Here was what we planned to go through, ;
I've made a website for Oasis Helderberg's Grabouw cell group, so that all these emails I send to keys5.oasisgrabouw@blogger.com will leave a copy at the web address;
http://oasisgrabouw.blogspot.com/
aswell as sending the following addresses a copy ;
fransied@ananzi.co.za, eben@disciple.co.za, rencas2007@gmail.com, ammuller@telkomsa.net, sean@melsetter.co.za, antomn@kromco.co.za, suzannekeys@ananzi.co.za, ernad@kromco.co.za, merisa21@gmail.com
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WHAT DOES YOUR CHRISTIANITY LOOK LIKE?
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Normally when asked this question, we're normally at first offended, we wonder "what does it have to do with you, it's between me and God".
We must examine ourselves - personal introspection
How much in our lifestyle has changed since we've become Christian
Romans 12
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
We must change
He has become the sin offering for us and in return we give him our bodies as a temple for the Holy Spirit - but this means we must change, we can't go on with old habits and expect we're going to receive the benefits of the bible, we can't "trick" God and expect Him to uphold His side of the covenant.
When you look at Christians at church on Sunday - then they're wonderful, holy, deep, and such excellent models, but the tragedy is that the world is out side there, they don't see you Sunday's at Church, they don't come to church, they don't see that side of you, they only see you outside the church from Mon to Sat. So how does your Christianity look like to them, does it look like in the papers?
We see in the media how Christians are ridiculed.
Rev3:15.
* Where are you in your spirituality?
Have you gotten stuck at the rebirth process?
Where are you in your growth process – have u changed
After the fall God asks Adam a question He already knows the answer to, because He was challenging Adam to take introspection. God knew where Adam was, He wants Adam to admit Adam is outside God's will, after the fall Adam was in another place – outside God's will.
When our prayers are not being answered- we ask; “where is God” – we should ask “where are we”; Just as God asked Adam, how is your spiritual growth, what does your spiritual life look like?
Acts 3:21
“21 "(JESUS) whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.”
Jesus is in heaven until His enemies become His footstool
Mt 17:10-11
10 And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
11 Jesus answered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.
Jesus will be in heaven until restitution and restoration has been fulfilled.
Mal 4:6 (What was Elijah sent to do?)
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
“6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."”
Jn 1:14,17 (What will John do?)
“14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Restoration work
We, the church, complete the work John began, therefore;
Rom 8:19 & 21.
“19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” & “21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
The restoration process is coupled to the sons and fathers (not gender based, spiritual terminology)
Elijah doesn't do the restoration work, the spirit of Elisha is to bring the sons and fathers back together so that correct leadership can be restored, but brings the church order back, to bring sons and fathers back together.
Only a father can lead a son so he can grow, so that he is functional when he matures and be a good father himself,
step father can't do this.
Unfortunately, most believers don't have an ear to hear the new, rhema word that is proceeding from the throne, because their ears are closed. The 7 (representing “completion”) churches are all asked “He who has an ear to hear, let him hear” - thus faith in the church is so weak.
Rom 10:17
“17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
A person who believes something – does it!
The church is passive because it doesn't really believe, like people being raised from the dead.
If the churches faith is strengthened, Then it goes over into action, any person whose faith grows goes over to action -
you start proclaiming the word, you start groups, you get involved, you aren't just glued to a chair Sundays at church, you become active, and you live for Christ.
This restoration that must begin, must begin with the church, the church is Christ’s body, so the body must be restored. We are the body of Christ on the earth, we rule in His name. Jesus will be in heaven until the restoration and restitution of all things.
There is a lack of things being in divine order,
there's a divine order intended for creation
there's a proper order intended for animal life, vegetative life and human life.
There's a proper order intended for everything, but all things are in disorder and in terrible chaos, the curse must be lifted, every enemy must be under our feet. Divine order for the universe must be restored
.All off creation is groaning and crying for the release of the curse of decay and death.
Everything depends on the body of son that are to be manifest in the earth in the perfect state of divine order, of sons and fathers, this is the order the church is supposed to be in. But for the church to grow in divine order it needs to receive the correct spiritual food. The only problem with this food is it isn't received by the mouth but by the hearing...but at the moment the body looks pathetic, the world looks at the church and sees disorder. People make jokes about the state of the church. Spiritual food comes by hearing.
Jer 51:20
“ 20 "You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms;”
Tragic thing is that most Christians are blunt weapons of warfare, many believers say we don't have to do any warfare that Jesus finished with Satan on the cross, but if we look at the world, does it look like there's no evil?
Jesus has taken Satan's authority, and bound him, but what about all of Satan's followers, all the demonic forces that take children captive through the media, music,
Jn 10:10
“10 "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Satan doesn't do inspection to see if everything is alright, he comes only to destroy. It's his nature/character – he is programmed that way.
Does the world need deliverance from demonic powers? do God's people need deliverance from demonic powers?
Those who are to be battle axes need to be sharp in their hearing of His voice;
hearing comes through to 2 areas;
1. Obedience to Him
2. Revelation of His word
Rebellious spirit brings deafness & there's a lot of deafness in the church
we need to sharpen our hearing
Amos 8:11
“ 11 "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord GOD, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.”
1 Samuel 3
1 Then the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.
With Eli the relationship of father and son was perverse, he didn't lead and discipline his children and when his son's wife gave birth to Ichabod, they were killed Eli died and the ark was lost.
God's order is permanent, He is in the rest position, His infrastructure is in place, He isn't going to work in a different order to the spiritual laws He has established. After Jesus Ascended He also entered the rest position.
We, The Christians must do the work because the Father and Son are in the rest, but the order is what we must establish – there for the order of sons and fathers, because the sons must rule and the fathers only can establish the sons to rule.
The written Logos word must become Rhema word before it can be of any use to you.
Ps 23
The bible is the green pasture, the waters are the living waters of the Rhema word, t
hat has the vitamins to make you grow. Without this the church has no vision, and churches are divided between each other.
What is the “ear” they talk about in revelation, that not all have this ear?
The bible talks about the ear that can hear
Ex 21:1-6. voluntary slaves ear piercing – his ear belongs to his master, his ear belongs to his master, he only listen to instructions from his master.
Ex 32:2 Aaron asks for the gold earrings from the slaves to build the false idol – how many believers/churches have golden calves – they don't hear from God because their ears belong to religious systems. They don't hear what God says but what their own churches head office decides is true. If they don't agree with their church, they go to the internet for their own answers. How many people without the Spirit, read the logos scripture, but it doesn't mean anything to them. Do Christian's no all the characters and meaning and sayings of the biblical characters more than the characters of their favourite media/shows? Who are they listening more to?
Do your ears belong to God or to a golden calve?
We must hold introspection to take account for where we are in relation to God.
Children want to believe what the parents say, but if they say conflicting behaviour in the parents actions, how can they take their words seriously?
We must look at the covenant.
We are in time, but Jesus is outside time, he is the beginning and the end;
he sees the day when people will mourn because they don't know about Him – thus Jesus calls out by His Spirit for people to make a reckoning of their lives; because He knows what will happen, that one will stay and one will be taken away.
We don't want to be the cause of our children being taken away from us and not enjoying eternal life with us, we must check to whom our ears belong, what entertains us, what makes us laugh. We don't want to go to paradise without our loves ones. What do we listen to the most? Who’s conversation do we seek the most?
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