Build your body as the temple of God so that you will treat it appropriately. Just as Christ treats the church so you are to treat your body as the sanctuary of God. According to Romans 12:1-2, we must renew our mind and be transformed from the world. We live in the world but we are not of the world. David encouraged his son Solomon to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that he may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord (1 Chronicles 22:19). First, we must devote ourselves to the making and preparing our bodies for Jesus Christ by cleaning house. Cleaning house is getting our mind right and ready for the things of God to work in our lives. When we clean house we are giving God the opportunity to allow his Spirit to work immensely in us. When we surrender our will to God then we give up our rights to do what ever we want and let go and let God work in us. Building our body as the temple of God creates an atmosphere of environment for the Holy Spirit to take residence in our lives. God cannot operate in sin therefore we must get rid of sin out of our lives in order to usher in the spirit of God. He wants to do so much with us and through us but we limit God with our sinful temple. The bible states in 1 Corinthians 6:16 that when we are joined in prostitution that we have become one flesh with sin. However, if we join our body unto God then we become one with the spirit of God (1 Corinthians 6:17).
In His Word,
Dawn Saunders
We study the word of God so we can get ready, be prepared, and know that God is near! Luke 1:17 And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah... to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
David Blessed Solomon
I Kings 2:1-10
David stressed to Solomon the need to make God and his laws the center of personal life and government in order to preserve the kingdom, as God had promised to do (2 Samuel 7). This promise from God had two parts. One part was conditional and depended on the kings’ actions. The other part was unconditional.
God’s conditional promise was that David and his descendants would remain in office as kings only when they honored and obeyed him. When David’s descendants failed to do this, they lost the throne (2 Kings 25). God’s unconditional promise was that David’s line would go on forever. This was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David who was also the eternal Son of God (Romans 1:3, 4). David, whose life exemplified obedience, gave well-seasoned advice to his son the next king. It would be up to Solomon to follow it.
These are the points we were able to draw from the passage:
• David’s gave his blessing to Solomon
• He prophesied wisdom over his son
• David was building up the throne through Solomon
• The bad was being weed out
• There was a removing and finishing of what king David started
• David allow for the level action to be taken according to Solomon’s faith
David stressed to Solomon the need to make God and his laws the center of personal life and government in order to preserve the kingdom, as God had promised to do (2 Samuel 7). This promise from God had two parts. One part was conditional and depended on the kings’ actions. The other part was unconditional.
God’s conditional promise was that David and his descendants would remain in office as kings only when they honored and obeyed him. When David’s descendants failed to do this, they lost the throne (2 Kings 25). God’s unconditional promise was that David’s line would go on forever. This was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David who was also the eternal Son of God (Romans 1:3, 4). David, whose life exemplified obedience, gave well-seasoned advice to his son the next king. It would be up to Solomon to follow it.
These are the points we were able to draw from the passage:
• David’s gave his blessing to Solomon
• He prophesied wisdom over his son
• David was building up the throne through Solomon
• The bad was being weed out
• There was a removing and finishing of what king David started
• David allow for the level action to be taken according to Solomon’s faith
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Genesis 4-9
Genesis 4-9
Chapter 4 Cain murders Abel
• The first birth (children were Cain and Abel)
• Cain and Abel ( Adam’s sons ) brought sacrifices unto the Lord
• Cain was rejected and Abel was accepted
• Cain became angry with Abel and killed him
• Cain became a fugitive on the earth
• God questioned Cain about Abel’s whereabouts
• Cain got offended and answered sarcastically, “Am I my brothers keeper?”
• God cursed Cain saying “A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth”.
• The Lord set a mark on Cain that no one should kill him when come in contact with him
• Seth was born by Adam and Eve to take the place of Abel
• Seth means substitution
Chapter 5 The family of Adam
• Book of genealogy when God called mankind
• Adam lived 930 years then he died
• Enoch walked with God then God took him
• Methuselah the oldest man ever lived was 969 when he died
• Lamech begot Noah
• Noah begot 3 sons called Shem, Ham, Japheth
Chapter 6 The wickedness and judgment of man
• Giants began to sleep with women on earth. They were fallen angels when Satan was cast out of heaven. He took with him 1/3 of the angels. They began to populate the earth like humans. Evil became rampant in the earth
• So God said that His spirit will not strive with men for long because of their evil and wicked ways (God was grieved in His heart)
• God said He will destroy man and all living creatures but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (He pleased God)
• Noah please God (Genesis 6:9-12)
• The ark prepared
• God’s plan to destroy the earth
• God established His covenant with Noah and family. (all together entered the Ark was 8 people
• All animals 2 of each kind male and female
• Noah obeyed and followed the command of God
Chapter 7 The great flood
• Safety in the Ark (Noah was saved from the flood by the Ark. We as Christians were save from death by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ)
• Rained for 40 days and 40 nights on the earth
• The Ark was lifted up in the storm (that is how God will lift us up in the midst of our storm to keep us from drowning. Amen!
