RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes

02/16/2011 Albert Lea MN
Part 2

You and I were created to give and receive love

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.


Genesis 1:26-27 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion …. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

God is a Spirit, He created you and I in His image, and in His likeness. That means we are a spirit just like Him. We are His children. We came from Him. Whatever He is that’s who we are. We are His family. He values us, and loves us unconditionally.

Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

Soul= Mind, will, emotions, thoughts, feelings.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The Word of God can help us identify who we are. Only the Word of God can reveal the difference between who we are (the spirit), our soul, our body, and our heart?

Spirit: This is who we really are! Breath, sprit, the rational soul.

Soul: Psuche: The soul or breath of life The immaterial invisible part of man, the seat of personality, the seat of the sentiment element in man, that by which he perceives, reflects, feels, desires, the seat of will, purpose, and appetite. Mind, will, emotions, feelings, thoughts and intentions.

Joints and Marrow: Body

Heart: Kardia Stands for man’s entire mental and moral activity The heart is used figuratively for the hidden springs of personal life. It is the thoughts or feelings, mind, the middle. Fleshly tables of the heart (the eyes of our understanding). It is the mind, will, emotions, thoughts, feelings, reasons, and intentions.

Believe with your heart the middle part or core of our soul. The hiding place of our spirit.

There is a difference between our conscience thought and sub consciousness thoughts.

Heart is very sensitive
Like reception on your phone or TV
Heart is very powerful yet very fragile

Proverbs 4:20-23 (Amplified) “My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.”

My son attend to my Words, Incline your ears unto my sayings.
We must give God and His Word our full attention
When we do this, it enables us to hear what He’s saying

Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
The spoken Word of God!
That’s when Faith comes. When we hear what He is saying to us personally.
Your perception will change in your heart. That’s where faith is formed

Adam and Eve should have guarded and protected their heart!

Genesis 3:1-10
Choices
Eve not shocked that a snake was talking to her
Before the fall man used 100% of their brain
They communicated with animals
We were created to take dominion
We are intricately created!

Why did the curse come onto the snake

Genesis 3:14 “Because thou hast done this…”
What did the serpent do?
He allowed Satan access into his soul, his mind will, thoughts and reasoning’s.
Satan was hiding in the animal’s soul.

Did chart of: body soul and spirit
Created with boundaries and needs

Physical Boundaries and Needs
Air
Food
Water
Shelter

Heart Boundaries and Needs
Feel Unconditional Love
Feel Safe and Secure
Feel Valuable, and validated.
Feel a sense of destiny or purpose.

1 John 4:8 “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love”.
God is love
So God communicates love
You and I are love, because we were created in His image and likeness.
You and I were created to love God, and receive love from Him.
You and I were created to love others, and receive love from others.

5 ways God created communicates love to you: Five love languages.
Talk
Touch
Acts of Service
Gift Giving
Quality time together.

These love languages are the ways God designed to meet those soul needs.

God created us as a family
And a family was designed by God to meet and assit in communicating these love needs to each other.
Adam and Eve ware created to fill the love needs for each other.

From scriptures what was their love language?

Genesis 3:1-6 “And the serpent said unto the woman… and gave also unto her husband with her;”
Eve= Talk
Adam= gift giving

RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes

02/16/2011 Albert Lea MN Bible Fellowship

The Real You.  Are you Valuable?

We need to know who we are to limit the devils deception
Whoever is born of God overcomes the World
We should not be ignorant of Satan’s devices. Ignorance results in wrong perception

I Thessalonians 5: 23
He prayed for our Spirit, Soul,and Body

Which one are you? ……..Spirit

Law of Genesis?
Everything produces after its own kind

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

God created man after His Own Kind!

If God is …………………..You are
Love ……………………… Love
Joy………………………… Joy
Healed …………………….. Healed
Right ……………………… Right
Rich ………………………. Rich
Sin Free…………………… Sin Free

Have you ever heard of the saying?
You are a sinner saved by grace.

Ephesians 2 5,8
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)…For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Notice He said BY GRACE YOU ARE SAVED!

Galatians 3:13 "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:"

To be redeemed means to be taken out of one place and put into another.
You and I have been purchased out and away from one place and put into another.

Colossians 1: 12-14
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Our sins are forgiven.  We have taken out of the power darkness, and placed into the Kingdom of Heaven.  Thats where we are right now.
He has delivered us its done already. Our sins are forgiven. We are saved!

We are no longer sinners saved by grace.  Grace Saved us!

When Adam and Eve lived in the Garden they were sin free.

God created us free will agents with the power to choose.

God gave Adam boundaries Adam was created to know God!
God has His own boundaries
Example
He is love. Therefore He loves. God will never cross that boundary of not loving
He is a God of His Word. He will never say one thing, and do another!

