Christians and Others II

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Christians and Others II

• Philippians 21-4

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B. Consider Other Believers

• Our God is others focused
• He is in the process of calling a people to
  Himself
• He is focused upon those people

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B. Consider Other Believers

• He set His heart upon them in eternity (Eph.
  14-5)
• He gave them to Christ out of the world (John
  1726)
• Christ prayed for them (John 179, 20-22)
• Christ died for them on the cross (Eph. 525)

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B. Consider Other Believers

• The Spirit convicts them, and the Father calls
  them to salvation (John 644)
• The Spirit seals them and guarantees the
  completion of their salvation (Eph. 113-14)
• These people are called His CHURCH

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B. Consider Other Believers

• It shows a new family emerging on the face of
  the earth.
• In our new community we are to be showing the
  world a better way to live (John 1334-35
  Philippians 214-16)

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David Bosch

• Of far greater significance than the mission of
  the peripatetic preacherwas the conduct of early
  Christians, the language of love on their lips
  and in their lives.

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B. Consider Other Believers

• It is Gods means of shaping us
• Part of the expression of our fallen condition is
  our focus upon ourselves
• Part of the way God leads us from that is in our
  interaction with other believers

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B. Consider Other Believers

• Colossians 312-14
• Philemon 14-17
• You cannot do these things without it changing
  you, without dying to your self

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C. Consider Unbelievers

• We are to pity unbelievers (Romans 91ff)
• We are to join God in the great effort to reach
  them, an effort that is far bigger than ourselves.

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Annie Armstrong

• National Goal (57 million)
• Church Goal (23,000)
• Prayer for the other believers and the lost