LESSON
48
Making Disciples
Discipleship is the
process of training and teaching.
Matt. 28:18-19 And Jesus came and spake unto
them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost.
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The word teach in this
verse is the Greek word for ‘to make disciples.’
God's intention is for
you to mature to a place that you can make disciples out of other people and
that you can bring the manifestation of all that God is and all that God has to
a lost and dying world.
94% of all the preachers
in the world preach to
Revival is sweeping many
nations of the world, but it has not reached
Something has got to
break in
Revival consists of three primary
things; an intensive spirit of prayer, salvation, and deep conviction with
repentance.
The churches of
Ex. 6:9 And Moses spake
so unto the children of
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Moses had been with God
and had heard the Word of the Lord from the burning bush. He talked with God. He came back to the people with a Word from
God for them. The reason they could not
hear God's Word out of the mouth of God's servant is because of their anguish
of spirit and cruel bondage. Anguish
means ‘much discouragement.’
This generation in this
nation is so discouraged and full of hopelessness, that there is an anguish of
spirit that has so bound them with lust, perversion, greed, and all the vileness of the devil,
that they cannot even hear the Word of the Lord out of the servant's
mouth.
God never intended for
us to be exposed to the vileness that we've been exposed to. The average person by the time he reaches the
age of 18, will have seen over 90,000 murders, over 70,000 acts of sex (90% of
which are out of wedlock), 60,000 acts of violence (outside of murder) just on
television. This does not include video
games and computers. One of the most
popular video games out in the last few years is called "Mortal
Combat", where the idea is to chop off people's heads. We've seen things we were never intended to see. Our mind was never intended to handle an
assault of this kind of activity.
1Thes.
Psa. 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine
eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
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All you have to do is
turn on the news and there's discouragement every day. Fear and hopelessness has gripped this
nation. As a result, this nation has
been unable to hear the Word of the Lord; a Word of deliverance, healing,
restoration, forgiveness and of hope.
The Israelites were in
bondage to
The miracles weren't for
Pharaoh. The people saw miracles bring
judgment on the world and bring blessing on God's people. As their hearts, which at first could not
hear the Word, saw the supernatural they began to listen.
This nation has got to
see the supernatural power of God fully manifested, because nothing else will
reach this nation. Around the world,
it's the supernatural that reaches people.
It's the demonstration of all that God has and all that God is, that is drawing in the people of the world.
In
As a result we are
seeing a lukewarm, ineffective gospel being preached in
Many of the churches do
not preach confrontational messages or demonstrate the power of God
anymore. People can come in and do their
religious thing without their lives being changed.
Zech. 4:6 Then he answered and spake
unto me, saying, This [is] the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but
by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
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It is through a
demonstration of miracles that the Word of God is confirmed.
Mark
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God's intention was for
the supernatural manifestation of His presence to accompany His Word everywhere
it was preached. It was not intended to
be kept in a small room somewhere, or in a closet, but out in the public
places, where everyone can see that God is who He claimed to be: that He is a
healing, delivering, supernatural God.
When you are in a nation that cannot hear because of the anguish of
spirit and the cruel bondage, they need to experience the supernatural of
God.
The #1 cause of death
for a teenager in
Demand, command and
expect the supernatural to take place.
The problem is that most
of us believe that we cannot walk in the supernatural until we reach a certain plane of
maturity.
If you walk in the gifts
without character, it will kill you.
It's time for you to rise up and expect God to do what He said He would
do.
Isa. 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it
shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto
I sent it.
John 8:28 Then
said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know
that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught
me, I speak these things.
John
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Get in the presence of
the Lord and hear the rhema Word that God is speaking
to you.
Rom.
When you hear what God
is saying, speak it. God speaks His Word
to us to bring it to the world. We must
open our mouth and declare, “Thus saith the
Lord.” When we (God's servants, God's
mouthpiece and the temple of the Holy Spirit) speak the Word of healing and
deliverance that came from the heart of God, it has the same creative force that
created the sun, moon and the stars.
Gen. 1:3 And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
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When you open your mouth
and speak the Word of the Lord into the situation or circumstance, that Word
will not return void. The Word will
accomplish the purpose for which it was sent.
We have made it so hard
and have struggled. We have said there
is no way that God can use me by making excuses. There is not one man of God in the scriptures
other than Jesus that was perfect.
Abraham turned over His
wife to sleep with Pharaoh because he was full of fear. Moses gave God so many excuses that God had
to give him Aaron. Also, Moses in anger
disobeyed God and lost the chance to go into the promised
land. King David committed
adultery and murder. Peter walked with
Jesus for three and a half years and then denied Christ three times, even so
far as cursing God.
We look at these men and
say if I could just be like them, but they were all scared, doubting and had
their weaknesses and shortcomings. They
also had an anointing from God that gave them the ability to do what God had
called them to do.
God's intention has
always been to use you to demonstrate to the world all that He is and all that
He has. God's purpose is to demonstrate
to the world through us that He is God . God doesn't demand you to be perfect; he just
demands you to be obedient.
In Review:
1. What
has God commanded us to do?
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2. What
are the three primary things revival consists of?
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3. Where
does most church growth in
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4. Why
did God give us signs, wonders, and miracles?
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