Jesus came to initiate a process of salvation that leads to life and peace. Staying only at the level of salvation is why many do not experience the full glory that comes from entering into life. Jesus came to provide both forgiveness of sins through salvation and eternal life through drawing near to God. Drawing near to God, which is determined by one's mindset, increases one's proximity to the source of life. A carnal mindset focused on worldly things leads to death, while a spiritual mindset focused on God's word through meditation leads to life, peace, fruitfulness and glorifying God.

1. WHY DID JESUS COME?
SOLOMON APPIAH
September 25, 2016

2. Why did Jesus Come?
•Salvation? … NO!
•That was only the beginning of why he came.
•Why did he come? What does salvation lead to?
•He came to initiate a process:
1. Beginning point is forgiveness of sins—SALVATION
2. End point is LIFE & PEACE
• Staying at SALVAION level (seeing) and not
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3. What is LIFE?
One second of coming in contact with LIFE will:
1. Heal EVERY sickness in your body
2. Light you up
3. Give life to you mortal body
4. Deliverance for your business, marriage,
children
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4. How is this possible?
• Jas 4:8 KJV Draw nigh to God, and he will draw
nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and
purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• Your proximity to the source of Life—GOD
determines how much Life you have. You can only
give what you have.
• This proximity is not determined by GOD but by you
• In other words, you determine how much LIFE you,
your family, business, etc has and can exhibit
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5. How do we increase our proximity to GOD
KEY: Mindset i.e. what you set your mind on.
Jesus used parables to teach deep mysteries
Mat 13:13 KJV Therefore speak I to them in
parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing
they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:16 KJV But blessed are your eyes, for they
see: and your ears, for they hear.
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6. Mindset: Like an alarm, what is your mind set on? It
determines the quality of you life
See parable of sower
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7. Mat 13:18-23 KJV
(18) Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
(19) When any one heareth the word of the
kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh
the wicked one, and catcheth away that which
was sown in his heart. This is he which received
seed by the way side.
(20) But he that received the seed into stony
places, the same is he that heareth the word,
and anon with joy receiveth it;
(21) Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for
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8. (22) He also that received seed among the
thorns is he that heareth the word; and the
care of this world, and the deceitfulness of
riches, choke the word, and he becometh
unfruitful.
(23) But he that received seed into the good
ground is he that heareth the word, and
understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and
bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some
sixty, some thirty.
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9. •Unfruitfulness in your marriage, career, ministry,
parenting is caused by the CHOKING of the
WORD.
•The Word can be CHOKED
•What Chokes the Word?
• Mat 13:22 AMP As for what was sown among
thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the
cares of the world and the pleasure and
delight and glamour and deceitfulness of
riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it
yields no fruit.
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10. •What Chokes the Word?
• According to Jesus’ parable:
1. the cares of the world
2. the pleasure and delight and glamour and
deceitfulness of riches (master, do not be
mastered)
They CHOKE and SUFFOCATE the Word, and it
yields no fruit.
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11. • Dr. Luke’s version
• Luk 8:14 KJV And that which fell among thorns
are they, which, when they have heard, go
forth, and are choked with
1. cares and
2. riches and
3. pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to
perfection.
Fruit starts but is aborted or never ripes
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12. Hearing the Word (seed) is not enough
This is why church-ianity has failed
Hearing is just the beginning of a process.
It is insemination
Fruit (baby) has not yet been born
Baby could be anything GOD word has
promised you including good health
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13. God lives for fruit. He abhors UNFRUITFULNESS
• Mat 7:19-21 KJV Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is
1. hewn down, and
2. cast into the fire
(21) Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall ENTER into the kingdom of heaven; but he
that DOETH the will of my Father which is in
heaven.
• Hearing is not enough. Practice the Word in all
you do
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14. Fruitfulness entails manifesting LIFE—not death
i.e. being cast into fire
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15. Luk 13:6-9 KJV
(6) He spake also this parable; A certain man had
a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came
and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
(7) Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard,
Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on
this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why
cumbereth it the ground?
(8) And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it
alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and
dung it:
(9) And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after
that thou shalt cut it down.
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16. Joh 15:4-6 KJV
(4) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the
vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
(5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that
abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth
forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
(6) If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered; and men gather them,
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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17. Three (3) Apostles saying same thing about
unfruitfulness and fire
How do we abide in Him
KEY: Mindset
Review the things that causes unfruitfulness
Where are they situated? In the Mind
How do we abide in Him?
Via our minds
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18. Rom 8:6 KJV For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and
peace.
CARNAL MIND = DEATH in your home business
etc
SPIRITUALLY MINDED = LIFE & PEACE
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19. • What does it mean to be carnally MINDed?
• What does it mean to be Spiritually MINDed?
• Just use another version of the bible
Romans (NASB)For the mind set on the flesh is death,
but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
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20. • Isa 26:3 AMP You will guard him and keep him in
perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its
inclination and its character] is stayed on You,
because he commits himself to You, leans on You,
and hopes confidently in You.
• Benefits of staying / setting our minds (mindset) on
the Lord and His Word
1. The Lord will guard him
2. keep him in perfect and constant peace
• NT: That person will also access LIFE
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21. • Glorify GOD by bearing fruit—not just saying it
• How do we glorify GOD
• Joh 15:8 AMP When you bear (produce) much
fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you
show and prove yourselves to be true followers of
Mine.
• Setting our minds on our challenges will make us
unfruitful and he is not honoured by such
• Mind is fertile. If you do not consciously meditate on
GOD’s Word, weeds (cares, pleasures etc) will grow
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22. THANK YOU
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