“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” We often forget how great our God is, the creator of the universe who spoke everything into being. The one who gave us the breath we breathe, who can split the sea so that his people can walk through the Red Sea. Who shut the mouth of lions to protect Daniel. Gave people who couldn’t speak a voice. Gave people who were blind, sight. God allowed us to come into this country and establish a family good friends, the opportunity to study in well-established universities among other people from various countries. To be in this church where we can learn the word of God. He has done incredible things in our life. We should be confident like David who went against the giant Goliath, he went in confidence that his God will deliver him! (1 Samuel 17:37). We should have faith whenever we are going through hardship that God will deliver! Have faith like Abraham who took his to sacrifice, has believed that his God is powerful enough to bring his son back to life! He has delivered in the pasy when we faced turbulance and we will deliver us again this time with whatever we are facing currently. God is Good!
Holy God
Gospel message is not: (it all part but not the sole purpose) 2 Corinthians 11:4 This is another gospel For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough. Why people do not listen when the Gospel is shared? Whilst preachers are praying for new thoughts, they need to pray for help from God to live the word of God. God knows who will be able to withstand suffering for his name Father the God 1 Peter 1:16-17 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. Most people who spread the Gospel through preaching does not have God’s calling You can not serve both God and Money
Can Salvation be lost?
Philippians 1:6 – Salvation – but this is about works being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians 6:2 – Why we share the Gospel? “Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?” David pleading to restore his Joy Salvation Psalms 51:12 – David asking to restore the joy of salvation “Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” Saul losing his Spirit 1 Samuel 13:13 – Saul disobeying God’s command “You have done a foolish thing,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time 1 Samuel 16:14 – Saul lost his salvation “Now the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil[a] spirit from the Lord tormented him.” Adam and Eve reasoning Genesis 3:12-13 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” Revelation 5:9 – Price been paid (his Son on the cross) And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals,because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.“ 1 Peter 1:18-19 Spotless (was perfect) 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. Hebrew 7:26 – Our High Priest “Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.“
Salivation
Luke 3:38 – Adam the son of God “the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.“ 2 Peter 3:9 God’s promise “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” Church = Those who obey his commandment and lead a holy life Acts 2:47 Church = Saved people of God “praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” Romans 10:9 – How can one be saved? “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Repentance – must to get into heaven Saved – to be added to the church Romans 10:9 “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,“ Genesis 3:24 Humans evicted from the Garden “After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.“ Luke 15:11 Prodigal son 20- “and he rose” being proactive 21 – Repentance 22 – transformation (Change in appearance)
Redemption from Sin
Genesis 42:10 – Sin follows you “No, my lord,” they answered. “Your servants have come to buy food.” – Joseph’s brother coming to Egypt 2 Peter 3:9 God delay his second coming for people to repent “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” Psalms 90:10 – Our life is hardship “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures;yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.“ 1 John 4:1 – Test the spirit “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” 1 Corinthians 11:4 – Different spirits “For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.“ We do not have our way because it will not prosper and we will continue with futile wishes and prayers James 4:3 Praying with wrong intension “When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” Proverbs 23: 4-5 Wealth “Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.“ Jeremiah 17:11 Money that is not earned “Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means.When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.“ Oxygen cost £200 for 3 days, for a month more than £2,000 yet is a free resources that God has given us. Why did not God forgive Adam and Eve in the garden: Clothing -> God’s grace -> A sacrifice was made to redeem from sin Only one who have not sin, can tell other not to sin! John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.“ Romans 5:1 “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” Isaiah 53 prophecy about Jesus and his mistreatment
Sin and its reign
Genesis 2:25 – Adam and Eve were both naked “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.” Genesis 3:7 – Realization of their nakedness “Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.” Eat the fruit, can be considered a small sin. But due to that, the next generation will be more lost Romans 6:12 Do not let sin regin in your body “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.“ 1 John 3:1 Worthy to be a Children of God “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” 2 Timothy 3:1 Signs of the last times “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” Proverbs 30:11 – Children mistreating parents “There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers“
Turning away from God
Romans 1:20 “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.“ Galatians 3:2 “I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?“ Romans 1:21 Believers not honoring God “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.“ Romans 5:1 – Justified by Faith “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” John 1:34 – John hears God calling Jesus his Son “I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One“ Romans 1:28 Those who doesnt want to put on Christ “Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.” Romans 1:29-32 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Psalms 50:16-21 But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?17 You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.18 When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.19 You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.20 You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.21 When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you.But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.
Blessing and Suffering
One Death and then Judgement: Death for Christians is a resting period (Daniel 12:2 – “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”) Enoch and Elijah both has not experience death, so the two witnesses mentioned could be them (Revelation 11:3 – And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”) Genesis 1:23 “Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Genesis 2:7 “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.“ Worldly blessing = not into eternal life Matthew 6:10 – Seek the kingdom of God and rest all is given to you. “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Genesis 15 – Abraham’s lack of Faith Acts 5:44 Suffering which result into bless “The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.“
Paul’s Concerns about the Church
2 Corinthians 11:1-3 “I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me! 2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. 3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.“ PAUL LOVE FOR HIS CHURCH! 3: Eve had fellowship with God himself, serpent still managed to deceive her so her careful. 1 Timothy 2:13-14 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. SIN = SEPARATION FROM GOD – Role of leaders is to correct Psalms 51:19 – Redemption “Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar.“
Acts 17:16 16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. Saints: people who are saved with separation and holy life Psalms 50:5 “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” 1 Corinthians 8:10 10 For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols? Paul is a great example showcasing someone who had world assets however when he came to Christ he found it all to be worthless. Paul had knowledge, power and wealth: Philippians 3:1-4 “Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. 3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4 though I have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more“ 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 2 Corthianian 5:1 – Body is a tent “For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.“ Paul’s knowledge – part of the council, knew the book of Moses went to Athens and spoke in greek. Idol food (1 Corinthian 8:8) 8 But food does not bring us near to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.