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Hoe ons dink bepaal uiteindelik hoe ons reageer en leef. Christus het ons 'n nuwe weg kom leer, in die Woord sê Hy "Kom leer van want my juk is sag en my las is lig" ons wil leer hoe om soos Jesus te dink in elke area van ons lewe, sodat ons fokus en ingesteldheid Jesus kan bevestig waar ons beweeg.

Apostel Jan Oosthuizen gesels oor die Jesus manier van dink, besoek gerus die webtuiste www.janenchantal.com

Ons glo die manier van kommunikeer is van aangesig tot aangesig. Tog probeer ons om hierdie antieke manier, wat reeds so suksesvol bewys is, met tegnologie en sosiale media te vervang. En al wat ons daardeur regkry, is om van ander afgesny te word. Eis weer jou diepste konneksie met God, familie en vriende op – en ontmoet van aangesig tot aangesig. Besoek www.hrco.co.za vir die voledige preeknotas

John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

The thesis of The Real Faith is that faith is more than merely hoping or saying the right things (such as the positive confession movement would teach), but rather, a divinely imparted spiritual commodity that comes as you draw nearer to Christ; a sudden certainty that God alone can give.

He declared that the least amount of faith that He could give was greater and mightier than the largest amount of the power of the devil. Remember that faith —the weight of a grain of mustard seed —will do more than a ton of will, or a mind full of determination. Genuine faith can no more manifest itself without result, than the sunshine without light and heat.
Faith as small as a Mustard Seed. Mat 17:14-21 The faith that God gives as a gift, is greater than any power.  Mat 13:31; 17:20; Mark 4:30; Luk 13:18-19; 17:6

Every good gift: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. James 1:16-18

Salvation is a free gift - Eph 2:8-10
Righteousness is a free gift - Rom 5:15-18
Gifts of the Holy Spirit - Acts 10:45;
Gift of the Holy Spirit as person - Heb 6:4
Eternal life - Rom 6:23
Gifts of Ministry - 1 Cor 7:7
Gift and fellowship of the ministry 2 Cor 8:4
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift 2 Cor 9:15
I became apostle and minister - Eph 3:7; 1 Pet 4:10
Christ gift Eph 4:7
Repentance is a gift - 2 Cor 7:9

The better faith of the NT vs the OT heroes hall of faith, is the latter is received a gift. He is our faith! The NT faith a a living faith that moves and operate - He is Jesus.  He is the author and finisher of our faith! Heb 12:1
The important thing is not what you believe, but in whom you believe.”

H7706. שַׁדַּי šadday: A masculine noun and name for God meaning Shaddai, Almighty. The word occurs only forty-eight times in the Hebrew Bible, thirty-one times in the book of Job. This is a name for the Lord—the Old Testament people of faith referring to Him as El Shaddai, God Almighty. The term is found in the passages that report God’s promises of fertility, land, and abundance to them, indicating that He, the Almighty, could fulfill His promises (Gen. 17:1; 28:3; 35:11). The Lord appeared to Abraham when he was ninety-nine years old and identified himself as El Shaddai, God Almighty (Gen. 17:1)

“And answering, the Jesus says to them: “Have you faith of God?” That is the actual, word-for-word translation from the original. Mark 11:12-14, 20-24; Mat 21:18,19; 20-22). Faith birthed in our righteousness is rags and filth compared to he glory of HIS faith, that He births in our hearts. See the rich young man: Matthew 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

God gives the faith. He measures it out! The Greek, in a word-for-word
translation, says: “To each one has the God divided a measure of faith.” Weymouth, in his translation in modern speech, says, “In accordance with the amount of faith which God has allotted to each one.” Rom 12:3 Both the verbs given are in the verb, aorist, active, indicative, third person, singular tense. This means it was given, He is still giving it right now, and He will still be giving in time to come.  

Healing is not dependent upon the development of a perfect faith by any processes of self, but rather contact with Jesus.

