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TODAY’S BIBLE LESSON What is Your Attitude Toward Others?
LESSON INTRODUCTION
As the apostle Paul sat in a prison cell in Rome, it would have been easy for him to have a selfish attitude, especially toward others. He could have asked, “Why me?” as he waited to speak to the Emperor of Rome, facing either release or execution, with his head down while feeling sorry for himself.
Paul’s attitude was JOY.
On one hand, Paul was single-mindedly focused on Christ. On the other hand, Paul was concerned for others. Paul realized that as a Christian, he is called to be an imitator of Christ, especially in attitude. The same is true for us.
The apostle Peter makes clear the attitude we believers in Christ are to imitate when we take on Christ’s attitude…First Peter, Chapter 2, Verses 21 to 24…
FIRST PETER 2:21 For you believers in Christ have been called for this very purpose…Christ suffered for you…leaving you an example so you would follow in His footsteps…
FIRST PETER 2:22 …the Christ…who committed no sin (in His life)…nor was any deceit found in His mouth… FIRST PETER 2:23 …who, while being reviled, did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to God the Father who judges righteously…
FIRST PETER 2:24 …and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself bore our sins in His own body on the Cross, so that we might die to the sovereignty of sin and so that we might live the resurrection life with its absolute righteousness…for by the Lord’s wounds you believers in Christ were healed.
In today’s lesson, we’ll learn the attitude we are to use to carry us through this life, especially our attitude toward others, even when we are treated unjustly.
OPENING SONG INTRODUCTION
Let’s hear some music!
The Word of God is described as “the truth” in the Lord’s prayer…John, Chapter 17, Verse 17, where the Lord says…
JOHN 17:17 Father…sanctify believers in Christ in the truth…Your Word is truth.
Did you know the TRUTH is a noun? The truth is like a Person. It’s a sphere into which we are placed as believers in Christ from the moment of our salvation. When we study the Word of Truth, we are enveloped within a sphere of truth, and it covers us like a Person who cares for us deeply.
The VOICE OF TRUTH is God the Holy Spirit. We listen to Him and not to the voices of Satan, his world system of thought, and the flesh resident inside us. Satan’s kingdom of death and darkness seeks to rob us of mental serenity by sending us messages of our inadequacy.
However, as Casting Crowns reminds us in song, THE VOICE OF TRUTH is sending us completely different messages. Let’s listen.
MUSIC - OPENING SONG Let’s Hear the Singing of the Lord’s Praises
VOICE OF TRUTH Casting Crowns
OPENING PRAYER
Let us pray...
We’re grateful to You Heavenly Father for providing us with the absolute truth of the Word of God…
Father…You call us to have the right attitude…toward You, toward ourselves, toward others, toward our enemies, toward circumstances, and toward the environments You place us into…and many times we find it difficult because emotions take over our thoughts, and selfishness becomes our guide…
…since we know thoughts lead to actions, help us get our thoughts right with this lesson…help us have the attitude that was also in Your Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was ALWAYS thinking of others before thinking of Himself… and help us go to God the Holy Spirit for an attitude adjustment when our attitude isn’t right…
…we ask these things through the power of God the Holy Spirit…in Christ’s name...Amen.
TODAY’S BIBLE LESSON What is Your Attitude Toward Others?
LESSON PART ONE
We continue our study of the apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians. Today we study the first passage of Philippians, Chapter Two. Only seventy-four verses to go in this four-chapter, one hundred and four verse epistle to one of Paul’s favorite churches.
Philippi was a Roman colony, and it was home to many retired Romans soldiers. At the time, the Roman Emperor was thought to be the king of the world, so when Paul and other believers in Christ, both in Rome and in Philippi, were preaching Jesus as the Sovereign King of the world, they met much resistance and persecution. Yet believers in Christ were unfazed. In Philippians, Chapter 1, Verse 14 Paul said…
PHILIPPIANS 1:14 …most of the brethren (believers in Christ) here in Rome, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the Word of God without fear.
In spite of the persecution, believers in Christ in Philippi were as bold in sharing of the gospel of Jesus Christ as the Roman believers.
