Here is a very short sermon from the text: 2Corinthians 13:5
Just click on the link below to read this one page sermon.
2. Prove yourself for God is listening – by Dr. Ian Traill 14-03-2015
2Corinthians 13:5 examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
Dr Ian Traill will be in OZ soon.
For men! DO NOT miss these two meetings
Would you like to bring a group of men or yourself to this meeting.
Williamstown Gospel Mission:
Theme: “Dealing With Passive Aggression”
TUESDAY 24th March 2015 and again Two weeks later on questions in communication and workshop
Time: 7.30pm (Refreshments FIRST – then the Discussion/Sharing/Message – will follow)
Williamstown Gospel Mission: 8-10 Electra Street, W’town (Mel 56 C9)
Speaker: Dr Ian Traill – Author & Tentmaker Missionary in China:
Ps. Nick Holod 0417 541 518
Hello Friends, Supporters, Pastors and Church Leaders
Traillblazer Ministries Newsletter February 2015
Another month has passed and some more little steps taken. We have had about 200 enrolments in the Tony Smits’ Bible College this month, from South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Malawi, Nigeria, Mali and many locations in China. If I have missed your country I am sorry. We have also heard from many interested parties too.
Our teacher who run training schools in China have indicated that we have more than 200 children and that our summer program in July will be big. We need people who can come from English speaking nations to come and help for 3 weeks.
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I will be in Australia before the 21st March (21st) and I will be staying a little longer to share in some churches or fellowship. It is possible I will be in New Zealand too, but that has not been fully arranged.
Also we will have our new book on the Lord’s return. This book can be purchased as an Ebook so you could download it to your phone or computers. Click Here
God Bless you all
In His Hands Ian
Many today have a romantic idea that the Jews will get into heaven, because they were born Jews, which is wrong! Paul had to deal with this attitude too.
People from England, Australia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Canada, U.S.A and the House of Judah and Israel etc, will not get into heaven because of their genealogy or their nationality. Some people who call themselves Christians will also not enter into heaven as Jesus will not know them (Matthew 7:21-22).
The only nation or genealogy that will go into heaven is the one that has been totally translated by the faith of God, though a personal act of repentance and the blood of Jesus. The “All” that the Bible refers to as those that will be saved is the “All” who have met the Biblical requirements of salvation and definitely not a nation one is born in.
Here is a paraphrased section of one of Paul’s letter to Titus
An interpretation of Titus 1:1-16.
Paul had to deal with “super apostles – Judaizers” in his day as they were trying to draw people back under the Law of the Moses and away from a living experience with God through Christ.
Please open your Bible and read it in conjunction with my interpenetration.
1:1 I Paul a special chosen one of God who has full discernment of matters you are facing, come to you as a slave to serve you by bringing good teaching.
1:2 Your God has made an eternal agreement before the world was formed and it will come to pass. This is a certainty.
1:3 As God knew beforehand that a problem would come to pass in your Church, thus he decreed that I come with authority to fix it; you may think I am egotistical, but I must teach you to be aware.
1:4 We have the grace and peace of God the Father because we have the common faith in Jesus but I am saying hello as your father in the faith and I want you to know I respect you.
1:5 I have apostolic authority to appoint you because I do not have enough time to do all the things I wanted to do, therefore you have by bequest, the same apostolic authority and mandate to appoint suitable people into leadership.
1:6 If anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, or vices versa having believing children, not accused of loose behaviour, or disobedient.
1:7 For an elder, bishop or pastor must not be continuing in the sins of an unbeliever but be transformed into a steward of God’s goods. He must not be ambitious at the expense of others, he must not be full of passion trying to take advantage of weaker vessels, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for ill gain; 8 he must be above reproach being hospitable, a lover of God’s good things, discreet, just, holy, temperate, 9 defending the faithful Word according to sound doctrine, that he may be able to teach, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convict those who dispute our teaching.
1:10 For there are indeed many unruly, un-subdued, insubordinate and disobedient men who claim to be Christians using vain senseless words, who mischievously whisper lies and go about aiming to mislead and seduce new believers who have found freedom in Christ only to place the old weight of the Law on their shoulders.
1:11 These insubordinate and disobedient men must be stopped by you by putting something over the mouth, figuratively silencing them, muzzling them, as it is necessary, before they subvert you by overthrowing my teaching for their own hidden agenda, for their own dishonourable profit, if they achieve this, the whole family of God will suffer in your church.
1:12 It is not only I Paul that is saying that the Cretans have a predisposition to telling big stories laced with untruths. One of their own, Epimenides who they regard highly, has called themselves liars. This evil action by these dangerous, fat bellied men is causing distress upon another’s reputation by speaking idle words.
1:13 As I have explained you have hard evidence, which is a true record and testimony from their report about themselves. Now you have to convict them convincing them by making it clear their faults, proving conclusively that their thoughts pattern is faulty. Do it quickly communicating the urgency of the command and instruction so that you can bring them into line with the faith in God, thus demonstrating to the Church correct teaching.
1:14 Do not take notice or listen to precepts of man, which are trying to pull you away from God by factious stories of events or supernatural beings that have no foundation.
1:15 The Jewish Christians who claim to understand what is clean are in error when they come to you and ask you to follow the Old Law regarding your salvation and other issues about what is obedience to God as their minds are fused, defiled and blinded to the new covenant and its relationship to the Old Law.
1:16 They say they know God, but their actions do not match the grace of God as they rely on the works of the Law as an illusion to try and please God. Their disobedience by not believing in the power of Jesus’ blood, to set the captives free is an abominable act.
If we understand this passage we will see it is still happening today. Christian are being pulled back under the Law!
Paul was saying that a man needs to receive Christ and then he is justified before God by what Christ did, and then man WANTS to obey God in a realm of love.
The Judaizers say that a man needs to receive Christ and then MUST keep the Law of God to be justified.
By Dr. Ian Traill
Traillblazer Ministries Australasia 