I beseech you – beg, urge, encourage, appeal
By the mercies of God – compassion
Present your bodies a living sacrifice – as opposed to a sacrifice of death
Holy, Acceptable to God – pure, without spot or blemish
Your reasonable service – since Christ died for us we should live our lives for him. 2 Corinthians 5:15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.
Make Me A Servant
Make me a servant Lord, make me like you
For you are a servant, make me one, too.
Make me a servant, do what you must do
To make me a servant, make me like you.
To love my brother, to serve like you do.
I humble my spirit, I bow before yo.
And through my service, I'll be just like you.
So make me a servant, make me like you.
Open my hands Lord and teach me to share
Open my heart Lord and teach me to care,
For service to others is service to you.
Make me a servant, make me like you.
“Being used by God
is not confined to pastors, preachers or teachers. Anybody can be an instrument
in God's hands.”
God can use anybody, believer or nonbeliever.
Make Me A Servant
Make me a servant Lord, make me like you
For you are a servant, make me one, too.
Make me a servant, do what you must do
To make me a servant, make me like you.
To love my brother, to serve like you do.
I humble my spirit, I bow before yo.
And through my service, I'll be just like you.
So make me a servant, make me like you.
Open my hands Lord and teach me to share
Open my heart Lord and teach me to care,
For service to others is service to you.
Make me a servant, make me like you.
“Being used by God
is not confined to pastors, preachers or teachers. Anybody can be an instrument
in God's hands.”
God can use anybody, believer or nonbeliever.
Tomorrow we are starting a new series of study:
“The New Man” is a seminar that will focus on the spirit of man, its soul and its body.
We will learn the properties of each one of these three parts of man.
Our spirit is called to be the ruling part of us, actually, our spirit is the main part of our being, and is the place where the spirit of God dwells in.
We meet in Room #3 at CTF Toronto Wednesdays from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. I invite you to come and participate with us in this discovery of how to let our spirit become the ruler of our life.
Matthew 4:1-11. Three Continual Temptations.
I. THE TEMPTATION OF THE FLESH
II. THE TEMPTATION OF PRIDE
III. THE TEMPTATION OF POSSESSIONS
IV. ALL THESE TEMPTATIONS WERE TO TAKE JESUS, AND US, AWAY FROM OUR PURPOSE.
Faith that saves is a working faith, we can't separate our faith from our works, there is a difference between works of the law and christian works, works are involved in our salvation, we will be judged by our works not our faith.
We are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God. What does it mean to present our bodies as a living sacrifice? How do we present our bodies as a living sacrifice?
This is a lesson in the Crossroads programme, a discipleship programme written by Dr Kevin Smith and offered by the South African Theological Seminary. This lesson is about the Person of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 11:1-6. The Importance of faith.
I. FAITH IS VERY IMPORTANT - ABOVE ALL
II. FAITH IS AVAILABLE - TAKING
III. FAITH IS A PROTECTION - THE SHIELD OF FAITH
IV. FAITH IS POWERFUL - WITH WHICH YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH
V. FAITH IS EXTENSIVE - ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED ONE
James 2:14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
We are not declared righteous because we are righteous. We are declared righteous because of what Jesus Christ has done for us. It's not that we have never sinned, rather it's because one that had no sinned died for us and covered our sins. Because of his work, God has declared us pure from sin. It is as if though we had never sinned. Download this and other PowerPoints at BibleGuy.org
Tomorrow we are starting a new series of study:
“The New Man” is a seminar that will focus on the spirit of man, its soul and its body.
We will learn the properties of each one of these three parts of man.
Our spirit is called to be the ruling part of us, actually, our spirit is the main part of our being, and is the place where the spirit of God dwells in.
We meet in Room #3 at CTF Toronto Wednesdays from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. I invite you to come and participate with us in this discovery of how to let our spirit become the ruler of our life.
Matthew 4:1-11. Three Continual Temptations.
I. THE TEMPTATION OF THE FLESH
II. THE TEMPTATION OF PRIDE
III. THE TEMPTATION OF POSSESSIONS
IV. ALL THESE TEMPTATIONS WERE TO TAKE JESUS, AND US, AWAY FROM OUR PURPOSE.
Faith that saves is a working faith, we can't separate our faith from our works, there is a difference between works of the law and christian works, works are involved in our salvation, we will be judged by our works not our faith.
We are to present our bodies as a living sacrifice to God. What does it mean to present our bodies as a living sacrifice? How do we present our bodies as a living sacrifice?
This is a lesson in the Crossroads programme, a discipleship programme written by Dr Kevin Smith and offered by the South African Theological Seminary. This lesson is about the Person of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 11:1-6. The Importance of faith.
I. FAITH IS VERY IMPORTANT - ABOVE ALL
II. FAITH IS AVAILABLE - TAKING
III. FAITH IS A PROTECTION - THE SHIELD OF FAITH
IV. FAITH IS POWERFUL - WITH WHICH YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH
V. FAITH IS EXTENSIVE - ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED ONE
James 2:14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
We are not declared righteous because we are righteous. We are declared righteous because of what Jesus Christ has done for us. It's not that we have never sinned, rather it's because one that had no sinned died for us and covered our sins. Because of his work, God has declared us pure from sin. It is as if though we had never sinned. Download this and other PowerPoints at BibleGuy.org
Luke 9:59-60. How to Know you are Dying Spiritually.
