Doing good deeds that Jesus has pre\u00adpared for us! What does that mean? How do we access the\u00adse deeds? How acti\u00adve are we in doing good and how acti\u00adve is God?<\/p>\n
\u00ab<\/span>For we are God\u2019s crea\u00adti\u00adon. He crea\u00adted us anew in Christ Jesus to car\u00adry out the good deeds he has pre\u00adpared for our lives\u00bb (Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans 2:10 NL<\/span>). This text is solid ground on which we can approach this morning\u2019s the\u00adme: Doing good! God has pre\u00adpared good deeds for us, which we can now car\u00adry out. \tYou could open your eyes in bed this mor\u00adning and say: Wow, ano\u00adther new day and you are very clo\u00adse to me, Jesus. I can com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adte with you ever\u00ady\u00adwhe\u00adre and at any time. Thank you \u2013 and now I\u2019m loo\u00adking for\u00adward to the cof\u00adfee, the plait\u2026 We are under the pro\u00admi\u00adse of Jere\u00admi\u00adah 32, whe\u00adre it says: \u00abI will make a coven\u00adant with them for all time. My word will I give them, that I will never turn away from them again, but will always do them good. I will awa\u00adken in them the desi\u00adre to wor\u00adship and fear me, so that they will never again run away from me. I will take plea\u00adsu\u00adre in doing them good\u2026\u00bb (Jere\u00admi\u00adah 32:40\u201341a NL<\/span>). \tThe\u00adre is \u00abthoughtful doing good\u00bb \u00ab<\/span>Doing good in a con\u00adside\u00adred way\u00bb \tGod is good \u2013 let\u2019s not for\u00adget that. \tHow do you under\u00adstand this: doing good deeds that God has prepared? Doing good deeds that Jesus has pre\u00adpared for us! What does that mean? How do we access the\u00adse deeds? How acti\u00adve are we in doing good and how acti\u00adve is God? \u00abFor we are God\u2019s crea\u00adti\u00adon. He has crea\u00adted us anew in Christ Jesus to do the good deeds that He has pre\u00adpared for our lives.\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","wpfc_preacher":[35],"wpfc_sermon_series":[53],"wpfc_sermon_topics":[],"wpfc_bible_book":[],"wpfc_service_type":[12],"class_list":{"0":"wpfc_preacher-bernhard-hohl","1":"wpfc_sermon_series-willkommen-daheim","2":"wpfc-sermon-single","3":"post-2482","4":"wpfc_sermon","5":"type-wpfc_sermon","6":"status-publish","7":"hentry","10":"wpfc_service_type-gottesdienst"},"acf":[],"sermons_blog_filters_topics":"\t\t\t\t
\nThe only ques\u00adti\u00adon is: How does it work? What do I have to do? How do I find them \u2013 the\u00adse pre\u00adpared deeds? When we look for ans\u00adwers to such ques\u00adti\u00adons, the atti\u00adtu\u00adde in which we do it is decisi\u00adve. I belie\u00adve that the first thing we need to do on this sub\u00adject is to rea\u00adli\u00adse what our hea\u00adven\u00adly Father does for us every day!<\/p>\n
\n\tThank you for my home. My roof over my head! I don\u2019t have to be afraid of the \u00abLoren\u00adzo\u00bb hurricane.
\n\tThank you for all tho\u00adse with whom I can share my faith in you. Thank you for the con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adti\u00adon. The ser\u00advice \u2013 great!<\/p>\n
\nWe can only agree with Peter who sta\u00adted in the first chap\u00adter of his second let\u00adter that Jesus Christ has given belie\u00advers ever\u00ady\u00adthing we need to live in a way that plea\u00adses God. For when peo\u00adp\u00adle place their who\u00adle life in God\u2019s hands, God lives in them through the Holy Spi\u00adrit. That means we are equip\u00adped with His power and glo\u00adry to do good. Ok, now you feel moti\u00adva\u00adted and well pre\u00adpared for the new week. \u00abJesus, whe\u00adre do you have your to-do list for me now with your pre\u00adpared good deeds that I can do for you in your place?\u00bb That would be nice to have a pie\u00adce of paper like that in your hand!
