Live Thanksgiving Service held on Friday 16/05/2023

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Points and Bible verses

If you do not know how to do something, how would you teach someone to do it?

We shouldn't give way to devil because devil brings darkness, wickedness, sin, instead of shining, there will be darkness and if darkness give it's way, it can restrict light and we have obligations to light.

How can you be shining when the fruit seen in you is not the fruit of holiness?

Ephesians 4:27 warned to never give place to the devil.

Everytime we practice 1 Peter 5:8, we will always shine. It says Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walk about, looking for whom he may devour:

Let us be sober and be watchful so that the enemy won't be able to enter and one of the watchful is to be sober and to be sober, we have to practice it, devil can destroy you if you loose control, if you are controlling yourself, you will shine. If you loose disciple, moderate or sober it's dangerous

1 Thessalonians 5:5 let us know that we are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night or of darkness.

We should shine like light shines because we are children of the day, children of the sun and sun doesn't go down upon his child

If you cannot control yourself then devil would have a chance to come in.

1 Corinthians 7:5 says do not Defraud one another, only if it is a consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan do not tempt you for your incontinency.

Philippians 2:14-16 says always do things without murmurings and disputings for you to be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom that you shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

We should be united in faith but we are in one corner gossiping

Philippians 3:13 says Brethren, I don't count myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, I forget those things that are behind, and i reach forth to the things which are before,

Let's forget what we've done in the past and let's come in unity of faith. How can we come in unity of faith when we argue?

Galatians 5:22 says the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance, anything against such, there is no law.

1 Thessalonians 4:4 say every one of us suppose to know how to possess our vessel in sanctification and honour;

We really need discipline in our own body if we would be satisfied, not to do evil, by being honorable

Romans 2:23 says you that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

If you are son of God and you loose control, you are dishonoring God.

Lesson

You need to learn first, you can't teach what you don't know, that is why we need to learn about the scripture well enough, learn how to avoid the devil as its warned in Ephesians 4:27.

It's when we sober and watchful that the devil won't have chance in us, it's hard to shine if the fruit you have is not the fruit of holiness.

The children of the sun and light always shine unlike the children of the night and darkness but the thing is to control yourself to avoid loosing guard to the devil.

Unity in faith is very important, there can't be unity if we argue.