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Habit Forming
Habit forming is repetitive in nature of doing the same thing over and over again where it become second nature.
Are all habit’s bad?
When you want to form a habit, or learn to do something well, you do it over and over again.
Another word that may be inserted here is “tradition.”
Tradition is what the Jews had and it was keeping them out of the kingdom of God.
Tradition was one of the things Jesus came and broke (Mt16:18), He came and proclaimed what was coming (Mt16:15-18)
(expand on this) Christ proclaimed; Christ delivered, the church was born, the church that Jesus Christ built and that belongs to Him.
Birth of the Church came after preaching of the Word (Act2:41)
Act2:41
Results of the birth of the Church was people were in awe (Act2:43)
Our text this morning you maybe familiar with (Act2:42-27) and it is the example given for the new habit, new standard for the church that belongs to Jesus Christ.
We are going to look at some of the characteristics, characteristics of the first church, the model church, the devoted church.
Devoted to Apostles Doctrine
Think again about devoted: to appropriate by or as if by a vow; set apart or dedicate by a solemn or formal act; consecrate.
and now may we add doctrine: a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group.
Couple those together and you have a devoted group of people with the same belief.
Notice that it uses the word devoting, it is a continuous action, a repetitive action, a habit forming action.
An action with a purpose.
Our desire should be to follow the exampled church and to be continually devoted to the apostles teaching.
Jesus prayer was for belief and acceptance of the Apostles teaching (Jn13:20; Jn17:20-21) when they fulfilled their commission (Mt28:20)
Jesus was going to authorize and send.
Sent with a prayer, authority and a purpose (Mt28:19)
They were sent with promised help (Jn16:12-13)
The help was going to guide them into all truth
All truth is guide them into Jesus since He is truth (Jn14:6)
The truth they proclaimed was not their word, but the very word of God
Word from the Apostles was to be considered the Word of God (1Cor14:37; 1The2:13-14) also referenced (2Tim4:3)
The Corinthian passage states about the words Paul is proclaiming are the Lords commands, but then I wants us to look at another passage
The exampled church here is the one in Thessalonica, and do we have the same type of devotion to the Apostles doctrine that they did?
If we are honest today inf what we see many churches, bodies of believers are being swayed by the world instead of setting an example for the world of the doctrine of the Apostles that point to Jesus.
People want to have their ears tickled (2Tim4:3) they have lost their fear of the Lord and obedience to Christ’s commands.
We need to be a people who heed the words of Christ (Mt15:8-9) and the apostles (2The2:15)
Doctrines of man, or doctrine of God we need to chose.
If we are to be the church of Christ we need to emulate the things that the church that was born in Jerusalem did.
The first thing noted was to follow the apostles doctrine, the second was fellowship.
Devoted to fellowship (Spiritual)
Spiritual fellowship is not anything new.
Spiritual people were always eager to share spiritual things with one another (Ps122:1; Lk22:14-16; 1Jn1:3) \
Come together in fellowship for reasons of worship (Ps122:1)
In the O.T. they gathered at the temple to worship the Lord.
To them the temple was the building that God had blessed.
To the early Christians it was in the synagogues, homes, beaches, it was no longer a about a building place, a meeting place but a heart.
We do not need to gather in this building to be spiritual people in fellowship with one another, we can do it anywhere.
God has blessed us with this building which is a great place for us to gather together in fellowship, in worship.
Spiritual fulfillment (Lk22:14-16; 1Jn1:3)
Spiritual fellowship, may we consider what Jesus said
Now the question arises, what was fulfilled?
The kingdom was fulfilled when the church was born on Pentecost in Jerusalem just as Jesus said it would be.
And because of that each time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper we are fellowshipping with the Lord.
The apostles were teaching what they had seen, what they had heard, so that we can have spiritual fellowship with the Father and with Jesus.
Spiritual fellowship when we meet together in the assembly.
Spiritual fellowship is vital for spiritual health (Heb10:24-25; Mt6:33)
Vital so to stimulate one another with a purpose (love, good deeds)
To encourage one another
So the next question is do we have this type of devotion to spiritual fellowship?
We cannot let things hinder us from our spiritual fellowship with one another.
We cannot let the world and it’s pressures to keep us from this vital habit, standard.
These spiritual things are needed to sustain and to grow a healthy spiritual body.
We need to keep our priorities straight, Jesus spoke of that (Mt6:33)
Chores are not an excuse
This first church, this devoted church, devoted with a purpose to the teaching and to fellowship was also devoted to the breaking of bread.
Devoted to breaking Bread
When we think of fellowship, we think of sharing with one another, and that is what we do when we share the Lord’s Supper.
(1Cor10:16)
Jesus example set as habit (1Cor11:23-24; Act20:7)
Apostles doctrine as Jesus instructed to be done with a purpose- In remembrance of Me!
It is a sad thing that many churches are not devoted to the thing Jesus and the Apostles said we should be devoted to.
Some think it is ritualistic or common and looses significance when we celebrate it the way we do.
There is nothing common about it, it is fellowship with God and with one another and we should be devoted to it.
I know you maybe wondering are we ever going to get out of (v.42) by now, but we still have not finished the last element given in the verse.
Devoted to prayer
We know there is power in prayer and devoted prayer is needed as commanded.
(Devoted to prayer-1 picture)
Jesus calls for devotion to prayer (Lk11:1-4)
The Lords prayer, a pattern of prayer that can be offered
Jesus gives purpose to be devoted to prayer (Lk18:1-8)
Like the persistent widow who had purpose, wanting justice!
Jesus used her as an example not to loose heart when praying
Jesus provides an avenue to pray (Heb4:14-16)
We have a Great High Priest who can sympathize with us because of what He endured
He is our avenue to pray to seek mercy and seek grace.
Apostles call for fervent Prayer (1The5:17)
Apostles call for frequent prayer (Col4:2)
We have exampled command for specific prayers situation (Jm5:13-16)
This passage in need to have us look at for a brief moment.
Command to pray when suffering
Commanded to pray when sick
Commanded to pray in faith
For commanded prayer, here, is effective and can accomplish much
Another characteristic of the church be in “awe”
The first church that was born in Jerusalem had a sense of awe, may we be a body of believers that can have a sense of awe at the work of God being done today as we gather together as a family living together as the church.
Let us never take any of these devotions lightly for these are a part of our spiritual act of worship and we should be wholy and holy devoted to them.
But wait, there is more, more devoted things in our passage.
Devoted to love one another
Not just devoted in love, but devoted in love for one another.
(Devoted to love one another picture)
Act2:
They were devoted to one another (Act2:44; Act4:32-35)
They gave from what they had so no one was in need.
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