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The Church is all about us
We live in a culture where everything is geared towards what we want.
The clothes we buy
The music we listen to
The TV/Movies we listen to
Clubs we join or sports we play
We can customize our phones, tablets, cars whatever we want
It is the Burger King Theology of “you can have it your way.”
And that same thinking has made its way into churches.
Where we think that church is all about us.
And therefore the church has to cater to our wants.
And it kind of makes sense when you think of verses like which teaches that “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”.
So surely if God himself is willing to die for us, then we must be the most important right?
It’s that Cat/Dog theology again.
BUT the truth is, the Church is All about God
Some Context
When we talk about Church we have to clarify the difference between Church and church.
Definition
Church refers to the community of all true believers for all time.
church refers to a local assembly of believers
Today we are going to primarily focus on that “C” Church and the Wednesday after Easter we will talk about the “c” church
Not A Building
Also most people when they think about Church they think of a building.
And Church is somewhere you go.
I go to FBC, I go to Alice Drive.
It is very similar to say I go to Wilson Hall or Sumter High
However, when you look at Scripture, the Bible doesn’t really describe the church as a building but instead as:
the people of God
the electthe bride of Christthe body of Christgathered believersAssemblyLiving templeholy people/nationfamilybranches on a vinepriesthood
the elect
the bride of Christ
the body of Christ
gathered believers
Assembly
a Living temple
a holy nation
a family
branches on a vine
a priesthood
NEW SLIDE
In fact the word in the Bible for church, ἐκκλησία, means congregation or assembly.
So really we should not say “I go to FBC”, but “I am a part of FBC”.
That is why the term member of a church makes so much sense.
Now we go to worship on Sunday, but I am a member of FBC.
Only of Christians
Also, the Church.
Big C.
Is only made up of true believers, individuals who have been saved by Jesus Christ.
Those before Jesus who looked toward the coming Christ for salvation
And Those after Jesus who look back to Christ for salvation
At the day of Judgement and God remakes the heavens and the earth in glory, only believers will be a part of it.
Which leads us to the idea that the Church is All About God
The Church is All About God
And we are going to see that not in maybe a strange book for you, .
So not the New Testament but the Old Testament.
So if you have a Bible or App go to .
(Its after the Psalms and Jeremiah, before Daniel and Hosea). .
While you turn there let me give you some background.
Ezekiel was a prophet of God writing to the Jews (God’s chosen people)
But the Jews had sinned against God and were taken captive, literally taken from their land by the Babylonians.
Which is why its called the Babylonian Captivity.
And during this time God gives Ezekiel visions to instruct the people.
And starting in verse 16 we see the beginning of one of those visions.
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16 The word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds.
Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
(we won’t go into that, guys ask your mom)
16 The word of the LORD came to me: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds.
Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
18 So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries.
In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
18 So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries.
In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
So Israel, the Jewish people, sinned against God and God punished them by being “scattered among the nations.”
16 The word of the LORD came to me: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds.
Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
18 So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries.
In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
So Israel, the Jewish people, sinned against God and God punished them by being “scattered among the nations.”
Verse 20
But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.’
20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’
People started to question God.
Other nations were looking at the Israelites and thinking I thought you were the people of God, yet you were exiled from his land.
People started to question God.
Other nations were looking at the Israelites and thinking I thought you were the people of God, yet you were exiled from his land.
God responds in Verse 21
But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
21 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
God had concern for His Holy Name.
God wasn’t concerned with the circumstances of the Israelites.
He judged them in accordance to their deeds.
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