29 Dec “blessings of the new covenant” | nathan bonds – North attleboro

Key Verse: hebrews 12:1-3, 22

ANNOUNCEMENTS

WOONSOCKET: Construction is underway!

FIRST TUESDAY- We will be having First Tuesday’s starting January 7 – 6:00p prayer and 7:00p worship. NO LIFE GROUPS MEET THAT WEEK, THERE WILL BE NO GUIDE.

ADDING ANOTHER SERVICE IN NORTH ATTLEBORO:: 8:00 AM on Sunday mornings starting mid-January! Quieter service. If you attend Thursdays, please remain attending that service.

Waters Church Facebook Page now has groups set up for each campus and a group set up for Life Groups.

To join the groups, just go to the Waters Church FB page and go to groups and join the ones you want. Make sure you join the Life Group (group) so we can get people interested in joining a Life group. The Heach Coaches and I will be moderating the group and adding topics for discussion.

CLASSES; Baptism class is every 4th Sunday of the Month. at 11:30 / Growth Track runs the first 3 Sundays every month at 11:30 – this is a one and done registrants only need to attend one session / Starting Point runs every 1st and 3rd Sunday at 11:30 – details and descriptions can be found on the registrations which are located under Events on the HUB.

Hebrews 9:15 ESV

Galatians 3:14 ESV

1. I can have Righteousness even if I don’t feel it or know it exists.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)

Q. As a believer, how have you allowed your feelings to make you think you are unrighteous before God (i.e. “I sinned and now…”etc.)?

2. I can have Union with God even though I battle fear, depression and loneliness.

Galatians 2:20 (MSG)

Q. How have you ‘tried’ to please God and in doing so have allowed struggles to keep you from enjoying God’s presence (as the passage says – trying to keep with rules etc…)?

3. I can receive the Grace that belongs to me even though I don’t deserve it or think I have to work for it.

Romans 3:24 (ESV)

Q. What aspects, in regards to God’s grace, do you have a hard time believing you don’t need to work for (could be any good gift from God that you have a difficult time accepting)?

Today’s Challenge: Is God your righteousness?

You say, “I am trying to make Him my righteousness.” You ask others, “Can you make Him your righteousness?”

The Answer: If you believe in Jesus Christ, He IS your righteousness. Then go out and act it. Dare to let God loose in you.

Jesus is enough for anyone, at anytime, and anywhere when they accept His call.

Revelation 19:9-10 (AMPC) Then [the angel] said to me, Write this down: Blessed (happy, [a]to be envied) are those who are summoned (invited, called) to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me [further], These are the true words (the genuine and exact declarations) of God. Then I fell prostrate at his feet to worship (to pay divine honors) to him [the angel], but he [restrained me] and said, Refrain! [You must not do that!] I am [only] another servant with you and your brethren who have [accepted and hold] the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God! For the substance (essence) of the truth revealed by Jesus is the spirit of all prophecy [the vital breath, the inspiration of all inspired preaching and interpretation of the divine will and purpose, including both mine and yours].