\nI divi\u00adde the the\u00adme of \u00abdoing good\u00bb into three categories :<\/p>\n
\n\tThe\u00adre is \u00abspon\u00adta\u00adneous doing good
\n\tThe\u00adre is \u00abever\u00ady\u00adday goodness\u00bb <\/p>\n
\nOn 1 Octo\u00adber was the inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal World Veggie Day. You had to deci\u00adde whe\u00adther or not to join in and eat vege\u00adta\u00adri\u00adan food on that day. Should I dona\u00adte blood? Do some\u00adthing for refu\u00adgees? Should I take the pray\u00ader calen\u00addar of the con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adti\u00adon and pray? Should I join the PRAY19<\/span> pray\u00ader chain bet\u00adween 14 and 17 Octo\u00adber? Or join the deco\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon team, whe\u00adre peo\u00adp\u00adle are nee\u00added? Should I sign up as a dri\u00adver for the social asso\u00adcia\u00adti\u00adon \u00abLicht\u00adblick\u00bb? While thin\u00adking about \u00abdoing good\u00bb, you can ask yours\u00adelf: What is my heart bur\u00adning for? What are my talents? What else can I do in the reti\u00adre\u00adment home?
\nWe recent\u00adly drew up a bibli\u00adcal gift list in the small group. The fol\u00adlo\u00adwing gifts are men\u00adtio\u00adned in the Bible: encou\u00adra\u00adging, caring for the poor, prac\u00adti\u00adcal ser\u00advice, sha\u00adring a right word at the right time, tea\u00adching, kno\u00adwing and sha\u00adring the wis\u00addom of God, heal\u00ading the sick, lea\u00adding a church, pray\u00ading with gre\u00adat faith, hos\u00adpi\u00adta\u00adli\u00adty, dis\u00adcer\u00adning spi\u00adrits, spea\u00adking or inter\u00adpre\u00adting ton\u00adgues, spea\u00adking prophetically.\u2026
\nTho\u00adse who reflect and plan in faith in Jesus trust that Jesus gives ans\u00adwers to ques\u00adti\u00adons like: What is my turn? Whe\u00adre should I tack\u00adle? And so he moves for\u00adward. On Mon\u00adday we visi\u00adted a pas\u00adtor cou\u00adple who are fri\u00adends of ours. They told us a very spe\u00adcial \u00abdoing good\u00bb sto\u00adry: Five young peo\u00adp\u00adle tra\u00advel\u00adled for half a year with two cam\u00adpers through three Euro\u00adpean count\u00adries with the aim to win peo\u00adp\u00adle for Jesus, to have an open ear for peo\u00adp\u00adle and to pray for them. They expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced ama\u00adzing things. In a vil\u00adla\u00adge in the south they pray\u00aded for a sick woman and she was hea\u00adled. Of cour\u00adse, the woman imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly made this known and she led sick rela\u00adti\u00adves, fri\u00adends and acquain\u00adtances to this group as well. And they expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced even more healings. So almost a New Tes\u00adta\u00adment Jesus situation!
\n\u00abSpon\u00adta\u00adneous good deeds\u00bb
\nJohann Wolf\u00adgang von Goe\u00adthe said: \u00abTo do good requi\u00adres no deli\u00adbe\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon\u00bb! The\u00adre is some\u00adthing to be said for that! Do the good that God puts befo\u00adre your feet! I recent\u00adly met a man in a mul\u00adti-storey car park who, of cour\u00adse, could not use the lift with his long metal poles, but had to go up the stairs. He was gra\u00adteful that I then spon\u00adta\u00adneous\u00adly went ahead and held all the doors open for him. We could pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly talk for hours about spon\u00adta\u00adneous help we expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adced, or that you spon\u00adta\u00adneous\u00adly did some\u00adthing good for someone. It is good if we are always on the road with open eyes and open ears.
