Free will

This was the first sermon I preached to a small congregation in the Lesotho mountains on 3 September 2017.
The sermon is in the form of a story with questions that they understood what was told, which is according to Lesotho’s people’s manner of communication. I enjoyed preaching for them and they freely participated in answering the questions. With the alter call we prayed for a number of people for healing and most were healed, these people are blatantly honest and tell you when they don’t feel better after you prayed for them.

Sermon on Free Will

I want to tell you a story about us having free will (choice) to choose what we want and if we choose one way it can bring good to us and if we choose the other way it can bring bad for us. The story is about the two big spirits in the world. Before this world was there, was there a Great Spirit with great power, we can’t understand how big it is. Gen1 This Great Spirit made other spirits and give them power to do work for him.

One of the spirits was very beautiful and he starts thinking too much of himself and he starts talking to some of the other spirits turning them against the Great Spirit. Isa 14:12 This bad spirit then try to take control over from the Great Spirit, The Great Spirit was too strong for the bad spirit and stop him and the other spirits that followed the bad spirit. The Great Spirit also took the power of the bad spirits away and they could do nothing. Luk 10:18

The Great Spirit decided to make the earth where we are staying now. When the Great Spirit made the earth, He made the mountains, rivers, animals, fish, birds, insects, plants, and man. Gen 1 The Great Spirit made man with a spirit living inside their body who talk with the Great Spirit. He also made man wiser than the animals and gave the man power and tell them they must rule over the earth and everything that is living on earth. Gen 1:26+28

The Great Spirit also gives the man a free will (choice) to decided themselves what they want to do or not to do or how to do something. But then the bad spirit came to the first man and his wife, the Great Spirit made and tell them a lie about the Great Spirit which they believed and with their free will (choice) they give their power to this bad spirit. Remember the Great Spirit gives the man power to rule over the earth and animals. Gen 3 When this happens this bad spirit became the prince of the earth with the power the Great Spirit had given to the man. Eph 2:1+2

The Great Spirit then move away from the man and all his children, we are part of the children, by stop talking to the spirits in the man and say they will die and not live forever as He had planned for the man. Gen 3 The Great Spirit is a good Spirit and He love the man, but the bad spirit makes people sick, he let a man kill another, he let a man take another mans cow, he goes into a man making him mad/crazy and he let a man put bad things on another. John 5:15 +10:10

Then many years later the Great Spirit send His Son to earth because He loves the people very much. John 3:16 The Son of the Great Spirit came as a human baby to earth and grow up to become a normal man. Mat 1 The Son of the Great Spirit had grown up, he walks on earth for three years doing good for the people. He told the people that the Great Spirit is good and love all the people on the earth. Mat 3-25 The Son of the Great Spirit make sick people healthy, He told bad spirits to go out of people and He also makes people who died, came back to life. The people from that time became very angry, because the bad spirit lives in them, to the Son of the Great Spirit because He did not do anything wrong against the Great Spirit as they did. Mat 26+27 They then kill the Son of the Great Spirit by hanging Him on a cross and after He died He was put in a cave which was His grave.

But 3 days after He was killed, the Great Spirit raised Him from the dead. Mat 28 The Son of the Great Spirit also told the man that because He did no sin when He was on earth but was still killed, He died for the man sin. The Great Spirit loves man and will now forgive man their sin if they choose to believe that He – the Son of the Great Spirit – died for their sin and was made alive again. They have a free will to believe this or not. The Great Spirit will also then start talking to the spirit living in the man again and He will give them the same power that the Son of the Great Spirit had when He was on earth, making people healthy and controlling bad spirits.

Who is the Great Spirit? – the Almighty God who love us. John 04:23-24 Who is the Son of the Great Spirit? – Jesus Who is talking to our spirits who live in us and give us the same power as the Son of the Great Spirit had? – the Holy Spirit of God Who is the bad spirits? – the devil and his demons. God love us so much that He send Jesus to earth and die for our sin on the cross. John 3:16 God give to us a free will to choose if we want to believe and accept in our hearts, that Jesus came to earth and died for our sin. If you choose and accept Jesus as your saviour, you will start living a better life here on earth and when your body dies your spirit will go and live with God and Jesus in the beautiful heaven. Mark 16:16 Luk 23:46 Act 7:59 If you choose not to accept Jesus as your saviour, you will not have a good life here on earth and when your body die your spirit will go to the place of the big fire. Mark 16:16

If you choose that you believe and accept in your heart, that Jesus came to earth and died for your sin, you must pray the following: “Almighty God I ask forgiveness for my sin I did before and I believe that Jesus is my Lord and Saviour, that You God love me and is the only Spirit in my life who I shall serve and listen to”.

You are now saved and as an act of thanking God you ask that you must be baptised in water. Mark 16:16 Acts 2:38 You also ask that God fill you with His Holy Spirit and that it will flow out of you so that you can heal people and clean them from bad spirits. Act 8:14-17

After you were saved and your sin – do what God doesn’t like – you shall move away from God and give the devil again a chance to attack you by making you sick but if you see you are doing wrong and stop that and ask God’s forgiveness and healing in the name of Jesus, God will forgive you and you will move back under God’s protection and received healing. 1 John 1:6-10 If you don’t ask for forgiveness you will die quicker but your spirit will still go to God and Jesus in heaven. 1 Cor 5:5 Eph 1:13