The Goal of DTS (Week 5)

What is a disciple?
It's a student who is continually learning from our teacher, who is Jesus.

Foundations:

We have to dig down and prepare a foundation for life in order to stand firm.



-Matthew 7:24- "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock."

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• Built on the rock (God)
• The right priorities (Seek first His Kingdom)
• Knowing God is Holy (He never did anything wrong)
• Repenting (Get your heart right)
• Knowing the Father (through the Son)

You can't build your foundation on someone else's experiences.

You can't know and trust God if you don't know Him. 

Praying- is inviting God to have His will done on earth. 

God is saying: "You request, and I will answer."

-Matthew 6:9-13

We need to pray and meditate on the Lord's prayer not just repeat it. 

"Our Father in Heaven

hollowed be your name,

your kingdom come, 

your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread. 

And forgive our debtors, 

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, 

but deliver us from the evil one."

Stop and think about every word!

To Know God and Make Him Known:

Not to know about God, (but to really know Him), then we can go out and tell others of our personal encounter with Him. 

-Hebrews 3:10- "They didn't know His character, neither did they enter His rest."

-Isaiah 6:3- "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts."

Holy- historically blameless, 100% right, faultless. 

Pure- not living for yourself.

-John 14:6- "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." 

Jesus is the Way, Truth, Life to the Father. 

If He isn't your Way, Truth, and Life you have no way to the Father. 

God's Character:

God has a mind, free will, and emotions.

God's love is totally meaningless if you don't have a choice to love Him. 

Love is not an emotion, Love is a choice.

Love is choosing the highest good for God, others, and yourself.

Luke 6:32- "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them."



1 Corinthians 13- " If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."


We were created with intrinsic value because we were created in the image of God.

If you take God out of the picture, your value depends on how useful you are.


Sin: 

Sin is:
a choice to gratify self, selfishness, rebellion

Sin is not:
an accident, a sickness, a temptation, or transferable

*Teaching by Warren Keapproth