Spirituality biblical perspective

Language is important

Its a way of communication.

Language is critical. Among the generations, languages gets complication. Different languages creates communication barriers.

In church, it's a gathering of people. Matthew 16. Jesus says I will build my church. What is a church ? Church is the body of Jesus Christ.

Matthew16.18-19.ESV And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Luke 21.10-19.ESV Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.  But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.  This will be your opportunity to bear witness.  Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer,  for I will give you a mouth (language) and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.  You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.  You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.  But not a hair of your head will perish.  By your endurance you will gain your lives.

Language being created in Bible by God. Bible gives us the language how we should communicate.

Increased Capacity -

Enlarge emotional capacity. Having emotional strength to deal difficult periods and challenges
Relationship capacity.
Financial capacity
Spiritual capacity

If I'm not religious but I'm spiritual. Not to be bound by any religions or their practices , but I believe in the relationship with God.
But it's like walking in the moon cos it will be purely based on your own judgments and your own definition. Religion sets your value and give you a definite definitions.
Provide an environment to grow. Bible and scriptures will lead us to know and experience God. Inside us we know in our hearts that there is a greater being our there.
Knowing is wisdom. Bible provides the word - principles.

How we experience God:-
Prayer
Meditation
Worship
Fasting -connection of the pain in the human flesh
Community - we cannot grow in isolation but in community.
Family of faith - in church

We can experience God in our daily life. God is present in our life

Relevance - practical reasons
God gives us reasons to trust him. Faith is trust. Socially applicable based on our political and social environment. Knowing how God places you and I in our position is all for a purpose. Luke 7:11 - 16

Relevance is not being cool. Cool has its shelf life.
Fashion is not a relevance

Loyalty is a gift of God. Loyal is from love.
To do you good

Weekend of worship - April 2015

Ephesian - what are the resources (chapter 1-3)
How to use the resources (chapter 4-6)
Ephesians 1:3 ESV written by Paul
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every siritual blessing in the heavenly places,
When we bless God, it always involves speaking good of God. Faith comes by hearing.

God bless us. God chose us. God accepts us as his children. God forgives us. God gives us wisdom and knowledge. God gives us inheritance. Don't be like Hetty green. An image of God, pass the inheritances down.

Bible define the church not the society define the church. The word of God defines the church.

Spiritual capacity

Ephesians 3:14-19 Prayer for spiritual strength

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

We got to grow in your spiritual capacity.

1 Corinthians 2:12-16 ESV

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.  The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

A natural who is not truly enlightened and renewed by the Word and Spirit of God, and therefore has no other way of obtaining knowledge but by his senses and natural understanding; receiveth not — Does not understand or apprehend; the things of the Spirit of God — Whether relating to his nature or kingdom. For they are foolishness to him — He is so far from understanding, that he utterly despises them. Neither can he know them — As he has not the will, so neither has he the power; because they are spiritually discerned — They can only be discerned by the aid of that Spirit, and by those spiritual senses which he has not. 

The spiritual man judges all spiritual truth, but he himself is judged by none who are not spiritual.

1 John 4:1-6 ESV

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for 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 from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

To expand your capacity, you got to Stretch out and get out of your comfort zone. We must think big. We do not just think of good ideas but God's ideas.

God wants us to prosper. Luke 5:4-6 Faith comes by hearing of the word of God. We will reap the rewards. We are able when we think we are able. When we give, we shall receive in bigger capacity.

We think like God.