Belonging Part 1
- The love of God
- There’s a
- We are called to both believe
- What does it look like to belong to God? What does it mean to belong to His family? How can we create an
God sets the
in families; —Psalm 68:6
I will not leave you; I will come to you. —John 14:18
He made usin the Beloved. —Ephesians 1:6
From now on you are not strangers and people who are not citizens. You are citizens together with those who belong to God. Youin God’s family. —Ephesians 2:19
- There are no immigrants in the church; there are only
Belong: to have a place, be included, to
1) Jesus is perfect
. He is our starting place for everything.
“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long,
and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? —John 14:7-9
- In Matthew 9, we see the way Jesus communicated with people. That’s how he
Matthew 9
2 Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “
, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” —Matthew 9:2 22 But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer,
; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour. —Matthew 9:22 9 As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him. —Matthew 9:9
10 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are
well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” —Matthew 9:10-12
2) In belonging to Jesus, we are
.
- As they were
18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. —2 Cor 3:18
Now when they saw the boldness and unfettered eloquence of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and untrained in the
schools [common men with no educational advantages], they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus. —Acts 4:13 (AMP)
- They were both
Then He charged them, saying, “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” —Mark 8:15
- Beware of the leaven of Herod - a political spirit, man-
Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees (a religious,
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. —John 1:14
Truth without grace tends to
- Grace without truth tends toward
Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed. —Psalm 85:10
3) The anointing upon Jesus and the
around Jesus is also to be carried on by the church.
Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share
citizenship with the saints (God’s own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God’s [own] household. —Ephesians 2:19 AMP