IN TOUCH - Oluseyi H. Olowoniwa

  GODLINESS   INTRODUCTION: Godliness is different from worldliness. Godliness has to be spiritually acquired and defended. It is only attainable through a strong desire to please God. While Godliness is not natural or automatic, worldliness is by default, human nature. Godliness is a spiritual virtue and divinely imparted at salvation and needs regular maintenance.   Right from the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, worldliness became part of human natural DNA and does not need to be mastered. Godliness is not hard or grievous but requires absolute obedience and total submission.     QUESTIONS: 1. Explain what godliness means to you.   LESSON INSPIRATIONS: Like God - Godly (How will God handle it, compliant to righteousness) Devoted to God - Righteousness Pleasing God - thoughts, actions, desires,   RELATED SCRIPTURES: 1 Timothy 4:8 : “For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that...

  Prophecies Against Ungodly People Isaiah 28:1 through 35:10 KEY VERSE: “Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.” (Isaiah 28:16)     1. God said He would lay judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet, and that He would sweep away the refuge of lies (Isaiah 28:17). What do you think is meant by this statement?       LESSON INSPIRATIONS: Plumbline used to establish a perpendicular point of reference – Ensure perfect square Plumbline show if the wall is vertically straight It also shows if the wall has bulges God’s word is our plumbline If we measure every thought, word and action by His word – We would have a true spiritual temple We would not be deceived by the devil’s lies – It would reveal his lies   RELATED SCRIPTURES: Amos 7:7-8 7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made...