Sunday, June 21st, Michiana Chinese Christian Church
Joint English & Chinese Worship service
Joint English & Chinese Worship service
CALL TO WORSHIP:
WORSHIP: English Worship Music:
WORSHIP: English Worship Music:
Our
God is an Awesome God ~ Michael W. Smith
Our
Father ~ Don Moen
Holy
Is The Lord God Almighty ~ Chris Tomlin
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
SCRIPTURE READING:
2nd
Corinthians 6: 14-18 NKJV
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with
unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what
communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial?
Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the
temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has
said:
“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”
17 Therefore
“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
18 “I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says the Lord Almighty.”
SERMON:
Father Heart of God!
*God
has adopted you and I into His family.
We once were gentiles, aliens, outcasts, and God our Father has set a
place for us at His table for us to eat and be filled. He welcomes us! It is His delight to do so!
*Genesis
1:1 In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
*What
makes God such an awesome Father and creator is that He sat in His heavenly
studio and worked with nothing but His own creative powers and love in the
beginning!
*We
know God by His name ADONAI: Faithful in provision and protection for His own;
He who has ownership
*He
shows Himself to us from the very beginning as love. And all of this gives us a picture, an
example, of what we should be as fathers.
*We
are to train our children and youth to have a vision of eternity! As believers in Jesus Christ, we are no
longer to be consumed with the matters of this world but to be mindful of our
present role in Jesus Christ.
*Romans
12: 2 And do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what
is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
*There
is no greater purpose we can have in our lives than to teach and train and
encourage people to believing in Jesus.
Especially our youth.
*Ephesians
6 "And you, fathers, do not
provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and
admonition of the Lord."
*Eternity
is real; IT IS ALL ABOUT JESUS!
*2nd
Kings 20, King Hezekiah lays dying and prays for mercy from God, and God heals
him. But King Hezekiah compromises his
kingdom so that his sons and daughters will be taken away into slavery and
says: "Will there not be peace and
truth at least in my days?” King
Hezekiah cared not for his own sons and daughters.
*Good
fathers must ask God for mercy and guidance for their children!
*God's
Word is a living word and has the power to completely change us into the
likeness of His Son. And as fathers, we
should love our children and want them to also have a close intimate
relationship with God through Jesus Christ, to walk as He walked.
*2nd
Corinthians 6:18 “I will be a Father to
you,
And
you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says
the Lord Almighty.”
*it
is equally important that young people consider Ephesians 6: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for
this is right. “Honor your father and
mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may
live long on the earth.”
*For
us fathers, let us treasure our relationship with our heavenly Father, that our
wives and children will see Him in us.
*there
will be times when the Lord puts someone in front of you to minister to. It won't matter how important you are, how
busy you are, whether you have the training or resources for the task at hand. It may even be someone that you will have a
very hard time loving. As believers in
Jesus Christ, we have to be willing to lay our own lives down for our families
and for others. And if we are having a
difficult time loving this person, the Lord will help us. Often, all we have to do is to ask Him for
the love which we cannot find in ourselves.
*Obey
the Lord despite whatever it may cost you personally. The Lord wants to teach you something and do
a new work in your life as you serve this one He put in front of you.
*It
is how faith is made strong in our lives, whether we are a father, or not!
BENEDICTION:
16
Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
19
Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things;
hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
23
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole
spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
1st
Thessalonians 5: 16-28 NKJV
Lord,
make us more like you, to be people who seek to hear from you and to be
obedient to your will in our lives. In
Jesus name, Amen!
English Pastor Chinese Pastor
Pastor Kevin Haislip Pastor Rocky Yang
972 800-0307 574-256-9422
vinzeig@gmail.com rockyfjf@gmail.com
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