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\\ Today, we're going to look at the second of God’s five purposes.
*/You are formed for God's family./*
Notice this verse at the top of your outline, Hebrews 2:10, would you read it with me.
*/"God is the one who made all things, and all things are for His glory.
He wanted to have many children share His glory."
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Everything that God created was preparation for the crown of his creation.
He prepared the world as an expression of His divine qualities as the destined environment for man to inhabit.
And then, different from everything else, he formed man in His own image and he breathed into him the breath of Divine life, the very breath of God and man choked his way into physical existence.
*/“His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ/*/./"
And He didn’t leave after all His work.
The scriptures tell us that he walked in the garden routinely to enjoy the creation and the man child.
This week we are going to begin to focus and start practicing on His second purpose for your life.
And here it is in I Peter 2:17.
Read it with me.
*/"Love your spiritual family."
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I believe that God wants you to learn to love your spiritual family as He loves them.
God’s design for his people, in process through this life experience is rich and deep fellowship.
The Greek word for fellowship is “koinonia”.
The root word is “koinos” which means, “common, ordinary, everyday”.
The expansion of that root means “sharing” what is common, ordinary, everyday.
While it may be wrapped in the common parts of life, there is nothing common about the connection that God creates between his children.
It is really an “uncommon thing” when it works as it should.
*/"“Let me give you a new command: Love one another.
In the same way I loved you, you love one another.
This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”"
(John 13:34-35, The Message) *[1]* /*
The shame is that we so often settle for less than God’s perfect plan for us.
We interpret the trickles of blessing as the totality of it.
God is so good that He cannot help but bless His people.
There is a “spill-over” that affects a person when God comes near.
But that “spill-over” is just a taste of what He would like to do among His people.
*/"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."
(Malachi 3:10, NIV) *[2]* /*
Fellowship is* loving God's family.”*
And the Bible says this in I John 4:21.
Read it with me.
*/"The person who loves God must also love other believers."
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Now remember, this is the second greatest commandment, next to loving God supremely.
By comparison this is much more crucial than what you believe about other controversial issues.
The necessity of loving one another is emphasized by those very words specifically, 13 times in the New Testament.
Nine of the references come from John the Beloved.
I would say that what you choose to do about this commandment is more important than everything else other than loving God, and when you love God’s kids, you love God.
Family life has its challenges.
Look at this verse:
*/"I’m writing so that you'll know how to live in the family of God.
That family is the church."
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Now, would you circle the word "/family/” and circle the word "/church/," and kind of draw a line together -- because the church is a family.
It is not a building; it is not an institution; it is not an organization; it is not a club.
It is a family.
A lot of people say, “Well, I’m going to go to church,” as if church is a place you go to.
That's not correct.
Church is not a place you go to.
Church is a family you belong to.
Big difference.
It's more than a building, more than a service.
It is family that we are to belong to.
And so we choose to live in the “/spill-over/” or we choose to pursue everything that God has to offer us and fellowship is one of those areas that we make that choice.
People choose to live at one of four levels of fellowship.
The first level of fellowship is:
*/1.
/**/Membership - Choosing to Belong/*
That's the most basic level.
That means you find a church family and you choose, you choose to get connected to it.
Look at what the Bible has to say in Ephesians 2:19.
*/"You are members of God's very own family and you belong in God's household with every other Christian."
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You belong.
The Christian life is not just a matter of believing.
It is matter of belonging, and you and I must choose to belong.
Fellowship begins with belonging, with making that choice.
God wants you to identify to make the choice to be a part of His family.
When you were born, you automatically became a part of the human race.
But you have to choose to belong to the family of God, the church.
It is a choice.
It is a membership choice.
And it’s significantly more than membership in an organization.
*/"so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others."
(Romans 12:5, NIV) *[3]* /*
The scripture speaks of membership in terms of human anatomy, one part of the body being joined to other parts to form a complete representation.
None of us represent the whole picture by ourselves.
To hope that the world can understand who Jesus is by looking at your life alone is a vain hope.
Your spiritual influence and effectiveness with your family and friends will be increased as you take your place as a part of the body of Christ.
There are people who stay away from the church because they discover its imperfections.
The ability to see flaws and mistakes, the ability to analyze the mistakes of others are not the marks of wisdom – simply the characteristics of critical, detached people.
The farther detached we are the easier this becomes.
The most critical people in any organization are the most detached.
Attendance at any sporting event will quickly reveal that the expertise is in the bleachers.
You don’t have to be in shape to be a critic.
It is really not even necessary to have ever played the game.
People detach from churches when they discover that they are not perfect.
They stop serving and the farther away from the playing field that they get the more critical they become.
It is a mark of immaturity to criticize from a detached perspective.
It is a mark of spiritual maturity to learn to love the wrinkled church.
God still loves it.
There are thousands of good organizations but only one church.
He’s committed himself to its preservation and one day a wedding will take place – the bridegroom will claim the church His bride, spotless, wrinkle free.
So don’t stand back and throw mud at His Bride.
You’re not helping.
Baptism is a symbol, the picture that we belong together in the body of Christ.
Look at what 1 Corinthians 12:13 has to say about that.
*/"This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.
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