The Gospel Bears Fruit for God (Rom. 7:1-13)
September 14th, 2025
The Gospel Bears Fruit for God (Rom. 7:1-13)
Let us bless and greet one another, “Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” May the same amount of blessings be upon those who are worshiping in the regional churches of Burlington, Yakima, Seattle, and Mongolia, as well as those who are worshiping in the building here. Today’s scripture in Romans 7 might be a little hard to understand, so if I try to just go through the scripture and explain it to you, it might be hard to understand. So, today’s scripture requires a lot of time. In order to help understand this, what Word did God give us?
Simply put, there is the Law of God, that is, the Law of the Kingdom of God. There is also the law of America. The law means that if you follow the law, it will be a blessing to you, but if you break the law, it will cause suffering. When God gave us the law, it was so that we may know who we are, that we are sinners. Why are we sinners? Because one person, Adam, brought sin into this world, every human is born a sinner. But people live without knowing they are sinners, so God gave us the law. The reason God gave us the law was for us to realize we are sinners. This law was not only given to Christians and Jews, it was given to all creation to live by God’s law. So, if you and I know the Word of God’s law, then we will be able to diagnose the problems in our internal state. There are people with mental problems who go to the hospital and get diagnosed by their doctor, but it’s not accurate. We are in an age of addiction—addiction to substances and gambling—and we cannot accurately diagnose them.
However, if you know the law of God’s Word, then we can diagnose. There’s a repetitive and continuous problem in your personal life or in your family line, and if you do not know the reason why it came, you cannot diagnose it. The law is the standard with which we diagnose, so you must know the law. You need to know the law of America in order to know what is illegal. Just because I don’t know the law doesn’t mean I can live without the law; if I end up breaking the law, even without realizing it, I have to pay a fine or penalty. “Oh, I believe in Jesus Christ but I don’t know the standard of faith,” then as much as you are ignorant of that standard, you will pay the penalty. The American government is facing more and more severe problems with mental illness, addiction, and homelessness; they have no solution. However, God has given us the solution a long time ago through the Word. God has given us the standard, why this is happening—He gave us the standard of the Law.
The Law is not a bad thing, it’s a good thing, it’s God’s Word; however, it feels so burdensome for us because it is impossible for us to fulfill it. Imagine if there are traffic laws in America, but you want to drive recklessly, however you want? That’s not good. We must be comfortable with going on a green light and stopping on a red light, and that is our standard, but in my heart, I want to drive recklessly, however I want to. However, if we live however we want to, based on our own ego, then we will face an accident or face a penalty. In America, there is so much talk of freedom, everyone wants to do what they want to do. But if you drive however you want, then later on, it will be to your loss because you will get into an accident. That’s why, in order to drive safely, there must be a standard that is set, and everybody abides by those standards.
If we follow the law well today, it will restore many things in your personal life and your family life. In other words, what is the standard of your family life? What is your standard for your church life? What standard must we live with in society? Everybody has this, but we don’t know what ours is, so we just live our lives and face problems, but we don’t even know the standards by which we face problems. I have to pay a ticket for breaking a traffic law, but I don’t know the traffic law, so I don’t know why I got the ticket. Similarly, I have depression, but I don’t know why it happened, so I just have it. God has given us the Word so we can diagnose these problems.
Today’s scripture says that just because you know the Law does not mean you can keep the Law. The Jewish people knew the Law, but the more they tried to keep the Law, they faced the conclusion that they could not. So, the more you try to live your walk of faith, following God’s Law, now that you know it, it will not work. Today’s scripture tells you why it does not work like that. Then, what can I do in order to follow the Word of the Law to blessings? Healing is being able to turn to God’s Word of Law and follow it. In the many problems of your life, your addictions or mental problems, if you’re able to follow the Word of the Law, then healing will take place.
I have to give you this overall context for you to understand the rest of it. During the first service, I asked a new believer if they could understand, and they said it was a little hard today, so now I’m giving you the overall picture and then I’m going to go into more detail, so this is the summary in the introduction, and now we’re going into the main details.
1. Law – Liberated
Today, we talk about the Law and sin, but there are some people who listen and think, “What does that have to do with me?” That’s why I told you about the traffic law. If you do not know the law, then you have to pay the penalty, but you have to pay the fine without even knowing why. You have to get a mental illness without even knowing why. You have to fall into your powerlessness without even knowing why. I’ve fallen into addiction without even knowing why in my life. Today, you must know that standard, “Why.” Today, you must know the standard, “Oh, this is why I have this repetitive problem in my personal life or in my family line.” Now that you know the standard, can you follow it? No, you cannot, so that’s why we must go to Christ. That is why we must receive strength in Christ’s name, that’s today’s point.