I. THE STORY OF THE CROSS NO LONGER MOVES YOU
II. YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE
III. YOUR ARE FOOLING YOURSELF
IV. THE CHURCH SERVICES BORE YOU
V. YOU ARE NOT DOING WHAT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD
VI. YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN SAVING SOULS
VII. YOU FREQUENTLY MISS CHURCH SERVICES
VIII. WORLDLY THINGS ATTRACT YOU MORE THAN SPIRITUAL THINGS
IX. YOU ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE WORK OF THE CHURCH
The Significance of Being A Christian - A Person RebornRick Peterson
A Person Reborn is the first in a series of lessons on, "The Significance of Being A Christian." I found the outlines for this series of lessons at: http://executableoutlines.com/sig.htm
Noninfectious Let-us
Text Heb 10:19-31
I. Let Us Preparation
Heb 10:22
II. Let Us Persistence
Heb 10:23
III. Let Us Ponder
Heb 10:24
Conclusion Heb 10:25-31
The Lord Himself is our Sanctifier. We discuss how God has made it possible for to be holy unto Him and the practical aspect of sanctification. We highlight some of the rewards of personal holiness.
Realizing your personal destiny and call in Christ by Prof Thio - 19/11/11zionyaf
Prof Thio will be speaking on the topic of realizing our personal destiny and call in Christ. As God's elect, we have a calling to fulfill. Paul expressed this as a prayer to the Thessalonians, "With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith." (2 Thessalonians 1:11)
Are you affirmed of your calling in Christ? Have you been seeking to know and obey wherever God calls you to? Is your spiritual walk with Him deadening?
Prof Thio will be speaking on a topic that is particularly relevant in a world where secular humanist philosophies reign dominant. That humanity, instead of God, is the measure of all things - the very motivation of pride that led to the building of the Tower of Babel.
The talk will be centered on 2 Cor 10:5, where Paul declared against such forms of philosophy, "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." Paul further warned in Col 2:8,
"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."
This is a SS lesson for 10/21/2012. Dying to self / living for God puts you into His Community (Body) that you share in, and that shares with you. You can more than "survive" -- really, thrive as a serving functioning, loving part of that body. His Church of redeemed believers is His joy, and He will be found in them: to God be all the glory! This lesson shares some other passages by Paul about God's multi-faceted grace that shows up for all the world to see in His Church.
Genesis 47:13-15 Now there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 So when the money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has failed." There are a number of reasons that money fails.
John 3:16 is the most quoted and most remembered scripture from the bible.
Did you know that there are a number of other 3:16 verses that relate to and are very important to our spiritual lives and our living for Jesus?
Tonight we are going to look at some of those 3:16 scriptures.
Philippians 1:9-11 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Fear is common to all. We all fear something. Some fear is God given. Children come into this world with a fear of heights and of loud noises. Some fears are there to protect us from physical harm: snakes, darkness, suffocation, being burned, death, etc. In christians, most fear is a tool of satan
Brotherly love has amazed many people throughout the centuries. Love of the brethren is commanded by God. Brotherly love mus be worked at to achieve. problems in the church are either directly or indirectly connected to lack of love for one another. love is the key to a growing or even a surviving church.
Jesus makes it very clear that we need to forgive others in order to be forgiven ourselves by God. Forgiveness is a key to having successful relationships. we will look at nine roadblocks to forgiveness from the book, "From Anger to Intimacy"
in Galatians chapter 3 Paul contrasts salvation under the Law of Moses with the salvation we have through Jesus. Galatians 3:22-29 is full of truths regarding our true position as sons of our loving Father. We will look at 8 things which our faith in Christ will cause us to become.
We are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works. We are blessed for doing God's work. We are to speak and do. Faith without works is dead. Faith is shown by our works.
Jonah is a book about god's desire to save the lost and man's role in that. there are some great lessons taught in the book of Jonah. We will look at questions Jonah was asked in the book and ask those questions of ourselves.
we all need motivation at times. what motivates you? Paul said 5 things to the brethren at Rome to motivate them to continue their service no matter how great the suffering became. the good always outweighs the bad. the Holy Spirit intercedes for us. God's providence works for us. Judgment is on our behalf. the love of God is on our behalf.
Repentance is a change in your allegiance, your expectations, your values, your priorities, your mission and your morals. can you say there has been a change in your life since you met the Lord?
Isaiah 9:6-7 Jesus would be called or known as wonderful. Wonderful in His birth. Wonderful in His miracles. Wonderful in His teachings. Wonderful in His resistance to sin. Wonderful in His accomplishing His work. Wonderful in His fulfilling prophecies. Wonderful in His sacrifice. Wonderful in His resurrection. Wonderful is His Name.
