Message 12: Receiving and Growing in Salvation
II. Growing by cooperating with the Lord and enjoying His rich provision
F. Meeting with the church—Heb. 10:25
Ephesians 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
1 Corinthians 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Romans 12:1–2 I exhort you therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
Romans 12:5 So we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Hebrews 10:25 Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near.
1. Functioning as members—Eph. 2:19; 1 Cor. 14:26
2. Serving as priests—Rom. 12:1–2, 5
3. Enjoying the corporate blessing—Heb. 10:25
G. Preaching the gospel—Acts 1:8; Rom. 1:14–16
Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Romans 1:14–16 I am debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish; 15 So, for my part, I am ready to announce the gospel to you also who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, both to Jew first and to Greek.
Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.
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