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  • Meeting Together

    Meeting Together

    one white sheep
    We know you are NOT like us, but welcome back to our church. We missed you.

    Hebrews 10: 

    25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

    26 Dear friends,

    if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.

    27 There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.

     John 10:14,27 

    “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me …

    My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

     James 5: 

    The Prayer of Faith

    13 Is anyone among you suffering?

    Let him pray.

    Is anyone cheerful?

    Let him sing praise.

    14 Is anyone among you sick?

    Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

    16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

    The-Sacrificial-Lamb-Josefa-de-Ayala-ca-167019 My brothers,

    if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

    20 let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

     Luke 15:

    4 “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do?

    lost sheep on shouldersWon’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? 5 And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders.6 When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’

    7 In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven’t strayed away!

    Could you hear the Voice of our Good Shepherd?

    Would you come back to His church, dearly beloved?

    Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”

  • Stuck in our Sin

    Stuck in our Sin

    Isaiah 63:16-17  For you are our Father,
    though Abraham does not know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us;
    you, O LORD, are our Father,
    our Redeemer from of old is your name.

    O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways
    and harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
    Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes of your heritage.

    Matthew 12:  He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? 12 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep!

    • Are you a lost sheep of the Lord?
    • Stuck in the mud, are you… and think no one cares?
    • Been a while since you have found your self in fellowship and worship with other believers?

    God our Father welcomes the ‘prodigal son.” (Do you recall, beloved lost sheep?)

    Jesus our Lord and Redeemer leaves the ninety-nine of the fold to rescue the lost one. (…That angels might rejoice. Do you recall?)

    James 4 (ESV)

    Warning Against Worldliness

    4 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are at war within you?[b]

    2 You desire and do not have, so you murder.

    You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.

    You do not have, because you do not ask.

    3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

    4 You adulterous people![c] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?

    Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

    5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But he gives more grace.

    Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

    7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.

    Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

    8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

    Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

    9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

    10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

    Therefor be humble before the Cross. Bow down an worship your Redeemer.

    Be NOT like a proud goat on his own hill,

    But like a humble sheep,

    Faithful to the call of the Shepherd.