Sandyhills Parish Church:Reaching out to the community.

Romans 12
What is Romans 12 telling us?

He describes our reasonable worship as presenting our bodies, our entire lives, to God as if we are holy and acceptable sacrifices. The difference between this and the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant is that we are to be living, breathing sacrifices, using up our lives in service to God (Romans 12:1).

Luke 18:35-43 He asks only that we are persistent, that we respond to him when we hear him call and that we ask his involvement in our lives in a direct and tangible way. If we join the blind man in approaching Christ like that then, like him, we will receive healing and peace and grace and our lives will be transformed.

1 John 2:28 - 3:10
The one who permanently lives and is grounded in Christ does not practice sin. Therefore whoever keeps on sinning has not seen him nor knows him. If we have sin in our lives that we continue to practice, then we do not live with Christ ruling our lives. Instead, we have no relationship at all with Christ.

Hebrews 4-10-5:10

The writer ends his thought on the concept of obedience. Jesus learned obedience through what he suffered. His obedience to the will of the Father made him the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. The obedience of the Redeemer made salvation available to the obedient redeemed.

Mark 1:1–13 rapidly introduces the ministry of Jesus, as introduced by John the Baptist. While other Gospels include many details, the Gospel of Mark briefly sets the stage for Jesus' baptism by John.

Matthew 21:1–11 follows Jesus on His final, "triumphal" entry into Jerusalem. He rides on a donkey for the final mile or so to intentionally fulfill a prophecy from Zechariah about the king arriving in Jerusalem. The crowds praise Him as the Messiah, lining His path with branches and their cloaks.

Acts 7:1-10

The Sanhedrin asks Stephen if he is an enemy against the Temple and Moses. He begins his defense by teaching the history of Israel to the Jewish leaders. God appeared to Abraham and told him to go to a land which He would give him. God told Abraham that before his descendants would inherit the land, they would be enslaved for 400 years. As commanded, Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve tribes of Israel.

John 8:31-36
Jesus sets us free for a reason – so that we can live freely as his followers. Just as the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt in order to live as God's chosen people, we are freed from slavery to sin in order to live as God's freed and chosen people. We have been freed for this reason

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Matthew 6:13 - 20

What does lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil mean?

When we pray “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one,” we pray asking God to keep us aware of the spiritual battle we are in, mindful of our enemies and their tactics, and relying on God and the weapons he has given us to fight.

 

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Matthew 6:26-33

In this passage, Jesus taught that worry is unproductive. Worry keeps us from fulfilling the kingdom purposes to which He has called us. God uses all situations to accomplish His purposes, and He wants us to trust Him and join Him in that.