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?
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?
18 “Born Again” Fathered By God 1 John 5:1-5Rick Peterson
“Born Again” Fathered By God 1 John 5:1-5 Adapted from a Steve Shepherd sermon http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/born-of-god-steve-shepherd-sermon-on-born-again-150324.asp
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.
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?
18 “Born Again” Fathered By God 1 John 5:1-5Rick Peterson
“Born Again” Fathered By God 1 John 5:1-5 Adapted from a Steve Shepherd sermon http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/born-of-god-steve-shepherd-sermon-on-born-again-150324.asp
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.
Can we understand the bible alike? Does God expect us to understand the bible alike? In this lesson we answer the questions. Both audio and slides can be viewed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
In this lesson we outline the book of Jude or Judah and show what building our most holy faith means. We also show how building our most holy faith is done. Both audio and slides can be enjoyed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
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
In this lesson we define knowledge and how to obtain it. We discuss the necessity of biblical knowledge and the perils of being ignorant or lacking knowledge. Both slides and audio can be enjoyed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian BIrdow
Can we understand the bible alike? Does God expect us to understand the bible alike? In this lesson we answer the questions. Both audio and slides can be viewed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
In this lesson we outline the book of Jude or Judah and show what building our most holy faith means. We also show how building our most holy faith is done. Both audio and slides can be enjoyed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian Birdow
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
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
In this lesson we define knowledge and how to obtain it. We discuss the necessity of biblical knowledge and the perils of being ignorant or lacking knowledge. Both slides and audio can be enjoyed together at www.cmcoc.org
Sermon by: Brian BIrdow
14 Do Not Believe Every Person/Spirit 1 John 4:1-6Rick Peterson
Do Not Believe Every Person/Spirit 1 John 4:1-6 Adapted from a Steve Shepherd sermon http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/do-not-believe-every-person/spirit-steve-shepherd-sermon-on-false-teaching-148974.asp
There’s a lot of empty space with people making empty claims about God and Jesus and life and truth, but those quite frankly don’t add up, they sound good, but they’re hollow like this wall, and they can’t support the weight of your life, and if you try to anchor yourself to it, you’ll fall.
Calling Out The Counterfeits Matthew 23 verses 1 through 13 notes.docxNinjevangelist
Calling Out the Counterfeits
Matthew 23:1-13 Notes
Inspiration taken from Pastor James Merritt's Sermon "Calling Out"
Jesus hates holy hypocrites and counterfeit Christians.
He loves blameless believers and Consistent Christians.
4 main points of this study:
1) Reveal the source of a Counterfeit
2) Recognize the signs of a Counterfeit
3) Respond by giving remedies for a Counterfeit
4) Rebuke and refute the system of a Counterfeit
Similar to tests for christians 3 - the test of false teaching (20)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Isaiah 9:6-7 Jesus would be called or know as the Prince of Peace. He brings peace through salvation. He brings peace through the Spirit. He brings peace through the scriptures. He brings peace through service. He brings peace through our following His guidance. He brings peace through being in Him. He brings peace through our being spiritually minded. He brings peace through answering our prayers. He brings peace through His blood. He brings peace through our pursuit of peace. He brings peace through Knowledge. He brings peace through our being peacemakers.
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).
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
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 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.
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…
2. 1 John 4:1-6 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but
test the spirits, whether they are of God; because
many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of
God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And
this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have
heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome
them, because He who is in you is greater than he who
is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they
speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We
are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is
not of God does not hear us. By this we know the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
3. Last Two Weeks Tests
• Do you know God?
• Do you walk like Jesus walked?
• Do you love like Jesus loved?
• Are you abiding in Jesus?
• Do you practice righteousness?
• Does Jesus “know” you?
• Are you a child of God?
• Are you pure as he is pure?
4. BLUFFING YOUR WAY
A. Bluff Your Way In New York!
1. “Bluff Your Way In New York” Ken
Lawless 1990
2. How to look and act like a New Yorker
a. How to dress
b. How to talk
c. Where to go
d. What to do
5. BLUFFING YOUR WAY
B. Bluff Your Way At Church!
1. People who claim Christianity, but are just
bluffing.