1) A married woman
(1) Bound to her husband (Rom. 7:2)
In today’s scripture, Paul is explaining the law with an analogy with marriage. Let’s say I’m a woman and get married to a man. The moment I am married to that man, I am now legally under that man; it’s legal.
(2) If she has sexual relations with another man, she is called an adulteress (Rom.
7:3)
Then, if I go and have an extramarital affair with another man, I become an adulteress, and there’s a punishment by the law for that, and of course, the husband would not allow that to happen. If there is a relationship made between a husband and a wife, but one of them looks at another man or another woman, that is against the law.
(3) If her husband dies, she is released from the law (Rom. 7:3)
In order to be freed from the husband, the only way is for the husband to die. If the husband has passed away, it’s not illegal for me to marry someone else. I’m not telling you to kill your husbands, I’m also not telling you to pray for your spouse to die because you hate them, but I think some of you might think that way. I’m sure you do, even if you pretend you don’t feel that way, I’m pretty sure you sometimes do. Marriage is no joke. Life is hard enough on my own, and now it’s harder with two, why? Because we now have another set of laws. In the past, we only had the green light and red light to stop and go; now we have another set of laws, it’s so burdensome. Now you add the additional speed limit laws, it gets even harder. Before I got married, I could meet any man I wanted, because every man was a potential marriage partner, so I was so free, but then I met one man and got married, so every man now becomes irrelevant to me. Now I’m seized by this one husband, and I hate that so much. But I can only go to another man if my husband dies.
That’s what he’s saying in this scripture. He’s explaining the relationship between us and the law through the analogy of marriage. What does this mean? Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are living under God’s Law, and I’m sure there are some of you who disagree with that. But that’s why I told you about the traffic laws, because whether you agree or know about them or not, you will get a ticket if you do not follow. Even if you don’t know about the law, it doesn’t matter because if you break the speed limit, you’re going to get a speeding ticket. Whether I know the Law of God or not, whether I break it on purpose or by accident, there is a penalty for that that I have to pay. So, as long as that law is there, it keeps revealing that I am a sinner, and the more that sin is revealed, the more that the fruits of sin are in my life. Mental illness, that is a fruit of sin. The repetitive problems in my life, those are the fruits. Everywhere you go, you get into fights and conflicts with people, it’s because you are trapped under this. These are the fruits that are happening in your life because you don’t know the law and are breaking the law. That is why you must know the law. But also, just because you know the law does not mean you can keep the law because it’s impossible for us.
2) Me
Then, what must we do? Just like my first husband has to die in order for me to get married to another husband, I must die to the law. The law itself does not die; I must die to the law. Then, I will no longer be controlled by the law. If my husband is dead, I’m no longer controlled by him; death finishes it. If you die, you are no longer under the traffic laws of America; dead people don’t follow traffic laws. The only way for us to escape from the law is to die to that law.
(1) You also died to the law through the body of Christ (Rom. 7:4)
“But I can’t die,” that’s why Jesus Christ had to die on the cross for me as payment for that sin. Then, Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sin, that means I also died on the cross with Christ. There are many people who don’t believe this, many people believe Jesus died, but they do not believe that they themselves died. Then, what happens? If I stay alive, it’s going to be hard. I will keep getting controlled by the law. That’s the problem you’re facing today. The problem is not somebody else causing it, it’s what is inside of me that is causing this problem. This fruit is a result of the law.
The only way to escape from that is to die to the law, then you will be set free from the law. If I’m dead to the law, where should I get remarried? If my relationship with the law is broken because we have died, then I must get remarried to another husband. We must get remarried to Jesus Christ, that’s what today’s message is about. “You need to meet the right man.” If you marry the law, then the law will keep telling you you’re a sinner, you did this wrong, you did that wrong, and it’s so hard. And you get married to the law, and always they’re interceding and criticizing. You wipe off the dust and they say, “You missed a spot,” or, “Show me everything you’ve spent money on.” 24 hours, they are interfering with your life. 24 hours, the law controls us under this tight frame of the law. The more you think about that, the more your sin is revealed and you think, “Oh I can’t do this, I’m a sinner, I have no hope,” and just because you do that, is there no fruit of sin? Yes, there is, and that is where all the problems we’re facing today are coming from. If you have a mental problem, taking medication for it will not solve that problem. I need to have the medication that allows us to transcend the Law of God. In other words, I need to have a medication or solution that allows me to fundamentally comply with American traffic laws, but if I die, the American traffic laws have nothing to do with me.
