Trinity Reformed Baptist Church, Meru, Kenya.

1. The love of God in the Incarnation. (v.9) 2. The love of God in the Atonement. (v.10) 3. Let us follow God's example of love. (v.11) 4. Our love for one another is evidence of God's indwelling presence. (v.12)

1. They hold an unbiblical view of God and man. 2. They teach a different Christ. 3. They claim exclusivity to the truth. 4. They believe in extra Biblical authority. 5. They have a different gospel. 6. They teach baptism of the dead.

PARAGRAPH 2 Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:3 all becoming dead in sin,4 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.5 3  Rom. 3:23 4  Rom 5:12 , etc. 5  Titus 1:15 ;  Gen. 6:5 ;  Jer. 17:9 ;  Rom. 3:10–19

1. It Was Not Good For Man To Be Alone - Man Is Alone With The Animals - It Is Not Good 2. God Makes A Helper Fit For Him - God Says He Will Make A Helper For Him - How Does God Do It? 3. The Institution Of Marriage - God Is The Owner Of Marriage - Marriage Is Heterosexual - Marriage Is Monogamous - Marriage Is Designed To Be Binding & Permanent - Marriage Is For Love & Companionship - Mar...

Psalms 130:3-4 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2      O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive     to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,     O Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness,     that you may be feared. 5  I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,     and in his word I hope; 6  my soul waits for the Lord     more than...

1.The exhortation to demonstrate love (V.7a). 2.The source of love (v.7b) 3.The conclusion (v.7c-8)

Five reasons why Jehovah Witnesses are not the witnesses of Jehovah 1.The Jehovah witnesses preach another Jesus. i) They deny the deity of Jesus Christ ii) They deny the pre-existence of Jesus Christ. iii) They deny the eternality of Jesus Christ. iv) They deny the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ v) They deny the sufficiency of Christ. 2.The Jehovah Witnesses believe in another authority. 3.T...

Paragraph 1 Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,1 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command give...

1. The Setting Of The Covenant, (v.15). 15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 2. The Requirement Of The Covenant, , (vv.16-17). 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,…” 3. The Consequence Of Breaking The Covenant, (v.17)....

1.Testing the spirits for teachers (vv.1-3) i)The responsibility to test the teachers (v.1) ii)The way to test the teachers (vv.2-3) 2.Testing the spirits for hearers (vv.4-6) i)The Christian has overcome false teaching (vv.4,5) ii)The Christian believes in apostolic teaching (v.6)

A) A Brief History B) Why is it a cult? i) They believe in extra Biblical authority. ii) They claim exclusivity to the truth. iii) They teach the false doctrine of soul sleep. iv) They believe that hell is non-existent. v) They teach the false doctrine of investigative judgment. vi) They teach that Satan is our scapegoat hence he bears our sin vii) They teach a legalistic Gospel viii) They have a...

PARAGRAPH 7 As the providence of God does in general reach to all creatures, so after a more special manner it takes care of His church and disposes of all things to the good thereof.23 23  1 Tim. 4:10 ;  Amos 9:8–9 ;  Isa. 43:3–5

Genesis 2:4-14 1. A Real Garden 2. A Fruitful Garden 3. A Beautiful Garden

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. - Reconciliation is in Christ - Reconciliation is to the World - Reconciliation means forgiveness

1 John 3:22-24 1. Assurance gives us the blessings of answered prayer (vv.22-23). 2. Assurance gives us the blessing of the abiding relationship through the Spirit (3:24).

CULTS: Roman Catholism 1. Why do many people think it is not a cult? 2. Why is it a cult?

Paragraph 6 As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as the righteous judge, for former sin does blind and harden;17 from them He not only withholds His grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understanding, and wrought upon their hearts;18 but sometimes also withdraws the gifts which they had,19 and exposes them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;20 an...

Genesis 2:1-3 1. A Summary Statement About The Completion Of Creation, (v.1). 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2. The Establishment Of The Sabbath, (v.2). 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3. The Consecration Of The Sabbath, (v.3). 3 So God blessed the sevent...

1 John 3:19-21 1. The Basis of Assurance (v.19) 2. The Evaluation of the Assurance (v.20-21) i) Negative assessment (v.20) ii) Positive assessment (v.21)

1. What is a cult? 2. What are the common characteristics of a cult? i. They preach another Jesus. ii. They believe in extra Biblical authority. iii. They teach another gospel. iv. They are devoted to a man other than Jesus Christ. v. They manipulate their crowd with threats, fear and manipulation. vi. Love for money and success 3. How to identify a cult.

1.Cultural mandate. V.28 2.Dominion mandate (v.28-30) i) Human procreation (v.28) ii) Subdue the earth (v.29-30) 3.Christ’s dominion (v.31)

Mark 10:35–45 [35] And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” [36] And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” [37] And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.” [38] Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to...

1. Because Jesus Laid Down His Life For Us, (v.16). 16 By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 2. By Sharing The World’s Goods With Those In Need, (v.17). 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 3. By Loving Them Truly, (v.18). 18 Li...

1. He Is A Person 2. He Is A Divine Person

The most wise, righteous, and gracious God does often times leave for a season His own children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled; and to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upo...