The document provides an overview of Jesus' ministry and miracles according to the gospels. It lists 35 miracles performed by Jesus that are recounted in the gospels, including feedings of thousands, healings, exorcisms, walking on water, and resurrections. The miracles are categorized based on which gospels include the account - some are found in all four gospels, others in two or three gospels, and some are unique to a single gospel.
Dr. John Oakes did a presentation on the resurrection for the Berlin Church of Christ 7/19/2012. His power point and notes were updated and are attached here:
Dr. John Oakes did a presentation on the resurrection for the Berlin Church of Christ 7/19/2012. His power point and notes were updated and are attached here:
Dr. John Oakes preached a sermon from the Book of Luke 4/19/15 in San Diego. The lesson focuses on how Jesus valued things that the world thinks are of little value and how he taught that the things the world values greatly are of no value in the Kingdom. It focuses principally on the Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6.
Dr. John Oakes taught a class on worship in the Book of Revelation in San Diego October, 2013. It focuses on the picture of Jesus in Revelation Ch 1 and 5 as well as worship scenes in Revelation 7,11,15 and 19. A picture of believer’s before the throne of God is presented.
Dr. John Oakes is teaching a series of classes on the Book of Acts for the Singles ministry of the San Diego Church of Christ on Thursday evenings beginning September 3 at the Mission Center of Hope. Notes, power point and audio are attached.
Dr. John Oakes gave a sermon on 3/15/2014 in San Diego. The topic was the Levitical sacrificial system as a prefigure of worship in the New Testament. The “sweet smelling” offerings are discussed as prefigures both of the offerings given by Jesus and by Christians. Specifically discussed are the burnt offering, the grain offering, the drink offering and the fellowship offering. There is also a brief introduction to the sin and guilt sacrifices as prefigures of the sacrificial work of Jesus.
Dr. John Oakes, Robert Carrillo Pedro Figueroa and Mark Wilkinson taught an 8-week 16-hour introduction to the Old Testament on consecutive Saturdays Feb 25-April 14 at the Mission Center of Hope in San Diego, CA. To view the notes, the power point:
Whenever God does a powerful work in an individual or in a group, the enemy sees it as a threat. He will always push back. Knowing that and how to respond is vital to the growth of healthy, effective believers and churches.
This theological and historical overview of this subject should help some to move with God even while under attack.
Three widows in a foreign land and little hope, but there was hope. In the book of Ruth, those under the curse of the law died, namely Naomi’s husband and sons. Ruth, apart from the law has the circumcised heart. Jew and Gentile alike blessed and saved as ‘God visits His people’ at Bethlehem. In a surprise twist at the end, Naomi’s redeemer was a baby of Bethlehem (pointing to a greater redeemer).
The Truth of Ruth includes some of the many pictures of redemption found in Ruth
Some images include:
- death under the law (of Naomi's husband and sons)
- salvation apart from the law
- a cirumcised heart of a gentile, Ruth
- God visiting his people at Bethlehem
- a prodigal return to God and acceptance of Naomi
- a kinsman redeemer in Boaz
- from no home to a home
- from barren to a great posterity
- a greater redemption in the baby of Ruth, Obed ( the servant a name used of the coming Messiah)
- great grandmother of King David
- and in the line of the Messiah, Jesus
John 21, 4 Grk “love”; agape vs. phileo; Successor of Peter; Judging; Eyewitn...Valley Bible Fellowship
John Chapter 21, Do you love Jesus more than these; 4 Greek Words For “love”; agape vs. phileo; Successor of Peter; Judge With Righteous Judgment; Are The Gospels Written By Eyewitnesses?; “hermeneutics”; 7 Covenants
CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURAL TEACHINGS, BIBLE CLASS LESSONS, GOSPELS BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU, THE SUPERNATURAL TEACHER AND SOLE SPIRITUAL HEAD, BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
An outline of the class can be seen by clicking on the link below, or click on the power point icon to see the power point presentation. by John M. Oakes, PhD
Sermon 18 (final sermon) in a series on the Book of James (this one is on James 5:13-20) presented April 25, 2010, at Palm Desert Church of Christ, by Dale Wells
Dr. John Oakes and Robert Carrillo taught a Bible workshop on the Book of Luke at San Diego State University Saturday May 3rd 2014. Notes, power point and recordings are attached.
