DISCIPLESHIP :

Being As Our Teacher

Disciple – MATHETES

Thought and Endeavor

Learner and Follower

Being As Our Teacher

• Is your guide blind? – Is your guide walking in darkness? (Lk. 6:39-40)

• Jesus is the greatest light one could have – life (Jn. 1:4)

• Life communicated through light of gospel (2 Tim. 1:10)

• Light for world, not for just a limited few (Jn. 8:12)

• Light shines in darkness – does not eliminate it, nor extinguished by it (Jn. 1:5)

• Light or darkness: our choice (Jn. 3:19-21)

Being As Our Teacher

• Walk in light – believe on light – sons of light (Jn. 12:35-36)

• Let the light shine in your life – dark world needs to see (Phil. 2:15, Matt. 5:16)

• Jesus offers abundant life through His light (Jn. 10:10)

Jim Jones – People’s Temple – 3,000 acres Northwest Guyana

November 18, 1978 – 918 died suicide - mass murder – 200 children

“Apostolic Socialism” - “Revolutionary

Suicide”

“The Blind Leading the Blind”

Being As Our Teacher

• Jesus: our example for ____________________ (Jn. 13:12-17)

• Humility–Not Passiveness (Jn. 2:13-17)–Not the Absence of Pointed Words

(Matt. 23) • Humility: lowering of self to consider others

and through love act accordingly -self sacrifice to serve others (Phil. 2:3-7, I Pet. 5:5)

Being As Our Teacher

• If your teacher is blasphemed – What is in store for you? (Matt. 10:24-25, 12:24, 26-27)

• The Disciple must speak what God has revealed – even if it means death (Matt. 10:27)

• Destiny of our soul in Heaven has not been changed – Victory is ours! (Matt. 10:28, Rom. 8:37-38)

• The speaking evil of you – Expected (2 Tim. 3:12, I Pet. 4:1-4, I Pet. 2:11-12)

DISCIPLESHIP :

Being As Our TeacherJesus is Light – follow and shineJesus is Humble – lower self to serve others Jesus is Blasphemed – expect the same