EVANGELISM CONFERENCE with JOHN AVANT at Royal Heights Baptist Church in Delta BC. October 26 & 27
John Avant is a gifted evangelist, speaker and author.
He will speak the evenings of October 26 (Monday) & October 27 (Tuesday) and during a lunch Tuesday for pastors, church planters, church staff and ministry leaders.
All is FREE but you must register with Mary Huppe, Office Manager at office@royalhbc.com
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Worship was Great Today!
We baptized our 28th person this morning! What a joy to witness what the LORD is doing. Gina shared a super testimony about the work of the LORD in her life. The worship team had new sound equipment. The spirit of the room was high!
I just love going to worship. To gather with other believers to sing songs of worship to our King of kings and LORD of lords. To see first time believers give their very best to the LORD.
After the service we all had a Chili lunch as Jana won the grand prize of having the best Chili of all of us. Great job, Jana! Oh, and she just had a baby a few days ago!
I just loved worship today!
I just love going to worship. To gather with other believers to sing songs of worship to our King of kings and LORD of lords. To see first time believers give their very best to the LORD.
After the service we all had a Chili lunch as Jana won the grand prize of having the best Chili of all of us. Great job, Jana! Oh, and she just had a baby a few days ago!
I just loved worship today!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Jesus is our Sabbath
Why do we, as humans, find it so hard to be a human being instead of a human doing? We seem to MUST do. We seem to be driven to do instead of be.
Most of our training from early childhood to adult learning is teaching us how to do something. We seem to honour those who have mastered some skill, like a doctor, lawyer, NASA scientist, etc. If you are "smart" and doing something important than, we conclude, we MUST be important.
This thinking "works great" until you lose your job or grow old or someone smarter comes into the room. Then jealously begins, envy surfaces and depression can quickly become the mood for the rest of our lives.
How does our understanding our being help us live in the practical world of life?
Hebrews 4: 1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “ So I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest,’”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
This rest is the Christian's sabbath. Christ is our Sabbath! We have ceased from our striving to "please God by our doing". We have discovered that our religion of works in an abomination before the LORD. He is not interested in our "doing", it is filthy rags of false righteousness before Him.
Christian, you have been made new! You are a new human BEING. You have been made righteousness not be your "doing" by through our absolute ceasing from work. We totally live or rest only in the Christ's righteousness to give us life.
This is where the seventh-day Adventist completely miss the understanding of the Sabbath. They continue to look to honour a day when the Sabbath is God's picture to enter His rest. And God's only REST is His Son, Jesus the Christ.
Romans 14:5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks.
Does it matter that the seventh-day advents celebrate the LORD on the Saturday, which was the Sabbath day for the Jewish people of Israel? No,... if that is their choice, to God be the glory. But when they claim that all who do not are serving the Anti-Christ this is where we part company.
As a believer in Christ, I ALWAYS keep the Sabbath! I keep the Sabbath every day, for I rest (Sabbath) only in the Christ and His finished work to redeem me to His Father. This old convent day is completely fulfilled in the coming of the Christ. He is our Sabbath Day,...enter Him alone and cease from all of your labours to save yourself. Stop doing and BE!
Christian, we have been given the greatest gift of all time from our Lord. He has given us LIFE. We are human BEINGS! Rest in this truth. Rest in the Christ! Stop "trying" to please the Father. You can only please Him by faith (totally resting in Him alone).
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Stop it!
Stop "trying" to be and just BE. You are righteousness in Christ. Enjoy this righteousness. Embrace who you have been made to be. Rest! REST! REST!!
John 6:28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
God is looking for people who just Believe in Him, not work FOR Him. You CANNOT work FOR God, you can only ABIDE with or in Him and His holy work flows through you. Your "work" is to DO no more work!! Your work is to but BELIEVE!
I know this is a "new concept" for many but this is the very secret of the Christian faith. This teaching is really over 2000 years old. This is the clearly teachings of Paul. It is only by faith and unto faith, unto faith and unto faith that victory is experienced in the practical world of living.
