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From Him and To Him

Romans 11:33-36 says:
 
"Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
 
“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”
“Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”
 
For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen."
 
And 1 Corinthians 4:7 says:
 
"For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?"
 
Do you have a great job? Do you have a nice car, house, family etc. Our culture is built on your worth being tied to your net worth. How much you have is an indicator of how important and how successful you are. But that is all a lie. God's word reminds us that what we have is not what we have earned, or what we deserve, but rather what God has given us.
 
What do we have that was not given to us? How could we ever repay the Lord? We deserve eternal punishment for our sin and separation from the goodness of God, but that is not what we have received from the Lord. His mercy is so great, his grace so overwhelming that he sent his son to live the perfect life we could never live and to die in our place on the cross! This is the sign of our significance, this is the sign of our success, it's God's mercy to us! How could we ever repay him for what he has given us? It is a mistake to think of our holy life, or our reverent worship as a paying back to God what he has given us.
 
What we do, is take what God has given us, to bless those he has put in our lives and to glorify him. What he have is from him, our praise and service to done through the power of the Spirit to give worship to him. God has blessed us richly in Christ with every spiritual blessing and what we do is take what he has given, and turn it to praise. Let us take this life, this money, these resources and worship him this week!
 
Here are the songs and Scripture that will be a part of tomorrow's services:
 
Call to Worship from Romans 11:33-36
How Great Is Our God
Jesus Paid It All
In Christ Alone
Reading : 1 Corinthians 4:7
Jesus, There's No One Like You
Take My Life and Let It Be
 
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Generous God

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Ephesians 2:4-7 says:

"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."

As we embark on a new sermon series, "A Generous Life", we first need to remind ourselves of something: We have a generous God.  Our heavenly Father, because of his mercy and grace, showers countless blessings on his children.  He does not do so because we have earned such blessings.  He does not do to incentivize us to pay back these riches.  He does so to reveal his character, to shine the spotlight on his glory.  He does so because he loves us with an indescribably unmerited love. 

The single greatest example of this love is on display in John 3:16-17:

 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him."

So, this Sunday, we're going to celebrate the generous love of God, and (through celebrating communion together) we're going to remember the death of Jesus , where that love was poured out and put on display for all to see.  Here are the songs and Scriptures for our service this Sunday:

Call to Worship from John 3:16-17
Doxology
10,000 Reasons
Look and See
Death Was Arrested
Sermon on The Generosity of God from various texts
Communion - I Corinthians 11:23-26
Come Thou Fount

We're excited to come together to praise the Lord and remind one another of his goodness, kindness, and sacrificial love!

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