That’s why I died on the cross with Christ, that is how you will escape from your problems. As long as you are alive, you will always be controlled by the law. But if you are controlled by the law, then the law will reveal your sin, and Satan will control you with your sin. That’s why we’re always dragged, so we have no strength. The more you live your walk of faith, the more it sucks away your joy. The more we live our walk of faith, we should be overflowing with joy, peace, and thanksgiving, but instead, we keep on losing our peace, joy, and thanksgiving because we do know we have to follow the law, but we don’t have the strength to follow the law, so only my sin is revealed. there is only one way, then: you need to change your husband. I’m not telling you to get a divorce, there are going to be some people who misunderstand me and think I’m telling them to get a divorce. I’m not saying to do it or not, what I’m saying is, change your husband to Christ. What happens, then? Christ is Love, He is Grace, and He saves. And if you are married to the law, the law only criticizes you for the things that you fall short of, but if you get remarried to Jesus Christ, He will give you grace and strength and guide you to fulfill the law.
(2) That you might belong to him who was raised from the dead (Rom. 7:4)
That is why, in today’s scripture, go to Christ, change your husband, and today’s scripture says to live with the new spirit of Christ, which means, live with the power of the Holy Spirit. You must live by the Holy Spirit of God for the law to be fulfilled. The law can be categorized into two: the love of God, and the love of people. You have mental problems and scars because of people, right? That’s why you hate people, right? The Bible tells us to love people but we don’t have that strength, do we? Then, you’re only going to have the fruits of hate, that’s why you have a problem right now. So, how can I keep that law? There is no one who can keep it other than Jesus.
(3) In order that we might bear fruit for God (Rom. 7:4)
Because of our faith in Jesus, God calls us righteous. But that’s just God calling us righteous; we don’t actually have the ability to live righteously. In other words, we don’t have the ability to keep the Ten Commandments. In other words, if there’s somebody I hate, I don’t have the ability to love them, I don’t have the ability to love my enemies, but the Law tells me to love, and I might want to, but I cannot. That’s why we keep falling into despair. “I want to love my husband but I keep on hating him. I don’t want to love money, I want to love God, but I can’t control it. When I’m driving, without even realizing it, I’m going off the road. I want to have a good relationship with these people, but for some reason, things keep coming out of me.” That is normal, that’s why we must change our husband to Christ. Only Christ can love God and love people, that is why, entrust yourself to Christ for His Spirit to move you, but we don’t want to. Until the very end, we try to live with our own stubbornness. When do we know? You only realize, even if you try, it won’t work, that’s why you have to receive God’s grace in advance so you can give up earlier.
3) Me
(1) When we were in the realm of the flesh (Rom. 7:5)
(2) The sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us
(3) We bore fruit for death (Rom. 7:5)
For people who are living their walk of faith and their life completely collapses and crashes down, they get their faith in God faster. That’s why Jesus was always around those who were diseased, or the tax collectors, the thieves, or the prostitutes, because they were at the lowest level of their lives, so they held onto Christ quickly. On the other hand, the Pharisees and the Jews thought they were living with God by the Law, so they did not follow Jesus. But you and I are the same way. It is possible that, because of the things I’ve done, because I’ve been a prostitute or I’ve been in jail or in prison, it allows me to let go of myself and hold onto Christ more quickly. For these kinds of people, they believe in Jesus Christ quickly, but it takes a long time for the things inside of them to change. There are other people who haven’t lived a life like that, but it takes a long time for them to believe in Jesus, because they’ve never hit rock bottom in life. But, if by God’s grace, they realize what kind of sinner they are, then they can hold onto the covenant. So, ideally we don’t have to hit rock bottom in our lives, we don’t have to have some terminal illness to go to God; if we receive God’s grace to realize we are sinners and turn to Jesus Christ, that’s what He wants. Now that we are normal and healthy, God is with us 24 hours, but we don’t see His Spirit, so go to Jesus.
