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Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Saturday Aug 21, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
21 August 2021
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mark 10:45)
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life”. (John 3:16)
Even a cursory look at the media will tell you that the world is messed up. Is there any hope? Yes, indeed there is! That is why God sent Jesus. Jesus is the hope. Jesus came to serve rather than be served. That is why Jesus came to give His life, so humanity may have a hope. God made the world perfect and humanity was in a harmonious relationship with God. Humanity messed it up and broke the relationship bonds with God. When the time was right, God became human, in order to bring humanity back into relationship with Himself.
That man was Jesus Christ and it was His death on a Roman cross nearly 2,000 years ago which was the gracious act of a generous God reaching out to the world that he loves. Without Jesus’ death on the cross there would be no hope for the world. That He died is without doubt, but why did He have to die? What gain do we have as His Disciples?
What does the Cross of Jesus Christ reveal to us about God’s character and the solution to humanity’s biggest problem? Come and explore what the Bible has to say about the cross of Jesus Christ, by downloading and listening to the podcast!
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Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
20 August 2021
“Give to the LORD the glory he deserves! Bring your offering and come into his presence. Worship the LORD in all his holy splendour” (1 Chronicles 16:29)
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:1-2)
19 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting:
“Hallelujah!
Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
2 for true and just are his judgments.
He has condemned the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
3 And again they shouted:
“Hallelujah!
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”
4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:
“Amen, Hallelujah!”
(Revelation 19:1-4)
I wonder what you think worship is? Is your view of worship, too small? Worship is giving God alone (Psalm 19:2), glory due His name in the beauty of His holiness (1 Chronicles 16:29), with reverence. This is where through the use of the mind and the senses, honour and respect are directed towards God, “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24)!
What is worship? How can Christians Worship, as commanded, in Spirit and in Truth? What role does Worship play in the life of a Christian? Listen or download the mp3 podcast to find out more of the Christian and Truth!
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Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Thursday Aug 19, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
19 August 2021
11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. (Ephesians 1:11-14)
3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. (2 Peter 1:3-9)
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. (1 John 4:1-3)
Truth! What is truth? Today we hear consistently that there are no absolute truths anymore! We hear all the time that for twenty first century people “What is true for me may not be true to you! What is true for you may not be true for me?” So what is truth? In the New Testament, Christianity is seen as Truth (Galatians 2:5; Ephesians 1:13)! Indeed Jesus said that He was the only truth, the only life and the only way to God. Jesus is the true bread and the true vine! Furthermore truth is God’s word to be obeyed actively and not dismissed passively.
What is truth? Who is truth? What role does active truth and being actively true play in the life of a Christian? Listen or download the mp3 podcast to find out more of the Christian and Truth!
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Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
18 August 2021
12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! 13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted[d] beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:12-13)
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 2:15-17)
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:4-5)
Temptation! As Christians, we face constant temptation to disobey God and sin against Him, other people and ourselves. We looked at the challenge of sin recently. However temptations are common experiences for all Christians. God allows temptations, but He will never let you be tempted beyond what He knows you can handle – that’s His promise. And even more, He always provides a means of escape from temptation! When you are tempted to disobey God, either in action or inaction, you are not to touch it – just like you wouldn’t try to stop a chainsaw with your hands!
How can we resist temptation and flee its grasp? Is temptation itself, a sin? How does God help us to resist those temptations that challenge us to be disobedient to God? Listen or download the mp3 podcast to find out more of the Christian being a Steward!
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Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
16 August 2021
6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. (2 Corinthians 9:6-8)
3 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. 5 “Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.(Hebrews 3:1-6)
Stewardship! All those who would call themselves a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ, are called to be stewards and live a full life of stewardship! Stewardship is defined as the exercise of responsible care over possessions or gifts entrusted to them by God! The New Testament word “steward” derives from the Greek word – Oikonomos. This word meant somebody who was the manager of a household and also supervised all the resources of his master.
What are the responsibilities of a Steward? What are Christians to be stewards over? How did the Lord Jesus Christ exhibit a life of Stewardship, that we can follow today? Listen or download the mp3 podcast to find out more of the Christian being a Steward!
