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SERMONS
PASTOR JOE MODICA
SUNDAYS SERMON
PASTOR- JOSEPH MODICA
7/10/22
Colossians 3
The Life of the New Man
1 So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. 4 When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient, 7 and you once walked in these things when you were living in them. 8 But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. 11 In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
The Christian Life
12 Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, 13 accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. 14 Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful. 16 Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Christ in Your Home
18 Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.
22 Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.
23 Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.
KARENS NOTES
- Messiah-expected King to the Jews=Jesus Christ
- We should be setting our minds on Christ by reading His Word, praying & meditating on these things from His Word
- For Believers the Lord has forgiving our sins & they are forgotten
- Anything sexual that is not between a husband-man & wife-woman is sin
- Every person is born with the Moral Law on their heart & we all have a conscience
- Christ hates sin
- We are to resist sin by surrendering our fleshly will to The will of Jesus
- When we surrender our life to Jesus the Holy Spirit comes & lives in us and He will help us to become more like Christ every day
- Scythian- Iran
- Christ is all we need
- Believers are slaves to Jesus Christ
- Servant-doesn’t surrender to anything
- Slave-Believers surrenders to Jesus
- People are either a slave to sin or a slave to Jesus
- Spiritual circumcision-the Lord cut out my whole heart & gave me a new heart
- Christ's chosen one= Christ chose all Believers ,it is His choice
- An unbeliever is a spiritually dead
- Believers are commanded to go & tell= give the Gospel Message
- God says His message will not come back void
- Baptism= Outward expression to an inward change
- Repentance & faith is what saves us
- We should have an attitude of gratitude
- Singing=worship should be honoring & glorifying to Jesus
- The religious people are the ones who had Jesus put to death
- Abortion is murder
- God made male & female
- satan is god of this world
- Submissive= to yield or surrender to the will or authority of another
- Husbands are to love his wife like Christ loves women
- When a man & a woman get married they took an oath to God till death do them part
- People who reject Jesus Christ will go to hell
SUNDAYS SERMON
PASTOR- JOSEPH MODICA
6/19/22
1 Timothy 4 Demonic Influence
1 Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared. 3 They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer. A Good Servant of Jesus Christ 6 If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed. 7 But have nothing to do with irreverent and silly myths. Rather, train yourself in godliness, 8 for the training of the body has a limited benefit, but godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. 9 This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance. 10 In fact, we labor and strive for this, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, especially of those who believe. Instructions for Ministry 11 Command and teach these things. 12 Let no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching. 14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you; it was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands by the council of elders. 15 Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all. 16 Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.
1 John 4 The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. 3 But every spirit who does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist; you have heard that he is coming, and he is already in the world now. 4 You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world. Therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Anyone who knows God listens to us; anyone who is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
June's Memory Verse:
ROMANS 10:9-10 9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.
Karen's Notes
• Spirit=Holy Spirit= every Believer has the Holy Spirit in them
• False converts= Fallen angels= Demons
• Believers are to give God thanks and praise in everything and every situation
• The Bible is the inerrant, infallible Word of God is= the only truth
• We are to follow God's commands
• Jesus is the Savior to those that confess Him as Lord and Savior
• We are to live like Jesus
• Tell others about Jesus and His Salvation
• How do we recognize if it's Jesus talking to us or if it's demons?
• Every Spirit that confesses that Jesus is God, is of God
• Every spirit that goes against The Word of God is of satan
• satan is here to steal peoples souls
• he is a liar
• Believers are the Lord's children
• Man does not want to listen to Jesus, they want to follow the world, which is of satan, but they don't like the consequences of their sin
SUNDAYS SERMON
PASTOR- JOSEPH MODICA
6/5/22
Exodus 20 The Ten Commandments
1 Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. 3 Do not have other gods besides Me. 4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands. 7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name. 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: 9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. 11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy. 12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 13 Do not murder. 14 Do not commit adultery. 15 Do not steal. 16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
Karen's Notes
• Deuteronomy 4
• The Ten Commandments are the standards that the Lord wants us to live by
• Jesus made man in His image
• Humans have souls, animals do not have souls
• 1-to put Jesus first & He is the only God, He is most important, read His Word & you will know Him & love Him more
• 2-fake gods-is from the devil= anything that you put before The Lord
• 3-do not use His name in any unholy way
• 4-a day of rest & to worship & honor The Lord
• 5-listen to your parents= honor them with your actions, words & deeds
• 6-do not take the life of innocent people=abortion is murder
• 7-one man & one woman married to each other & you do not have sex with anyone else
• 8-do not take anything that is not yours
• 9-do not lie
• 10-do not want what others have, be content in what The Lord has given you
SUNDAYS SERMON
PASTOR- JOSEPH MODICA
4/10/22 SERMON
John 12
JESUS PREPARING TO GO TO THE CROSS
1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for Him there; Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him. 3 Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
4 Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray Him), said, 5 “Why wasn’t this fragrant oil sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.
