Whats inside

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Whats inside?

• Week 6

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Week 6

• What does God ask of us? (20 min)
• Belief
• Are all beliefs equally valid?
• Faith
• Christian baptism
• Obedience
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• Obedience (40 minutes)
• Recap Jesus sacrifice
• Recap- Salvation
• Recap -Obedience in baptism
• Grace and works why live a Christian life?
• What is Christian Living? Good workshop?
• Principles self control, self denial
• Love of God, love of others
• Avoiding wrong behaviours
• Prayer
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• And Finally

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What does God ask of us?

• John 6 - 28Then they asked him, "What must we do
  to do the works God requires?"
•     29Jesus answered, "The work of God is this
  to believe in the one he has sent."
• To believe in Jesus
• But arent there many faiths that claim to
  believe in Jesus?

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Which Faith?

• All these believe in Jesus, so how do we know
  which to follow?
• What does Jesus say we should do?

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Which Faith?

• Mark 16 15He (Jesus) said to them (the
  disciples), "Go into all the world and preach the
  good news to all creation. 16Whoever believes and
  is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not
  believe will be condemned.
• James 4 11Brothers, do not slander one another.
  Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges
  him speaks against the law and judges it. When
  you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but
  sitting in judgment on it. 12There is only one
  Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save
  and destroy. But youwho are you to judge your
  neighbor?

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Faith

• Whilst we shouldnt judge others for their
  faiths, we must be sure of our faith.
• Mar 1052 Jesus said to him, "Go, your faith has
  healed you." Immediately he regained his sight
  and followed him on the road.

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Faith

• John 9 13They brought to the Pharisees the man
  who had been blind. 14Now the day on which Jesus
  had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a
  Sabbath. 15Therefore the Pharisees also asked him
  how he had received his sight. "He put mud on my
  eyes," the man replied, "and I washed, and now I
  see."
•     16Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is
  not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath."
        But others asked, "How can a sinner do
  such miraculous signs?" So they were divided.
•     17Finally they turned again to the blind man,
  "What have you to say about him? It was your eyes
  he opened."       The man replied, "He is a
  prophet."
•     18The Jews still did not believe that he had
  been blind and had received his sight until they
  sent for the man's parents.
• The Pharisees were the blind ones

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Faith

• The Pharisees had no faith in Jesus, and what he
  did.
• What should we have faith in?
• Hebrews 11 6And 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.

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Baptism

• John 14 6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the
  truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
  except through me.
• How can we go through Jesus to get to the Father?
• Through baptism
• Romans 6

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Romans 6 - Baptism

• v2 don't you know that all of us who were
  baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his
  death?

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The New Life

• Baptism, whilst allowing us access to Gods grace
  and the hope of eternal life, comes with a
  responsibility
• We must live as though we are new bodies
• We must continually repent (Greek to reconsider)
• We must obey Jesus teaching John 14 21Whoever
  has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who
  loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my
  Father, and I too will love him and show myself
  to him.

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Obedience

• Recap - Jesus sacrifice
• Recap - Salvation
• Recap - Obedience in baptism
• Grace and works why live a Christian life?
• What is Christian Living? Workshop
• Principles self control, self denial
• Love of God, love of others
• Avoiding wrong behaviours
• Prayer

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Recap - Jesus sacrifice

• Jesus sacrifice was more than the cross
• We know that Jesus was born with the desires that
  we have
• we have one who has been tempted in every way,
  just as we areyet was without sin
• The wilderness temptations
• The devil?

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Recap - Jesus sacrifice

• So what did Jesus sacrifice?
• His desires
• His ambitions
• His career
• His life
• Jesus was the perfect example of how obedience
  should come after faith

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Recap - Salvation

• If, then, Jesus accomplished eternal life through
  his life of sacrifice, how can we benefit?
• Matthew 1128"Come to me, all you who are weary
  and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my
  yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle
  and humble in heart, and you will find rest for
  your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden
  is light."

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Recap - Salvation

• How can Jesus bear our burdens?
• What are our burdens?
• Aside from the day to day burdens and trials of
  life, our greatest burden is sin and death
• Jesus says that if we come to him he will give us
  rest, eternal rest
• 1Corinthians 1555"Where, O death, is your
  victory?       Where, O death, is your sting?
  56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin
  is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us
  the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Recap - Salvation

• As well as casting our burdens on Jesus, remember
  he also said Take my yoke upon you and learn
  from me
• So as well as putting our burdens on Jesus
  shoulders, we must take something of him on ours
• Hebrews 5 9once made perfect, he became the
  source of eternal salvation for all who obey him

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Recap - Salvation

• What did Jesus say that we must obey?
• Dont be anxious for your life
• Believe that Gods will will be done
• Do to others as you would have them do to you,
  especially with regard to judgement
• Believe and be baptised to show others of your
  commitment to God

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Recap - Jesus sacrifice

• What is Christian Living? Workshop
• Principles self control, self denial
• Love of God, love of others
• Avoiding wrong behaviours
• Prayer
• Luke 923Then he said to them all "If anyone
  would come after me, he must deny himself and
  take up his cross daily and follow me.

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A life of living sacrifice

• Romans 121Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in
  view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as
  living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Godthis
  is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform
  any longer to the pattern of this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
  you will be able to test and approve what God's
  will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will.
•     3For by the grace given me I say to every one
  of you Do not think of yourself more highly than
  you ought, but rather think of yourself with
  sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of
  faith God has given you.