As we reflect on the messages of the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he encourages believers to focus on Christ. He echoes the sentiments expressed in Hebrews, Chapter 12, Verses 1 and 2…
HEBREWS 12:1b …let us believers in Christ run with endurance the race of our lives that is set before us by God…
HEBREWS 12:2a …fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith…
In Philippians, Chapter 1, Verses 1 to 11 Paul expresses his gratitude to the believers in Christ in Philippi for the financial gift they sent to care for him during his imprisonment. Paul also is grateful for their participation in the dissemination of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for their fellowship with him and with each other, and for the development he sees them going thorough in the power of God. Philippians, Chapter 1, Verse 6…
PHILIPPIANS 1:6 For I (Paul) am confident of this very thing…that God the Father…who began a good work in all of you…will keep on perfecting it until the day of Christ Jesus (when He brings it to completion).
In Philippians, Chapter 1, Verses 12 to 26 Paul lets his friends in Philippi know that his being in prison isn’t so bad. Philippians, Chapter 1, Verse 12…
PHILIPPIANS 1:12 Now I (Paul) want you to know brethren (believers in Christ) … that my circumstances (of being imprisoned) have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel of Jesus Christ…
Paul spends every day in other focus, evangelizing members of the Praetorian Guard, the Emperor’s elite soldiers, and there is a buzz circulating throughout Rome about Paul and his messages about Jesus.
Even though Paul knows he’ll either be released from prison or executed, he contends that going home to be with the Lord is preferable. But Paul knows that staying here on earth is God’s will for him, and it is for the benefit of people everywhere. Philippians, Chapter 1, Verse 25…
PHILIPPIANS 1:25 I (Paul) am convinced of this…I will remain on in the flesh and I will continue with all of you, both for your progress and for your JOY in defending the faith…
In Philippians, Chapter 1, Verses 27 to 30 Paul calls believers in Christ to a single-mindedness in their Christian walk despite the persecution…Philippians, Chapter 1, Verse 27…
PHILIPPIANS 1:27 …conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I (Paul) come and see you or whether I remain absent from you, I will hear you are standing firm in one spirit…with a single-mindedness…striving together for the faith of the gospel…
As Christians our focus is Christ. When we focus on Christ, it stands to reason that we begin to treat ourselves well despite our deficiencies. And as we learn to imitate Christ in every way, we naturally have as deep a desire to serve others as the Lord. When we learn to imitate the Lord in every thought and in every deed, we take on His attitude toward others.
The question of the lesson is, “What is your attitude toward others?” At the moment of salvation, we believers in Christ are placed into a unity by God the Holy Spirit with other believers in Christ all over the world. All of us are on Jesus’ team and we are members of each other. Yet as we assess our lives, our worst relationships are probably with other Christians, the very people with whom we are in an unbreakable unity.
The Lord wants us to change our attitudes.
So let’s investigate the lesson the Lord has for us in Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 1 to 11…
PHILIPPIANS 2:1a Therefore, if there is any encouragement in union with Christ, and of course there is; if there is any comfort from unconditional love, and of course there is…
PHILIPPIANS 2:1b …if there is any fellowship with God the Holy Spirit, and of course there is; if there is any affection and compassion, and of course there is…
PHILIPPIANS 2:2 …make my JOY complete by being single-minded…maintaining the same unconditional love…being united in spirit…and being intent on one purpose.
PHILIPPIANS 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit (excessive pride in self)…but with humility of mind keep on regarding one another as more important than yourselves…
PHILIPPIANS 2:4 …do not only look out for your own personal interests, but also look out for the interests of others.
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also the attitude in Christ Jesus…
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 …who, although He existed in the exact same essence as God the Father, did not regard equality with God the Father as a thing to be seized and held onto…
PHILIPPIANS 2:7 …instead, Jesus emptied Himself (depriving Himself of the rightful functions of Deity…making Himself a nothing) by taking on the form of a bond-servant, and by being made in the likeness of men.
PHILIPPIANS 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humiliated Himself (rather than being “entitled”) by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a Cross.
PHILIPPIANS 2:9 For this reason, God the Father highly exalted Jesus, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name…
PHILIPPIANS 2:10 …so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven, of those who are on the earth, and of those who are under the earth…
PHILIPPIANS 2:11 …and every tongue will confess that Jesus…the Christ (the Messiah)…is Lord (He is Deity…He is God…He is the Son)…to the glory of God the Father.
