The Lord’s Club Lesson for February 28, 2016
The Four Steps. First Step: Illuminate the minds of the Lost Hearts
-Let’s review what we learned last week:
There are three main things we need to know how to witness people. When we witness, we need to trust the Holy Ghost to do His work. 3 things we need to know.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This means we need to show the light. Point the way to God. How? Explain to them about God. About Jesus Christ.
2. Stir the hearts of the Unbelievers. This is the same as if we perched into their hearts.(heart)
Acts 2:37 KJV-
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the
apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
This means we need to stir their hearts. Throw a “wrench” in their hearts and minds. Let them get confused but do not make them confused forever. Throw it in then lead them OUT of that mess in their lives. Talk about their lives. Where they are going. Why they are going to a very unpleasant place. Then show them John 3:16, Eph. 2:8-9, etc. Best way is more of a story telling method than biblical verses because with Bible they will clearly slam the door shut completely.
Story telling is effective. Jesus used more of stories than a lot of verses. If you know the gospel, it works.
3. Move the will of the Unbelievers. Like the prodigal son. He returned. (Spirit or can be
mouth/confess).
Luke 15:18 KJV-
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and
before thee,
This one explains then they need to confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, surrender, and proclaim Jesus is Lord and Savior and prayer for salvation with the team.
4. Invite the newly Saved Christian. Invite to fellowship, reading together once a week or even daily if desired.
Matthew 18:20 KJV-
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
OK, what we need to do is review the first part.
Illuminate the minds of the Lost Hearts (lost souls). They are in darkness. (mind)
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJV-
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This means we need to show the light. Point the way to God. How? Explain to them about God. About Jesus Christ.
The mind is clearly common with those who are lost. Yes, Saved souls/Christians do that too. The difference is that we listen to what the Spirit tells us what we need to do or seek for wisdom.
The world is in the dark. We all were born into the world. Lost souls. Unsaved. We all were in the dark and not know about Jesus Christ. Why? Before we heard about Jesus, you have never heard of Jesus Christ. Maybe some of you did but they did not witness you. For example. Mormons believes that the golden tablets and worship it real.
Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons as well as Iglesias Ni Cristo all brainwashed people. There are many cults as well. It is said in Wikipedia that a former Jehovah’s Witness couple told the truth that the Witnesses use mind control tricks on unsuspicious people who are not saved or even weak Christians who does not follow the Bible thoroughly or know the Word strong enough in knowledge.
So, we understand how cults work. They like to attract Deaf people who are, unfortunately, not as highly as educated, no offense! Remember that average Deaf people have a Third Grade level education opposed to Hearing or even Hard of Hearing people with higher education norm.
That is the technique they-the cults- know how to manipulate people. One cult called Children of God (defunct in the US), in fact, used their young female Christians to go public places such as shopping malls to lure men to have fornication with those women! David Koresh of Branch Davidsons used day-long sermons and hours long daily devotions that his technique was to break down his followers to become zombies to make them listen to David Koresh brainwashing mind.
Let’s focus on the main four pseudo Christians-the Jehovah’s Witnesses, INK, and Latter Day Saints. Even Seventh Day Adventists as well. They all failed to have sound doctrine from the Bible and they all uses brainwashing techniques. They even use glamorous buildings, attire, appearances, etc.
Now what we need to do is to CLEARLY show the TRUTH! Not those cults’ techniques. The verse, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 explains it is hidden from the World because Christians did NOT show the Word.
They say best time to teach a child talking, walk, eat, dress, toilet potty, and more is do it EARLY. I started to read newspapers at age 3! Tested for my IQ at 5 which amounts to 142 which stood for many years until I took a test on the internet in year 2000 which increased to 148. I failed to qualify entrance to Mensa by TWO points.
You see what the importance of mind is? We need to know the person we witness to and how smart that person is. That is when we need to focus on his/her mind. Not like those cults. We focus on their minds when we feed them a seed and water.
