{"id":2316,"date":"2020-10-20T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:01:58","slug":"jesus-is-building-his-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2020\/10\/20\/jesus-is-building-his-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is Building His Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the message I preached at Hope Community Church on October 11, 2020 during their missions emphasis month. It is introduced with their music team singing &#8220;Let the Nations Be Glad.&#8221; In this video, I work through the biblical text of Matthew 16:18 and share many stories, pictures, and videos of how God is building His church, in Africa and globally. Praise God for His glorious global activity, and that He invites us to be a part of it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCkoAOoW-w0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Point<\/strong> \u2013 Jesus is building His church based on His Word and nothing can stop it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The foundation of Jesus\u2019 church.<\/strong> <em>\u201con this rock\u201d <\/em>\u00a0(\u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u03b1\u03cd\u03c4\u1fc3 \u03c4\u1fc7 \u03c0\u03ad\u03c4\u03c1\u1fb3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The builder of Jesus\u2019 church.<\/strong> <em>\u201cI will build my church\u201d <\/em>(\u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03bc\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JESUS IS THE BUILDER of His church.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jesus is building HIS CHURCH.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. The unstoppable advancement of Jesus\u2019 church.<\/strong> <em>\u201cand the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0(\u03c0\u03cd\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9 \u1f85\u03b4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03bf\u1f50 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03c7\u03cd\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what? <\/strong>What difference does Jesus building His church make in our lives? Good to know, but how does it affect us?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When we see a <strong>crazy world<\/strong> (disciples hear Jesus will soon die), we are <strong>strengthened in faith and trust<\/strong> that He is working even if we don\u2019t perceive it.<\/li>\n<li>We <strong>praise Jesus<\/strong> and exalt His glorious name as He builds His church.<\/li>\n<li>We <strong>participate<\/strong> in work He is doing by winning lost souls, serving Him with our gifts, caring for His people, and discipling the nations.<\/li>\n<li>When we engage in building Christ\u2019s church, <strong>He is working in and through us<\/strong>. As we grow, He is the one growing us, building us, His church. As we minister, He is the one ministering through us to others, building His church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. The church Jesus is building.<\/strong> Be encouraged by how Jesus is building His church:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jesus is building His church by meeting <strong>practical needs<\/strong> of people during COVID days.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus is building His church by meeting <strong>spiritual needs<\/strong> of people. For example, by equipping pastors to handle the Word well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the message I preached at Hope Community Church on October 11, 2020 during their missions emphasis month. It is introduced with their music team singing &#8220;Let the Nations Be Glad.&#8221; In this video, I work through the biblical text of Matthew 16:18 and share many stories, pictures, and videos of how God is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2020\/10\/20\/jesus-is-building-his-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus is Building His Church<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-thoughts","category-messages-and-presentations","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}