Aflame Com Church Inc Sunday Sermon –02 August2009
Minister : Pastor Jimmy Goh
Theme : GOD’s HOUSE – EMPOWERED to RESCUE (1)
We LEARNT that CHURCH is NOT JUST A GATHERING of CHURCH-GOERs to SERVICES,
A CHURCH is A SPIRITUAL HOUSE of WORSHIPPERs, as A FAMILY of GOD.
JESUS is the FOUNDER-BUILDER - “On this ROCK, I will BUILD MY CHURCH .”
Matthew 16: 18 (NLT)
“Now I say you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this Rock I will build MY Church,
and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.”
Psalm 18: 31
For Who is GOD, except the LORD ? And Who is a ROCK, except our GOD ?
The HOUSEHOLD of BELIEVERs are A FAMILY of GOD – FITTED TOGETHER in CHRIST.
In GOD’s HOUSE, ALL are ESTABLISHED in the FAITH, by BEING TAUGHT CAREFULLY.
Colossians 2: 6 – 7
As you therefore have received CHRIST JESUS the LORD, so walk in HIM,
rooted and built up in HIM and established in the faith, as you have been taught,
abounding in it with thanksgiving.
We LEARN that A CHURCH CANNOT CONTINUE LEARNING BASICS OVER AGAIN & AGAIN
- on TEACHINGs to BRING REPENTANCE but to MATURE ~ Hebrews 6: 1 – 2 (NLT).
Hebrews 6: 3 (NLT)
And so, GOD willing, we will move forward to further understanding.
Hebrews 6: 10 - 12 (NLT)
For GOD is not unjust. HE will not forget how hard you have worked for HIM and
how you have shown your love for HIM by caring for other believers, as you still do.
Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order
to make certain that what you hope for will come true.
Then you will not become spiritually dulland indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example
of those who are going to inherit GOD’s Promisesbecause of their faith and endurance.
GET GOING FORWARD, NOT REMAIN SPIRITUALLY DULLINDIFFERENT to HIS PURPOSE.
FROM THEN ONWARD, ALL in the CHURCH MOVE ON – NOT JUST the APOSTLES.
THEY BECOME the CHURCH as A COMMUNITY > the WHOLE COMMUNITY MOVE ON.
Acts 2: 42 (NLT)
All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and
to sharing in meals (including the LORD’s Supper), and to prayer.
READ Acts 2: 43 – 45 (NLT)
Acts 2: 44
Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common.
Acts 2: 46 – 47 (NLT)
They worshipped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the LORD’s Supper,
and shared their meals with great joy and generosity- all the while praising GOD and enjoying
the goodwill of all the people. And each day the LORD added to their fellowship those who
were being saved.
From GOD’s HOUSE – the TEMPLE - ALL MOVE ON from > OIKOS to OIKOS.
From HOUSE > HOUSE. From COMMUNITY > COMMUNITY. From PEOPLE > PEOPLE
OIKOS is GREEK WORD > GOD’s HOUSEHOLD; COMMUNITY; CITY
> FAMILY HOUSEHOLD; PEOPLE.
OPPORTUNITIES > UNDERSTAND to DO WHAT the LORD WANTS.
Ephesians 5: 16 – 17 (NLT)
Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but
understand what the LORD wants you to do.
READ 2 Peter 3: 9 (NLT)
Philippians 2: 14 – 16 (Message)
Do everythingreadily and cheerfully – no bickering, no second guessing allowed!
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society.
Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living GOD.
Carry the Light-giving Message into the night so I’ll have good cause to be proud of you
on the Day that CHRIST returns. You’ll be living proof that I didn’t go to all this work for nothing.
GO OUT INTO the WORLD is the LORD’s COMMAND to the BELIEVERs in CHURCH :
Mark 16: 15 - 16
And HE said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.”
John 17: 11, 15 – 17
“Now I AM no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to YOU.
HOLY FATHER, keep through YOUR Name those whom YOU have given ME,
that they may be one as WE are.
I do not pray that YOU should take themout of the world, but that YOU should keep them
from the evil one.
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them by YOUR Truth, YOUR Word is Truth.”
