

Sermon Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:27-31
Sermon Title: Gifted Worship
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Gifts are not everything
1. What are spiritual gifts?
  1. Different from skills that can be developed (Ephesians 4:7-8; 1 Corinthians 12:11; Romans 12:3)
2. What is the point of the gifts? (Ephesians 4:12-16)
  1. God has given the gifts to equip the saints for the work of ministry
  2. These gifts are meant to build up the body of Christ by equipping us
  3. These gifts are meant to unite all of us through building up the body of Christ
  4. These gifts are to mature us to the fullness of Christ through unity
  5. These gifts are meant to mature us so that we might not be shaken or deceived
3. And I will show you a still more excellent way (1 Corinthians 12:31)
  1. Love (1 Corinthians 13:1)
Yet we are called to seek the higher gifts (1 Corinthians 12:31)
1. Why seek the higher gifts?
  1. Higher gifts refers to greater gifts as in greater impact
2. What are the higher gifts?
  1. ! Corinthians 12:28
Each person has a manifestation of the Spirit and ought to use their gift (1 Corinthians 12:7)
1. How can I tell/discern what is a gift?
  1. What is good, acceptable and perfect (Romans 12:2)
  2. We are quenching the Spirit by not using our gifts

6/2/2019

Sermon Passage: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Sermon Title: The heart of Worship
Sermon By: Pastor Kevin
Sermon Outline:

Loving the Lord is the heart of worship
1. Love the Lord with all your heart
2. Love the Lord with all your soul
3. Love the Lord with all your strength
Compromise will lead to apathy
1. Worship in the Garden of Eden versus Tabernacle worship
  1. Worship before sin versus after the fall
  2. Christ restores worship
2. This is a command for both His glory and our benefit
God is not an egomaniac or megalomaniac (John Piper)
1. Our call/command to worship is a call to be satisfied
2. “God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is not the act of a needy ego, but an act of infinite giving. The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won’t be fully God until he gets it, but that we won’t be happy until we give it.” John Piper