Genuine Worship:
encounter the living God. Reaching
out with our worship. Worship
is an active believer’s response to the glory of the living God.
Worship is a meeting between God and his people.
Worship provides opportunity to express their feelings toward God.
Interactive!
Scripture Text:
2Cor 3:1 (NIV) Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we
need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You
yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by
everybody. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our
ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on
tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such confidence as this
is ours through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves
to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has
made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of
the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 7 Now if the
ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came
with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of
Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, 8 will not the ministry of
the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 If the ministry that condemns men is
glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!
1Pet 2:9 But ye [are] a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;
that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light: 10
Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now the people of God:
which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
We are the
ministers of the New Covenant/Testament.
The new Covenant is seen on the cross of Christ and
proclaimed by the resurrection of the Lord from the dead.
He is alive! The Unconditional love of God extended to sinners created in
His image and recreated by the power of the Spirit. It's the good News ,the gospel.John 3:16
Rom. 5:8 But
God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.
1.
Chosen by God to become His ministers..
2.
Directed by God written on by God.
We can become the new covenant to the world in darkness.
3.
Empowered by God to Shine forth the praises of the King of
Kings. v.5 Our sufficiency is not
of ourselves but of God's
a. salvation
b. life
c. ministry
4.
Gifted by God to extend the New Covenant to those who are without.
You can only give away what you have.
5.
Quickened
by God in the power of the resurrection to live in a world of
darkness as the light of the world.
6.
Glorifying God.
Matt
5:14 Ye are the light of the
world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Will you extend the New covenant to those who are
without, so that they may enjoy the life and liberty of the Spirit.
2Cor
3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit:
and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
Come tonight to pray for one another and to pray for the
believers in our community to extend the new covenant to the world in our
community. Pray for yourself.