Here’s the structure of the passage…
THE STRUCTURE OF THE PASSAGE
Verses 1 to 4 A Recommendation on Our Attitude Toward Others
Verses 5 to 8 The Lord’s Attitude Toward Others
THE STRUCTURE OF THE PASSAGE
Verses 9 to 11 The Reward for a Great Attitude
At physical birth we are not right with God. When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, we are made right with God BY God. A God who owed us nothing considered us more important than Himself. John, Chapter 15, Verse 13…
JOHN 15:13 Greater unconditional love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
The Lord came down from heaven to be with us and to save us when He didn’t have to do it.
What’s next?
Once we are made right with God, what the Lord wants for us is that we would be right in our attitude toward others. What IS your attitude toward others? Do you think of others before you think of yourself?
Most of Paul’s letters address problems in a church. We’ll remember from studying Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, there was no problem in the church at Ephesus. His letter to them revealed the splendor of being in union with Christ.
In the church at Rome there were definite problems according to Philippians, Chapter 1, Verses 15 to 19…
PHILIPPIANS 1:15 Some (here in Rome) are preaching Christ even from envy and strife (legalism)… but some are preaching Christ from good will (grace orientation)…
PHILIPPIANS 1:16 …the latter do it out of unconditional love, knowing I (Paul) am appointed for the defense of the gospel…
PHILIPPIANS 1:17 …the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, wanting to cause me distress in my imprisonment.
PHILIPPIANS 1:18 What do I think about this? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, when Christ is proclaimed, in this I rejoice. Yes! I rejoice…
PHILIPPIANS 1:19 …for I know this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and through the provisions of God the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ…
Much to Paul’s dismay, there were problems in the Philippian church as well. Satan attacks both the Christian Church and Christians from the outside and from the inside.
False teachers attack churches from the outside with false teaching, attempting to neutralize a church’s effectiveness. Paul warns believers in Philippi in Philippians, Chapter 3, Verse 2…
PHILIPPIANS 3:2 Beware of the dogs (he’s not talking about canines) … beware of the evil workers (false teachers) … beware of the false circumcision (those who may be physically circumcised who are not spiritually circumcised…in other words…unbelievers)…
Satan also attacks churches from within by causing dissention among the members. In the Philippian church there was competition rather than cooperation between Euodia and Synthyche. (SIN-TE-KEY). We’ll learn more about this in a later chapter of this letter.
Paul begins to address the problems in the Philippian church in the first four verses of this passage, calling all church members at Philippi to a higher standard of interaction. Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 1 and 2…
PHILIPPIANS 2:1a Therefore, if there is any encouragement because we are in union with Christ, and of course there is; if there is any comfort from unconditional love, and of course there is…
PHILIPPIANS 2:1b …if there is any fellowship with God the Holy Spirit, and of course there is; if there is any affection and compassion, and of course there is…
PHILIPPIANS 2:2 …make my JOY complete by being single-minded…maintaining the same unconditional love…being united in spirit…and being intent on one purpose.
In other words, as believers in Christ we have a lot going for us. Let’s take advantage of it rather than falling prey to Satan’s attacks from the outside and from the inside. Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 3 and 4…
PHILIPPIANS 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit…but with humility of mind keep on regarding one another as more important than yourselves…
PHILIPPIANS 2:4 …do not only look out for your own personal interests, but also look out for the interests of others.
What happens in our relationships with others when there is unity and love? Harmony, fellowship, and JOY. What happens in relationships when there is division and rivalry? There is spiritual malfunction, causing misery. Putting ourselves first robs us of JOY.
Satan invites believers to selfishness, pride and stubbornness. He wants us to be like him. The Lord, through Paul, inspires believers in Christ to a JOYFUL life where we put others first. It’s them first, then you. So in Philippians, Chapter 1, we believers think of Christ first. In Philippians 2, Paul encourages us to think of others next.
When we think of others, we add to our single-mindedness a submissive mind. After we fix our eyes on Jesus, the next place our eyes go is to others. That’s what the Lord wants for us. That’s what Jesus did for us. He put us ahead of His own comfort.
It would have been easy for the Lord to stay in heaven and not do a thing about our sin problem. The Lord is not that Person. Isn’t it great that Jesus put us first? He wants us to follow His lead, putting others first. What if he hadn’t put us first? Perish the thought!
