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Imanuel Christian teaches about determining and following the will of God.
Five Ways to Discern the Will of God
Living by the Revealed Wills of God
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Imanuel Christian teaches about living according to the wills of God that God has revealed in the Bible.
The Joy in the Word of God
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Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-3a, 8-13
Imanuel G. Christian highlights the abundant blessings and satisfaction found in God’s promises. He emphasizes that God’s Word brings life, hope, and transformation, inviting believers to respond with obedience, delight in His ways, and experience the joy that comes from trusting in God’s eternal plan.
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Heaven Now and Forever: Living in the Joy of God’s Promise
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Scripture: Revelation 21:1-7
Imanuel G. Christian explores the assurance, excitement, and present reality of heaven for believers. He emphasizes that heaven is not just a future hope but a current experience, encouraging Christians to live with joy, share the good news, and make heaven their foremost priority in daily life.
The Place No One Needs to Go
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Scripture: Revelation 20:11-15
Imanuel Christian preaches “The Place No One Needs to Go,” focusing on the final judgment and the reality of eternal separation from God. Using Revelation 20:11-15, he warns of the consequences of rejecting Christ while emphasizing the hope offered through salvation. Believers are encouraged to live faithfully, share the gospel, and trust in God’s justice and mercy, knowing that Christ provides the only path to eternal life and the avoidance of ultimate judgment.
Lesson Outline
- Hell? No! Three Wrong Answers
- Universal Salvation: No Hell
- Conditional Immortality: No Hell
- Purgatory: Temporary Hell
- Hell? Certainly Yes! Three Right Answers
- Holiness of God Requires it
- Our Sense of Justice Demands it
- Love of God Provides the Way of Escape
- Three Appropriate Responses
- We cannot fool with it, but we can avoid it
- We cannot be silent about it, but we warn others
- We cannot ever forget, it is only by the grace of God we are spared
When I survey…
The Valley Too Deep to Cross
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Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-7; Revelation 4:8
Imanuel Christian explores humanity’s sinfulness and God’s overwhelming holiness. Drawing from Isaiah 6:1-7 and Revelation 4:8, he shows how encountering God’s glory brings awareness of personal shortcomings, yet also reveals His mercy and cleansing. Believers are called to approach God with humility, trust His purifying work, and respond in worship and obedience, confident that His grace covers even the deepest valleys of life.
Lesson Outline
- Most Central Attribute of God
- Most Central Attribute of Man
- Our Futile Attempts to Cross the Valley
- Comparative Vs. Absolute Righteousness
- God Fills the Valley with the Cross
Our Response:
- May we never take the grace of God lightly (1 Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 2:2)
- May we never take our righteousness so flippantly (Isaiah 38:15)
- May we never miss opportunity to share the Truth
- May we never doubt the Word of God
When I survey the wondrous cross….
The Mountain Too High to Climb!
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Scripture: Philippians 2:6–11
Guest speaker Imanuel Christian teaches from Philippians 2:6-11, exploring how humanity’s efforts to reach God fall short—and how God graciously came down to us in Christ. He explains the limitations of religion, the uniqueness of Jesus as the only way to the Father, and why Christianity offers a God-centered, grace-based path to salvation.
Imanuel encourages believers to stand firm in their faith, rejoice in salvation, seek understanding, and obey what God has revealed.
Lesson Outline
- Two Problems with Religion
- Two Results Religion Creates
- Man’s Futile Attempts to Climb the Mountain
- The Mountain Too High to Climb
- God Comes Down the Mountain
- Our Response
- Only in Christ do we have access to God
- There is no other name
- Christianity makes sense because it is God-centered
- All other religions are man-centered
- Not being able to understand is no excuse for not believing
- In physical realms we live by faith—so also in spiritual realm
- Not being able to understand is no excuse for not trying to understand
- Prophets were intently searching
- Be prepared to give an answer for the hope that is in you
- Be grounded in the Word
- Do not let anything rob the joy of your salvation
- Not being able to understand is no excuse for not obeying (Deut. 29:29)
- Only in Christ do we have access to God
O Come, Let Us Adore Him—Christ the Lord!
Are All Religions the Same?
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Guest speaker Imanuel Christian addresses the question, “Are all religions the same?” by comparing core beliefs across major worldview categories. He demonstrates how Christianity stands apart in its view of God, humanity, sin, salvation, Scripture, and the future. Imanuel encourages believers to know, defend, guard, share, and live by biblical truth with confidence and clarity.
Lesson Outine
Theology: Concept of God
Anthropology: Concept of Man
Hamratiology: Concept of sin and evil
Soteriology:
- Way of Salvation
- Concept of salvation; life after death
Eschatology: How everything will end
Bibliology: The truth we believe:
- 2 Timothy 3:16
- Proverbs 30:5
- Psalm 12:6
- Psalm 19:7-11
Application:
- Know the truth; be able to defend it (1 Peter 3:15)
- Guard the truth (1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 1:14)
- Share the truth
- Live by the truth (1 John 3:2-3; 2 Peter 3:10-14)