Glory of God Christian Fellowship Worship.

Your Grace Is Enough Words and Music by Matt Maher

 Great is Your faithfulness O God  Your wrestle with the sinner’s restless heart  You lead us by still waters into mercy  And nothing can keep us a-part

 So remember Your people remember Your children  Remember Your promise O God

 Your grace is enough  Your grace is enough for me

 Great is Your love and justice God of Jacob  You use the weak to lead the strong  You lead us in the song of Your salvation  And all Your people sing along

 So remember Your people remember Your children  Remember Your promise O God

 Your grace is enough  Your grace is enough for me

 Yeah Your grace is enough  Heaven reaches out to us  Your grace is enough for me  God I sing Your grace is enough  I’m covered in Your Love  Your grace is enough for me, for me

Marvelous Light Words and Music by Charlie Hall

 Into marvelous light I’m running  Out of darkness out of shame  By the cross You are the Truth  You are the life You are the way

 I once was fatherless  A stranger with no hope  Your kindness wakened me  Wakened me from my sleep now

 Your love it beckons deeply  A call to come and die  By grace now I will come  And take this life take Your life

 Sin has lost its power  Death has lost its sting  From the grace You’ve risen  Victoriously

 My dead heart now is beating  My deepest stains now clean  Your breath fills up my lungs  Now I’m free now I’m free

 My dead heart now is beating  My deepest stains now clean  Your breath fills up my lungs  Now I’m free now I’m free

 There’s no more shame  No more shame  And now we show the world Christ in you

 Lift my hands and spin around  See the light that I have found  Oh the marvelous light, marvelous light  It’s Christ in you

Mighty To Save Words and Music by Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding

 Everyone needs compassion  Love that’s never failing  Let mercy fall on me  Everyone needs forgiveness  The kindness of a Savior  The hope of nations

 Savior He can move the mountains  My God is mighty to save  He is mighty to save  Forever Author of salvation  He rose and conquered the grace  Jesus conquered the grace

 So take me as You find me  All my fears and failures  Fill my life again  I give my life to follow  Everything I believe in  Now I surrender

 Shine your light and let the whole world see, we’re singing  For the glory of the risen King, Jesus  Shine your light and let the whole world see, we’re singing  For the glory of the risen King

From The Inside Out Words and Music by Joel Houston

 A thousand times I’ve failed still Your mercy remains  And should I stumble again still I’m caught in Your grace  Everlasting Your light will shine when all else fades  Never-ending Your glory goes beyond all fame

 Your will above all else my purpose remains  The art of losing myself in bringing You praise  Everlasting Your light will shine when all else fades  Never-ending Your glory goes beyond all fame

 In my heart in my soul Lord I give You control  Consume me from the inside out, Lord  Let justice and praise, become my embrace  To love You from the inside out

 Everlasting Your light will shine when all else fades  Never-ending Your glory goes beyond all fame  And the cry of my heart is to bring You Praise  From the inside out, Lord my soul cries out, (Lord)

If We Are The Body Words and Music by Mark Hall

 It’s crowded in worship today  As she slips in trying to fade into the faces  The girls teasing laughter is carrying  Farther than they know

 But if we are the body  Why aren’t His arms reaching  Why aren’t His hands healing  Why aren’t His words teaching

 And if we are the body  Why aren’t His feet going  Why is His love not showing them there is a way  There is a way

 A traveler is far away from home  He sheds his coat and quietly sinks into the back row  The weight of their judgmental glances  Tells him that his chances are better  Out on the road

 Jesus paid much too high a price  For us to pick and choose who should come  And we are the body of Christ ( ending )  Jesus is the way

Chosen To Be Second 1 Peter 2:4-12

Stephen Baldwin

Brian Welch

I. We Are God’s Building

I Peter 2:4-5  “Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

Walls of Sparta

Ephesians 2:19-22  “Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.”

A. The Unity of the Building

Construction

Ephesians 2:13-14  “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made both one.”

B. The Need for a Blueprint

Blueprints

Colossians 3:17  “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of [or by the authority of] the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

I Peter 4:11a  “If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God.”

C. God’s Building is Never Completed

Winchester Mansion

I Corinthians 3:6,9-10a  “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase… For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it.”

Matthew 28:18-20  "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

II Corinthians 5:18-19  “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.”

I Peter 2:9  “so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

Bridge Builder

D. Christ is the Cornerstone

I Corinthians 3:10-11  “According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

I Peter 2:6-8  “Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, ‘ Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious, and he who believes on him will by no means be put to shame.’ Therefore, to you who believe, he is precious; but to those who are disobedient, ‘ The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, ’ and ‘ A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. ’ They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.”  ( Bold are OT Quotes, Containing Isaiah 28:16, Psalm 118:22)

Golden Nugget

Cornerstone

II. Why Have We Been Built?

I Peter 2:9-10  “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.”

The Taj Mahal

Psalm 127:1a  “Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.”

Invitation An Opportunity to Start Building Grab your hammer. Get building. Be Second.