27th lesson = God's Purpose in loving the Human Being

To fulfill the Commandment of Jesus.

Matthew 28:19 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

      In order to fulfill the purpose to be lived in the Holy Spirit, we must carry out with the commandment Jesus gave us. "Go and make disciples". God has equipped us with everything on this earth so we can finish the Mission together with Him, which He had outlined. Jesus died so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but be saved. Faith comes by hearing, hearing the Word of God. The Apostle Paul begins to reason in his letter on this issue, and he says: “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” Rom. 10:14. Paul seeks to teach to the new believers in the Church in Rome, the Gospel of Christ, and in this letter he describes this thought in Chapter 10.

      In verses 13-18 we read that Paul asked a series of questions and here we will analyze the context. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And by teaching it to them, he seeks to analyze the entire aspect of it all. But Paul also understood that not everyone had the knowledge that Jesus came to die for us, this was the reason why Jesus trained his disciples that they would proclaim it to every creature.

 An announcement is made in order to bring it to the attention of the people you want it to become known. Jesus wanted everyone to come to this knowledge that He came to save human being which was lost; that is, every human being as he is born is fallen from the grace of God, as result of the fact that Adam and Eve had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
 And this is why he starts to reason this way in these verses: How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? Not every person has the knowledge who Jesus is. Not, everyone receives the information about the fact that there is a loving God who cares for His people. And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? If a person never was told about Jesus, how will he believe in something he does not know? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” Paul knows that many people have never heard of Jesus, and therefore have no way of believing. A person will only take up a task of this size if he was commanded to do so.
 Vs. 16 = But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. God knows that the person will believe if they hear about it.
 Vs. 18: But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

The purpose to be lived in being full of the Holy Spirit is to be able to fulfill with the: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations”. Jesus sent all his children, the disciples and all believe in Him to proclaim the good news of our God. God sent the Holy Spirit, the Comforter to empower each one of us to obey the commission by Jesus, the Savior of the world. And Jesus gives us the gifts of the Holy Spirit, these gifts are supernatural abilities that we received to do the work entrusted to us. We were sent by Jesus, and we can preach the Word for empowerment of the Holy Spirit.

Collins Dictionary says that: A commission is a group of people who have been appointed to find out about something or to control something.
God has given us everything we need so we can go and do exactly what He has commanded us to do. To the Corinthians Paul also clarifies this by saying: "All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines" 1 Cor. 12:11. It is one and the same Spirit, who performs all things, distributing these gifts to every child of God as He pleases, and to each person individually. When he says that He does as he pleases giving each one individually, it certainly indicates that not all receive the same gift.

It is not our intention here to discuss the fact that some believe that everyone gets a certain gift. The Scripture tells us that He, the Spirit does as He pleases. If at the time of Pentecost He pleased to give everyone, He is entitled to do so. If, today he works in different ways, which is his right. It belongs to Him the authority to act as he pleases. But we can be sure that He equips each of us with the gift that we need to do the work that He has entrusted us with. We do not need to convince anyone to believe in God; the Holy Spirits convinces the human of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come. You and I have the task of proclaiming the good news, the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ. Observe well, Jesus did not do the work of the Holy Spirit, the two worked in harmony. Jesus never did anything without first talking to your Father in Heaven. And to do the work that Jesus did as He had gifts and performed miracles; He said that just as the Father sent him, He sends us.

And He sends the Holy Spirit to enable us to do so. In the whole world wherever there is a soul that has the Holy Spirit in him, the Church of Christ is present there. God wants all to be saved, and He desires that his children go unto the whole world to proclaim the good news of salvation. If the children of God proclaim salvation in Christ they will hear, and they will believe. And the voice of the saved will go out through all the earth, which is God's promise; until the end of the world as Paul says.

 In the Lord's Service 

I greet you in His Love

Antonina Penner. Th. M.

Missionary

 

ISBN- 978-0-9881063-1-4

 

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26th lesson = God's Purpose in loving the Human Being

 

 

 

The purpose to be lived in Pentecost.

After Calvary when Jesus was resurrected, he is no longer in the tomb and yes, he is live. It is beautiful and wonderful to know that Jesus did not stay on earth, for this he had told his disciples that the kernel must die, but would not remain alone. Jesus was raised and after that he was ascended to heaven, and sent us the Comforter that He has promised us. He said he would produce much fruit. The fruit that He produced was a lot of eternal life to all who accept the price He paid for us. One day Jesus had told the disciples that He would send another Comforter like Him to be with us. Jesus said that He had to go to the Father to send another Comforter.

