Aflame Com Church Inc Sunday Sermon 12 February 2006
Aflame Com Church Inc Sunday Sermon – 12 February 2006
Theme : COME to JESUS, RECEIVE & BE FILLED
Minister : Jimmy Goh
ALL in CHURCH RECEIVES GOD’s WORD, but to WHAT EFFECT does
IT have on us & OUR LIVES.
Are we FACING every BATTLE & CHALLENGE with an OVERCOMING FAITH ?
John 6: 63
“It is the SPIRIT who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The WORDs that I speak to you
are spirit , and they are life.”
John 6: 63 (Amplified)
“It is the SPIRIT that gives life – He is the life-giver ; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever –
There is no profit in it. The WORDs (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life.”
GOD’s WORD is SPIRITUAL, IT GIVES LIFE & BUILDS FAITH in our SPIRITUAL MAN.
IT is NOT JUST ‘SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE’, per sec. (Hebrews 4: 12, Roman 10: 17)
John 16: 33 (Amplified)
“I told you these things so that in ME you may have perfect peace and confidence. In the world
you have tribulations and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer – take courage,
be confident, certain, undaunted – for I have overcome the world – I have deprived it of power
to harm, have conquered it [for you].”
Are we of GOOD CHEER & have PEACE, BEING CONFIDENTNOT SHAKEN to OVERCOME ?
READ
1 John 5: 4 - 5
DO we have the FAITH to ASK for DIRECTIONs & ANSWERs for the ISSUEs of our LIVES ?
READ
John 16: 23 - 24
MANY in CHURCH still like ‘PHARISEEs & SADUCEEs’ who have the WORD as
SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE’ – YET DO NOT KNOW and DO NOT UNDERSTAND ?
READ
John 5: 39 – 40
PROBLEM of NOT KNOWING & NOT UNDERSTANDING, when SEARCHING the SCRIPTURES
by ITSELF, WITHOUT COMING to GOD to ‘REVEAL’ the SCRIPTURES to you.
John 5: 41 – 44
“But you are not willing to come to ME that you may have LIFE. I do not receive
honor from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of GOD in you.
I have come in MY FATHER’s NAME, and you do not receive ME ; if another comes
in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe, who receive honor from
one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only GOD ?”
JESUS states the WEAKNESS of HUMAN BEING, THEY SEEK HONOR from
EACH OTHER, but NOT to SEEK the GOD that GIVES LIFE & to HONOR HIM.
TO BE CASUAL with GOD is a DECEPTION, we DO NOT GIVE HIM FULL HONOR.
When a HEAD of a NATION visits ANOTHER NATION, HONOR GIVEN by 21-GUNS SALUTE.
WHATEVER SPIRITUAL & PHYSICAL CONDITION we are in or ISSUES we FACE :
~ WHO do we LOOK TO for help in our PHYSICALSPIRITUAL CONDITION ?
READ - Psalm 120: 1 & Psalm 121: 1 – 2
SCENE @ POOL in Bethesda
A MAN with INCURABLE INFIRMITY of 38 YEARs.
Who DOES he LOOKs to for HIS DELIVERANCE & HEALING ?
READ
John 5: 1 – 13
In those days, the Pharisees & Saducees (Cynics & Skeptics) were fault-finding with JESUS,
But HE is ALWAYS FAITHFUL to HEAL, to RESTORE, to RENEW & to TRANSFORM LIVES.
John 5: 17
But JESUS answered them, “MY FATHER has been working until now, and I have been working.”
John 5: 21 – 23
“For as the FATHER raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the SON givesLIFE to
whom HE will. For the FATHER judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the SON,
that all should honor the SON just as they honorthe FATHER.
He who does not honor the SON does not honor the FATHER who sent HIM.
Hebrews 4: 16
Let us therefore come boldly to the THRONE of GRACE, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need.
ARE we LOOKING to the TRUE SOURCE of LIFE ?
John 6: 27a (Amplified)
Stop toiling and doingand producing for the food that perishes and decomposes in
the using; but strive and work and produce for the lasting food which endures
continually unto LIFE eternal.
John 6: 35, 57
And JESUS said to them, “I am the BREAD of LIFE. He who comes to ME shall never hunger,
and he who believes in ME shall never thirst.”
As the living FATHER sent ME, and I live because of the FATHER, so he who feeds on ME
will livebecause ofME.”
John 7: 37b – 38
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to ME and drink.
HE who believes in ME, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
SCRIPTURES SAID :
Isaiah 12: 3; 43: 20b
“Therefore with joy you will draw water. From the wells of salvation.”
“Because I give waters in the desert, to give drink to MY people, MY chosen.”
AsSOON as a PERSON BELIEVES, WHOEVER HE / SHE IS,
CAN DRAW WATER from the WELL of SALVATION. - ‘SAMARITAN WOMAN’ at the well.
John 4: 13 – 14
JESUS answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks
of the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
JESUS declared earlier to her the WATER GIVEN by HIM is the ‘GIFT’ of GOD – ‘LIVING WATER’
- John 4: 10. If you KNOW WHO is SPEAKING to you, ‘ASK HIM’.
IF ANYONE BELIEVE in JESUS, WHOEVER YOU ARE, HAVE YOU ENCOUNTER HIM & ASK ?
JESUS HEALED the BORN- BLIND MAN in John 9, he KNEW WHO JESUS is and said :
“Now, we know that GOD does not HEAR sinners; but if anyone is a WORSHIPPERof GOD
and does HIS WILL, HE HEARS HIM.”
TRUE WORSHIPPERS in SPIRIT & in TRUTH :
~ WILL NOT BE DRIED UPBURNOUT – John 15: 5 – 6
~ WILL NOT BE DRAINED BODILY, BONES & JOINTS – Ezekiel 37: 2 – 5, Proverbs 14: 30
~ WLL NOT HAVE ‘OLD WINESKIN NATURE’ – Matthew 9: 16 – 17
~ WILL NOT BE LIMITED by OLD COMFORT ZONE, MIND-SET &
INFERTILE ‘SPIRITUAL GROWTH’ – Ephesians 3: 20; Isaiah 54: 2 - 3
TO ASK & RECEIVE the FULL MEASURE from GOD, IT is UP to US ;
LIKE a LEARNING SWIMMER, HOW DEEP do YOU WANT to COMEENTER
INTO GOD’s PRESENCE & RECEIVE from HIM.
In Ezekiel 47: 1 – 11, GOD REVEALsthat in GOD’s HOUSE
– GOD’s PRESENCE ‘FLOWs’ as a MIGHTY RIVER of GOD, IT is THERE,
NOT just in the NEW KINGDOM to COME.
UP to US – WHICH LEVEL of WATER to ENTER – PLAY at the SHALLOW END,
DEEPER INTO WAIST LEVEL, TO SHOULDER LEVEL, TO OVERHEAD LEVEL – SWIM.
Ephesians 5: 18 (Amplified)
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery;
But ever be filled with the (HOLY) SPIRIT.