May
2009
New Day Celebration Service
The First Service of New Day Covenant, a new church plant of RCC
Standard Podcasts [ 23:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (16)The First Service of New Day Covenant, a new church plant of RCC
Standard Podcasts [ 23:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (16)Intro: Today is the beginning of a two week series on Breaking Through the Barriers in Our Life. Our topic this morning is: How do you break through the barrier of conflict?
KEY: This small book of Philemon will help you break through the barriers of conflict and bring restoration to the relationships around you.
1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker, 2 to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier and to the church that meets in your home: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 4 I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, 5 because I hear about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints. 6 I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. 7 Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the saints.
Philemon 1:1-7 NIV
First Step Appreciate & Affirm the person you are confronting. Second Step Make your appeal specific and on the basis of love Third Step Assure the other person that the confrontation came from a desire for a restored relationship
20 I do wish, brother, that I may have some benefit from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. 21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask. 22 And one thing more: Prepare a guest room for me, because I hope to be restored to you in answer to your prayers.
Philemon 1:20-22 NIV
Standard Podcasts [ 31:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (43)1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Colossians 3:1-2
3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:3-5 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. Colossians 3:5-7
8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:8-10
What they have discovered is that our greatest struggles are rarely solved or outgrown, but a newer stronger interest comes along to crowd out the problem.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3:12-14
Standard Podcasts [ 33:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (46)2:1 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy, 2:2 complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose. 2:3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. 2:4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. 2:5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,
2:6 who though he existed in the form of God
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,
2:7 but emptied himself
by taking on the form of a slave,
by looking like other men,
and by sharing in human nature.
2:8 He humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
- even death on a cross!
2:9 As a result God exalted him
and gave him the name
that is above every name,
2:10 so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow
- in heaven and on earth and under the earth -
2:11 and every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father.
Lights in the World
2:12 So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence, 2:13 for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort - for the sake of his good pleasure - is God. 2:14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world 2:16 by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain. 2:17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you. 2:18 And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.
Philippians 2:1-18 NET
It means that your goal in life is to help others be who God designed them to be at a personal cost to yourself.
So.. What are the qualities of an authentic relationship that will help others be who God designed them to be
Please don’t forget that God uses ordinary people who will sacrifice for the sake of others in order to help them become everything God wants them to be.
Standard Podcasts [ 28:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (74)15:1 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, 15:2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you - unless you believed in vain. 15:3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received - that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, 15:4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, 15:5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 15:6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 15:7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 15:8 Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also. 15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them - yet not I, but the grace of God with me. 15:11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.
15:12 Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
1 Corinthians 15:1-13
Christianity stands and falls over one central point: that Jesus rose from the dead.
Key Evidence #1: The empy tomb validates Christ’s claim of overcoming the greatest obstacle of life… death.
Key Evidence #2: Multiple eyewitnesses verified his living presence firsthand.
Key Evidence #3: Jesus not only has the power to rise from the dead but to also transform people’s lives!
This resurrection is proof of who Jesus is and that He did accomplish what He set out to do: provide the only means of redemption for human kind.
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