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Showing posts with label Discipleship life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discipleship life. Show all posts

08 April 2023

The Active Life of a Disciple of Jesus

1. We must be born again in Christ Jesus


Jesus said that no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit (John 3:1-8).  That is, we must be born again to live a new life with a new heart and a new Spirit.  And this new life is given to us by God the Father when we repent of our sins and turn to him, are baptized in water into His Son Jesus who died and rose again for the remission of our sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit in us will allow us to serve God and testify of Jesus everywhere for the rest of our lives.  (See 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Acts 2:37-38; Acts 1:8)


2. We must personally worship and know God the Father and the Lord Jesus


Once we have been born again, we must then fulfill the first commandment to love God with all our hearts.  This means that we must dedicate ourselves to spending intimate moments of daily communion with God our Father and with Jesus our Lord, meditating on the divine Word and praying in tongues of the Holy Spirit.  God gave us his Word so that we can strengthen ourselves spiritually and renew our minds in order to know his truth and his perfect will recorded in the Bible.  He also gave us his Spirit so that we can be in his presence to praise him and pray without ceasing, understand his Word and put it into practice, and be filled with his power and compassion for our neighbor so that we can do what Jesus did.  (See John 4:23-24; Matthew 6:5-13; 11:28-30; John 1:3; Joshua 1:7-8; John 8:31-32; 15:1-8; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; James 1:19-21; 1 Peter 2:1-3; 1 Corinthians 14:1-4; Jude 1:20-21; Philippians 4:6-7)


3. We must witness and evangelize the lost, heal the sick, and make disciples 


God's desire is that we can fulfill his second commandment to love others.  This is accomplished when at every opportunity we tell others about our new life in Jesus Christ and what He did to save mankind.  We must faithfully proclaim to others the Good News of salvation from the power of sin and reconciliation with God through the sacrifice of Jesus, and also what God expects us to do accordingly.  We must also heal the sick out of compassion, and do good to our neighbor.  The goal is to make disciples of Jesus among those who hear the Gospel, repent of their sins and turn to God, believe the Good News, are baptized in water into Jesus, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  (See John 4:31-38; Luke 10:1-20; Mark 16:15-18; Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21)


4. We must organize house churches and live as a family


Once we have managed to make disciples, we must take care of them and train them for the active life of discipleship.  We need to organize a house church of active disciples who meet regularly to eat together, celebrate the Lord’s Supper, sing praises, share God's Word, pray together, and team up to faithfully and regularly go out and evangelize.  It is recommended and necessary that the disciples agree to live together in the same house to reduce expenses and live as a family in order to help each other, and also to invest more time and united effort to be able to regularly and effectively witness and evangelize two by two.  (See Hebrews 10:23-25; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Ephesians 5:18-21; Colosenses 3:15-16; Acts 1:12-14; 2:42-47)


5. We must organize new house churches to advance the kingdom of God everywhere


When the house church has built a number of approximately twelve active members, then the disciples should be willing to organize other house churches as they evangelize abroad and gain new disciples.  The goal is to multiply and reproduce quickly, and for house churches to be small groups and easy to operate, so that God's Kingdom advances everywhere under the guidance and power of the Word and Holy Spirit of God.  (See 2 Timothy 2:2; Acts 4:32; 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10)


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30 March 2023

The Life of a Follower of Jesus (Groupal Bible Study)

1)  A Follower of Jesus, Not a Churchgoer Christian


   Matthew 4:18-22;  10:24-25, 37-39;  25:1-13; 28:18-20;  Mark 4:1-20; 8:34-38;  16:15-20; John 4:21-24; 15:1-17


   2)  Faith and Obedience to God


   Matthew 6:25-34;  7:24-27; John 3:31-36;  8:31-34;  14:23-26;  Acts 16:25-33; 1Corinthians 15:3-4; 2Corinthians 5:14-21;   Titus 2:11-14;  Hebrews 3:12-19;  5:8-9; 11:6;  12:14-17; James 1:22-27;  2:14-26;  1Peter 1:17-22; 4:16-17


   3)  Repentance towards God the Father 


   Matthew 4:17;  Luke 3:7-9;  Acts 2:37-38;  3:19;   26:20;  Romans 5:12;  7:18-20;  2Corinthians 7:9-10;  2Peter 3:8-9


   4)  Baptism in Water in union with Jesus the Messiah 


   Mark 16:15-16;  John 3:1-8;  Acts 2:37-41;  22:16;  Romans 6:1-18;  Galatians 3:26-27;  Colossians 2:11-14;  Titus 3:4-5;  1Peter 3:20-21


