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Volume 1 Lesson 6 Worship

A Story of Worship
John 4:1-26
What is worship?
Romans 12:1-2
1 Chronicles 16:29

To “worship” in the original Greek language is the word “proskuneo,”

Why do I worship the Lord?
Luke 4:5-8
Psalm 29:2
How do I worship the Lord?
Psalm 66:1-4
John 4:23-24

SECTION 2:
The Study of Worship
John 4:23-24
John 4:23-24
SECTION 3:
The Discussion about Worship
Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you live a lifestyle of
worship:

There is a kind of worshipper who "always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres" ( 1 Corinthians 13:7 ), and who gets through the
storms of life with a heart still blazing. Sometimes it comes down to a
simple choice. We may be hard-pressed on every side, weary and not
able to sense God. But then a choice faces us to fix our eyes on the
circumstances or cling to God and choose to worship Him, even when
it hurts. The heart of God loves the offerings of a persevering
worshipper. Though overwhelmed by many troubles, they are even
more overwhelmed by the beauty of God
Worship brings ever deepening and expanding dimensions of God-at work
in our world. Worship, in a very real sense of the word, opens a
doorway to the power of His presence, confounding dark powers and
overthrowing sin's destructive operations. In Paul's words of
expressed spiritual warfare, worship and praise exalt God and cast
down those facts and forces that seek to exalt themselves above Him.
Essentially, it is God's presence: the raw dynamic of His Being and
Person stepping into a setting-that gives place to His transforming,
redeeming, delivering power.

The Unquenchable Worshipper, Matt Redman, Regal Books from Gospel Light,
Ventura, CA 2001, p.24

Worship is the believer's response of all that he is--mind, emotions,
will, and body--to all that God is and says and does. This response has
its [spiritual] side in subjective experience, and its practical side in
objective obedience to God's revealed truth. It is a loving response that
is balanced by the fear of the Lord, and it is a deepening response as
the believer comes to know God better.
The Reward of Worship, Jack Hayford, Chosen Books, Grand Rapids, MI 2005,
p.27

"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same
delight in God which made David dance." ~ C.S. Lewis

Real Worship, Warren Wiersbe, Oliver Nelson, Nashville, TN 1986, p.27

"As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape
from the pressing needs of modern life." ~ Richard Foster

www.experiencingworship.com, Great Quotes on Worship¦

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Volume 1 Lesson 5 Love

Lesson 5
LESSON 5 “Love”
SECTION 1:
Luke 10:25-37

The Definition of Love

What is Love?

Read Mark 12:30-31 and 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is from God, for God is love: 1 John 4:8 God’s love is eternal, unconditional, selfless, unchanging and righteous. Love as God intended it is the highest and purest form of love, which surpasses mere human affection. The Bible uses three Greek words to describe the English word for “love.” “Phileo” is the love between friends or brothers; “eros” is the passionate, romantic love which is to be shared by a husband and wife; and “agape” is the highest form of love
“Agape” love was best exemplified by the Father’s love for the world when He sent His Son to die, and in turn, the Son’s love for the Father in that He gave Himself for all men. Love is an eternal force that transforms your life. --- Disciples Handbook Vol 1, New Song Christian Fellowship [1]

John 3:16
1 John 4:7-11
John 15:12-14
Galatians 5:13-14 1
1 John 4:8
John 5:19
1 John 4:7-11

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 MESSAGE

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3–7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8–10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
The Message Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 MESSAGE [2]

Divine love in the Greek language refers to a love that wholly sacrifices itself for the object of its love, realizing the precious value of it. For example, man and woman betrayed God and fell into deep sin resulting in an abominable life, which ultimately led to eternal destruction. In spite of this betrayal, God lovingly sacrificed Himself on Calvary to save mankind. Why? Because each individual soul is priceless to Him. This is divine love!

David Yonggi Cho [3]

"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals." ~ E.M. Bounds [4]
[4] www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913

"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'" ~ Charles H. Spurgeon [5]
[5]www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992

"To love is to be vulnerable." ~ C.S. Lewis [6]
[6]www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963

Appendix / Bibliography

[2] The Message Bible Print Length: 1728 pages
Publisher: NavPress (February 1, 2014)
ASIN: B00IV3836G

[3] The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner, David Yonggi Cho, Charisma House, Lake Mary, FL 1989, p.12 [4]
www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913

[5]www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992

[6]www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963

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What does Google translate do with this scripture passage?

