Sunday School

  CENTRAL THOUGHT Words carry power; we mar or make with them.   HYMN: I AM THIN O’ LORD Text: Prov. 12:17-19, 18:8, 21:23, Eccl. 5:2, Matt. 5:37, Eph. 4:29   Introduction: Spoken words carry power; they can have negative or positive influence/impact on the hearer. Therefore, every believer in Christ should heed the admonition of Scripture on words and keep a check on the words of our mouth.   LESSON OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are: To examine the negative influence of words. To discuss the positive impact of the words we speak To know how we can check the words of our mouth.   Q1. EXAMINE SOME NEGATIVE INFLUENCE OF WORDS. Prov. 18:8, Numbers 13:26, 14:4, 36-37 Every word spoken has an influence on the hearer. Hence if you tell someone he has won a huge sum of money, the immediate impact on the hearer would be a smile. One the other hand, when a person is told harsh unkind and insulting words, the person would frown instead of smiling. This goes to show that every spoken word has an influence not only on the hearer but also carries power in the spirit realm. Prov. 18:8 states that the “words of a talebearer are as wounds,...

Apostasy Creeping into the Church   Central Thought: Believers must courageously believe the Word of God in these last days and reject what is false. HYMN: CHRISTIAN, SEEK NOT YET REPOSE   Text: 2 Peter 2:1-22, Jude 20-25   INTRODUCTION “We live in dangerous times”. “The world has become a lot more complex”. These are common sayings. Of course, the Scriptures declare that perilous times will come. The world in its operations has indeed witnessed changes that were considered unthinkable centuries ago but the operators have remained the same: the human heart is still as it was in the days of Noah or the days when Jesus of Nazareth walked upon the earth. Feats hitherto  unimagined have been accomplished by man. Space exploration has since progressed to space tourism. With the growing sophistication is an increased need for resources to cope with the attending economic pressure and distress. It is therefore not surprising to find that even believers in Christ are tempted to believe just about any teaching that helps them to acquire these resources. In a bid to enjoy “good success”, usually as defined by the world, believers have turned to teachings that are powered more by psychological principles than the pure word of God. If there was ever...

CENTRAL THOUGHT Christians are to be spiritually alert and not asleep. HYMN: Christian, Seek Not Yet Repose TEXT: Eph. 5:11-15; Rev. 3:1-3; 1 Thess. 5:4-9 INRODUCTION The word ‘slumber’ is defined by the Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary to mean; sleep, time when somebody is asleep, to sleep is the natural state of rest in which one’s eyes are closed, and the body is not active and as well as the mind not being conscious. Rest in the form of sleep is good for the natural body. But spiritual slumber is a state of inactivity or dormancy in spiritual things. Believers that are not spiritually alert and have lost thought of the Lord’s return an be regarded as being in a state of sleep. Slumber or sleep is used as a metaphor for spiritual lethargy. Like sleep, a believer who slumbers is unconscious and can not face spiritual realities. A person who is asleep spiritually is indifferent, inactive and not sensitive to spiritual things while conforming to this world. The world is full of darkness and sin. This could be described sadly as the spiritual state of some believers. There is a wake-up call for the believer to be awake and alert. Paul’s admonition that we should not sleep is based...