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Difficulties for the Greater Good
1. For or Against? Difficulties are inevitable in life (in this fallen world). They bring out the best or the worst in us. Difficulties force us to be aligned with the purposes of the Kingdom of God (to be in the house of God, salvation), Or to turn counter purposes
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How to be the Church
1. Overview In the New Testament, we see that the church basically means people who are believers/followers of Jesus and how they relate to each other. The dynamics of a church is the dynamics of a family. Even the terminology of being “born again” is that one is born again
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Freedom: Test of True Faith
1. False Religion Enslaves There are those who love religion for selfish and self-serving reasons, for the benefits it provides to themselves (like control of people, properties, jobs, praise/respect from people, easy money, power, opportunities to exploit, abuse, cheat, etc). False religion enslaves. Galatians 2:4: “Some false believers had infiltrated
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Ensuring Presence of God in Our Lives
1. Religion for Wrong Reasons “You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.”, said Jesus in Matthew 23:15. This happens when one tries to bring people under their own