Teaching who is god

We need the Holy Spirit to teach us. But this also becomes our challenge. Familiarity can breed superficiality or even dislike. Satan seeks to steer our minds into a fog of doubt, snuffing out our faith.

We should never lose our love for the Lord or His Word. Revelation 3 reminds us that when we become spiritually self-sufficient wealthy or rich , our spiritual nakedness is revealed. If the Lord is not regularly enriching the teacher, how will the students fare?

If you are teaching because of habit, position, or salary, those around you will sense that. When God stirs your mind and heart, then you secure exorbitant confidence in Him who speaks through you to others. Excellent teaching is first caught then taught. We need to be very careful of the attitudes that are conveyed when teaching, for that is where the seeds of faith and unbelief are sown.

Teachers can be more dangerous than helpful in their Bible classes. Be careful! Without actively leaning on God, teachers teach in self-reliance. Approach each biblical lesson or sermon as a time that He wants to work in you during your preparations. This is a demanding discipline for those who regularly teach His Word. This is the way it is with all kinds of service, whether the gifts of help, giving, or teaching. Although many sermons and commentaries typically present studies as knowledge, we must refuse to be tainted with this secular approach.

We must avoid that confident professional-type of teacher because he has taught the class before. This self-examination might be an embarrassing test but necessarily revealing.

We are dependent upon the Spirit of God to regularly work in us, through us, through our life circumstances, and in the hearts of others. Great Biblical teaching, therefore, purposely depends upon the work of God in the lives of others.

Consider your goals of teaching and preaching. Is this not what Paul says in Timothy ? What should be happening when we teach?

Paul knows God wants to work in the hearts of people through His Word. Most classes on the Bible, however, teach our minds, but we want the Lord to teach our hearts and spirits too. Spiritual warfare arises each time we approach the pulpit or lectern. The Psalmist called upon people to continually exclaim that the Lord, who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant, be magnified. God desires to be magnified as the One who delights in the total well-being of His servants.

The students who are under the teacher's authority and whom he serves are God's servants; the teacher must delight in their comprehensive prosperity, even as His Lord does. By being one who takes pleasure in his students excelling in all areas of their lives, and not just academically, the teacher will magnify God!

Teachers must pray for and long for the comprehensive prosperity of their students, including that God would make their students to be students that excel Dan. The teacher who delights in the Lord by delighting in the students the Lord gives to him to serve can confidently pray that God would glorify Himself by giving to his students "knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom" as He sees fit Dan.

God gives His ministers their authority to be helpers of the joy of their people 2 Cor. A teacher must understand that God has given to him authority over his students to be a helper of their joy! To do so, the teacher must give the Word of God preeminence in all his teaching: "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill.

If God would send out His light and truth, then the Psalmist would delight himself greatly in his God. As the teacher, as a divinely commissioned messenger, faithfully provides God's light and truth to his students, he will similarly help his students delight greatly in God.

By failing to do so and instead placing heavy emphasis on much study of secular resources, the teacher will weary his students Eccl. Teachers must magnify God's Word in every discipline area so that the joy of their students may be full John He must delight to the will of God for him, including delighting to teach Ps.

He must enjoy the labors of teaching Eccl. Only teachers who serve Christ in righteousness, peace, and joy in their teaching are acceptable to God and approved of men Rom.

Teachers must glorify God by glorying in the difficulties that they encounter in their teaching Rom. Both the teacher and his students must show their delight in doing God's will by exulting in exams, difficult papers and assignments, health problems, family problems, and whatever other tribulations come their way. Doing so will not always mean total freedom from sorrow, etc. The teacher must prepare diligently so that the material taught will have been carefully thought out, thoroughly researched, and masterfully and artistically arranged Eccl.

Furthermore, the teacher must teach such properly prepared lessons with words of delight that are thoroughly truthful, inspirational, and memorable Eccl. By speaking words of delight with sweetness of lips, he will have greater persuasiveness with his students than the teacher who does not so speak Prov. Sweetness of lips of the teacher will increase the learning of his students to the glory of God!

The kind teacher who speaks graciously to his students will maximize his influence upon them 2 Chron. He who would teach to the glory of God must follow the Apostle Paul in doing so, even as he followed Christ in doing so 1 Cor.

John ; John ; John ; Romans ; Titus ; Hebrews ; 2 Peter , however, I will primarily focus on passages that showcase how Jesus shares the same role as God. In Isaiah , it says,. I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. The passage goes on to say that God does this so thateveryone may know that it is he, the God of Israel, who is the true Lord of all.

The rest of Isaiah 45 demonstrates this point further by explaining that people from other nations will come and swear to who the Lord is Is. This is the question that is on trial in Isaiah who is the Lord? The answer is Yahweh, the God of Israel.

What is astounding, then, is how Jesus fits into all of this:. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. God bless you for all your hard work, very much appreciated by me.

Thanks very much for these. I will be able to use this for my sunday class to equip them with knowledge of God at their early age.

Be blessed. Great lessons for the kids. Bethany, Thank you for sharing your work! May God richly bless you for sharing freely. We have adopted the less to us for the whole of this year. Patricia Chipulu Lusaka Zambia. Thank you! Ithank God for this curriculum,am from Mombasa,Kenya,it has helped me to teach the new adults believers.

Teaching them who God is like!!! To others they were set free from cultic beliefs.