Breathe On Me

Introduction: Prisca Hyemenkiere

Workship: Grace Band: Taste and See, Deep Cries out

Ministry: Part 2 on The Holy Spirit

Today we’ll continue our teaching on the Holy Spirit by starting with a short summary of last week’s teaching:

Ruach Hakodesh the Holy Spirit in:

Who was hovering (Rah Gaaf) over the waters compared to a ‘mighty’ wind where

Then we looked at two words:

Ruach from the Hebrew and Pneuma from Greek

  • Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God
  • life-giving breath or Spirit,
  • combines the two to moving air
  • that is moving either inside or outside man.

The breath is always God’s gift

the Source of Life.

The last Adam – Jesus is a life-giving spirit.

Today’s teaching will focus on what Jesus broadly taught on the Holy Spirit and we’ll begin with a few introductory points:

  1. Jesus recognized the Holy Spirit to be the inspiration of the old testament writers the Spirit’s work with respect to the Messiah.:

Mark 12:36,  Luke 20:42, Matthew 13:14

Jesus recognized the spirit as God’s gift

Matthew 7:7-11 Ask

Luke 11: 9-13 This is how you pray

how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

 

  1. He promised that the Spirit will be with them to help them in ministry, and anoint them even in the midst of persecution:

Matthew 10:16 – 2020 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

Mark 13:11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Luke put it slightly differently in 12: 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

  1. Jesus commanded baptism to be in the Name:

Of Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Matthew 28:19

 

 

 

  1. They were commanded to wait

Luke 24:49 – I am going to send you what my Father has promised;  Acts 1:8

Matthew 25:  The Lord as the giver of good gifts

Luke 11:13

When we ask; he will not give us something bad, nor less than the best but will grant us the Holy Spirit himself.

Matthew 7:11 How much more will your father in heaven grant you good gifts to those who ask

James 1:17 Shifting shadows like the moon who has phases of shadow he is always the same source of bright and pure light.

Mathew 6:25-33;  Romans 8:32 graciously give us all things?

The father firstly sent the Son as the living word

Then to do His work of Salvation

Then the Father sent the Holy Spirit to bring gifts to us and to continue His work in and through us!

a response to prayer: the 120 were praying

Peter prayed for others to receive Acts 8:15

Gal 3: 14 so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit, eagerly desire and that they come from a prepared heart

Matthew 5; Cor 12;31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.

14;1 Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.

Asks How much is this not true of the Holy Spirit himself? If we should eagerly desire gifts.

Ps 42:1; Phil 3:10

John 1:33 ; Acts 4: 8

In conclusion:

Finally when Jesus sent his disciples or when he prepared them for what is to come he painted a picture that they should

  1. expect opposition,
  2. not expect to be welcomed
  3. not to be pessimistic, but realistic
  4. not to have a shallow optimism, but reliance on the promises of god
  5. matthew 16;18 I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
  6. To wear the armour of god, eph 6;11-18

salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions

  1. we should expect these to increase over time 2 Tim 3;1

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

Breath of God

The third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son.

Gen 1: 1-2 (Raghaf)

Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

The creation apologetic is then the first evidence of the Spirit of God being associated with the creation activity.

John 1:3 Through him all things were made,

1 Tim 2:5 From the beginning He was the mediator

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God

Psalms 104 When you take away their life’s breath, Spirit

they die and return to dust.

 

Spirit, wind, breath and mind

Exodus 14:21 strong east wind

Num 11: 31 a wind went out from the Lord

Gen 3:8 – The wind of the day

 

Gen 2:7 breath of life or lives

Job 19 “My breath is offensive

combines the two to moving air

it is always God’s gift

The sense here is that The Spirit is a life giving energy that God alone possesses permanently by His own nature.

 

Welcome by the Davids Family

Worship with Grace Live featuring: Dwelling Places, Spirit of God, Uthando

Ministry with Craig

John 5:26 – “For just as the Father has life in Himself, so to the Son

prototype of Jesus.

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn (Prototakos) over all creation.

Ephesians 3:16 –

to be strengthened with power through His Spirit

Thus the emphasis is not on the kind of life but on the Source of Life.

