Searching for Answers
Edited version of Sunday 13 September live steamed service. Hosted by Brandon, Worship with Prisca and ministry with Craig. Psalms 139 & Romans 8 featuring Good good Father
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.
In His Image
Introduced by Lynette Kube
Worship by Lucia, Joshua and Vaughan
Garment of Praise, Come Hole Spirit, King of my Heart
Message by Craig: In his Image
Genesis 1: 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness
As one who is perfect, God is the only being in the universe who can be completely delighted with himself without being arrogant or sinful in any way. The best way for God to delight in his own perfection is to behold his own image.
This oneness will become reflected in creation through the covenant of Marriage.
Humankind was created male and female. Only as humans relate as a community made up of male and female is the image of God reflected. Male and Female He Created Them’:
immediate consequences of the Fall
- Enmity with the spirit of the Serpent!
- Pain during childbirth and being ruled by the husband.
- In toil you will eat of it, All the days of your life.
They ended up multiplying the distorted view of humanity.
But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac,
Eph 5 : 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands
25 Husbands, love your wives
30 for we are members of his body, 32 This is a profound mystery
This has to do with leadership in the home.
The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; 26But you are not to be like that!(Jesus)
Phil3:20 But our citizenship is in heaven.
you are all children of God through faith
The old has gone, the new is here!
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
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.
- 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.
Transforming Truth
Intro: Geovonna Stevens
Worship: Vaughan Peregrino
Goodness of God & Build my Life
Looking into the mirror: James 1
Do not merely listen to the word
- What does it say? Many people read and accept.
- What does it Mean? This is the process of interpretation.
- How do I apply this to my life
Examples:
Coming of age
Metamorphosis
Romans 12: 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
The Fork in the Road and the ultimate destination.
As go the leader, so goes the people. e.g. gansterism
In EPH 2:10 For we are God’s (workmanship), created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared (beforehand) for us to (walk in).
Wormanship: e.g Michaelangelo’s David, Good works
What did God Design you to do best?
Beforehand and walking in it.
Be Yourself: 2 Corinthians 5:17 if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature old things have passed away, new things have come (let it be so)
Transformation is not annihilation,
What changes? What becomes New
Roamns 6:22; Eph 4:22; Col 3
The Word applies to us, but it is not centred around us.
Matters of the Heart
Intro by Lynette Kube
Worship by Grace Family Collective
Beauty for Ashes, Where you belong, Taste and See
New English Translation:
Mark 6: 54 summation of Jesus’s activities.—they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.
Act 2 Religion versus Faith
Chapter 7: Cleanliness is next to Godliness
Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him. 2 And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
The covenant root of their thinking was that people outside of their reality were unclean. This is perfectly portrayed by Peter’s response to the revelation of the sheet let down from heaven.
The tradition of the elders
5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?” 6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.” 9 He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
Moses Ex 21:17 and Lev 20:9
10 For Moses said,
Corban was a 2nd temple practice that endorsed the practice of saying no to your parents needs in order bring your offering to God, (via the Temple 0f course) 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition
Listen to me
, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand. 15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”
Can you stomach this?
19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”
20 He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.
The enemy within
23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
Come Home, The Father is there, waiting for your return.
From Death To Life
- The power of the Letter
2 Cor 3:3 revealing that you are a letter of Christ,
not based on the letter but on the Spirit,
Jer 31:34;
“I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.
for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 But if the ministry that produced death—carved in letters on stone tablets—
8 how much more glorious will the ministry of the Spirit be?
- The Glory of Progressive Revelation
- What was veiled
- The ministry of the Spirit
Mar 15:38 And Luk 23:45 because the sun’s light failed. The temple curtain was torn in two.
Mat 27:51 The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.
- And what more shall I say?
These wonderful acts of the Spirit, demonstrated the glory of the Lord and his willingness to use men and women to unveil his Power to mankind.
- But it is our greatest enemy He came to conquer once and for all.
- It is the Lord who commends his servants.
39 And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
run with endurance the race set out for us, 2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.
In conclusion:
2 Cor 2:15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