Providence Baptist Church

Dr. Jim Kelly

Youth Prayer Walk

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Providence Baptist Church youth participated in a prayer walk in our community tonight. We want to thank Joanna Miller for helping by taking a group of youth. We had three groups of youth (27 in all). The youth enjoyed praying with the families and will continue to pray for those with special prayer requests. We also want to thank the youth from other churches for participating with us!!! We also enjoyed fellowship with one another at the Mexican Restaurant in town. We had great service and the food was delicious! God was glorified tonight! God’s love was shared with many of those in our town. Thank you youth for your courage and love for others!

Questions about the Rapture?

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Questions

(Present Scriptures to back up answers.)

  1.  Steps to salvation.
  2.  Who can be saved?
  3. Are there requirements after salvation?   a.  Name as many as you can. b.  Make sure they are not apart of the plan of salvation.
  1. Name the four beliefs concerning the rapture.
  2. Who is the rapture for?
  3. Choose the correct people group that will go in the rapture and give the scriptural reasons why you believe it.  Possibly more than one choice.
    a.  Everyone who believes there is a Heaven. (more than 1 way)
    b.     All believers as represented by all 7 churches of Revelation.
    c.     Select group as represented in all 7 churches.
    d.     All the children of the world.
    e.     Children of Christians.
    f.     Children in mother’s womb.  
  1. What are the Scriptural qualifications for going in the Rapture?

BONUS:  Will the Old Testament Saints be a part of the rapture?

Revelation 3 – The Church at Philadelphia

Make sure you know the right answers and stick with it.

The only church out of the 7 that was not in the first chapter of Revelation in the introduction.

God walks in the midst of His churches.

Holy – set aside, pure, undefiled, unmixed.

God holds the key.  The church at Philadelphia stayed open for 1200 years.  God can open doors no man can shut.

Matthew 25:10

dunamus – power from on high.

Size has never meant anything in the kingdom of God.  They were of little strength – they had little power left.

Hold on to what you’ve got. God’s going to bring you through.

References for future study:

Luke 21:36

Hebrews 9:20

Ezekial 20: 36-38

There is a separation coming.  Luke 13:23

Matthew 7:13

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God’s Encounter

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Revelation 3:14-22

God wants you to directly connect with Him.  Laodecia was a wealthy town, but the water had to be pumped in so that water was lukewarm.  It became useless.

We become useful because we separate ourselves by means of a personal relationship with Jesus.  Spending time with Jesus is connecting you with pure water.

3 Things Happen When We Are too Far from the Source

  1.  Our disciplines are weakened.   Repentance is to change which way you are going.  Constantly making adjustments.  Repentance should be a constant way of life.  An encounter with God will bring discipline to your life.
  2. Destroys your prayer life.  Prayer is the roadmap, our communion with God.  The Bible says, “Pray continually.”
  3. We lose our worship.  We need to return to a life of worship.  A piped encounter with God is a source you cannot get from someone else.

2 Problems:

We see ourselves wrong and we see ourselves as other people see us.  One of the dangers that we have as a church is we don’t see what is God’s and what is ours.

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Lukewarmness

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Revelation 3:14-22
The Church of Laodecia

This is the only place the word “lukewarm” is used in all of scripture.

Lukewarm means useless.

God is saying I’d rather you be cool, refreshing, calm and encouraging.

God says we need both hot and cold – both are useful.  Where are we in our usefulness for God?

Do we come to church to have an encounter with God?

Most people come to sing about Him or hear a sermon about Him.

We’ve got to be connected to the power – Jesus.  We need the living water.  We need to tap back into the power of God because this world needs us.  There is also the responsibility and consequences of coming to Jesus.

Revelation 2:10

Jesus says to take up your cross – this was a death sentence. The very first thing about salvation is you have to die you’ve got to change your focus.

We are saved by grace, not by works.  After salvation, it’s all about works.

Did you listen to God’s voice and obey what he said this week?

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Repent of Mixture

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Revelation 2:13-14

On October 31, 1517,    a German priest, Martin Luther wrote protesting against the established Catholic church at the time.  Tomorrow, October 31 is the 502 anniversary.  This occurred in Whittenburg, Germany.  There were 95 protest points. There are 7 major differences between Protestants and Catholics.

The Doctrine of Balaam and the Nicolatians

We are called by God to be separate people.  Balaam was well-known during the time of Moses. He was world-famous. He had the talking donkey.  His story is found in Numbers 22,25 and 31.

When you get caught up in the things of the world, you won’t see or hear God trying to stop you.  We have lost our passion for God.

Halloween comes from All Saint’s Day. A day for hallowing the saints.  But we should only be hallowing God.

Jude 11

Revelation 2

Our nation and our church needs to repent.  We NEED revival.

 

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