In Luke 15, Jesus talks about a good father. He tells this to the sinners and tax collectors who come to him as well as the Pharisees and scribes. Jesus tells about a good father who loves the sinner who leaves the father and the family and waste his life away as well as the son who is at home living a life living a life where he obeys the father without knowing who the father is. The father is God - the one who calls both the sinner and the self righteous alike, loving both of them. Genuine repentance involves two main things. 

Jesus talks about the issue with human heart in both the cases. The younger one found the world and its pleasures lovely and the elder one feared and considered the father unjust. This is same in the Church and across human heart. The unbeliever does not want to do anything with God and the church going unbeliever goes just to make sure that they are not wrong. 

Jesus came to adopt and bring home the lost sons. This is the gospel. The sinner is saved (justified) and is adopted into the family of God  

See Notes On:

https://toancientofdays.blogspot.com/2020/12/i-am-series-episode-4-i-am-light.html

 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. John 7:37–39 (ESV)

see notes:

https://toancientofdays.blogspot.com/2020/11/i-am-series-episode-3-i-am-bread-anyone.html

Three things Jesus does here:

Three things we do:

 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Summary:

This is dedicated to all who are in the household of people in ministry, especially each and every pastor's wife and my own wife. I am writing this on a day i am forced to lie down as I have hurt my knees. And this incident was not isolated, it has been the a terrible time of being hurt physically. A tumour on the leg, a tear of the feet tendon, now a knee swelling. This was a fruitful time for the ministry as I been mentoring and helping people and this has been affecting even my poor wife who fears that these attacks (even spiritual) may only increase. So I want to encourage her and let her know that the reason I wake and get out of the bed has these reasons. I love her dearly and find her the best and precious and I want her to be encouraged through this.

https://toancientofdays.blogspot.com/2020/11/i-will-stand-to-fight-poem.html

The Bible talks about us being part of the world yet not in the world. The early Christians have done more to transform the Greeco-Roman world than any culture. The modern thoughts on dignity, respect, honor and value for human life has been based on the life the early Church lived.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.1 Peter 2:9  ESV

https://toancientofdays.blogspot.com/2020/11/excellencies-of-him-1-peter-29.html

There are seven times in the Bible where Jesus says the statement I am ...  and all of them are found in the book of John.Before John, the place where we find this statement "I AM.." most pronounced is in the book of Exodus.

In this we see God from the old testament perspective. 

God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘ I AM has sent me to you.’”

https://toancientofdays.blogspot.com/2020/10/i-am-series-episode-1-introduction.html

Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.​

Presented a the London Pentecostal Church - Youth Meeting 

Slides: https://1drv.ms/p/s!Aq5uNziyWSmsgVCf_U92D-RY8Pz2?e=aaa9aE 

Semon notes: https://toancientofdays.blogspot.com/2020/10/god-of-hope-romans-1513-sermon-notes.html 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/c-yS_BQdjXY

The Bible tells us that we are being transformed daily, made Holy, being made into the image of the Son. How do we stand in our faith and in the process of being made Holy (sanctification)? Let us look at the Bible, and see how we are to adviced to work out our salvation.

How do we react when things do not go our way? How do we find peace when we face difficulties? Does God open a door when he shuts another? This week we shall see how God shuts a door and wants us to be there in the room with Him. 

This is a time of pruning and anointing.