The Joy and blessing of a Working\Gospel Labouring Church
{Original outline by Nigel Lacey}
Reading 1 Cor. 15: 50—58
Illustration
William Tyndale translating the word LABOUR
Service or work or even toil was not a strong enough word.
G2873 κόπος kopos kop'-os From G2875; a cut, that is, (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication pains: - labour, + trouble, weariness.
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“The Church is not just a Pulpit” Peter Masters
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We want to look at the benefits, we receive, of Labour in the Kingdom of God and the Church of Jesus Christ.
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1. The Working\Gospel Labouring Church rejoices as it shares in the Lord’s work.
Read Luke 24: 46-53
Verse 52 “Great Joy”
Great = GK = Megas
From which we get the word Mega!
Someone has said;
“Joy is the byproduct of obedience.”
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2. There is the special joy of seeing sinners saved and backsliders brought back into fellowship with the Lord.
Read Luke 15: 1-7
“Joy in Heaven”
Is it not amazing to think that something that happens on earth can cause joy in heaven!
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3. Gospel Labour in the Assembly leads to a sense of the Importance of the local church.
Read Psalm 87
What are some of the Glorious things?
Read Isaiah 60: 1-5
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4. The Working\Gospel labouring Church will find its prayer meeting greatly blessed.
Acts 4: 23-31
Note, for the first time the church understood the import of psalm 2.
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5. The working\gospel labouring church will inevitably have a greater hunger for the word of God.
Acts 2:41-42
Personal illustration.
At a time when I had lost the desire for the word. Mick said don’t just sit around keep on going and the desire will come back.
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6. The working church will be blessed with a rising generation of faithful believers.
Often what turns the young away is that they do not see real life or activity in the church.
Read psalm 127: 3-5
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7. The working church will enjoy sweet fellowship in its meetings.
Acts 2: 43-47
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8. The working church by its very nature will set itself apart from compromising and worldly churches.
Read 2 Cor. 6: 14-18.
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9. The working Church discovers the joy of exercising and growing in her faith in Christ!
Read 1 Thess 1: 3-8
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10. The Labouring church by its very activity trains and teaches people how to preach Christ to the world.
Read Phillipians 1: 12-14
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11. The truly Labouring church may well have the privilege of suffering persecution for the cause of Christ.
Read Matt 5: 10-12
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12. The Labouring church has the immense joy of seeing Christ formed in its members. {Trials which will attend the work of a biblically working church will see Christ manifested in its people}
Read 1 Peter 1: 3-7
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13. The labouring church performs its service as an act of worship to its Saviour.
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