I leap back one space on John's Isle of Patmos game board! We've stepped back out of eternity and into the more-ore-less familiar realm of time and space. Revelation Chapters 19-21 stands us on the boundary twixt these two states. They offer us a chance to explore two separate states, the so-called Millennium and the Eternal State. I see reasons for making a distinction between the two and explore my thinking in this presentation.
Dr. John Oakes preached a sermon from the Book of Luke 4/19/15 in San Diego. The lesson focuses on how Jesus valued things that the world thinks are of little value and how he taught that the things the world values greatly are of no value in the Kingdom. It focuses principally on the Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6.
Dr. John Oakes taught a class on worship in the Book of Revelation in San Diego October, 2013. It focuses on the picture of Jesus in Revelation Ch 1 and 5 as well as worship scenes in Revelation 7,11,15 and 19. A picture of believer’s before the throne of God is presented.
Dr. John Oakes is teaching a series of classes on the Book of Acts for the Singles ministry of the San Diego Church of Christ on Thursday evenings beginning September 3 at the Mission Center of Hope. Notes, power point and audio are attached.
Dr. John Oakes gave a sermon on 3/15/2014 in San Diego. The topic was the Levitical sacrificial system as a prefigure of worship in the New Testament. The “sweet smelling” offerings are discussed as prefigures both of the offerings given by Jesus and by Christians. Specifically discussed are the burnt offering, the grain offering, the drink offering and the fellowship offering. There is also a brief introduction to the sin and guilt sacrifices as prefigures of the sacrificial work of Jesus.
Dr. John Oakes, Robert Carrillo Pedro Figueroa and Mark Wilkinson taught an 8-week 16-hour introduction to the Old Testament on consecutive Saturdays Feb 25-April 14 at the Mission Center of Hope in San Diego, CA. To view the notes, the power point:
Whenever God does a powerful work in an individual or in a group, the enemy sees it as a threat. He will always push back. Knowing that and how to respond is vital to the growth of healthy, effective believers and churches.
This theological and historical overview of this subject should help some to move with God even while under attack.
Three widows in a foreign land and little hope, but there was hope. In the book of Ruth, those under the curse of the law died, namely Naomi’s husband and sons. Ruth, apart from the law has the circumcised heart. Jew and Gentile alike blessed and saved as ‘God visits His people’ at Bethlehem. In a surprise twist at the end, Naomi’s redeemer was a baby of Bethlehem (pointing to a greater redeemer).
The Truth of Ruth includes some of the many pictures of redemption found in Ruth
Some images include:
- death under the law (of Naomi's husband and sons)
- salvation apart from the law
- a cirumcised heart of a gentile, Ruth
- God visiting his people at Bethlehem
- a prodigal return to God and acceptance of Naomi
- a kinsman redeemer in Boaz
- from no home to a home
- from barren to a great posterity
- a greater redemption in the baby of Ruth, Obed ( the servant a name used of the coming Messiah)
- great grandmother of King David
- and in the line of the Messiah, Jesus
John 21, 4 Grk “love”; agape vs. phileo; Successor of Peter; Judging; Eyewitn...Valley Bible Fellowship
John Chapter 21, Do you love Jesus more than these; 4 Greek Words For “love”; agape vs. phileo; Successor of Peter; Judge With Righteous Judgment; Are The Gospels Written By Eyewitnesses?; “hermeneutics”; 7 Covenants
CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURAL TEACHINGS, BIBLE CLASS LESSONS, GOSPELS BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU, THE SUPERNATURAL TEACHER AND SOLE SPIRITUAL HEAD, BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
An outline of the class can be seen by clicking on the link below, or click on the power point icon to see the power point presentation. by John M. Oakes, PhD
Sermon 18 (final sermon) in a series on the Book of James (this one is on James 5:13-20) presented April 25, 2010, at Palm Desert Church of Christ, by Dale Wells
Dr. John Oakes and Robert Carrillo taught a Bible workshop on the Book of Luke at San Diego State University Saturday May 3rd 2014. Notes, power point and recordings are attached.
