BUBIASHIE NORTH WORSHIP CENTRE

SUNDAY 22 JULY2012  Main Text: MATTHEW  16:24-26 Class/Group 3 [Inspiration, Joy, Kingdom, Love] "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"    Discipleship is a serious business and often a lonely experience. The early disciples have to deny themselves before they could faithfully do the pleasure of their master. Denying oneself implies that the disciple: Class/Group 3 [Inspiration, Joy, Kingdom, Love] Must love Jesus more than self. Must not seek his own happiness at the expense of the will of God. Must be willing to give up his desires for the sake of Christ. Must not chase after the worldly comfort, dignity, an...

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.  For we know in p...