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Why
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ACTS
4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under
heaven given to men by which we must be saved." So what do you do?
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Romans
10:9-10 9That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved
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Okay
once you make this decision, now what? Now
you will be in church every Sunday from here on forward.
NO it doesn’t say that, but listen to this:
HEB
4:9 There remains, then, a
Sabbath-rest for the people of God; HEB
4:10 for anyone
who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from
his. God
wants us to take time to rest in him. There are two Rests: "Now",
as in here on earth – "Then", as in heaven with him. God
wants us to reflect on him and rest in his promises. God wants us to
worship him. God, because of what he has done for us deserves our
worship.
HEB 12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom
that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably
with reverence and awe, 29 for our "God is a consuming
fire."
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When
God created the world, he worked six days and he rested on the seventh.
In the Old Testament this was the law. Their Sabbath was on Saturday,
which later was moved to Sunday by the early Christians. Does
it say anywhere we have to be in church every Sunday? No, but we need to
rest just as God rested from his own work. We need to take the time to
worship God. And
God
also wants us to fellowship with other believers.
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Why
does he want us to fellowship with other believers? 1
Thessalonians 5:11 11Therefore
encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are
doing. It
is hard to walk by yourself. When we get down or mess up, we need others
to encourage us and help us up. Acts 2:42
42They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship,
to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Why
do you think they did this? It
is like when you are playing football, if you don’t learn the
“rules”, you cannot play the way you are suppose to. It
takes more then one person to be strong. There
is strength in numbers. Ecclesiastes
4:12
12Though
one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A
cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
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Conclusion: Once you no Christ it, is not done. Now it is time to walk toward the
finish line. We need each other to succeed. Even if you don’t go to church every Sunday, in order to be able to
walk the way God intends us to, we need to be hooked up with a group of
believers. This allows us to worship God, get encouraged, get build up
and be taught. In other words we need a Sabbath Day, but it can be any
day of our choosing. Should
that be the end of it?
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No.
We need to spend as much time as possible with other believers, not just
in church. Like the old saying goes: Show me who your friends are and I
will tell you who you are.
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