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God's Love
1) The world faces many problems like war, poverty, and injustice that human efforts alone cannot solve. God has a plan to restore order and humanity's relationship with Him. 2) God created humans in His image to be good and to have fellowship with Him, but sin disrupted this. However, God continued to offer grace and protection to humans. 3) God sent Jesus Christ to overcome sin and evil. By accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior, individuals can experience God's love and allow His plan of restoration to begin in their lives.
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God's Love
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- 2. I. The situationin the world today There is serious disorder in the world today. There is war There is poverty There is murder There is social injustice
- 3. On a personallevel, there is loneliness, depression, fear, insecurity, mistrust, etc.
- 4. Everyone agrees thatsomething major is needed to correct the situation in the world. a. Man has made various efforts to improve the world, but their efforts are not succeeding because these are not based on God’s wisdom.
- 5. For example: In thefield of medicine, through the ultrasound technique, we can discover the sex of a child before it is born. But some people use this technology to decide to kill the unborn child if found defective, or if it is not the desired sex In food production, we have learned better and more productive ways of increasing the yield of the land. But millions of people are still dying of malnutrition and starvation.
- 6. •Some even proposesolutions through man made religions and other ideologies. Examples: Marxism, and New Age. Man is not succeeding because all these efforts are based on man's wisdom.
- 7. Isaiah 55:8-9 8 “Formy thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. What is really needed is God’s wisdom and ways
- 8. II. What isthe way of God? Does God have a Plan for bringing us out of our confusion and disorder? Genesis 1:31 - What God creates is good. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
- 9. Genesis 1:27 God createdman in His image. 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
- 10. Genesis 3:8-9 Man ismeant for friendship with God. 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.9 But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
- 11. However, things did notturn out according to God's plan. Original sin entered the picture. And from then on, man continued to turn against God and His ways.
- 12. But still, evenif God punished man, God did not abandon him. 1. God punished Adam and Eve when they sinned, yet God extended to them a gesture of grace: He gave them clothing (Genesis 3:21) and even promised that the offspring of the woman will crush the head of the serpent (Genesis 3:15). 2. God punished Cain for murdering his brother Abel, yet He gave Cain a mark to protect him from being killed on sight (Genesis 4:15).
- 13. God is neitherindifferent nor distant. God is someone who loves us and is interested in having a personal relationship with us. He is interested in the details of our daily lives.
- 14. Isaiah 48:17 17 Thisis what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.
- 15. Jeremiah 29:11 11 ForI know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
- 16. In fact, Godwants to bring us all back to Himself, to restore our fellowship and intimacy with him. Ephesians 1:9-10. 9 He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
- 17. III. How canGod's plan happen? Again, we need to turn to God's wisdom. We need God's point of view. What does God say about life's realities? God's love and His plan for me
- 18. The Bible tellsus about the reality of Satan. Ephesians 6:12. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- 19. We are notjust confronted with particular wrongs in society or in ourselves. Behind all these is something bigger. Satan is orchestrating these evils. On our own, we cannot overcome the challenges in our Christian life. God also says that our human efforts apart from Him will prove useless. John 15:5.
- 20. So what isthe solution? 1. Christ is the answer! a. He is a spiritual being more powerful than Satan. a. He is the vine from which we draw life, strength and power.
- 21. In fact, Christis the fullness of God's love. John 3:16. Thus, in Jesus we experience the love of God. And in Jesus, God's plan for restoration can begin to happen.
- 22. 9 If you declarewith your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. IV. What do we need to do? We need to simply accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. Romans 10:9.
- 23. 1. What thismeans will become clearer as we move on in this CLP. But for now, what is important to know is simply this: a. God loves us b. God sent Jesus His own Son c. In Jesus we are saved and restored to our relationship with God, with the fullness of life He intended So God has done His part. It is now our move.
- 24. The choice isgiven to each of you. Will you continue to investigate how God's plan can work in your life? Will you continue to explore, along with us, how God's love can make a difference in your life? Or will you just walk away like the disciples who left Jesus?
- 25. I hope thatjust like Simon Peter you will say: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life" (John 6:68). Life God's Love Story.flv
- 26. The Challenge God hasloved you with an eternal love. The ultimate manifestation of this love was sending God's own Son to suffer and die for you. Will you open your heart to receive the fullness of His love? Will you open your mind to explore the richness of God's plan for you through the rest of the Christian Life Program?
