In God’s Service
Examples and Applications for the
Faithfulness of Christians Today
Current Events
 Significant events are happening in our nation
that directly challenge Christians…

07-Jan-2015: Atlanta Fire Chief: I Was Fired Because of My
Christian Faith – foxnews.com
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24-Feb-2015: Obama’s Quiet Change to the Definition of
‘Spouse’ Is Going to Have Far-Reaching Consequences –
dailycaller.com
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03-Aug-2015: Officials requested that these preachers deliver
communications that focused on homosexuality – theblaze.com
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Regardless, We MUST Remain Faithful!
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In God’s Service
 Example: Abraham
Called to go to a foreign land, away from his
family – all based on
his trust in God
Heb 11:8-10
Heb 11:17-19
 Called to sacrifice his son – his only son – to
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place
17 By
faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac; and he who
God
which he was to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not
had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; 18 it
where he was going. 9 By faith he lived as an alien in the
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faithful
andyour
obedient
to shall
God
was
he toremained
whom it was said,
“In Isaac
descendants
be called.”
land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and
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19 He considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from
Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise, 10 for he was looking for the
which he also received him back as a type.
city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
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In God’s Service
 Example: the Apostle Paul
On his 3rd Journey
Acts 20:22-24
 He knew of the coming
imprisonment
22 …yet
And now,
behold,
bound in spirit,
I am on my
way
to Jerusalem, not

he
continued
to preach
the
gospel
knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit
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faithful
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God
testifies to me
in every in
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saying
that bonds
afflictions
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await me. 24 But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to
myself, in order that I may finish my course, and the ministry which I
received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the
grace of God.
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In God’s Service
Heb 11:32-40
And what more
shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon,
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Christians
Today…
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were
strong,
13
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these died
faith,ofwithout
receiving
promises,
butmade
having
seen
called
upon
to
act/live
by
faith
became
war, put foreign
armies
to flight.and
35 Women
received
them
and mighty
having in
welcomed
them
from
a distance,
having confessed
Heb
11:1-2
Rom
8:31
1Gal
Cor
3:19a
back
their
dead
by resurrection,
and3:11b
others
were
tortured,
not accepting
that
were
strangers
and
exiles
on
the
earth.
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For must
those
who
say
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The
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may
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at
us,
but
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resurrection;
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then
shall
we
say
to
these
things?
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wisdom
offaithful
this
world
is
foolishness
before
God….
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and
confident
–approval.
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God,
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man
shall
live
by
faith.
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mockings
and
scourgings,
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also
and
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indeed
ifIfthey
had
been
thinking
of
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which
they
of things
seen.
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men
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us,
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us?from
imprisonment.
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what was promised,
40 because God had provided something better for us, so that apart
from us they should not be made perfect.
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In God’s Service
 We Are Called Upon to Avoid Worldliness

Intoxicants / Habit-forming Drugs

Alcoholic Beverages
 First drink affects your
senses;
1 Pet
4:3-5drunkenness condemned
Tobacco / Nicotine and
Other
Harmful Drugs
Jas
3:4-5
2:6-8
Rom
1Titus
Tim
13:13-14
2:9-10
Heb
12:28
1
Cor
6:19-20
Jn
Col15:19
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Slave
to the past
habit;is
harms
your
3 For the time
already
1sufficient
Eph
Mt
Cor
5:4
8:12for you to have carried out the
Rom
Heb
Col
Pet5:28
14:13
5:14
4:6
3:10
of the
Gentiles,
having
pursued
a course
sensuality,
lusts,
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28
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we
receive
a kingdom
which
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shaken,
19
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it
were
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takes
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you
world
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would
through
love
philosophy
its
own;
but
and
because
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carousals,
drinking
parties
and
abominable
idolatries.
strong
winds,
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still
directed
by
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rudder,
wherever
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letare
us
show
gratitude,
by
we
may
offer
to
God
an therefore
acceptable
in
you,
whom
you
have
from
God,
and
that
you
are
not
your
own?
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a
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reverence
and
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fire.
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have
been
bought
with
a
price:
glorify
God
in
your
body.
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of
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world,
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to judge the living and the dead.
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 Revealing clothing; immodest apparel
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Mixed Public Swimming
 …and what are you teaching your children?
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In God’s Service
 We Are Called Upon to Be Committed to the
Local Work – the Church

What it means to “Place Membership”
Eph 3:10-12
Heb
10:24-25
 We are committing to
Acts the
20:28work here
12 Acts
Thess
Tim 2:15
9:26
5:11
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that
the
manifold
wisdom
of
might
now be made known
are
committing
to the God
other
members
24 andWe
let us
consider
how to stimulate
one another
to love and good
28 Be
through
on guard
the church
for yourselves
to the rulers
and for
andallthe
theauthorities
flock, among
in the
which
heavenly
the Holy
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and
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 Critical to our commitment
to
the
congregation
day drawing near.
confident access through faith in Him.
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 …and it’s commanded;
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Think about your role – be here
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In God’s Service
 Summary
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The world does not understand these things
They often hold us with disdain

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We are called out of the world…to live
differently than the world
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We must be prepared for whatever may come
Rev 2:10 …faithful until death…
Are you fully engaged in God’s Service?
Are you proud to be seen as a Christian – one
who is different from the world?
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In God’s Service
Examples and Applications for the
Faithfulness of Christians Today
In God’s Service
 Example: Moses
Refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s
daughter
Heb 11:24-26
 Kept the Passover;Heb
saving
11:29 the first-born
Heb 11:28
24 By
faith
Moses,
when
he
had
grown up, refused to be called the son
Hebrew children
29 By faith
they passed
through the
RedtoSea
as though
they were
of Pharaoh
’s daughter,
25 choosing
rather
endure
ill-treatment
with the
28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that
 Passed
through
the
Red
Sea
people
passing
of God, through
than
to enjoy
on dry
the
land;
passing
and the
pleasures
Egyptians,
of sin;
when
26 they
considering
He who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.
the reproach of Christattempted
greater riches
it, were
thandrowned.
the treasures of Egypt, for he
 Through all of
this
Moses
was faithful
was
looking
to the reward.
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