God is good! He will never be evil or tempt anyone with evil.

God gave Adam a choice. To know Him, or to know right and wrong

God never wanted us to know about evil. His will was for us to KHOW Him, pure goodness.

In any situation you don’t need to know the right and wrong about the situation.
Ex: To spit at people is wrong.
But, when God tells you to do it, its right.
Jesus spit on a man’s eyes, and he was healed.

At a healing school service, a woman came forward for prayer. She was partially blind in her eyes. The Lord impressed upon me to spit on her eyes. So I did. She was healed!

It not about actions, or behavior, it’s about the heart.
It’s not a matter of right and wrong
It’s a matter of knowing God
Sometimes you’re in a situation and your thinking, "What should I do?"  Seek God in it, not what you think might be right and wrong.

Adam came from God

God placed Him in a body
Where did Adams body come from? The Earth

God doesn’t create your body, He shapes and forms our body. Our bodies come from our parents, much like Adams body came from the ground. Eves body came from Adam, and God formed it and shaped it.

God doesn’t create you wrong, or with disabilities.
Our body comes from our Parents, that’s why curses, sicknesses, diseases and disabilities can be generational

Our outward man is perishing
Our inward man is being renewed day by day!

That which is born of Spirit is Spirit
That which is born of Flesh is Flesh

Your soul is your mind, will, emotions, thoughts and feelings.

I Peter 3:4 “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”


The Hidden man of the heart (the key)
That which is not corruptible
A meek and quiet SPIRIT!
The hidden man of the heart is a spirit that is not corruptible.
The hidden man here is not the heart. It is the spirit!
The hidden man, His spirit is placed in the heart

This is who we really are. We are that spirit residing in our heart. That spirit is in the sight of God a great price. Valuable. You and I are valuable in the sight of God!

We hear people say…. We didn’t deserve to be saved….. That statement takes away the importance of what Jesus did!

God highly valued you… He thought you were important! He saw that you were incorruptible. Meaning you will live forever like Him. Sin separated you from Him; He didn’t want you to live forever alienated from Him.

God loved the world, He valued you and I so much, that’s why He sent Jesus!

Love your neighbor means to value them. We shouldn’t devalue them.

God is a Spirit, He created you and I. We are spirit, created in His image and likeness. We are His children. He values us, and loves us unconditionally

RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes Part One

02/09/11  Albert Lea, MN
Part One

A quick Lesson of grace part 2

We need to have a paradigm shift in our perception

God values you and I. We are to value others the way God values us.
When we see who we are, it helps us to see who others are.

Matthew 22:37-39 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

*We are to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, soul, and mind.
*We are to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Loving someone is valuing them. It allows them to feel value as well.
When we love unconditionally, we are literally giving value to that person

By loving the Lord, we are valuing Him. By loving our neighbor we are valuing them, but the key here is to love or value our neighbor as ourselves. So do we value our self?

To truly understand the value God has on us, we must understand Grace!

People know of grace and they even may know where it comes from, but they may never experience it.

2 Corinthians 5:21 “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

Jesus was made sin with our sin, so that we might be made the righteous with His righteousness.

2 Corinthians 8:7, 9 “Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.”

Rich=is without sin.
Rich = Being Righteous!

Poor= is with sin
Poor = Being sin!

Jesus was made poor (made sin), so we could be made rich (made righteous)!
He was made sin with our sin so we could be made righteous with His righteousness.

This act of Jesus being made sin with our sin, so He could make us righteous with His righteousness is His Grace!

Grace involves giving! Jesus gave His righteousness in exchange for our sin!

Romans 3:23-24 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:”

We are justified freely by His Grace.

To be justified means to be made right!
We are made right freely. No work involved. We did not earn it.

Grace saved us, not our prayer, or our behavior!

Giving is also involved in His Grace
The act of giving is to be incorporated into His Grace

We are saved by Grace, and our salvation has nothing to do with our behavior!
But His Grace has everything to do with how much God values us!

His Grace is a free gift that came through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
We only receive this Grace through faith, not by works!

Romans 5:2
"By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”

To be justified means to be made right.

We have access into His Grace, this free gift from God, BY FAITH, through our believing in the Grace of Jesus Christ!

You will never know the freedom and power of this Grace until you believe.
Faith is the avenue that we receive, walk in and experience His Grace.

When you believe in His Grace, and when then can begin understanding how valuable we are in our Fathers eyes!
Then we can begin understanding how valuable our neighbor is to God as well.

We need to see our neighbor as saved, by Grace, even if they have not yet believed!

A total paradigm shift needs to take place so we can perceive (see) what we need to see.
We need to change our perception our filter and begin loving or valuing God, and loving or valuing others! We do this by His Grace, through faith in His Grace!

RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes Part Two

02/02/2011
Part Two
There Is an Identity Crisis in the Body of Christ. We don’t know who we are.