Like when I was in college back in 1988 at NTID. He was a Jewish Deaf man and very worried. I can see his face.. Very worried about his native country, Israel. I told him not to worry! That was all I said. Not to worry. I told him often every time he asked me. He asked me first in first week at orientation (SVP) and finally stopped around March.. Because around that time he gave up telling me his worries about terrible people wanted to attack his beloved country. He had to ask my good friend at the time who is a Messianic Jew-a Christian Jew. He had to explain along with a friend of ours as a team to witness slowly to that Deaf Jewish man.
By a week before the year was up and my kissing good bye to NTID for its terrible system, I was surprised by my friend who witnessed that Jewish man to Christ and I was well shocked!! You should see his face! NO MORE WORRIES! He is now serving in church in MD at a Deaf Baptist Church. Praise God!
My good old friend who went home with the Lord from here in Syracuse and he said to me as this, “You witness people, you must seed it in them. Then someone water it to them.” He was right. I seeded first to that Deaf Jewish man and then someone watered by witnessing further to Him. I was not the right person to witness because of my lack of understanding Judaism. I was born and raised Catholic so that was huge difference. Second my friend is a Christian Jewish man who understood that Jewish Deaf man and was able to witness him to Christ because they went through the same.
You will not always be called to witness that person. Let the Holy Ghost lead you as it said in John 14:15 and 16. And other verses. Let the Holy Ghost work on that person.
Let’s find verses relate to how we can witness them through their mind. We must stir their mind. Not to confuse them like cults do but do steer them to Christ. Clearly!
How? TEACH!
But we need to teach them slowly. Feed them slowly. Like my testimony about that Deaf Jewish man. Took an entire school year for him to accept Jesus Christ. We should do the same. We will learn each of the three THEN we need to learn how to start this. Then we will go on to beyond that person accept Jesus Christ.
Let’s read this:
Deuteronomy 6 KJV-
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
You will need to show them that the Lord is our God. ONE God. Verse five explains you shall love God with all your heart. This is to show others you do have the Love of God. With all your soul and your might. Your strength. You need the love of God in your heart. Their minds will see that. This is also will be shown for the heart part of the person you are witnessing.
Verse seven say that you need to teach your children. The same with those lost hearts because you need to go according to Matthew 28. This example is your own children and you do your behavior right with God and they shall see you. This is exactly the same you should with lost hearts. (Lost hearts=Lost souls).
Be nice to them! Show you care! Say, they are moving, go and help them! If they need help with big purchase, go with them to the store and help you to carry that to their car or provide your pickup truck if you have one. Or theirs. Provide them rides to church or to the store. Gentlemen, provide the ladies your arm to walk cross the street. Those kind of things are called soft witnessing as I call it. Because you are showing them God softly by action. Or action witnessing. Not Bible thumping witnessing (forcing).
Jehovah’s Witnesses uses mind control and clear techniques of so called witnessing. It is called baiting. They are actually baiting and mind control on weak minds. We need to defend ourselves. This techniques will be repeated throughout to remind you that cults do this techniques. We need to show the Truth. How, soft witnessing and action witnessing which then we will go witness them to Christ by verbal. Mind first, heart, then last verbal/Spirit. Remember that the Holy Ghost will work on that person.
We need to use their mind because that is their strongest defense to resist what they know about God. Remember the Word is hidden by Satan!
1 John 5:19 KJV
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Yup, of course the world is lost. All in evil. Wicked!
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 KJV
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Satan can trick any of us. Both lost and saved. We must show the Truth. We are the Truth Seekers! We tell the Truth because we have Jesus in us!
Verse 15 is clear what many cults and fallen churches are because of Satan’s plan to trick and lure billions to the fire! Jehovah’s, Mormons, INC, Catholic, some mainline Protestants, even some pastors we knew fell. Some went into fornications, molestations, even twisted doctrine. Like a Baptist church go around protesting military funerals because of their beliefs on gays, etc. That church forgot the word, HUMBLE! Other Christians that knew about this and showed them the Truth.
Fallen ministers like Yes, even Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jim Bakker, and others were or are still preaching and not even one word about Jesus Christ. No, they were about themselves or their race or their fornication, whatever their reason. Satan influenced them wrong. Even Joel Osteen who allowed his wife preached wrong about a year ago that Joel even agreed what she said. That was wrong! Satan has 1-2 plan: destroy pastors or plant satanic pastors and preach evil to influence Christians while demons work on people!
