Sermon Outlines - Share God's Love 12-27-09

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Posted by: Pastor Van Buskirk	1/16/2010 6:44 AM
Colossians 3:12-14 Share God’s Love God promised to send His love from heaven. Jesus Christ was born, died for your sins, and is risen to eternal life showing God’s love through the cross and His victory over sin, death and the devil demonstrated by His empty tomb. His victory saves you as you become part of His victorious body through baptism into saving faith in Jesus Christ. His Holy Spirit sanctifies you in the faith. The Spirit daily conforms you to the very likeness of Jesus Christ. His love fills your heart so that you may overflow in love for others. Colossians 3:12-14 (ESV) says, “Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” The very forgiveness that saves you, calls you to forgive others and to witness to saving faith. Just as you have peace and reconciliation with the Father in heaven through the cross of Jesus, so too, He calls you to forgive others and to be reconciled to them in His name, the very name you wear on your forehead and heart through baptism, that you may be an instrument of God’s peace. Colossians 3:15-17 says, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Receive Holy Communion, the seal of the forgiveness of your sins, and let the very Word of God be in your heart, building you up in love for God and one another. Share God’s love, Amen. Pastor Raymond Van Buskirk, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Baytown, TX www.rlcbaytown.org
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