Becoming A People Of Service: I Peter 4:7-11

Becoming a people of Service!

I Peter 4:7-11

November 18, 2018

 

As a people of service; we glorify God as our worship overflows in p__________ expressions of faith and faithfulness s__________ others.

 

• Through Worship:
  • The d____________ of worldly values are exposed,
  • the world-inflicted w_________ are healed,
  • the eternal perspective of being seated with Christ in the "Heavenly places" is r_______.

 

• Worship is an essential means which r___________ us and s_____________ us for His purpose.
• Worship cleanses, restores, and equips us to serve in the Coming Kingdom...
  • We come not because we are worthy, but because He is worthy and declares us worthy in Christ.
  • When we feel the least worthy to come to God, we can best recognize the w_________ of Grace. 

 

• Our confession of sin frees us from i___________ which dilute our sense of n_____. It also awakens us to the hope which empowers obedience.

 

• In worship, we experience the reality of being made r______ with God by faith in Christ. Then, we are prepared to go forth in faith and obedience.

 

Four primary categories of service that will flow directly from our worship. 

• The first is the service of "w__________" or "t_________________".
• The second category of service is the service of love and compassion.
  • The first form of service that is mentioned is "f__________________",
  • "H_________" for the household of faith....
• The third category of service is the service of spiritual warfare.
  • This battle is waged on many fields; the field of p_______ ministry, resisting t__________, and confronting moral corruption and injustice in society.
• The fourth general category of worship inspired service is the service of stewardship in all of l____.

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship. “Rom.12:1

 

• Present your bodies.... that is a thoroughly I_____________ concept..!
  • Our bodies represent our career, our relationships with family and friends, and our work in the community where we live... our responsibility to the state, and nation in which we live and the world that we touch in both t__________ and in m___________.
  • All of these are a__________ for our living sacrifice.... the presentation of our bodies in the s_________ of God!!!