Today's worship service was absolutely beautiful. As Michelle shared the simplicity of this service was spirit filled in every way. People walked from all over the village to come worship today.
The pastor welcomed everyone to worship today. He opened with prayer and ask Glenda to share in hymns. Before Glenda led us in hymns she thanked the team for helping their community. Glenda sang a song of Joy and Pleasure. Ginger then read Psalm 23 along with Meida who translated.
Glenda continued leading music as we sang "Because He Lives",. The team sang "Victory in Jesus" and "I Saw The Light". Church member Julio prayed over the offering.
Pastor Zach got up and thanked everyone for having them here this week. What a privilege it was to serve beside each one of them and the community for Marvin and Marixa to receive their new home. His scripture reference for today was Philippians 3:1-11. Paul states in these verses we need to worship in the Spirt and not the flesh. By faith not works are we saved. Paul was the best of the best of God's chosen people. He was a religious leader and a teacher. He was a persecutor of the Christian people, because he thought Christianity was a fake religion. He thought we were suppose to live by the law. If anyone could work their way into Heaven it was Paul. It worked at it very hard until one day going down the Damascus Road which at that time his name was Saul. God blinded him to the point he could not see and this is when he was healed by Jesus and could finally truly see what Christianity was all about. Not by works but by a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and then by faith go out and serve the Lord as He calls you to. Up until that day Paul's whole life was based on works not faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus is perfect, no one else is blameless but Jesus. Saul thought he was blameless until he met Jesus on that journey one day. Just like your famous soccer player Messi who has perfect scores and records, you could try to do the same thing but you probably would never be as good as he is. Just like with our relationship with Jesus we will never be perfect in His sight until we are face to face with Him on the other side of eternity. The world will tell us we are not good enough and we are not good enough except through the eyes of Jesus. Jesus is God in flesh, He is perfect, He sacrificed His life for us on the cross, He arose on the third day and Jesus Christ is righteousness. So he challenged us this day to know Jesus by not the works we do or the church we go to but by simply receiving His true and perfect love through the blood he shed on the cross for our sins. We are all sinners who can be saved by HIS GRACE. Do not let this day go by if you are reading this and you do not know where you will go when you leave this earth. Please receive the greatest gift of all Jesus Christ.
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