Be Passionate about God's house
From Casey Treat's CD series - Consumed with Passion.
Point 1: Passion about God's house
Are you passionate about anything?
Is there anything in your life that stirs you up and fires you up?
Are you wasting your passion on irrelevant things that pass away?
Are you passionate about what Jesus was passionate about?
To have passion is to have strong feeling and desire, powerful and compelling emotions.
John 1:17
Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up."
Christ was passionate about the Father's house.
To be a Christian, is to be like Christ.
Eph 1:22-23
And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
The authority of Christ is over a church. But if you are not part of the church, you do not get the authority of Christ. The head goes with the body, and vice versa.
The church is Christ's body and it is the fullness of Christ to all the earth. When you see all that the church (churches) is doing all over the world, you see Jesus at work in the earth today.
There is no one person that represents all that Jesus is.
When Jesus walked in flesh, He was the perfect representation of God. But since Him, there has been no other. Now the church is the body of Christ, and in the church, you see all that Christ is. That's why we are so different and it is good that we are different. Each church is focusing on different things. Cos God wants to do everything.
Matt 16
v13 - He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
v15 - He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
v16 - Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
v17-18 - Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Understanding who Jesus is includes embracing His church (the body of Christ).
Understanding what Jesus wants to do our lives and in our world includes embracing His church.
Value the church that God loves.
Can you be a Christian but not be a part of the church? Can you love the head but not the body? Can you want Jesus in your life but just not want any of His people in your life?
He who says he loves God must love his brother also.
God takes the body of Christ to help you to become the person that God wants you to be. Church = gathering of the called-out ones.
The church is His voice to His world, His hands in this world, His feet going into all the world. The local church is the only manifestation of the global or spiritual church. There is no other way to be part of His church, if you are not in a church.
Love His body and serve His body, and participate in the ministry of the body of Christ.
Acts 2 - Birth of the church (1st century Christians)
v47 - And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
As soon as you were saved, you are part of a church. Only place that you get spiritual food, spiritual support and spiritual things that God has for your life is the church.
Paul was birthing churches.
The church has a different level of responsibility. The church is responsible for souls and spiritual environment in which we live.
Can you be a Christian and not be part of a church?
Paul wrote to the churches.
If you weren't in a church then, you wouldn't get to know what Paul told the church.
Paul carried the churches in his heart cos he knew it was the key for Christianity forever in the earth.
The book of revelations was for the churches.
When you are lying around in your house all by yourself, you get dusty and dull.
When you get in the church and get around other people, you get shinier and look better. Because the body knocks the rough edges off each other. That is what church is all about. Serving God isn't doing my things my way, but doing His things His way.
Do you have the passion that Jesus has for God's house?
Eph 4
v11 - And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
v12 - for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
v13 - till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
v14 - that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
v15 - but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ--
v16 - from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Everyone does his/her part.
That causes growth of the body.
1 Tim 3
v15 - but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
We all need an environment where we are challenged to grow, encouraged to grow.
The church is trying to build you, bless you and help you to be all the God wants you to be.
Heb 10:24-25
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Ps 92:13-14
Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing.
If church is optional for you, or
If you have to think if you should go to the church every week, or
If moving churches is common to you, or
If you have no intimate relationships in the church, or
If you don't serve in your church,
If your kids love church more than you,
If you love your car/house/etc more than your church,
you are not planted.
And if you are not planted in the house of God, you will never flourish in the blessings of God.
******
Isa 42:3 & Matt 12:20
A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench.
Ps 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Friends, let's march on together for God is walking with us.
Point 1: Passion about God's house
Are you passionate about anything?
Is there anything in your life that stirs you up and fires you up?
Are you wasting your passion on irrelevant things that pass away?
Are you passionate about what Jesus was passionate about?
To have passion is to have strong feeling and desire, powerful and compelling emotions.
John 1:17
Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up."
Christ was passionate about the Father's house.
To be a Christian, is to be like Christ.
Eph 1:22-23
And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
The authority of Christ is over a church. But if you are not part of the church, you do not get the authority of Christ. The head goes with the body, and vice versa.
The church is Christ's body and it is the fullness of Christ to all the earth. When you see all that the church (churches) is doing all over the world, you see Jesus at work in the earth today.
There is no one person that represents all that Jesus is.
When Jesus walked in flesh, He was the perfect representation of God. But since Him, there has been no other. Now the church is the body of Christ, and in the church, you see all that Christ is. That's why we are so different and it is good that we are different. Each church is focusing on different things. Cos God wants to do everything.
Matt 16
v13 - He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
v15 - He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
v16 - Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
v17-18 - Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Understanding who Jesus is includes embracing His church (the body of Christ).
Understanding what Jesus wants to do our lives and in our world includes embracing His church.
Value the church that God loves.
Can you be a Christian but not be a part of the church? Can you love the head but not the body? Can you want Jesus in your life but just not want any of His people in your life?
He who says he loves God must love his brother also.
God takes the body of Christ to help you to become the person that God wants you to be. Church = gathering of the called-out ones.
The church is His voice to His world, His hands in this world, His feet going into all the world. The local church is the only manifestation of the global or spiritual church. There is no other way to be part of His church, if you are not in a church.
Love His body and serve His body, and participate in the ministry of the body of Christ.
Acts 2 - Birth of the church (1st century Christians)
v47 - And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.
As soon as you were saved, you are part of a church. Only place that you get spiritual food, spiritual support and spiritual things that God has for your life is the church.
Paul was birthing churches.
The church has a different level of responsibility. The church is responsible for souls and spiritual environment in which we live.
Can you be a Christian and not be part of a church?
Paul wrote to the churches.
If you weren't in a church then, you wouldn't get to know what Paul told the church.
Paul carried the churches in his heart cos he knew it was the key for Christianity forever in the earth.
The book of revelations was for the churches.
When you are lying around in your house all by yourself, you get dusty and dull.
When you get in the church and get around other people, you get shinier and look better. Because the body knocks the rough edges off each other. That is what church is all about. Serving God isn't doing my things my way, but doing His things His way.
Do you have the passion that Jesus has for God's house?
Eph 4
v11 - And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
v12 - for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
v13 - till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
v14 - that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
v15 - but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ--
v16 - from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Everyone does his/her part.
That causes growth of the body.
1 Tim 3
v15 - but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
We all need an environment where we are challenged to grow, encouraged to grow.
The church is trying to build you, bless you and help you to be all the God wants you to be.
Heb 10:24-25
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Ps 92:13-14
Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing.
If church is optional for you, or
If you have to think if you should go to the church every week, or
If moving churches is common to you, or
If you have no intimate relationships in the church, or
If you don't serve in your church,
If your kids love church more than you,
If you love your car/house/etc more than your church,
you are not planted.
And if you are not planted in the house of God, you will never flourish in the blessings of God.
******
Isa 42:3 & Matt 12:20
A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench.
Ps 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Friends, let's march on together for God is walking with us.
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