Ezra: The Team 🤝 Builder (Part 2)

Ezra: The Team 🤝 Builder (Part 2)

By Pastor and Mrs Chifamba

Psalm 133:1

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Romans 14:7

For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

By our unconscious influence others may be encouraged and strengthened, or they may be discouraged, and repelled from Christ and the truth. – {Steps to Christ p. 120.1}

Ezra 10:15-16

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. 16And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Proverbs 11:14

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

WE ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST THERE IS NO NEED TO COMPETE! BODY PARTS WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE BODY‼️ THEY ARE TEAM PLAYERS 🤝

1 Corinthians 12:14-20

For the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased him. 19And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20But now are they many members, yet but one body.

Romans 12:25-27

That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.”‬

No matter how high the profession, he whose heart is not filled with love for God and his fellow men is not a true disciple of Christ. Though he should possess great faith and have power even to work miracles, yet without love his faith would be worthless. He might display great liberality; but should he, from some other motive than genuine love, bestow all his goods to feed the poor, the act would not commend him to the favor of God. In his zeal he might even meet a martyr’s death, yet if not actuated by love, he would be regarded by God as a deluded enthusiast or an ambitious hypocrite. – {AA 318.2}

1 John 4:19-20

We love him, because he first loved us. 20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.