Today I am assigning myself a project
Pick a verse in the scripture, any verse, and subject it to the translation test.
How well does it do at getting from the original Greek or Hebrew to the English?
For this project I will be using
http://biblewebapp.com/study/#ref=Ezek%2036:24-27|ver=el_tisch,en_net
and Google Translate from the Google Translation Bar in Google Chrome
Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.
New English Translation

Ezekiel 36:26 וְנָתַתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ לֵ֣ב חָדָ֔שׁוְר֥וּחַ חֲדָשָׁ֖ה אֶתֵּ֣ן בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם
Westminster Leningradex Codex

Here is what Google Translate did with the Westminster Leningradex Codex
And let You Heart New And wind New You Among you And removed The-Heart Stone Your flesh And let You Heart Meat:

Ezekiel 36:26 καί δίδωμι σύκαρδία καινός καί πνεῦμα καινόςδίδωμι ἐν σύ καί ἀποαἱρέω ὁκαρδία ὁ λίθινος ἐκ ὁ σάρξ σύ καίδίδωμι σύ καρδία σάρκινος
Septuagint (LXX)

Here is what Google Translate did with the Septuagint
Ezekiel 36:26 kaί dίdomi sύ kardίa New kaί spirit New dίdomi This sύ kaί apoairέoson kardίa son lίthinos ex sonsάrx sύ kaί dίdomi sύ kardίasάrkinos

After just that much work I already can tell that Google Translate works much better on Hebrew scriptures than it does on Greek.
The other thing that comes to mind is this: http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/ has a search box that I have been using to work up all the blog posts on this site.
If I start out with δίδωμι, let google transliterate it for me to dίdomi and paste that version into the search box that I am using to work up the blog posts located here I don't get any search result. I have to remove the first ί in the transliterated word and type in a regular i instead "didomi" which results in this web page:
http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/didomi.html
Therefore in those instances that I don't know how to transliterate, google translate can transliterate for me.

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Volume 1 Lesson 4 Obey

Lesson 4 Obey

A Story of Obedience
Numbers 13
Numbers 14

The following is a block quote from New Song Christian Fellowship:

"The Definition of Obedience

What does it mean to obey?

Read 1 John 2:3-6

To “obey” means to follow a command or guidance of another, or to conform or comply with the directives of another. Just as the practice of obedience is critical to the success and safety of a military unit, obeying the commands of the Lord is critical to the safety and success of His entire people. However, understanding the full meaning of obedience is more than just outward actions or behavior. It engages your heart and mind. God says that what He had in His mind for you, from the beginning, is that your life would be patterned after the image of His son, Jesus.

“Obey” in the original Greek language is the word "Hupakouo," which means to listen to something, hearken, give heed to and follow. It is the manifestation of one's faith in doing what is commanded in the Bible and denotes a continuous submission to the will of God. To obey is two-fold: it is both to hear the Lord and to do what He is asking you to do.

In the middle ages, a Latin word that came from the root word “obey” is the word “obeisance.” This was used to describe a posture of humility and an attitude of the heart that a common person would render to a king. “Obeisance” was closely associated with the concept of worship. You do not merely obey what the Lord says in your actions, but you intentionally conform your thinking to His way in your mind, rendering your heart humbly before Him because of who He is. To “obey” is to follow the commands and guidance of the Lord in your heart, mind and actions, so that He is seen through your life." Disciples Handbook Vol 1, New Song Christian Fellowship [1]

John 15:9-17
Romans 8:293 4
John 14:23-24
Philippians 2:8
Hebrews 13:17
John 14:26
John 14:23-26
John 14:23-26

“The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins with the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with His death... we give over our lives to death. Since this happens at the beginning of the Christian life, the cross can never be merely a tragic ending to an otherwise happy religious life. When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like Luther's, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time... death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at His call. That is why the rich young man was so loath to follow Jesus, for the cost of his following was the death of his will. In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts. But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and His call are necessarily our death and our life.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[2]

