June 25, 2017

The Style that Never Changes, not Even in the 21st Century (Ephesians 5:15-21)

Message: Eph. 5:15-21

15See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, 20giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21submitting to one another in the fear of God.

 

Sunday June 25, 2017

“The Style that Never Changes, not Even in the 21st Century”

Pastor Enoch Hanokh

  1. A call for cautions and care-vv. 15-17

15See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • Circumspection
  • Wisdom
  • Buying the opportunity (Watching against temptations)
  1. A call to be filled?-vv. 18-19

. 18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, 19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

  • Not giving to sensuality (drunkenness)
  • Giving to being filled with Holy Spirit
  • Forming the habit of speaking to one another
  1. A call to thankfulness and submission-vv. 20-21

20giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21submitting to one another in the fear of God.

 

 

 

Questions:

  1. Share with your group what you have learned from this passage and today’s message.
  2. Can you think of any other forms of drunkenness (intoxication)?
  3. What can we learn from the merchants in regard to redeeming the time?
  4. Do Christians have to change in order to cope in this world?  



 

June 18, 2017

At an Age When it is Possible to Find Anything Out There (Ephesians 5:8-14)

 

Message: Eph. 5:8-14

8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

Sunday June 18, 2017

“At an Age When it is Possible to Find Anything Out There”

Pastor Enoch Hanokh

 

1.     What is our condition and privilege?-vv. 8-9

8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

§  The past

§  The present

 

2.     Expose the work of darkness-vv.10-11

10finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

§  Finding what is acceptable to the LORD

§  Shunning fruitless work of darkness

§  Exposing works of darkness

 

3.     Arise from the dead-vv. 12-14

12For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

§  Unspeakable works

Is. 32:7-8 7Also the schemes of the schemer are evil; He devises wicked plans To destroy the poor with flying words, Even when the needy speaks justice. 8But generous man devises generous things, And by generosity he shall stand.

 

§  Manifest the light of God

Col. 1:9-12 9For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10rthat you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

 

§  Awake

Luke 21:34-36 34“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35“For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36“ Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

 

§  Arise

 Isa. 60:1-3 1Arise, ashine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. 3The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

 

§  Receive the light of Christ

2 Cor. 4:5 5For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. 6For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Cast Down but Unconquered 7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12So then death is working in us, but life in you.

 

1.     What is our condition and privilege in Christ?

2.     In a time when it is possible anything out there, what should be our position?




 

June 11, 2017

Walking in Love as God's Dear Children (Ephesians 5:1-17)

Passage: Eph. 5:1-7

Walk in Love

1Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7Therefore do not be partakers with them.

 

Sunday June 11, 2017

Walking in Love as God’s Dear Children

Pastor Enoch Hanokh

  1. Exhortation to mutual love-vv. 1-2

1Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

  • Acting from the Principle of Grace:

Conforming to His Prevailing Example

Forgiving others

  1. Exhortation to what is befitting-vv. 3-5

3But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

  • Friendship with the World? James 4:2-5 2You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. 3Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 44Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
  • Remember Your Engagement to the LORD: Jer. 2:2 1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“ Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown. 3Israel was holiness to the LORD, The first fruits of His increase. All that devour him will offend; Disaster will come upon them,” says the LORD.’  ”
  • Sell Your Love for Nothing: Eze. 16:31-34 31 “You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment. 32“You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. 33“Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. 34“You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.”
  • You Have Only One Master: Mat. 6:24 24“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  1. Exhortation not to share in deception-vv. 6-7

6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7Therefore do not be partakers with them.

  • Empty Words should be Offensive to a Child of God

You shall not surely die: Gen. 3:2 4Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5“ For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was 1pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

 

  1. In what way are we to be imitators of God?
  2. What friendship with the world is not and how can we avoid friendship with the world?
  3. What else have you learned today? Share with your small group. 



 

June 4, 2017

Walking with LORD [Psalms 119:9-16]

 Passage: Psalms 119:9-16                                                                           Sunday June 4, 2017                                

 

                                       

Message: “Walking with LORD”

Pastor Enoch Hanokh

 

1. Seek God by reading His Word: vs. 9-10.

a. Pray (and fast?) for understanding

b. Read the Word

c. Memorize the Word

d. Study the Word

d. Meditate on the Word

2. Keep God’s Word in your heart: vs. 11-15.

a. Hear and receive the Word; Ezekiel 3:10

b. Cherish the Word

3. Live out God’s Word: vs. 13-14, 16.

a. Speak the Word; 1 Peter 4:11

b. Don’t forget the Word

c. Don’t wander from the Commands of the Word: vs. 10.

 

Based on today’s message let us consider the following two questions and share with one another the understanding and insight we have received. We are also encouraged to share how we want to apply the meaning of the message in our personal Christian life.

1. What three practical ways can you can walk with the LORD?

2. How can you put each into practice?

Each member should briefly share with others how they intend to apply these practical ways in their walk with God. 


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