I leap back one space on John's Isle of Patmos game board! We've stepped back out of eternity and into the more-ore-less familiar realm of time and space. Revelation Chapters 19-21 stands us on the boundary twixt these two states. They offer us a chance to explore two separate states, the so-called Millennium and the Eternal State. I see reasons for making a distinction between the two and explore my thinking in this presentation.
Luke the physician noticed the poor and the outcaste and recorded Jesus care for the rejected. This is a survey of the Lukan description of Jesus engagement with and teaching about the poor.
False Signs, Wicked Deception, and Strong DelusionDave Stewart
John uses 7 signs in his gospel. Why should you believe in those signs, but not modern miracles? In this lesson we’ll learn that there are genuine and false miracles, and purpose of the miracles of Jesus and apostles was to confirm that they spoke of God. Having accomplished that purpose, miracles to confirm the veracity of a speaker are no longer necessary. God has provided the Scriptures so that we may believe and have life.
The Epistle of Jude is the only book that is completely dedicated to the sin of Apostasy and its consequences - setting the stage for understanding the background of the world in the days in which Revelation would occur .
Some Things Those Who Go To Hell Will Not Have To DoDon McClain
Hell is a real place - and many will go there. There will be some things that those who are cast into hell will never have to do . . . Join us as we consider some of the things those in hell will never have to do -
What is a human soul? Assuming the soul exists, ‘when’ was it created and how does it interact with the body? Would a brain-damaged person be a soul-damaged person, too?
If a person’s brain were 100% replaced with electronical components, would s/he still be the same person? Can a machine be a person (as long as ‘on the outside’ it behaved like one)? Does a robot have ‘free-will’?
Slides for a TEDx talk delivered at University of Malaya on March, 23rd (2019).
It is a common but not unrealistic stereotype of Asian students that educational success is a matter of personal identity and status. As such, achieving distinctions in as many subjects as possible (the popular target of becoming a ‘straight A’ student) is usually a non-negotiable objective nurtured by both parents and educators. Such an obsessive pursuit of academic excellence produces both laudable outcomes (e.g. the tendency of Asian students to outperform their counterparts) as well as dangerous ones (e.g. worrying rates of mental health problems). This paper hopes to apply the concept of anti-fragility developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb─in particular one of its methods known as the Barbell Strategy─towards student learning, in the hope of a) maintaining a trajectory of academic excellence whilst b) avoiding the psychological pressures which usually accompany Asian students.
Full paper available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328653770_NURTURING_THE_ANTI-FRAGILE_STUDENT_The_Barbell_Strategy_and_Academic_Excellence_sans_the_Strain
Understanding what constitutes an ARGUMENT: PREMISE + CONCLUSION
Understanding FALLACY i.e. when there exists a disconnect between premises and conclusions
Understanding fallacies of IRRELEVANCE and INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.
Hulk or Prof X? : An Introduction to Anti-FragilityAlwyn Lau
Introducing the concept of 'anti-fragile', developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Sorry the slide presentation lacks text, for more info on the concept as applied to academia check out my articles below:
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1236155/child-sacrifices-are-we-letting-exams-kill-our-kids
https://www.malaymail.com/s/1009939/highway-or-hydra-can-our-children-handle-setbacks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fragile-robust-and-anti-fragile-225945733.html
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Why is this So? ~ Do Seek to KNOW (English & Chinese).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma teaching of Kamma-Vipaka (Intentional Actions-Ripening Effects).
A Presentation for developing morality, concentration and wisdom and to spur us to practice the Dhamma diligently.
