Journey of faith 1-1 A New Beginning A special Jesus Knowing Jesus is the happiest moment in our lives because

e you are going to experience a perfectly gracious and powerful God. He has not written any word He said before, but there are many books written about His words, even the libraries in the whole world cant afford to store so many books about Him. He has not make music and songs for Himself before, but there are countless music and songs written to praise Him, praise Him day and night. He has not build a university for Himself, but the total amount of universities students has not achieve the amount of His followers. He has not lead any army or soldier by Himself, use a gun or knife to fight, but He successfully conquers countless peoples souls, making them repent for their sins, and transform them into new individuals who have new lives and beginning. The existence of Christ is mystery, I really cannot understand, but there is one thing I understand , He can fulfill humans soul. If reject Him, the world will become a undiscovered mystery ; If receive Him, then the full answer for the history of human being can be found. -------Napoleon Who is Jesus? Matt 16: 15-17, John 14:6, Hebrew 1:2-3 Sharing: Have you receive Christ personally? When ? In what circumstance or situation? When you receive Christ, you can for sure that there is a strong relationship formed between you and God. An excited journey with a new beginning of life is waiting for you. Let us see what good news God has given us as we received Him.

Five Good News! 1) Your sin has been forgiven The moment you receive Christ as your savior, many wonderful things are ready to happen in your new life. Commonly, people think that they need to bear the sin they had confessed by themselves, depend on charities or good work they need to do to cleanse away their sin. However, if this is the truth, there are not even any single person are able to pay back the debt of sin, and they are unable to come to the altar of Holy God. (Ephesians 2:8-9) How God solve this problem ? (try to match the numbers with the correct verses in the bible) 1 Romes 3:23 1 2 Romes 6:23 2 3 Ephesians 1:7 3 4 John 3:16 4 ______God__________________________Eternal life___

1_Human___ sin_________________death(separated from God)________ 1 2) You have become Gods child How does a person become Gods child? __________________________( John 1:12-13) Then, what is the relationship between you and other christians?__________ 3) Christ enters your heart and never leave you (Rev 3:20) Based on the verse above, has Christ entered your heart? yes no not sure God said: I will not leave you, nor -----you(Hebrew 13:5b)

Based on verse above, after Christ had entered your heart, will He leave you? Yes no not sure If like that, how many times we need to invite Christ to enter our life ? Once in our life when needed once everyday 4) Christ made you become _____________ (2 Corinthian 5:17) 5) Christ give you eternal life Read 1 John 5:11-13 1) Based on the verse above, do you have eternal life? Why? 2) When does the eternal life begin? 3) What is eternal life? Key question: If you rest in peace tonight, how many percentage you are sure that you will be with God? 0%---------------25% -------------50%--------------75%--------------100% All wonderful things are come from God, there are nothing that can be achieved by depending one owns capability. From the moment you accept and received Christ to enter your heart, you already have Him in your heart. Sharing: From the 5 principles listed above , which principle that are most meaningful to you? Why? Questions regarding your relationship with God Discussion : What is the difference between feeling and truth? The diagram below illustrates the relationship between truth( God and His word), faith(thrusting God and His word) , and feeling(the result of thrust and obedience)

Head of train (truth)

cargo(faith)

Passengers compartment(feeling)

How can you descript the diagram above? When you are feeling yourself not like a Christian, what should you do?

Your growth in Christ In this week, let these truths become parts of your new life, so that you can continue to grow in Christ. Your sin had been forgiven (Ephesians 1:3-8) You are Gods child (1 John 3:1-3) Christ is inside your heart, and will never leave you. (Romes 8:35-39) You have a new life. (2 Corinthians 5:17-19) You have eternal life ( John 10:27-29) Please ponder over one of the lists above each day, at the same time read the bible verse beside it. Be thankful to God for all these truths that has happened in your life. Truly understand and believe all these truths is extremely important to your growth in Christ. Next time, we will look inside more detail about how we will experience Gods acceptance when we had done something wrong or we faced failure. Next bible study meetings time: Homework: 1) verse memorize: John 1:12 2) read * 1st addition of faith*: a new beginning