Discipleship
Training Apprenticeship
Becoming a Real Apprentice-Learner of the
REAL Jesus by Obeying Those He Sent
and Finding The Path
of True, Original Christianity
The Submissive
Obedience you Have to do to the Divine Truth on Earth in
Order to Inherit the Kingdom of Heaven
Josiahs Scott,
Josiahs@trueconnection.org,
www.TrueConnection.org
12/28/07 (original
title: Discipleship); 1/6/08 (Original Sunday
Morning Presentation); 5/18/08; 5/30/09; 8/19/09; (7/24/10);
10/17/11; 10/19/11; 1/29/12-1/30/12; 2/17/12; 4/10/12-4/11/12; 5/20/12;
9/15/12; 9/27/12; 7/22/13-7/23/13; 2/13/17 (retitled: Saving Discipleship);
3/24/17; other date(s); 2/8/19; 3/15/21; 3/31/21-4/1/21
· Discipleship Training Apprenticeship (DTA) comes from the Biblical word for discipleship: μαθητὴς.
· You have to be a Biblical disciple to inherit heaven: Luk_14:25-35.
· Biblical discipleship starts with baptism…
· You Have to Have a Matthew 28 (ObeyAll) Romans 6 (NoSin) Baptism to Inherit Heaven.
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Biblical discipleship means
Obeying all the Bible and Stopping All Sin.
see: Salvation Basics
· If you are still sinning and not obeying All the Bible then your baptism was useless and you have not been discipled or saved.
· TrueConnection.org’s DTA is the only known Biblical Discipleship Program still existing today so far (let us know if you find others!).
·
Do you want to sign up for our
DTA?
Email: Secretary@TrueConnection.org
· (Keep reading if you want to know a little bit about what Biblical discipleship is all about...)
These are unfinished notes for our community.
Like usual, in cases like this, you should contact us so that we can teach you all of these exciting and helpful things.
Contents
Language (“Etymology”) – What is
a Disciple?. 2
Functional Definitions of
Discipleship3
Disciples Are Eager for
Discipleship5
Are you Truly Following Jesus?. 7
How Do You Know When You’re REAL?9
Are You Paying the Price of
Discipleship?9
Are You Disciplined and Committed
to Discipleship?10
Personal Proofs of Discipleship. 11
Disciples Discontinue Depravity. 11
3.
Imitation – Where We Finally Find Out if You Are a Real Disciple! 12
Intro Basics – The Solid
Proclamation of Imitation12
Imitate me and Peace Will be with
You15
Humility Produces Real Discipleship that
Actually Imitates!15
Saul Proves that Your Personal
Relationship Sends you to Hell16
4. The
Hope & Reward of Discipleship20
Confronting The Heresy Of No New
Revelation21
Common Belief / Superstition Does not Save. 22
Summary Preview of Commissions. 23
The Pre-commissions – The 12 Sent
Out23
The Pre-commissions – The 70 Sent
Out23
(C) The Pre-commissions Compared with the Great Commission. 23
You are Imagining Yourself on the Wrong
Side24
The Commission Rebooted Today! 24
How to
Successfully Call up on Jesus' Name28
We do not Preach Ourselves. 29
The MP3 of this teaching should be available at:
www.trueconnection.org/av/Discipleship_1.6.08_ED.mp3
(The MP3 is only a brief overview of all the details that you can
see here below)
If you are an
American christian beware!
The path that Jesus trod and set for us and our salvation is one of discipleship
rather than the theoretical and shallow commitment of converts that we see in
most churches in Westernized culture. If we don’t follow this extreme and
unpopular path that Jesus called being His apprentice learner (or “disciple”),
we only have the Broadway to Hell and destruction as our alternative!
Avail yourself to
know and understand this eternal distinction called “Discipleship.”
(1) The
Hebrew ָלַמד (lāmaḏ) is literally “to goad, that is, (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive)” (Strong’s on H3925), or
(depending on grammar) to learn. Lāmaḏ
(H3925) naturally produces
ִלמּוּד (limmûḏ), (H3928) which is basically
someone who is taught.*
[* Technical Grammar Note: the first
word is an action verb and the second is a descriptive adjective]
(2) The Greek μανθάνω (manthanō),
(G3129) very simply means to learn, and
this produces μαθητής (mathētḗs), (G3101) a learner. But to be a learner in
ancient cultures usually implied the seriousness of an apprentice
learner.
[Strong’s: G3129: “…to learn (in any
way)”; G3101: “…a learner, that
is, pupil …”]
(3) The English word “disciple” ends up “…coming to English by way of the Latin discipulus meaning ‘a learner’.”