The texts are in English and Chinese.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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Discover various methods for clearing negative entities from your space and spirit, including energy clearing techniques, spiritual rituals, and professional assistance. Gain practical knowledge on how to implement these techniques to restore peace and harmony. For more information visit here: https://www.reikihealingdistance.com/negative-entity-removal/
2 Peter 3: Because some scriptures are hard to understand and some will force them to say things God never intended, Peter warns us to take care.
https://youtu.be/nV4kGHFsEHw
2. In 165 AD, a devastating epidemic swept
through the Roman empire, killing 1/3 of the
population, incl. Emperor Marcus Aurelius…
3. In 251
AD, another
plague hit the
empire, this
time both rural
and urban
areas were
affected…
4. ―Most of our brothers showed unbounded
love…never sparing themselves and
thinking only of one another…Heedless of
danger, they took charge of the
sick, attending to their every need and
ministering to them in Christ…drawing on
themselves the sickness of their neighbors
and cheerfully accepting their pains…‖
Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, AD260
5. ―The heathen behaved in the very opposite
way. At the first onset of the disease, they
pushed the sufferers away and fled from
their dearest, throwing them into the roads
before they were dead and treated unburied
corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the
spread and contagion of the disease; but do
what they might, they found it difficult to
escape.‖
Bishop Dionysius
6. Result?
‗Miraculous‘ healing
Huge Conversions
Growth of Christian population
Spread of Christian love/principles
throughout empire!
7. What do we need
to awake from?
What do we
need to awake to?
18. The kingdom of God
is like a team of
resistance
fighters, plotting
goodness
19. The kingdom of God is
like flying jet-planes of
love into towers of hate
20. The kingdom of God
is like a cigarette
smoker…feeling
fresh air in her
lungs
21. The kingdom of God is
living in
Wonderland…where
everything is upside
down
22. Jesus‘ strange kingdom…
• It‘s ―weak‖ and ―foolish‖ (1Cor 1:18-27)
• It‘s lowly and despised…it‘s something
that is NOT (1Cor 1:28-29)
• It‘s not of this world (John 8:23)
• It fights with crazy ‗weapons‘, e.g.
love, forgiveness, etc. (Luke 23:34)
• It‘s perfected in our weakness (2Cor 12)
26. ―In order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to
torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to
take it away from me. But he said to me, ―My grace is
sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness.‖
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ‘s power may rest on me.
That is why, for Christ‘s sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then
I am strong.‖ (2 Cor 12: 7-10)
28. God‘s Discipline
• God knows our arrogant easily-hardened hearts
• God knows the importance of destroying pride; our
human nature ‗naturally‘ longs to rely only on
ourselves
• Gods wants to prove to us that our own efforts are
insufficient
• Good news: He is always there at the ‗end‘ of the
road
30. God‘s Frame
• Our pride tends to view our successes as
resulting from our own efforts
• We need to see events with the eyes of
Christ (and our weakness ‗forces‘ us to see!)
• We don‘t need miracles; we need believers
• Good news: He is already there even when
we don‘t know it
32. God‘s Self-Limitation
• We are intimately connected to God‘s power
via our weaknesses (strength from weakness
is like the irrevocability of freedom)
• Faith really moves the hands of God – why?
Because God decided that it will.
• Good News: Weakness is raw material for
greater faith - asking for more faith is itself an
act of faith!
37. God‘s Hiddenness
• God wants to teach/show us another kind of
power, one the world doesn‘t understand
• God‘s power ―looks like‖ weakness, so our power
also expresses itself through our weakness
• God‘s power cannot but appear weak to a sinful
world
• Good News: Whenever there is weakness, we
know (contra appearances) that God‘s strength is
being perfected
42. Can we see the truth
within illusion, the
authentic embedded in
the superficial, the wonder
inside the ordinary, the
miraculous of the banal?
