Encounter 4 (E4) – Witness for Christ

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Encounter 4 – Witness for Christ

Normalize ministry into your lifestyle

Biblical foundation is key

Be an eyewitness to God’s Glory

Testify what you have seen and articulate it clearly

Creditability to a witness is important

Stewarding a prayer list, your social influence and concern ***

Unpredigeous
Unbias position
Openness and approachability regarding Spiritual matters
Coachability/ Teachability

Absolute Truth, commit an oathe to speak the Truth in Love

Be an image bearer of Christ Jesus

Being God’s man

God is the fuel source
God is the motive

Knowing to do the right and not doing it is sin

Proverb 22:21  to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?

Empowered by God

Experiential Christianity

Unity to the body, the Church

Demonstration of Christ-likeness

Favour with God and man ***
Daily walking out our Salvation with fear and trembling

Commandment to effective discipleship

Commitment to Holiness
Confess with your mouth that Jesus is LORD ***

Involve all social circles
Full accountability in Godly context
All the time
Whole state of being – Wholeness, oneness with God

God’s plan of Salvation

Abundance is not lacking in any way ***

God’s Love demonstrated

1 Cor 15 – Good News, Evangelize this Good News
1Co 15:1  Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
1Co 15:2  and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain.
1Co 15:3  For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
1Co 15:4  that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
1Co 15:5  and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
1Co 15:6  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
1Co 15:7  Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
1Co 15:8  Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
1Co 15:9  For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1Co 15:10  But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
1Co 15:11  Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
1Co 15:12  Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
1Co 15:13  But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
1Co 15:14  And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1Co 15:15  We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
1Co 15:16  For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
1Co 15:17  And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
1Co 15:18  Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
1Co 15:19  If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1Co 15:20  But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
1Co 15:21  For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23  But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
1Co 15:24  Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
1Co 15:25  For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
1Co 15:27  For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.
1Co 15:28  When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
1Co 15:29  Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?
1Co 15:30  Why are we in danger every hour?
1Co 15:31  I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1Co 15:32  What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
1Co 15:33  Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
1Co 15:34  Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1Co 15:35  But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”
1Co 15:36  You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
1Co 15:37  And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
1Co 15:38  But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
1Co 15:39  For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.
1Co 15:40  There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.
1Co 15:41  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
1Co 15:42  So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
1Co 15:43  It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45  Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:46  But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
1Co 15:47  The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
1Co 15:48  As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.
1Co 15:49  Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
1Co 15:50  I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1Co 15:51  Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53  For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54  When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
1Co 15:55  “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
1Co 15:56  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57  But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 15:58  Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Foundation
Prototype (Protos) Greek

2 Cor 5:21 – Through faith alone
2Co 5:21  For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ministry of Reconciliation
Avoidance of God’s Wrath

It PLEASED the LORD to crush Him (Jesus)
Forsaken
Transaction of Grace in propitiation

We serve a Living God!

Canon Law (10 Canons)
Judged by God’s standard, not man’s

Discernment – what are the needs of the hearer?  ***

Urgency to the call of God
Reality of Grace
Simplicity of the finished work of Christ Jesus
Zeal rightfully placed
Properly conveyed message
Proper Theology
Bible put to practice

Psalm 19:7  The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

Preach Law AND Grace

Convert the soul
Moral law

Function of God’s Law
The lie of self-actualization
The Law is Holy and Just
Transparency in living
Teaches and instructs

God’s Love is tangible
Seeing God’s perspective ***
Being a right reflection of God
Understanding guilt and shame in a faith context
Judicial Law
Call to Holiness for everyone
Being reconciled to God wholly and completely

Knowledge of sin in revelation
Total Depravity acknowledges its separation

Cleansing the conscience of the worshipper ***

We don’t have it in us to be blameless before a Holy God.  The Holiness comes from without (from outside us, into us) – “This not of ourselves, it is a gift of God”
Ephesians 2:8  For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Nurtured – A seed sown that bears fruit

A Saviour that saves us from the wrath, saves us from our sin separation

Preach effectively by obedience

Christ’s testimony surpasses our own forever!

Sharing the Law in Love as the Sovereign work of God

Separation from God

Conscience – (with)(knowledge) Greek

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Law breaks the heart
Gospel heals the heart
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Zeal without knowledge or romantic approach in procrastination can lack effectivness for the Kingdom

Get intentional about the service of evangelism

Selfless service

Redeeming the time in Love

Love them
Honour God
Eternal value

300 to 500 names – circle of influence, circle of concern

We can’t earn God’s approval, Salvation is not earned by works

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You can’t control the results –
It doesn’t matter how many sheaves are reaped by you, what matters is hom many seeds are sown.  Sow continually, water often.  Truth and Time walk hand in hand.
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Putting off hypocrisy
Disciplines of the faith
Godly awareness of people that God is already prompting or working into

My testimony –
Before I was saved:
Destructive
Intelligent
Businessman
Brokenness
Separate from God
No values, no family values
Pride, without hope
Self-esteem
Self-actualization
Self-pride
It wasn’t working
Broken

Turning point:
I need Him
I can’t do life myself
Faith is eternal

How my life has changed:
I value others more importantly than myself
Christ loves me, so I “feel” Love I never felt before – Unconditional Love lessons
Have a sense of family
Christian community
My faith is rightly placed in Eternal things
I hunger after the things of God

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MP3 of what I’ve been up to
You know I’m a Christian – What is it that you think that I believe anyway?
Don’t you find it kind of crazy that I’m a born-again Christian?  What do you think is the main reason I am a Christian anyway?
Do you mind if I tell you about my faith?
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Ask permission to talk about spiritual things

Consistantly living out our faith
No counselling the the flesh

Information without application equals frustration

ABC
Accountable – partnerships, commitment
Bible – study, meditation
Cross off – effectiveness

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