Ripple Point Christian Mission Church

Title: The Dehumanization of Man
Introduction: Imagine by John Lennon
Text: Romans 1: 28-32
Theme: “The dehumanization of man is the result of our rejection of God our Creator who made us in His own Image allowing Him to hand us over to a debased mind.”
Goal: Before we could appreciate Christmas better, I would like to lay the very reason why Jesus must come into flesh to visit His creatures that is to save us from the dehumanization of ourselves
In spite of the Fall of Man in the Garden of Eden, which has essentially marred the image of God in us, the Bible still explicitly declare that we still bear the structural image so when we speak of dehumanization of man, we speak of the evil deeds that man has done against himself and others.
Point One: The Dehumanization of Man is the result of our Rejection of God in whom our image was made
our rejection of God is actually the self-rejection in which God has created us to be
Point Two: The Dire Consequences of Man’s Dehumanization
Slaves to sin, broken relationships, loss of dignity
Point Three: Dehumanization is caused by man’s rebellion against
God's Laws and tries to establish his own.
A perversion of God's laws leads to the perversion of our own humanity
Conclusion: “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - CS Lewis

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Humility brings us up

And Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matt 18: 3-4

Youth Bible Study

31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.- Rom 8: 31- 34

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We give Thanks "IN" everything not FOR everything, meaning while we are yet IN the midst of or through a trying circumstance we give thanks, not after it. For it shows our faith and trust to God's faithfulness, promises and His unchanging character that what He says He will do He will surely perform it because God is true and not a liar.

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"And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name."

1Chronicles 29:13

“SERVING GOD IN OUR GENERATION”

Judges 2:8-15

Sunday Message
Title: Standing on the Promises of God
Text: Heb. 6: 11-20
Introduction:
The Euthyphro Dilemma
Theme: “The certainty of God’s promises motivates us to persevere in the faith through various challenges until the end.”
Goal: To encourage the church of the certainty of God’s promises as the basis of our faithfulness in our Christian journey
Point One: The urge to imitate the example of those who received the promise
A. The persuasion to persevere in hope of the promise until the end
B. The admonition to avoid Slothfulness in our quest for the promise
C. The encouragement to follow the example of those who have received the promise
Point Two: The Promise to Abraham backed up by an oath
A. God swore unto Himself
B. It is impossible for God to lie
C. Gives us strong consolation to persevere in hope in the midst of trials
Point Three: The Promise fulfilled in Christ
A. The promise to Abraham is fulfilled in Him
B. He is our Forerunner into God's Presence
C. He is now our High Priest seated at the right hand of the Father
Conclusion:
It is not the strength of our faith but the object of our faith which is of utmost importance.

God gave a bigger Cause to unite us, the problem is when we are not small enough to fit into it and our own interest is greater than the mission

We are not led by our moods but our faith is firmly grounded upon facts, our feelings are resultant to it

Sunday Message
Title: The Roots of Immaturity
Text: Hebrews 5: 11-14
Introduction:
We have proven that long Christian years does not necessarily equal spiritual maturity. Learn from them
Theme: "Maturity is not measured by the years of being a Christian but comes from faithful application of the Word."
Goal: To encourage growth in Christ through spiritual discipline, specifically about application of God’s word.
Point One: Negative Attitude that Hinders Growth and Maturity
A. The problem is not the subject but the hearers
B. The have a difficulty in advancing to their understanding of the Word
C. They are spiritually slothful and lacks the desire to go deeper in the Word
Point Two: The Result of Spiritual Immaturity
A. Spiritual regression or stagnancy
B. Cannot process hard truths
C. Unskillful in the Word
Point Three: Application of the Word Leads to Maturity
A. The matured can take in solid food
B. Well trained spiritual senses
C. Ability to discern both good and evil
Conclusion: The cart before the horse
Facts - foundational
faith - on solid ground
Feelings - Resultant to faith in the Word (Emotional Quotient)

Sunday Message
Title: Built up Upon the Solid Rock
Text: Text: Luke 6: 46-49
Introduction: July 16, 1990 Baguio Earthquake
Theme: “To call Jesus our Lord is to obey His teachings which is the very unshakeable foundation upon which our faith is built.”
Goal: To teach the church that loving obedience is the evidence that we receive Christ as our personal Lord and Savior as we do, we are being built up upon the unshakeable foundation of His Word
Point One: The Meaning of the Lordship of Christ
A. The searching question
B. Full submission to His will
C. Obedience is relational
Point Two: Obedience builds us up in Christ
A. For those who come, hear and obey
B. Built upon Christ
C. Withstand the trials of our faith
Point Three: Disobedience can never build us up in Christ
A. Like a house without foundation
B. Have not fully surrendered to the Lordship of Christ
C. Cannot withstand the tests of our faith
Conclusion:
Post-modernism, Subjectivism over objectivism

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Sunday Message
Title: Who will love him more?
Text: Luke 7: 36-50
Intro: The Japanese art of kintsugi. Artisans repair broken pottery by using lacquer mixed or dusted with gold, it preserves the history of the object rather than disguising it, thereby making it even more beautiful.
Theme: To those whom much sin is forgiven, much love in Christ will be given.”

Point one: The Light shines “in” through our brokenness
- God meets no one save by the cross
- A broken spirit and a contrite heart God will not despise

Point two: the light shines “out” of our brokenness
- Redeemed person is better than the old
- Testimony of God’s grace and redemption

Conclusion: the church is comprised of broken people bonded together by Christ. Only those who have recognized their brokenness will solidly cohere with other broken believers as a matter of loving God as response to His redeeming grace.

