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WHY GO TO CHURCH?

  WHY GO TO CHURCH? (CHRISTIAN LIVING) LESSON #1 LESSON THEME : church INTRODUCTION : WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS THE FAMILY IS FACING? (Choose from the pictures and share something about you’ve chosen) From the pictures we’ve shared, we can see that the family has many problems to face. Whether we like it or not, there are situations we face which we feel that these are too hard to handle. Before we proceed, let me ask, who created the family? In Genesis 2:24, God created the family. Before, the relationship of the family and God were intact or close but we know that sin entered in the family and we know the story of Adam and Eve how they were tricked by the enemy. Eve was tricked by Satan in a form of a serpent. Then when they were got out from the Garden of Eden, and built a family, another problem arose. Cain killed his brother Abel. Because of envy, he did this horrible crime. Family is in danger. Let’s take a look in Ephesians 6:12,   For we wrestle not against flesh an

HAVE WE MADE IT A DEN OF THIEVES?

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This picture was taken from Google MEMORY VERSE MATTHEW 21:13   And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. LESSON BACKGROUND : Taken from: https://bethelhouseofprayer.com/about/what-is-a-house-of-prayer/ What exactly is a House of Prayer? The first reference given to a house of prayer is found in the Old Testament in Isaiah 56:7 “For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”(all Nations) parenthesis mine. The next time this passage is mentioned is in the New Testament and Jesus quote the same verse in Matthew 21:12-13 after He entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling and the money changers and Jesus quotes the passage from Isaiah. In Matthew 21:13, Jesus says “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a DEN OF THIEVES.” There are two other times in the New Testament this same verse is quoted and t