Who are you?
I Thessalonians 5:23
Spirit, Soul, Body= A three part being
Spirit = different from the soul
Soul= different from the body
Body = different from the spirit

When you do things or feel things, you need to know who you are to decipher whether or not it’s really you.

Hebrews 4:12
Only the Word of God gives the understanding of the difference between the three.
Spirit - Soul - Body - Heart

“When we find out who HE (Jesus) is,  We find out who we are."

Genesis 1:11,21,24,25,26,27
Law of Genesis =everything will only produce after its own kind
Ex: an apple will always produce another apple, an apple will never produce a monkey

How did God create you?
After HIS own kind!

John 4:24 “God is a Spirit….”
God is a Spirit, therefore you are a spirit.


Genesis 1:27
Male & Female created He them
Subdue & have dominion
We are eternal beings
We are born spiritually alive

Sin produces death. What is spiritual death? Spiritual Death is separation from God
We were separated from God but we are still eternal
Ex: When we die physically in our sins, we will spend eternity alive but separated from God, in hell.

God created you in His image (Spiritually)
The real you is a Spirit

Hebrew & Greek definition:
Soul: Mind, Will, Thoughts & Emotions
I am a Spirit I have a Soul and I live in a Body

Genesis 2:7
Formed=mold
Breath of life into the formed body
From Himself, He spoke Adam into existence, and placed him in a body.

v22 where did Eve come from?
He took her out of Adam.
-Adam called her Eve
-Eve had her own body
God created a family to have a relationship with Him. He created us to have a relationship with Him and to fellowship with one another in unity.

We were created to receive God, and give God to others
We were created to receive His love, and give His love to others.
We were created to receive His Spirit, and give His Spirit to others
We were created to receive His Word, and give His Word to others.

Unless we identify with who WE are, We will be deceived

We must be filled with Gods Word in our soul
The container that holds your Spirit is your soul
Eve was deceived

Adam was in the Transgression
This is when the Glory left

The battle is in our Soul
The first area of attack was Eves identity. Her identity was questioned (eat and be like God0
She was already like God
Adam did know and believed Gods Word, but choose to believe his wife’s word and acted upon it, over Gods word.

Romans 14:23 “…for whatever is not of faith is sin.”
Believing something other than Gods Word is Sin
Whatever is not Faith is Sin
Faith =Believing Gods Word

Ex: Nahman =became a believer
Did not believe in, or want to worship other gods
His master did. He had to go to ceremonies
To which he would have to literally do the act of bowing down, and worshiping his masters (man created) god.
As long as he did not believe that god or worship that god
from his heart, he was not committing sin.

John 3:3
Except a man be born again
Nicodemus identified with his body
Most people identify with their flesh as who they are

V5 I must be born of the spirit
V6 That which is born of Flesh is Flesh
      That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit

If you have been born again, you have been born of the Spirit(God) therefore You, the real you, is a spirit just like your Father!

Psalm 82:1-8
V6 Ye are, children of the most high God.

I am a spirit, I have a soul, and I live in a body while on this earth.

RSMI's Believers Bible Fellowship Notes Part One

02/02/11

PART ONE
A quick lesson on Grace

II Corinthians 5:21, 6:1,8:1,7,9
Grace is Jesus becoming sin with our sin, freeing us,and then making us righteous with His righteousness.

Ephesians 2:6,8
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) … For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”

It=Grace
By grace I’m saved and I receive that gift through faith

When were you saved?
You & I were saved when Jesus died, and then was raised up from the dead!

Eph 2: 9 “Not of works lest any man should boast.”
We were saved when He died for us, not when we prayed.

If we were saved when we prayed then our salvation would be based on our work of praying, and not based on the work of Jesus dying on the cross.

-Performance based Christianity passed down
-In the past some believe it not be Gods will that you be saved
-So they would try buying their loved one out of purgatory

Works mentality has crept into every doctrine
V8 grace saves me = through the avenue of faith is how I receive it
We simply believe =no works

Our Goal:
“To get from a Works Mentality and get over into Grace Mentality”
You have to receive the Grace through faith.
Its not about your sin
You are already saved by Grace
-But do you know you’ve been saved by Grace?

Isaiah 61:1 Jesus is opens of the prison to them that are bound.
Jesus opens the prison doors in our hearts through faith in Him!

There Is an Identity Crisis: in the World
Ex: Israelites from Egypt they witnessed miracles

They were only suppose to be there 11days but they were there for 40 years
They had a slave mentality that kept them bound.

Most people/Christians are the same way today.

It’s amazing the next generations of Israelites found their way out of that Slave mentaltity, a works mentality and choose to believe Gods grace, His promise, His salvation!

We need to simply begin believing Gods Grace, and we will begin experiencing our promised land of Gods Blessings.