Not Forsaking The Assemblies

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Not Forsaking The Assemblies

• . . . and let us consider how to stimulate one
  another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our
  own assembling together, as is the habit of some,
  but encouraging one another and all the more as
  you see the day drawing near. (Hebrews 1024-25)

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Summer Theme WORSHIP

• What is worship
• God the audience not us
• Singing freedom of spiritual expression

• Congregational prayer
• Contribution, where the money goes
• Lords Supper/Communion

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Summer Theme WORSHIP

• LAST STEP Convince all that this is the most
  important place to be Sunday AM, Sunday PM and
  Wednesday PM.

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The Important Reasons To Be At Worship At Those
Times

• 1. It is a date (appointment) with the Lord.
• But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city
  of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
  myriads of angels, to the general assembly and
  church of the firstborn who are enrolled in
  heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the
  spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to
  Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the
  sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the
  blood of Abel. (Hebrews 1222-24)

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The Important Reasons To Be At Worship At Those
Times

• 2. It is important for you.
• How do you deal with distractions?
  Discouragements? God has provided churches to
  help.

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The Important Reasons To Be At Worship At Those
Times

• 3. Your presence is important to us.
• and let us consider how to stimulate one another
  to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own
  assembling together, as is the habit of some, but
  encouraging one another and all the more as you
  see the day drawing near.

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The Important Reasons To Be At Worship At Those
Times

• 4. To send the message that worshiping God with
  the church is important.

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The Important Reasons To Be At Worship At Those
Times

• 5. Because we must have a sense of urgency about
  every spiritual thing to get to heaven.

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Philippians 37-14

• But whatever things were gain to me, those things
  I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
  More than that, I count all things to be loss in
  view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ
  Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss
  of all things, and count them but rubbish so that
  I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not
  having a righteousness of my own derived from the
  Law, but that which is through faith in Christ,
  the righteousness which comes from God on the
  basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power
  of His resurrection and the fellowship of His
  sufferings, being conformed to His death in
  order that I may attain to the resurrection from
  the dead.

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Philippians 37-14

• Not that I have already obtained it or have
  already become perfect, but I press on so that I
  may lay hold of that for which also I was laid
  hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not
  regard myself as having laid hold of it yet but
  one thing I do forgetting what lies behind and
  reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on
  toward the goal for the prize of the upward call
  of God in Christ Jesus.

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The Important Reasons To Be At Worship At Those
Times

• 5. Because we must have a sense of urgency about
  every spiritual thing to get to heaven.
• Paul had fear and urgency no matter how
  successful he had become spiritually.
• Peter did as well, 2 Peter 15-11.
• It should be urgent for everyone to come to our
  services for the sake of our soul and goal.

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There are some things more important and urgent
than Sunday AM/PM/Wednesday PM Services

• Pauls example
• Prison for the sake of the gospel, Acts 2427
• Being a good Samaritan, Luke 1030-37.
• Illness and Recovery
• Work?

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Conclusion

• Be at all of our assemblies because
• It is worship to the Lord.
• It is Gods plan to help you
• You are needed to help us
• We need to send the message that what we are
  doing is important.
• Getting to heaven is going to require maximum
  urgency and effort.