TEACHING TRANSFORMATION MINISTRY

The topic of authority is not new particularly to those who have been following our messages for a while. God took us through the same message sometime last year under the topic ' Understanding Authority ' on July 9th 2014. Brethren, when you see God lead us to a similar message so soon after, it may be that He is reminding us of something on authority which we may have forgotten or that He wants the same topic shared differently for very divine reasons. I therefore submit to the authority of the Holy Spirit to deliver this message as He leads, for His own glory and honor. It is my prayer that our hearts will be tuned to hear and concentrate on what God wants us to do, and that we will hearken to what He says. As we talk about authority, it is important for us to understand that this is actually synonymous to power. A person can only receive authority from one who is more superior to him or her. The very first time the Bible records a given authority is in the book of Genesis

2 Timothy 2:3-4   You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. There have been wars ever since the creation of the world, as depicted in the Bible stories. Most Bible stories describe battles, from Genesis to Revelation, depicting physical battles and spiritual battles. The physical battles are a reflection of the spiritual battles between forces of light and darkness. Since Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Gideon, Nehemiah, Joshua, Saul, Samuel, Samson, to New Testament times, there have been wars and battles between tribes, communities, territories and nation. The battles are still on-going to-date, in Israel and the world in general. The battle was there not only after the beginning on earth but also in heaven, way back, before the beginning, between God’s army and the rebels, led by Lucifer. Satan was hurled down and

Job 1:21-22   And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD." In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.   Life is full of events and occurrences. Every experience, whether good or bad, is an educational tool which we are expected to learn from and use it to change, for our own good. How we receive the experiences determines our attitude and willingness regarding transformation.   We learn this from the story of Job. He went through a string of very tough challenges, yet his unique response to this is profound. He lost so much through the trials, yet in his predicament, he never lost his faith in God. His total and deliberate trust and confidence in God is reflected in his response to the spiritual warfare he underwent, as stated in the quoted scripture verses. Life -   Job’s health was utterly attacked but he never yielded to

In our previous teaching , we looked at how sonship came about, and established the fact that it never comes about by the law, works or performance, but by God's grace. We also looked at why the law was given, which is not to justify us or make us right with God, but to confine us under sin and point us to Jesus, our Saviour, who was the key to us being reconciled with God. This means that for us to know how to live as sons, we have to observe Jesus, how He lived, talked, did things, thought, related with the Father and so on. He came as a Son, took our place as slaves of sin, became sin Himself on the cross, so that He could free us from the one thing that was hindering us from living lives as sons, separating us from our Father and thus separating us from our rights as sons - sin. Je sus, knowing He was an heir, and that He would soon leave, knew it was important for us to live lives exactly the way He lived, as through His death and resurrection and through faith in Him we

We all know and say that we are sons of God, yet few enjoy the privileges of sons, or even know how to live as sons. For us to understand the whole issue of sonship, we have to understand how it came about.   Galatians 3:22-29 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.   24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.   25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.   28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.   29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs accordi