• Everything alive died except Noah and his family and the animals that were saved
• Water remained on the earth about 5 months (150 days)
Chapter 8 Noah’s Deliverance
• This is the chapter that God remembered Noah
• After 150 days/5-7 months the Ark rested on the mountain of Ararat
• Raven sent out first then a dove. Then 7 days later the dove was sent out again. The dove came back with an olive leaf in its beak
• The olive leaf was significant for progress and dry land
• Sent out the dove another 7 days later but it did not return. It found dry land
• Noah left the Ark with family and animals. Then God spoke to him saying they must be fruitful and multiply on the earth. The same instruction God gave to Adam when he created Eve.
• God’s made a covenant with Noah after the flood
• Noah built and altar which is giving thanks to God for life and saving them from death
• God said in his covenant that He will never again curse the ground for man’s sake although their heart is evil and wicked from their youth. Read Genesis 8:21-22
Chapter 9 The Rainbow (sign of the covenant)
• Be fruitful and multiply was not new from God. It is a renewal given to Adam and Eve in Gen 1:28
• There was friendly relationship exited between humans and animals before the flood (Gen 2:19, 20)
• Now things changed because animals would fear and dread humans knowing they might be killed for food
• Gen 1:29-31 showed the herb was for food but after the flood God gave permission for animals to become food
• Out of the fearful judgment of the earth by the flood, God saved eight people. He gave the purified earth to these people with ample power to govern it (Gen 9:1-6). He gave them control of every living thing on earth and sea. For the first time God gave people human government. People were to be responsible to govern the world for God. The most solemn responsibility God gave to humans is the taking of a life for a life (Gen 9:6) God established capital punishment for homicide. Man is to avenge the murder of any human’s life. A murderer will pay for his crime by shedding of his own blood meaning death sentence for murderers will become effective.
• The bible wants human to multiply and be fruitful not to kill each other. This is an insult to God because it destroys his purpose for mankind. Therefore the punishment is to hinder man from stopping procreation
• God establish His covenant with Noah’s and his family. Never again will God destroy the earth with a flood
• Sign of the rainbow to establish the covenant between God and earth
• The earth now populate by the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham (father of Canaan), Japheth
• Noah’s drunkenness
• Ham the father of Canaan saw his father’s nakedness and told his brothers
• The brothers respected their father and covered his nakedness by walking backward
• Noah cursed Ham’s offspring Canaan for defiling his integrity
• Noah blessed his other 2 sons for their modesty and respect they showed toward their father’s vulnerability
Life Lessons
The size of Noah’s ark ensured that it could carry tens of thousand of animals. This dramatic event demonstrated God’s wrath toward sin, but also his mercy toward those who seek him. God promised that He would never again destroy the earth with a flood. A rainbow would follow rain as a reminder that God keeps His promises. Man must treat all living creatures well.
In His Word,
Dawn Saunders
Chapter 4 Cain murders Abel
• The first birth (children were Cain and Abel)
• Cain and Abel ( Adam’s sons ) brought sacrifices unto the Lord
• Cain was rejected and Abel was accepted
• Cain became angry with Abel and killed him
• Cain became a fugitive on the earth
• God questioned Cain about Abel’s whereabouts
• Cain got offended and answered sarcastically, “Am I my brothers keeper?”
• God cursed Cain saying “A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth”.
• The Lord set a mark on Cain that no one should kill him when come in contact with him
• Seth was born by Adam and Eve to take the place of Abel
• Seth means substitution
Chapter 5 The family of Adam
• Book of genealogy when God called mankind
• Adam lived 930 years then he died
• Enoch walked with God then God took him
• Methuselah the oldest man ever lived was 969 when he died
• Lamech begot Noah
• Noah begot 3 sons called Shem, Ham, Japheth
Chapter 6 The wickedness and judgment of man
• Giants began to sleep with women on earth. They were fallen angels when Satan was cast out of heaven. He took with him 1/3 of the angels. They began to populate the earth like humans. Evil became rampant in the earth
• So God said that His spirit will not strive with men for long because of their evil and wicked ways (God was grieved in His heart)
• God said He will destroy man and all living creatures but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord (He pleased God)
• Noah please God (Genesis 6:9-12)
• The ark prepared
• God’s plan to destroy the earth
• God established His covenant with Noah and family. (all together entered the Ark was 8 people
• All animals 2 of each kind male and female
• Noah obeyed and followed the command of God
Chapter 7 The great flood
• Safety in the Ark (Noah was saved from the flood by the Ark. We as Christians were save from death by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ)
• Rained for 40 days and 40 nights on the earth
• The Ark was lifted up in the storm (that is how God will lift us up in the midst of our storm to keep us from drowning. Amen!
