Sunday Sermon: God's Dream Church: House of Prayer

God's Dream Church: House of Prayer

“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

— Matthew 21:13 (NIV)

“these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.””

— Isaiah 56:7 (NIV)

1. How the Church Should Pray- In One Accord

Acts 1:14 "They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers."

2. Praying Church Founded On Doctrine And Fellowship

Acts 2:42 "They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."

3. Church Has A Season of Prayer

Acts 3:1 "One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon."

4. Pray That Ministers Have The Boldness To Preach

Acts 4:30-31 "Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly."

5. Pray For The Right Leadership

Acts 6:6 "They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them."

6. Pray For The Persecuted

Acts 12:5 "So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him."

7. Pray For The Sick

Acts 5:13-16 "No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed."

Sunday Sermon: What God Expects From His Church

What God Expects From His Church

“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”

— Matthew 21:12-16 (NIV)

My House Shall be called:

1. House of Purity

2. House of Prayer

3. House of Power

4. House of Praise

“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,”

— Ephesians 4:15 (NIV)

“Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who may stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.”

— Psalm 24: 3-4 (NKJV)

Sunday Sermon: Secretly Slipped In Among You

Secretly Slipped In Among You

“ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”

— Jude 4 (NIV)

“To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”

— Jude 24-25 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Happy Family

Happy Family

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

— Joshua 24:15 (NIV)

“Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.”

— Proverbs 17:1 (NIV)

“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

— Genesis 1:26 (NIV)

“But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.”

— 1 Corinthians 7:2 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: A Peaceful Church

A Peaceful Church

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”

— Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)

“There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,”

— Acts 18:2 (NIV)

“Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.”

— Acts 18:18 (NIV)

“and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.”

— Acts 18:3 (NIV)

“Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.”

— Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)