The Person and The Work

The Person and The Work

1 Corinthians 2:2
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For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

  • The Person and The Work must always be the centre
  • No Other personality

What makes a Church, Church?

What makes a Church, Church?
  • House of Grace
  • HEY after the BET letter
  • BET means house
  • House of HEY
  • House where you find grace

Proverbs 4:20 Interlinear

  • Total 25 Letters in Psalms 4:20
  • Center Letter is BET , represents HOUSE
  • Next to BET is ( Reading from right to left ) is HEY
  • HEY Represents Grace
  • House of the God is the House of Grace. That makes a church.
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bə·nî liḏ·ḇā·ray haq·šî·ḇāh; la·’ă·mā·ray, haṭ- ’ā·zə·ne·ḵā.
בְּ֭נִי לִדְבָרַ֣י הַקְשִׁ֑יבָה לַ֝אֲמָרַ֗י הַט־ אָזְנֶֽךָ׃
My son to my words attend to my words incline your ear
Noun Noun Verb Noun Verb Noun

Spiritual Pride

Spiritual Pride
  • Thinking that you could get revelation straight from the bible without the need of a preacher

Romans 10:14-17
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14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace,
    who bring glad tidings of good things!”[a]

16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”[b] 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Footnotes:

  1. Romans 10:15 Isaiah 52:7
  2. Romans 10:16 Isaiah 53:1

Other expressions

  • Forgeting the center shaft and other braches that we supposed to fellowship with
    • It is because of the Grace of God that we see
    • Upon grace we are indebted to continue seeing

The joy of the Lord is your strength

The joy of the Lord is your strength
  • The joy of you is NOT your strength

Nehemiah 8:10
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10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh (the Lord ) is your strength.”

What the Lord rejoices in?

Zephaniah 3:17
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17 Yahweh ( The Lord ), your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

  • If you know He rejoices over you, you will have strength
  • If you know you are God’s beloved, you will have strength
  • “He is my beloved, in whom I am well pleased” – the Father to the Son Jesus
    • Then the ministry of Jesus got started and Jesus conquered death.

 

Church from the side

Eve from the side
  • Eve was created from the side
  • Church from the side of Jesus when His side was stabbed
  • Jesus is in the Midst of the Manora, where all the branches ( Churches ) came from His side

Paul was Princely

Paul was Princely

Boasting on the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ

Galatians 6:14
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14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

1 Corinthians 2:2
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For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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Are you Selfish?

Am I Self conscious?
  • When you have a toothache, will you think about the missionary in the village?
  • When you have a headache, are you short tempered?
  • When you are sick, are you focusing on yourself?
  • When you are not feeling well, are you a disturbance to others?

Yes.

So let’s not blame others

  • When you are Christ centered, you won’t have any diseases and you will be removed from selfishness.

 

Grace and Peace

Grace and Peace

John 20:21
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21 Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

  • Jesus = Grace

2 Peter 1:2
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Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

 

In Jesus all things are held together

In Jesus all things are held together

Colossians 1:15-18
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15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.18 He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Matthew 11:28-30
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28 “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me (Learn the unforced rhythms of grace), for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:17
Weymouth New Testament (WNT)

17 And HE IS before all things and in and through Him the universe is a harmonious whole.

 

  • Even atom is held together
  • Family is held together
  • Mind is held together

Doors were locked because of fear

Doors were locked because of fear

John 20:19
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19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them,“Peace be to you.”