JESUS’ PRAYER to the FATHER for HIS BELIEVERs to be ONE in the WORLD,
THEY are NOT to BE SEPARATED from the WORLD but BUILT as ONE – HOUSEHOLD.
A HOUSEHOLD of BELIEVERS SANCTIFIED by GOD’s TRUTH, KEPT AWAY from EVIL.
John 17 : 18 – 20
“As YOU sent ME into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify MYSELF, that they also may be sanctified by the Truth.
I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in ME through their word.”
John 17: 22 - 23
“And the Glory which YOU gave ME I have given them, that they may be onejust as
WE are ONE.
I in them, and YOU in ME, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know
that YOU have sent ME, and have loved them as YOU have loved ME.”
The ONENESS is to BE as A HOUSEHOLD UNITED in FAITH, VISION & PURPOSE
for RESCUING the LOST & DYING WORLD where ALL WITHOUT JESUS & HIS BLOOD
are FIGHTING a LOSING BATTLE, WITHOUT HOPE of VICTORY.
READ Revelations 12: 7 – 9
The BATTLE FOUGHT in HEAVEN, was WON by GOD’s HOLY ANGELs over the HEAVENs.
But the BATTLE over the EARTH, STILL CONTINUES till JESUS’ RETURN.
Revelations 12: 10 – 11
Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the KINGDOM
ofour GOD, and the Power of HIS CHRIST have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who
accused them before our GOD day and night, has been cast down.
And they overcame him by the Blood of the LAMB, and by the word of their testimony, and
they did not love their lives to the death.”
BATTLE on EARTH for the LOST to be WON is only to be FOUGHT thru the BELIEVERs, by :
~ the BLOOD of the LAMB of GOD Who takes away the sins of the World – John 1: 29.
~ the WORD of TESTIFYING by the BELIEVERs in CHRIST – John 17: 20.
~ the BELIEVERs’ SACRIFICE of their OWN LIVES for the LORD’s WORK – Luke 9: 23 - 26.
Romans 1: 16 – 17 (NLT)
For I am not ashamed of this Good News about CHRIST. It is the Power of GOD at work,
saving everyone who believes – the Jew first and also the Gentile.
This Good News tells us how GOD makes us right in HIS sight. This is accomplished from
start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”
Romans 3: 22 – 23 (NLT)
We are made right with GOD by placing our faith in JESUS CHRIST. And this is true for
everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of GOD’s Glorious Standard.
READ 1 Corinthians 6: 11
GOD’s HEART is NEVER to DISCRIMINATE to SAVE WHICH SINNER, IT is WHY
JESUS SPOKE on the 2 PARABLES to SEEK the ONE LOST SOUL
-ONE LOSTSHEEP ~ READ Luke 15: 4 - 7
-ONE LOST COIN ~ READ Luke 15: 8 – 10 > The Lady LIGHT A LAMP to SEARCH for IT.
As GOD’s HEART is ALWAYS to WANT us to SEARCH A SOUL at a TIME, by EACH BELIEVER, to ADD by ONE-on-ONE to HIS CHURCH – HIS HOUSEHOLD FAMILY.
NOT to be SPIRITUALLY DULL as the PRIESTLY TRIBE & INDIFFERENT as the PRIEST, as in
the PARABLE of the GOOD SAMARITAN, but be the WILLING RESCUER.
INDIFFERENCE is NOT to BE WILLING to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in this DYING WORLD.
EXPERIENCE GOD’s LOVE MORE to UNDERSTAND GOD MORE of WHAT HE WANTs.
Ephesians 3: 18 – 19 (NLT)
And may you have the power to understand, as all GOD’s people should, how wide,
how long, how high, and how deep HIS Love is. May you experience theLove of CHRIST,
though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the
fullness of life and Power that comes from GOD.
JESUS DECLARED that HE HAS GIVEN us HIS GLORY, so we HAVE the POWER to
UNDERSTAND & TRUST in GOD’s LOVE, to RECEIVE FULLNESSof GOD.
We havethe GLORY & the TRUTHWITHIN to SHINE for JESUS, NO MATTER what DARKNESS.
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