REACHING OUT TO THE LOST

SUNDAY SERVICE SUMMARY 12/06/2016

PREACHER   :    PS X MKHIZE

MESSAGE TITLE: REACHING OUT TO THE LOST

Referral Scripture: Luke 15
15 Dishonest tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus’ sermons; ² but this caused complaints from the Jewish religious leaders and the experts on Jewish law because he was associating with such despicable people—even eating with them! ^3-4 So Jesus used this illustration: “If you had a hundred sheep and one of them strayed away and was lost in the wilderness, wouldn’t you leave the ninety-nine others to go and search for the lost one until you found it? ⁵ And then you would joyfully carry it home on your shoulders. ⁶ When you arrived you would call together your friends and neighbours to rejoice with you because your lost sheep was found.

Effectiveness of a believer is seen by the lives of people you have changed , if there is no one who can testify and I say I am who I am because of you, I’m saved because of you, that mean we haven’t live an effective life.

ISAIAH 61 Prophetically tell us about the Mission of Jesus our Lord on earth, to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted, to comfort the brokenhearted, to announce liberty to captives, and to open the eyes of the blind. Even now there is a lot of people out there who are captives, bound by different oppressions and sins. There is a lot of people going through hard times – as the church God has anointed us to minister to those people, to speak to them, comfort them, influence them, once their lives has been raise up they will also do the same to others.

In the book of Luke 15 Jesus is speaking in parables, but what notable as from verse 1 when religious people challenge Him, is His compassion towards the Lost. As a Church our Mission is also reaching out to the Lost, to go out and make disciples. 

The people we see on the street committing all kind of sins are the people we sent to, we are called to go to them and minister the Good news. In a road accident there is usually 3 types of people, the first ones are those who take out their phones to take pictures and tell others, the second ones are police officers who come to Judge who is wrong , than the 3^rd ones are those who don’t ask any questions but just help – paramedics. Us as believers we not the first ones, who watch the wrongs in people’s lives and share it gossiping with others, we also not the 2^nd ones who judge people, we don’t Judge, but as believers we are the 3^rd ones, who come with compassion and set the captives free.

It not our mission to judge the lives people live but to show compassion as we share the good news with them.

3 things we need to reach out to the lost:

1.   Compassion : To go around sharing the good news won’t be an challenge if we have compassion about the Lost as Jesus had.

2.   Effort : We will need to come out of our comfort Zone, it can go upto an effort where we will need to use our finances to transport unbelievers to a local church just for them to be in the presence of the Lord.

3.   Persistent: Even if we find ourselves demoralised, because it can happen as we share, invite the lost to Christ they can say things or words that can demoralised us, in a way we can even feel we targeted wrong people, the reality is there is no wrong person for God or Salvation. So we need to be Persistent we are a called for it.

As we are saved today, it because someone took a step, whether to share a Gospel or invite us to church. Now we are saved, it doesn’t end there, SHARE THE GOOD NEWS, INVITE SOMEONE TO CHRIST

THE GOD KIND OF LIFE

SUNDAY SERVICE SUMMARY 05/06/2016

GUEST PREACHER   :    PS S N GABELA from WORLD RESTORATION  CENTRE

Referral Scripture: John 15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. ² Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Jesus says He is the True vine and we are the branches, which simple means the Life in Him, the God kind of Life in Him is also the same Life in us. So when we talk about productivity in the life of a believer it is not in the ability of our Human Nature because the same Life in Christ is the same Life in us.

This means if Jesus was not conquered by the grave I and you as a believer you will not be conquered by the grave because the same life that is in Christ is the same Life which is in us.
There is a season in life where we face Friday night just like Jesus where our life is in shame even in that season we have to know that the God kind of life which was in Christ is the same Life that is in us. When Isaiah writes about Jesus He says there was no beauty in Him, as they crucified Him everyone was seeing Him in shame, even in our shame the same life in Christ is the same Life in us.

Friday, Jesus is crucified the Devil celebrates thinking this is the End of Jesus but come Sunday morning, the bible state the resurrection Spirit came and move the rock which was an obstacle Maria and the other Mary couldn’t remove. We can go through the season of betrayal, a season of shame where there is no beauty to show in our lives but the same Life in Christ is the same Life in us. 

Let those who want to walk away from us walk, let those who want to speak bad about us speak , Let those who want to put us to shame do it BUT know    that our Life doesn’t end in the grave, our life doesn’t end in shame, but the     resurrection Spirit is coming to raise us and bring us out of all this for the        same life in Christ is the same Life in us , if Jesus didn’t end in shame , tears,    so it is with us for the life in the stem, root, is the same Life in the branches.

 Now this mean if there is no productivity in our Life, the problem is not us because we have the God kind of Nature, Our God operates in Dominion so I also operate in Dominion. John 15 is very significant , as God is calling us to Emerge , we cannot become what God want us to be while we still have an identity crisis , that why Jesus is giving us a new past which is Him as our Stem or root and we are branches, who we are doesn’t come from people, who were are comes from God, so whatever Christ is we are, for as He is so are we in this world, if He is in dominion, so are we, if He is Above were are above, we cannot be defined by the people or families we come from.

In verse 2 He says every branch that is not fruitful will be taken away This is one of the verses that has been interpreted and preached wrong for some time, to help us understand this we look in verse 6 Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned. 

So the braches that are thrown away are branches that are not connected or remaining in Christ. It not about productivity. In fact reading from the Greek ‘taken away’ in verse 2 to is to raise up , which mean every branch that is not fruitful He raises it up , God is simple saying when we’re not producing it not about us or our Nature but it is about the position were in , the vine or grapes when they are down or in a low position they don’t produce or become more fruitful, those with wisdom they find a way to raise them into a higher level, for the vine has more productivity when it is elevated into a higher position

We cannot bear fruits in a low position God is saying if we don’t bear fruits He will elevate us into a higher position where we will bear much fruits.
Things we see as defeats, oppression, and generational challenges it only because we looking at these from a low position, what our ancestors couldn’t conquer it because of the position they were operating in but us our Position in Christ is a Higher Place that something we need to understand, Once we understand it we need to Live it, in a higher place there is no hate, there is no grudges. 

As boys sasijwayele kuyoshaya izinyoni, kwakulula kushaya iJuba but ngkhule ngiwumfana ngaze ngamdala singakaze silushaye ukhozi, simple because the Eagle operates in a Higher Level
You might say, I have been trying somany things for many years but know this the problem is not you but the position youre in , God shall move you into a Higher place. God is shifting you into another Level.