Christianity is an attitude. When we return from the break we’ll request an offering, and then we’ll continue to study this passage verse-by-verse to see what attitude the Lord wants His believers to adopt.
FIVE-MINUTE BREAK NOBODY Casting Crowns featuring Matthew West
TODAY’S BIBLE LESSON What is Your Attitude Toward Others?
OFFERING INTRODUCTION
Often, as part of my prayers, I ask God the Holy Spirit to open your hearts with a spirit of generosity. Proverbs, Chapter 19, Verse 17 says…
PROVERBS 19:17 The one who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord…and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.
May God the Holy Spirit give you a burning to desire to serve those who are spiritually bankrupt. Your generosity is the means by which Barah Ministries can provide an accurate gospel message to be enjoyed all around the world.
Let’s listen to Deacon Denny Goodall present one of his thoughtful and inspiring offering messages.
THE OFFERING Deacon Denny Goodall
OFFERING VERSE
SECOND CORINTHIANS 5:20 Therefore, we believers in Christ are ambassadors for Christ…as though God the Father is making an appeal through us believers (because He is)…we beg you unbelievers on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God the Father.
OFFERING SONG THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU Instrumental Version
TODAY’S BIBLE LESSON What is Your Attitude Toward Others?
LESSON PART TWO
Welcome back! The final parts of this passage are described as a poem by many commentators… beginning at Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 5 and 6…
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also the attitude in Christ Jesus…
PHILIPPIANS 2:6 …who, although He existed in the exact same essence as God the Father, did not regard equality with God the Father as a thing to be seized and held onto…
The Lord existed as God the Son before He came to earth as Jesus…the Christ…the predicted Messiah. As we learn in the first fourteen verses of the gospel of John, the Lord IS God…the Creator of the heavens and the earth…the exact same in essence as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. John, Chapter 1, Verse 1…
JOHN 1:1a In the beginning was the Word (ho logos…the Word is a reference to the Lord… God the Son) and the Word (the Lord…God the Son) was with God the Father)…
JOHN 1:1b …and the Word was God (Deity…the same in essence as the other two members of the Godhead).
The Lord could have easily stayed in heaven and enjoyed His status as God. Instead of being selfish like Satan and Adam, who sought equality with God…who both sought to be “like” God…the Lord humiliated Himself for our benefit by dying on a Cross to pay a debt He did not owe.
Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 7 and 8…
PHILIPPIANS 2:7 …instead, Jesus emptied Himself (depriving Himself of the rightful functions of Deity…in essence making Himself a nothing) by taking on the form of a bond-servant, and by being made in the likeness of men.
PHILIPPIANS 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humiliated Himself (rather than being “entitled”) by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a Cross.
This unselfishness on the Lord’s part was rewarded generously by God the Father…Philippians, Chapter 2, Verses 9 to 11…
PHILIPPIANS 2:9 For this reason (the obedience), God the Father highly exalted Jesus, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name…
PHILIPPIANS 2:10 …so that at the name of Jesus…(in the future)…every knee will bow…of those who are in heaven…of those who are on the earth…and of those who are under the earth…
PHILIPPIANS 2:11 …and every tongue will confess that Jesus…the Christ (the Messiah)…is the Lord (He is God…He is Deity…He is the Son)…to the glory of God the Father.
There is ample reward in store for believers in Christ who endure a lifetime of suffering for Christ’s sake. By following the Lord’s lead, we will never be disappointed. When you assess your life, you may find you have had it harder than some of your unbeliever friends.
Your life is a reenactment of the life of Christ. Have you been hurt? So was Jesus. Have you been betrayed? So was Jesus. Have you been uncomfortable? So was Jesus. When you experience the same things Jesus experienced on a lesser scale (you haven’t had to die for anyone) you don’t have to theorize what Jesus went through. You get to experience it, especially how deeply it hurts.
Even when you’re hurt, Ephesians Chapter 5, Verses 1 and 2 give direction to our lives…
EPHESIANS 5:1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children (you believers in Christ)…
EPHESIANS 5:2 …and walk in a lifestyle of) unconditional love, just as Christ also loved you unconditionally and gave Himself up for all of us, an offering and a sacrifice to God the Father as a fragrant aroma.
