Good day all. I am sure the Lord is been gracious to us all and trust too we've been richly blessed too through the study of the mass indoctrination. Am Sis Hope Atuma and am doing this post on 27/7/22 to share my benefits from the mass indoctrination,Day 11.
From the teaching, we learnt that, there
are people who are doing what is wrong over and over again, they keep go back to their vomit. They know the truth but they prefer to continue in their sinful ways just like the dog that returned to its vomit afterwards,so they are too. They prefer to eat from the devil's table. There are two types of tables; the devil's table and the table of good table- (1 Corin. 10:21).The good table is Christ table,where He feeds His people. According to the Bible book of Luke22: 27 the Lord Jesus has set a table which is referred to as the Church, and there are also bad tables which is the devil's table in Isaiah 28:8, 10 - 13.
According to the Bible book of Philemon1:21, the expectation of Apostle Paul in Philemon was that, every true believer can do more than what they were told to do in as much as the Holy Spirit leads every true child of God in the Church. Therefore there are good things that we can do even if not instructed to do. Some things are to be done voluntarily without compulsion. And when we do things willingly in the church,we are blessed for it. According to Isaiah 1:19, there's a good reward for willingness in the house of God.
Some things we have to do voluntarily are vow, offering,giving alms, contribution, thanksgiving,etc.
Vow is a voluntarily act, it is not part of the commandments of God. Vow is decided by man and not God, hence it should be done voluntarily. When we vow ,it is very important that we redeem it. It's better we don't vow than to vow and not being able to keep to it. we can vow to serve God faithfully, we can vow to stop negative behavior, but we should try to keep to it. We also saw in the new testament that Apostle Paul himself vowed, hence we can say to vow is permitted in the house of God. Ananias and Safari also vowed but end up losing their lives because they lied in the presence of Holy Spirit. Instead of lying,we should not vow than to vow and not keeping to it.
Thanksgiving is also acceptable by God in the church-Jerem.30:19. Thanksgiving is a sacrifice of praise for God's good works towards us. During Thanksgiving ,contributions or offerings should be done voluntary as in Heb. 13:16.
As true believers in a church , we
should know that money is needed to keep the Church operational. Some Churches have to pay rent, maintain the building, help the sick among members and give shelters to the needy but in as much, members should not be forced to pay contributions or give Thanksgiving seeds, it should be voluntary, willingly. The contribution given, should be handled by 5 persons and report shouy be given there after. This is so to ensure that the contributions are not tampered with. Judas stole from the purse and this can be avoided if persons are appointed to be incharge of counting it and a coresponding report be accompanied with it.
God bless us all as we continue to know more of His word.
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