Sunday Morning: September 19, 1999
Text: 1 Thessalonians 1:1 "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Thessalonians 1:4 "Knowing, brethren [addressed] beloved [addressed], your election of God."
Matthew 12:50 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
Luke 8:21 "And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it."
Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Matthew 3:17 "And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
John 21:20 "Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple (John) whom Jesus loved following [present active]; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?"
Matthew 17:1-2 "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John (last shall be first) his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2. And was transfigured before them: ..."
Colossians 3:12 "Put on therefore, as the elect [adjective, describing the beloved] of God, holy [adjective] and beloved [present passive participle, the subject], bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;"
Romans 1:7 "To all
that be in Rome, beloved [adjective describing those addressed]
of God, called [adjective] to be
saints [adjective, holy ones]: Grace to you and peace from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Thessalonians 1:4 "Knowing, brethren [addressed] beloved [addressed], your election of God."
The Church who are the ekklhsia, also the called out.
Ephesians 5:29-30 "For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
30. For we are members [out] of his body, [out] of his flesh, and of his bones."
1 Corinthians 12:14 "For the body is not one member, but many."
1 Corinthians 12:18-19 "But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19. And if they were all one member, where were the body?"
Romans 9:21 "Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump (the body of Christ) to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour (lesser honor)?"
2 Timothy 2:20 "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour (lesser honor, but needed)."
Matthew 22:14 "For many are called, but few are chosen [called out]."
Ephesians 1:4 "According as he (God the Father, v.3) hath chosen [eklegw] us in him before the foundation of the world, &ldots;"
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: &ldots;"
2 Timothy 1:9 "Who hath saved (first) us, and (then) called [kalew] us with an holy calling [klhsiv], not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,"
Romans 8:29-30 "For whom (chosen members of the family) he (the Father) did foreknow, he (the Father) also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his (the Father's) Son, that he (his son) might be the firstborn (birthright inheritance) among many brethren (those doing the will of the Father, Mat. 12:50).
30. Moreover whom (chosen of the family who are brethren) he (the Father) did predestinate, them (chosen of the family who are brethren) he (the Father) also called [kalew]: and whom (chosen of the family who are brethren) he called, them (chosen of the family who are brethren) he (the Father) also justified (will not be chargeable, Rom.8:33): and whom (chosen of the family who are brethren) he (the Father) justified, them (chosen of the family who are brethren) he (the Father) also glorified (honored)."
Romans 9:11 "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God (the Father) according to election [eklogh] might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth [kalew];)"
Romans 9:12-13 "It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Luke 22:27 "For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat?"
13. As it is written, Jacob have I loved (beloved), but Esau have I hated (not beloved)."
1 Corinthians 15:58 "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."