God’s Family2 Samuel 9

Chris KimbangiSunday 22nd November

What is your role in God’s Family?

What is our role in God’s Family?What is our responsibility?

Background

• David is King• Jonathan is heir to the throne and good

friends with David• Saul tries to kill David• Saul and Jonathan die … David is made King• Jonathan has one son left alive …

… Mephibosheth

2 Samuel 9

Mephibosheth• Was born into a

family that had turned their back on God

• Physically crippled• Deserved to be killed

• Is a dead dog

• All have sinned and fallen short of Gods glory

• Spiritually crippled• The wages of sin is

death• Dead in our sins

Us

David• Chooses kindness• “Don’t be afraid”• Gives a seat at his table• Kept his promise• Provides land and servants

• John 3:16• Co-heirs with Christ• Adopts us• Keeps his promises • Is our provider

Jesus

Ephesians 2• 1 - And you were dead in the trespasses and

sins • 2 - in which you once walked following the

course of this world• 4 - But God, being rich in mercy, because of

the great love with which he loved us• 5 - even when we were dead in our

trespasses, made us alive together with Christ

8 - For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,13 - But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.19 - So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God

3 R’s of ResponsibilityReceive

1) Gods Grace2) Each Other

1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,

2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

1 Timothy 5:1-2

Receive1) Gods Grace2) Each Other

Repent1) Before God2) Before Others

8 now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with

its practices 10 and put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free but Christ is all, and in all.

12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and

patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the

Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.Collisions 3: 8-13

ReceiveRepentRelate

1) With God2) With each other

24 let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the

habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see

the Day drawing near.Hebrews 10:24-25

3 R’s of Responsibility

What is our role in God’s Family?

What is our responsibility?

… you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the

truth.1 Timothy 3:15

God’s Family2 Samuel 9

Chris KimbangiSunday 22nd November