Monday 8 February 2021

CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP



Memory Verse: Matthew. 10:25 "It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his lord"

Bible Reading: Acts 11: 25-26, Matt. 10:24-25.

Central True: A disciple is a resemblance of someone in character, conduct and behaviour-Be an imitator of Christ.

INTRODUCTION: A disciple could be seen as a person or someone who believe in, and follows the teachings of another. He could be a religions leader or political leader. those who followed Jesus Christ and his teaching when he was living on earth, especially the twelve (Apostles) were known as disciples. 

FOLLOW JESUS CALL


Discipleship is the making of a disciple. it is based on Jesus' call and involved exclusive loyalty to Him (Mark 8:34). in a Church set-up, Christians are known as disciples or followers of Jesus Christ. Acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Saviour is the first qualification, follows by the necessary training (discipleship) that builds one's faith through the word and, having an open heart to learn and put into practice all that has been learnt.

Act 11:26 " And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch."

LESSON EXPOSITION

Called to Discipleship: A disciple is called to follow the faith of his leader in the following ways:

1. A disciple is called to follow God with reserve - Eph.5:1 Matt 4:18-19.

2. A disciple is called to grow in faith and prayer daily Mark 11:20-24, Col.4:2.

3.  A disciple is called to holiness, grow in grace and the knowledge of Christ 1 Peter 1:14-16; 2Peter         3:18

4.  A disciple is called to rejoice when face with persecution for his master's sake Matt. 5:11-12.

5.  A disciple is called to love and always keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Eph.4:1-3

6.  A disciple is called to service and commitment-Rom.12:1-2; Eph. 6:5-7

7.  A disciple is called to obey and follow after the faith of his/her pastor Eph 6:1; Heb 13:17.

8. A disciple is called to be a giver (God first gave - Jesus), Luke. 6:30, 38.

9.  A disciple is called to be an example to the world of both believers and unbelievers 1Tim. 4:12.

10.  A disciple is called to be perfect like his master - Matt. 5:48;

CONCLUSION:  A disciple is one who belief in Christain faith and follows accordingly. He is one whose heart is open to learning more about the faith you have received (Act 17:11). Having known who a disciple is or ought to be; examine yourself, are you one? if you are not you can be one today. Just accept, believe and follow.

Question for Discussion

1. Explain in your own word, who is a disciple?

2. What could you consider as the qualification of being a disciple?

3. Mention five attitude or call to discipleship.

4. A disciple should imitate both the good and bad of his master. Yes or No. Give reason(s) for  your         answer

Prayer: My father and my God; release in me the attitude of a disciple and help me to be committed and faithful to your word, through Jesus our Lord, Amen.

REV DR FAVOUR/REV DR DEBBIE ADESHINA

Monday 8 June 2020

Christian You Are Perfect Forever


Christian you are impeccable everlastingly," seems like apostasy

Be that as it may, it's in reality sound Doctrine. To enter the realm of God you should be conceived again and turn into another creation in Christ.

God's first creation, Adam and Eve, were great as is God's subsequent creation. Actually, God doesn't make anything except if it's ideal.

Have you at any point read second Corinthians 5:21 where it says that "Jesus who realized no transgression was made to be sin for us that we may be made the exemplary nature of God in him." at the end of the day when He was on the cross He became what you were and when you have conceived again you become what He was.

In the Old Testament, they utilized the blood of bulls and goats to cover their transgressions for one year. In any case, did you realize that in the brain of most Christians the blood of Jesus has less force than the blood of bulls and goats? In the event that you don't trust me, go to the chapel and tune in. Christians are down at the special raised area crying, now and then a few times each week, to get their transgressions excused and to apologize. The Jews just needed to go once per year.


The Blood of Bulls and Goats 

The book of Hebrews instructs that the blood of bulls and goats would never make the admirers great however the blood of Jesus, it says, made us great. You don't trust it? Tune in to my video and you will see the sacred writings that demonstrate precisely what I'm stating.

In the event that you have been conceived again, you have flawlessness through Christ. "By effortlessness, you've been spared and that not of yourself." Yes, I said by Grace, not by works; you can't blend elegance and cooperates, it must be either.

Whenever you blend benevolent acts in with Grace you invalidate the entirety of God's favors throughout your life. In case you're tuning in to stuff that is discussing your presentation and all that you have to do to fix your life you're tuning in to nothing aside from brain research.


Christianity isn't about what you do it's about what Jesus Christ has just done. 

The easy street must be lived in Christ, and offspring of God it's bliss and euphoria too much! Yet, attempting to perform will bring you under judgment. Romans section 8 says, "there is accordingly now no judgment to the individuals who are in Christ Jesus."

