{"id":835,"date":"2002-05-11T07:10:31","date_gmt":"2002-05-10T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-ogg\/?p=835"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T01:30:27","slug":"simbari-update-may-11-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-ogg\/2002\/05\/11\/simbari-update-may-11-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"May 11, 2002 Gospel Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Gospel presented to the Simbari<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Most of the regulars gathered for our meeting on a beautiful Monday morning. The politician who had been here the week before left on a walk-a-bout taking some of the crowds with him.\u00a0But at least\u00a0the political campaigning did not hinder us and\u00a0no\u00a0mentally disturbed\u00a0people were causing distractions either. Most of those who have been listening to the daily\u00a0Bible teaching<\/a> were there.<\/p>\n

It was such a privilege and joy to carefully walk the people through all that was accomplished for them when the Son of God took their sin upon Himself and died in their place. We went back to many of the Old Testament stories illustrating faith and\u00a0substitutionary sacrifice and showed how they were fulfilled in Jesus.<\/p>\n

The general group response was that they were very happy to hear God’s Word and that they believed the message. And also that they wanted to hear more of God’s Word.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, one by one we have been trying to find out what<\/em> exactly they are believing in. So far we have heard several testimonies of people who indeed are trusting in the fact that when Jesus died he paid the punishment for their sins.\u00a0Some people\u00a0seem to be struggling with the fact that their efforts to please God do not contribute to salvation. What they are used to hearing in regards to God’s Word is that good works, observing taboos on food and\u00a0tobacco,\u00a0\u00a0following the Law, etc., etc., etc., must be done to earn God’s forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Our teaching made it clear that none of sinful man’s efforts can\u00a0get rid of sin. And that the only payment or punishment\u00a0for sin is death. We deserve death because of our sin but, taking our place, Jesus paid the death penalty for sin and rose again. He was the only acceptable offering for sin. One fellow came to our house the other night, asking if that is really what we were\u00a0indeed\u00a0wanting\u00a0to\u00a0communicate. (Because it goes against their belief system\u00a0he wondered if maybe we just miscommunicated in the language) So even though\u00a0many are still struggling with the fact that they cannot do anything at all to earn salvation we are encouraged that we have communicated the truth which is directly confronting the lies of Satan that have blinded the hearts of the Simbari.<\/p>\n

Rejoice!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Some Simbari have come out of darkness and into the Light! We look forward to hearing more testimonies of faith. We will now be\u00a0meeting once a week for\u00a0whoever wants to keep coming.\u00a0For\u00a0the first few\u00a0weeks\u00a0we will be going over the Gospel\u00a0message\u00a0a few points at a time with\u00a0more time for questions and\u00a0discussion. Pray that any who are struggling would come to a clear understanding and faith as we go over the lessons again. Pray for those who already are trusting in Christ to be strengthened as we go over it again. Before we continue on with more teaching that will be geared more towards a believer, we want to be sure that we take plenty of time to help those who are still unclear or undecided.<\/p>\n

In Him,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

David and Shari Ogg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Esther, Simon, Rachel and Jason)<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for praying – Please don’t stop!<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n
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  1. PRAISE for the good weather and no distractions during the teaching.<\/li>\n
  2. PRAISE for God’s Truth being proclaimed in the Simbari language.<\/li>\n
  3. PRAISE for those who are trusting Christ who died in their place.<\/li>\n
  4. Pray for those who are still unclear or undecided about the Gospel.<\/li>\n
  5. Pray for wisdom as we go over the Gospel again in the weeks ahead.<\/li>\n
  6. Pray for discernment as we continue to talk with people one on one to find out who (or what) they are trusting in.<\/li>\n
  7. Pray for God to continue to build His church among the Simbari.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0 This Week’s Teaching Highlights:<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n
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    • Jesus was crucified. He made a way to escape God’s punishment for sin and to become acceptable to God.<\/li>\n
    • Jesus had told Nicodemus that He would be lifted up as a symbol of sin just like the bronze snake that Moses put up on a pole in the wilderness. Just as all those who looked at it in faith did not die, in the same way all those who look to\u00a0Jesus, the Deliverer, in faith will not die but have everlasting life.<\/li>\n
    • When Jesus died he paid the punishment for sin. The payment or punishment for sin is death.<\/li>\n
    • Death is not just talking about our bodies but about separation from God for eternity in Hell. But, Jesus took our place in death.<\/li>\n
    • Jesus, being sinless, was the only acceptable sacrifice. Just like when the Israelites offered a blood sacrifice, they had to choose a perfect lamb for God to accept their offering, so also Jesus being perfect was not punished for His own sins but as a perfect sacrifice, was capable of taking our punishment. Like the ram caught by the horns (so it would still be acceptable as an offering) took Isaacs place on the altar, Jesus took our place as the perfect sacrificial Lamb.<\/li>\n
    • Cain\u00a0thought he could please God by\u00a0his own effort (good works) and his own way but\u00a0Abel came to God according to\u00a0God’s Word, with a blood sacrifice and was accepted. Jesus’\u00a0blood offered as payment for our sins was accepted and paid for them completely.<\/li>\n
    • On the Passover the Israelites killed a lamb, put it’s blood on the door and then went in through the door and were safe from death inside. When God saw the blood, thinking of Jesus’ blood that would be shed, He passed over them, not executing the judgment they deserved because of their sin.<\/li>\n
    • Right before Jesus died He said. “It is finished.” Knowing He would soon rise again He was not referring to His own death being permanent but rather to the fact that the work God gave Him to do was finished. He had completed once and for all what was necessary to save mankind.<\/li>\n
    • The veil in the temple was torn by God indicating that Jesus had opened the way to God. Now people could enter directly into the presence of God through the blood of Jesus. And also the yearly blood offerings of the priests that had continued for\u00a0around 1500\u00a0years\u00a0was no longer necessary.<\/li>\n
    • Jesus was buried but after 3 days rose again proving that He was who He claimed to be. When He claimed to be the Son of God, if it were not true, God would not have raised Him from the dead.<\/li>\n
    • His resurrection also proves that God accepted His offering for the sins of man.<\/li>\n
    • He showed Himself to His followers and told them to go and tell everyone, everywhere of this Good News.<\/li>\n
    • Jesus went up into the clouds and will one day come again.<\/li>\n
    • We\u00a0need to simply\u00a0agree with God’s Word, acknowledging that we deserve death because of our sin and trust in Jesus who paid our penalty so that we might receive\u00a0forgiveness and\u00a0eternal life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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