Special speaker Pastor Rob Wheeler of Osterville Baptist Church, and son of Pastor and Paula Wheeler. Here to visit and share with us the word from the book of Nehemiah.

Abide in God because He has given us His spirit. Agree that Jesus is the Son sent to be Savior of the world. Accept that you are loved by God and need to abide in Him. Allow God’s truth and love to change you and approach the day of judgement with confidence. Avoid fear by being perfected in God’s love and apply the love of God to how you love each other.

God’s love should be our model in how to love, but more than that He is the power behind our ability to love as we depend upon Him. God wants us to have an ever-deepening love that seeks to love as He loves. We show the world what a deep intimate relationship with God looks like as we reflect the love of God to those around us.

Where are you in your walk with God? Are you struggling with doubt and uncertainty? Questioning your relationship with God? Turn to His truth and respond to it by yielding to His commands and depending on what He says and what His Spirit does to gain victory in these struggles.

God, the creator over everything, wants a relationship with us! He wants us to know Him. He sent Jesus to show us who He is and made it possible for us to have a relationship with Him. We can choose to restore our relationship with God by redemption through Jesus!

What is love? Love is a decision, a commitment to seek the good of another and choose to actively benefit them no matter what. It is the foundation of all that we as believers are to do as we interact with one another and with the world around us. Christian love is important to God!

Who does our character best reflect? Righteousness or Lawlessness? Lawlessness resents God’s boundaries, rebels against them. We are all sinners but even though we rebel, God reached out to us in love by sending His Son into this world to take away our sin., By accepting, he changes us from within, changing our minds and giving us a new nature that seeks righteous behavior - reflecting Him.

Are we looking forward to Christ"s return or are we in some way shrinking back from it because we’re out of fellowship with Him? His word explains that when we abide in Him and are in close fellowship with our God we will be excited about His return!

John warns us about a world system that stands opposed to God. We are to be aware of the existence of antichrists who seek to deceive, confuse and draw us into bad doctrine through media, books, broadcasts, etc. Dependence on the Spirit of God is the key to keeping from doctrinal error.

Passionately loving the things of this world is harmful to us. Pursuing this world and God is impossible. We cannot have it both ways. Listen to what the word has to say on how we are not to be conformed by this world, but transformed by the renewal of our mind.