God created all we know, and all we can possible know, including His very thoughts today. But how He reveals this information to the hearts of individuals is like the wind. It can't be institutionalized.
Join us in studying The Gospel of Mark through Surveying the Son of God! Pastor Jimmy Steele opens up Mark 1:9-13 to speak about the relationships identified in this passage.
Pastor Elio Marrocco's "The Identity Of The Holy Spirit" sermon at New Life Christian Church in November 2012. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca
God created all we know, and all we can possible know, including His very thoughts today. But how He reveals this information to the hearts of individuals is like the wind. It can't be institutionalized.
Join us in studying The Gospel of Mark through Surveying the Son of God! Pastor Jimmy Steele opens up Mark 1:9-13 to speak about the relationships identified in this passage.
Pastor Elio Marrocco's "The Identity Of The Holy Spirit" sermon at New Life Christian Church in November 2012. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca
The Trinitarian God, Seth Gatchell, July 8 2018Pacific Church
The Bible reveals God to be quite unique. The Bible reveals God to be one being, but three persons…that is one in essence, but three in character (Father, Son, and Spirit). This is a bit difficult for us to wrap our minds around because it can seem a bit contradictory, but Pastor Seth spends this week exploring the “dance” of the Trinity.
Acts is one of the most action packed books of the Bible. Luke describes the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome The challenge of Jesus to take the gospel to the ends of the earth was impossible with out the power and leadership of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is mentioned 43 times in Acts more than any other book.
John's gospel was written around 90AD. He assumes his readers know the basic facts of Jesus life. His purpose is to highlight that Jesus was and is the Son of God and that belief in Him will give eternal life.
Written as a systematic history of Jesus birth death and resurrection. Luke's Gospel was written so that any reader can be certain of the facts of Jesus life. Luke shows the activity of the Holy Spirit preparing the way for the gospel.
Mark's gospel was written under the shadow of persecution. It is filled with action and only a small amount of teaching. It shows Jesus suffered and was victorious.
Matthew's gospel provides the link between the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. He shows how Jesus' life fulfilled the prophecies concerning the Messiah. The key word for this Gospel is "Fulfilled". Matthew records Jesus' public teaching.
The word heart appears more than 800 times in the Bible but what does it mean? The heart is the totality of who I am, body, soul and spirit. past experiences especially traumatic experiences can create wounds of the heart. Rejection is a very common wound of the heart. There are two principles ways a wound of rejection is managed by trying to be good enough to gain acceptance (perfectionism) and by rebelling against the system denying the need for love and acceptance. In Jesus we can find acceptance and healing.
Walking by faith” means acting on what you believe.
Your belief system determines your behaviour. Explore what is a stronghold in the mind and how to build new ones using God's Word.
To understand and know who we are in Christ we need to know understand how God sees us. The problem is that most people have a false idea about what God is like that has been created by past experiences especially what they were taught or experienced as a child.To know the truth of who we are in Christ requires us to know the truth about what God is really like as revealed in the Scriptures and supremely in Jesus.
Being transformed in your mind (Romans12) means rethinking your self image. Those who have placed their trust in Jesus are in Christ. This is a fundamental change. Our identity is now who we are in Christ. The New testament has many descriptions of who we are in Christ and we need to live on the basis of these statements and not by what the world tells us were are or should be.
Bible records may examples of supernatural miraculous healing through God's power working through a person. Jesus demonstrated God's power to heal, cast out demons and raise the dead. Jesus commanded His disciples to do the same. The power of the Holy Spirit flowing through a man or woman is available today to to carry on the work of Jesus.
E tell others about Jesus because we are excited and full of joy and want others to experience the same. Everybody is on a spiritual journey either toward god or away from God. The love of Jesus can be seen by what we do, what we say and and the demonstration of the power of God to heal and answer prayer.The most powerful testimony is the way we live our lives.
Jesus died so that all who believe in Him can receive the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Jesus tells us that if anyone asks to receive the Holy Spirit he will receive. The Holy Spirit is a good gift from the Father. Why would anyone hesitate to receive a good gift from God that Jesus suffered and died to make available.
We live in a a dark world filled with evil spiritual beings who want to kill, steal and destroy our happiness and relationship with God. Jesus faced many spiritual battles, so does every person. Every Christian is a soldier who needs to know the enemies tacts, how to defend himself and how to attack. The Bible reveals all this critical information.
