God’s Family 2 Samuel 9 Chris Kimbangi Sunday 22 nd November

What is your role in God’s Family? What is our role in God’s Family? What is our responsibility?

Background David is King Jonathan is heir to the throne and good friends with David Saul tries to kill David Saul and Jonathan die … David is made King Jonathan has one son left alive … … Mephibosheth 2 Samuel 9

Mephibosheth Was born into a family that had turned their back on God Physically crippled Deserved to be killed Is a dead dog All have sinned and fallen short of Gods glory Spiritually crippled The wages of sin is death Dead in our sins Us

David Chooses kindness “Don’t be afraid” Gives a seat at his table Kept his promise Provides land and servants John 3:16 Co-heirs with Christ Adopts us Keeps his promises Is our provider Jesus

Ephesians And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 - in which you once walked following the course of this world 4 - But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us 5 - even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ 8 - For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 13 - But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God

3 R’s of Responsibility Receive 1) Gods Grace 2) Each Other 1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. 1 Timothy 5:1-2 Receive 1) Gods Grace 2) Each Other Repent 1) Before God 2) Before Others

8 now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Collisions 3: 8-13

Receive Repent Relate 1) With God 2) With each other 24 let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. Hebrews 10: R’s of Responsibility

What is our role in God’s Family? What is our responsibility? … you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15

God’s Family 2 Samuel 9 Chris Kimbangi Sunday 22 nd November