"church" Tagged Sermons
1. The ______________________ for partaking of the Passover (vv. 43-49).
2. The Covenant __________________ belong exclusively to members of the Covenant Community, the Visible _____________.
3. Covenant Outsiders are welcome to become part of the Church through ____________________ and Covenant Initiation.
1. Our identity as sojourners and exiles in the midst of a hostile world (v. 11a).
2. The “passions of the flesh” wage war against the soul (v. 11b).
1. The church is holy (v. 5).
2. The church is a priesthood (v. 5).
1. Believer, consider God’s call to consecration (vv. 1-2).
2. Our personal consecration to God is demonstrated by using our spiritual gifts to benefit the body of Christ (vv. 3-8).
1. Take to heart that there is one, and only one, Gospel (vv. 6-7).
2. Heed the apostolic warning: Anyone who perverts the Gospel of Christ will be eternally condemned (vv. 8-9).
The church itself symbolizes a sanctuary, an eternal rest reserved for the elect, against which Cain’s motive for killing Abel stands out starkly: the inheritance. Even so, God’s coming to Cain afterward carries a real eschatology of common grace extended even to the wicked.