{"id":47406,"date":"2022-10-01T02:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/spiritual-characteristics-of-the-lords-church-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:52:33","slug":"spiritual-characteristics-of-the-lords-church-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/spiritual-characteristics-of-the-lords-church-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Characteristics Of The Lord&#039;s Church &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Revelation 2:1-29 and Revelation 3:1-22, Christ &#8220;commends&#8221; some congregations and &#8220;condemns&#8221; others. A consideration of these commendations and condemnations lead us to the conclusion that our Lord desires the following spiritual characteristics of His church:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The church is to be obedient to His word (Matthew 7:21; Romans 2:13; James 1:22; 1 John 3:7).<\/li>\n<li>The church is to be energetic (Acts 8:4; Acts 20:20; Titus 2:14).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to endure against opposition (Matthew 10:22; Revelation 2:10).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be sound in doctrine (1 Timothy 1:10; 2 Timothy 1:13; Titus 1:9).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be tireless in their labor for the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:58).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be courageous even to the point of death (Revelation 2:10 &#8211; NIV).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be loving in disposition (Hebrews 13:1; 1 Peter 2:17).<\/li>\n<li>The church is to exhibit righteousness, peace, and joy (Romans 14:17; cf. 2 Corinthians 1:4; Gal. 5:22; Ephesians 5:9 &#8211; KJV).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be confident, always trusting in God (1 Timothy 4:10).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to serve the needs of others (1 John 3:17-18).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to grow spiritually and numerically (2 Peter 3:18; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be pure and penitent (Ephesians 5:25-27; 1 John 1:9).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to refuse to tolerate false teaching (Gal. 1:6-9).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to discipline wayward members (1 Corinthians 5:1-13).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to be zealous and stable (Titus 2:14; James 1:5-8).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to practice self-evaluation (2 Corinthians 13:5).<\/li>\n<li> The church is to have Christ as an abiding presence (Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Lord expected these spiritual characteristics to exist not only in the 1st Century church, but expects them to exist in the 21st Century church as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Revelation 2:1-29 and Revelation 3:1-22, Christ &#8220;commends&#8221; some congregations and &#8220;condemns&#8221; others. A consideration of these commendations and condemnations lead us to the conclusion that our Lord desires the following spiritual characteristics of His church: The church is to be obedient to His word (Matthew 7:21; Romans 2:13; James 1:22; 1 John 3:7). The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/spiritual-characteristics-of-the-lords-church-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiritual Characteristics Of The Lord&#039;s Church &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}