Speaker’s Name: Georgina

Date: 10/4/04-10/8/04

Speaker’s Key Theme: A humble slave that was obedient to His Father represented the life of Jesus.

 

Ideas, theories, methods of confirmation of what already believed used by the speaker:

• Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Christ did. 1 John 2:6 If you want to know how to live your life, look at Jesus’ life.
• 1 Cor. 11:1   And you should follow my example, just as I follow Christ's.  Our life call is to be like JESUS. To be His witnesses.
• We must be FREE in the LORD!!!
• The Cross has to be the center of the community.
• We are called to community so that we can live our lives together.
• People want someone who is real and honest.  People are quick on phonies.
• The most important thing in life is OBEYING God.
• His public life began at his baptism.
• Only thing that will bring fulfillment is doing the will of God and finishing his work.  That will be my FOOD.  No person will be able to fulfill my needs.

 

New teaching that was learned:

• He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form. Philip. 2:7   This represents the true character of Jesus.
• To reflect Jesus is our ministry.
• Jesus started is His life poor.
• Washing feet was a cultural thing to do for guests.  It was very common and normal to wash feet.  Jesus lived a normal life.  The task of washing feet was done by the lowest of lowest slave.  Jesus gave us an example of what to do.  We have been called to serve
• Jesus is the church planter, and we are his servants and laborers.
• Relationships and serving are how we are to represent the Father.
• Jesus didn’t go up and up to be the high priest in the synagogue, but went low and low as an individual who was naked on a cross and crucified.
• God’s purpose for John the Baptist was to prepare the way of the Lord and have his Head on a Plate.
• Judging puts a curse on someone.  No right to judge unbelievers.
• Affirmation from the Father is very important! A Father’s blessing is very important.
• It is quite clear what we must do: put off selfish ambition.  We must put that aside, shoulder the cross, and follow the Lord.  We must ask what is selfish because we want know it until the Father reveals it when we say not my will but your will be done. That is what the struggle of the cross is about.  The place of the cross is suffering.
• Suffering is held up as a negative thing.  What comes out of suffering can not be compared to what comes out. What comes out is far, far greater.

 

Practically apply teaching of the week in life how:

Seek to serve others in my daily life.  Seek out how to wash others feet.  Live out the Gospel through my life not just my words.  My fulfillment and joy is from saying yes Lord.  Asking the Father: NOT MY WILL, BUT YOUR WILL BE DONE!

 

Character study: Power- authority, control, supremacy, rule, influence

Psalm 2:4

    But the one who rules in heaven laughs.

        The Lord scoffs at them.

 

2:4 God is all-powerful. He created the world, and knew about the empires of the earth long before they came into being (Daniel 2:26-45). But pride and power cause nations and leaders to rebel against God and try to break free of him. Our world has many leaders who boast of their power, who rant and rave against God and his people, who promise to take over and form their own empires. But God laughs because any power they have comes from him, and he can also take it from them.

 

2 Chron. 14:11

    Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God, "O Lord, no one but you can help the powerless against the mighty! Help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in you alone. It is in your name that we have come against this vast horde. O Lord, you are our God; do not let mere men prevail against you!"

 

14:11 In the face of vast numbers of enemy soldiers, Asa prayed for God’s help, recognizing his powerlessness against such a mighty army. The secret of victory is first to admit that I can’t win a battle on my own effort and then to trust God to save. His power works best when I recognize my limitations (2 Cor. 12:9). It is those who think they can do it all on their own who are in the greatest danger.

 

Psalm 20:6-8

    Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed king.

        He will answer him from his holy heaven

        and rescue him by his great power.

    [7] Some nations boast of their armies and weapons,

        but we boast in the Lord our God.

    [8] Those nations will fall down and collapse,

        but we will rise up and stand firm.

 

20:6-8 As long as there have been armies and weapons, nations have boasted of their power, but such power does not last. Throughout history, empires and kingdoms have risen to great power only to vanish in the dust. David, however, knew that the true might of his nation was not in weaponry but in worship; not in firepower but in God’s power. Because God alone can preserve a nation or an individual, my confidence must be in God, who gives eternal victory.

 

Memory Verse:            2 Cor. 3:17-18  Now, the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, he gives freedom. [18] And all of us have had that veil removed so that we can be mirrors that brightly reflect the glory of the Lord. And as the Spirit of the Lord works within us, we become more and more like him and reflect his glory even more.

Meditation:      When the Spirit comes in my life, the barriers of sin must be removed.  This freedom leads me to desire to let the Father work in me and through me.  As I open my heart to the Lord and trust on the great Counselor, more barriers are removed from my life.  This provides the opportunity for me to choose to become more like him and reflect His glory and not mine.