43. ―He had no beauty or majesty to
attract us to him, nothing in his
appearance that we should desire
him. He was despised and rejected by
mankind, a man of suffering, and
familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their
faces, he was despised, and we held
him in low esteem.‖ (Isaiah 53:2-3)
49. What good is it, my brothers and
sisters, if someone claims to have faith
but has no deeds? Can such faith save
them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is
without clothes and daily food. 16 If one
of you says to them, ―Go in peace; keep
warm and well fed,‖ but does nothing
about their physical needs, what good is
it?‖
James 2:14-16
52. We feel bad…
thus we need to
make ourselves
feel worse in order to
feel better
53. ‗Bad‘ Faith…
• Glorifies the act of believing i.e. it‘s believing
in believing
• Is purely mental assent (like selecting boxes,
―Do you believe in Jesus Christ?‖)
• Ends up with false beliefs (because divorced
from learning)
• Is a deferred form of faith; we believe
because others believe and thus is often
contradicted by practice
54. ‗Bad‘ works
• Are purely ‗instrumental‘ and thus a form
of bribery (like vote-buying)
• Are irrational and neurotic (―feeling worse
to feel better‖)
• Are ultimately about the self, not others
62. ―By this all men will
know you are my
disciples: if you have
love for one another.‖
John 13:35
63. Loving Faith-Work
• Believes because of love i.e. we trust and
relate to God as a form of love
• Insists on truth as a vehicle of love; we
even judge out of love
• Pray, work, serve and learn out of love
and for love
80. Miracle Type Mark Matt Luke John
In all four gospels
1. Feeding of 5,000 nature 6.35f 14.15f 9.12f 6.5f
In three gospels
2. Walking on water nature 6.48f 14.25f 6.19f
3. Peter's mother-in-law healing 1.30f 8.14f 4.38f
4. Man with leprosy healing 1.40f 8.24f 5.12f
5. Paralyzed man healing 2.3f 9.2f 5.18f
6. Man with shriveled hand healing 3.1f 12.10f 6.6f
7. Calming the storm nature 4.37f 8.23f 8.22f
8. Gadarene Demoniac(s) exorcism 5.1f 8.28f 8.27f
9. Raising Jairus' daughter revivification 5.22f 9.18f 8.41f
10. Hemorrhaging woman healing 5.25f 9.20f 8.43f
11. Demon-possessed boy exorcism 9.17f 17.14f 9.38f
12. Two blind men healing 10.46f 20.29f 18.35f
In two gospels (Mark, Matt)
13. Canaanite woman's daughter exorcism@distance 7.24f 15.21f
14. Feeding of 4,000 nature 8.1f 15.32f
15. Fig tree withered nature 11.12f 21.18f
In two gospels (Mark, Luke)
16. Possessed man in synagogue exorcism 1.23f 4.33f
In two gospels (Matt, Luke=Q?)
17. Roman Centurion's servant healing@distance 8.5f 7.1f
18. Blind, Mute, and Possessed man exorcism 12.22 11.14
Only in one gospel (Mark)
19. Deaf mute healing 7.31f
20. Blind man at Bethsaida healing 8.22f
Only in one gospel (Matt)
21. Two blind men healing 9.27f
22. Mute and possessed man exorcism 9.32f
23. Coin in fish's mouth precognition/nature? 17.24f
Only in one gospel (Luke)
24. First catch of fish precognition/nature? 5.1f
25. Raising Widow's son at Nain revivification 7.11f
26. Exorcism of Mary Magdalene exorcism 8.2
27. Crippled woman healing 13.11f
28. Man with dropsy healing 14.1f
29. Ten men with leprosy healing@distance 17.11f
30. High Priest's servant healing 22.50f
Only in one gospel (John)
31. Wine miracle at Cana nature 2.1f
32. Official's son at Capernaum healing@distance 4.46f
33. Sick man at Pool of Bethesda healing 5.1f
34. Healing of the Blind Man healing 9.1f
35. Raising Lazarus revivification 11.1f
36. Second catch of fish precognition/nature? 21.1f
84. The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount
Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of
Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and
perform his task, his alien task. (Isaiah 28:21)
85.
86.
87.
88. The Pattern of God‘s Judgment
• Clearly and specifically fore-warned
• Characterised by patience and reluctance
• Happens only after repeated warnings and
chances to repent! (e.g. Noah‘s
time, Pharoah, etc.)
• Involves rescuing / preserving a righteous
remnant
94. We see crazy love in…
• God‘s creation (e.g. language and
science)
• God‘s sacrifice and mercy (the life and
love of Jesus)
• God‘s judgment
• God‘s plans for His people
• God Himself
110. "You know that those who are regarded
as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over
them, and their high officials exercise
authority over them. Not so with you.
