WHAT ARE THE GOD' EXPECTATION FROM HIS CHURCH AFTER HIS RESURRECTION

by AVINASH SINGH
04/29/19
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WHAT ARE THE GOD’ EXPECTATION FROM HIS CHURCH AFTER RESURRECTION?

1)      WE SHOULD LIVE FOR HIM

“  AND HE DIED FOR THOSE ALL, THAT THOSE WHO LIVE SHOULD LIVE NO LONGER FOR THEMSELVES, BUT FOR HIM WHO DIED FOR THEM AND ROSE AGAIN.”                              ( 2 CORINTHIANS 5.15).

ROMANS 12.1, “THEREFORE, I URGE YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IN VIEW OF GOD’S MERCY, TO OFFER YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND PLEASING TO GOD—THIS IS YOUR TRUE AND PROPER WORSHIP.”

JEREMIAH 17:5, THUS SAYS THE LORD,“CURSED IS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN MANKIND AND MAKES FLESH HIS STRENGTH,AND WHOSE HEART TURNS AWAY FROM THE LORD.”

ROMANS 10:11 ,FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, “WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.”

HEBREWS 11:6, “ AND WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM, FOR HE WHO COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO SEEK HIM.”

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 6:33, “BUT SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.”

PSALM 27:4, “ONE THING I HAVE ASKED FROM THE LORD, THAT I SHALL SEEK:THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE,TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD
AND TO MEDITATE IN HIS TEMPLE.”

PSALM 37:4,” DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD; AND HE WILL GIVE YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART.”

GOSPEL OF JOHN 8:31,” SO JESUS WAS SAYING TO THOSE JEWS WHO HAD BELIEVED HIM, “IF YOU CONTINUE IN MY WORD, THEN YOU ARE TRULY DISCIPLES OF MINE.”

GOSPEL OF JOHN 15:7, “ IF YOU ABIDE IN ME, AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, ASK WHATEVER YOU WISH, AND IT WILL BE DONE FOR YOU.”

ROMANS 8:14, “FOR ALL WHO ARE BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THESE ARE SONS OF GOD.”

JEREMIAH 33:3, “CALL TO ME AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, AND I WILL TELL YOU GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS, WHICH YOU DO NOT KNOW.”

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 7:7, “ASK, AND IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU; SEEK, AND YOU WILL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT WILL BE OPENED TO YOU.”

1 CORINTHIANS 3.16-17, “DON’T YOU KNOW THAT YOU YOURSELVES ARE GOD’S TEMPLE AND THAT GOD’S SPIRIT DWELLS IN YOUR MIDST? IF ANYONE DESTROYS GOD’S TEMPLE, GOD WILL DESTROY THAT PERSON; FOR GOD’S TEMPLE IS SACRED, AND YOU TOGETHER ARE THAT TEMPLE.”

1 CORINTHIANS 6.19-20, “DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODIES ARE TEMPLES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO IS IN YOU, WHOM YOU HAVE RECEIVED FROM GOD? YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN; YOU WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE. THEREFORE HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODIES.”

2)      WE SHOULD BE GOSPEL OF LORD JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD

“ CLEARLY YOU ARE AN EPISTLE OF CHRIST, MINISTERED BY US, WRITTEN NOT WITH INK BUT BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD, NOT ON TABELTS OF STONE BUT ON TABLETS OF FLESH, THAT IS, OF THE HEART.” ( 2 CORINTHIANS 3.3).

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 5.13,  “YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH. BUT IF THE SALT LOSES ITS SALTINESS, HOW CAN IT BE MADE SALTY AGAIN? IT IS NO LONGER GOOD FOR ANYTHING, EXCEPT TO BE THROWN OUT AND TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT.”

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 5.14,  “YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A TOWN BUILT ON A HILL CANNOT BE HIDDEN.”

1 CORINTHIANS 3:9, “ FOR WE ARE GOD’S FELLOW WORKERS; YOU ARE GOD’S FIELD, GOD’S BUILDING.”

2 CORINTHIANS 5:18, “NOW ALL THESE THINGS ARE FROM GOD, WHO RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST AND GAVE US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION.”

2 CORINTHIANS 5:20, “THEREFORE, WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, AS THOUGH GOD WERE MAKING AN APPEAL THROUGH US; WE BEG YOU ON BEHALF OF CHRIST, BE RECONCILED TO GOD.”

