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Eternal Life – The God Kind of Life -   When God Created the heavens and the earth, he moved everything into place with His Words. And God saw that it was good.  On day six, God said, “Let us make man after our own image.” Man would be in the likeness of God, with all of His attributes including leadership and dominion over the animals and all of creation.  So God formed man from the dust of the earth, carefully and intricately creating every cell, nerve, organ and the workings of the body functions to be perfect, including an awesome immune system to keep man well and healthy, and a mind with the power of choice.  So here we have man, a mud pie, but there was no life in him. And the Bible says, God who is “Everlasting Life,” Himself, breathed on the man, and he became a living soul. The very living breath of God, entered the man at that moment and he received eternal life. God knew it was not good for man to be alone, so he caused him to sleep, and took from...

Praise Lesson 20 How Should We Praise God?   1. We should praise the Lord in Song. In joyful music. “Words” and an attitude of gratitude are important.   Some hymns and choruses are not praise but are testimonies telling a story of the dark past and how Jesus brought light and freedom. While this is okay, these types of songs are not praise.   Praise is joyfully singing about how great is our God.   Psalms 66:1-2 Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!  Sing out the honor of His name; Make His praise glorious.   Psalms 95:1 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.   Isaiah 12:5 Sing unto the Lord; for he has done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.  Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishin...

Who is Jesus? Chapter 23 - - Jesus asks; Who do you Say I am?    Today I want to take you to some happenings that are recorded in Matthew chapter 15 and 16 and also in Mark chapter 8. Everywhere Jesus went he was pushed and prodded as people tried to reach out and touch him. Jesus often needed to get away from the crowds to rest. At this time hoping for some rest and solitude, Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down to rest.  However, here came great crowds of people, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many other problems.   Without  hesitation, they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd marveled; and they glorified the God of Israel. Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way." And the disciple...

Subject: PRAISE Lesson 19 Prayer Asks - - but Praise Receives Praise can best be described as the expression of reverence and love due to a perfect and holy God. Gratitude is from our heart telling God that we love him, we are thankful for all He has done, such as provision, care and protection, but gratitude and being thankful is not the same as Praise. Pure praise does not require an emotional fervor. However, it is necessary to realize a display of emotion to God in praise, is perfectly acceptable and even desirable. Emotions are proper and important in their place, for they are given to us by an emotional God. However, a life-style based upon emotions and “feeling” rather than faith is not acceptable and is very dangerous. Let the “Word of God” have first place in your life. Build your life on God's sayings by hearing and DOING. Matthew 7:24 “Therefore whoever HEARS these sayings of Mine, and DOES them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on ...

Who is Jesus? chapter 22 Jesus Heals a young girl and Opens Deaf Ears. Our message today is taken from Mark's gospel chapter 7. When their boat had crossed over, they came to the land at Gennesaret. And the people immediately recognized Jesus and ran about the whole region to bring the sick people to where he was. And wherever he came, to the villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the market places and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched him were made well. Now when the Pharisees with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they criticized Jesus and his disciples for not washing their hands in the traditional manner before eating. Please understand it is always good to wash your hands before you eat. Jesus was concerned about needless tradition because The Pharisees and all the Jews did not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of...

The Sheep Gate We must uinderstand that Jesus is the Lamb of God; and the citizens of our city, State and Nation need Jesus. aA few years back, with a Church group I visited Israel and during our tour, our guide pointed out the many arches and gates throughout the land; Especially in Jerusalem there were many. Our guide took us to the temple site, and showed us the sheep gate where the lambs were brought in to the temple for sacrifice. He indicated that Jesus may have entered Jerusalem at His triumphant entry through the sheep gate signifying spiritually that He was the Lamb soon to be slain, as the sacrifice for our sins. As I researched, I found the following interesting: Nehemiah in chapter 2 inspects and desires to rebuilt the broken walls of Jerusalem: “And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. With the Kings...

Bible Foundations: Praying in the Spirit Lesson 18 The instruction in the Word of God is to pray with the Spirit and also with the Understanding. Often people who have had an emotional experience while praying, where they feel they have been caught up in prayer beyond their normal prayer life, will refer to this as praying in the Spirit. However there is no scriptural foundation for this teaching. What then does the Bible mean when it refers to praying with the Spirit? Let us be reminded of when the church was born at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled all who were awaiting Him in the upper room, and they were filled with the Spirit and He gave them an utterance in a new language. Acts 2:1-4 “When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat u...

Who is Jesus? Chapter 21 Jesus Heals a Blind Man and Sends out His 12 Disciples Today we will present some happenings from Matthew's gospel, chapter 9. As Jesus passed by on the way to the house, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.” The blind men followed him into the house, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”  Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”  And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about this.”  But they went away and spread his fame through all that district. As the blind men were leaving, some people brought a demon-oppressed man who was mute to Jesus. And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.” But the religious Pharisees refused to accept that Jesus was sent from God, and said, “...

  How to Win over Fear and other Negative Emotions  To become skilled at getting answers to prayer we must first consider several things. If you have received Jesus, then He is inside you and hears your faintest whisper and thoughts.  It is in receiving the answer that we wonder why it takes so long. We live here on earth, but there is another spiritual world that we cannot see.  Our response that we desire often has to fight a war to arrive. Daniel was a good example as he wondered why the angel took 21 days to arrive.  Daniel 10 “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; I was prevented many days. Paul explains in Ephesians  6:1 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, aga...

  Prayer: Lesson 17 The fact is that some prayers do not get answers !!  As we have discussed, faith is absolutely necessary. Yes there are reasons for unanswered prayer. Sometimes, God simply has a perfect plan for you and it is better for you that He not answer certain requests.    Let us examine some of the reason's why God does not answer some prayers.  If we hold bitterness and harbor sin in our lives; Psalms 66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear me. Isaiah 59:1-2 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.  But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear. If we turn from those in need. Proverbs 21:13 Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard. Turning away from God's Word; ...