God’s Love for His People
Love Greenkill Conference Center Zolezzi, Steve 06/27/2019 06/27/2019
This teaching is about being strong in God’s love for us and how to apply His love in our walk. It opens with the beautiful context of John 3:16. When the world turns away from the true God, it turns away from true love. People were bound to die but God’s provision, love, and grace provided a way out of death. The world didn’t love God, but God loved the world. God paid a very high price for us, but we are worth it. We are loveable. This Christian walk is not about pressure, but, instead, it’s about love. The more we understand God’s love for us, the easier it is for us to love Him. We commit our lives to God, not out of obligation, but because we love the Master. We see God’s love in our life and Christ’s accomplishments and then we decide not to live for ourselves anymore. There are many results of God’s love for us: He gave His son, we have eternal life and sonship, we can overcome hurt, we cast our care on Him, we love Him, we are committed to Him, we keep His commandants, we can love others, and we want to live for Him and His son. Let’s know God’s love and enjoy it!
Believing vs. Fear
Believing Overcoming Fear Greenkill Conference Center Zolezzi, Steve 06/25/2019 06/25/2019
This teaching contrasts the results of believing and of fear. Fear issues in unbelief and defeats the promises of God. It prevents us from being the people we want to be. If we are afraid, we should replace that fear with the truth of the Word in our minds and take appropriate actions by acting on the Word of God. If Peter played it safe and stayed on the boat, he would never have been able to do the impossible and walk on the water. In the Old Testament, they were supposed to claim the Promised Land with believing. One record shows the children of Israel elevating the sense knowledge report over the promise of God, and then fear issued in unbelief. Fear and unbelief kept them out of the Promised Land. They could have gone in right away but instead wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. In another record, the people entered into the Promised Land because of believing. Today we don’t have the Promised Land, but we do have God’s promises. We are to claim what we have by believing just like the Israelites did with the Promised Land. We live by believing concerning the Son of God and his accomplishments. Get rid of fear and believe God instead.
Witnessing and the Manifestations
Receiving the Holy Spirit and Manifestations Witnessing and Undershepherding Greenkill Conference Center Zolezzi, Steve 04/27/2019 04/27/2019
This teaching is about the combination of speaking God’s Word and operating the manifestations. God has given us what we need to carry out the ministry of reconciliation: Word and works, preaching and power. The ministry of Jesus Christ was Word and works. He isn’t here anymore, but we are and are able to follow his example. God can help us when we are witnessing so we can help people believe God’s Word like Jesus Christ did with Nathanael. Jesus wasn’t out witnessing when he helped the woman at the well, but his operation of God’s power got her attention. We can do undeniable miracles in the name of Jesus Christ like Peter and John at the gate of the Temple. We cannot be tricked out of speaking the Word because of fear, discouragement, or not having enough time. We have the right to speak God’s Word with all boldness and power. Revelation, healing, power and deliverance – how big do we want to walk with God in our own life?
By Love, Serve Deliverance
Deliverance Leadership and Service Love Mountain Top Inn and Resort Zolezzi, Steve 11/03/2018 11/03/2018
This teaching looks at the relationship between love, deliverance, and service. There are three parts: (1) being a shepherd; (2) being moved with compassion; and (3) the Apostle Paul’s “manner of entering in” from the book of Thessalonians. Jesus Christ laid down his life so that we can have abundant and eternal lives. Are we willing to lay our lives down in service to help other people? Jesus Christ’s compassion led to God’s Word being taught, the sick being healed, and people getting fed. Paul loved and gave everything he had because people were dear unto him. This resulted in an explosion of God’s Word! Love combined with the Word of God brings deliverance and helps people walk worthy. We can be moved with compassion today towards people who need the love and power of God so they can get God’s best.
Parables
How God’s Word Interprets Itself Integrity of the Word Cinardo Home (Rutherford, NJ) Zolezzi, Steve 11/11/2010 11/11/2010
A parable is an extended simile, usually with only one point of comparison. There are some questions to keep in mind when reading parables: (1) what is the point of comparison? (2) who is the audience of the parable? (3) is there an orientalism that needs to be understood? and (4) what is the context? Examples are given to explain each key, including parables with one or two points of comparison, a review of parables with an emphasis on who Jesus Christ was speaking to, three parables about the joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, and the context of Matthew 22:14, “For many are called, but few are chosen.” We can have great joy when we help people with God’s Word because it helps people to change and brings them closer to their Heavenly Father.
Figures of Speech
Metonymy, Synecdoche, Metalepsis, Idiom
How God’s Word Interprets Itself Cinardo Home (Rutherford, NJ) Zolezzi, Steve 11/09/2010 11/09/2010
This teaching reviews four specific types of figures of speech: metonymy, synecdoche, metalepsis, and idioms. Understanding these figures of speech helps us gain a greater appreciation for the detail of God’s Word. The definition and examples of each type of figure are given to help the listener reach a greater understanding of how these function in God’s Word. An explanation is specifically given of the idiom of permission. We are reminded of how important it is to speak God’s Word to people since God is a delivering God.
Figures of Speech
