Southcoast | The God Who is Community & The People Who Must Be.
From
Colossians 4:7-18
1. You were community.
📖 Genesis 1:26 ESV Then God said, “Let us make manin our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
📖 John 13:34-35 ESV A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
📖 2 Timothy 4:10 ESV For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica.
Why Do We Need Community?
First Reason: We need community to God rightly.
📖 Hebrews 10:24-25 ESVAnd let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
📖 Proverbs 27:17 ESV Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Why Do We Need Community?
Second Reason: We need community to spiritually.
📖 Colossians 1:28 ESV Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Why Do We Need Community?
Third Reason: We need community to our Enemy.
📖 1 Peter 5:8 NLT Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
📖 Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
2. The Gospel what sin .
📖 Colossians 3:11 ESV Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
📖 Galatians 3:28 NLT There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
📖 Revelation 7:9 ESV After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
3. before we do.
📖 Colossians 4:5-6 ESV Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
📖 John 17:20-21 ESV“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
📖 Acts 2:42–47 ESVAnd they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awecame upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
2 Practical Steps for Everyone:
1. a step community.
2. in community.
Sermon in a sentence:
Because God Himself exists in , Christians need one another to spiritually, the Enemy, Christ accurately, and give to the Gospel.
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