Sister Sunny Sunday School 11/16/14

Sister Sunny Sunday School 11/16/14

We have seen in previous lessons who God is and how He created man to be like Him.  That God desires to dwell with us but cannot tolerate the presence of sin.  We saw how Adam and Eve sinned because they went beyond the bounds that God had set for them.  Then how God made a sacrifice for their sin and clothing and made a way for them to worship Him and fellowship Him.  This set the stage for Jesus coming to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins.

Next we saw how everyone, including us which were born to Adam and Eve, were born not in the image of God but in the image of Adam, with a carnal, selfish, nature.  We learned that Jesus came to remove the curse that we received through Adam.  He is the giver of spiritual life, eternal life. 

We understand that Jesus was born in the image of God: Holy, blameless, undefiled, and did not sin in life.  He became the perfect sacrifice for our sins by dying for us and rising again the third day.  He made a way to give victory over the power of death which is sin to all that would believe on Him. 

God has prepared a dwelling place for His servants that sin can never enter.  God does not hear the prayer of a sinner, and since we all have sinned, we all need to be saved.  God has commanded that we be holy as He is holy.  He also made a way for us to become new creatures, able again to be in His image through the sacrifice of His dear Son.

God has prepared a dwelling place for His servants

Joh 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Joh 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Joh 14:3  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.

What a statement of comfort!  “Let not your heart be troubled.  I go to prepare a place for you and will come again and receive you unto myself.”

Matthew Henry CC - however others are overwhelmed with the sorrows of this present time, be not you so.  Be not cast down and disquieted.  Let your heart be kept with full trust in God.  Christ's disciples, more than others, should keep their minds quiet, when everything else is unquiet.  By believing in Christ as the mediator between God and man we gain comfort. 

The happiness of heaven is spoken of as in a father's house.  There are many mansions, for there are many sons to be brought to glory.  Mansions are lasting dwellings.  Christ will be the finisher of that of which He is the Author or Beginner; if He have prepared the place for us, He will prepare us for it. 

Sin can never enter the place He has prepared for us.

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

God cannot even look upon sin.  When Jesus was on the cross, God had to turn from Him as He took Himself the sins of the world.  Jesus cried out, “My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Only those that do His commandments have right to the tree of life and can enter through the gates into the city. 

For all have sinned.

Rom 3:23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

There is not one person, nation, or culture left out of this.  All have sinned.  We all need a savior; that is why Jesus came to be the propitiation for our sins. 

Propitiation – That which appeases the wrath and conciliates the favor of an offended person; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor.

Since we all have sinned, we all need a savior.

Joh 3:14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

Joh 3:15  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Whosoever believes on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life!  God sent His that the world through Him might be saved. 

God desires to restore us to communion with Him as Adam and Eve enjoyed

Joh 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

It is so precious to have God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the precious Holy Spirit come and make their abode with us.  In the night we can have sweet communion with Him; all through the day we can have sweet communion with Him.

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; oh what a foretaste of glory divine.
Heir of salvation, purchase of God; born of His Spirit lost in His love.
This is my story, this is my song, praising my savior all the day long.

1Jn 2:24  Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

1Jn 2:25  And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

If we will hold fast that which He has given us, we shall continue in the Father and in the Son and receive eternal life.

1Jn 4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

1Jn 4:13  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

1Jn 4:14  And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

1Jn 4:15  Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

1Jn 4:16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

God does not hear the prayer of a sinner

Joh 9:31  Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

Psa 66:18  If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Pro 1:28  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Pro 1:29  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Isa 58:9  Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isa 58:10  And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Pro 15:29  The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Psa 34:15  The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

God commands us to be holy

1Pe 1:14  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

1Pe 1:15  But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

1Pe 1:16  Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

We can only live holy through the salvation brought to us by His dear Son, when we are born again into His image and carry within us that divine nature: pure, blameless, and undefiled.  We need full salvation to be holy in all manner of conversation, all of our modes or actions. 

Mat 5:48  Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Perfect - G5046 τέλειος teleios tel'-i-os

From G5056; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with G3588) completeness: - of full age, man, perfect.

Total KJV occurrences: 19

Be responsible, be complete in mental and moral character, be of full age, and of full growth as your Father which is in heaven.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

We are not to live righteously at some future date when we “are perfected.” We are to do so in this present world.  God’s grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and how to live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. 

“Jesus gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Adam Clark – Follow peace - pursue peace with the same care, attention, and diligence, as beasts do their game; follow it through all places; trace it through all winding circumstances; and have it with all men, if you can with a safe conscience.
And holiness - Τον ἁγιασμον· That state of continual sanctification, that life of purity and detachment from the world and all its lusts, without which detachment and sanctity no man shall see the Lord - shall never enjoy his presence in the world of blessedness. To see God, in the Hebrew phrase, is to enjoy him; and without holiness of heart and life this is impossible. No soul can be fit for heaven that has not suitable dispositions for the place.