Going to church, reading the bible, listening to Christian music will not advance your spiritual life. These activities may give you more understanding but until you are ready to lay down your life and take up your cross this leads nowhere.
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
What I am talking about is the sacrifice of self to advance the cause of Jesus Christ in the world. There is a destiny that God had for each of us that only we can personally discover. We can discover it only by detaching from the world and making ourselves available for the Holy Spirit. By detaching from the world--now you have time--the commodity that most Christians are not willing to give.
Jesus said, "Self-help is not help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, to finding yourself, your true self. (Matthew 16:25)
"God has planted eternity in the human heart." (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
"Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)
"The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me." (Acts 20:24)
"We have been sent to speak for Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Ephesians 2:10)
Albert Finch
www.thekeys2kingdom.com
Wednesday Night Bible Study - June 15, 2011
Posted 06-14-2011 at 02:22 PM by Albert Finch
1. Deeds, Claims and Promises of Jesus
Read John Chapter 21
1. Not knowing what to do next, Simon Peter and 6 other
disciples decided to ____________________.
2. As they fished all night they caught________________.
3. Jesus_______________to them on shore and told them
what to do to ___________________.
4. This was the ____________time Jesus had appeared
to them.
5. Jesus told Peter __________times to________my sheep.
2. Inheritance in Christ
Read the epistle 2 Peter
The epistle was probably written from Rome just befor Peter's martyrdom in that city about A.D. 68.
Peter warns that false teachers from within the church will rise up in the future to lead believers astray. The church should be on guard against such heresies.
The second coming of Jesus and the final judgment (1 Thess. 4:13-17) will happen in God's own time. The fact that they haven't yet happened doesn't mean that God is slow or apathetic. Rather, He is loving and long-suffering waiting for others to respond to His offer of salvation. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
While waiting for the Lord to return, Peter declares that believers should live as holy and godly people, continuing to "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." (2 Thess. 3:6-15)
Affirmations (Repeat and Meditate on These as You Go Throughout the Day):
He has granted to me His exceeding great and precious promises, that through these I might escape from the corruption that is in the world through lust and become a partaker of the devine nature. (II Peter 1:4)
I have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of God who has called me to glory and virtue. (II Peter 1:3)
3. Dunamis Life
SPEAKING FROM YOUR SPIRIT
2 Corinthians 4:13 -- We have the same spirit of faith as he (the psalmist) who wrote, 'I have believed and therefore have spoken.' We too believe, and therefore we speak.
To speak by faith is simply to speak words that agree with the word of God instead of the circumstances around you.... It's speaking from your spirit instead of from your mind.
The Bible tells us that God uses words to "call those things which be not as though they were" (Romans 4:17).
Affirmations
I speak the end result of what God's word tells me about my situation as opposed to the way it appears to the senses.
I stop "telling it like it is" and start speaking and believing the promises of God.
I put the power of God's word to work for me.
Proverbs 18:21 -- Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Into Action
Name two things in your life that you are believing God for that you cannot do yourself.
4. The Deeper Life
Read, pray and meditate on the following: http://mltp.ly/4XUeLnq
5. Quiz Answers
1. Go fishing
2. Nothing
3. Appeared, catch fish
4. Third
5. Three, feed
Read John Chapter 21
1. Not knowing what to do next, Simon Peter and 6 other
disciples decided to ____________________.
2. As they fished all night they caught________________.
3. Jesus_______________to them on shore and told them
what to do to ___________________.
4. This was the ____________time Jesus had appeared
to them.
5. Jesus told Peter __________times to________my sheep.
2. Inheritance in Christ
Read the epistle 2 Peter
The epistle was probably written from Rome just befor Peter's martyrdom in that city about A.D. 68.
Peter warns that false teachers from within the church will rise up in the future to lead believers astray. The church should be on guard against such heresies.
The second coming of Jesus and the final judgment (1 Thess. 4:13-17) will happen in God's own time. The fact that they haven't yet happened doesn't mean that God is slow or apathetic. Rather, He is loving and long-suffering waiting for others to respond to His offer of salvation. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
While waiting for the Lord to return, Peter declares that believers should live as holy and godly people, continuing to "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." (2 Thess. 3:6-15)
Affirmations (Repeat and Meditate on These as You Go Throughout the Day):
He has granted to me His exceeding great and precious promises, that through these I might escape from the corruption that is in the world through lust and become a partaker of the devine nature. (II Peter 1:4)
I have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of God who has called me to glory and virtue. (II Peter 1:3)
3. Dunamis Life
SPEAKING FROM YOUR SPIRIT
2 Corinthians 4:13 -- We have the same spirit of faith as he (the psalmist) who wrote, 'I have believed and therefore have spoken.' We too believe, and therefore we speak.
To speak by faith is simply to speak words that agree with the word of God instead of the circumstances around you.... It's speaking from your spirit instead of from your mind.
The Bible tells us that God uses words to "call those things which be not as though they were" (Romans 4:17).
Affirmations
I speak the end result of what God's word tells me about my situation as opposed to the way it appears to the senses.
I stop "telling it like it is" and start speaking and believing the promises of God.
I put the power of God's word to work for me.
Proverbs 18:21 -- Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Into Action
Name two things in your life that you are believing God for that you cannot do yourself.
4. The Deeper Life
Read, pray and meditate on the following: http://mltp.ly/4XUeLnq
5. Quiz Answers
1. Go fishing
2. Nothing
3. Appeared, catch fish
4. Third
5. Three, feed
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