Kennesaw Family Life Church

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES What does it mean to live as Christians? How do we do that? 2 Corinthians 3:16–18 NLT 16 But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 1:11 NLT They wondered what time or situation the Spirit of Christ within them was talking about when he told them in advance about Christ’s suffering and his great glory afterward. 1 Peter 2:21 NLT For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ suffered for you...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 5:1–7 NLT I. LEAD BY EXAMPLE 1. Care for the people 1 Peter 5:2 NLT Care for the flock that God has entrusted to you. Watch over it willingly, not grudgingly—not for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve God. 2. Lead by example 1 Peter 5:3 NLT Don’t lord it over...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 4:1–11 NLT 1 So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too. For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin. 2 You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES I. SUFFERING FOR DOING RIGHT 1 Peter 3:13–17 NLT 13 Now, who will want to harm you if you are eager to do good? 14 But even if you suffer for doing what is right, God will reward you for it. So don’t worry or be afraid of their threats. 15 Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. An...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 3:8–12 NLT 8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude. 9 Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessi...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 3:1–7 NLT 1 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over 2 by observing your pure and reverent lives. 3 Don’t be concerned about the outw...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 2:18–25 NLT 18 You who are slaves must submit to your masters with all respect. Do what they tell you—not only if they are kind and reasonable, but even if they are cruel. 19 For God is pleased when, conscious of his will, you patiently endure unjust treatment. 20 Of course, you get no cr...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 2:4–5 NLT 4 You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God’s temple. He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor. 5 And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediatio...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 2:13–17 NLT 13 For the Lord’s sake, submit to all human authority—whether the king as head of state, 14 or the officials he has appointed. For the king has sent them to punish those who do wrong and to honor those who do right. 15 It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 1:13-2:3 NLT 13 So prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. 14 So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Peter 1:3–12 NLT 3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for yo...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES Acts 17:32 NLT When they heard Paul speak about the resurrection of the dead, some laughed in contempt, but others said, “We want to hear more about this later.” I. NO RESURRECTION, NO HOPE 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 NLT 3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to m...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 14:1–4 NLT 1 Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy. 2 For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You wil...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 13:1–13 NLT 1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith tha...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 12:12–31 NLT I. MANY PARTS, ONE BODY II. HE HAS PLACED YOU WHERE HE WANTS YOU 1 Corinthians 12:14-20 NLT 14 Yes, the body has many different parts, not just one part. 15 If the foot says, “I am not a part of the body because I am not a hand,” that does not make it any less a part of...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 12:1–11 NLT 1 Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this. 2 You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. 3 So I want...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 NLT 17 But in the following instructions, I cannot praise you. For it sounds as if more harm than good is done when you meet together. 18 First, I hear that there are divisions among you when you meet as a church, and to some extent I believe it. 19 But, of course, there mu...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 11:2–16 NLT 2 I am so glad that you always keep me in your thoughts, and that you are following the teachings I passed on to you. 3 But there is one thing I want you to know: The head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 4 A man dishonors...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 10:14-11:1 NLT 14 So, my dear friends, flee from the worship of idols. 15 You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am saying is true. 16 When we bless the cup at the Lord’s Table, aren’t we sharing in the blood of Christ? And when we break the bread, aren’t we shar...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 NLT 1 I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were bap...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES I. DRIVEN BY GOD 1 Corinthians 9:13–18 NLT 13 Don’t you realize that those who work in the temple get their meals from the offerings brought to the temple? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings. 14 In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Goo...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNION Luke 22:7–20 NLT II. THE DEATH How does knowing that Jesus prayed those words affect you? Luke 23:32–46 NLT Remember: 1. Jesus asked the Father to forgive them 2. He assured the second criminal that he would be with Jesus in paradise 3. The temple veil was split i...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES 1 Corinthians 8:1–13 NLT 1 Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church. 2 Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t re...

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.kennesawfamilylifechurch.org MESSAGE NOTES I. MARRIAGE 1. Abstaining from Sexual Relations 1 Corinthians 7:1–7 NLT 1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations. 2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own...