12/08/2024 Church service

周日礼拜

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  PEACE 和平

Psalm 40:1-3: I waited and waited and waited some more,
patiently, knowing God would come through for me. Then, at last, he bent down and listened to my cry. He stooped down to lift me out of danger
from the desolate pit I was in, out of the muddy mess I had fallen into. Now he’s lifted me up into a firm, secure place and steadied me while I walk along his ascending path. A new song for a new day rises up in me every time I think about how he breaks through for me! Ecstatic praise pours out of my mouth until everyone hears how God has set me free. Many will see his miracles;
they’ll stand in awe of God and fall in love with him!
诗篇 40:1-3: 我曾耐心等候耶和华，祂倾听了我的呼求。
祂把我从绝望的深渊拉出来，救我脱离泥泞沼泽，把我安置在磐石上，使我步履稳健。 祂赐给我一首新歌， 一首赞美我们上帝的诗歌。许多人看见便敬畏、信靠耶和华 (page 919)

Col 1:19-23: For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of[g] your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
歌罗西书 1:19-23: 因为上帝乐意让一切的丰盛住在祂里面， 又借着祂在十字架上所流的血成就了和平，使天地万物借着祂与上帝和好。你们从前与上帝隔绝，行事邪恶，心思意念与祂为敌； 但现在上帝借着基督肉身的死使你们与祂和好了，让你们在祂面前成为圣洁无瑕、无可指责的人。 只是你们必须恒心持守所信的道，根基稳固，坚定不移，不要失去你们听到福音后所得到的盼望。这福音传给了天下万民。我保罗也做了这福音的使者。(page 1909)


 

 

 

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Peace - Advent II 2024
Psalm 40:1-3

“Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now.”

Advent is a perfect time to see with new eyes – and think new and better thoughts

Phil 2:5 – “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”

A renewed mind can reshape the rest of your life.

Ask yourself: “If I didn’t need someone to rescue me, why would God have sent a savior?”
If we could work it out… If we could figure it out…
We wouldn’t need someone to rescue us from ourselves

Colossians 1 tells us God “ …made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.”

It goes on to say… “This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.”

NLV: Christ’s blood has made peace.

“Never judge your standing by your state.”

God sent us a Savior because we needed to be saved.

Advent Week One was about Hope. Jesus is our Hope.
Once we understand what we learned last week, we must go from Hope to an acceptance that what God has promised to us, He will fulfill.

We must embrace His promises and then find rest.

We enter into His Peace.
I put all my hope in the LORD. He leaned down to me;
He listened to my cry for help. He lifted me out of the pit of death,
out of the mud and filth, and set my feet on solid rock.
He steadied my legs. He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise for our God.
Many people will learn of this and be amazed; they will trust the LORD.

Jesus said: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.
The same words that are creating peace in you today will continue to work in you.
His words are to have life-giving, peace-sustaining power in our lives.
What is creating peace in you will preserve peace in you.
In the second week of Advent, we take time to reflect on God’s peace that He supplies to us without end in Jesus.
While it is true that Jesus came to put an end to sin and its penalty once and for all, His coming into the world has accomplished even so much more than that!
Jesus’ coming has given us peace with God that cannot be undone.
And God has purposed from the beginning to restore us to Himself by His own plan and power.
The prophecies of the Old Testament, fulfilled in Christ’s coming, give us confidence and peace that God is who He says He is and that God does what he says He will do.
John 1:12: But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
…And for those of us who are in Christ, we have great peace because we not only have the peace of God with us right now, we also have the peace that comes from knowing that nothing at all, not even death, can separate us from the love of God that is our in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We have to learn to Rest in Peace.
We need to ask in Faith – and learn to trust and believe.

Accepting and waiting means we are in faith.
Being impatient means we are still in fear.

Living in God’s Peace means we have learned to rest in God’s promises.

Heb 4:3 - We who have faith are entering the rest.

Isn’t that what faith is all about?

Faith comes first. (repeat)

We ask in faith, believing – and then we trust.

“I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry.”

We’ve tried to do it ourselves, and we’ve failed.

Heb 4:11 - There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from His.

We can’t possibly live in a state of Peace without learning to wait and trust.

Because Faith is the substance of things hoped for… and if we look too hard we can find things that just aren’t quite “perfect” yet. ;)

Where does this Peace come from?

Emmanuel. God with us.

On March 2nd, 1791, John Wesley opened his eyes and exclaimed for the very last time, upon his deathbed, these words: ’The best of all is this: God is with us’.

Eph 3:20 - Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

It’s not about us – or our power to handle everything on our own.

It is Emmanuel.

“ …through His mighty power at work within us”

U2: “Sometimes you can’t make it on your own.”
You need God’s power.

“You’ll get through this… not because YOU are strong, but because GOD IS.”

God is there for you in your storm. Christ in YOU. ( )

Be Still and Know. ( )

His Presence is not just in here (sanctuary) - but if you are a Child of God, His Presence is here (inside)
God sent us a savior because He knew we needed to be saved.

He sent us Emmanuel.


Jesus came to save His people, didn’t He?

A God who cares for you.
A God who understands you.
A God who loves you.
A God who is with you.
A God who forgives you.
A God who gives you the free gift of salvation.
A God who has saved you.

Whatever storms you’re going through, listen:
God is with us!

“I waited patiently for the LORD; He turned to me and heard my cry.”

A new song for a new day rises up in me
every time I think about how he breaks through for me!
Ecstatic praise pours out of my mouth until
everyone hears how God has set me free.
Many will see His miracles;
they’ll stand in awe of God and fall in love with Him!

“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace”

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Phenix City  AL  36870
United States
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