The document discusses the concept of the "Prison of Death" which represents the state of being born in sin. It describes how all of mankind is conceived in this prison due to our sinful nature, and are naked, ashamed, afraid, blinded by Satan, and selfish. We are dead in our sins and trespasses. The lock on this prison is death, as the wages of sin is death. Jesus broke the power of sin and death by his death on the cross. Those still in the prison of death are hopeless unless God extends his mercy and grace. The document encourages reflection on whether we live still trapped in sin or have found freedom through Christ.
What do you hope for? Do you hope for a new job? A new relationship? A new adventure in life? A new smartphone? But first let me ask you this question, what is hope?
Hope looks at the future. You are hoping because there is something to look forward to. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Singles individual might hope in their work to achieve their goals and dream. Or they might hope for a relationship where they would receive the love they need. These can be the wrong anchors or sources of our hope.
Hebrews 12:2 says keep your eyes on Jesus who perfects our faith. It is actually also saying that we are to hope in God. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Wherever there is full assurance of hope, there is faith. Faith is the full assurance of hope. Hope is part of Faith. Therefore, in Hebrews 12 God is the one who initiates, He is the author or source of our faith and He is the one who is the source of our hope. He is the one we are to hope for because he will be one who will make what we hope for come into a reality. Look at what Romans 15:13 says also.
Romans 15:13 - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
God of hope means God is the source of hope. I like how its translated in the NLT version, it says this: “God, the source of hope, will.” Hope here in Greek is elpis meaning expectation, trust, confidence and expectation of what is sure or certain. We can now relate this to God the source of hope as God our source of confidence as we expect something to be sure or certain
That’s why I would like to define hope as CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE ANCHORED ON GOD WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Great Expectations because God can do more than what we could think of our imagine and because we expect it to actually happen. As one famous preacher said, biblical hope is just not a desire but it expects it to happen
What do you hope for? Do you hope for a new job? A new relationship? A new adventure in life? A new smartphone? But first let me ask you this question, what is hope?
Hope looks at the future. You are hoping because there is something to look forward to. Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Singles individual might hope in their work to achieve their goals and dream. Or they might hope for a relationship where they would receive the love they need. These can be the wrong anchors or sources of our hope.
Hebrews 12:2 says keep your eyes on Jesus who perfects our faith. It is actually also saying that we are to hope in God. Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Wherever there is full assurance of hope, there is faith. Faith is the full assurance of hope. Hope is part of Faith. Therefore, in Hebrews 12 God is the one who initiates, He is the author or source of our faith and He is the one who is the source of our hope. He is the one we are to hope for because he will be one who will make what we hope for come into a reality. Look at what Romans 15:13 says also.
Romans 15:13 - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
God of hope means God is the source of hope. I like how its translated in the NLT version, it says this: “God, the source of hope, will.” Hope here in Greek is elpis meaning expectation, trust, confidence and expectation of what is sure or certain. We can now relate this to God the source of hope as God our source of confidence as we expect something to be sure or certain
That’s why I would like to define hope as CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE ANCHORED ON GOD WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Great Expectations because God can do more than what we could think of our imagine and because we expect it to actually happen. As one famous preacher said, biblical hope is just not a desire but it expects it to happen
Many people think they will go to heaven because they have lived a good life. Perhaps, they treat all of their neighbors fairly. Maybe they volunteer for charity work and have never broken the law. Maybe they were even baptized or go to church regularly. But the Bible, God's Word, says that no one can live up to God's standard of righteousness.
This Roman Road as laid out in scripture is God’s plan of salvation set forth in Paul’s letter to the Romans. The following scriptures build a beautiful road to Jesus Christ.
Many people think they will go to heaven because they have lived a good life. Perhaps, they treat all of their neighbors fairly. Maybe they volunteer for charity work and have never broken the law. Maybe they were even baptized or go to church regularly. But the Bible, God's Word, says that no one can live up to God's standard of righteousness.
This Roman Road as laid out in scripture is God’s plan of salvation set forth in Paul’s letter to the Romans. The following scriptures build a beautiful road to Jesus Christ.
12 Foundation Stones Class 8B - The Greatest Love - Eternal Salvation.pdfFreekidstories
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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 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 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.
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
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.
