Church anniversary sermon 2 Oct 2016
1 Peter 2:5 "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."
A Christian is never alone. Once you accepted Christ, you belong to a family. God says so long as there is 2-3 people gathered in His name, He will be with us.
God is unique to each of us, He meant to each of us differently, but He will never leave us. He will always have the spiritual house for us.
In return we now live for Christ because we have a direction, we have a goal and and end point to go to.
1 Peter 2:1 "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."
Now that we have a new life, we need to set aside all guile, hypocrisies, malice and evils, but to live a life for Christ, and produce only good things from our lives. We will also have a great appetite for God's word as milk for babies, so that we can grow in God. We will feel the graciousness of God through better understanding of His Word.
We have tasted the love and goodness of God. We are Christ like, spiritually alive, and not dead. We shall be faithful to follow Him and He will bless us accordingly.
