Stand Sunday 2019

 Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fmdlDFD-XWUWrGtyCnX3xjiL7tYaN4q5/view?usp=sharing

STAND SUNDAY

James 1:27 (NIV) Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Religion = An outward display of something that’s inwardly true.

“One of the purest and most undefiled demonstrations of the Gospel is to see hard places and broken people and move towards them, not away.” – Jason Johnson

The Church is “Plan A”

Psalm 82:3-4 (NIV)Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 68:5-6 (NIV) A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families ... Psalm 68:5-6 (NIV)

Ephesians 1:5 (NLT) God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

·      Those who experience the gospel become like the gospel.