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ACCEPTABLE SERVICE. 1st: Acceptable service is Exclusive Service: (Mt.6:24) (Mt.12:30). 2nd: Acceptable service is Dutiful Service: (1Cor.6.20). For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. .
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ACCEPTABLE SERVICE 1st: Acceptable service isExclusive Service:(Mt.6:24) (Mt.12:30) 2nd: Acceptable service is Dutiful Service: (1Cor.6.20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Rom.6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE 1st: Acceptable service isExclusive Service:(Mt.6:24) (Mt.12:30) 2nd: Acceptable service is Dutiful Service: (1Cor.6.20) Lk.10:7-10 7. But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? 8. And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? 9. Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. 10. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Rom.14:7-8 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE 1st: Acceptable service isExclusive Service:(Mt.6:24) (Mt.12:30) (Mt.25:41-46) 41. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 42. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 43. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 44. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45.Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. 2nd: Acceptable service is Dutiful Service: (1Cor.6.20) 3rd: Acceptable service is Privileged Service: (Ps.100) Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE 1st: Acceptable service isExclusive Service:(Mt.6:24) (Mt.12:30) 2nd: Acceptable service is Dutiful Service: (1Cor.6.20) 3rd: Acceptable service is Privileged Service: (Ps.100) 4th: Acceptable service is Constant Service: (Lk.2:36-37)
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE 4th: Acceptable service is Constant Service: (Lk.2:36-37) And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE What are some ways we can serve God? Areas of Service Public Worship: 1. Making announcements 2. Leading Singing 3. Leading Prayer 4. Reading Scripture 5. Assisting Lord’s Supper 6. Short Talks 7. Preaching Sermons 8. Serving as Ushers 9. Counting number present 10. Working the tape machine 11. Invite Visitors out to lunch (All can do this)
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE What are some ways we can serve God? Edification: 1. Home Bible Studies 2. Special Classes 3. New Convert Studies 4. Child care for those doing Bible Studies Evangelism: 1. Write letters to visitors, wayward members etc.. 2. Go see visitors or Call on the phone 3. Mail tracts or flyers out in community 4. Grade Bible correspondence courses 5. Open home for Bible study 6. Set up a study for someone else
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE What are some ways we can serve God? Benevolence: Toward sick & Shut-in 1. Visit in hospital 2. Visit at home 3. Visit in nursing home 4. Call daily if needed 5. Provide transportation someplace 6. Take food to their house. Benevolence: Toward the Needy in General 1. Provide clothing to them 2. Prepare food for them 3. Buy them groceries
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE (Mk.12:28-31) 28. And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? 29. And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
ACCEPTABLE SERVICE Do you love God? John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:15If ye love me, keep my commandments. In Christ = SAVED Baptized (Gal.3:27) Confess (Rom.10:10) Repent (Lk.13:3) Believe (Jn.8:24) Hear (Rom.10:17)