While there are similarities in terms of community and commitment there are some fundamental differences between becoming a disciple of Christ and joining a fraternity or sorority what’s the difference in this series of lessons we look at the love of God and his plan his mission in Bridging the Gap between us
And him and bringing us back into a relationship with him in his Bridging the Gap between us and him he calls for us to become disciples and he commissioned us to make more disciples how should we carry out his commission review our past and present videos at sabbaths schoola.com you also May obtain
The study guide for this series at sabbath. school or ssnet.org at no cost to you father thank you for accepting us into your family help us to do all that we can through the power of your Holy Spirit to help carry out your mission in jesus’ name amen when you look at a
Fraternity or sorority it seems that they have some similarities to Christian discipleship they have strong similarities when it comes to community service commitment and loyalty however the fundamental differences between a eternity and Christian discipleship is that often the Pursuits purposes values are distinctly different when Jesus left this Earth he commissioned the disciples
Saying in Matthew 28:19 go therefore and Make Disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and of the Holy Spirit fraternities and sororities are temporal our membership in them is temporary but becoming a disciple of Christ is eternal the theme of God and
His mission to be in an eternal relationship with us is threaded throughout the Bible the Bible outlines human history and it demonstrates God’s purpose for his creation it is a divine revelation of God with its main focus on God restoring His Image in his Fallen children as expressed in Colossians 3
910 1 John 32 Colossians 3:9 and 10 tells us do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man who is renewed in the knowledge according to the image of him who created him first John 3:2 lets us
Know beloved now we are the children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be but we know that when he is revealed he we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is so when we read the Bible it helps us understand
That God wants to be in our lives he wants to be in a close relationship with us yes there is no doubt sin separates us from God this is what Isaiah 59:2 says but your iniquities have separated you from your God and your sins have
Hidden his face from you so that he will not hear but God’s desire is to not leave us in that condition his aim is to fix the broken relationship with his children caused by sin through his mission God continues to work at restoring the broken relationship with Humanity he will continue his mission
Until the moment when the Declaration found in Revelation 215 is realized then he who sat on the throne said behold I will make all things new and he says to me right for these words are true and faithful in the meantime God continues to show himself to us in special ways to
Help us understand his love and his mission to save us his aim in showing us these things is to draw us to him to come to know him and for us to have a genuine relationship with him in the process of loving him we become Disciples of Christ thereby uniting with
His eternal family as members he expects us to share with other people our experiences with God and his love thus in the Bible God reveals to us what his saving plan is and CS for us to become Disciples of Christ and carry out his mission but from whom do we obtain our
Mission God or Jesus to find out continue to segment two of this video the Triune God the origin of mission when we accept Jesus we are saved to become a member of the Eternal family of God we become the Disciples of Christ thus we are inducted into the
Family of God as a member of the family of God we are therefore given the mission of enlarging our family by recruiting more disciples so that they can be saved and become part of the family of God we learn from the Bible that Jesus is at the center of God’s
Plan to save us Jesus announces in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me did you notice the only way to the father is through Jesus Christ in other words we as humans have lost our
Worthiness to come to the father but through Jesus and what he has done for us we can reclaim the right to go to the father it is Jesus the son who helps us understand how much the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit work together to fulfill the mission God’s plan to save
Us in other words Everything Jesus did was for us and came from the Father in Heaven this we see in the following scriptures John 434 Jesus said to them my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work John 5:30 I can of
Myself do nothing as I hear I judge and my judgment is righteous because I do not seek my own will but the will of the father father who sent me John 12:45 and he who sees me sees him who sent me we must however remember that Jesus’s mission to save us didn’t start
When he came to this Earth as a matter of fact God the father chose Jesus as our savior before the creation of the world notice what it says in the following scriptures Ephesians 1:4 just as he chose Us in him before the foundation of the world that we should
Be holy and Without Blame before him in love 1 Peter 1:20 he indeed was for ordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you so God’s plan his mission to redeem or save us was made before he made this planet therefore after we sin
God intentionally became part of human history in order to accomplish his mission of saving us so that we could be in an eternal relationship with him and live eternally with him thus Galatians 44 says that at the fullness of the time God showed us his love he gave us his
Son according to John 3:16 And1 17 which says for God so of the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him
Might be saved so Jesus God son’s mission for coming to this world was to save us humans he died on the cross and he woke up from the dead to gain for us victory over sin and death but it did not end there John 14:26 and John 16:7
Tells us father sent the Holy Spirit to help us John 14:26 says but the helper the Holy Spirit whom the father will send in my name he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to you John 16:7 nevertheless I tell you the truth
It is to your advantage that I go away for if I go away the helper will come to you but if I depart I will send him to you for God’s son to Die to Save Us lets us know how seriously bad sin is John 168 through1 tells us that God the Holy