In case you're battling with attempting to be a Christian, and you get denounced constantly, it's not God it's the fiend. What's more, in all honesty, the fallen angel can utilize Ministers of the Gospel to accomplish his work. I am a Minister of the Gospel however I endeavor to give you the genuine gospel. See this refrain in Romans 11:6, "On the off chance that by elegance, at that point it is no longer of works; in any case, beauty does not effortlessness anymore. Yet, in the event that it is of works, it does not elegance anymore; in any case, work is do not work anymore."

Presently take a gander at Rom. 6:14, "Sin will not have domain over you, for you are not under the law yet under beauty."

Individuals who battle with transgression must figure out how to live by beauty!

Saturday 6 June 2020

HOW DOES GOD FEEL ABOUT MY PAIN?

From the earliest starting point of Christendom, the congregation fathers showed the thought that in the event that God can't change, at that point He can't endure either (as God). The last 200 years, because of man's brutality to man during the modern unrest and because of the awful truth of the holocaust, numerous scholars have changed their convictions into the possibility that God endures alongside us and even like us. The possibility of patripassianism happened as of now very right off the bat throughout the entire existence of the congregation, yet was smothered as a result of its antitrinitarian thought of the modalities of God. As per it God basically killed Himself.
The incredible inquiry is whether Jesus endured as a human alone, or likewise as God the Son. What's more, going from that point, did God the Father endure when Jesus was killed, left by God the Father and kicked the bucket? What's more, still more. Does God sympathize with MY torment! On the off chance that He doesn't, does that not make Him rather indifferent? Presently let us focus in on this. Is God bodily, that is does He have a body like us? Stanzas like the one in Joshua that "Wine delights the core of God and man" imply that God has a body, much like Zeus in Greek folklore. Likewise references to the "forceful arm" of God and the "finger of God" appear to help humanoid attribution. Church fathers dismiss this thought on the ground that God is a soul. However, I would contend that not at all like in Islam, God isn't the entirely Other, in light of the fact that we have been "made in the picture and as indicated by the resemblance of God." God isn't a circle or a thought, or a creature or a holy messenger. God must have an otherworldly 'body' in His indication to the heavenly attendants. (This against the thought that God has no corporeality at all). God is soul, NOT spiritS. In any case, that doesn't imply that the ONE God comprises in three modalities in a manner of speaking. He IS three Persons. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The three are ONE like the three components of stature, length and broadness. How that is conceivable, being One soul, stays a secret. Except if that Bible stanza ought to be clarified as 'God is profound.' But that would suggest that God is spiritS (a plural). Which would conflict with Scripture. To guarantee that God comprises just in three modalities, does foul play to the Love that exists between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. To guarantee that God comprises in three spirits, pardon me, would give Him a various character syndrom. There is One God, Who is One soul, comprising in three perfect Persons. "The shrouded things have a place with God" a Scripture states and without a doubt maybe I have gone excessively far here as of now. God is and everlastingly will stay a puzzle. Along these lines at long last, God's celestial characteristics, (for example, His limitlessness, effortlessness, giganticness, need, permanence, time everlasting, freedom ((His independent aseity)) and authority) must stay unfit (and to a great extent undescribed), in light of the fact that they are basically incommunicable. But then Christ expresses: "This is endless life that individuals know You, the main True God en Whom You sent, Jesus Christ." And that is the thing that we are attempting to do here.
This having been stated, we should hold that God as a soul doesn't change. In the event that God could change, at that point He would be problematic. As indicated by Scripture "God lives in a disconnected light." "It's not possible for anyone to see God and live." As such God is genuinely extraordinary even over the most elevated heavenly attendant. All things considered, that is in His true inner being, does God feel torment as God? In His sign with a body (as in the book of Daniel), He completely can't feel torment; for then He could be tormented!
As indicated by the lessons of the congregation fathers, the possibility that God can't change, suggests that He doesn't feel feeling. I'm not catching it's meaning then that God is Love? I have attempted to get this and I have thought of the accompanying line of thinking. On the off chance that God could feel (passionate) torment, similar to we people do; at that point He isn't totally great, not even in His Love! For it would suggest that He feels a misfortune, yet in His ideal Love He can't be improved, nor endure misfortune. His Love is totally great. One can't detract from it and one can't improve it. To the protest that this implies God the Father didn't feel for Jesus as a human, I answer that the possibility of an enduring God, makes human enduring celestial. It is a semi gnostic glorification of our humankind. Truth be told it suggests that we as people have something divine... While, in Adam and in our own people, we ourselves are at fault for our wrongdoings and the enduring they involve. God doesn't sin and He doesn't feel the outcomes of transgression. In this manner He can lift us up out of our sadness. Does this make God