ALL PEOPLE MATTER TO GOD (3 OF 5)
by Jerry Watts
Scripture: Matthew 9:35-38
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All People Matter to God (3 of 5)
Series: Foundation for the Future
Jerry Watts
Matthew 9:35-38
Today we continue unpacking our “Foundations for the Future” by focusing on those foundational beliefs which make us stronger as a church body. My goal as your pastor is for any one of us to be able to respond to people who ask about this church and what we believe with this: we believe the Bible is our guidebook, we believe that God loves us & has a plan for us, we believe that ALL people matter to God, we believe that we should seek to honor God in all we do, and we deeply believe the local church is the hope of the world. How powerful this would & could be if each of us could answer lost, unchurched, & unfamiliar people with these truths. This is who we are and what we believe. So, today please turn to Matthew 9.
We are in the middle of our journey together so today, our message is “All people matter to God.” (SAY TOGETHER). I would like to be perfectly clear. These have been my core beliefs for over 20 years. I adopted them before the political battles that rage today around “Black lives matter”, “blue lives matter”, or “all lives matter.” Do the lives of black people, policemen, and everyone else matter? You bet! But it’s not because of any political agenda or societal unrest, it is because every person is created in the image of God and is important to Jehovah.
Here is our first statement which we need to hear: “IF all people matter to God, then all people should matter to God’s people.” All people is found in the words of our Lord when He said, “For God love so loved the world that He gave His only Son, (here it is) that “WHOEVER”! Did you get that, WHOEVER, that means anyone, everyone, with no one left out? Paul wrote the Galatians saying that “IN JESUS – There is neither Jew nor Greek (that would be Jew or Gentile), slave or free, male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.”
In other words, “The ground is level at the fo ...
Series: Foundation for the Future
Jerry Watts
Matthew 9:35-38
Today we continue unpacking our “Foundations for the Future” by focusing on those foundational beliefs which make us stronger as a church body. My goal as your pastor is for any one of us to be able to respond to people who ask about this church and what we believe with this: we believe the Bible is our guidebook, we believe that God loves us & has a plan for us, we believe that ALL people matter to God, we believe that we should seek to honor God in all we do, and we deeply believe the local church is the hope of the world. How powerful this would & could be if each of us could answer lost, unchurched, & unfamiliar people with these truths. This is who we are and what we believe. So, today please turn to Matthew 9.
We are in the middle of our journey together so today, our message is “All people matter to God.” (SAY TOGETHER). I would like to be perfectly clear. These have been my core beliefs for over 20 years. I adopted them before the political battles that rage today around “Black lives matter”, “blue lives matter”, or “all lives matter.” Do the lives of black people, policemen, and everyone else matter? You bet! But it’s not because of any political agenda or societal unrest, it is because every person is created in the image of God and is important to Jehovah.
Here is our first statement which we need to hear: “IF all people matter to God, then all people should matter to God’s people.” All people is found in the words of our Lord when He said, “For God love so loved the world that He gave His only Son, (here it is) that “WHOEVER”! Did you get that, WHOEVER, that means anyone, everyone, with no one left out? Paul wrote the Galatians saying that “IN JESUS – There is neither Jew nor Greek (that would be Jew or Gentile), slave or free, male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.”
In other words, “The ground is level at the fo ...
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