Start Your New Life Today

“The natural people – those whose minds have not been enlightened by the Holy Spirit – scoff at us. What we do doesn't always seem logical to them. But then, who says our actions have to be logical? The Bible tells us the natural or carnal mind doesn't understand spiritual things (see 1 Corinthians 2:14). Too often, we push aside thoughts, saying, ‘This doesn't make sense,’ and we actually ignore divine guidance. It's true of course, the devil can flood our minds with wild thoughts that we do need to ignore, but if we pray and open ourselves to the Spirit, we soon know the difference. This is an important principle of obedience we must grasp: obeying instead of reasoning, or as one of my friends calls it, ‘The Nevertheless Principle.' She says sometimes she feels God leading her to do things that don't always make a lot of sense. When she hears herself expressing that sentiment, she quickly adds, ‘Nevertheless.’ Then she obeys. That is really all God asks of us: to obey instead of reasoning against something He is telling us to do. The best policy is to check with your spirit and see if you have peace rather than checking with your mind to see if what God is asking is reasonable.” Joyce Meyer [3]

"Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives." Andrew Murray [4]

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."
Augustine [5]

Appendix / Bibliography

[1] Disciples Handbook:Volume 1 Copyright 2016 New Song Christian Fellowship published in Nashville TN by Crowned Image Publishing www crownedimage.com

[2] www.christianquotes.org, Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German Lutheran
Pastor/Theologian, 1906-1945

[3] Joyce Meyer, Start Your New Life Today, pages 118-119, FaithWords Hachette Group USA

[4] Andrew Murray http://christianquotes.org/author/quotes/51

[5]Augustine http://christianquotes.org/author/quotes/19/23/1

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Volume 1 Lesson 3: A Story of Baptism

Lesson 3
“Be Baptized”

Mark 1:4-8,
Acts 2:1-4

The Definition of Baptism

What is baptism?

Read 1 Corinthians 12:13, Colossians 2:11-12 and Mark 1:8 There are three baptisms that take place in the life of a believer—the baptism into the Body of Christ, the baptism in water, and the baptism with the Holy Spirit. “Baptize” in the original language of Greek is “Baptizo,” from the root word “Bapto.” Both of these words mean to overwhelm and cover wholly with a fluid. “Baptize” also means to stain, which is the picture of dyeing a garment from one color to another, being completely changed. It also means, “to wash, immerse, and submerge.” It is the idea of complete immersion unto transformation. When you are baptized into the Body of Christ upon salvation, you are completely immersed into the Body, and you become one with all believers in Christ. Water baptism takes place upon your public profession of faith in Christ, and is an outward expression of the inward work of salvation. Water baptism identifies you as being buried with Christ and raised to walk in newness of life. When you are baptized with the Holy Spirit, you are clothed and filled with His person and power, including the ability to speak in a new spiritual language. This new spiritual language, also known as speaking in “tongues,” gives you an increased capacity for praying and praising, as you can now pray and praise beyond your own human ability. Additionally, your life is marked with a new courage, boldness and zeal for leading others to Christ. --New Song Christian Fellowship [1]

Acts 1:8
Acts 2:38-39
Matthew 28:18-20
John 14:26
Acts 8:14-17
Matthew 3:11
Acts 2:4
1 Corinthians 14:2
Acts 4:31
Acts 6:3-8
Acts 9:17-22
Galatians 5:22-23
Galatians 5:22-26
Acts 1:8
Galatians 5:22-25
1 Corinthians 12:7-11

Optional readings for you as you walk in the obedience
of baptism:

Life in the Spirit in Marriage, Home & Work

"The Holy Spirit is sent to regenerate men, to give them a new nature,
a new mind, a new outlook, a new everything. There is no hope apart
from that.”~ D. Martyn-Lloyd-Jones
[2]

“Wise leaders should know that the human heart cannot exist in a
vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they
will turn to the wine of the flesh…Christ died for our hearts and the
Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.”
[3]
~ A.W. Tozer

Romans 6:1-5 MESSAGE So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of

grace—a new life in a new land! That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Our Father raises each of us into a light-filled world so that we can see where we're going in our new graces sovereign country.[4]

"Just as the person being baptized is saying, 'Lord Jesus Who died for

me, I acknowledge You as my Savior,' so let each one say, 'Jesus Who

was buried for me, I want to leave behind, in this watery grave of

baptism's waters, my sinful practices, my selfishness, all clutching

ambitions-all to be left behind. They remain in the tomb, and I want to

rise to newness of Your life by the power of Your Spirit!' So baptism

is intended to be a moment of our saying, 'I'm dying to my old ways'

(doubts, fears, passivity, pride, argumentativeness, rebellion, etc.) and

one of declaring our entrance into the new life dimensions of 'burial

and resurrection' from power of our past."

