The invitation is inclusive Tan Beng Teong CBC Puchong

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The invitation is inclusiveTan Beng TeongCBC
Puchong
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The Invitation is Inclusive

• Awesome Bargain (Isa. 551-5)
• Amazing Grace (Isa. 556-7)
• Astonishing Power (Isa. 558-11)
• Abiding Glory (Isa. 5512-13)

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Awesome Bargain

• Is 551 Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to
  the waters and you without money, come, buy, and
  eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and
  without cost!
• 2 Why do you spend money on what is not food,
  and your wages on what does not satisfy? Listen
  carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you
  will enjoy the choicest of foods.
• 3 Pay attention and come to Me listen, so that
  you will live. I will make an everlasting
  covenant with you, the promises assured to David.
• 4 Since I have made him a witness to the
  peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples,
• 5 so you will summon a nation you do not know,
  and nations who do not know you will run to you.
  For the LORD your God, even the Holy One of
  Israel, has glorified you.

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The Invitation is an Awesome Bargain

• The invitation is to come and drink and eat to
  satisfy their thirst and hunger
• Eat and drink are the two fundamental physical
  needs of Man without which they will die
• God is obviously talking about what wine, milk
  and food cannot satisfy it is NOT the physical
  body or life that God is talking about
• Vs 3 ..that your soul (inner or spiritual life)
  may live (NIV)

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Spiritual Beings

• Jesus says Blessed are the poor in spirit, for
  theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matt.53
• Poor means bankrupt
• God says His invitation is free!
• It is for all who are bankrupt in spirit! It is
  for all who thirst and hunger in the spirit! It
  is for all who have an empty feeling in the
  spirit!
• We are spiritual beings housed in a physical body

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• Body, soul and spirit (1 Thess 523)
• Gen 27 the Lord God formed the man from the
  dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
  the breath of life, and the man became a living
  being
• When Adam sinned, God said you will surely
  die(Gen217).
• It was not physical death but spiritual death
  separation from the eternal life of God
• John 33 no one can see the kingdom of God
  unless he is born again-born of the Spirit

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Amazing Grace

• 6 Seek the LORD while He may be found call to
  Him while He is near.
• 7 Let the wicked one abandon his way, and the
  sinful one his thoughts let him return to the
  LORD, so He may have compassion on him, and to
  our God, for He will freely forgive.

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• There is a time limit to the invitation!
• He is only a call away now He can be found now!
• There will come a time when He cannot be found.
  That time is when we die then we will be
  separated by a life with God (Heaven) and life
  without God (Hell)
• The definition of eternal life is simply life
  with God
• John 173 Now this is eternal life that they
  may know you, the only true God, and Jesus
  Christ, whom you have sent.

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• How to make the call?
• Let the wicked one abandon his way, and the
  sinful one his thoughts let him return to the
  LORD
• God will have compassion on him and freely
  forgive
• Amazing Grace Wicked and sinful as we are,
  deserving death, yet when we turn back to Him we
  receive undeserved grace and The promise of the
  invitation Acts 221 And everyone who calls
  on the name of the Lord will be saved

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Astonishing Power

• 8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and
  your ways are not My ways. This is the LORDs
  declaration.
• 9 For as heaven is higher than earth, so My
  ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts
  than your thoughts.
• 10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven,
  and do not return there without saturating the
  earth, and making it germinate and sprout, and
  providing seed to sow and food to eat,
• 11 so My word that comes from My mouth will not
  return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I
  please, and will prosper in what I send it to
  do.

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• Rain and snow are sent from heaven saturating the
  earth. The effectiveness of the moisture on the
  seeds in the earth is visible when they begin to
  germinate and to sprout. Arid areas in Israel
  would be transformed overnight from barren ground
  to fertile soil in response to the precious
  water.
• The rain and snow never fail to accomplish their
  God-intended purposes in bringing life where none
  previously existed.
• The result of forgiveness and salvationlife
  where there was only death, an abundant spiritual
  harvest where there was only spiritual
  barrenness.
• Sing, O barren woman..burst into song, shout
  for joy! Is 541

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• 12 You will indeed go out with joy and be
  peacefully guided the mountains and the hills
  will break into singing before you, and all the
  trees of the field will clap their hands.
• 13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come
  up, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come
  up it will make a name for the LORD as an
  everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.

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• Is 56 "I will lay it waste It will not be
  pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come
  up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain
  on it. God concerning his vineyard Israel
• 13. thorn-emblem of the wicked (2Sa 236 Mic
  74).
• Cypress or fir tree-the godly (Isa 6013 Ps
  9212).
• brier-emblem of uncultivation (Isa 56).
• myrtle-Hebrew, Hedes, from which comes Hedassah,
  the original name of Esther. Type of the
  Christian Church for it is a lowly, though
  beautiful, fragrant, and evergreen shrub (Ps
  9213, 14).
• for a name . everlasting sign-a perpetual
  memorial to the glory of Jehovah (Jer 1311
  339).

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• God redeems us so that our lives will be an
  everlasting sign for Him
• Instead of thorns and thistles, will be cypress
  and myrtle
• A redeemed life should always reflect the glory
  of the Redeemer!