GALATIANS 3:26, “ FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.”

GOSPEL OF JOHN 15:15, “NO LONGER DO I CALL YOU SLAVES, FOR THE SLAVE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HIS MASTER IS DOING; BUT I HAVE CALLED YOU FRIENDS, FOR ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE HEARD FROM MY FATHER I HAVE MADE KNOWN TO YOU.”

GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:12, “ BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO THEM HE GAVE THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD, EVEN TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS NAME.”

1 PETER 2:9, “BUT YOU ARE A CHOSEN RACE, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FORGOD’S OWN POSSESSION, SO THAT YOU MAY PROCLAIM THE EXCELLENCIES OF HIM WHO HAS CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT.”

ROMANS 8:17, “AND IF CHILDREN, HEIRS ALSO, HEIRS OF GOD AND FELLOW HEIRS WITH CHRIST, IF INDEED WE SUFFER WITH HIM SO THAT WE MAY ALSO BE GLORIFIED WITH HIM.”

3)      OUR WORDS AND DEEDS SHOULD GLORY GOD

“ AND WHATEVER YOU DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD THE FATHER THROUGH HIM.” ( COLOSSIANS 3.17).

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 5.16, “IN THE SAME WAY, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE OTHERS, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.”

1 CORINTHIANS 10.31, “THEREFORE, WHETHER YOU EAT OR DRINK, OR WHETHER YOU DO, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.”

1 TIMOTHY 4.1-4, “THE SPIRIT CLEARLY SAYS THAT IN LATER TIMES SOME WILL ABANDON THE FAITH AND FOLLOW DECEIVING SPIRITS AND THINGS TAUGHT BY DEMONS. ² SUCH TEACHINGS COME THROUGH HYPOCRITICAL LIARS, WHOSE CONSCIENCES HAVE BEEN SEARED AS WITH A HOT IRON. ³ THEY FORBID PEOPLE TO MARRY AND ORDER THEM TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN FOODS, WHICH GOD CREATED TO BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING BY THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND WHO KNOW THE TRUTH. ⁴ FOR EVERYTHING GOD CREATED IS GOOD, AND NOTHING IS TO BE REJECTED IF IT IS RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING.”

COLOSSIANS 2.18-21, “DO NOT LET ANYONE WHO DELIGHTS IN FALSE HUMILITY AND THE WORSHIP OF ANGELS DISQUALIFY YOU. SUCH A PERSON ALSO GOES INTO GREAT DETAIL ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN; THEY ARE PUFFED UP WITH IDLE NOTIONS BY THEIR UNSPIRITUAL MIND. THEY HAVE LOST CONNECTION WITH THE HEAD, FROM WHOM THE WHOLE BODY, SUPPORTED AND HELD TOGETHER BY ITS LIGAMENTS AND SINEWS, GROWS AS GOD CAUSES IT TO GROW. SINCE YOU DIED WITH CHRIST TO THE ELEMENTAL SPIRITUAL FORCES OF THIS WORLD, WHY, AS THOUGH YOU STILL BELONGED TO THE WORLD, DO YOU SUBMIT TO ITS RULES: “DO NOT HANDLE! DO NOT TASTE! DO NOT TOUCH!”?

4)      WE HAVE TO MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO BRING PEOPLE TO GOD’ KINGDOM

“ TO THE WEAK I BECAME AS WEAK, THAT I MIGHT WIN THE WEAK, I HAVE BECOME ALL THINGS TO ALL ME, THAT I MIGHT BY ALL MEANS SAVE SOME.” (1 CORINTHIANS 9.22).

ISAIAH 56:7, “EVEN THOSE I WILL BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN AND MAKE THEM JOYFUL IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER.THEIR BURNT OFFERINGS AND THEIR SACRIFICES WILL BE ACCEPTABLE ON MY ALTAR;FOR MY HOUSE WILL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE PEOPLES.”

PHILIPPIANS 3:7, “ BUT WHATEVER THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THOSE THINGS I HAVE COUNTED AS LOSS FOR THE SAKE OF CHRIST.”

MISSION OF LORD JESUS CHRIST

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 9:13, “BUT GO AND LEARN WHAT THIS MEANS: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ FOR I DID NOT COME TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS.”

GOSPEL OF LUKE 19:10, “ FOR THE SON OF MAN HAS COME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST.”