We need to plant in lost hearts’ minds about Jesus Christ and why He is the way.
Romans 12:2 KJV-
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
This is what we need to focus on for the Lost Souls first.
**WARNING: You will get rejection from the very same lost souls who reject Jesus Christ.
John 15:18 KJV-
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If you know how Jesus was persecuted, Christians also were persecuted for centuries even today with the ISIS, and governments including our very own!
You will lose friends, lose respect from those who are not saved even those who are “Christians” in name only and other fake Christians such as JW, LDS, INC, etc.
Do that and you shall be blessed. Remember Lazarus and the Rich man in Luke 16? For sure the beggar had NO friends. Was a rejectee. The rejecter got rejected by God and went to the fire forever. I rather to be rejected and was rejected by many people throughout decades of my life since Rome school Deaf. I was very smart and mature and they rejected my maturity and my ability to use verbal communication.
Later, it was about boy-girl things and tempers. After high school, it was about many things even my ex who called cops because she knew the truth. Jesus Christ IS the way! Amen.
Next week, the heart! In 2 weeks, we will talk about Spirit/speak. Then 3 weeks, about taking care of that baby Christian you witnessed. Then teach that person to grow. Then we will discuss about setting teams! Yes, assigned as team. You will need a buddy system and why. Then training deeply how we should do that. By summer, you will be inviting Deaf.
For next few weeks, write down where you think its best to meet Deaf to witness. And we will explain why it is not good choice or best choice to invite them.
When we do this over summer, we will break record of more than 35 in the Fall.
Also for now, please do invite CHRISTIANS to the Lord’s Club so we can teach them how to witness others and we need teams. Also we will need buddy system for other things such as when there are Amber Alert. Maybe we can go help find those who are lost physically. Please watch movie starring Dean Cain, “The Way Home” on HULU. Its free to watch it.
END OF LESSON THIS WEEK. Please come next week!! Same time same place! 1 PM Dunkin Dounts, 7th North Street by 81 and Buckley Road.
The Four Steps. First Step: Illuminate the minds of the Lost Hearts
-Let’s review what we learned last week:
There are three main things we need to know how to witness people. When we witness, we need to trust the Holy Ghost to do His work. 3 things we need to know.
- Illuminate the minds of the Lost Hearts (lost souls). They are in darkness. (mind)
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This means we need to show the light. Point the way to God. How? Explain to them about God. About Jesus Christ.
2. Stir the hearts of the Unbelievers. This is the same as if we perched into their hearts.(heart)
Acts 2:37 KJV-
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the
apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
This means we need to stir their hearts. Throw a “wrench” in their hearts and minds. Let them get confused but do not make them confused forever. Throw it in then lead them OUT of that mess in their lives. Talk about their lives. Where they are going. Why they are going to a very unpleasant place. Then show them John 3:16, Eph. 2:8-9, etc. Best way is more of a story telling method than biblical verses because with Bible they will clearly slam the door shut completely.
Story telling is effective. Jesus used more of stories than a lot of verses. If you know the gospel, it works.
3. Move the will of the Unbelievers. Like the prodigal son. He returned. (Spirit or can be
mouth/confess).
Luke 15:18 KJV-
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and
before thee,
This one explains then they need to confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, surrender, and proclaim Jesus is Lord and Savior and prayer for salvation with the team.
4. Invite the newly Saved Christian. Invite to fellowship, reading together once a week or even daily if desired.
Matthew 18:20 KJV-
20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
OK, what we need to do is review the first part.
Illuminate the minds of the Lost Hearts (lost souls). They are in darkness. (mind)
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJV-
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This means we need to show the light. Point the way to God. How? Explain to them about God. About Jesus Christ.
The mind is clearly common with those who are lost. Yes, Saved souls/Christians do that too. The difference is that we listen to what the Spirit tells us what we need to do or seek for wisdom.
The world is in the dark. We all were born into the world. Lost souls. Unsaved. We all were in the dark and not know about Jesus Christ. Why? Before we heard about Jesus, you have never heard of Jesus Christ. Maybe some of you did but they did not witness you. For example. Mormons believes that the golden tablets and worship it real.
Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons as well as Iglesias Ni Cristo all brainwashed people. There are many cults as well. It is said in Wikipedia that a former Jehovah’s Witness couple told the truth that the Witnesses use mind control tricks on unsuspicious people who are not saved or even weak Christians who does not follow the Bible thoroughly or know the Word strong enough in knowledge.
So, we understand how cults work. They like to attract Deaf people who are, unfortunately, not as highly as educated, no offense! Remember that average Deaf people have a Third Grade level education opposed to Hearing or even Hard of Hearing people with higher education norm.
That is the technique they-the cults- know how to manipulate people. One cult called Children of God (defunct in the US), in fact, used their young female Christians to go public places such as shopping malls to lure men to have fornication with those women! David Koresh of Branch Davidsons used day-long sermons and hours long daily devotions that his technique was to break down his followers to become zombies to make them listen to David Koresh brainwashing mind.
Let’s focus on the main four pseudo Christians-the Jehovah’s Witnesses, INK, and Latter Day Saints. Even Seventh Day Adventists as well. They all failed to have sound doctrine from the Bible and they all uses brainwashing techniques. They even use glamorous buildings, attire, appearances, etc.
Now what we need to do is to CLEARLY show the TRUTH! Not those cults’ techniques. The verse, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 explains it is hidden from the World because Christians did NOT show the Word.
They say best time to teach a child talking, walk, eat, dress, toilet potty, and more is do it EARLY. I started to read newspapers at age 3! Tested for my IQ at 5 which amounts to 142 which stood for many years until I took a test on the internet in year 2000 which increased to 148. I failed to qualify entrance to Mensa by TWO points.
You see what the importance of mind is? We need to know the person we witness to and how smart that person is. That is when we need to focus on his/her mind. Not like those cults. We focus on their minds when we feed them a seed and water.
Like when I was in college back in 1988 at NTID. He was a Jewish Deaf man and very worried. I can see his face.. Very worried about his native country, Israel. I told him not to worry! That was all I said. Not to worry. I told him often every time he asked me. He asked me first in first week at orientation (SVP) and finally stopped around March.. Because around that time he gave up telling me his worries about terrible people wanted to attack his beloved country. He had to ask my good friend at the time who is a Messianic Jew-a Christian Jew. He had to explain along with a friend of ours as a team to witness slowly to that Deaf Jewish man.
By a week before the year was up and my kissing good bye to NTID for its terrible system, I was surprised by my friend who witnessed that Jewish man to Christ and I was well shocked!! You should see his face! NO MORE WORRIES! He is now serving in church in MD at a Deaf Baptist Church. Praise God!
My good old friend who went home with the Lord from here in Syracuse and he said to me as this, “You witness people, you must seed it in them. Then someone water it to them.” He was right. I seeded first to that Deaf Jewish man and then someone watered by witnessing further to Him. I was not the right person to witness because of my lack of understanding Judaism. I was born and raised Catholic so that was huge difference. Second my friend is a Christian Jewish man who understood that Jewish Deaf man and was able to witness him to Christ because they went through the same.
You will not always be called to witness that person. Let the Holy Ghost lead you as it said in John 14:15 and 16. And other verses. Let the Holy Ghost work on that person.
Let’s find verses relate to how we can witness them through their mind. We must stir their mind. Not to confuse them like cults do but do steer them to Christ. Clearly!
How? TEACH!
But we need to teach them slowly. Feed them slowly. Like my testimony about that Deaf Jewish man. Took an entire school year for him to accept Jesus Christ. We should do the same. We will learn each of the three THEN we need to learn how to start this. Then we will go on to beyond that person accept Jesus Christ.
Let’s read this:
Deuteronomy 6 KJV-
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
You will need to show them that the Lord is our God. ONE God. Verse five explains you shall love God with all your heart. This is to show others you do have the Love of God. With all your soul and your might. Your strength. You need the love of God in your heart. Their minds will see that. This is also will be shown for the heart part of the person you are witnessing.
Verse seven say that you need to teach your children. The same with those lost hearts because you need to go according to Matthew 28. This example is your own children and you do your behavior right with God and they shall see you. This is exactly the same you should with lost hearts. (Lost hearts=Lost souls).
