450 – WIW – God, Jesus Christ and The Word – Steve Jaynes

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450 – WIW – God, Jesus Christ and The Word – Steve Jaynes

Announcing:

“How to Read the Bible” Online Zoom

Starting September 21 and ending November 16, the class will be held on Saturday Mornings from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Eastern Time Zone. It is partially pre-recorded and partially live. You can attend the class live on Zoom. There will be question-and-answer and discussion times during the sessions.

To learn more about the class and how you can participate, visit my website under the announcements and events page. It is an online Zoom class.
https://stevejaynes.com,

To listen to the first session of the Class to see if this is something you would like to do: https://stevejaynes.libsyn.com/339-the-opening-of-the-class-part-one

The Notes from the Podcast

Below are all the Scriptures written out and my notes so you can follow along with the podcast “God, Jesus Christ and The Word.” I'm still seeking spiritual matters and learning how to edify the church.

John 14:3 – 16 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. ⁴ And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. ⁵ Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? ⁶ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ⁷ If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. ⁸ Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. ⁹ Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? ¹⁰ Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. ¹² Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. ¹³ And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;”

John 15:16 “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”

John 16:23 & 24 “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. ²⁴ Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.”

Acts 1:1 “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,”

Jesus began in the gospel period, and in Acts, Jesus continues to do and to teach.

Mark 16:19 & 20 “So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. ²⁰ And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”

Who works within them? Jesus Christ, Christ in you. spirit

Galatians 1:1 “Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)”

Who's working? Both of them. God directs, and Jesus Christ carries it out.

1 Thessalonians 3:11 & 12 “ Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. ¹² And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:”

John 16:12 – 15 “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. ¹³ Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. ¹⁴ He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. ¹⁵ All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”

You can know. You can ask in prayer.

Philippians 3:12 - “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, ¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”

By the spirit that dwells within you.

1 Corinthians 2:9 – 13 “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰ But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ¹¹ For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

We can know the Deep things of God.

Colossians 2:2 & 3 “That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; ³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

We have access to all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge as we read and study God's word.

1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

We have Christ's eyes behind our eyes, Christ's mouth behind our mouths. We have Christ's five senses behind all our five senses. As much as blood, it makes it to every cell. We have spirit in every cell of our body. We can know the Deep things of God, and God can share them with us. When we're ready to accept them

This is a little warning for us. Listen and hear the lesson.

Deuteronomy 18:18 – 22 “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. ¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. ²⁰ But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. ²¹ And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? ²² When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”

This is one way to know if it is of God or not. If it is of God it will come to pass. If it doesn't come to pass is not of God.

1 John 4:1 – 6 “ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. ² Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: ³ And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. ⁴ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. ⁵ They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. ⁶ We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”

Just because someone says it's of God does not mean it's of God.

God Bless you Abundantly

Steve

I'm announcing an online class on "How to Read the Bible for Understanding and Power." It will be offered in two ways.

One is that you could Zoom in on Saturday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern Time Zone in the United States to hear previously recorded and new augmented sessions. With discussions, question and answering time with the teacher.

The second way is to go to Steve's website and click on the recorded sessions to hear the sessions and see the syllabus, Scriptures, and notes.

Participants can use both ways to go through the class. If they miss something, they can review it on their own. The notes for each episode are in the show notes. You can schedule your own time to go through the class.

More information is available on the announcements and events page of https://stevejaynes.com

If you want to keep informed of all we are doing here with our podcast, you can look at the website. Here's the link. https://stevejaynes.com/

Podcast listeners, You are invited to Zoom this Sunday at 10:30 AM EST. All you need to do is click on the website (https://stevejaynes.com/zoom-dial-in) and attend the meeting. We do the zoom most of the time.

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The Announcer: Maurice Coleman

Intro and Outro Music: Larry LoVerme's version of “Be Thou My Vision.” 

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