So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

Dwelling Places

Intro by Gary Kleinveld

Worship with Lucia, Vaughn and Joshua

Dwelling Places and So will I

Dwelling places: a picture of the Kingdom

We’ll take a peak at the beginning, the Davidic Monarchy and Solomon’s court

(Isa 11.9)

Lost in translation: an example from Hebrew Alphabet

Aleph beit–בראשית and Tav:

There is always a desire to build a house for His presence Yet there is no place created by us that can house Hims.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

  1. Under the reign of Solomon, we witness a type of precedent to Christ’s kingdom expression on the earth, reaching its fullest extent to date.

Deuteronomy 17 , 2 Samuel 7

the prophet Nathan & David

  • The play on the word house and “Name.”

the promise of God and David’s response

the covenant formula; “Israel has become your people and you have become their God” (verse 24), which finds its final expression in the eternal city of God (Rev.21.3).

God’s Presence

There were two kinds of reign for a king – reigning in battle and reigning in peace.

Solomon’s very name is derived from the Hebrew word for peace, shalom, more than the absence of war.

  • Kingdom celebration and multiplication:
  • Kingdom peace:
  • Kingdom life:
  • Kingdom mission:

The Davidic monarchy ushered in a period of great worship. Solomon built a magnificent temple.

God is king of all the earth(Ps.47.7),

How Do We Experience God’s Reign?

The Lord is King, His kingdom is here and is coming in Glory. What we experience now in part, will be completely established in His return. So we pray, Let your Kingdom Come Oh Lord.

Last call before

Pentecost Sunday 2020

This is a remembrance of the way we used to gather.

The last call is our last sermon before Lockdown.

Gal 1: 1-5 The centrality of teh finished work of the Christ

Gal 2:15-21 We all have a past and an ethnicity

We are called because we called on the name, let’s finish what we’ve started.

Pauls plea to the Galatian churches to stay the course.

The worship is a reflection of our people, using photos they had submitted wnd some video clips from our welcome to Grace video to the songs:

We come alive in the river, Uthando – Come Holy Spirit-Where you belong –

 

The Way of Truth

Get some emblems ready and follow,

Brandon’s last reflection on the Lord’s table .

We sing the New Grace song: Where I belong

Before we Look at TRUTH.

Jesus is the Way, the truth and the Life

But Just like Pilate, the worlds asks, “what is Truth?”

We survey a few scriptures and attempt to give a Bible picture of truth.

Is it based on facts?

Is it a body of Scientific evidence?

Or is there another perspective.

We have a look at the Greek influence on the biblical understanding and make our way to the Figures of

David and Jonathan who gives us the first glimpse into the type of:

A belt of truth.

Truth reveals through the torn curtain,

That God is accessible through Jesus.

 

Good Friday 2020

Jesus, The Wordworker.

Jesus came to teach the words of the works He came to enact. Every act a considered word and every word a considered act. From the first to the last verses of scripture we see a consistency of the acts of The Lord, that reaches its fulfilment in the incarnation, life, words and works of our loving Saviour.

Key Scripture John 17

Supporting Scriptures:

Genesis 1

John 1, 16 and 18

Revelations 1

Hosanna To The King

On this Palm Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

We lead of with some worship led by Joshua and Lucia Smith.
Then we dive right into Psalm 118 and the Gospels account of the week before Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.

Solitary confinment is not equal to lonliness.
The value of Solitude and the notion that segrgation cannot divide hearts.
We look at Jesus in the wilderness in preparation for a life of servant leadership.
Crowd behaviour and its influences.
How people’s hearts differ and motives are hidden in mass actions.
Finally how the tension of the Kingdom is necessary to reveal hearts.

with Craig Kube

We serve a multigenerational God.

There are no relevant generations.

We are all called to be authentic in our role as His children.

Let’s take a journey into the struggles faced by this generation and compare it to older examples of the scriptures.

Abraham Isaac Jacob

The sons of Issacar

Davids mighty men

Sent by God – Tammy Chapman

Tammy Chapman shares her experience on her trip to SA with the Kingdom school of ministry.

Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us… is her personal summary.

Her text for Grace Family Church is John 1: 6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

Matthew 11: 3“Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”

4 Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 6 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

John 20:21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.