Week 6 – The Lordship of Jesus 14/09/09
Last week our speaker Mark Parker took us into a deeper understanding of the Lordship of Jesus. So you may be asking what the Lordship of Jesus is. Lordship is Knowing Jesus and having a heart like His. He challenged us to lay down our lives daily to Jesus and to die to ourselves and our rights. We need to make God first in our lives and put Him on the throne instead of ourselves. This is how we bring the Kingdom of God.
“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” We need to take up our cross, DAILY! Each day I must deny myself and take up the cross. The signs of a disciple are love, obedience and fruits of the spirit.
“Ensure that the fear of the Lord stops you from sinning.”Don’t work on the fear of man, work on the fear of the Lord. If we make sure that we do fear the Lord then we will know the consequences of sinning and realise it is totally not worth it. We need to fix our eyes on Jesus not on the sin itself.
“Our generation is quick to repent and forgive, but slow to obey”. It is easy to say “sorry” then live life onwards. But true repentance is changing your mind. This leads to obedience to God’s teaching. When we repent and change our mind, it is lived out in our obedience. So really obedience and repentance go hand in hand.
On Thursday we had a ministry day based on the tabernacle of God. We took the basis of the Old Testament tabernacle and replaced it with the New Testament tabernacle of Jesus. Here is a very rough drawing of the basic tabernacle; the numbers represent certain symbols and steps to the Holy of Holies with the corresponding New Testament replacements.
By Irene Epp and Benjamin de Geest