\n\u00abDoing ever\u00ady\u00adday good\u00bb
\nDo good whe\u00adre you are, whe\u00adre you live and work, whe\u00adre you stu\u00addy or go to school. That\u2019s whe\u00adre you usual\u00adly think of it last. It is the con\u00adstant\u00adly recur\u00adring. It\u2019s work that you may not enjoy, but it\u2019s your job: stu\u00addy\u00ading, cramming, doing assign\u00adments, wri\u00adting papers, coo\u00adking, clea\u00adning, shop\u00adping, washing, taking care of the kids, deal\u00ading with the boss, put\u00adting up with col\u00adle\u00adagues, end\u00adless mee\u00adtings\u2026 When it comes to ever\u00ady\u00adday stuff, it\u2019s very important that you do it in the spi\u00adrit of Paul, who said \u00ab\u2026crea\u00adted anew in Christ Jesus, so that we might car\u00adry out the good deeds he has pre\u00adpared for our lives\u2026\u00bb.
\nYou are in your ever\u00ady\u00adday life, no mat\u00adter how or whe\u00adre, but you are the\u00adre as a new crea\u00adti\u00adon of Jesus and crea\u00adted by Him to do His pre\u00adpared good works!!!! We all love Psalm 23! \u00abThe Lord is my she\u00adp\u00adherd, I shall not want; he feeds me, he gui\u00addes me\u2026\u00bb, it talks about green pas\u00adtu\u00adres and fresh water \u2013 so beau\u00adtiful! And at the end the top: \u00abGood\u00adness and mer\u00adcy will fol\u00adlow me all my life.\u00bb So it is that the\u00adse two appen\u00adda\u00adges fol\u00adlow you whe\u00adre\u00adver you go! You don\u2019t just lea\u00adve the good\u00adness and mer\u00adcy that fol\u00adlow you all your life at home when you go to work! Why do we always take this Psalm for our\u00adsel\u00adves? Why don\u2019t you take this she\u00adp\u00adherd, with his qua\u00adli\u00adties and his gifts, with you to your work\u00adplace and think about what that trig\u00adgers in you? Why don\u2019t you always put a glass full of water in front of you to remind you of your she\u00adp\u00adherd who always pours full! As is well known, that which is to shi\u00adne far and wide beg\u00adins in one\u2019s own four walls: in mar\u00adria\u00adge, in the fami\u00adly, at the work\u00adplace, in the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, in the relatives!
\nIn doing good you can also make mistakes
\nFor exam\u00adp\u00adle, when we are over\u00adze\u00ada\u00adlous and our mar\u00adria\u00adge or fami\u00adly suf\u00adfers becau\u00adse of all the good we do! The\u00adre are frigh\u00adtening examp\u00adles of bot\u00adched good deeds in the Bible. Eve gave Adam some of the for\u00adbidden fruit to eat. She only meant well! Abra\u00adham pres\u00adents his wife Sarah as his sis\u00adter, for fear that Pha\u00adraoh might take away his beau\u00adtiful wife and per\u00adhaps even mur\u00adder him for it. He only meant well! Amnon, a son of King David, defiles his half-sis\u00adter Tamar and the father (lite\u00adral\u00adly) \u00abdid not harm his son Amnon, for he loved him becau\u00adse he was his first\u00adborn\u00bb (2 Samu\u00adel 13:21 ) \u2013 the father only meant well with his son! Rebe\u00adkah, the mother of Jacob, helps her favou\u00adri\u00adte son to get the first-born bles\u00adsing from Esau by tri\u00adckery \u2013 she only meant well! How many mista\u00adkes are made in edu\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon today \u2013 even among Chris\u00adti\u00adans \u2013 but the par\u00adents only mean well with their child\u00adren! Jesus is on the way and the Mom\u2019s Group comes to Jesus with their child\u00adren becau\u00adse they want Jesus to bless their child\u00adren. But the disci\u00adples brusque\u00adly reject them \u2013 no, Jesus real\u00adly does\u00adn\u2019t have time for that now! They only meant well with Jesus!
\nWe focus so much on the best \u2013 in our opi\u00adni\u00adon \u2013 and sud\u00adden\u00adly it comes across quite dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly. A Kurt Tuchol\u00adsky crea\u00adted the fol\u00adlo\u00adwing pro\u00adverb: \u00abThe oppo\u00adsi\u00adte of good is not evil, but well-inten\u00adtio\u00adned\u00bb. Some\u00adti\u00admes we pre\u00adfer to ques\u00adti\u00adon the good actions of others rather than our own! At the anoin\u00adting in Betha\u00adny, the disci\u00adples are hor\u00adri\u00adfied at what is hap\u00adpe\u00adning befo\u00adre their eyes: \u00ab\u2026What is this was\u00adte of the anoin\u00adting oil? This oil could have been sold for more than three hundred sil\u00adver pen\u00adnies and the money given to the poor. And they dro\u00adve at the woman\u00bb (Mark 14:4\u20136). After all, they only meant well! Jesus has a dif\u00adfe\u00adrent jud\u00adge\u00adment in this sto\u00adry: \u00abBut Jesus said, \u00abLea\u00adve her alo\u00adne! Why do you grie\u00adve her? She has done a good work for me\u00bb.
