Transcript The Giver of Life - Suffolk Church of God

The Giver
of Life
Sunday,
January 11, 2015
John 10:10
10The
thief cometh not, but for
to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy: I am come that they
might have life, and that they
might
have
it
more
abundantly.
John 3:8
The wind bloweth where it
listeth, and thou hearest the
sound thereof, but canst not
tell whence it cometh, and
whither it goeth; so is every
one that is born of the Spirit.
The distinctive work of the
Spirit is to communicate to us
the life that is in the Father
and the Son, so that we
actually share and experience
it in ourselves.
I. Our
Response
John 6:44
44
No man can come to me,
except the Father which
hath sent me draw him: and
I will raise him up at the last
day.
Ephesians 2:1-12
1
And you hath he quickened, who
were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power
of the air, the spirit that now worketh
in the children of disobedience:
Ephesians 2:1-12
3
Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind; and were by
nature the children of wrath, even as
others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his
great love wherewith he loved us,
Ephesians 2:1-12
5
Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved ;)
6 And hath raised us up together,
and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:1-12
7
That in the ages to come he might
shew the exceeding riches of his
grace in his kindness toward us
through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of God:
Ephesians 2:1-12
9
Not of works, lest any man
should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good
works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in
them.
Ephesians 2:1-12
11
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time
past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called
Uncircumcision by that which is called the
Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12 That at that time ye were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of
promise, having no hope, and without God in
the world:
II. Our
Purpose
God’s great purpose is to bring
humanity and the created
order back into a right
relationship to himself, so that
they may share in his fullness
of life.
Luke 4:18
18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he
hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted,
to
preach
deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised,
John 20:21,22
21
Then said Jesus to them again,
Peace be unto you: as my Father
hath sent me, even so send I you.
22 And when he had said this, he
breathed on them, and saith unto
them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Acts 1:8
8
But ye shall receive power, after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you: and ye shall be witnesses
unto me both in Jerusalem, and in
all Judaea, and in Samaria, and
unto the uttermost part of the
earth.
III. Our
Creativity
Genesis 1:28
28
And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth.
II. Corinthians 3:18
18
But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the
same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
1. Our Response
2. Our Purpose
3. Our Creativity
The Giver
of Life
Sunday,
January 11, 2015