Spirit helps us to understand how bad sin is and he convicts the world of sin and when he has come he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of Judgment of sin because they do not believe in me of righteousness because I
Go to my father and you see me no more of judgment because the ruler of this world is judged hence today though Jesus went back to heaven to manage God’s plans to save us the spirit continues God’s saving plan for us on this Earth this is the point that John 1613 and 14
Makes however when he the spirit of Truth has come he will guide you into all Truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come he will glorify me for he will
Take of what is mine and declare it to you by now you may have noticed that there are three persons working on our behalf to save us it becomes more evident in John 2021 and 22 so Jesus said to them again peace to you as the father has sent me I
Also send you and when he had said this he breathed on them and said to them receive the Holy Spirit besides God the father and God the son working on our behalf we also have God the Holy Spirit working to save us these verses let us
Know that we are not working alone we have the father Son and Holy Spirit working together we are commissioned by them to recruit Disciples of Christ Our work belongs to them because it originated with them it was before the world was created and continues to be their mission to be in a relationship
With us and to have us become Eternal members of the family of God you may have heard the term Trinity Triune God or the three in one God they imply that there are three persons performing God the Father God the son and God the Holy Spirit though the three in one God or
The word Trinity is not written anywhere in the Bible there are many verses in the Bible that indicate that the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit are working together after Jesus was raised from the dead he appeared to his disciples his followers he promised them in Luke 24:49 behold I
Send the promise of my father upon you butar in the city of Jerusalem until you are endowed with power from on high in this one verse we see the mission the saving plan of the three in one God The Father’s Promise the son’s Assurance to keep his promise and the promise itself
The coming of the Holy Spirit we also see the promise of the holy spirit in Luke 3:16 which says John answered saying to all I indeed baptize you with the water but one mightier than I is coming whose sandal straps I am not worthy to lose he will baptize you with
The Holy hly spirit and fire we see its fulfillment in Acts 1 4-5 and 8 and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father which he said you have heard from me for John truly baptized with
Water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of
The Earth the plan to save us humans was made before the world was created this plan was designed to continue God’s mission of having a relationship with us humans thus a plan was put in place just in case man sin and yield his power to Satan for those willing to be redeemed
Back to him he gives his son to be our substitute to Ransom us from the penalty of sin so that we can again become members of the family of God thus we learn that this mission to save humanity is not ours however we have been called into the family and commissioned to
Recruit others to become a part of the family but the work of saving as humans belonged to the threein one God the triun God knowing that our Eternal membership and the family of God does not hinge on us but on the threein one God our triun God we can be sure that
The plan to save us will not fail the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit are working on our behalf as members of the family of God we have been commissioned to make disciples is this Mission optional read Matthew 28 16-20 then continue to segment three making disciples the focus of
Mission in Reading Matthew 28:16 through2 we read about jesus’ final instructions to his followers his disciples he tells them to make more disciples Jesus final orders to his disciples found in Matthew 28:18-20 is called the Great Commission in Jesus commission he commanded his disciples to go far and near and make new disciples
For him Jesus commanded his disciples to teach others about their faith and invite them to join with them in Fellowship read Mark 1615 and6 Luke 24:44 through 49 John 20 21-23 acts 18 to learn more about this commission there are four basic components to Jesus’s final orders to
His disciples one Jesus commands his disciples to go to Galilee to be with him in Matthew 28:16 and 17 two Jesus announces that God gave him control over everything in heaven and on Earth in Matthew 28:18 three Jesus commissions his disciples to do a special work in Matthew 28:19 and 20 namely making
Disciples for him in finally for Jesus in Matthew 28:20 promises to be with his followers Until the End making disciples for Jesus is the main focus of the Great Commission it is in fact the most important part of our work for God therefore after Jesus announces that God
Gave him control of everything in heaven and on Earth he tells his disciples in Matthew 2819 go therefore and make dis Disciples of all Nations baptizing him in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit do you see the word therefore the word therefore provides
The foundation for what Jesus has presented in Matthew 28:18 his point is that he controls everything now he has all Power Authority and sovereignty why because he died for our sins and woke up from the dead his authority and Power power are the results of his resurrection in his
Resurrection he obtained the victory over sin and death so how do we make disciples for Jesus what does this work entail Jesus tells us he wants us to teach and baptize he wants us to share his teaching with the entire world Jesus wants us to make more disciples this is
The most important work that God has commissioned us to do here Jesus is clearly directing his disciples toward one purpose making disciples and in Matthew 28620 his commission ends with promising to be with his disciples always of course the Great Commission was not just intended for his first disciples this
Great Commission has been given to us his command is to go to All Nations his commission is universal every follower of Jesus is expected to be engaged in making disciples his mission is intended for the whole world it has no geographical social racial or ethnic limitations different from fraternities or
Sororities the Gospel of Jesus is not limited it is for everyone on the entire Earth moreover we are offered Eternal membership in the kingdom of God how can we obtain Eternal membership in this Kingdom find out in our next video segment four the Eternal gospel the message of mission thank you for
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