Isaiah 9:6-7 Jesus would be called or known as Mighty God. Prophecies said he would be God. John said He was Creator and God. Jesus claimed to be God. Thomas said He was God. Paul said He was Creator. Paul called Him God. John said Jesus was the True God.
Isaiah 9:6-7 His name will be called or He would be known as counselor. He is a counselor who understands your struggles. He is a counselor who cares for you. He is a counselor who is committed to you.
I John 2:28-3:3 Tests for Christians. Do you abide in Christ? Do you practice righteousness? Who knows you? Are you a child of God? Are you pure, just as He is pure? What is your identity?
I John 4:1-6 tests for christians 3 - the test of false teaching. Bluffing your way. Do you confess the Son? Do you listen to the Son? Do you obey the Son? Do you pass the test?
Ephesians 3:14-21 How big is your God? The ability of my God is boundless. The ability of my God goes beyond my prayers. The ability of my God is beyond my ability to imagine. The ability of my God is manifested in the lives of His people. The ability of my God is seen through His glorious church. The ability of my God is eternal.
The resurrection of jesus is a prevarication (spoken against), a plethora (great number) of witnesses, a proven fact, a purpose to save us. a plea to live worthy, a pattern for us to follow, a power from God, a promise for us, to believe in, a pledge by our savior.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
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.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
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.
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.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
2. Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your
reasonable service. 2 And do not
be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you may prove
what is that good and acceptable
and perfect will of God.
3. A LIVING SACRIFICE
A. I beseech you – beg, urge, encourage,
appeal
B. By the mercies of God – compassion
C. Present your bodies a living sacrifice – as
opposed to a sacrifice of life
D. Holy, Acceptable to God – pure, without
spot or blemish
E. Your reasonable service – since Christ died
for us we should live our lives for him. 2
Corinthians 5:15 and He died for all, that
those who live should live no longer for
themselves, but for Him who died for them
and rose again.
4. 1. THE ENEMY OF A
LIVING SACRIFICE
The World’s Mold,
“Do not be conformed
to this world.”
5. 1. “Do not be conformed to
this world.”
A.Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a crowd
to do evil; nor shall you testify in a
dispute so as to turn aside after many to
pervert justice.
B.Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice
you, Do not consent.
C.Proverbs 4:14-15 Do not enter the path of
the wicked, And do not walk in the way of
evil. 15 Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn
away from it and pass on.
6. 1. “Do not be conformed to
this world.”
D.Romans 1:32 who, knowing the righteous
judgment of God, that those who practice
such things are deserving of death, not
only do the same but also approve of
those who practice them.
E. Ephesians 5:11-12 And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For
it is shameful even to speak of those
things which are done by them in secret.
8. 2. “Be transformed”
A.Psa 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O
God, And renew a steadfast spirit within
me.
B.Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all the
transgressions which you have
committed, and get yourselves a new
heart and a new spirit. For why should
you die, O house of Israel?
C.Eze 36:26 I will give you a new heart and
put a new spirit within you; I will take the
heart of stone out of your flesh and give
you a heart of flesh.
9. 2. “Be transformed”
D. 2 Cor 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart.
Even though our outward man is perishing,
yet the inward man is being renewed day by
day.
E. 2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; old things have passed
away; behold, all things have become new.
F. Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to His
mercy He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy
Spirit,
10. 3. THE ENHANCEMENT
FOR THE LIVING
SACRIFICE
A different way of thinking
“The renewing of your
mind”
11. 3. “The renewing of your mind”
A. Meaning of repentance - to change one's mind
and purpose, as the result of after knowledge.
Illustrated Bible Dictionary: And Treasury of
Biblical History, Biography, Geography, Doctrine,
and Literature.
B. Romans 8:5-9 For those who live according to
the flesh set their minds on the things of the
flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit,
the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally
minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law
of God, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who
are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are
not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the
Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does
not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
12. 3. “The renewing of your mind”
C. Colossians 3:9-10 Do not lie to one another, since
you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and
have put on the new man who is renewed in
knowledge according to the image of Him who
created him,
D. Eph 4:22-24 that you put off, concerning your former
conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according
to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit
of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man
which was created according to God, in true
righteousness and holiness.
E. Romans 8:5-7 For those who live according to the
flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but
those who live according to the Spirit, the things of
the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to
be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the
carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not
subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
13. 4. THE END RESULT OF A
LIVING SACRIFICE
The Will of God,
“Prove the good,
acceptable & perfect will
of God.”
14. 3. “Prove the good, acceptable
& perfect will of God.”
A. 1 Peter 4:1-2 Therefore, since Christ suffered for
us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same
mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has
ceased from sin, 2 that he no longer should live
the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of
men, but for the will of God.
B. Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me,
'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
C. Ephesians 5:8-10 For you were once darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children
of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all
goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding
out what is acceptable to the Lord.
D. Ephesians 5:17 Therefore do not be unwise, but
understand what the will of the Lord is.
15. A LIVING SACRIFICE
A. Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
of God.
B. Are you presenting your body as a living
sacrifice?
C. Are you conforming to this world?
D. Have you been transformed by renewing your
mind?
E. Are you proving and following the will of God?