Kerusso Ministry: Recent Episodes
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Phil 2:11-13, Titus 2:14, Ezekiel 36:26
Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ Jesus - so is the work of ministry.
Never forget that someone reached out to you, so it's also your responsibility to reach out to as many people as possible.
Our Lord Jesus meant it when He said, "go into all the world and preach the gospel." And we must see to it that we obey to the letter.
Purpose is what you were created to be and not what you want to be - it's discovered not created. It's no longer purpose if you get to decide it yourself.
Salvation is God's purpose for every man.
Purpose doesn't always have to be unique.
It's time for labour and consecration. There's a cost to serving God. Count the cost and follow through knowing that God rewards even the tiniest of faithfulness
There's the place of training when it comes to discipleship; both the disciple and discipler need to be well trained. You can be well trained that your consecration doesn't affect other areas of your life.
You believed and trusted in God for salvation; do the same for ministry. It's good to have massive goals, but never forget that the essence of your life is the gospel.
Giving to the work of God is also part of consecration. Anything you lose for the Gospel is worth it.
There's the place of honouring God's call on your life that makes other people honour it too.
It's inaccurate to say the Bible is God's word. Within the Bible, we have the words of Men, Angels, Demons written in it as well. An accurate way to put it is to say the Bible contains the word of God.
2 Tim 3:16 We can take reproofs, shreds of evidence, teachings, corrections, and instructions in righteousness from the Old Testament scriptures. They are not to be put aside - there's a whole lot we can learn from them. The epistles have their foundation on them, even Jesus gave extensive teachings about Himself from all of the OT.
We are not to pattern our lives after it, but we are to learn from it.
Exodus 4:22, Jeremiah 3:1-8, Jeremiah 2:2 From these scriptures, Israel was called a son, a firstborn, and a wife/bride. It's important to note these as they were figures of what the new creation and the church have become.
Ministry is done in partnership with God
Fear comes knocking when you're looking at the wrong thing. Your fear could be valid, but so is your faith when your focused on the right things.
The work of ministry is done by faith
The first mention of the Spirit of God in the bible was in Genesis 1:1-3, and our study of 2 Corinthians 4:6 makes us see that it was beyond the creation of the earth, and it actually had to do with salvation.
Activities by the spirit didn’t start in the NT. We see activities of the spirit from the OT and they were seen as:
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Prophetic utterances concerning Salvation.
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The miraculous.
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We see that people prophesied about the coming of the Messiah and His salvation long before the NT by the spirit of God (1Peter 1:9-11, 2 Peter. 1:16-21, Luke 24:25-27, John. 5:39.)
In fact, this serves as our first precedence for charismatic utterance. Our surety that the things we speak will come to pass is that God first spoke and it came to pass.
The miraculous was also in display from the OT and this was seen through folks like Moses (See Exodus 14:21-29, Joshua 10:12-13, 1Kings 17:1-6, 18:43-46 for references.)
The first mention of the Spirit of God in the bible was in Genesis 1:1-3, and our study of 2 Corinthians 4:6 makes us see that it was beyond the creation of the earth, and it actually had to do with salvation. Activities by the spirit didn’t start in the NT. We see activities of the spirit from the OT and they were seen as: - Prophetic utterances concerning Salvation. - The miraculous. - We see that people prophesied about the coming of the Messiah and His salvation long before the NT by the spirit of God (1Peter 1:9-11, 2 Peter. 1:16-21, Luke 24:25-27, John. 5:39.) In fact, this serves as our first precedence for charismatic utterance. Our surety that the things we speak will come to pass is that God first spoke and it came to pass. The miraculous was also in display from the OT and this was seen through folks like Moses (See Exodus 14:21-29, Joshua 10:12-13, 1Kings 17:1-6, 18:43-46 for references.)