Sunday Service ⛪️
07.30.23

"God's presence residing within us identifies us as members of his family, but we must believe to receive the Spirit and to remain in God's family. We must keep believing. We cannot turn to another god or another gospel. Israelites were sealed by circumcision (the Bible actually does use that language). Israelites were sealed by circumcision as part of their election, and election didn't guarantee salvation. Therefore, circumcision didn't guarantee salvation, either. Romans 4:11, in fact, separates the sign and the seal of circumcision from salvation. What saved Abraham was his faith, not his circumcision. God's choice—his elective choice— to speak to Abraham also isn't what saved him. Abraham had to believe. This is a consistent, simple, straightforward, biblical, theological idea. But we mar it with the way things are preached. We mar it with theological traditions."

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Culture is the greatest challenge to biblical Christianity, historically almost all of the church has succumbed to it. If God have not sent revivals we are long dead right now. This explains why the church goes with trends than the Scriptures. And keeping it biblical in such a culture is unpopular even in the church herself. It is hard to preach sacrifice and selflessness in a "Me Generation" When the Gospel becomes a means to our own happiness and self-fulfillment. This has given birth to the heretical Prosperity Gospel. We are now living in the most "Self-Entitled Generation" which has posed a great challenge to remain biblical in the present time.

Our motives give worth and value to our service to God. Wrong motives make them empty and worthless, and soon find out they are but dung before our God (Matt, 7: 21-23) All out works should be an outflow of our relationship with Christ. As His servant, ministry to God must always come first. Many fail to do this, they minister to man but neglects the more essential thing. (Rev. 2: 1-7) Without it, this leads to lovelessness, a wrong motive and lack of commitment to the work. Many easily abandon the ministry because they are just doing it for man and not for God. It is easy to quit when we are just doing the ministry for man but I found out, not so if we are doing it for God. For we are aware of our accountability to Him comes that Day.

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Morning Devotion “OUR MOTIVES IN SERVING”

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Our work seem little and insignificant. Let us learn from the ants, they build great mounds bit by bit, with every member laboring together, with their seeming small contributions but collectively has accomplished a great task. Every believer who has this in mind is energized to carry stone after stone, and very soon they found themselves able to move a mountain. Any believer who can't see the goal will not be motivated to the work but soon find themselves done nothing.

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“To be fully focused on that Day quickens us to fulfil our mission on this world.”

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In Exodus chapter 3 and 4, we can see here about God calling Moses to go back to Egypt to lead Israel out into the Promise Land. We can see here a series of discussion with God trying to persuade Moses to go but Moses tries to wiggle out from the call. We know it that Moses lived in the palace as one of the Pharaoh's adopted son and has held a prominent position. In Acts 7:22 states, “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.” We see that Moses killed an Egyptian slave-master for abusing his fellow Israelite. For fear of the wrath of the King, he fled to Midian. Moses was 40 years old. There was a great transition, from living in the palace, he dwelt in the wilderness tending animals and lived as an ordinary man. After another 40 years, God called him to go back to Egypt but evidently doesn't want to go. Until he angered God by his stubborn refusal. Eventually, Moses did led Israel out from their slavery and led the for 40 years in the wilderness. 40 - 40 = 0 then for 40 years God used him mightily to lead His people in the wilderness.
God allows us to be utterly stripped of our own self-dependence for us to fully depend on Him. Most of the time falling so deep in our discouragements that it became so hard for us to be encouraged back again and we keep on eluding the call due to our past frustrations in the ministry. But God only did allow us to slide to the deepest to reduce us to nothing, to zero us because He will not build upon the old foundation but puts us in Himself as the very foundation in whom He builds us up. So that we will no longer depend upon our own ways but on Him, Indeed our sufficiency in the ministry is only founded upon His grace

The phoenix is a legendary firebird in which in several cultures have their version of it. Basically, it speaks of rebirth after utter destruction. It conveys hope that one could rise again from their own ashes, stronger, smarter, better. But Christ gave us a better, surer, living hope through the Cross. His death and resurrection is not a myth but a historical fact. The cross speaks of a great paradox, that His utter defeat is actually His ultimate victory. By His death, He conquered death. And in 3 days on the grave, He rose again. Surely Christ gave us great hope though we feel utterly destroyed by the enemy, in Christ we have the victory. We feel mauled and trod upon helplessly by our enemy, yet like Christ, we die but will rise again in the newness of life in Christ, reborn by His blazing Spirit we become better, wiser, more powerful and stronger than ever.

Sunday Message
Title: The Suffering Servant
Text: Phil. 2: 5-11
Intro: Isa. 53:
Theme: “Learning servanthood by looking unto Christ’s example on the cross.”
Goal: To let the church realize that the cross is our the ground of our great motivation and source of power to serve
Point One: The servant of Christ is more thoughtful on his responsibilities than his rights (vv 5-7)
A. The self-emptying of Christ
- Willingly laid down His divine prerogatives
- Took the form of man and became our bondservant
B. Christians are bondservants
- Historical context
- The kinsman redeemer (incarnation)
Point Two: The servant of Christ is obedient until the end - v. 8
Christ’s absolute obedience
- Absolute Humility – not my will but Yours be done
- Ultimate obedience to His death on the cross – “It is finished!”
B. Christ’s servants are committed to their calling until the end
- With a single heart, focused minds
- We are expected to be faithful till He comes
Point Three: The servant of Christ will be exalted with Him on that Day (vv. 9-11)
A. The exaltation of Christ
- Given the Name
- To the glory of the Father
B. The reward of Christ’s faithful servants
- To be welcomed to Heaven – (Matthew 25: 23)
- The fulfilment of our Blessed Hope (cf. Heb. 12: 1-3)
Conclusion:
Learning servanthood from Christ's attitude on the cross