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Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
16 August 2021
I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12),
1 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. 3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. (1 Corinthians 12:1-6)
11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. (Ephesians 4:11-13)
Recently we looked together at serving and shepherding. Today we are looking at Spiritual Gifts and the Christian! The phrase “spiritual gifts” derives from the Greek word Charismata. They are also called grace gifts, which refer to any gift God gives out of the abundance of His grace and are given to all Christians as God sees fit (1 Corinthians 12:11).
All Christians have Spiritual Gifts! Including you! Are you aware of that? them! As a Christian, you have spiritual gifts, for “in his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well” (Romans 12:6). God the Holy Spirit, through His infinite wisdom, mercy and grace bestows these gifts upon you to be used so that God is glorified through your service to Him (1 Peter 4:11)!
What more does the Bible say about “Spiritual Gifts”? What are you as a Christian to do with your Spiritual Gifts? Download and listen to the mp3 to discover more!
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Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
15 August 2021
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:15-18, 22-23)
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. (1 John 1:5-10)
Over the last 2 days we have looked together at the Christian serving and as part of that the Christian being a shepherd. Today we look at something that is a challenge to our serving, indeed our living a Christian life. Do you think you may know what that is? Let's have a look together!
I wonder if you have ever played tennis and went to hit the ball but missed. Or you actually hit the ball and it went outside the court! Or perhaps you are a golfer, and one day you went to putt the ball in the hole, and you missed! The tennis player who hit the ball out of court or the golfer who missed the hole can be both be said to have committed a sin, because they missed! And that is sin, in biblical terms, is: it is missing the mark that God has set.
Everybody, including those who would not call themselves Christians, have some idea of sin. Even if they never use that particularly word. They generally call doing things like telling lies or speeding in the car, “little sins” because everybody does those, they say! And of course, only a tiny minority of people commit the real big sins, such as murdering other people or robbing banks! So to most people’s minds, there are degrees of sins, depending on how many people actually do that kind of sin.
What does the Bible say about “sin”? What is the Christian to do regarding sin What can be done about sin? Come, download and listen to the mp3 podcast to find out more!
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Saturday Aug 14, 2021
Saturday Aug 14, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
14 August 2021
11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. 12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness. 13 I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land. 14 I will tend them in a good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. 16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice. (Ezekiel 34:11-16)
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” (John 10:11-28)
20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, 21 equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 10:20-21)
Yesterday we looked together at serving! As part of that, we come to today, where as part of serving, the Christian is to shepherd! A shepherd is somebody who leads, teaches and cares for people. Christians are to serve! As part of that serving, are not all Christians commanded to lead people back to God and also help others along the way? That is the role of a shepherd.
Of course the prime example of a Shepherd is that of Jesus Christ – the Great Shepherd. How and in what way are God and Jesus Christ, shepherds? What does the Bible say about how the Christian is to go serve others by being a shepherd? How can the Church make a difference in this world, to the glory of God? Download or listen the audio mp3 to find out more!
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Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
13 August 2021
42 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 43 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
(Mark 10 :42-45)
Serving God and other people is the mark of a spiritually mature Christian. Why? Because through service to all others, the Christian reflects the greatest servant of all, Jesus Christ. It was He, who came in order to serve and give his life for others (Mark 10:45). As Christians we are to be as Jesus Christ (Romans 8:28; Philippians 2:5) and to serve. Yet if we are honest, we sometimes feel incapable, just as Moses did (Exodus 3). An excellent example to follow thought, is that of Stephen (Acts 6:8).
WOW! The Christian life is to be dynamic and active, participatory and not just observational. When a Christian serves, God’s honour is released, and shows Jesus Christ’s beauty and glory, to those being served and to those watching. Come and discover more about serving God and other people and its significance for your life today, by listening to the podcast!
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Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Partakers Bible Thought
12 August 2021
16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.’” 8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:5-10)
I wonder when you last heard the word “sanctification”. The Christian is saved by, and for, Jesus Christ alone and therefore has been declared sanctified (Hebrews 10:10), washed clean (1 Corinthians 6:11) and is being transformed into the image of Jesus Christ and conformed to His likeness (2 Corinthians 3:18, Romans 8:28-29).
WOW! Isn’t that fabulous? So what? What is sanctification? How is sanctification, God showing His love in action towards the Christian? What is the Christian to do in practise with this knowledge regarding sanctification? How is sanctification maintained in the life of the Christian? Come and discover more about Sanctification and its significance for your life today, by listening to the podcast!
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