Church Of The Lost Sheep

" Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic , love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing." 1 Peter 3:8-9 [This is the  33rd  message of this series] This lesson is intended for mature believers (or adulting believers). For a more orderly study, please go through all the previous messages first, if you haven't yet. 1 Peter [This will be the  3rd  of a  series  within a series] Living the Blessed Life Peter instructed the first church (among other things) to be s ympathetic, to love, and to be compassionate with one another. [We bunched these all together because they basically are all the same thing] Sympathy Christ redeemed us to live a new life, a blessed life . This blessing was given us to live this new life here on earth. We live out our remaining life here and look towards living with

"The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love." Psalm 145:8 The Hebrew Scriptures describe the God of Creation as Gracious and Compassionate. [This is the  1st  message of  this series ] In previous lessons we have discussed that the Christian Scriptures revealed the God of Creation as having compassion with everyday people, because He became one of us. He went through the same things we are going through. Funeral Have you ever attended a funeral or memorial service where the bereaved were unconsolable? Many of us wouldn't even begin to understand how they can be so distraught. Many will have no idea as to what was going on with them, what they were thinking, how they are feeling. That is unless we too have undergone the same loss, and experienced the same pain, the same grief, the same hopeless or helpless situation, or felt the very same emotions. Jesus Christ of Nazareth Jesus Christ of the Christian bible is the Alpha and the Omega, th