It’s Good news because it’s God’s work
- Please turn to Acts 15, page 923 in the Pew Bibles
- Mission: Sent to speak and respond to God’s work of redemption
- To the neighborhood,
- Food Bank, 28 households representing 100+ souls fed today!! 3 Anthem volunteers.
- 805 Hope Refuge
- To the END always and everywhere!
- Why? Because we have been invited to be apart of God’s work!
- Hume Lake- Straight to 1 Peter 1:16. Wasn’t long until I knew I wasn’t going to be able to keep it up.
- Read Acts 15:1-5
- The questions,
- #1. Do we add anything to the Gospel to be saved?
- Next year at Hume, “purity conference”. Committed to stay pure b/c of Shame.
- I just didn’t want to feel this way, so give me a way out.
- This is what the law does. If they would have said, get circumsised, I would have.
- Address Moral law and ceremonial law.
- It’s Good news because it’s God’s work
- Read vs. 6-12
- Peter, Paul & Barnabas REMIND them of the GOSPEL! It’s good news because it’s God’s work!
- Justification & Sanctification distinction
- It’s Good news because it’s God’s work
- Read 13-21
- #2. What laws need to be kept by the Gentile believers to have fellowship with the Jews?
- We lay down our freedoms to not stumble another brother.
- Drinking
- Not egg shells but wisdom
- It’s Good news because it’s God’s work
- Read 22-35
- “Christ is God’s love with no strings! He came to his people when they did not deserve his love; he gave himself away to people who misunderstood and misused him; he died for sins people refused to confess; and he was raised up in a final affirmation that not even the rejection expressed in his cruel death could defeat his unqualified love.” Lloyd John Ogilvie
- It’s Good news because it’s God’s work
- COMMUNION AND CAST YOUR BURDENS
