Reach City Church Sunday Service | 04/26/2026

``A house divided cannot support itself. So that means that we gotta be strong together. We gotta be serving with one another. We gotta be giving to one another. We gotta be inviting people in and and being hospitable towards them. All of this is necessary. And to end, when love is anchored in Christ, it transforms our lives, and this expresses a life that is pleasing to God. Paul said that I beseech you now, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice. [01:13:38] (35 seconds)  #StrongerTogetherInChrist

We are doing all of these things to point people to one thing and one thing only, and that is the love of Christ. He says that this if we love one another in this way, this is how they'll know that you are my disciples. This is how we show the world that we are set apart when we, as a community, do these things well, when we don't isolate, but we come when we come with all of what it is that we are struggling with or whatever it is that we're dealing with, when we don't reject one another, but we love one another. Right? [01:11:31] (29 seconds)  #LoveLikeJesus

People are not always lovable, and sometimes personalities clash. But that does not neglect the command to love one another with brotherly affection and outdo them in showing respect and honor to them. The reality is is that unity and brotherly love within a community should still be valued and pursued regardless of the differences that we have with one another. Because these relationships, when they are strengthened, they strengthen the body. And when a body is strengthened and when it is healthy, there is nothing that can come against it to defeat it. [00:58:00] (34 seconds)  #BrotherlyLove

So if your friend sees you in sin or if your disciple sees that you're like, and they come to correct you, don't run from that. He says hold fast to that because their correction comes out of what scripture tells us not to do and then also what it tells us to do. Be willing to take that correction because second Timothy three and sixteen, all scriptures breathed out by God and profitable for teaching reproof or for correction and for training in righteousness that the man of God may be complete equipped for every good work. This is what is necessary for us. This is how we grow in our community. Right? [00:48:57] (34 seconds)  #EmbraceCorrection

So what is the main point here? Loving one another as Christ has loved us is the standard of our interactions with one another. This is the foundation. This is how we lead engaging with one another. Right? When it is rooted in Christ's love for us, then the only option is for it to then be genuine to other people. It's not selfishly motivated. There's no underlying personal ambition. This is our foundation. When we love how he love, they see Jesus. [00:45:06] (29 seconds)  #LoveAsChristLoved

Our circumstances can change, but we can hope in knowing what we know to be true and rejoice in we who we know God to be true. We have hope in what has already been done for us and what God is currently doing in us through the Holy Spirit. We rejoice in knowing that we are justified, and it is Christ who has not Christ who now intercedes on our behalf before God. We rejoice in our future glory and await the time when Christ will return, and we will be just like him. There's enough for us to have joy in. [01:03:23] (31 seconds)  #HopeInChrist

So what is joy? It's a state of of being more than it is an emotion. It's a choice, and it's actually a proper response to all that God has done for us. Joy is gratitude. So when they were looping that part in lamb of God, word of the father, Yahweh like, bruh. Y'all was wrecking me at that point because it made me think about the fact that we hope for what's to come and not necessarily in our circumstances. [01:02:55] (28 seconds)  #ChooseJoy

Now when I say community, I do not mean your work community, your family, your support groups, your therapy groups. Those things are beautiful. They are necessary, and they are definitely beneficial to us. But what I'm talking about is that the essential community is a community of God, our church community. This community should not be optional for us to engage in. It should be a priority. Right? And so how we show up, how we engage, how we interact with one another, this matters to God, so it should matter to us. [00:38:12] (33 seconds)  #PrioritizeChurch