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Sunday School Lesson – July 22, 2018 Entering God’s Kingdom

To follow along, visit your local Christian bookstore, and ask for the Bible Expositor and Illuminator

Time:  A.D. 29        Place:  Perea

Golden Text:  Strive to enter in at the straight gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able – Luke 13:24

Introduction

When listening to the media when some celebrities die one might get the impression that they lived godly lives in spite of immoral liaison, alcohol and drug abuse, a total disregard for the things of God. Not only with celebrities, but when someone dies in the community or our family members who renounced the things of God when they’re funeralized somehow the preacher preaches them into heaven although they lived a life contrary to the Word of God. Whether we want to accept the Word of God or not; God’s says He has no pleasure when the wicked die  ( Say unto them, as I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked – Ezekiel 33:11) but He has pleasure in the death of His saints (Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints – Psalm 116:15). In order for anyone to enter into heaven, there must first be a true repentance. True repentance the individual no longer live to give pleasure to themselves but seek to please God in all of their ways. They will love God more than themselves, they want His desire and His will to be in their lives. Read More

House Divided

And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
-Mark 3:24-25.

A kingdom is a realm, domain, land possession, territory. It’s a place where there is a ruler or king, and every king rules his kingdom. If the ruler comes against his kingdom sooner or later it will diminish, it can’t stand and it’s the same thing with a country, nations, and our homes. Read More

False Ministers

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preached any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed (Galatians 1:8-9).

In the beginning of this epistle,  Apostle Paul is joined with his brethren and he gives a general account both of his office and of the manner in which he was called to it. He assures them that his commission to it was ordained by God. He instructs his readers there is no true peace without grace, and how the world is evil through the sins of man. Informing the believer that Jesus died to deliver us from this present evil world, not to remove his people out of it, but to rescue them from the power of it. Read More