SCRIPTURE READING

2. SCRIPTURE READING • HEBREWS 11:1-6 • ¶ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. • By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. • COLOSSIANS 1:12-17 • Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

3. THE MYSTERYOF GOD’SFOREKNOWLEDGEAND ELECTION II PETER 1:10 “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.”

4. GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE REVELATION 1:8“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning(Genesis) and the ending (Apocalypse), saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

5. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD (ELOHIM): • God is ETERNAL (He has no beginning, and no ending. Only Him has eternal life. • God is OMNIPOTENT (God is all-powerful. The devil is only a created being. • God is OMNISCIENT (God knows all things) . • God is OMNIPRESENT (He can be everywhere. Heaven is His throne and earth is only His footstool. • God is SOVEREIGN (No one can dictate God) • God is INFINITE (He has no limitations).

6. God’s attributes before the beginning of time are as follows: • GOD- “God” means “an object of worship.” He wants to be worshipped, so He created first the angels. • FATHERHOOD- He wished to have sons and daughters. He created you and me. • HEALER –sickness is part of God’s permissive will • SAVIOUR - there has to be a fallen creature • REDEEMER - there has to be a previous ownership • JUDGE – there has to be both righteous & the wicked • KING – there has to be a Kingdom of His own rulership. • PRIEST – He is High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities Ocean to the fish fin; Earth for a tree; Lamb atonement for sinners.

7. HEBREWS 12:2 “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith” THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE REVELATION 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not BLOT out his NAME out of the BOOK of LIFE, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. REVELATION 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the antiChrist), whose names are NOT written in the BOOK of LIFE of the LAMB slain from the foundation of the world.

8. NAMES WRITTEN IN HEAVEN • LUKE 10:17-21 And the SEVENTY returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the DEVILS are subject unto us through Thy Name. • And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in REJOICE NOT, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather REJOICE, because your NAMES are WRITTEN in HEAVEN.

9. THE GOSPEL IS HID FROM UNBELIEVERS JOHN 6:65And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. II CORINTHIANS 4:3-4But if our GOSPEL be HID, it is hid to them that are LOST: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

10. THE GOSPEL IS HID FROM UNBELIEVERS MATTHEW 11:25-26¶ At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast HID these things from the wise and prudent, and hast REVEALED them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

11. THE GOSPEL IS HID FROM UNBELIEVERS MATTHEW 13:13-16Therefore speak I to them in PARABLES: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and should understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

12. THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD ROMANS 8:28-3028And we know that ALL THINGS work together for good to them that LOVE God, to them who are the CALLED according to [his] PURPOSE. • 29 ¶ For whom he did FOREKNOW, He also did PREDESTINATE [to be] conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. • 30 Moreover whom He did PREDESTINATE, them He also CALLED: and whom He CALLED, them He also JUSTIFIED: and whom He JUSTIFIED, them He also GLORIFIED.

13. YOU ARE CHOSEN, ELECTED, PREDESTINATED EPHESIANS 1:3-123 ¶ Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ: • 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: • 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, • 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. • 7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; • 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; • 9 Having made known unto us the MYSTERY of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: • 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him: • 11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: • 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

14. ROMANS 9:11-23 • 11 (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) • 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. • As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. • 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. • 16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. • 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. • 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will [have mercy], and whom he will he hardeneth. • 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? • 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed [it], Why hast thou made me thus? • 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? • 22 [What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: • 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory

15. THE WICKED ARE FOREKNOWN OF GOD ALSO JUDE 1:4 • For there are certain MEN crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I PETER 2:8 • And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the WORD, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.Talk about Judas, Pharaoh, Balaam, Korah, Dathan, etc.… Also the Twins in the Bible – Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Isaac and Ishmael, Moses and Rameses, Jesus and Judas, the Wheat and the Tares, the Crow and the Dove, The Goat and the Lamb.

16. THE HOLY GHOST CAN FALL ON EVERYBODY, BUT… ACTS 2:17 • “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of MY SPIRIT upon ALL FLESH.” MATTHEW 5:45 • For he maketh his SUN to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth RAIN on the JUST and on the UNJUST. MATTHEW 13:30 • Let both grow together until the HARVEST: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the TARES, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the WHEAT into my barn. (“Let every seed bring forth of its kind”… Gen 1;11-12) MATTHEW 7:20 • “Wherefore by their FRUITS ye shall know them”.

17. NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS LORD… MATTHEW 7:21-23 • ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. • Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? • And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

18. THE WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS MATTHEW 25:1-12 • Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto TEN VIRGINS, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the BRIDEGROOM. • And FIVE of them were WISE, and FIVE [were] FOOLISH. They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took NO OIL with them: But the wise took OIL in their vessels with their lamps. While the BRIDEGROOM tarried, they all slumbered and slept. • And at MIDNIGHT there was a CRY made, Behold, the BRIDEGROOM COMETH; go ye out to MEET Him. Then all those virgins arose, and TRIMMED their lamps. And the FOOLISH said unto the WISE, Give us of your OIL; for our lamps are GONE OUT. But the WISE answered, saying, [Not so]; lest there be not ENOUGH for us and you: but go ye rather to them that SELL, and BUY for yourselves. • And WHILE they went to BUY, the Bridegroom CAME; and they that were READY went in with him to the MARRIAGE: and the DOOR was SHUT. AFTERWARD came also the OTHER virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I KNOW you NOT.”

19. THE GOSPEL NET • MATTHEW 13:47-48 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a NET, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: • 48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

20. THE THREE PULLS OF JESUS“Ye shall be Fishers of Men” • First Pull – Healing & Miracles Jesus turned the water into wine; Fed 5,000 out of 5 fishes & two bread; He healed the sick, cast out devils; raise the dead. • Second Pull – Prophesying & Discernment Jesus told Peter his name; told Nathaniel he is a man with no guile; told the Samaritan woman about her 6 husbands; He exposed the Pharisees’ iniquities • Third Pull – Revealing of the WordJesus told the seventy about “eating His flesh and drinking His blood”; about the Son of Man going up and down heaven.

21. 70 DISCIPLES LEFT JESUS JOHN 6:53,60-69 • Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard [this], said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? [What] and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. • But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. • From that [time] many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.Then said Jesus unto the twelve,Will ye also go away? ThenSimon Peteranswered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are SURE that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”

22. REVELATION IS THE KEY MATTHEW 16:13-18 • 13 ¶ When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? • 14 And they said, Some [say that thou art] John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. • 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I AM? • 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. • 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for FLESH and BLOOD hath not REVEALED [it] unto thee, but my FATHER which is in heaven. • 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this ROCK I will BUILD my CHURCH; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

23. FAITH IS A REVELATION • HEBREWS 11:1 Now FAITH is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. • HEBREWS 11:6 But without FAITH [it is] IMPOSSIBLE to PLEASE [Him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that HE IS, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

24. THE STRONG MEAT OF THE WORD • HEBREWS 5:12-14 • For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. • For every one that useth milk [is] unskillful in the Word of righteousness: for he is a babe. • But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.