Friday, September 4, 2015

Order in worship. 9/4/15

Day 245- Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/1Cor.14


1 Corinthians 14:21-40
21 In the Law it is written:

 “With other tongues
    and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
    but even then they will not listen to me,
says the Lord.”[a]
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? 24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, 25 as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is really among you!”

 Good Order in Worship
26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.

 29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.

 34 Women[b] should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.[c]

 36 Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? 37 If anyone thinks they are a prophet or otherwise gifted by the Spirit, let them acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command. 38 But if anyone ignores this, they will themselves be ignored.[d]

 39 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. 40 But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.



Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

Called into one unique fellowship September 4th

 “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” JOHN 14:6
Based upon redemption, God can now give away His relation-ship with His Son. Galatians 4:4-6 says, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the sonship. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!” To receive the sonship is to receive the rights, privileges, and relationships of the Son of God. Our God took His relationship with His Son and put it right into our hearts! We do not have a separate fellowship with the Father. We have been called into the one unique fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Cor. 1:9). “Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3).
This relationship and fellowship means that we are not standing in our own righteousness, but in Christ’s alone (1 Cor. 1:30). Neither are we dependent on our condition or status as the basis of our relationship with God. We are not trusting in anything related to ourselves (Phil. 3:7-9). We are nothing and have nothing. When we wake up in the morning, we do not need to inspect our relationship with God; rather we say, “Lord Jesus, how are You doing today? How is Your relationship with the Father?”Never again do we need to doubt our relationship with God since our relationship with God is Christ (Rom. 8:38-39).
The uniqueness of the Lord’s relationship with the Father is emphasized in John 14:6: “Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes [is coming – present tense] to the Father except through Me.” When He said, “no one,” it means categorically no one (Rom. 3:10-12). No one is coming to the Father except through Him. When He said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” He was, in effect, saying, “I am your constant relationship with the Father.” How could we ever sink to puny, morbid introspection again? This kind of inner activity is useless! It is wasted time and energy. Our relationship with the Father is Jesus Christ our Lord. He does not change. Every morning we can wake up and open ourselves to God with a released spirit, knowing that our joy, our love, our relationship with the Father, is absolutely wonderful. What a Christ we have!

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