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GOD’S HEART FOR OUR CHURCH

Jeremiah 7:21-24 (King James Version)
21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  1. FOR SALVATION

Luke 15:1 (King James Version)
1 Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

  1. Jesus didn’t seek out the perfect
  2. Said healthy don’t need doctor
  3. Shepherd looking for the lost

Luke 19:10 (King James Version)
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

  1. Description of you … and me
  2. God no respecter of persons,= = all same
  3. Plan of salvation
  4. Ought to reach out to those as Christ did
  5. Means an effort on our part
  6. An effort for which we will be blessed
  1. FOR PRAYER

Matthew 18:20 (King James Version)
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

  1. The Lord’s House Should Be House Of Prayer
  2. Jesus said it about the Temple
  3. Church united in prayer in Acts 1 & 2
  4. Church in NT commanded to pray
  5. Prayer brings Lord into our midst
  6. Why we pray every service
  7. We should want God in our midst
  8. We should want God to work here
  9. Our call to ask for God to work
  1. FOR HOME

2 Thessalonians 2:1 (King James Version)
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

  1. Our Home In The World
  2. Is not of the world – be ye separate
  3. Have to deal w/ it not be part of it
  4. Come for a spiritual re-charge
  5. Get fueled to face the world
  6. Prepare to bring others out of world
  7. Our Home In Heaven
  8. Waiting For Us One Day
  9. Learn Of It, Look For It
  1. FOR JUDGMENT Matthew 25:32 (King James Version)
    And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
  2. Two Judgments – separate
  3. Unsaved judged for sin (NO get out of hell free pass)
  4. Bypass this with salvation
  5. Ultimate result is hell
  6. Saved Judged For Works

2 Corinthians 5:10 (King James Version)
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

  1. What we do now - eternal difference
  2. For our future & future of others
  1. FOR WORSHIP

Psalms 29:2 (King James Version)
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

  1. Only One Deserving Of Worship
  2. A Person – Christ – Lord & God
  3. Worship With Music / Prayer / Word

CONCLUSION:

  1. The church is a gathering place for God’s people where God’s heart can be shared
  2. where our hearts can be encouraged, built up, and strengthened.