In Jn. 14:16 says: "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--." The Holy Spirit is with us forever, this is a very high purpose to be lived, for God to dwell within us forever. The Holy Spirit came to dwell in us is another stage of life with a purpose that God has for us. God does not leave us orphans, He comes and makes a living in us. Here we do not want to debate how to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but the purpose to be lived this fact. You see Jesus had said that the Church would do the same works that He did and in Jo. 14:12, for this to happen, he had to come to dwell even greater in us.

Let me ask you something. Have You given our wonderful God room to have the opportunity to live the purpose He has here on earth through you? Or is your "I" seated on the throne of your life and Jesus cannot use you? God is aware of the fact that Satan will do everything possible to ruin what God does in us and through us. For this reason God comes and dwells in the human to be in Him and protect him from the attack of the enemy.

For this reason God comes and dwells in human beings in order to be able to be in them and protect them from attack of the enemy. Just as satan tried to destroy the human being the first time, he will try to do this always. us. God had a very high purpose in coming to dwell within us. With God living within us it becomes impossible that evil will be able to harm us. The Bible says that evil cannot touch us. - "We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him" - 1 Jn. 5:18 Once we are born of God, the devil cannot touch us anymore. We are kept in the palm of our God. God saves us, this is the purpose that is to be lived, we are saved by God himself. "See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me" - Isaiah 49:16.

 

Therefore, God then sends the Spirit of Truth to dwell in us while we walk here on earth. In this way, God can use us as He used Jesus to continue the good work that He started. Jesus promised to send the Comforter. “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-” John 14:16. Jesus had given them every instruction as they should wait in Jerusalem until they were endued and filled with the Holy Spirit from above. The day of Pentecost came, and you can read it in Acts 2. God sends the Holy Spirit to the Church of Jesus here on earth. He came down and filled them all, and he fills all who believe the promises as we seek God's Word. Every child of God by seeking His presence receives Him. The purpose to be lived in this factor is the fact that with God Himself living in us that makes us God's Family. We are one with Him as Jesus prayed before He was crucified. Jesus wanted us to be one with Him as He was one with the Father Jesus made a point of declaring all here in his earthly life that was necessary to constitute that his purpose in us.

John describes in the priestly prayer of Jesus in chapter 17. Vs 18-23 tells us the following:

18 As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.

Jesus Prays for All Believers

19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

20 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,

21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:

23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Have you ever meditated on on the fact how precious it is to be sent by Jesus as the Father sent him? Jesus, the human being, sanctifies himself according to verse 19, here on earth so that he could sanctify us in the truth. Then he goes on saying that his prayers are not only for them but for those who will believe in Him through their message; that is You and I, as well. Check out the verses above taht we just quoted.

 

Both you and I by believing in Jesus, we receive Him as Lord and Savior of our lives, because we believe in the Word by the fact that we hear and believe in Him. This blessing has reached us also, and will reach many more. Jesus wants to reach every human being for this He asked His Father, He wants us to be one as He was with the Father, and the Father was in him. And Jesus wants all of us who form the Church of Jesus here on earth be one with Jesus and God the Father, so that the world may believe that God the Father sent Jesus to this Mission.

Here on earth we can prove by DNA if a person is our child and with the birth certificate. You and I can prove that we are children of God, when the DNA of our God is in us. I call this the DNA of God here, to understand what I want to say. Jesus gave us the glory which the Father gave to Him, that we are all one. Just as He and the Father are one. This is what I call the DNA of God, this proves that we are children of God. When Jesus comes into our life, we become one again with God, and this oneness is what it is all about. The Bible says that when we are in God, the evil cannot touch us anymore. We are safe indeed. The Holy Spirit dwells only within the children of the True and Living God.

This is concrete proof that we are of God when He sends us his Spirit to dwell in us; and this is a very high purpose to be lived here on this earth. This was the purpose to be lived through Pentecost, and I believe that God gives each of us a wonderful experience; when we are filled with the Holy Spirit. Some experience many emotions at this time and others do not, actually it also depends on our temperaments that we have in us. Each and every one of us has a different personality and we react and co act uniquely in our own way. God also interacts with us in a specific way. The Holy Spirit is a respecter of Person; therefore your experience will be in such a way that will fulfill you spiritually to fullest. There are people in order to feel the presence of God everything needs to be quiet and peaceful, others like lots of noise and exteriorization in a loud voice, praising Hallelujah. God made us unique and perfect. No two people are exactly alike here on earth. And the utterance and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in us is not the same in all people.

