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March God the Holy Spirit Because you are His sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, ―Abba, Father.‖ Gal.4:6 Sunday March 3 rd <strong>2013</strong> Ps.99 Acts 17 Do you have healthy genes! Each cell in our body contains about 30,000 genes, which carry information that go toward determining our characteristics we inherit from our parents and we have about 50 trillion (50 million million) cells! Our genes are unique – unless we are identical twins. Half of our genes are from our mother, the other half are from our father, who, in turn, received their genes from their parents, and so on, right back to our earliest ancestors. Genes may predispose us to certain behaviour, but they don't determine our personality. Genes affect our chances of having several common illnesses, like heart disease, asthma and diabetes but so do many other factors, such as diet and lifestyle. It is like betting on a horse race – the horse, rider, course and weather can all affect the outcome in a way that is hard to predict. Many genetic and non-genetic factors affect our health, but scientists don't yet know what they all are, or how they interact with each other. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/WhoAmI Family traits and characteristics such as colour, size and shape can be traced back many generations which is especially helpful when breeding animals to a type. Some animals have recorded pedigrees stretching back hundreds of years. All Thoroughbred horses can trace their pedigrees back to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17 th and 18 th centuries: the Byerley Turk (1680s), the Darley Arabian (1704), and the Godolphin Arabian (1729). [Byerley Turk was captured from the Turks by Captain Robert Byerley at the Battle of Buda (1686) – a war in Hungary against the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, as part of the follow-up campaign in Hungary after the Battle of Vienna. Byerley Turk served as Byerley's war horse when he was dispatched to Ireland in 1689 and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne] Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character (open-minded NLT ) than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. Acts17:11 This word translated ―noble‖ is literally ―good genes‖ and reminds me of Is.51: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. Is.51:1-2 Believers are from good ―breeding stock‖ – we can trace our spiritual roots back to Abraham who ―believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.‖ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. Gal.3:6-7 So then, [Abraham] is the father of all who believe. Rom.4:11 We should never forget who we are and who our family ancestors are. Just as runners run, walkers walk and writers write, so Believers believe – we believe in our heart that God raised [Jesus] from the dead, [and are] saved. Rom.10:9 Christianity is not about being perfect (although we should aspire to perfection) or even being better than others (although we should aspire to be the best). Christianity is about believing God – what He has said about Jesus and about us: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well… We accept human testimony, but God‘s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 1Jn.5:1-12
Sadly many people in <strong>Church</strong>es are unaware of what God has recorded in the Scriptures and so miss out on the blessings of believing and possibly even eternal life! Johan Westhysen (who came to our church in 2005) wrote recently: Over the 22 years that we have been in ministry I taught on just about every Bible subject one can think off, however, we came to realize that there is a great need for the basic principles of the Christian faith. For example, we have far too often come across churches where more than 50% of the members were not even sure of their salvation and many who say they are saved based their faith on their works. This is not just the case with churches in overseas countries, but in our own country as well. It is so easy for a seasoned minister to assume that all church members understand the Gospel of our Lord and the truths about His Kingdom. It is worse when Bible preachers and teachers think that the Gospel and Biblical truths must be adjusted to suit a post modern world where humanism and relativism is more important to many than Biblical values that stood the test of time. Somebody once said that the church has many believers but few disciples. (www.wtwministries.co.za) Being ―noble‖ or ―open minded‖ does not mean that we accept everything that is spoken ―in the name of God‖ but that we check it out from the Scriptures to see if it is true. However we must interpret the Scriptures through the facts of Jesus’ Death, Resurrection and Ascension or we will still be in error. Those tumultuous events split the world in two and released the Holy Spirit –the ―river of Living Water‖: On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south… On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter. The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name. Zech.14:5-9 After Jesus said this, he was taken up to heaven. They watched until a cloud hid him from their sight…. The apostles returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. Acts 1:9-12 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ―Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.‖ By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. Jn.7:37-39 The two kingdoms in this world (kingdom of Light and kingdom of darkness) are now quite distinct and it is the Holy Spirit Who separates: and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col.1:12-14 But God chose you to be his people. You are royal priests. You are a holy nation. You are a people who belong to God. All of this is so that you can sing his praises. He brought you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people. But now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy. But now you have received mercy. 1Pet.2:9-10 Before the death of Jesus the distinction between the two kingdoms was blurred as God had only revealed Himself to Israel, His Chosen People. But even for Israel, God was a Visitor and they could only meet Him at the Ark of the Covenant (which was eventually situated in Jerusalem) Put the altar in front of the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law— before the atonement cover that is over the tablets of the covenant law—where I will meet with you. Ex.30:6 Now there is a clear distinction between the 2 kingdoms and it is not colour, creed or culture but the Holy Spirit: In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.‖ Acts17:30-31 God
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