Why Should We Serve the Lord?
Marvin Patterson
1 Cointhians.6:9-20
The elderly pastor was searching his closet for his collar before church one Sunday morning. In the back of the closet, he found a small box containing 3 eggs and 100 $1 bills.
He called his wife into the closet to ask her about the box and its contents. Embarrassed, she admitted having hidden the box there for their entire 30 years of marriage. Disappointed and hurt, the pastor asked her, "WHY?"
The wife replied that she hadn't wanted to hurt his feelings. He asked her how the box could have hurt his feelings. She said that every time during their marriage that he had delivered a poor sermon, she had placed an egg in the box.
The pastor felt that 3 poor sermons in 30 years was certainly nothing to feel bad about, so he asked her what the $100 was for.
She replied, "Each time I got a dozen eggs, I sold them to the neighbors for $1."
Proposition: Use your life to serve Jesus Christ
Why?
1-You have been forgiven by Christ
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
When we come to Jesus Christ for our salvation, we are set free from the bondage of sin! We never have to worry about dying and going to hell. We have been forgiven by Christ who shed His precious blood for our sins. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins! Now we are free to serve the Lord!
Paul starts this off by drawing attention to the fact that he unrighteous shall not go to heaven. There are many who never pay any attention to eternity, and they go about their lives as if there was no God! They are unrighteous, for they have never allowed Jesus to exchange His righteousness with them for their sin. The word for unrighteous is,
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Marvin Patterson
1 Cointhians.6:9-20
The elderly pastor was searching his closet for his collar before church one Sunday morning. In the back of the closet, he found a small box containing 3 eggs and 100 $1 bills.
He called his wife into the closet to ask her about the box and its contents. Embarrassed, she admitted having hidden the box there for their entire 30 years of marriage. Disappointed and hurt, the pastor asked her, "WHY?"
The wife replied that she hadn't wanted to hurt his feelings. He asked her how the box could have hurt his feelings. She said that every time during their marriage that he had delivered a poor sermon, she had placed an egg in the box.
The pastor felt that 3 poor sermons in 30 years was certainly nothing to feel bad about, so he asked her what the $100 was for.
She replied, "Each time I got a dozen eggs, I sold them to the neighbors for $1."
Proposition: Use your life to serve Jesus Christ
Why?
1-You have been forgiven by Christ
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
When we come to Jesus Christ for our salvation, we are set free from the bondage of sin! We never have to worry about dying and going to hell. We have been forgiven by Christ who shed His precious blood for our sins. Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins! Now we are free to serve the Lord!
Paul starts this off by drawing attention to the fact that he unrighteous shall not go to heaven. There are many who never pay any attention to eternity, and they go about their lives as if there was no God! They are unrighteous, for they have never allowed Jesus to exchange His righteousness with them for their sin. The word for unrighteous is,
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