GOSPEL OF JOHN 10:10, “ THE THIEF COMES ONLY TO STEAL AND KILL AND DESTROY; I CAME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND HAVE IT ABUNDANTLY.”

LORD JESUS CHRIST GAVE THE COMMAND TO FULFILL

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 4:18-19, “NOW AS JESUS WAS WALKING BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, HE SAW TWO BROTHERS, SIMON WHO WAS CALLED PETER, AND ANDREW HIS BROTHER, CASTING A NET INTO THE SEA; FOR THEY WERE FISHERMEN. ¹⁹ AND HE *SAID TO THEM, “FOLLOW ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN.”

ACTS 1:8, “BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU; AND YOU SHALL BE MY WITNESSES BOTH IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND EVEN TO THE REMOTEST PART OF THE EARTH.”

GOSPEL OF MARK 16.15, “HE SAID TO THEM, “GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL CREATION.”

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 28.18-20, “THEN JESUS CAME TO THEM AND SAID, “ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME. ¹⁹ THEREFORE GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ²⁰ AND TEACHING THEM TO OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED YOU. AND SURELY I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, TO THE VERY END OF THE AGE.”

2 CORINTHIANS 5.18, “ALL THIS IS FROM GOD, WHO RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH CHRIST AND GAVE US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION:”

2 CORINTHIANS 5.20, “WE ARE THEREFORE CHRIST’S AMBASSADORS, AS THOUGH GOD WERE MAKING HIS APPEAL THROUGH US. WE IMPLORE YOU ON CHRIST’S BEHALF: BE RECONCILED TO GOD.”

JUDE 1.22-23, “AND ON SOME HAVE COMPASSION, MAKING A DISTINCTION; BUT OTHERS SAVE WITH FEAR, PULLING THEM OUT OF THE FIRE…”

FRIENDSHIP /FEEDING/FELLOWSHIP/ HEALING/ DELIEVERANCE/AVIALABILITY

5)       WE SHOULD  PREPARE OUR SELVES FOR THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.

PHILLIPIANS 3.20, “BUT OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN. AND WE EAGERLY AWAIT A SAVIOR FROM THERE, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”

1 THESSALIONIANS 4.16-18, “ FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, WITH A LOUD COMMAND, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL AND WITH THE TRUMPET CALL OF GOD, AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.AFTER THAT, WE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE AND ARE LEFT WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. AND SO WE WILL BE WITH THE LORD FOREVER. THEREFORE ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.”

GOSPEL OF JOHN 14.1-3, “DO NOT LET YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED. YOU BELIEVE IN GOD; BELIEVE ALSO IN ME.² MY FATHER’S HOUSE HAS MANY ROOMS; IF THAT WERE NOT SO, WOULD I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT I AM GOING THERE TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU? ³ AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME BACK AND TAKE YOU TO BE WITH ME THAT YOU ALSO MAY BE WHERE I AM.”

1 PETER 1:3-4, “BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHO ACCORDING TO HIS GREAT MERCY HAS CAUSED US TO BE BORN AGAIN TO A LIVING HOPE THROUGH THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD, TO OBTAIN AN INHERITANCE WHICH IS IMPERISHABLE AND UNDEFILED AND WILL NOT FADE AWAY, RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU.”

REVELATION 21.2, “I SAW THE HOLY CITY, THE NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM GOD,PREPARED AS A BRIDE BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED FOR HER HUSBAND.”

EPHESIANS 2.19, “CONSEQUENTLY, YOU ARE NO LONGER FOREIGNERS AND STRANGERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENSWITH GOD’S PEOPLE AND ALSO MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.”

2 TIMOTHY 4:7-8, “ I HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, I HAVE FINISHED THE COURSE, I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH;  IN THE FUTURE THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH THE LORD, THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, WILL AWARD TO ME ON THAT DAY; AND NOT ONLY TO ME, BUT ALSO TO ALL WHO HAVE LOVED HIS APPEARING.”

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 24:37-39, “ FOR THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN WILL BE JUST LIKE THE DAYS OF NOAH.

FOR AS IN THOSE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED THE ARK, AND THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.”

GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 24:30-31 , “ AND THEN THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN WILL APPEAR IN THE SKY, AND THEN ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN, AND THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. ³¹ AND HE WILL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT TRUMPET AND THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ^[A]ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF THE SKY TO THE OTHER.”