Methods of Evangelism

Methods of Evangelism

Sunday 3/28/21

 

Proverbs 29:18

Luke 1:67-72

Deuteronomy 30:1-6

Romans 2:28-29

Isaiah 59:21

Genesis 2:16-17

Genesis 6:17-21

Genesis 15:1

Genesis 17:1-2

Ephesians 5:26-27

Deuteronomy 1:10-11

Acts 2:46-47

Acts 4:26

Genesis 26:24

Genesis 28:13-15

1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

Acts 1:7-8



Evangelism Strategies in the Covenants of God

Sunday March 21, 2021

In the Covenants of God we find promises to man that we can use as evangelistic tools in everyday life, Scriptures to be used.

Galatians 1:8
Matt. 13:33
Matt. 13:12
Matt. 17:14-21
Genesis 6:5-22
Genesis 9:9-13
Genesis 15:7-21
Genesis 17:1-12
Exodus 2:25
Exodus 24:1-7
Exodus 34:9-10
Isaiah 8:18
Deuteronomy 29:14-20
Leviticus 10:1-3
Exodus 30:35
Exodus 30:9
Rev.5:8
Psalm 66:18
Ezekiel 11:19
Ezekiel 36:25-27
Her.31:31-33
Hebrews 8:6-13
Hebrews 10:7-18
Romans 5:5
Jeremiah 29:11

 



Aliens Look Different – Elder Jim Piekunka

Aliens Look Different

February 21, 2021

Elder Jim Piekunka

©2020 Praysers Ministries, Inc. d.b.a. River of Life Community Church

Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV

 

 

1 Peter 2:11-12  Aliens do good deeds to glorify God.

11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. NIV

 

Alien = NT:3927 parepidemos (par-ep-id’-ay-mos); from NT:3844 and the base of NT:1927; an alien alongside, i.e. a resident foreigner:

KJV – pilgrim, stranger.  (Someone just passing through – Just Visiting)

 

Ps 146:9

9 The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.   NIV

 

Heb 11:13-16   Aliens admit that they are aliens.  They are searching for a heavenly home.

13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country — a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.   NIV

 

A study found 5 Human Reactions to Confusing Information

  • It makes people irritable.
  • It makes people bored.
  • You lose their attention – So What?
  • They can’t respond to the information.
  • There is no decisive action or decision made.

 

 

Acts 9:1-4   Aliens are recognized by Jesus and the world.

9:1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3 As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”     NIV

 

Acts 19:8-9  Can others tell by your speech that you are an alien?

8 Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. 9 But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way.    NIV

 

Acts 19:23-24  Aliens cause others to speak out – They stir up others – Great Disturbance

23 About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. 24 A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in no little business for the craftsmen.  NIV

 


Acts 19:25-27  Aliens teach others and lead others to Christ – To the Way

25 He called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know we receive a good income from this business. 26 And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.    NIV

 

Acts 11:25-26  Aliens attend classes and special meetings to receive an anointing.

25 Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.     NIV

 

Acts 13:1-3  Aliens boldly go where they are sent

13:1 In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.     NIV

 

Acts 16:13-15   Aliens are teachable and sensitive to the Lord’s Spirit.

13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14 One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.     NIV

 

Acts 13:21-22  Aliens do everything God asks them to do.

 22 After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’     NIV

 

Acts 19:13-20  Aliens have special powers.

13 Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. 15[One day] the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” 16 Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

17 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. 18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. 19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly.   When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.   20 In this way, the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.      NIV

 

Rom 12:6-8  Aliens have heavenly gifts to share with the world.

6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man’s gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith. 7 If it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; 8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is contributing to the needs of others, let him give generously; if it is leadership, let him govern diligently; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.   NIV

 

1 Cor 15:33-34   Aliens are careful who they hang out with.

33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God — I say this to your shame.      NIV

 


Rev 18:1-5    True aliens know it is time to separate from the ways of the world.

18:1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. 2 With a mighty voice he shouted:

“Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!  She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.   3 For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries.  The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:  “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; 5 for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.         NIV

 

Eph 4:29   Paul said Aliens should have a different language.

29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.   NIV

 

The Vow of the Nazirite = Numbers 6 = A foreshadowing

  • It was a vow of separation by males or females.
  • It was a vow for life or for a specific period of time (30 days minimum).
  • It was a vow of serving God and others, not a monastic life.
  • It was a vow to be priest-like when you were not a levitical priest.
  • Jesus was a Nazarene from Nazareth = He was already High Priest of all creation.

 

Num 6:3-4     3 he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented drink. He must not drink grape juice or eat grapes or raisins. 4 As long as he is a Nazirite, he must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.    NIV

 

Num 6:6    Throughout the period of his separation to the LORD he must not go near a dead body.  NIV

 

Ex 31:12-14  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 13 “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying:  ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.    NKJV

 

 



Love for God and One Another

Love for God and One Another

1 John 4:1-21

February 14, 2021

Senior Pastor, Dr. Janet Cook

©2020 Praysers Ministries, Inc. d.b.a. River of Life Community Church

Note: Unless otherwise indicated all scriptures are taken from the NKJV

 

Love for God and One Another

4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess [a]that Jesus [b]Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Knowing God Through Love

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Seeing God Through Love

12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

The Consummation of Love

17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love [c]Him because He first loved us.

Obedience by Faith

20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, [d]how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.