2. Liberated
1) Released from the law (Rom. 7:6)
(1) By dying to what once bound us (Rom. 7:6)
(2) Serve in the new way of the Spirit (Rom. 7:6)
(3) Not in the old way of the written code (Rom. 7:6)
If you remember the cross, then you will remember the Spirit of God is with you. You need to go back to the cross that has set you free from all of the curses and disasters of Satan, hell, and death. What happens after that? Once you go back to Jesus, you have to entrust all of yourself so the Holy Spirit controls your thoughts, heart, spirit, and body, then what happens? Then the Holy Spirit of God will keep putting thoughts into our heart that allow us to follow the law. In other words, right now, I have no desire or ability to love that person, but when the Holy Spirit takes over my thoughts, He shows me things that allow me to love them. Just because my thoughts are changed does not mean I can put it into practice, then the Holy Spirit even gives us the power to fulfill it. This is our walk of faith and our life. So for us, there is only one thing, it’s not about working hard or diligently. It’s not going to work. Is it okay if I graduate from a good school? No. You can never escape from the works of Satan, sin, curses, and disasters. You need to go to Christ, and you need to confirm the fact you are already with Christ. Our very nature takes us away from Christ. All of our thoughts, our heart, and emotions, from before, are still inside of us. Yes, the Holy Spirit dwells within us, however, all of our thoughts, emotions, and experiences from the past are still seized by Satan. Our inner person, that is our heart, thoughts, and emotions.
2) Law
(1) Not sin (Rom. 7:7)
(2) Know what sin is (Rom. 7:7)
(3) Know what coveting is (Rom. 7:7)
The Lord Jesus is with me, but my thoughts go into the opposite direction. No matter how much you try to correct yourself, you cannot. You need to entrust all of that to Jesus Christ, so that the Holy Spirit of Life will control your thoughts and emotions. Then the Word of God will come into me. When the Word of God truly enters me, that becomes my new thoughts and that determines new life. That’s the Word God is giving us today. Whatever stubborn problems you have now, you cannot solve it with your efforts. If you’re able to see the reason why problems like addiction and mental illnesses are happening to your family and in society, through God’s Word, that’s why today’s Word is so important. People who are alcoholic, they don’t even know why they are addicted. However, if you understand the Word today, you’ll realize, “Oh, I’ve crossed a line, and I’ve continued to cross the line.” Then what do I have to do? We must go back to the gospel. We must entrust our heart, thoughts, emotions to the Holy Spirit to control, then God will guide us to fulfill His Word.
Then, we have no choice but to bear fruit and our faith in God gets deeper. It’s a relationship. Even with people, it’s a relationship. There is a relationship between parent and child, husband and wife, and between coworkers. But our relationships are all breaking. If your relationships are breaking, it means you are losing hold of all of your blessings. That’s the reason God gave us the law, and those who love God will always have restoration of their relationships, too. If you love others, then how could you have hate? If you have a scar, it means you hate them, and you’re going to hate them for your whole life, then of course, Satan and sin are going to control that person. We have no ability to love that person, but because the Holy Spirit works upon me, for some reason, I don’t hate them anymore. I wanted to kill my parents so much, but for some reason, one day, I don’t hate them so much. I wondered, “Why did my parents throw me away? Why did my parents abandon me or scar me?” As we receive God’s Word and His grace, we begin to understand our parents. “Why was my husband always so abusive and drunk?” We don’t know, and that’s why we hate these other people because they scar us and we are controlled by Satan, and we could go to church, and the church tells us to love, but how can we love someone we hate? The only way for our thoughts to change is when the Holy Spirit of God holds onto our thoughts. That’s what today’s Word is saying. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter how much education you receive, it will never change. Education is just a basic knowledge of the things we observe in the world, it cannot change the fundamental, deep things.
3) Sin (Rom. 7:8)
(1) By the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting (Rom. 7:8)
(2) Apart from the law, sin was dead (Rom. 7:8)
(3) Sin sprang to life and I died (Rom. 7:9)
Today, we know the Word, “Oh, I need to love God and I need to love people.” The minute you make that resolution, what is activated? The Bible says. Paul says, “The moment I resolve to live by the law, sin activates in me.” What does that mean? It means that it is impossible by our own strength. Before I knew the law, I didn’t know I had to love everybody, so I just hated people, but after I knew the law, I made the resolution, “Okay, I have to love, so I ‘m not going to hate that person anymore.” The minute I make a resolution based on revealed sin, sin is activated and Satan makes me hate that person more. Imagine if you’ve ever felt this way, “Just because you told me to do it, I’m not going to do it anymore.” For adults, people say things like, “I was going to do that anyway, but because you told me, I’m not going to do it.” That’s what it means. Or, “I wasn’t going to do it anyway, but now that you’ve told me not to do it, I’m going to do it.“ That’s what I’m saying. Yes, I do want to live by the law and I want to love, but Satan and sin inside of me know that I cannot. Because I know that I cannot live according to this law, that sin is revealed all the more strongly, that’s when Satan enters in through that sin and controls me. That’s what I’m saying today.
