Hosted by God's Way Ministry,
Inc., A Christian Church
"Fellowship with GOD: How to Walk and Talk
with the CREATOR of the Heavens and the Earth" is a class hosted by God's Way Ministry,
Inc., A Christian Church. Here is some basic information about that class.
Fellowship with GOD
How to Walk and Talk with the
CREATOR of the Heavens and the Earth
The "Fellowship with GOD" class teaches who GOD is and
how to have fellowship with GOD. It presents what the Bible says about the
CREATOR of the heavens and the earth, his proper name "Yahweh," his Son Jesus,
his gift of holy spirit, and why both GOD, the Father, and the lamb of GOD,
Jesus Christ, are called "Lord." Through careful Bible study, the "Fellowship
with GOD" class also presents what the Holy Bible says about angels, heaven, the
devil and his evil spirits, and how to become and live effectively as a
Christian.
Fellowship with GOD begins with the first verse in the
Bible, Genesis 1:1, which states that GOD (Hebrew: elohim) created the
heavens and the earth. The class challenges people to decide: do we believe what
the Holy Bible says in that very first verse or not. If we decide that we do
believe that GOD exists and that He created the heavens and the earth, then we
can move on to learning that GOD is a real, living, spiritual being and that He
can talk with human beings--through the Bible, through his Son Jesus, through angels, through prophets,
through dreams, and through other means.
Fellowship with GOD continues by presenting the will of
GOD from the Bible. It especially focuses on showing that the words "(the) LORD"
in the Old Testament of most English Bibles are actually the one Hebrew word
yhwh (often written "YHWH" or "YHVH")--approximately transliterated and
pronounced as "Yahweh" ("yah-way") in English. This Hebrew word
(Strong's #'s 03068 and 03069) occurs more than
6,800 times in the Hebrew Old Testament [see the Blue Letter Bible (http://www.BlueLetterBible.org)], more
than twice as often as the main Hebrew word translated "God" (Hebrew: elohim).
It is
actually the proper name (or "personal name") of GOD, the CREATOR.
Fellowship with GOD discusses what Yahweh, the living
GOD, had revealed in the Bible about His Son, the lamb of GOD, Jesus the
"anointed" one. [Both the Hebrew word represented in English as
"Messiah" and the Greek word represented in English as "Christ" mean
"anointed (one)." See John 1:41 and 4:25 (NIV), where both words are
used together.] The class discusses the will of GOD relating to the birth and
life of Jesus Christ. It also reports that the Holy Bible says that GOD raised
His Son Jesus from the dead, that Jesus Christ showed himself alive for forty
days on earth after GOD raised him from the dead, that Jesus then ascended to
heaven, and that GOD seated him at his (i.e., GOD's) own right hand.
Fellowship with GOD also discusses how the Bible came
into existence, and how even a little understanding of the languages and
manuscripts from which the books of the Bible were eventually translated into
English can play an important role in having fellowship with GOD. The class presents
basic information about the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages relevant to the
Holy Bible; the early tablets, scrolls, and printed texts which came before our
modern Bibles; and how understanding seemingly minor matters like spelling,
punctuation, and grammar can shed tremendous light on having fellowship with
GOD.
Fellowship with GOD presents what GOD has revealed
about his gift of holy spirit in the Bible. The key Hebrew and Greek words for
"spirit"--ruach and pneuma, respectively--are discussed on a basic
level to show how important translation and context are in understanding this
important topic relating to having fellowship with GOD.
Fellowship with GOD also discusses what the Holy Bible
says about words and concepts such as "Christian", "born again," salvation, and
conversion so that students can be very clear on what Yahweh accomplished for
people through his Son, Jesus Christ, including the sealing of children of GOD
with holy spirit beginning on Pentecost (Acts 2). Fellowship with GOD also
discusses what GOD has revealed in the Bible about the renewed mind, the
Christian walk, the role of the (good) angels of GOD, and how to resist our
adversary, the devil, and his evil spirits.
The "Fellowship with GOD" class is hosted by
God's Way Ministry, Inc., A
Christian Church. It is comprised of 12 sessions, with four 28-minute
segments in each session. The class will be available for viewing in its
entirety at
the "Fellowship
with GOD" web site by December 31, 2007. (Some of the class is already
published in preliminary form on that web site right now.)
Biblical research articles relating to
the "Fellowship with GOD" class--such as the series of preliminary articles
titled "The Proper Name of the CREATOR"--are currently available on the BibleResearcher.com web site.
Extensive
additional information about the CREATOR's proper name "Yahweh," its
background, and its use and significance in the Bible, will be available on the Who Yahweh Is web site soon after the publishing of the "Fellowship with GOD" class
has been completed.
In GOD's love,
Rev. Ken Burns, M.A., Pastor
God's Way Ministry, Inc., A Christian Church
{If you have godly questions, comments, and/or suggestions, please send them
along to me by email message at:
ken burns @
hawaii.rr.com
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