Old Testament Scripture Reading: Proverbs 1:23 – 33 ( KJV)
Pro 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pro 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Pro 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Pro 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Pro 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Pro 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Pro 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Pro 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Pro 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pro 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Pro 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
New Testament Scripture Reading: John 17:17 – 21 (KJV)
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
Joh 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Joh 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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Transforming Power Statements:
1) All people on planet earth suffer from the very same spiritual condition, which is being infected with the curse of sin, whose wages are death; therefore, there is no one anywhere who can correct the problem by any mere human means; because the problem is so deeply seated in human nature that the only cure for this condition must be supplied by God Almighty, which is His good pleasure to do so, but not by force.
2) It is the fact that all human beings are free to believe whatever they choose that makes the mission of the Church the most crucial mission of all time because God chosen the Church as the sole agency of getting His message of free salvation out to the entire world, and has supplied His Son Jesus the Christ, Who alone satisfies Him, as the only acceptable sacrifice by which anyone who hears the message of His grace (which is the Gospel) and trusts in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus ALONE, as full payment for all their sins; can / will be healed from the curse of sin (saved); which if this message is rejected it ends in voluntary destruction by each individual’s personal choice.
3) The entire Bible is the story of God’s love and grace toward the children of Adam, whom God loved from the beginning and proved it by creating him in His own image; and when the fullness of time had come, God Himself brought into Fruition His own Son, Jesus to illustrate to all people of all time the magnitude of His love by taking the curse of the sin of all humanity and placing it upon Jesus Who all by Himself paid the sin bill in FULL for everyone who trusts in Him alone and it is the highest privilege and mission of the Church to notify the world of the FRUITION of the HEALING SOLUTION for their condition!