unoriginal? Actually no, not in the slightest degree. For He took on mankind. What's more, as man Jesus endured a definitive, the condition left by God. Likewise He was tormented like numerous individuals are. To have faith in a God Who endures, makes the enduring of humankind irreal. To place it in strict terms. As God the Son, Christ is impassible. As a human, Jesus is passible. In the primary nature He doesn't endure and as a human He does. To blend them up, would confound the perfect and human instincts of Christ as in Eutychianism. To accept that Christ endured boundlessly, as is suggested on the off chance that He endured as God the Son, would cause His mankind to decrease to irrelevance. The main unending enduring there is, is the perpetual enduring in damnation; limitless in time. For to dismiss the languishing of Jesus over you, a definitive endowment of God, will require unending enduring on your part. To dismiss a boundless God, follows into an unbounded discipline. This isn't a disarray of the awesome and the human, to remain inside the unique circumstance. On the off chance that you dismiss Christ, as either God or human (or both), God will dismiss you for dismissing His Beloved. God is otherworldly, however not detached. As per the tenet of individuals like Augustine, God acts towards us in a passible (enthusiastic) route in this feeling His interests are deliberate. Be that as it may, He Himself is impassible, as God He doesn't have (human) feelings. Sacred writings like "As the sky are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than yours" show that God will be God and we are just human. Jesus is immaculate as a passionate human. Our feelings are harmed by the Fall of man.
God isn't unapproachable, yet He isn't interfering either. At any rate not in the political feeling of the Old Testament. "Provide for Caesar what has a place with Caesar and provide for God what is because of God", infers the division of Church and state. Something the reformers didn't surely know, however individuals like the Anabaptists did. Actually it can possibly be contended that Calvin, Zwingli and even Luther, were liable of homicide as Christians in their religio-political commitment. The view that God is both impassible and passible (dispassionate and enthusiastic), is dipolar panentheism, in which God comprises in inverse real factors. Amazing quality and characteristic, hugeness and inescapability and others, are stirred up. A view we countered previously. It is a type of self-conflicting mystery that would make God unconventional and flimsy. It here and there is disguised under extravagant terms as that God is both omnitemporal and a-fleeting. Be that as it may, God exists together with all purposes of time (in His endless NOW), not in all purposes of time. Thus He is concurrent with each purpose of spacial presence, not in. That would be pan(en)theism. God doesn't have an unexpected side. He isn't variable in His connection to His animals. He is the unaffected mover, the causa causans. He isn't moved or caused. He generally IS. (More right than 'He generally was', as though He lived in an unending length of time past, which is inaccurate. The cross doesn't isolate two endless time periods that as far as anyone knows look forward and in reverse. For God does live in time everlasting. above existence. There is a human and heavenly aeviternity that will go on always, yet there isn't one previously. For existence have a start). The pantheistic view holds that God is a piece of enduring himself. Here great and insidiousness are cut out of the same cloth. A frightful thought that like Zoroastrianism doesn't generally ensure any expectation. In polytheism Zeus is lascivious with sexual and two-timing interests like degenerate humankind and in Hinduism Shakti is brimming with feeling. In rationalism there is apatheism. Who cares whether there is an enduring God or not. In agnosticism there is no god. Nonbelievers endeavor to lay the weight of evidence on the monotheists, however we should guarantee that they in their turn ought to demonstrate that the presence of God isn't a need, yet an inconceivability.
After this deviation we can proceed and take a gander at the accompanying refrains in Genesis sections one and six. "What's more, God saw all that He had made and see it was excellent." "And God was heartbroken that He had made man". Higher pundits are quick to highlight such refrains as an unmitigated logical inconsistency in the Bible. Be that as it may, the Bible doesn't hold logical inconsistencies, yet conundrums. Obviously in His fortune God realized what might occur. Such sections show that God is showed in intentional feelings, however He Himself in Himself doesn't have (human) feelings. Refrains, for example, "Don't lament the Holy Spirit" and messages that notice God's appall and wrath (His negative interests), talk a human language where He is showed to our weak and restricted human comprehension. This language can likewise be called figurative. Such stanzas affirm that "God is Light". His positive interests, (for example, sympathy, happiness and delight) show that "God is Love". Once more, these negative and positive 'sides' are not an inconsistency, however an oddity. In panentheism they have been transformed into inconsistencies and there they picture God as though He is at chances with Himself. (I concede that the differentiation between from one perspective God as Light in His negative interests and then again God as Love in His positive interests, is fairly fake. In any case, the possibility that God as Light has to do with His being simply and God as Love with His being worried about us to reassure us

CALL TO DISCIPLESHIP

Memory Verse: Matthew. 10:25 " It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master  and  the servant as his lord " Bible Readi...

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