   5)  The Filling of God’s Holy Spirit


   Luke 3:16-15;  John 14:15-18;  16:7-15;  Acts 1:6-8;  2:1-18;  8:9-25;  10:44-48;  19:1-7;  Titus 3:4-7


   > Walk in the Spirit, Pray in tongues, Life in the Spirit


 Romans 8:1-17, 26;  1Corinthians 14:2, 14-19;  Galatians 5:19-25;  Ephesians 6:17-18


   6)  Relationship with God and Jesus 


   > Love God and His Word with all your heart, soul, mind and strength


   Joshua 1:7-8;  Matthew 4:1-4; 6:24-34;  11:28-30;  Mark 12:30;  Luke 10:38-42;  John 4:19-24;  6:35-58, 63;  8:31-34;  14:23-24;  15:1-8;  Romans 12:1-2;  2Timothy 3:14-17;  James 1:19-27;  4:4-10;  1Peter 2:1-3;  1John 1:1-4


   > Pray without ceasing


   Matthew 6:5-18;  Luke 10:2;  11:1-13;  John 16:23-24;  Acts 4:23-31;  1Corinthians 14:1-4;  Philippians 4:6-7;  Colossians 1:9-12;  1Thessalonians 5:16-18;  Hebrews 4:14-16;  11:6;   13:15;  Jude 20-21


   > Live in the Light


   Romans 13:8-14;  2Corinthians 10:3-6;  Ephesians 4:17-32;  5:1-20;  6:10-20;  Colossians 3:1-17;  1Thessalonians 5:1-11;  1Peter 1:13-25;  2Peter 1:3-21;  1John 2:28—3:10;  5:18-19


   > Love your neighbor as yourself


   Mark 12:31;  John 15:9-16;  Matthew 5:43-48;  Romans 12:9-21;  Hebrews 13:16;  1John 3:11-19;  4:7-21


   7)  Preaching the Good News, healing the sick and casting out demons, and making disciples 


   Matthew 28:18-20;  Mark 16:15-20;  Luke 4:18-21, 38-44;  10:1-20;  John 14:12;  15:16;  20:19-23;  Acts 8:1-4;  11:19-21;  14:21-22


   8)  Organizing house churches and having fellowship


   Acts 1:12-14;  2:42-46;  4:32-37;  Romans 16:5,10-11;  1Corinthians 14:26-40;  4:19;  Ephesians 5:18-21;  Colossians 3:16;  4:5,15;  2Timothy 4:19;  Philemon 1:2;  Hebrews 10:24-25


   > Form good leaders to shepherd and prepare others


   1Timothy 3;  2Timothy 2:2;   Titus 1:5-9


   9)  The Resurrection from the dead and the Eternal Judgment


   > The Resurrection from the dead - (Our blessed hope)


   Daniel 12:2-3;  John 5:28-29;  6:40;  Acts 24:15;  1Corinthians 15:12-58;  1Thessalonians 4:16-17


   > The Eternal Judgment, and The New Heaven and New Earth 


   Matthew 24:42-51;  25:1-46;  Romans 2:1-16;  1Timothy 4:1-8;  Revelation 20:1-15;   21:1-27;  22:1-21



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31 March 2017

Sowing and Reaping for God's Kingdom


WHO WE ARE

We are a couple of full-time disciples, farmers of Jesus the Messiah, dedicated to sowing and reaping for God's Kingdom. We have a daily, personal and intimate communion with God our Father and with Jesus our Lord, by praying in the Holy Spirit, and by meditating on the Holy Scriptures.


We serve God and Jesus daily by sowing the seed of the Gospel among the lost and reaping the fruit of those who receive and retain the truth of God's Word. We spread the Good News that there is peace with God through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, his Son and Messiah. And also, that there is redemption from our sins through our sincere repentance to God, our new birth in union with Jesus through water baptism, and our new life by receiving the infilling of the Holy Spirit.  We are members of God's Family and the Body of Christ (Messiah). We are part of the community of born-again disciples who love God intimately and obey the great commission of the Lord Jesus---our Shepherd, Apostle, and High Priest. Since our work is voluntary and full time, we trust in God for our daily sustenance. In fact, our divine Father faithfully supplies our basic needs through those who welcome and support our work with accommodation, food and contributions for our continual missionary travels and living expenses.