SEEK HIM FIRST
Mat 6:33
Mat 7:7

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1 Cor 11:23 Faith At the Lord’s Table, FAITH’S CONFESSION. Just as the act of water baptism outwardly declares or confesses an inward experience of salvation through the blood of the Lord Jesus, each observance of the Lord’s Table is a powerful occasion for faith’s confession. In the ordinance, the Christian confesses before all heaven that he not only has believed, but that he has not forgotten. “In remembrance” involves more than just memory; the word suggests an “active calling to mind” (Wycliffe).
The word “for” introduces the reason the Supper is continually repeated. It is an acted sermon, for it “proclaims” the Lord’s death. The outward act of faith, as the bread and cup taken, is explicitly said to be an ongoing, active confession—literally “you are proclaiming” (1 Cor 11:26). Each occasion of partaking is an opportunity to say, proclaim, or confess again: “I herewith lay hold of all the benefits of Jesus Christ’s full redemption for my life—forgiveness, wholeness, strength, health, sufficiency.” The Lord’s Supper is not to be simply a ritual remembrance, but an active confession, by which you actively will to call to memory and appropriate today all that Jesus has provided and promised through His Cross.

At Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper with His disciples (Matt. 26:26–29; Mark 14:22–25; Luke 22:15–20) the bread and cup were part of a meal, with the bread probably broken near the beginning (cf. “when He had given thanks,” 1 Cor. 11:24) and the cup taken at the end (cf. “after supper,” v. 25). By the time Paul wrote, the Lord’s Supper was celebrated in two stages which consolidated the partaking of the bread and cup at the end of a communal meal. The worship with the bread and cup came to be called the “Eucharist” (Didache 9:1; Ignatius Letter to the Philadelphians 4), from the Greek word for “thanksgiving” (eucharisteō). The communal meal was called the Agapē (Jude 12; Pliny Letters 10. 96. 7), a Greek word for “love.”

one factor contributing to those divisions is evident here, namely, economic differences in the church (1 Cor 11:21).

1 Cor 11:20–21. The Lord’s Supper should have been the remembrance of a preeminently selfless act, Christ’s death on behalf of others. Instead the Corinthians had turned the memorial of selflessness into an experience of selfishness and had made a rite of unity a riotous disunity. While one brother went hungry because he lacked the means to eat well, another brother drank to excess.

The Communion:
1 Cor 11:24 Broken for you refers to both Jesus’ substitutionary role as Savior as well as the One who bore our pain and sicknesses (Isa 53:4-6)
1 Cor 11:25 The new covenant, sealed by the blood of Jesus, was prophesied in Jer. 31:31-34. That covenant was new in its nature and in its content, securing the forgiveness of sins and writing the law of God in the hearts of believers. The old ritualistic system is replaced by the gospel of Christ, which He established by His death (see Heb. 8:7-13).

To act in a spirit of selfish disregard for the needs of a brother was to despise the church of God, composed not of lifeless stones but of living people who could be grievously hurt. The bread represented the incarnate body of Christ unselfishly assumed (Phil. 2:6–7) and unselfishly given on the cross for the benefit of others (2 Cor. 8:9; Phil. 2:8), that kept needing to be remembered (cf. 1 Cor. 4:8–13).

1 Cor 11:25. The wine was a poignant reminder of Christ’s blood, without the shedding of which there could be no forgiveness from sin (Heb. 9:22) and through which cleansing and a new relationship (covenant) with God was made (Heb. 9:14–15). The word “covenant” referred to a relationship in which one party established terms which the other party accepted or rejected. The focus of the Old Covenant was the written Word (Ex. 24:1–8). The focus of the New Covenant is the Living Word (John 1:14–18). Christ

We often equate faithfulness with being steadfast, consistency, being dependable, reliable, dependable, loyal, true, trustworthy, devoted, truthful. Jesus equates faithfulness with something else – multiplication. Whatever God gives to us, He expects us to multiply and present it back to Him. John Bevere 