7 Jesus answered, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of My burial. 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”
The Decision to Kill Lazarus
9 Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead. 10 Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also 11 because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.
The Triumphal Entry
12 The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 they took palm branches and went out to meet Him. They kept shouting: “Hosanna! He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One—the King of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written: 15 Fear no more, Daughter Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.
16 His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him. 17 Meanwhile, the crowd, which had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify. 18 This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.
19 Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look—the world has gone after Him!”
Jesus Predicts His Crucifixion
20 Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 “I assure you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces a large crop. 25 The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
27 “Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name!”
Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!”
29 The crowd standing there heard it and said it was thunder. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
30 Jesus responded, “This voice came, not for Me, but for you. 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 32 As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.” 33 He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.
34 Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
35 Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them.
Isaiah’s Prophecies Fulfilled
37 Even though He had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in Him. 38 But this was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:
Lord, who has believed our message?
And who has the arm of the Lord
been revealed to?
39 This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:
40 He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and be converted,
and I would heal them.
41 Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.
42 Nevertheless, many did believe in Him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be banned from the synagogue. 43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
A Summary of Jesus’ Mission
44 Then Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in Him who sent Me. 45 And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. 46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness. 47 If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 49 For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak. 50 I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”
JOHN 12 4/10/22
KAREN'S NOTES
- John was an apostle of Jesus Christ
- Profit= someone who Jesus chose to use to write the Old Testament
- Palm Sunday
- Mary was preparing Jesus to go to the Cross
- 300 denarii= about a hundred dollars= a years worth of pay
- Judas was a thief, and he betrayed Jesus
- Lazarus was a foreshadowing of what was going to happen to Jesus
- The head religious leader
- They were worshiping Jesus
- All this was prophesied
- Pharisees = religious leaders
- Jesus Christ was God and human
- The one who believes(surrenders their life to Jesus) in Him will have eternal life
- Believers will surrender their life and serve Jesus
- Everyone who is lost, their soul is troubled
- Believers are to glorify the Lord in all their way, deeds, talk, actions
- The voice of God
- satan
- Messiah= Jesus Christ= Lord= God= Son of Man= the Light
- Unsaved people are taken over by darkness= satan= hell
- Light= Jesus
- Believers- sons of Light
- Isaiah was a profit
- Jesus told all of us, Believers to go and tell the world the Gospel Message
- satan has blinded them= the world
- The pharisees did not believe that Jesus Christ was God
- If we truly believe in Jesus then we believe in the Father=They are One= the Same
- No Christ= no God= no salvation= hell and damnation
- Jesus Christ came to Save the world
- After your last breath, Jesus is either the Savior or the judge
Sundays Sermon
PASTOR -JOE MODICA
4/3/22
THERE IS ONLY ONE GOSPEL MESSAGE
ROMANS 1:13-25
13 Now I want you to know, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the good news to you also who are in Rome.
The Righteous Will Live by Faith
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. 17 For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
The Guilt of the Gentile World
18 For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, 19 since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse. 21 For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
24 Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
ROMANS 2:12-16
12 All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous. 14 So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them 16 on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11
Resurrection Essential to the Gospel
1 Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it. 2 You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose. 3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:
that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
4 that He was buried,
that He was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He appeared to Cephas,
then to the Twelve.
6 Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time;
most of them are still alive,
but some have fallen asleep.
7 Then He appeared to James,
then to all the apostles.
8 Last of all, as to one abnormally born,
He also appeared to me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.
