God Preserves His people for himself.

We have a Lord who is with us. God is with you in your exaltation and God is with you in your humiliation.

We have a king who is guiding us. God does not over look so of the details in your life. God orchestrates all of the details of your life.

KEY POINT ——- He is orchestrating a variety of circumstances…….in a variety of people ……. in a variety of ways……. for a variety of goals.   “Using other people to effect you”  They will effect your choices and the outcomes of your decisions in your life.

God’s providence is the only foundation for embracing life’s pain. God takes evil and turns it into good. God also takes suffering and turns it into SATISFACTION…..

He is Holy, He is perfectly unique, He is Completely separate, He is absolutely pure, He is merciful, He sees our affliction, He hears our cries, He knows our sufferings, He remembers His covenant, He is ever-present, He is all-powerful, He is self-existent, He has no origin, He is Self-Sufficient, He has no needs, He is eternal, He is the holy judge, He is the loving Savior, He gives grace, He is our refuge, His glory never dims, His beauty never fades, He is immutable, His Perfections never change, He is faithful, He promises liberation, He promises redemption, He promises adoption, He promises possession, He is sovereign, He is Just, He IS, and He is GOD

The last thing we want to do in the church is to give someone false confidence that they are in the Kingdom when they are not.

We should NOT say your a part of the Church even though there is no evidence that there is God’s grave and salvation in you. The most loving thing we can do is cast them out of the Church so they can see their Sin and they can see they are outside the Kingdom.

If you do not believe in casting out the sinners in your church or letting not letting not converted believers in to your church membership the read this .

(The Church must discipline flagrant sin among its members such sins left unchecked, can polarize and paralyze a Church. The Correction, however should never be vengeful. Instead it should be given to help bring about a cure. There was a specific sin in the church but the Corinthian believers had refused to deal with it. in this case a man was having an affair with his mother, and the church member were trying to ignore the situation. Paul was telling the church that it had a responsibility to maintain the standards of morality found in God’s commandments. God tells us not to judge others . But he also tells us not to tolerate flagrant sin because leaving that sin undisciplined will have a dangerous influence on other believers. 5:5 To “deliver such a one to Satan” Means to exclude him from the fellowship of believers. Without the spiritual support of Christians, This man would be left alone with his sin and Satan. and perhaps this emptiness would drive him to repentance. It should not be done out of vengeance but out of love just as parents punish children to correct and restore them. The church’s role should be to help not hurt offenders motivating them to repent of their sins and to return to the fellowship of the church. 5:6 Paul was writting to those who wanted to ignore this church problem. They didn’t realize that allowing public sin to exist in the church affects all its members.) …. quote from the “Life Application Study Bible – NASB”

1 Corinthians 5

Dealing With a Case of Incest

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[c] but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”[d]

No one on earth revealed to Peter who Jesus was. Jesus himself says here that only the Father in heaven revealed to Peter who Jesus was. God puts it in each one of who somewhere inside our hearts and minds who he is.

(Joh 6:44) No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

A true understanding of Christ comes not from human invention.
A true understanding of Christ comes only from divine revelation.

So Who are the “CHURCH” Who is suppose to make up the Church Congregation? Who are these Called out Ones.

Members of the Church Congregations are to be composed of Born Again Repented Believers.

They are a community of people who knows Jesus INTIMATELY.

Not asking you to pray a prayer, just read the Bible, and go to Church a few times a week. BUT DO YOU KNOW JESUS INTIMATELY?

85% of Americans say they believe in Jesus. But who is their Jesus? Who exactly is the Jesus You believe in? Do you think he is a good teacher? Then you will follow him like he is a good teacher.

IF you think Jesus has good ideas? Then you will listen to him when it corresponds with what you think is a good idea for your life.

IF you think he is a good example then you will live like he is agood example

But if you think and you believe that Jesus is the Promised Messiah who came to this earth to save us from our sins to concord sin and death to reign and be the ruling lord and rule of everything all creations including your life. Then that changes everything about how you live.

So do you know Jesus Intimately?

Devil Do you believe in God. His reply is Yes God you Created me.
Devil do you know my son. His reply is yes God. He died on the Cross for the sins of the world.

Devil is God ruler over all. Yes God is.
Devil did Jesus die on the cross and raise 3 days later and save the world. for you and me. Reply yes.

Devil will you repent of your sins and surrender to him. No I will not do that. I am the devil I am smart I lie to humans and i love sin and evil. I will never submit to God.

So you can believe in God. You can believe in Christ. You Can believe is die on the cross for your sins and that he rose again to save the sins of the world.

You can go to church and do good things and be Christ like and help people and study the bible and know God.
But if you never surrender to him and confess your sins. and never turn your back on him and stay in his ways until the end. then you will burn in hell for ever in ever and ever. YOu must Surrender your life to him.

He is lord over all even if you don’t believe. Because Christ has conquered death he has conquered sin. Because he conquered sin he has conquered Satan. Because he conquers Satan he will conquer the world.

YOU DON’T HAVE A DECISION IF HE IS LORD OF YOUR LIFE OR NOT.

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL KNEES WILL BOW AND TONGS CONFESS HE IS LORD.

THE QUESTION IS WILL YOU SURRENDER NOW OR LATER.

OH AND JUST FIY LATER WILL BE TO LATE BECAUSE YOU WILL BE SHARING THAT WITH THE DEVIL IN HELL FOREVER.

The core of sin….

Rejecting God’s Word, Spurning God’s Authority, and Denying God’s character.

The conflict brought about by sin is the conflict between man and GOD.

We have guilt, shame, and fear.

(Gen 3:9) And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

(Gen 3:10) And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

This brought on Conflict.  Conflict between man and woman and conflict between man and Creation.

(Gen 3:16) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

(Gen 3:17) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

(Gen 3:18) thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

(Gen 3:19) in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

God is sovereign; Satan is subordinate

This is not dualism; This is domination!

God is always in control!

Satan can speak, and he is smart, he is a malicious lire and an evil murderer.

HE IS NOT A FOOL.

(Gen 3:4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

(Gen 3:5) for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

(Joh 8:44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

- We are a unique reflection of God
- We are utterly reliant upon God.
- We are ultimately responsible to God.

2. We are Created for the purpose of God.

(Gen 1:28) And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

- To enjoy a relationship with God.
- To rule over all creation.
- To reproduce God’s glory to the ends of the earth

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Jesus used the word ghenna ( Translated as “hell”) twelve times in the Gospels.

Matthew 25:41-46 < Please Read

The even is judgment day, which will occur when Christ comes back. After Jesus looks at the evidence, He gives His verdict: Believers are awarded everlasting life, while unbelievers are awarded everlasting punishment. Thought the word hell is not used here, the concept of hell is conveyed by the phrases “everlasting fire” v41 and “everlasting punishment” v46

Matthew 5:22 < Read

Jesus goes on to say the God’s courtroom will be much worse, for here the Judge has the power to sentence you to the “hell of fire”

Matthew 23:33 < Read

Here is one passage where gehenna is used in the context of God’s future judgement.

“how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?”