• Everything alive died except Noah and his family and the animals that were saved
• Water remained on the earth about 5 months (150 days)
Chapter 8 Noah’s Deliverance
• This is the chapter that God remembered Noah
• After 150 days/5-7 months the Ark rested on the mountain of Ararat
• Raven sent out first then a dove. Then 7 days later the dove was sent out again. The dove came back with an olive leaf in its beak
• The olive leaf was significant for progress and dry land
• Sent out the dove another 7 days later but it did not return. It found dry land
• Noah left the Ark with family and animals. Then God spoke to him saying they must be fruitful and multiply on the earth. The same instruction God gave to Adam when he created Eve.
• God’s made a covenant with Noah after the flood
• Noah built and altar which is giving thanks to God for life and saving them from death
• God said in his covenant that He will never again curse the ground for man’s sake although their heart is evil and wicked from their youth. Read Genesis 8:21-22
Chapter 9 The Rainbow (sign of the covenant)
• Be fruitful and multiply was not new from God. It is a renewal given to Adam and Eve in Gen 1:28
• There was friendly relationship exited between humans and animals before the flood (Gen 2:19, 20)
• Now things changed because animals would fear and dread humans knowing they might be killed for food
• Gen 1:29-31 showed the herb was for food but after the flood God gave permission for animals to become food
• Out of the fearful judgment of the earth by the flood, God saved eight people. He gave the purified earth to these people with ample power to govern it (Gen 9:1-6). He gave them control of every living thing on earth and sea. For the first time God gave people human government. People were to be responsible to govern the world for God. The most solemn responsibility God gave to humans is the taking of a life for a life (Gen 9:6) God established capital punishment for homicide. Man is to avenge the murder of any human’s life. A murderer will pay for his crime by shedding of his own blood meaning death sentence for murderers will become effective.
• The bible wants human to multiply and be fruitful not to kill each other. This is an insult to God because it destroys his purpose for mankind. Therefore the punishment is to hinder man from stopping procreation
• God establish His covenant with Noah’s and his family. Never again will God destroy the earth with a flood
• Sign of the rainbow to establish the covenant between God and earth
• The earth now populate by the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham (father of Canaan), Japheth
• Noah’s drunkenness
• Ham the father of Canaan saw his father’s nakedness and told his brothers
• The brothers respected their father and covered his nakedness by walking backward
• Noah cursed Ham’s offspring Canaan for defiling his integrity
• Noah blessed his other 2 sons for their modesty and respect they showed toward their father’s vulnerability
Life Lessons
The size of Noah’s ark ensured that it could carry tens of thousand of animals. This dramatic event demonstrated God’s wrath toward sin, but also his mercy toward those who seek him. God promised that He would never again destroy the earth with a flood. A rainbow would follow rain as a reminder that God keeps His promises. Man must treat all living creatures well.
In His Word,
Dawn Saunders
Talk Through Genesis 1-3
Chapter 1 Creation
• The order of God (everything about God’s creation was created prior to making man). God made provision for man before He created man. So God will prepare a way for you before he tells you to do something or before He moves you into something
• Light was created to illuminate the dark. Any dark areas in our lives will expose by light. God don’t like darkness so He created light to drown the dark
• God created a rest day after He created the firmament, waters, grass, seed and fruit trees, sun and moon and stars, fish, cattle and creeping things then the greatest of all is man
Chapter 2 Adam & Eve
• Creation of man and woman (Adam and Eve) flesh of God flesh, bones of His bones
• Man is join to woman by marriage
• They were naked and not ashamed
Chapter 3 Man’s first sin and the results
• Eve beguiled by listening to the wrong voice
• The lust of the flesh for pleasure cause man’s downfall
• Adam blamed his wife for allowing him to eat the forbidden fruit. This is disobedience to the command of God. We now deal with disobedience everyday. We do things wrong then make justification or blame others for our wrong doing
• Consequences of sin bring shame to the promise God has given to us. Therefore when we mess up or sin then we curse the plan God has for us.
• The order of God (everything about God’s creation was created prior to making man). God made provision for man before He created man. So God will prepare a way for you before he tells you to do something or before He moves you into something
• Light was created to illuminate the dark. Any dark areas in our lives will expose by light. God don’t like darkness so He created light to drown the dark
• God created a rest day after He created the firmament, waters, grass, seed and fruit trees, sun and moon and stars, fish, cattle and creeping things then the greatest of all is man
Chapter 2 Adam & Eve
• Creation of man and woman (Adam and Eve) flesh of God flesh, bones of His bones
• Man is join to woman by marriage
• They were naked and not ashamed
Chapter 3 Man’s first sin and the results
• Eve beguiled by listening to the wrong voice
• The lust of the flesh for pleasure cause man’s downfall
• Adam blamed his wife for allowing him to eat the forbidden fruit. This is disobedience to the command of God. We now deal with disobedience everyday. We do things wrong then make justification or blame others for our wrong doing
• Consequences of sin bring shame to the promise God has given to us. Therefore when we mess up or sin then we curse the plan God has for us.
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