Editor's Notes
- #3 1. Covered with a blanket, a homeless man sleeps along a Hollywood sidewalk in California. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Social injustice is a concept that refers to an unfairness in a society that is based on inequalities. These may or may not be legal wrong, but more of a moral wrong. These types of injustices occur when the society doesn’t have an equal distribution of advantages and disadvantages. Some of the causes most often seen in social injustice are the unequal distribution of wealth, racism, ageism, and sexism. An example to give of a widespread social injustice would be denying females equal opportunity in the workplace due to thinking they are inferior to men. Number of hungry people in the world The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012). The number of undernourished people decreased nearly 30 percent in Asia and the Pacific, from 739 million to 563 million, largely due to socio-economic progress in many countries in the region. The prevalence of undernourishment in the region decreased from 23.7 percent to 13.9 percent. Latin America and the Caribbean also made progress, falling from 65 million hungry in 1990-1992 to 49 million in 2010-2012, while the prevalence of undernourishment dipped from 14.6 percent to 8.3 percent. But the rate of progress has slowed recently. The number of hungry grew in Africa over the period, from 175 million to 239 million, with nearly 20 million added in the last few years. Nearly one in four are hungry. And in sub-Saharan Africa, the modest progress achieved in recent years up to 2007 was reversed, with hunger rising 2 percent per year since then. Developed regions also saw the number of hungry rise, from 13 million in 2004-2006 to 16 million in 2010-2012, reversing a steady decrease in previous years from 20 million in 1990-1992 (FAO 2012). The above is based on the new estimates of world hunger by the FAO using revised procedures. It is worth noting that the new estimates give a different answer than the old estimates as the graph below shows (Lappe, 2013).
- #4 Away home Not promoted Broke up Insecure of capabilities/ lack of confidence
- #7 Well, Karl Marx, the father of communism summed up communism in 1 sentence. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society. 888 Unlike many religions like Islam or Buddhism, the New Age Movement does not trace its roots back to a human founder. It is actually a diverse blend of ancient religions like… • Hinduism • Buddhism • Taoism • Gnosticism • The occult So, despite its title, the New Age Movement is not new. The title “New Age” has been around for more than sixty years and was first popularized by a woman named Alice Bayley (1880-1949). The New Age Movement and its beliefs were widely introduced to thousands of young people in the U.S., England, and Europe in the 1960’s. It was then, during the sixties, that a band known as "The Beatles" were influenced by a Hindu spiritual guru by the name of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They appeared with Maharishi on the news, at Transcendental Meditation conferences, seminars and lectures and went to India to spend time with him in the late sixties. From then on, there was a surge of interest in the West in: • meditation • yoga • and eastern philosophy That interest continues to this day. The New Age Movement has made great inroads all across North America. Surveys show that millions of Americans have adopted New Age beliefs. • 25% say they believe in reincarnation • 42% say they believe they have been in contact with someone who has died • 15% endorse the work of spirit mediums or channelers • 67% read astrology columns • 50% believe in ESP (extrasensory perception) [Statistics above are cited in: So What’s the Difference? by Fritz Ridenour; They Can’t All Be Right by Steve Russo, p. 67; and a 2009 Pew Forum survey] One of the persons who is fueling the ongoing growth of the New Age worldview is a man by the name of Deepak Chopra. Deepak an alternative medicine guru, a spiritual counselor, a number one selling author, and a huge hit in North America. Time Magazine said, “Deepak Chopra is one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” [Time, June, 1999]. His list of friends and admirers runs from Hollywood movie stars to the Dalai Lama. Chopra's 65 books have sold millions of copies in English alone and have been translated into more than 30 languages. His overall yearly profit, according to Time magazine exceeds $15 million. ["New Age Supersage," Time Magazine, Nov. 2008] Some of his books include The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success and How to Know God. He’s very popular and unfortunately leading multitudes into a New Age view of God and reality. Now, unlike many religions, the New Age Movement has no: • sacred text • central organization • membership • formal clergy • geographic center or headquarters • official website • or creeds The New Age Movement is sort of a free-flowing spiritual movement, made up of believers and practitioners who share somewhat similar beliefs and practices, which many just add on to their previously held religious beliefs. Seminars, conventions, magazines, books and informal groups replace the use of sermons and religious services. So, that’s a bit of an overview of what the New Age Movement is. Next, let’s consider what New Agers believe. Of course, there are a variety of beliefs within the movement, but generally, most people who would consider themselves part of this movement hold to eight common beliefs.
- #19 Spiritual warfare