05/05/2024 Church service

周日礼拜

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   Grace and Humility 恩典与谦卑   

Micah 6: 8: He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you Except to be just, and to love [and to diligently practice] kindness (compassion), And to walk humbly with your God [setting aside any overblown sense of importance or self-righteousness]?
弥迦书 6:8: 世人哪！耶和华已指示你何为善。他向你所要的是什么呢？只要你行公义，好怜悯，存谦卑的心，与你的神同行。(page 1513)
Eph 2:13: But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
以弗所书 2:13: 你们从前远离神的人，如今却在基督耶稣里，靠着他的血，已经得亲近了。(page 1896)

Heb 9:14: How much more the blood of Christ will do! He gave Himself as a perfect gift to God through the Spirit that lives forever. Now your heart can be free from the guilty feeling of doing work that is worth nothing. Now you can work for the living God.
希伯来书 9:14: 何况基督借着永远的灵，将自己无瑕无疵献给神，他的血岂不更能洗净你们的心，除去你们的死行，使你们侍奉那永生神吗？(page 1949)

Romans 3:22: Everyone who believes has God’s approval through faith in Jesus Christ. There is no difference between people.
罗马书 3:22: 就是神的义因信耶稣基督加给一切相信的人，并没有分别。(page 1825)
2 Cor 10:12: Of course, we wouldn't dare to put ourselves in the same class or compare ourselves with those who rate themselves so highly. They compare themselves to one another and make up their own standards to measure themselves by, and then they judge themselves by their own standards.
哥林多后书 10:12: 我们不敢和那些自我推荐的人相提并论；他们拿自己来量自己，拿自己来比自己，实在不大聪明。(page 1880)

 

 

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Grace and Humility
Micah 6:8,9
I often get my best inspiration while driving and taking a shower.
If I am driving, I will call my home # and leave a message to remind me of the flash of inspiration.
If I am in the shower, then I just gotta hope I remember long enough until I can grab a towel.
They say if a women sees another lady in the same outfit that she is wearing, she wants to go home and change. If a man sees another guy in the same shirt, they probably think, “Hey – that guy must be ok. We could probably be friends!”
Despite anything the news media tries to tell you, there are differences between men and women that go beyond just our chromosomes.
In our church family, the ladies are good about doing things together. We men have not done as good a job. We really need to do more, even if only a monthly Waffle House visit or something.
We all need extra help in keeping is us close and bonding together – especially in these last days. Isn’t that what scripture advises us to do?
What is a good way to strengthen our bonds? Commonality.
commonality: a sharing of features or characteristics in common; possession or manifestation of common attributes. a feature or characteristic held in common
Here is a great commonality we as Christians can utilize strengthen our bonds:
We are all saved by grace (grace alone) through faith. None of us can brag or boast.
Grace and Humility can make us closer and more effective in ministry together.
Eph 2:13: But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.
Grace and Humility can draw us closer, looking beyond the external to recognize the internal work being achieve in all of us through God’s grace.
No, he has told you what he wants, and this is all it is:
to be fair, just, merciful, and to walk humbly with your God.
The prophet Micah (around 700 BC) addressed the wickedness of Israel and Judah.
Pointing to corrupt leaders, dishonest businessmen, and priests whose hearts were not with the people. Micah declared God’s standards were justice, mercy, and walking with the Lord in humility.
Humility has been defined by one pastor as, “not thinking less of ourselves as much as thinking more of God.”
AMP: He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you Except to be just, and to love [and to diligently practice] kindness (compassion), And to walk humbly with your God [setting aside any overblown sense of importance or self-righteousness]?
Micah asked the question in the previous verses about how we should properly come before the Lord’s Presence. Was it with sacrifices and burnt offerings?
He responds with this well-known verse:
The LORD has told you…what is good; he has told you what •he wants [what the LORD requires] from you: to do what is •right to other people [just], love •being kind to others [mercy; lovingkindness], and •live humbly, obeying [walk humbly with] your God.
“Remember the Mission”
Last week we read Isaiah 58:8,9 “Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: ‘Here am I.’”
What GOD is saying to us in this scripture is that if we pursue God’s heart –
His desires - through our personal and corporate service (as the church) to Him (by loving and serving others) He will open up the skies for us.
Remember the Mission
Psalm 138:8: The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
? Is there any of us that this doesn’t include? WE are the work of His hands. ALL of us.
Together, we are The Church - what Acts 20:28 describes as, “the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood.”
When we Remember the Mission we also forget the past.
We look forward – we press on. We afford the whole body of Christ the same Grace we personally have been shown in order to get back up and press on.
We go beyond what Heb 9:14 describes as “dead works”
How much more the blood of Christ will do! He gave Himself as a perfect gift to God through the Spirit that lives forever. Now your heart can be free from the guilty feeling of doing work that is worth nothing. Now you can work for the living God.
We are all cleansed by that same precious blood
That Blood that gives us another chance to embrace our lives with grace and humility.
A commonality we share with the whole Body of Christ – His Church.
Romans 3:22: Everyone who believes has God’s approval through faith in Jesus Christ. There is no difference between people.
We must live and walk in this perspective
Perspective creates Meaning. Meaning creates emotion.
“The quality of our life is the quality of our emotion.”
We sometimes have to reevaluate and recalibrate
We start our new journey of faith from the perspective of being redeemed.
We have to be diligent to walk in the grace and humility
1 Cor 8:1: Knowledge puffs up, (arrogance, pride) but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
Grace and Humility
The redeemed of God have a commonality that should cause us to walk in grace and humility with all of the church. The Family of God.
2 Cor 10:12: Of course, we wouldn't dare to put ourselves in the same class or compare ourselves with those who rate themselves so highly. They compare themselves to one another and make up their own standards to measure themselves by, and then they judge themselves by their own standards.
Eph 2:10: “It is God who has worked in us to make us what we are. He has given us a new life because we are united with Christ Jesus. He saved us so that now we can do good things in our lives. Those are good things that he has already prepared for us to do.”
Our confidence comes as a result of the Substitutionary Death of Jesus
God sent His Son to the world to be a man that He might bear the penalty of sin for sinful men. This is called substitution. Such substitutionary death on the part of the Lord Jesus is the gospel.
The gospel of God does not seek to persuade people to “do good” in order to balance the bad and thus to enable men to redeem themselves. No, God knows that men have no merit whatever, for they cannot do good. Hence He sends His Son to shed His own blood in atoning for men’s sins.
All who trust in the work of His shed blood shall be freely forgiven and justified.
The Great Exchange
Eph 1:7: In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
We all need a savior. We are all in need of God’s Grace.
There is no other way

“Nothing but The Blood.”

We acknowledge this every time we come together to break the bread and drink the cup of Holy Communion.

1 Cor 10:17: Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

1 Cor 11:29 tell us we must honor the body of Christ when we come together for the Lord’s Supper. ( )

So here we are.

Together to break the bread together. The Body of Christ

Joined together in Grace and Humility.

Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
Pastor: Mike J Koger

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