VOCATION In our 20s, after becoming disillusioned and leaving our parents' established Catholic/Christian religions in our adolescence, we had a deep desire to personally seek the truth about God's existence and why and for what purpose He created us. Shortly thereafter, in an overwhelming and wonderful way, we had a personal, supernatural encounter with God and with Jesus. They revealed themselves to us personally and transformed our lives completely and drastically. God called us to repent of our sins and turn to him, and to believe in and follow his divine Son Jesus the Messiah—whom He sent to shed his blood and rise from the dead, in order to cut off the curse of the power of sin over us so that God himself could make peace with us. As soon as we heard and believed the Good News of God about his Son and Messiah, we then wholeheartedly repented to God and gave our lives to Jesus without reservations. At that precise moment, we experienced a big infilling of God's Spiritual Presence (Holy Spirit) on us, which miraculously transformed our lives from inside out. We felt immediately reconciled to our heavenly Father, becoming his adopted children, as Jesus was taking over our lives completely, especially since after the baptism in water in his name and authority. Hallelujah! From that moment on, we left the world (man's system) behind, and followed Jesus wholeheartedly to this day, for about almost 50 years. However, out of ignorance, we became fully involved and were part of an independent Christian movement for nearly thirty years. Our leader, a prophet, was teaching the doctrine of “extreme grace” and other “new revelations” that openly challenged and contradicted the sound doctrine of the Bible. On 2011, we saw that our teenagers were not living out the faith, and at the same time God shaked us up with a big breaking, which caused us to pray on our knees and seek God with a completely broken and repentant heart. Immediately, God revealed himself and comforted our deep inner pain, telling us that we did not truly know him because we did not know his Word recorded in the Holy Scriptures. We only followed the teachings of the movement's leader and founder. God began to reveal the truth of his Word to us as we read it in context and meditated on it daily. At one point He told us we should leave that movement and depend entirely on him and his Son Jesus. So we did, and from then on, we dedicate ourselves to spending personal and intimate time every day with God our Father and Jesus our Lord—reading and meditating on the Holy Scriptures, and worshipping and praying in tongues of the Holy Spirit. We also witness and evangelize the lost personally everywhere in a daily basis. In 2016, God revealed to us the biblical truth of the Gospel of freedom from sin to serve God, through the discipleship ministry of "The Last Reformation" (TLR). Since then, we have been faithfully proclaiming the true Gospel to all, healing the sick by laying on of hands, freeing the oppressed by casting out evil spirits, baptizing the repentant, and making disciples of all nations. MISSION

● Daily we share with others our personal testimony of our new spiritual birth, and we also share the Good News of redemption and reconciliation to God the Father through his Son Jesus the Messiah.

● In the name of Jesus and by the power of God, we heal the sick by laying hands on them, and we free the oppressed by casting out evil spirits from them.

● We encourage all those who believe in the Good News to take the following five steps in order to be completely born again and receive the divine nature so that they can do God's work as disciples of Jesus:


     1) To repent of all sinful life, confess every sin, and surrender completely to God the Father and his will, to be able to receive a tender new heart.

     2) To be fully baptized in water (which represents the blood that Jesus shed), for the washing of sins and burial of the body of the sinful nature, to be able to be born again and live a new life dedicated to following Jesus the Messiah.

     3) To receive and be renewed by the Holy Spirit, who is in fact the divine glory, the holy presence, and the miraculous power of God and Jesus. 

     4) To commit to meditate on the Holy Scriptures and pray in the Holy Spirit daily, to be able to have constant intimate fellowship with God and with Jesus. 

     5) To commit to sharing the Good News with the lost at every opportunity, healing the sick, baptizing believers, and equipping disciples to do the same.


● We encourage every disciple of Jesus to meet regularly, and even to live with other brothers and sisters in the faith, to pray together and help each other spread the Good News, in order to advance the Kingdom of God in their city.


● We equip every disciple of Jesus who wants to become his full-time farmer, to help us reach and reap the great harvest of souls ahead.


● We equip believing parents to learn how to care for their children well in order to develop their character—by reading Scripture and praying with them, doing a variety of activities with them (including reaching out to others with the Good News), and giving them consistent, loving discipline.


CONTACT US


Contact us if you would like to serve God with us and/or support our work of evangelizing the lost and equipping disciples.


May God our Father bless you, keep you, and use you for his great work of redemption from our sinful nature and reconciliation to him through Jesus our Lord and Savior.


José & Béatrice

Farmers of Jesus the Messiah