Most of our training from early childhood to adult learning is teaching us how to do something. We seem to honour those who have mastered some skill, like a doctor, lawyer, NASA scientist, etc. If you are "smart" and doing something important than, we conclude, we MUST be important.
This thinking "works great" until you lose your job or grow old or someone smarter comes into the room. Then jealously begins, envy surfaces and depression can quickly become the mood for the rest of our lives.
How does our understanding our being help us live in the practical world of life?
Hebrews 4: 1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “ So I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest,’”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. 9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
This rest is the Christian's sabbath. Christ is our Sabbath! We have ceased from our striving to "please God by our doing". We have discovered that our religion of works in an abomination before the LORD. He is not interested in our "doing", it is filthy rags of false righteousness before Him.
Christian, you have been made new! You are a new human BEING. You have been made righteousness not be your "doing" by through our absolute ceasing from work. We totally live or rest only in the Christ's righteousness to give us life.
This is where the seventh-day Adventist completely miss the understanding of the Sabbath. They continue to look to honour a day when the Sabbath is God's picture to enter His rest. And God's only REST is His Son, Jesus the Christ.
Romans 14:5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks.
Does it matter that the seventh-day advents celebrate the LORD on the Saturday, which was the Sabbath day for the Jewish people of Israel? No,... if that is their choice, to God be the glory. But when they claim that all who do not are serving the Anti-Christ this is where we part company.
As a believer in Christ, I ALWAYS keep the Sabbath! I keep the Sabbath every day, for I rest (Sabbath) only in the Christ and His finished work to redeem me to His Father. This old convent day is completely fulfilled in the coming of the Christ. He is our Sabbath Day,...enter Him alone and cease from all of your labours to save yourself. Stop doing and BE!
Christian, we have been given the greatest gift of all time from our Lord. He has given us LIFE. We are human BEINGS! Rest in this truth. Rest in the Christ! Stop "trying" to please the Father. You can only please Him by faith (totally resting in Him alone).
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Stop it!
Stop "trying" to be and just BE. You are righteousness in Christ. Enjoy this righteousness. Embrace who you have been made to be. Rest! REST! REST!!
John 6:28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
God is looking for people who just Believe in Him, not work FOR Him. You CANNOT work FOR God, you can only ABIDE with or in Him and His holy work flows through you. Your "work" is to DO no more work!! Your work is to but BELIEVE!
I know this is a "new concept" for many but this is the very secret of the Christian faith. This teaching is really over 2000 years old. This is the clearly teachings of Paul. It is only by faith and unto faith, unto faith and unto faith that victory is experienced in the practical world of living.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Worry
What is worry?
In today's world with the uncertainty of money many seem to be in a panic. "Will we have enough? What will I do if we don't? How will we survive?" Many are living in daily fear about the financial situation.
Look at these words of Jesus written over 2000 years ago...
Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Easy to write. Easy to read. Easy to agree with but impossible to live without totally abiding in the Almighty.
Why worry? Where does it come from? It comes from our misunderstanding of who's in charge of this ol' world. The LORD God is Sovereign. He is trustworthy. If you believe, rest in, put your full weight upon, had total faith in this truth worry cannot come.
Christian, who is in charge of all things? Do you believe?
In today's world with the uncertainty of money many seem to be in a panic. "Will we have enough? What will I do if we don't? How will we survive?" Many are living in daily fear about the financial situation.
Look at these words of Jesus written over 2000 years ago...
Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Easy to write. Easy to read. Easy to agree with but impossible to live without totally abiding in the Almighty.
Why worry? Where does it come from? It comes from our misunderstanding of who's in charge of this ol' world. The LORD God is Sovereign. He is trustworthy. If you believe, rest in, put your full weight upon, had total faith in this truth worry cannot come.
Christian, who is in charge of all things? Do you believe?
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