More Than Meets the Eye | Pastor Jim
From 1 Corinthians 12:12-21 ESV
1. God created with purpose.
am to God.
📖 Luke 12:7 NKJV But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
📖 Psalm 139:13 NIV For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
📖 Ephesians 2:10 ESV For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
God equips me in Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit with .
📖 1 Corinthians 12:14 ESV For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:20 ESV As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
📖 1 Corinthians 12:27 ESV Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Spiritual gifts are meant to the church.
📖 1 Corinthians 14:12 …strive to excel in building up the church.
2. The love of God is .
📖 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Spiritual gifts come in .
📖 1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
📖 Romans 6:8-11 ESV Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
📖 Ephesians 2:4-5 NIV But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
📖 1 Corinthians 15:22 NKJV For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
📖 1 John 5:12 ESV Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
The love of God is the greatest to and to .
📖 John 6:35 NLT Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
📖 John 7:37-38 ESV On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
📖 Philippians 2:9-11 ESV Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
📖 1 John 4:19 ESV We love because he first loved us.
Sermon in a Sentence:
receive the power of God’s love when made alive in Jesus by Jesus as Christ, the Son of God.
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