Who is the Holy Spirit? Jesus died to make available to all believers the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person part of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit is the Guide, the Helper, the Comforter and the Counselor. He makes available to believers the power and character of Jesus.
Want wants to speak to us. We need to ask Him and train our selves to recognize when God communicates with us. There are seven ways He normally communicates with us. His voice, His written word, Your heart, prophecy, dreams, visions or circumstances.
The bible has proven to be an integrated message system written by more than 40 authors over more than 1500 years and contains information and predictions that can only come from a Divine Being. The Bible says it is from God and proves it by many accurate predictions of events and people. Therefore it is the most important book that can ever be read.
Prayer comes out of relationship with God. Jesus gave us a template to show us how to pray to our heavenly Father. The vital ingredient for any relationship is time. Unless we invest time in a relationship it does not grow but fades. The time we spend with the Father is never wasted.
Based on the Alpha course. Faith is acting on what we believe is true and will happen. Three factors enable us to have faith, the promises of God in the Bible, the reputation of God in the past and the testimony of others and personal experience. Small steps of trust lead to bigger steps.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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 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
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptx
Applying The Bible Today 2: Ghosts and Spirits
1. Bible Readings:
1 Samuel 28:3-20 (page 212)
Luke 11:14-28 (page 735)
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Applying the Bible 2
What does the Bible say about ghosts and spirits?
2. ✤ “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into
His hands, and that He had come from God and was
going to God,”
(John 13:3, NKJV)
✤ “So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for
blood defiles the land, . . . . .”
(Numbers 35:33, NKJV)
2
Sin can pollute and leave its mark on
physical things
3. ✤ “‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not
seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your
God.”
(Leviticus 19:31, NKJV)
3
God prohibits us from trying to contact or use
spiritual powers unless it is through Jesus
4. ✤ Jesus said: “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he
goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none,
he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’
And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order.
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more
wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and
the last state of that man is worse than the first.”
(Luke 11:24–26, NKJV)
4
Attempting to contact or use the spirit world
is like opening a door to invite the spirits to
occupy your house or body
5. ✤ “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you
completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be
preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:23, NKJV)
5
Man is made in the image of God
3 natures: body, soul, spirit
6. ✤ “His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very
day his plans perish.” (Psalm 146:4, NKJV)
✤ “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you
return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For
dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”” (Genesis
3:19, NKJV)
6
When a person dies their spirit and soul leave
the body and this physical world
7. ✤ “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this
the judgement,”
(Hebrews 9:27, NKJV)
7
Man dies once and then awaits the
Final Judgement
8. ✤ “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive
forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of
Death.” (Revelation 1:18, NKJV)
✤ “And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All
authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
earth.” (Matthew 28:18, NKJV)
✤ “For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that
He might be Lord of both the dead and the
living.” (Romans 14:9, NKJV)
8
No departed spirit/soul can return to the
physical world unless it is permitted by Jesus
9. ✤ The appearance of the real spirit/soul of Samuel is unique
in Scripture.
✤ This incident can not be used to justify consulting
spiritualists, mediums, fortune tellers because Saul’s
action was condemned.
✤ The woman was expecting one of her “familiar” spirits to
appear, instead God allowed the real Samuel to appear
shocking the woman. 1 Sam. 28:11-12
9
1 Samuel 28: Saul consults a medium, someone
who communicates with spirits
10. ✤ If the information about the future does not come from
God it can only come from evil spirits.
✤ The demonic spirits want people to accept a path of life
determined by them.
✤ Truth is mixed with lies to make the deception more
powerful.
10
Wanting to know the future
11. ✤ God has a plan for your life and He will reveal it as you
need to know it. He wants you to trust Him.
✤ “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us
to do.”
Ephesians 2:10
11
Wanting to know the future
12. ✤ All people have a measure of protection by God’s grace.
✤ This protection ends if people seek to contact the spirit
world.
✤ Those who have Christ in their lives and are walking in
obedience have nothing to fear from evil spirits.
✤ Jesus has given all believers His authority to bind and cast
out evil spirits.
12
Are we in any danger from evil spirits?
13. ✤ Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the
demons are subject to us in Your Name.”
And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from
heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on
serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy,
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject
to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in
heaven.”
(Luke 10:17–20, NKJV)
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Jesus has given us authority to help those
oppressed by evil