2025-02-09 Sermon Notes
| Series | Location | Subjects | Takeaways | Sermon Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church | - | - | - |
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Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Points
- this is the only place in the Bible where god is called both the God of love and peace
- He loves peace and love
- Love joy and peace are the first three fruits listed in Galatians
- Love:
- 1 Cor 13:4-10, 13
- John 13.34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
- God is the author of love. The source.
- Peace:
- peace is not merely being calm
- Peace is refusing to give into strife. Choosing to forgive even when you are owed.
- Promise: God will be with us.
- Condition: if we:
- Live in peace
- ❓: does this mean God wont be with us if we don’t live in peace? How? He is everywhere.
- A: we will know his presence. Well feel it.
- It is helpful to know what it means to be with God by contrasting it with what it means to be separated from God.
- Gen 3.8 They heard Yahweh God's voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Gen 3:22-24
- Exod 33:1-3 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way."
- when God is not with us, He is against us and we do not experience His peace
- Jesus called the Church in Revelation to not forget their first love
- He charged them to repent or He would remove their lamp stand
- Jesus told the Church in Pergamum
- He told them to repent or the sword of His mouth would be against them
- God is saying that if you want the continual blessing of God then you need to be spiritually alive and abiding in Him
- If you are not united to Christ by true and loving faith then God will withdraw His provision and protection and His hand will be against you.
- Jesus called the Church in Revelation to not forget their first love
- Condition: if we:
- because of His love we are now in His family
- Rom 8.29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Because of God’s love we can call Him brother.
- And we can call ourselves sons of God for He is our Father.
- Love is what moved God to adopt us as His own.
- it was costly for God to adopt us
- Rom 8.29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
- He is the God of peace
- Although Ge is mighty in battle, nevertheless He abhors bloodshed
- He delights in peace
- Through His Gospel He makes strangers and enemies into friends and family
- Jesus is also the God of peace
- Ephes 2:14-18 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility through it. He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
- Jesus is also the God of peace in the Church.
- The Holy Spirit is also the God of Peace
- At creation He brought peace by turning chaos into order
- When we are troubled in our soul, He brings peace to our hearts.
- enemies to peace:
- Error in teaching sows discord and disagreement
- ambition. Seeking preeminence
- May we never get ambition in this church
- Our best ambition is to be a servant
- anger is an enemy to peace
- May we come into the church and leave ourselves behind us
- envy:
- How can we agree if envy creeps in
- pride
- Makes us think higher of ourselves than we should.
- The devil wants us to disagree and to not be at peace with each other
- The arrows that we have shot at each other has done more damage than all the arrows that the devil has shot at us.
- I beseech you to be at peace with each other and with God
- you need to have peace with God.
- How? Through faith and trust in Him.
- Rom 5.9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God's wrath through him.
- you need to have peace with God.
Application
Further Study
- How do we redeem ambition? What does a Godly ambition look like.
- The Bible distinguishes between Godless ambition and selfish ambition
- Selfish ambition is that ambition which doesn’t seek to glorify God
- Godly ambition seeks to glorify God
- The Bible distinguishes between Godless ambition and selfish ambition
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