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciple_%28Christianity%29]
(4) The Bible is very clear that
becoming an apprentice learner (that is, discipleship) is the only way to heaven, and it is not some
advanced form of christianity, but that it is indeed,
the one and only form of ancient, original, historical, True, Biblical
Christianity:
Read
Mat_28:19-20; Mar_16:20 – ‘go make disciples’/ ‘go apprentice people as learners’ (etc.)/ “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved” (Mar_16:16 CAB)
Act_11:26 – “...And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.” (CAB)
It
is clear that there is no difference from a real Biblical Christian
and a disciple. We ought to reject the
common heresy of easy-believeism which insults the
entire body of Truth by implying that christians need
not necessarily be full-fledged disciples in order to go to heaven, as though a
person could be saved from eternal hell without truly and completely forsaking
everything to follow Jesus and becoming His extreme and devoted learner through
those He sent them (see Matthew and Mark referenced previously).
(5) For a Summary we could almost say that a disciple
simply means a student, but this means so much more than something as
shallow as “intellectual instruction” as we are prone to think of it. To those
in the Bible, truly learning is more like apprenticeship, and this is
why we use the word “disciple”, avoiding the shallow assumptions
Westernized thinkers often connect to “learning.” This Divine apprenticeship is
the only way to follow Jesus and be saved from sin and hell unto eternal glory
with Him forever.
Discipleship…
·
Is training in righteousness by a real man or woman of
God to fully obey and follow Jesus.
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Is a mentoring process to become a man or woman of God.
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Means being committed to this process of
mentoring and training.
·
Is harder than you ever expected, and infinitely more
rewarding than you ever dreamed.
·
Filters and separates the modern christian from someone who is REALLY following Jesus.
·
Weeds out the fake and shallow, from the truly
committed.
·
When someone is ready to commit to discipleship, that’s
when you know they’re really ready to commit to following Jesus.
- Do these things describe you?
·
Making disciples is sealing the deal to call people to
absolute and total commitment to live according to the eternal mandates of the
Bible.
·
Saying, “I don’t need training…” is saying, “I don’t
need Jesus’ way of getting to God” – You are rejecting Jesus’ only provision
for salvation because He’s the One that ordained discipleship: Mat_28:18-20 (“Make disciples”) Luk_10:16; Mat_10:40; Joh_13:20 (“Whoever listens to you, listens to me”).
·
Humanism says, “I worship God in
my own way” and “I don’t need
anyone to help me know God… I trust my own heart to guide me to him.”
Are you a follower of
Jesus and the Bible (including those He sent you) or are you an independent
follower of Humanism?
Pro_14:12 CAB
There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it
reach to the depths of hell.
Also see: Psa_51:5 (naturally corrupt); Ecc_9:3 (full of evil); Mar_7:21-23 (you sin because there’s sin in your heart)
·
According to the Bible, we stand in desperate need of
Jesus’ discipleship, and He has ordained that this training be done through
submitting to other people that He has put in a person’s life as ambassadors of
His proclamation (such as, Apostles, Overseers, Leaders, Mentors, etc.).
·
Truly, we ALL
stand in desperate need… the question is: are we going to walk in foolish
self-confidence relying on ourselves, or are we going to acknowledge our need
and embrace discipleship?
Jer_13:23 CAB
If the Ethiopian H3569/ G128 shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall
you be able to do good, having learned H3928/ G3129 [MT: למדי
(limmûd);
LXX: μεμαθηκότες
(memathēkotes)–
that is, having
been discipled/ trained] to do evil.
[“Ethiopian” (H3569/ G128) – Hebrew
(H3569) כושׁי
(kûshîy*)
– i.e. A Cushite/ a descendant of Cush, son of
Ham (Gen_10:6); Greek (G128) Αἰθίοψ** (Aithiops)
– literally means someone with a burnt (αἰθί) face (οψ) speaking of the adjusted skin color of their face (same as in Num_12 and Act_8:27); From all of this we eventually get “Ethiopian”; i.e. the African
descendants of Cush]
·
The “leopardess” is obviously not sinning by having her
spots, just like the African is not tainted by the uniqueness of the color of
his face, but from these analogies we see the deep set nature that describes
discipleship.
·
When you’ve TRULY been discipled it becomes cemented in
you as a solid part of your nature!
·
When you’ve TRULY been discipled it becomes as
pronounced as the skin on your face!
·
Mat_7:16-23 “You will know them
by their fruits”
·
Is discipleship where you are going? Or are you drifting spiritually? (You’re not
going to get godly by accident.)
·
Ultimately,
whoever you are learning from and imitating, you are being discipled by these
same people.
Also Compare:
The Disciples of John: Mat_11:2; Mar_2:18; Luk_5:33; Luk_7:18; Joh_3:25
Said to be of Moses: Joh_9:28
The disciples of the Pharisees: Mar_2:18
Questions
If you are a disciple and don’t understand, then you
will ask questions as they did: Mat_13:10;
Mat_13:36; Mat_15:12;
Mat_24:1;
Mat_24:3;
Mat_26:17
It is Not “Forced” Externally
Act_2:41-42 KJV Then they
that gladly received his word were
baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three
thousand souls. 42 And they continued stedfastly
in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in
prayers.
Ruth’s
Example
Rth 1:15 WEB