The Parable of the 10 Virgins (Mat 25:1–13) does not reveal the meaning of “taking oil with you”, and thus many sermons suggested oil, referring to the Holy Spirit.  But you cannot buy the Holy Spirit.  It is evident that the parable’s focus is about being prepared for the coming of the Lord. These two parables are interrelated, both starting with “then the kingdom of God is likened” and both ending with God’s judgment.  The second parable explains the first.  The wise virgins were preparing for the unexpected delay of the bridegroom (v. 5). The best way we can prepare for the delay of his coming is, making disciples who can continue after our death. We need to duplicate our lives so that the flame of the gospel can keep burning. Freely we have received, freely we need to give. Mat 10:8

Read the rest of the portion of scripture; Mat 25:14-30

His goods – The money was His, and they were only stewards.  My farm worker who uses my car, cannot come and give me back my car, and demand a blessing for returning it.  We cannot twist God’s arm with our tithes and giving, to give us more. It is all His in the first place. He wants us to look after it, and make it grow, cultivate it. 

Trade: to work, perform by labor, to do, produce, cultivate the earth. Gen 1:28

Mat 25:15 five talents The Greek text indicates an amount equal to 75 years’ wages thus the average years of a person’s live. The talents were of silver (money in Matt. 25:18 is argyrion, which means silver money). A talent weighed between 58 and 80 pounds. Again the average weight of a man.  Our lives should reproduce, multiply, and cultivate the righteousness, and God-given abilities we have received.  The old Protestant preachers would always ask: “what are you going to do with Christ you have received?” 

Each according to their ability: we all have received intrinsic natural gifts talents, and influence.  Righteousness is receiving sonship; now God wants us to cultivate what we have received. 

“you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed” The wicked and lazy servant did not know the character of hIs master.  This scripture in-plicately reveals the true meaning of the parable; God wants to reap a harvest where He has not sown, he first sown seed in us, not we sow, and reap a harvest exponentially for Him.  

‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away”

25:29  have abundance, perisseuo  (per-is-syoo-oh); Strong’s #4052:  To superabound, have in excess, greatly surpass, excel. The word shows the generosity of God’s grace, giving assurance that faithful use of one’s talents and gifts sets the stage for one’s own advancement. The abundance of life is already within you.  Your provision is within you. Give yourself, serve others with your abilities and gifts, and provision will follow you.  He who chase after money never finds it.   

Let’s look at Jesus’ example: 

Jesus worked – John 5:17 what was His primary work? 

Taught and disciplined 12 men – 2 Tim 2:20 and in the end He presented them back to God. Joh 17:4 He prays for them but eventually pray for their fruitful offspring. Joh 17:20 The seed principle is part of God’s nature,

Ons lewe in die era van informasie: Nog nooit was soveel inligting binne bereik van die gewone mens op straat nie, tog blyk dit dat inligting nie mense moreel beter maak nie. Net so min as die inligting op ’n sigaret pakkie jou gaan laat ophou rook, net so min gaan inligting jou ‘n beter mens maak. Wanneer jy die inligting egter begin toepas, dan verander alles.  Self die wyse Salomo het verstaan dat die versamel van inligting en kennis ‘n gejaag na wind is.  Eccl 1:15-18 15Daar is soveel dinge wat verkeerd is wat nie reggemaak kan word nie en daar is soveel dinge wat kortkom dat ’n mens nie alles kan tel nie. 16Ek het gedink ek het meer kennis as al die ander wat voor my oor Jerusalem geregeer het omdat my wye ervaring gelei het tot groter kennis en insig. 17Maar toe ek my daarop toelê om uit te vind wat die verskil tussen kennis en insig aan die een kant en dwaasheid en onverstandigheid aan die ander kant is, het ek tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat so ’n ondersoek ook net so min beteken as om agter die wind aan te hardloop—18hoe meer kennis ’n mens het, hoe meer probleme het jy; hoe meer ’n mens weet, hoe meer hartseer bring dit vir jou.