2. They know the right words, cliché’s, and
forms!
3. Matthew 7:21—Jesus said there would be
people like this
4. 2 Corinthians 11:13—Paul said there would
be false prophets
5. Acts 20:29-30—Paul said they would even
come from among elders!
C. How do we know? 1 John 4:1-6 Test ourselves!
6. I. Do You Confess The Son? 4:1
A. Denying Jesus
1. He was just a myth—like the lone
Ranger!
2. He was just a good man—like Roy
Rogers
3. He was just a prophet—like Moses
4. These, who say these things are not
Christians, are just bluffing.
7. I. Do You Confess The Son? 4:1
B. Denying Jesus’ Authority
1. Many admit that Jesus existed, but just
another Human Being.
2. These overlook John 1:1—the word was
with God and was God
3. Philippians 2:7-8 —was equal with God
4. Matthew 28:18—“ALL AUTHORITY is
given to me…”
5. These claim Christianity but are just
bluffing.
8. II. Do You Listen To The Son?
A. Intellectually Acknowledging Jesus?
1. James 2:17-19 Thus also faith by itself, if it
does not have works, is dead. 18 But
someone will say, "You have faith, and I have
works." Show me your faith without your
works, and I will show you my faith by my
works. 19 You believe that there is one God.
You do well. Even the demons believe--and
tremble!
2. We must confess who He is – Son of God
3. We must confess what He did – Died for us
4. We must confess what He taught – All truth
5. We must confess Him as Lord – Of our lives
9. II. Do You Listen To The Son?
B. Listen From Our Hearts
1. Hebrews 1:1-2 … has in these last days
spoken to us by His Son, …
2. Matthew 17:5 "This is My beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"
3. Luke 10:42 “Mary has chosen that
good part”
4. John 6:68 Peter said, “To whom shall
we go? You have the words of eternal
life!
10. III. Do You Obey The Son?
A. False Prophets
1. Matthew 7:15-20 "Beware of false prophets, who
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they
are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their
fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or
figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears
good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good
tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear
good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit
is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by
their fruits you will know them.
2. Colossians 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you
through philosophy and empty deceit, according to
the tradition of men, according to the basic
principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
11. III. Do You Obey The Son?
B. The Only True Prophet - Jesus
1. Deuteronomy 18:17-22 And the LORD said to me:
'What they have spoken is good. 18 I will raise up for
them a Prophet like you from among their brethren,
and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall
speak to them all that I command Him. 19 And it shall
be that whoever will not hear My words, which He
speaks in My name, I will require it of him. 20 But the
prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or who
speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall
die.' 21 And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we
know the word which the LORD has not spoken?'--
22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD,
if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is
the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the
prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not
be afraid of him.
12. III. Do You Obey The Son?
B. The Only True Prophet – Jesus
1. When Christianity closes with the church
doors, we’re bluffing
2. When the Gospel (Good News) is that we
can claim God while acting like the devil,
we’re bluffing
3. When Worship does not affect our daily
lives, we are bluffing.
4. Is it possible to deny Christ and not even
know it? Mat 7:21-22 Many will say to
me…
13. III. Do You Obey The Son?
B. The Only True Prophet – Jesus
5. Following Jesus means
a.“Practicing what we preach” - Luke
6:46 "But why do you call Me 'Lord,
Lord,' and do not do the things which I
say?
b.Bearing fruit of the Spirit of Christ -
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against
such there is no law.
14. DO YOU PASS THE TEST?
• Do you know God?
• Do you walk like Jesus walked?
• Do you love like Jesus loved?
• Are you abiding in Jesus?
• Do you practice righteousness?
• Does Jesus “know” you?
• Are you a child of God?
• Are you pure as he is pure?
• Do you confess Jesus?
• Do you listen to Jesus?
• Do you obey Jesus?