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Issue No: 866 Published: 28 May 2018
WHOSE CHURCH IS IT ANYWAY? Part 44
THE CHALLENGE OF..... LIVING THE KINGDOM LIFESTYLE
To conclude this presentation on the history of the church, past, present and likely future from a Holy Spirit anointing perspective, we will finish by looking at the 'Parables of Jesus' which set out the principles of living a kingdom lifestyle.
AN INTRODUCTION
Why are the parables so important to our understanding of how to live in the kingdom today? The disciples wondered this and Jesus gave them the answer.
The parables, then, contain His secret messages to us, His followers.
Several years ago I went through these, and made a summary list of the topics referred to in them. This summary shows the emphasis that Jesus placed on the positive attributes we are to develop, but at the same time deals in detail with the areas in which we are most likely to be tempted to go astray. For He knows us better than we know ourselves! I am glad about that, for often it seems, I don't know much about myself! God is so practical!
Jesus was a very practical person, understanding us better than we understand ourselves. So He also took the opportunity, through the parables, to warn us of the key areas in which we can, more likely will, go astray.
The choice is ours.
The Pharisees were quoted as a worldly example.
14 The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. 15 He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight. (Luke 16:14-15)
Interestingly, I did a trip to Africa in (nearly) that way. Although my airfares had been paid! I had 50c a day to live on for 2 months. After 10 days my $30 was down to $2 with 50 days to go! Then the Lord started bringing the money in. I left Africa with no money but having been provided for throughout my trip also. Everyone was surprised - the Africans and me!
In whom, or what, do we put our trust?
(Continued next week)
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THE WORDS OF JESUS
May we hear what the Lord is saying to us.....
Life Through the Son of God (John 5:16-30)
Jesus criticized for healing on the Sabbath and claiming to be God’s son.
“My Father is still working, and so am I.”
“I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can only do what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does the Son does as well. For the Father loves the Son, and reveals to him everything he does; and the Father will show to him even more incredible things that will completely amaze you. For just as the Father gives life to those he resurrects from the dead, in the same way the Son also gives life to those that he wants. The Father judges no one. He has given to the Son all the authority to judge, so that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him. I tell you the truth: those who follow what I say and trust the One who sent me have eternal life. They won’t be condemned, but have gone from death to life. “I tell you the truth: The time is coming—in fact it’s here already—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live! Just as the Father has life-giving power in himself, so has he given the Son the same life-giving power in himself. The Father also granted the authority for judgment to him, for he is the Son of man. Don’t be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all those in the grave will hear his voice and will rise again: those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. I can do nothing by myself. I judge based on what I’m told, and my decision is right, for I’m not doing my own will but the will of the One who sent me.
Testimonies of Jesus (John 5:31-47)
If I were to make claims about myself, such claims wouldn’t be valid; but someone else gives evidence about me, and I know what he says about me is true. You asked John about me, and he told the truth, 34but I don’t need any human endorsement. I’m explaining this to you so you can be saved. John was like a brightly-burning light, and you were willing to enjoy his light for a while. But the evidence I’m giving is greater than John’s. For I am doing the work that the Father gave me to do, and this is the proof that the Father sent me. The Father who sent me, he himself speaks on my behalf. You’ve never heard his voice, and you’ve never seen what he looks like, and you don’t accept what he says, because you don’t trust in the one he sent.
“You search the Scriptures because you think that through them you’ll gain eternal life. But the evidence they give is in support of me! And yet you don’t want to come to me so that you might live. I’m not looking for human approval —I know you, and that you don’t have God’s love in you. For I’ve come to represent my Father, and you won’t accept me; but if someone comes representing themselves, then you accept them! How can you trust in me when you look for praise from one another and yet you don’t look for praise from the one true God? But don’t think I will be making accusations about you to the Father. It’s Moses who is accusing you, the one in whom you place such confidence. For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me. But since you don’t trust what he said, why would you trust what I say?”
(Continued next week)
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PRAYER AND PRACTICAL
The kingdom of God is based on the foundation of prayer and the application of the results. Either one by themselves is insufficient.
Kathy is out praying in the (torrential but warm) rain before our day, started with devotions, in the Clinic.
FLORENCE!
A meeting with Florence, the County Nurse responsible for working with non Government medical institutions. What a lady! So helpful - and she helps arrange treatments for those with serious cancer also. Thank you Florence.
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DAVID'S DOODLINGS
290. Exercising faith releases further faith. (These sayings - good or bad - are an example of it!)
291. Dreams are centred in hope, accomplishments in faith.
292. Without dreams there is no hope, but without faith, no reality.
293. Without challenges there can be no accomplishments. Faith lubricates the challenges and drives the accomplishments.
294. As we grow in God, so our hope is expressed through faith and our faith through love.
295. Faith in mankind will occasionally generate human love, but godly love is a requirement of faith in Christ.
296. Lose faith and die.
297. A young person without faith rapidly grows old, while vibrant faith keeps us young at heart.
298. When we give up on faith we give up on life.
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LAUGHING AT OURSELVES
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144. Know The 10 Commandments
A student was asked to list the 10 Commandments in any order. His response was: 3, 6, 1, 8, 4, 5, 9, 2, 10, 7.
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145. A Dog's Love
Rev. Warren J. Keating, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Yuma, AZ., says that the best prayer he ever heard was, "Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am."
146. Gravity Rules
A woman was at the beach with her children when her four-year-old son ran up to me, grabbed my hand and led me to the shore where a sea gull lay dead in the sand. "Mommy, what happened to him?" my son asked. "He died and went to heaven," I replied. My son thought a moment and then said, "And God threw him back down?"
147. The Truth of It
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, "When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money. "Well, thank you," the pastor replied. "But why?" "Because," the boy responded, "my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had."
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A DAVID MUSING
It is amazing how some good news changes atmosphere and attitudes.
We have been trying hard to get more involved with the community here in Malaha Village, Kenya. Finally it is paying off as patient numbers increase. It has taken a lot of effort, running clinics in the community and attending churches and funerals, of which there are many of both.
Trust is now being built up with the people around.
Actually, it is the same with churches. You cannot expect people to come in to you. You must go out into the community and build trust there.
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MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOU BLESS GOD.
His servant and yours
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