 ‘n baie geleerde man wou my eendag kom sien. Sy woorde na ‘n lang gesprek het my getref: “I have exhausted my intellect and cannot seem to find real peace” Later sou hy eenvoudig bely en erken dat hy glo dat Jesus werklik is. Sy lewe het in ‘n oomblik verander, en hy het Vrede gekry. “Die wysheid van die slimste mens maak Ek tot niet en die geleerdste mens se begrip tel by My niks.” 20Maar wat dan van die kenners en die geleerdes, die navorsers? God het reeds bewys dat die wysheid van mense in hierdie wêreld onsin is. 21God het deur sy wysheid dit so bepaal dat mense Hom nooit werklik sou leer ken deur hulle menslike kennis nie. Maar nou kom God en red almal wat sy boodskap glo (1 Cor 1:19-21)

Die wysheid wat Daniel dus besit het, was nie bloot sterk verstandelike vermoëns nie. Sy wysheid was gesetel in wie hy geken het. 

Wisdom is a Person.  All true wisdom comes from God, He is the source of all true wisdom.  Daarom word ons verplig om tot God te nader om wysheid by Hom te bekom. James 1:5-6 Your proximity to the source of wisdom will determine the measure of Godly wisdom you will possess. 

Wisdom is having the mind of God. The more you think like God, the more you will act like God.  Daarom moet ons ons denke laat vernuwe. Rom 12:1 Sy gedagtes is nie ons gedagtes nie. Isa 55:8  Hoe meer jy tyd in die Woord spandeer, (Col 3:16) en lewe gevul deur die Heilige Gees (Eph 5:18) en wandel in dit wat Hy jou leer (

Daar word gesê dat ‘n mens tot 40 dae sonder kos, 7 dae sonder water, 4 minute sonder suurstof kan leef, maar nie een sekonde sonder hoop nie.  As ons hoop verloor, word ons soos robotte wat net take verrig dag in en dag uit, sonder ʼn toekoms.  Die realiteit is dat ons hoop die afgelope tyd onder aanslag is.  Die ekonomiese krisis, stygende kostes van elektrisiteit, brandstof en voedsel maak ons depressief, en laat ons met min hoop oor ʼn beter toekoms.  As ’n mens lank uitsien na iets en dit gebeur nie, maak dit jou moedeloos, maar as ’n mens se begeerte vervul word, gee dit jou nuwe moed. (Prov 13:12 LB) Verskeie kwessies in ons dorpe maak ons nog verder moedeloos en baie mense is besig om hoop te verloor.  Deur die lewe en mense se oortredinge teenoor ons, word ons verwond. Sonder hoop word die wond septies en trek allerhande bakteria, vlieë en siektes. Hoop is ’n geestelike teengif en buffer teen demoniese infestasie. 

Ons is mense van hoop: handdoek ingooi is nie ʼn opsie nie! Toe een van ons boere in ons gemeenskap ʼn paar jaar gelede geweldige brandskade op sy plaas gehad het, moes ek gaan om hom te bemoedig.  Ek het eerlikwaar nie geweet wat om te sê nie. Toe sê die Here vir my: “There is a difference between giving up and letting go.”  Om op te gee is nie ʼn opsie nie, maar soms moet ons dinge oorgee af afgee, om staande te kan bly.  Dit het vir die boer en sy vrou hoop gegee, dat alles nie tot niet is nie. 

Ons kan nie toelaat dat afbrekende woorde en ʼn negatiewe ingesteltheid ons siel en gees besmet nie.  Jesus self in ons is ons hoop. (Col 1:27) As kinders van die Here het ons, ons hoop gevind in dit wat nie geskud en vernietig kan word nie, naamlik ons verhouding met Jesus Christus.  (Ps 39:7) HOOP het in ons hart kom woon, en ons beleef nou Sy vrede en vreugde in die Heilige Gees, ten spyte van ons omstandighede.  (Rom 14:17)

Moeilike omstandighede en krisisse ontbloot die waarheid van ons hart, waarin is ons hoop gevestig?  Is ons sekuriteit in ons besittings, posisies, kontantvloei, en voorspoed?  Of is ons sekuriteit Jesus en Jesus alleen?  Jesus Christus is ons ewige onwankelbare HOOP!

