but it is a business person going overseas to
live for a period of time and being involved
that way. One of the short -term missionary war
events that saddened his family is true missionaries.
All of us, our missionaries, need to serve the
Lord in life and death. Now, lest you think that
somehow this report would not have been handed,
I will try to express faith when we say that
we plan it this way. But we wanted to end the
service with a focus on the word and I invite
you to open your viable of the first Corinthians,
chapter three. As we think this morning about
possessions, one of the only lessons we learn
in life is that we possess things. One of the
first words in a child's vocabulary is that little
word, what? Mine. And that's okay until that
little person is sitting next to you playing
with the same toy, and then there's a squabble.
that crimkins might be compared to babes in Christ,
who unfortunately was squabbling over who meets
what was his favorite, than his believer. And
so Paul says this beginning in the middle of
verse 21, for all things belong to you. For the
Paul or Apollos or Cephas, for the world or life
or death or things present or things to come,
all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ
and Christ. belongs to God. It was so unnecessary
for the Christians to squabble over their ministry
leaders. I'll assure them all things belong to
you. You don't need to fight over your leaders.
The one that you're the most loyal. What I see
in these brief words we read this morning is
the basic truth that is this, that... are life's
most important questions. Paul answers these
questions for the believer, as he gives us here
a three -fold list of possessions that bless
your life as a Christian. The first is this truth
that all things belong to you. Christ, Paul says
this. In Romans 8 .32, again, he says, David
did not spare his own son with the liberty of
love for us all. How will he not also with him
freely give us all things? All things belong
to him. First, your ministry leaders belong to
you. For the right, each one of God's servants
belongs to each believer. No member of the church
should say, I belong to Paul or I like painters,
because each servant belongs to each member equally.
Perhaps we cannot help but have our personal
preferences when it comes to the way different
men give us the word, but we must not commit
our personal preferences to becoming resistive
prejudices. In fact, the creature I may enjoy
the least may be the one I need the most. they
have been taught, rather than on who has taught
them that truth. They need to know their lives
on God's wisdom, rather than man's wisdom. We
can all thank God for all of the leaders and
preachers that God has gifted the body with.
We may not be jealous of one over another, but
we respect all... This here is that your ministry
leader is belonging to you, but he wants them
with us. There is a chain letter that's stored
around the emergency space, and perhaps he has
painted it. Here's what it says. The chain letter
may be around among the church of these days,
but no cons is involved. You can only send a
copy of the letter to the church at this time.
In one way, people would say 643 industries.
And one of them is in place at first. But beware,
once you're close to saying that, the whole business
is back. So whether you want them or not, they
belong to you. Especially if they're in the world,
belong to you. But it's an order of saying that
this cause you are in the range of - And yet
there is even a twist now in which the world
belongs to us, and it's false. John MacArthur
quotes Joseph Parker, writing about this great
chapter. He says, I demand my mastery in Danbury,
and my upper window looks over the dark face
of a wealthy man. It was I, really, who inherited
that instinct. Oh, I did not own the product.
I came down to see it once again, and I watched
it smile, and then it died too. It is the process
of death. It is the process of dying. The process
of leaving behind this world and this life. For
us, the big enemy has been succeeded and has
been removed from this scary crisis of life.
Death has been known to you. I propose, then,
that you be guided in the arts and be with Christ,
which is very much better than living in the
past, which is less bad. But with the less present
things as well, that is the process of living.
The feelings of life, these are the stories,
these challenges, the challenges, these problems,
these are their lives. We have a second intention
by the hand that leads us to life, and here's
what goes with it again. In the final season
we do not speak the same. That is the reality
of the coming glory. The glory that will be ours
from Christ the third, as all things are culminating
in him. In the seventh revelation, chapter 21
verse 17, we will overcome. Don't inherit all
these. And I believe that God and he will be
my friend. So we are going to pray for death.
Death or whether to live or die, these are the
words. And we forget all things in Christ when
we are possessed by Him. There is no expected
thing to pardon the fact that He is our Creator,
our Maker. But even more so from the fact that
He is our Redeemer. We acknowledge the right
connection that we like to see. In a world that
cannot be I am here. And he is mine. If you're
not given a right view of the living of death
for the rest of your life, give no cause us to
live our very lives in crisis. And we will put
away the tendency that we never might. about
unimportant things. This is only the beginning.
If Christ belongs to God and we belong to Christ,
then we are just the ourselves, and we are one
with each other, and eternally united with the
very purpose of destroying God and His worship.
God the Father and Jesus Christ. And God works
with each other and man. How can man and God,
so much one, be divided? It began in the family
to understand the realities of our spiritual
unity with one who was resurrected, with a common
professor and professor. Common haters and seekers,
common defenders of the system. you is there
that he spreads his message to me. So as to prevent
all things, you'll have to score both the recording.
With any competition against or preventing all
things, we have no you you