God’s Way vs. the Ways of the World
Believing Greenkill Conference Center Carr, Jesse 06/25/2019 06/25/2019
God’s way works in the face of what the Adversary does in the world. Things work out when they are done God’s way. This teaching looks at a couple of examples of people getting delivered God’s way juxtaposed with a believer who tried to do things his own way. The believers in Acts didn’t make contingency plans if things didn’t work out the way they expected when they carried out God’s business. We sometimes shrink from believing for much smaller circumstances than what Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego faced. The Adversary has been luring people with comfort and “more” since the Garden of Eden. In the Old Testament, Gehazi had seen God do miracles time and time again yet he still tried to meet his own needs. We’ve also seen the impossible done by God. God is able to care for us, so we do not need to do things the world’s way. We are not defined by the riches of this world, and we should not be easily tricked. We are fully equipped by God. Let’s believe and renew our mind to doing God’s work, not men’s work.
Believing the Word, Not Facts or Sense-Knowledge
Believing Integrity of the Word Greenkill Conference Center Hanan, Patrick 06/25/2019 06/25/2019
This teaching is about believing God’s Word over the facts or sense knowledge because God’s Word has been put to the test and has come up pure every time. Nothing has been tried like God’s Word has been tried. We should prove everything according to the Word of God. If it is not of God, then throw it in the trash. The Word of God is pure gold, and we do not need to keep the mostly pure around. A record about Ahab receiving counsel is shared to demonstrate that if something contradicts the Word, even if the vast majority of people agree, then it cannot be true. The Word is more true than any circumstances we have been in or will be in. Nothing shall be impossible with God so don’t let the devil tell you what is possible. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are shown as examples of people who walked with God even when they faced certain death. God comes through even if the facts get worse because the Word stays pure. We find out what we’re made of when the heat gets turned up. If what we believe is God’s Word, then it is going to be found pure.
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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.
Being Strong in the Things That Have Been Freely Given to Us
The New Birth Renewed Mind Sonship Rights Greenkill Conference Center Gilmore, Michael 06/24/2019 06/24/2019
This teaching looks at some of the things we’ve been freely given by God through grace as a result of the gift of holy spirit. Everything good comes from God, and His nature is to give. God wants us to know about Him and act on the Word that He’s given to us. All that we have today spiritually is based on Jesus Christ’s accomplishments. God was successful in giving us the things that He wanted us to have, and they are irrevocable. We’ve been transferred from darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son. We are not of the world; we are of God. We put off the old man and put on the new man by thinking the Word one thought at a time. We can tell ourselves that we are righteous, believe it, and then walk righteously. God wants us to take Him at His Word and know that we’ve been freely given holy spirit, mercy, grace, righteousness, peace, eternal life, redemption, all things that pertain to life and godliness, forgiveness, exceeding great and precious promises, gift ministries to the church, ministries of reconciliation, eternal consolation, and good hope. Let’s give great glory to our Heavenly Father by using what we’ve been given.
Being Strong in God’s Righteousness and Peace
Believing The New Birth Renewed Mind Sonship Rights Greenkill Conference Center Hunt, Tony 06/24/2019 06/24/2019
This teaching beautifully portrays the righteousness and peace restored for us by Jesus Christ. It shows the truth that God has made us righteous with His righteousness. Tony establishes that to be strong in righteousness and peace, we need to stand on the accomplishments of Christ.
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Being Strong in God’s Grace
Sonship Rights Greenkill Conference Center Cahill, Chrissy 06/24/2019 06/24/2019
In this teaching, being strong in God’s grace is broken down into remembering what we’ve received, how to be strong in grace in our own lives, and how to be strong in grace towards others. Grace is unmerited divine favor. We have God’s grace, but we have to accept it. Grace has been freely given to us; we don’t deserve it, we can’t earn it, and we can’t repay it. God is not waiting for us to pay Him back for the power on high we’ve received. It is a free gift to us from God, and we are worth the price He paid. Paul said “by the grace of God I am what I am.” His physical credentials did not make him spiritually strong. We’ve already been judged righteous. We are going to be the most blessed when we are strong in God and not in ourselves. We can reign in life even without lots of money, social media, or fancy cars. We are free, and when we walk in grace, we walk in light of that freedom. Other people need this freedom too. We need to stop being so hard on ourselves and other people because, at the end of the day, we are all “grace cases.” When we forget God’s grace, we are going to be the one to cast that first stone. We want to be strong in God’s grace, to minister grace, and to find grace to help in time of need.
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