2. 1 Corinthians 8:1 - Now
regarding your question about
food that has been offered to
idols. Yes, we know that “we all
have knowledge” about this
issue. But while knowledge
makes us feel important, it is
love that strengthens the church.
3. 2Anyone who claims to know
all the answers doesn’t really
know very much. 3But the
person who loves God is the
one whom God recognizes. NLT
4. The Purpose For Our
Life Groups
is to provide an intimate and safe
setting for people to develop open and
caring relationships with each other
while learning how to practically live
out the Word of God in their daily lives.
5. > It is love that strengthens the
church.
> The person who loves God is the
one whom God recognizes.
6. Not relying on our credentials or
accomplishments but on what
Jesus has done while placing no
confidence in our fleshly efforts.
7. > The Source of Righteousness
is Christ not our own effort.
> When we live in Christ’s
righteousness it requires
Surrender.
8. Galatians 3:12-13 - This way
of faith is very different from
the way of law, which says, “It
is through obeying the law
that a person has life. "But
Christ has rescued us from
the curse pronounced by the
law. … NLT
9. Psalm 51:5 - For I was born a
sinner—yes, from the moment
my mother conceived me.. NLT
10. Romans 3:23 - For everyone
has sinned; we all fall short of
God’s glorious standard. NLT
12. The Prison of Death is filled
with fear, guilt and shame
because regardless of who we
are the Holy Spirit insures that
we are convicted of our sin.
13. John 16:8 - And when he
comes, he will convict the
world of its sin, and of God’s
righteousness, and of the
coming judgment. NLT
14. Galatians 3:20 - But the
Scriptures declare that we
are all prisoners of sin, so
we receive God’s promise of
freedom only by believing in
Jesus Christ. NLT
19. Hebrews 2:14-15 – Because
God’s children are human
beings—made of flesh and
blood—the Son also became
flesh and blood. For only as a
human being could he die,
and only by dying could he
20. break the power of the devil,
who had the power of death.
Only in this way could he set
free all who have lived their
lives as slaves to the fear of
dying. NLT
21. All mankind is conceived
in the Prison of Death & all
nonbelievers are fearful of
death.
22. 1 John 1:8 – If we claim we
have no sin, we are only
fooling ourselves and not
living in the truth. NLT
23. The Prison of Death sits on
Death Row – all await God’s
judgment of eternal death.
24. John 3:18 – “There is no
judgment against anyone
who believes in him. But
anyone who does not believe
in him has already been
judged for not believing in
God’s one and only Son. NLT
26. Genesis 3:7-11 – At that
moment their eyes were
opened, and they suddenly
felt shame at their nakedness.
So they sewed fig leaves
together to cover themselves.
8When the cool evening
breezes were blowing,
27. the man and his wife heard
the Lord God walking about in
the garden. So they hid from
the Lord God among the
trees. 9Then the Lord God
called to the man, “Where are
you?” 10He replied, “I heard
you walking in the garden
28. so I hid. I was afraid because
I was naked.” 11“Who told
you that you were naked?”
the Lord God asked. “Have
you eaten from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you
not to eat?” NLT
30. 2 Corinthians 4:4 – Satan,
who is the god of this world,
has blinded the minds of those
who don’t believe. They are
unable to see the glorious light
of the Good News. They don’t
understand this message about
the glory of Christ, who is the
exact likeness of God. NLT
32. Matthew 16:24 – Then Jesus
said to his disciples, “If any of
you wants to be my follower,
you must turn from your
selfish ways, take up your
cross, and follow me. NLT
33. > Naked, Ashamed & Afraid
> Blinded by Satan
> Selfish
> Dead in Sin
34. Ephesians 2:1 – And you
were dead in your trespasses
and sins. NASB
35. This deadness is not because we
committed sin but because we
were conceived and exist in sin.
36. Matthew 12:35 – A good
person produces good things
from the treasury of a good
heart, and an evil person
produces evil things from the
treasury of an evil heart. NLT
37. We don’t become sinners
because we sin, but we sin
because we are sinners.
38. > This is not true of Christians.
> Christians are new
creatures in Christ
> Therefore, Christians are
Saints not Sinners.
39. Those in the Prison of Death are
Hopeless, unless the Warden of
Love, the holder of the key of life,
extends mercy & grace. Otherwise
all who exist in the Prison of Death
will justly die.