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Topic: Aroma of Holiness
Series: Sweet Aroma
Date: Nov 28, 2021
Opening [Pambungad]
Napakahalaga to build a genuine relationship with your members. Ang Care Circle ay hindi lang para sa attendance o pang-sesermon kundi pagkakaroon ng relasyon sa isa’t isa at sama-samang pagtahak sa buhay.
Mga bagay na makakatulong:
1. I-welcome ang grupo.
2. Kung kayang magkaroon ng ice breaker, mas mainam!
3. Kamustahin ang kanilang mga naging nakaraang lingo – any highlights or challenges.
4. Kamustahin kung nagawa ba nila ang application last week
5. Kamustahin kung meron bang answered prayers mula sa inyong mga ipinanalangin.
Rewind [Balikan ang Napakinggan] and Reflection [Magnilay-nilay]
Note: Hindi po kailangang daanan isa-isa ang items dito. This full sermon outline ay para maging guide ninyo sa pagrerecap ng topic.
A – ALL CREATION
Psalm 19:1-2 (Modern English) - The heavens are telling the glory of God; they are a marvelous display of his craftsmanship. 2 Day and night they keep on telling about God.
Genesis 1:31a - God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
VIEWPOINT: God hates His creation so He destroyed them. Man’s sinful nature leads him to hurt, to inflict pain, to endanger.
STENCH IN THE NOOK: We think that other people do not deserve to be blessed by God) Does our view of the people around us smell bad?
AROMA FROM THAT CRANNY: We value His creation –the living things – human and non-human. Never hate, never abhor another human being no matter how displeased we are with them. In the sight of God, there is redemption for everyone who repents.
CC Reflection:
How is the crevice of our affection and concern for others? How sweet is our aroma in how we view the people around us? Does it smell holiness?
M - MAKING US HIS SONS
God is so pleased to establish a relationship with His creation.
VIEWPOINT: God is an angry God, God is a stern, strict, God who does not smile, who does not even laugh or can never even become a friend.
STENCH IN THE NOOK: Is our relationship with people stinking with immorality? Is our relationship with God just a title but far from reality?
AROMA IN THAT CRANNY: God is pleased to make us His sons therefore why would He abandon us?
CC Reflection:
How is the crevice of our relationship with God? Do people see that we enjoy our relationship with Him because we have left all other earthly loves that are not pleasing before Him? Does it smell holiness?
O – OFFERINGS
Proverbs 15:8b (NRSV)… the prayer of the upright is his delight.
God is so pleased when His people lift their prayers being offered up to Him in complete trust!
Kilala Niya ang mga hinirang Niya na kumakapit sa Kanyang pangako no matter if it takes forever!
VIEWPOINT: God as self-serving, pompous, egocentric God that desires all the attention of the world. God is always at the receiving end.
STENCH IN THE NOOK: Is our faith stinking with doubt and double-mindedness? Is our mouth stinking with foul odor coming out of prayers that have no meaning, and offerings that are left overs?
AROMA IN THAT CRANNY: God is pleased to answer our prayers that are aligned with His will, and He gives back to us what we trusted Him with!
Deut. 30:b (ESV) The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous….
CC Reflection:
How is the crevice of your trust in God and His promises? Does it still smell holiness despite the delay?
R – REMEMBER TO THANK HIM
Psalm 69:30-31 I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox…
VIEWPOINT: God is so difficult to please—one who needs payment in all the good things He does. Being grateful to God means we recognize Him as the Source of everything we are, we have, and we do!
STENCH IN THE NOOK: Umaalingasaw ang baho sa sulok ng ating buhay na TAYO LANG ANG MAGALING. Is our mind filled with the stench of independence and conceit?
AROMA IN THAT CRANNY: It is fragrant to the Lord when we give voice to our thanks to Him. The attitude of gratitude that leads to servitude!
CC Reflection:
How is the crevice of your thoughts? Are they always conscious to thank God! Does it smell holiness?
A – AGAINST THE FLOW
John 17:14-16 “for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
God is so pleased when His people become radical in our walk in such a way that people notice the ‘holy difference’!
God’s economy is different! God’s principles are higher! God’s ways are awesome!
VIEWPOINT: Christianity that just needs to be holy without being merciful and just. He always listened to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and empowerment to do what needs to be done.
STENCH IN THE NOOK: Umaalingasaw ang baho ng ating mga prinsipyo, ang ating kalakaran sa buhay, ang paggamit sa ating katawan para sa iba’t ibang bisyo.
Is our body stinking with the stench of worldliness and carnality?
AROMA IN THAT CRANNY: Jesus lived a life that was against the flow of the hypocrites and the worldly. He exemplified a life that is aligned to the will of His Father. “This is my Beloved Son in Whom I am well-pleased.”
CC Reflection:
How is the crevice of our walk on this earth?
CONCLUSION
A – AGAINST THE FLOW IS HIS PLEASURE
R – REMEMBERING TO THANK HIM IS HIS PLEASURE
O – OFFERINGS WITH SINCERITY IS HIS PLEASURE
M - MAKING US HIS SONS IS HIS PLEASURE
A - ALL CREATION IS HIS PLEASURE
EPHESIANS 1:22-23 …and God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
EPHESIANS 3: 19 … and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Paulit-ulit sinasabi ni Apostol Pablo.that the FULLNESS of GOD…FILL US (in every nook and cranny)…IN EVERY WAY…. Because God has appointed us unto holiness!
Let the Lord’s fragrance be in every nook and cranny of our life, lovingly smelled by every person in every corner where we are and even when we are gone – Ptra. K
Hosea 14:6
I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them…… 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. ……Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots; 6 his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.
CC Reflection:
In the NOOK and CRANNY of your life, is there some worldliness stinking? Sa mga dakong tago at sulok, mayroon bang nangangamoy na kamunduhan? Napapabango mo na ba ang mga ito sa pagpuno sa bawat sulok ng ating buhay ng kapuspusan ng Dios?
Practice [I-apply ang Natutunan]
Anong clear actions o next steps ang gagawin mo upang magkaroon ng SWEET AROMA or HOLINESS ang bawat nook and cranny ng iyong buhay?
Prayer [Panalangin]
Closing [Pangwakas]
I-remind ang grupo tungkol sa mg ito:
- Kanilang daily Bible reading and devotion
- Pagdalo sa church
- Pagbibigay (tithes and offering)
- Pananalangin (kasama ang Prayer Cell)
- Pag-care sa iba
- Pag-seserve sa ministry – baka wala pa silang ministry, marami pong available!