~ Jack Hayford

Appendix / Bibliography

[2] This is a link to Cokesbury
Life in the Spirit in Marriage, Home & Work: An Exposition of Ephesians 5:18 - to Ephesians 6:9; Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1973

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[3] The Works of A.W. Tozer, http://dailychristianquote.com http://twitter.com/#!/TozerAW

[4] Romans 6:1-5, The Message Bible, found at http://biblegateway.com

[5] Grounds for Living, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001, page 131

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Volume 1 Lesson 2 A Story of Faith

Disciple's Handbook by [New Song Nashville]

Lesson 2

Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:3

Genesis 15:1-2)

Matthew 9:27-29

John 9:35-38

Hebrews 11:6 1

Thessalonians 2:13

www.blueletterbible.org, Strong’s G4102

Romans 14:23

Romans 10:9-10, 17

John 20:30-31

Hebrews 3:18-19

Romans 10:17

Hebrews 11:3-6

What does it mean to believe? Read Matthew 9:27-29 and John 9:35-38 Believing involves relying completely on something with unwavering confidence. As a disciple, your conviction that God exists, is the Creator and Ruler of all things, and the Provider and Bestower of eternal salvation through Christ, relies on your belief1 that He is who He says He is.

“Believe” in the Greek language is “pistis” (pē'-stēs), which means “to place confidence in or to trust.” Genuine belief is not about simply complying, but instead involves a true conviction of heart.
The greatest indicator of what we believe is how behave.

Your daily, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ is the source of your faith. Belief begins with a conviction in your heart, a confession of your mouth, and is demonstrated by your actions. As we live faithfilled lives, our profession of our faith in Jesus Christ and His sufficiency will lead us on an epic adventure where we, like Abraham and Sarah, impact the generations to come.--New Song Christian Fellowship [1]

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”[2]~ C.S. Lewis (British Scholar and Novelist, 1898-1963)

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”[3][

“Faith in God constitutes the highest worship, the prime duty, the first obedience, and the foremost sacrifice. Without faith God forfeits His glory, wisdom, truth, and mercy in us. The first duty of man is to believe in God and to honor Him with his faith. Faith is truly the height of wisdom, the right kind of righteousness, the only real religion….Faith says to God: ‘I believe what you say.’”[4] ~ Martin Luther (Priest and Professor of Theology, 1483 – 1546)

Here we have, I. A definition or description of the grace of faith in two parts. 1. It is the substance of things hoped for. Faith and hope go together; and the same things that are the object of our hope are the object of our faith. It is a firm persuasion and expectation that God will perform all that he has promised to us in Christ; and this persuasion is so strong that it gives the soul a kind of possession and present fruition of those things, gives them a subsistence in the soul, by the first-fruits and foretastes of them: so that believers in the exercise of faith are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Christ dwells in the soul by faith, and the soul is filled with the fullness of God, as far as his present measure will admit; he experiences a substantial reality in the objects of faith. 2. It is the evidence of things not seen. Faith demonstrates to the eye of the mind the reality of those things that cannot be discerned by the eye of the body. Faith is the firm assent of the soul to the divine revelation and every part of it, and sets to its seal that God is true. It is a full approbation of all that God has revealed as holy, just, and good; it helps the soul to make application of all to itself with suitable affections and endeavors; and so it is designed to serve the believer instead of sight, and to be to the soul all that the senses are to the body.[5]

Appendix Bibliography

[1] Disciple's Handbook: Volume 1
Copyright 2016 New Song Christian Fellowship www.crownedimage.com
First Edition, 2016 ISBN: 978-0692693049
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https://www.crownedimage.com/authors

[2] ~ C.S. Lewis (British Scholar and Novelist, 1898-1963)
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[3] ~ Oswald Chambers (Scottish Protestant Christian Minister, Teacher and Author, 1874 – 1917)
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[4] Martin Luther (Priest and Professor of Theology, 1483 – 1546)
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