3. To Christ
1) Holy Spirit
(1) Thoughts, heart (Jn. 14:26-27)
(2) Word (Jn. 14:26)
(3) Power (Ac. 1:8)
Actually, the more you try to live according to God’s Law with your own strength, the more Satan oppresses you. When does Satan work? Satan works because there is the law. If I don’t have a standard, Satan does not work. In Gen. 2:17, God gave the law, “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” and that is when Satan began to work. So, people try to know more of God’s Word, but actually, the more you know God’s Word, the more you realize, “I cannot do this,” so for people who do not know the gospel, they think that’s their walk of faith so they just give up. Because they have heard of the law to love one another, they just have to pretend to love one another at church. But as soon as they get home from church, they reveal everything inside. What if your child sees that? Then what that child is going to confirm is, “Even if you believe in God, it’s still not going to work.” If I’m not able to enjoy being with God, then my child will see even more that God is not the answer. Because imagine, from the perspective of a pastor’s child, there’s a pastor who is speaking God’s Word at church, but at home, they don’t believe in it at all, so they think, “Oh, this is just a job that my dad does for a salary,” and they’ll go further into the world. Do you think a pastor like that doesn’t want to live according to the Word?
The Bible tells us, “No matter how much we want to, we cannot,” that’s why we must go into the gospel of Christ, that’s why we must die on the cross with Chrst and if you have died, then you must live with Christ. You must go into prayer and faith so that the Holy Spirit works in you. Then, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ Who has already fulfilled the law will give you the strength to fulfill it. However, if you lose hold of this gospel, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve gone to church or even if you have salvation, because you cannot even show your children that God is real. All you do is endure, endure, endure, then one day, you explode in the church. Same thing at your job; you endure, endure, endure, and then you explode. This is the problem in society and in the family. Today, through God’s Word, if you receive God’s grace to understand this, then you’ll always be changing.
2) Healing – Strength
(1) Strongholds (2Cor. 10:4)
Inside of us, there is a stronghold that keeps us apart from listening to God’s Word, “No matter what anybody says, I will not listen to them,” and it would be great if that stronghold was from the Word of God, but it’s not from God; it’s from “Me.”
(2) Demolish arguments (2Cor. 10:4)
Most people will look at that and say, “Oh, they’re so stubborn,” a lot of children will say that about their parents, “My dad is so stubborn, he doesn’t give up for anything,” but that’s not from the Word, that’s the ideology for the family line. If somebody says, “In my family line, we will never give this up,” that’s ideology. That’s educated down the family from parents. “Justice is more important than the gospel, living earnestly and honestly is more important than living for Christ.”
(3) That sets itself up against God (2Cor. 10:5)
Yes, earnestness is good but it is so strongly rooted inside of you it prevents you from holding onto Christ, because I have to live according to earnestness, and that’s not a bad thing, but that ideology has been rooted so deeply inside of you that it prevents you from holding onto Christ, but the Bible is telling you, “You cannot even live like that. You can’t even be earnest to yourself.” Then, you start to get very confused because you emphasized justice your whole life, but your injustice is revealed.
(4) Take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ
There was a Korean lady known as the Happiness Evangelist, but later on, her family problems were revealed so she committed suicide. Yes, happiness, justice, these are all great words, but do you have the ability to carry it out? No. These are the strongholds inside of us that prevent us from holding onto the gospel. “Oh, my family never lies,” but that’s a lie. God is alive and you don’t believe it, so you have no choice but to lie to yourself. That’s an ideology that makes us lose the gospel. All ideologies. Let’s say you proclaim the gospel to a Harvard professor, and there’s a Harvard professor who said, “If I accept Jesus Christ now, then that means I have to give up everything I’ve studied for my whole life,” because this person believed in their scientific research as their god, and they also interpreted everything that happened in their lives from a scientific lens. From my perspective, I don’t understand it because they’re studying but it’s almost like a religion to them, but that’s because I’m not good at studying. If you want to be a famous professor, you have to look at everything through your science, and your science should become like your religion, but it makes you lose the gospel.