The apostle Paul reiterates the call to other focus all over the New Testament… First Thessalonians, Chapter 5, Verse 11…
FIRST THESSALONIANS 5:11a Therefore encourage one another and build up one another…
Galatians, Chapter 6, Verse 2…
GALATIANS 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
Romans, Chapter 14, Verse 13…
ROMANS 14:13 Therefore, let us not judge one another anymore…rather, determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.
Romans, Chapter 15, Verse 14…
ROMANS 15:14 And concerning you, my brethren (believers in Christ)…I (Paul) myself am convinced that you are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and you are able to admonish one another.
When we admonish each other we call each other to live the standard of the life of Christ as an imitator.
What’s your attitude toward others? Take the Lord’s advice in Philippians, Chapter 2, Verse 4…
PHILIPPIANS 2:4 …do not only look out for your own personal interests, but also look out for the interests of others.
Are you living this divine standard?
THE GOSPEL MESSAGE The Good News of Jesus Christ’s Salvation Offer to the Human Race
The next ten minutes could be the ten most important minutes of your life. You’ll be introduced to the good news concerning how you can spend all eternity in heaven when you close your eyes in this life. We want you to know that…
GOD WANTS YOU! He Wants You Make the Most Important Decision of Your Life …and what He wants for you is that you make the most important decision of your life.
Even if you don’t believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you matter to God. The Lord’s enemies matter to Him as much or more than His friends matter to Him. The Lord created you and He wants the best for you.
While sharing this truth recently, a friend asked, “How do I get right with God?”
When we are born, we are not right with God. Everyone is born in a state of unrighteousness, physically alive and spiritually dead as ungodly, unrighteous unbelievers in God’s eyes. We were born sinners and we need a Savior.
It’s not our fault we were born this way, BUT IT IS OUR CIRCUMSTANCE.
In First Corinthians, Chapter 15, Verse 22 the Bible says…
FIRST CORINTHIANS 15:22a For all in union with Adam at physical birth (and that is every human being who comes to earth) are set to die the second death in the Lake of Fire…
To God’s enemy, Satan…the ruler of this world…you don’t matter at all. First Peter, Chapter 5, Verse 8 says…
FIRST PETER 5:8 Be of sober spirit…be on the alert! Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. You are the “someone” on Satan’s list. Satan does not want you to be right with God. He’s hasn’t been right with God since the day he declared God to be his enemy. Here’s what the Lord says about that fateful day when Satan voluntarily gave up his privileged position in the Lord’s kingdom...Ezekiel, Chapter 28, Verse 15…
EZEKIEL 28:15 “You (Satan) were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you.”
Satan wants followers. He doesn’t want you to be with God in heaven when you close your eyes in this life. He wants you to be with him in the Lake of Fire, and he wants you so badly he sends false teachers with false teachings to deceive you. In Matthew, Chapter 7, Verse 15 the Lord warns us about this…
MATTHEW 7:15 “Beware of the false teachers…who come to you in sheep’s clothing…but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
A ravenous animal has an insatiable desire to tear you apart. Ravenous teachers pretend to be for you, yet they want you to be twice the sons of hell that they are.
This gospel message offers GOOD NEWS concerning how to get right with God. John, Chapter 3, Verses 16 and 17 reveal what God wants for you…
JOHN 3:16 “God the Father loved the world unconditionally…and He loved the world so much…that He gave His uniquely born Son (the God-man…the Lord Jesus)…to be crucified on a Cross) … so that WHOSOEVER believes in Him shall not perish, but has eternal life.”
JOHN 3:17 For God the Father did not send God the Son (the Lord) into the world to judge the world…but the Father sent the Son into the world that the world might be saved through Him.
God wants you to respond positively to the good news of this gospel message so you can be right with Him.
