November 20, 2011

Santosh Poonen

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• Summary: I Timothy 3:16 – 4:2
• Quote: God wants our love more than anything else. So, He has hidden the deeper mysteries of Himself, to see if we will search them out (Proverbs 25:2).
• Quote: God hides Himself so that you will seek after Him. In the midst of that “hide-and-seek”, don’t settle for something else to capture your fancy!
• Quote: The secret to living a godly life is getting revelation that Jesus Christ came in flesh like mine. This is the revelation that Jesus, as God, lived on earth as a man, facing all the types of temptations we face (Hebrews 2:17-18) and was proved spotless & pure in spirit (Hebrews 4:15).
• Quote: The secret to freedom from sin is grace (Romans 6:14). Jesus never sinned because He was under grace — from birth (Luke 2:40), to death (Hebrews 2:9).
• Quote: Most people use the phrase “By God’s grace” lightly because they don’t really know what it means. In Jesus’ case it meant His death! (Hebrews 2:9)
• Quote: When God told Adam and Eve, “If you [disobey] you will die”, the Devil deceived them with, “You shall surely not die” (Genesis 3:3-4). Now, God says, “If you live after the flesh you will die” (Romans 8:13), and the Devil is likewise deceiving many so-called believers with the same lie that they will not die. This is “another Jesus” (II Corinthians 11:3-4) which many churches are preaching.
• Quote: The reason God called you is to follow Jesus’ example of godliness on earth (I Peter 2:21-25). That’s far greater than His simply calling you to forgive your sins!
• Quote: To truly follow Jesus is to live with the same mentality that He had when He lived on earth, that I can’t afford to sin even once, I can’t afford to be outside of the Father’s Will for even one second.
• Quote: To live like Jesus lived you must be as desperate for that life of holiness as Jesus was — He cried out with loud crying and tears and feared God (Hebrews 5:7).
• Quote: If you neglect the mystery of godliness, and don’t have a hunger for spiritual maturity and to have your senses trained to discern good and evil, you will become spiritually deaf (Hebrews 5:11-14)!
• Quote: Having received revelation on the mystery of godliness, when we obey God in faith, He will establish us (Romans 16:25-27).