In America, there is the ideology of liberty, freedom, and independence that makes us lose the gospel. I talk about my personal freedom and privacy, and it makes me lose the gospel. Yes, protecting your personal privacy is right, but it’s irrelevant to the gospel. People talk so much about freedom and liberty, and then when they are listening to God’s Word, they say, “Why is the Word telling me what to do? I have the freedom to listen whether or not I want to,” then there are other things that set themselves up against God, there are the ideologies of America. Just with the fact that I’m an American citizen, I have this arrogance and I look down on others. That is an ideology placed above God. Or, because of the pride I’ve had from graduating from Harvard, I place that pride above God. Without a doubt, that soul will collapse. If we have a thought or ideology that the creation can become greater than the creator, then without a doubt, we will collapse. All of our thoughts, the nonsense, our unnecessary thoughts we have apart from God, must be obedient to Christ. If they are not obedient to Christ, then you will be dragged according to your thoughts by Satan. One day, you’ll have depressed thoughts and you’ll be dragged by depression. Nothing is happening, and one day, you have a desire to do drugs, you’ll be dragged by that thought. Let’s say you’re fine one day but the next day, then the next day, you have a desire to kill that person. Of course, you do not act on it, of course, but every day, you have the same thought until you’re seized and you act on it. That’s why we must be obedient to Christ, we must go to Christ and die on the cross with Christ.
3) Works of Holy Spirit
(1) Drive out demons (Mt. 12:28)
(2) The kingdom of God has come upon you (Mt. 12:28)
Then, we must go into Word and prayer so that the Holy Spirit of God controls my life. Then, just like in Matthew 12:28, when the Holy Spirit works upon me, the works of the devil inside of me will be broken down. When we talk about evil spirits, people talk about hallucinations and scary demons that you see, but no, it’s in your thoughts and ideologies.
(3) First ties up the strong man (Mt. 12:29)
The devil is controlling you with thoughts that oppose God’s gospel. The Holy Spirit must work upon you to break Satan down, then the Kingdom of God will be established in my thoughts and my heart. Therefore, first, bind the strong man. The only way for you to bind the strong man that has burrowed into your thoughts and ideologies to control you is by Jesus Christ.
(4) Fruits of the Holy Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23)
The Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ will control your thoughts and heart with the Word. The Holy Spirit will give me His Word and the strength to overcome my hatred and desire to kill somebody else, then you will bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will change your heart so you’re always saving and loving people.
Conclusion
1. To only Jesus Christ
In conclusion today, hold to only Christ. “I’ve already gone,” but I’m sure, any moment, you’re going back to your ways. Yes, you might know Jesus, but your thoughts and emotions go a different way, so every day, turn back to Christ.
2. Filling, Work, Guidance of the Holy Spirit
If you’ve turned to Christ, then entrust yourself to Him for Him to work upon you and rule over you. Then, without a doubt, when He begins to work, God’s Word will come upon you, and then God will give me the strength to follow the Word.
3. Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Then, the fruits will naturally take place inside of me, everywhere I go, relationships are restored, these works keep on happening. That’s impossible with our strength, so may you be in this grace, 24 hours, always.
Message Prayer
Let’s hold onto the Word we’ve received together and pray so that we may stand in the gospel and have fruits before God. Lord, work with Your Holy Spirit, Let us pray.
Offering Prayer and Newcomer Blessing
God, we thank You. We were lost under the law, under sins and curses, and disasters, but you have saved us by the grace and the goodness of Jesus Christ, and we thank You. We believe You will guard our lives and that we may live with Christ, and by Christ, bear the fruits for God. Allow us to receive the filling of the Holy Spirit every day. Please give us the power to overcome our problems. Please give us the power to overcome the problems of the world. We believe You will work upon us with the power that changes our repetitive failures into blessings. We believe You will work upon us with the power of the Holy Spirit that overcomes our diseases.
We have returned Your material blessings as offering. We believe You will work upon the hands that have given this offering with the economy to do world evangelization. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
God, we thank You. God, we thank You for bringing the visitors as well as those who are returning, and we pray You will give them the grace of Your Word, we believe You will guide them with the power to save and change the world, and we believe the problems we are facing now will become a foundation for blessings. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
Announcements
1. Bible reading, writing
2. 10/19 – Outdoor worship, Location TBD
3. Offering can be given to the church venmo: @Antiochmissionchurch
Benediction
Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the unending love of God, and the indwelling, guidance, fellowship, and working of the Holy Spirit, be upon the heads of all the people of God, the people of all nations, and the remnants who desire to stand before the gospel, and in every moment, every day, go into the guidance of the Holy Spirit to bear fruits for God, be with them from now until forevermore always, amen.