GALATIANS 1:6-10
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the Messiah. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you, a curse be on him! 9 As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
10 For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
KAREN'S NOTES
- All of God's creation was made to worship the Lord
- You know the condition of some ones heart by what comes out of their mouth
- Gospel is the power of Jesus Christ
- Brothers=Believers
- We are commanded to go out and give the Gospel Message
- Faith=to believe in things that are not seen
- Hebrews 11:1
- The Word Of God reveals who Christ is and His ways=the way that we should and should not live
- The world is trying to suppress the Word of God and any thing that has to do with Him
- Creation proves that there is a Creator=the Lord
- Humans are born with a conscience
- Wisdom=knowing right or wrong comes from God
- Sexual sin is running rampant in the world today
- Whatever you are spending the most time doing is what you are worshiping
- Christ was the just and the justifier= His blood removes our sin when we repent and surrender our lives and put our faith in the Lord
- The Law=10 commandments
- We know right from wrong
- No accountability in secret
- No Jesus Christ no Gospel
- Resurrection = death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Christ died for our sins
- We worship on Sunday because we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Jesus appeared to over 500 Believers
- Unbelievers can not come in the presence of the Lord
- Paul= Saul he was a Pharisee=he had the first martyr of Christ killed= Stephen
- When Believers sin we don’t loose our Salvation but we fall out of fellowship with the Lord, we have to repent of our sins so we are back in right relationship with The Lord
- There is only ONE way to Heaven= surrendering, repent of our sins putting our faith and trust in Jesus Christ
- False preachers, false gospel
- Lord I pray for these people stop and repent
- The reason people go to hell is because they reject Jesus Christ =they refuse to surrender
Sundays Sermon
PASTOR -JOE MODICA
3/27/22
A WORLD COSUMED OF SELF
(ALL ABOUT ME, ME, ME)
2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5
Difficult Times Ahead
1 But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!
LUKE 16:19-31
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19 “There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day. 20 But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was left at his gate. 21 He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side. 24 ‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’
25 “‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony. 26 Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’
27 “‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house— 28 because I have five brothers—to warn them, so they won’t also come to this place of torment.’
29 “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’
30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31 “But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”
ROMANS 10:8-10
8 The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. This is the message of faith that we proclaim: 9 If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.
KAREN'S NOTES
- In our country everyone thinks it's all about what they want=greed
- 2 Timothy 3:1-5 warns us about these things and it sure does sound like the world today
- Believers should stay away from these people and stay out of the world's trap
- Stay focused on Jesus and His teachings
- Romans 1:lies
- Purple= royalty = rich
- Rich man consumed with self
- Abraham's side=paradise
- Hades= suffering
- Great White Throne judgement= Jesus will judge the unbelievers and send them to hell
- Hell was made for satan and his demons
- Once someone dies they will be judged
- For Believers, Jesus took our judgement so because of Him we will go to Paradise
- For the unbeliever they will go to Hades until the Great White Throne judgement
- The only person who died and rose from the dead is Jesus Christ
- It's important to pray, read His Word, go to church so satan cant tempt us
- When the body dies it is buried
- The soul never dies
- Repent and put your faith in Jesus Christ and you shall be Saved= Paradise=Heaven= Everlasting life
SUNDAY'S SERMON
PASTOR-JOE MODICA
3/20/22
Colossians 3
The Life of the New Man
1 So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on what is above, not on what is on the earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. 4 When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient, 7 and you once walked in these things when you were living in them. 8 But now you must also put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator. 11 In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
The Christian Life
12 Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, 13 accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. 14 Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity. 15 And let the peace of the Messiah, to which you were also called in one body, control your hearts. Be thankful. 16 Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Christ in Your Home
18 Wives, be submissive to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives and don’t be bitter toward them.
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so they won’t become discouraged.
22 Slaves, obey your human masters in everything. Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but work wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.
23 Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism.
KAREN'S NOTES
MEMORY VERSE:
1 THESSALONIANS 5:18 Give thanks in everything, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus
- Saved person= Believer
- Keep our focus on Christ= confess our sins, pray, read the Bible
- When we are Saved we belong to Christ & should lived like it
- Die to self= surrender all of our sinful desires
- Meditate on the Word of God
- There is nothing worse than the wrath of God
- People go to hell because they reject Jesus Christ
- We have to confess our sins, put away our old self, put on the new self= pray, read His Word, go to church
- The unbeliever cannot worship God= He doesn't even hear their prayers
- Scythian=savage
- God's chosen=elect= Believers= new nature
- Message about the Messiah=the Word of God
- Be thankful in all things
- Do all things that honor the Lord
- The whole Bible is a testament of Jesus Christ
- How is Jesus different from the Father= Jesus took on flesh
- Submissive=wives are to let the husband lead her in all things=she is his help mate & her opinion matters
- Husbands are the Spiritual leaders= they are to teach about Jesus love & lead his wife & his household as Jesus loves & leads The Church= His bride
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
- Do things according to God's Will
