Sunday, July 22, 2007

Hey! We're already in a new system, hope you all find the change good? Alright the difference is that we're now following up on sermons and currently we're in the hero series which will end next sunday. I hope you find this series interesting and useful in helping you understand your identity in Christ and how He can manifest Himself in your life.
Lesson 1: Heroes, our inspiration
Here we learnt that our life is like a race and how we can efectively run this race is to be disciplined and consistent in training, to get rid of the things that keep us from running well(Heb 12:1), remove the things that will trip us, keeping our eyes on Christ(Heb 12:2) and to not give up above all(Heb 12:3).

We're all in this spiritual race together, though we may be met with hardships but these are here so that we'll be made stronger and our faith may be strengthened.
1 Peter 1:6-7
''In this you greatly rejoie, though now for a little while you may have to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith, of greater worth than gold, which oerishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."

Lesson 2:Heroes, The ultimate
Now Jesus is the ultimate hero of all when He died on the cross for our sins. We also learnt about the nature of Jesus Christ from 1 Col 1:15-18 that Christ is divine, creator and sustainer, head of the chirch and He conquered death that we may be alive! Hallelujah!

Lesson 3:Heroes, Faith.
Heb 11: "Faith league". There's Abraham, Abel, Moses, Noah, Rahab, Samson, Joshua and the list goes on. These faith heros have exemplified faith at different times in history in different circumstances. There's so much we can learn from them! We should not be put down and be guilty for not having so much faith before but rather we should be motivated and encouraged by their experiences. So who's your favourite "faith league" hero?

Take away verse: Heb 11:6 "And without faith it is impossible to please God,because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him"

God desires child-like faith and obedience from us and that we'll grow spiritually stronger each day as we walk with Him. Something that I have picked up from main service today and I want to share with you all. We always talk about growth right? Well the word grow can be spelt out as such:
G-Go to church
R-Read the Word
O-Obey God
W-Witness for God(Matt 28:18-20,matt 5:14-16)

Are we constantly doing all these??

In His love and mine,
Serena