Be nice to them! Show you care! Say, they are moving, go and help them! If they need help with big purchase, go with them to the store and help you to carry that to their car or provide your pickup truck if you have one. Or theirs. Provide them rides to church or to the store. Gentlemen, provide the ladies your arm to walk cross the street. Those kind of things are called soft witnessing as I call it. Because you are showing them God softly by action. Or action witnessing. Not Bible thumping witnessing (forcing).
Jehovah’s Witnesses uses mind control and clear techniques of so called witnessing. It is called baiting. They are actually baiting and mind control on weak minds. We need to defend ourselves. This techniques will be repeated throughout to remind you that cults do this techniques. We need to show the Truth. How, soft witnessing and action witnessing which then we will go witness them to Christ by verbal. Mind first, heart, then last verbal/Spirit. Remember that the Holy Ghost will work on that person.
We need to use their mind because that is their strongest defense to resist what they know about God. Remember the Word is hidden by Satan!
1 John 5:19 KJV
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
Yup, of course the world is lost. All in evil. Wicked!
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 KJV
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Satan can trick any of us. Both lost and saved. We must show the Truth. We are the Truth Seekers! We tell the Truth because we have Jesus in us!
Verse 15 is clear what many cults and fallen churches are because of Satan’s plan to trick and lure billions to the fire! Jehovah’s, Mormons, INC, Catholic, some mainline Protestants, even some pastors we knew fell. Some went into fornications, molestations, even twisted doctrine. Like a Baptist church go around protesting military funerals because of their beliefs on gays, etc. That church forgot the word, HUMBLE! Other Christians that knew about this and showed them the Truth.
Fallen ministers like Yes, even Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jim Bakker, and others were or are still preaching and not even one word about Jesus Christ. No, they were about themselves or their race or their fornication, whatever their reason. Satan influenced them wrong. Even Joel Osteen who allowed his wife preached wrong about a year ago that Joel even agreed what she said. That was wrong! Satan has 1-2 plan: destroy pastors or plant satanic pastors and preach evil to influence Christians while demons work on people!
We need to plant in lost hearts’ minds about Jesus Christ and why He is the way.
Romans 12:2 KJV-
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
This is what we need to focus on for the Lost Souls first.
**WARNING: You will get rejection from the very same lost souls who reject Jesus Christ.
John 15:18 KJV-
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
If you know how Jesus was persecuted, Christians also were persecuted for centuries even today with the ISIS, and governments including our very own!
You will lose friends, lose respect from those who are not saved even those who are “Christians” in name only and other fake Christians such as JW, LDS, INC, etc.
Do that and you shall be blessed. Remember Lazarus and the Rich man in Luke 16? For sure the beggar had NO friends. Was a rejectee. The rejecter got rejected by God and went to the fire forever. I rather to be rejected and was rejected by many people throughout decades of my life since Rome school Deaf. I was very smart and mature and they rejected my maturity and my ability to use verbal communication.
Later, it was about boy-girl things and tempers. After high school, it was about many things even my ex who called cops because she knew the truth. Jesus Christ IS the way! Amen.
Next week, the heart! In 2 weeks, we will talk about Spirit/speak. Then 3 weeks, about taking care of that baby Christian you witnessed. Then teach that person to grow. Then we will discuss about setting teams! Yes, assigned as team. You will need a buddy system and why. Then training deeply how we should do that. By summer, you will be inviting Deaf.
For next few weeks, write down where you think its best to meet Deaf to witness. And we will explain why it is not good choice or best choice to invite them.
When we do this over summer, we will break record of more than 35 in the Fall.
Also for now, please do invite CHRISTIANS to the Lord’s Club so we can teach them how to witness others and we need teams. Also we will need buddy system for other things such as when there are Amber Alert. Maybe we can go help find those who are lost physically. Please watch movie starring Dean Cain, “The Way Home” on HULU. Its free to watch it.
END OF LESSON THIS WEEK. Please come next week!! Same time same place! 1 PM Dunkin Dounts, 7th North Street by 81 and Buckley Road.