Who is this God who saves you? The apostle Paul describes the Lord Jesus Christ in First Corinthians, Chapter 15, Verses 3 and 4…
FIRST CORINTHIANS 15:3 For I (the apostle Paul) delivered to all of you as of primary importance the gospel message I also received from God…that it was Jesus Christ who died for our sins according to the Old Testament Scriptures…
FIRST CORINTHIANS 15:4 …and that He was buried…and that He was raised from the dead on the third day…according to the Old Testament Scriptures…
Getting right with God is easy. There is no work involved. Anyone who says you have work to get right with God is a false teacher giving you a false gospel message. Romans, Chapter 11, Verse 6 says you don’t have to work to be saved…
ROMANS 11:6 …if salvation is by grace (a free gift from God) … and of course it is…it is no longer on the basis of your works…otherwise, grace (as a free gift) is no longer grace (it is not free).
Romans, Chapter 4, Verse 4 says you CAN'T work for salvation…
ROMANS 4:4 Now to the one who works for salvation, his wage for his work is not credited to his account as a favor from the grace of God, but his wage is credited as what is due for the work.
Your hardest work is not perfect enough to get you right with God. So relax! You can get to heaven free of charge and free of work when you close your eyes in this life. Acts, Chapter 16, Verse 31 says…
ACTS 16:31 “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved by God, you and everyone in your household who also believes.”
John, Chapter 3, Verse 36 both warns you and invites you…
JOHN 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has the resurrection life right at that moment…but he who does not obey the command to believe in the Son will not see the resurrection life…instead the wrath of God (the Lake of Fire) abides on him.” You have a choice.
You can spend eternity with God’s enemy, Satan, in the Lake of Fire…OR…you can have the free gift of eternal life right this minute! RIGHT WHERE YOU SIT, RIGHT NOW God can make you right with Him. You can tell God the Father that you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and that is the moment of eternal life for you.
Romans, Chapter 10, Verses 9 and 10 encourages you…
ROMANS 10:9 …if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord (that He is God) … and if you believe in your heart that God the Father raised Him from the dead…you will be saved…
ROMANS 10:10 …for with the heart a person believes…resulting in the imputation of absolute righteousness by God (your admission ticket to heaven) … and with the mouth a person confesses (admitting faith in Christ alone) resulting in salvation.
You are right with God the moment He gifts you with His salvation and His righteousness.
There is a consequence for rejecting the salvation and the righteousness gift from the Lord Jesus Christ. In Matthew, Chapter 8, Verse 12 the Lord says…
MATTHEW 8:12 “…the sons of (Satan’s) kingdom…(unbelievers)…will be cast out into the outer darkness (The Lake of Fire)…and in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Many parents are false teachers leading their children to an eternity in the Lake of Fire. Do you want to know if you’re a good parent? Just ask yourself a simple question. Are you influencing your children to get right with God by having a relationship with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Sovereign God of the Universe?
He is the ONLY WAY to get to heaven according to John, Chapter 14, Verse 6…
JOHN 14:6 Jesus said to the doubting apostle, Thomas, “I am the way (to salvation)…and I am the truth (through the gospel message in the Word of God)…and I am the resurrection life…and no one comes to God the Father in heaven but through believing in Me.”
You are either right with God or you aren’t.
There’s no time to waste!
GOD WANTS YOU!
If you want to be right with God, simply believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved! Take His word for it concerning what it takes to be saved, and the resurrection life is yours free of charge! You’ll be right with God for all eternity.
THE GOSPEL MESSAGE The Good News of Jesus Christ’s Salvation Offer to the Human Race
CLOSING SONG INTRODUCTION
Let’s close with music!
How can we have the same attitude the Lord has when it comes to others, especially when others wrong us? Sometimes it seems impossible to have a perfect attitude.
When our attitude falls short, we go to God in prayer. God always answers our prayers, just not in our timing. Here’s Danny Gokey to remind us in song not to get discouraged if we HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET…“it” being God’s response to our earnest prayers. Let’s listen.
MUSIC - CLOSING SONG Let’s Hear the Singing of the Lord’s Praises
HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET Danny Gokey
CLOSING PRAYER Let us pray...
Almighty God and Father…
Thank you for encouraging us to imitate You in attitude…in fact, in every thought…and never let us think for the moments we are successfully imitating You that we are somehow being “Christ-like” … instead, make it clear that God the Holy Spirit is the One controlling our attitude when we let Him…
…help us look for opportunities to put others before ourselves this week so when people notice our unselfishness, they attribute it to You instead of to us…
…we ask this through the power of God the Holy Spirit…in Christ’s name...Amen.
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