[CC] [PREACHING LESSON 10:] HOW CAN YOU PROVE AND SAY THAT OUR CHURCH IS BUSY FOR GOD'S MINISTRY?

 

HOW CAN YOU PROVE AND SAY THAT OUR CHURCH IS BUSY FOR GOD'S MINISTRY?

1. THE BUSY CHURCH ARE ALWAYS PRESENT IN ALL WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH.

( Acts 2:46-47 ) [46]And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

[47]Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

2. THE BUSY CHURCH ARE ALWAYS SHARING AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST TO THEIR COMMUNITY.

( Acts 11:20-24 ) [20]And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

[21]And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

[22]Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.

[23]Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

[24]For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

3. THE BUSY CHURCH ARE ALWAYS ENGAGED IN PRAYING INSIDE THE LOCAL CHURCH.

( Acts 1:13-15 ) [13]And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

[14]These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

[15]And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

4. THE BUSY CHURCH ARE ALWAYS SERVING GOD AS ONE BODY OF CHRIST.

( I Corinthians 12:12-18 ) [12]For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

[13]For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

[14]For the body is not one member, but many.

[15]If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

[16]And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

[17]If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

[18]But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

[19]And if they were all one member, where were the body?

[20]But now are they many members, yet but one body.

5. THE BUSY CHURCH HAVE NO TIME TO LOVE AND ENJOY THE WORLD.

( I John 2:15-17 ) [15]Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

[16]For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

[17]And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

6. THE BUSY CHURCH ARE ALWAYS LISTENING THE PREACHING OF THE WORDS OF GOD.

(Acts 20:7-12) [7]And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

[8]And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

[9]And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

[10]And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

[11]When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

[12]And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

* God bless you all always *