Join us as we dig into scripture and the claims of this world that want to so much pull us away from the Lord. May we stand firm with our Heavenly Father, the One true God. The main goal is to help you spot new age practices so you do not fall suspect to its trickery, while drawing us closer to the Word of God so that we all can see the importance of the seeking God above the ways of this world. As Romans 16:19 reminds us, “For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.” I pray that after this, you would seek each and every scripture mentioned, and read the entirety of the text. Test everything back to the Word of God (1 John 4) that is mentioned and allow God to bring forth more growth in your time with Him. “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 NKJV
I want to start with this grounding in our identity and how it is not to be found in this world, for the Lord does not give as this world does as the Lord tells us in John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”
Our identity is found in Christ, founded on our solid Rock, our Heavenly Father.
1. Psalms 139:13-14- “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my should knows it very well.”
2. 1 Peter 2:9- “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”
3. Ephesians 2:10- “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”
4. 1 Corinthians 3:16- “Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
5. Galatians 3:26- “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”
6. Ephesians 1:5- “He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,”
7. Galatians 4:6- “Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
8. Philippians 3:20-21- “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject al things to Himself.”
As Ephesians 4:11-16: “11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.” (Ephesians 4:11-16 NASB1995) (Purpose, protection, belonging)