The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual gifts to work here on earth, so we can complete the work that Jesus began. Jesus died for all who would believe in Him might have life. One day as the Apostle was talking about this, he began to question about it, let us read about it in the passage. “Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ” Rom. 10:17. The Apostle Paul was trying to debate how the people could get saved if they did not believe, and how they could receive salvation if they did not know Christ. Faith comes by hearing the message of Christ, and this is one of the gifts the Holy Spirit gives to the believers; the gift of preaching the Gospel of Jesus.

 

A person can only believe if he hears about the love that God has for him. This is one reason why we are dedicating our time to write this book so that you can know God's Word in your heart as you read it. The Bible says that God speaks to us in many ways and recently spoke by his Son. “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe”  - Heb. 1:1-2.

 

Jesus sent his disciples to go and preach, announcing to every creature about his love and that Jesus came to save that what was lost. For this, the Holy Spirit descended to enable us to go and fulfill this mandate. The Holy Spirit gives us spiritual gifts so we can do the work He has entrusted to us. The Dictionary says that: When someone is mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. (FORMAL). Jesus gave all those that believe in Him, the authority to go and preach the Gospel in His Name. Both you and I do not think we need to do this all on our own effort. God provided everything for us; this is the purpose to be lived in Pentecost. You and I are part of it as well; the same anointing and fulfilling the disciples received, we receive it as well. We are part of the Body of Christ; the Church of Christ here on Earth. God chose us to go and seek what was lost, so that they too can know Jesus, He also equips us with everything we need. Being the dwelling place of the Most High, and having gifts coming from Him, to use for the sake of Evangelisation of the lost is the purpose to be lived in Pentecost. I do not have conditions to understand how God comes and makes in us His dwelling place after the we turned our back on Him; He chooses us, loves us, saves us, heals us, cleanses us, purifies us, and makes us his ambassadors here on earth, to represent Him and his Kingdom. You and I are ambassadors of Christ here on earth.

 

The Church of Jesus represents the Kingdom of God here on earth, so that people see God in us, because he literally lives in us. When the Bible says God recently spoke to us through his Son, the Son says to us: "As the Father has sent me, I send you." You and I need to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that we can carry out all that He has sent us to do because we are not able to do everything on our own qualification.

 

 

 In the Lord's Service 

I greet you in His Love

Antonina Penner. Th. M.

Missionary

 

ISBN- 978-0-9881063-1-4

 

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25th lesson = God's Purpose in loving the Human Being

THE BAPTISM IN THE BODY OF CHRIST.

The purpose to be lived is being baptized into the Body of Christ. We want to base this on Romans 6:2-11 in order to explain how we were baptized into the Body of Christ, we read as follows:

Romans 6:1-11 says:

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?

2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.

6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—

7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus."

 

Comparing verses 2-3 of Romans 6 “By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” with 2 Cor. 4:14: “because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence”.

For Christ's love compels us, because we reason this way, that if one died for all, therefore all died. We that are dead to sin, how can we live any longer therein? Basically he exposes a paradox here, since we died with Christ to sin, there is no way we can live again in the practice of sin. Do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. Here it speaks about being baptized into Christ's body. All of us who have received Jesus as Savior of our lives by faith are baptized with him in the Body of Christ. Now then we are part of the Body of Christ; we are member of the body. When Christ died, we died with Him. Baptism is a seal of our participation in that death and resurrection: a seal that is only valid when ratified by faith, this baptism is spiritual. According to Col. 2:12. "Having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead". When a person is baptized in water, he actually testifies publicly that he was baptized into the body of Christ.

The purpose to be lived in all this, is the fact that Christ lives, He lives in us, and we live as well. We are one with Christ now, and we are part of him. Jesus is the Head of the Church and we are the body. Now no one can take us away from Him anymore, separate us from Him. He has given us eternal life in His death there on the cross.

The arch-enemy seduced the human being so he would miss the target, there in the past; but, once in Christ Jesus, both here on earth and over there in the glory that will not happen ever again. We are already part of this life here on earth, from the time on when we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior; we are born again. One day Jesus wanted to show his disciples that it was necessary that He washed their feet. Peter felt bad, because he thought that he should wash the feet of the Master, and not Jesus wash his feet. "No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me", Jo. 13:8. Jesus washed the feet and with this gesture taught them that He, if Jesus does not cleanses us of sin nature, we have no part with Him. Paul explains this in one of his epistles to the Corinthian Church. "And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" - 1 Cor. 6:11.

The Purpose to be lived, is to be part of Christ, we must die with him in order to rise with Him to reign with Him on earth. In one only, Jesus we reign on earth. Romans  5:17.

 

 In the Lord's Service 

I greet you in His Love

Antonina Penner.

Missionary

Masters inTheology..

 

ISBN- 978-0-9881063-1-4

Copyright 2012/11/26 by: “Ministério Visão de Águias”.

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