Instead, whoever wants to become
great among you must be your servant‖
Mark 10:42-43
111. "For he who is least among you all—he
is the greatest ‖
Luke 9:48
115. “If you will protest courageously,
and yet with dignity and Christian
love…historians will say, „There
lived a great people – a black
people – who injected new dignity
into the veins of civilisation.”
Marin Luther King, Jr.
116. "The time for you and me to allow ourselves to
be brutalized nonviolently has passed. Be
nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to
you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent
racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then
I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be
nonviolent until you teach some of those
crackers to be nonviolent."
Malcolm X
117.
118. True power is the power of serving and
suffering love…
120. ―Christ loved us and gave himself up for us
as a fragrant offering an sacrifice to God‖
(Rom 5:6, 8:3; Eph 5:2)
121. ―The true light, which enlightens
everyone, was coming into the world.‖
(John 1:9, John 17:1)
122. ―He was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace
was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed.―
(Isaiah 53:5, 1Peter 2:24)
123. ―For the Son of Man came not to
be served but to serve and to
give his life as a ransom for
many‖
(Matt 20:28, Mark 10:45)
124. ―This is why the Son of God
appeared, to destroy the works of the
Devil‖
126. What other metaphors?
• ―Christ is the ultimate anti-virus that cleans
our OS‖
• ―Christ is true 1-Malaysia that unites all the
races of Malaysia‖
• ―Christ clears the flood waters…‖
• ??
128. ―I will allure her and bring her into the
wilderness and speak to her heart‖
(Hosea 2:14)
129. "If you are the Son of
God, tell this stone to
become bread."
(Matthew 4:3)
130. 3 Reasons Why Jesus Should‘ve
Made Miracle Bread
• He was hungry, what‘s so bad about using
His power to feed Himself?
• He had already fasted for quite some time
• He can eat now, then focus on other
things later
131.
132. Sin is the ‗Cutting
Short‘ of a
kingdom process!
133. "If you are the Son of God…throw
yourself down. For it is written:
'He will command his angels concerning
you, and they will lift you up in their
hands, so that you will not strike your
foot against a stone‖
(Matthew 4:6)
134.
135.
136. 4 Reasons Why Jesus
Should‘ve Jumped
• He will obtain supernatural proof of God‘s
protection
• He can show Satan how much power He
has
• He can ‗flex His muscles‘ and have
sensational news to tell of
• He can build confidence
140. "All this I will give you," he
said, "if you will bow down
and worship me."
(Matthew 4:9)
141. 3 Reasons Why Jesus
Should‘ve Bowed Down To Satan
• He was going to rule the world anyway!
• It would save SO MUCH trouble and pain
• He can always ‗pretend‘ to worship Satan,
then later repent
143. The 3 Temptations
• It‘s foolish to go to the desert for wisdom
• It‘s foolish to not use your power to get
what you want/need
• It‘s foolish to not demand for ‗proof‘
• It‘s foolish to seek easier ways to get what
you‘ve already been promised
144. ―For the message of the
cross is foolishness to
those who are
perishing, but to us who are
being saved it is the power
of God.‖
1st Cor 1:18
145. Foolish Message
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to put our trust in a man hanged
on a cross
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to see our weakness as the
perfecting of God‘s power
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to give ourselves for people and
the world
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to rely on the power of service
and forgiveness (and to believe that this is
true power)
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to place ourselves in God‘s hands
when there are ‗easier‘ ways to get things
done
146. Power of God
• It‘s powerful to live on the basis of Christ‘s
work for us
• It‘s powerful to draw on God‘s strength even
when it requires our weakness
• It‘s powerful to serve, to forgive, to love – for
only then are hearts truly changed
• It‘s powerful to let God‘s work be complete in
us, to not short-circuit God‘s soul-building
process
• It‘s powerful to follow God‘s (‗slow‘ and
‗painful‘) approach
• It‘s powerful to worship God