Day 2
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The Belt
The Belt
Intro and Welcome
Let me ask you a question: Do you remember what we talked about yesterday?
2 Kingdoms God’s and the Enemy’s
Todays - Veritas Verse
14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
And if we are gonna take part in the good kingdom, we have to be ready.
God calls us to be ready, Now think of this, a few thousand years ago, God created the heavens and the earth.
He made the plants, the oceans, the sun, moon and stars, even dinosaurs, and yes man and woman.
Now Adam and Eve lived in this beautiful place called the Garden of Eden. It was created by God and given to them to live in, and there was all sorts of animals there.
The Bible tells us it was beautiful..
Remember from yesterday, God, who is the creator, and who is King, He is good and all that he makes is good.
And you know what God said when he had finished creating everything… Swssh, im tired....No He said that it was good.
But then something bad happened.. The enemy came into God’s kingdom.
He made his way to the garden where God had made this perfect place for man and woman, Adam and Eve.
Now remember, the enemy was one who had been created by God, he was perfect and beautiful at first, But he started thinking he was better than God, and tried to be God, he sinned...
God threw the enemy, the devil or Satan and a third of heaven who followed him out of heaven. Thus he hated God and all that belonged to God.
Now the enemy knew that God had created Adam and Eve, and he knew how much God loved them. God wanted them to live happier ever after… but the enemy didn’t want that.
The enemy wanted Adam and Eve to die… so the devil took the shape of a serpent (snake) and went into the garden of Eden. There he planned on tricking the man and woman to hurt them and keep them away from God forever.
Satan knew God had made only one rule about the garden of Eden, They could eat from every tree in the garden of eden except for the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
And God had warned that if anyone ate of that tree they would die, that was their punishment.
Now the devil, he disguised himself as a serpent and tricked Eve… He said to her, did God tell you not to eat from any tree in the garden?
Eve told the devil, Satan they would eat the fruit if any true but one.... and that is the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil.
And you know what Satan told her, you will not die, he tricked her and she believed it.
And so she took a piece of the fruit and Eve and her husband Adam ate some of the fruit of that tree.
They knew they were not supposed to do that, but they decided too… They disobeyed God and suddenly they found themselves having to deal with 2 kingdoms
From that day on, a battle began to rage in their lives,
Wait… not a battle like knights and armor...
It was a invisible, spiritual battle between God and the perfect kingdom and Satan the bad kingdom. And from Adam and Eve, everyone from them to us have been involved in that battle… even me and you.
The day that Adam and Eve disobeyed God, their actions are called sin.
Because Adam and Eve disobeyed God, the earth was no longer a perfect place. God put adam and eve out of the garden into this world that was no longer perfect.
Now , while Adam and Even and those after them have lived and suffered in this world, God didn’t stop and just leave them like that… NO
The Good News is that God thought of everything, He had a plan for the good kingdom to win
Here is what He did.... About 2000 years ago Jesus the Son of God left heaven and came to earth, He did so to rescue mankind from the bad kingdom to make sure they would live forever in heaven with God.
But how do we get to Jesus…
1. Admit sign Admit you are a sinner Admit sign
When you admit you are sinner, you are telling God you know you have done wrong and are sorry for doing it. It is called repenting.
when we repent we say we are turning away from the old ways to the new ways which are Gods
Think of it like this, your parents say to this or that, you tell them know and refuse… that is sin. in repenting you say I am not going to disobey mom and dad any more...
2. Believe Sign Believe Believe Sign
What are we to believe… We beleive God loved us, wanted us to be with him, so sent His son jesus into the world just for you.
Jesus came, lived a perfect life and never sinned. He died and rose again from the dead because He loves you.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
3. Forever Receive forever receive Forever Receive
If you admit you are sinner, repent of your sins and believe Jesus died and rose from the dead , then you can ask God to place his forever gift into your heart
That means you love Jesus and want to be apart of His kingdom forever.
So we have to decide, do we want to be apart of the good Kingdom or the evil kingdom
Now if you want to be apart of the God’s kingdom and be with him forever ( you’ve never done this before) I would like to tell you this....
Todays - Veritas Verse
14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Now lets talk about another way we need to be ready… Once you start, when you join God’s kingdom by becoming a Christian, we must get ready to live in this battle between the two kingdoms.
The Bible tells us to put on the armor of God.
This armor is Spiritual armor, you can’t see it but you can use it.
And we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us put on this armor daily.
The first piece or armor is the belt. During Medieval times, Knights wore belts to keep their cloths up and to hold their swords.
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Here God tells us to put on the Spiritual belt called the belt of truth. This belt helps you know the Bible is God’s word.
The belt of righteousness will help us to trust God
160 The sum of your word is truth,
and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
Remember the bad kingdom is based on lies and the good kingdom is based on truth, because God himself is true.
Veritas Verse
14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,