\nI summarise<\/p>\n
\n\tGod does much good to us first!
\n\tI recall Psalm 103 Prai\u00adse the Lord my soul and do not for\u00adget what he has done for you.
\n\tWe can only do small things with gre\u00adat love when we are fil\u00adled with the love of God.
\n\tWe can only do good as repre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adti\u00adves of Jesus Christ in this world if we remain com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly depen\u00addent on him. To do this, we need a good ear for his words \u2013 and a keen sen\u00adse for his becko\u00adning! In con\u00adcre\u00adte terms, this looks dif\u00adfe\u00adrent for ever\u00adyo\u00adne, says Mother Tere\u00adse, some open children\u2019s homes, others work for peace \u2013 and still others help gran\u00adnies across the street.<\/p>\n
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\nPaul puts it very cle\u00adar\u00adly in Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans: \u00abHe crea\u00adted us anew in Christ Jesus to car\u00adry out the good deeds he pre\u00adpared for our lives\u00bb (Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans 2:10). He is the one who enables, equips and gifts us to do good! On the one hand, it is Jesus who does good deeds through us. On the other hand, we are chal\u00adlen\u00adged. In the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment the\u00adre are num\u00ade\u00adrous calls to do good: \u00abCling to what is good\u00bb (Romans 12:9); \u00abstri\u00adve to do good to all\u00bb (Romans 12:17); \u00ablet us do good and not grow wea\u00adry\u00bb (Gala\u00adti\u00adans 6:9); \u00abalways pur\u00adsue what is good, for one ano\u00adther and for ever\u00adyo\u00adne\u00bb (1 Thes\u00adsa\u00adlo\u00adni\u00adans 5:15).
\nAt one point Paul gives prio\u00adri\u00adty to the brot\u00adhers and sis\u00adters in the faith: \u00abSo while we still have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty, let us do good to all peo\u00adp\u00adle, espe\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly to tho\u00adse who, like us, belong to the fami\u00adly of God through faith\u00bb (Gala\u00adti\u00adans 6:10 NG\u00dc<\/span>). The fol\u00adlo\u00adwing appli\u00ades ever\u00ady\u00adwhe\u00adre: Take care of what God ent\u00adrusts to you! We have been ent\u00adrus\u00adted with a rich tre\u00adasu\u00adre of good things. My con\u00advic\u00adtion for us as a church: \u00abBut God is able to make all grace abound among you, so that in all things you may always have full suf\u00adfi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy and may still abound in every good work\u00bb (2 Corin\u00adthi\u00adans 9:8 LU<\/span>).
\nAmen!
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\nPos\u00adsi\u00adble ques\u00adti\u00adons for the small groups
\nRead Bible text: 2 Corin\u00adthi\u00adans 9:8<\/p>\n
\n\tHow much or litt\u00adle of my acti\u00advi\u00adty is still there?
\n\tWhat kind of do-goo\u00adder are you? The spon\u00adta\u00adneous one? The deli\u00adbe\u00adra\u00adte planner?
\n\tCan you do this, Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans 2:10 \u2026crea\u00adted anew in Christ Jesus, so that we may car\u00adry out the good deeds he has pre\u00adpared for our lives\u2026 into your dai\u00adly lives?
\n\tTell each other posi\u00adti\u00adve good deed experiences!
\n\tWho of you can open\u00adly report a good deed that went wrong?
\n\tCan you think of any other mista\u00adkes from the Bible bes\u00adi\u00addes the ones mentioned?
\n\tInitia\u00adti\u00adon to pray\u00ader: Thank God abun\u00addant\u00adly for all the good he does for us and pray for each other that you will remain well con\u00adnec\u00adted to God\u2019s work bank.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"