Hoop is ‘n persoon, sy naam is Jesus.  Daniel was ‘n man van hoop, omdat hy die Here persoonlik op Sy woord gevat het.  (Dan 1:8) Hy moes self sy geloof in God toets. Jy kan nie op iemand anders se hoop lewe nie. Alhoewel Daniel heelwaarskynlik nie in ‘n Godsdienstige tyd groot geword het agv Israel se afvalligheid nie. Tog het Daniel die dieet van sy voorvaders onthou, en homself voorgeneem om homself nie te besoedel met die lekkernye van die Koning se tafel nie. Hy moes uit ervaring geleer het, dat die Bybelse Dieet beter resultate lewer.  Uit Sy voorneme neem hy ‘n geloofaksie en die Here beloon sy geloof deurdat hulle guns kry by sy leermeesters. Elke keer as die koning hulle raad gevra het oor ’n saak waarvoor daar insig en begrip nodig was, het hy gevind dat hulle tien maal meer weet as al die towenaars en fortuinvertellers in sy ryk. (Dan 1:20)

Bybelse hoop lê in ‘n verhouding, ‘n pad saam stap, ervarings en verlossin

Nederigheid is ‘n goddelike eienskap, want God self is die beste voorbeeld van nederigheid.

Iemand wat God regtig ontmoet het en ken, kan nie anders as om nederig te wees nie.  Niemand kan voor God staan nie.  Arrogansie, trots, self-waan verdwyn soos mis voor die Son, wanneer ons voor Hom staan en Sy heerlikheid aanskou.  Daarom is gebed die eerste eienskap wat Daniel laat floreer het in Babilon, vanuit Sy intieme gebedslewe het nederigheid natuurlik gekom.   

“Humility is having a true and sane estimation of yourself”

“Pride/arrogance is on overestimation of self and an underestimation of others.” 

“Inferiority is an underestimation of self and an overestimation of others.”

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Many believers are caught out when bad things happens to them. Ps 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all. Note the emphasis in this verse: “Many are the afflictions” The righteous do suffer. Already in the first 4th page of the Bible, Cain killed Able. He did nothing wrong, he did what was right and was murdered.

Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first- class) soldier of Christ Jesus 2 Tim 2:3 See this sharp warning by Hudson Taylor the famous missionary to china and later Africa about Christians seeking comfort rather than war. http://www.inthebeginning.com/articles/chocolate.htm

Many are healed and even raised from the dead, for God is a God of miracles. Yet many does not receive these wonderful blessings… Is God at fault? Did He forget? Is He not the God of love? He certainly is a merciful and loving God, faithful and just but some receive their reward not on this life according to the Faith Hero List in Hebrews 11. “Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” Heb 11:36-40

Rejoice in Suffering: According to the Bible Suffering is good for you. Therefor Rejoice! The anecdote “no pain no gain” come to mind on the wall of a Gymnasium. God uses the good and the bad in our lives, both is His servants. So it should be for us.
James 1: 2–4; Romans 5: 3–4

God chastens those He love. We instinctively know this and want discipline. Love without discipline is flaky and idealistic. Love and discipline is interconnected and cannot be separated. We cannot have the one without the other. Hebrews 12: 5–13

Discipline begins at home. This is true also for the household of the Father. We do not discipline and scourge naughty children that is unknown to us, and where we have not received the permission from these children’s lawful guardians. 1 Peter 4: 17 In the same way God always begin His discipline IN His house. Thus the Babylonian exile being the result of the Jews not complying to God’s law and instruction for a long time. Di