The Wedding Feast (~19.49) - Moriel Ministries

Hebrews 6:1-2. This week he was teaching
on washings and baptisms. It is wonderful
to see the Lord working in their lives. One
of them hasn’t been baptized as a believer,
having been sprinkled as a baby in the
Dutch Reformed Church which they are
still attending. But he has now said that he
wants to be properly baptized and will be
arranging the day where we will baptize
him in his dam. This will probably be in a
couple of weeks.
Lorraine helped Di with kid’s club on
the Saturday she was here. Our numbers
are growing and that week we had it in our
hut, and Di counted 22. Please pray that
the Lord will give the children hearts to
understand the Gospel as Celani, Khetiwe
and Di take it.
On the Sunday that Lorraine left we were
blessed with a couple from Paulpietersburg
who have been listening to Moriel and
Ariel teachings and experiencing change
by them. They also attend the Wednesday
nights with our friends in Vryheid and have
been encouraged by the fellowship. They
have left the German Lutheran Church
and were attending Elijah Ministries in
Sandton, Johannesburg once a month to
get good Bible teaching. When they arrived
they said that they had come to get baptized
as Salvi had shared from Scripture a few
weeks back about the importance of it.
This took us by a little surprise but it was a
wonderful surprise and we got our bath out
of the storage mud hut, plugged up the hole
and filled it with water. It was a privilege
to share in this occasion with them. They
came with us to Church afterwards where
Phumulani preached a cracking message
in English and Salvi translated into Zulu.
Phumulani was speaking from 1 Peter
about the trials on faith. Salvi said he was
amazed by Phumulani’s clear presentation
of election which he put forth as follows:
“God chooses people to salvation, but the
Bible does not tell us the basis by which
he chooses. Yet man must come freely
and willingly to God.” It is amazing that
this topic has been debated endlessly and
theologians have come to no satisfactory
conclusion and yet Phumulani, from the
middle of rural KwaZulu Natal put it so
simply and yet profoundly that God is both
sovereign and that we must come willingly
and the beauty being that it portrays a two
way relationship where God calls and man
freely responds. After the meeting we
shared in a meal at our home and then we
took Lorraine back to Vryheid to catch the
bus home.
A week later our friend Sue Wells will
be visiting us with seven of their foster
children. Allen and Sue Wells run a ministry
called Bezaleel which is a family home
with eleven children that they parent.
Salvador & Dianne Hayworth
These children were from various African
tribal backgrounds. Allen has started a Wi-
Fi internet business to provide a future for
some of his children. However it is still in
its early stages. The family lives by relying
on free will offerings of people who feel
moved to support them. Please keep them
in your prayers, especially regarding Sue’s
visit. If anyone would like to learn more
about their work, receive a newsletter or
support them in any way please feel free to
contact them on these details. Email: bezaleel@saol.com.
Phone: +27 (0) 11 815 3900
Salvi continues to evangelize three local
areas. In Eastmine a couple of weeks
ago he was waved down by a family who
wanted him to share the Scriptures with
them. He started a study and then they
asked him to come again. They still want
to continue studying the Scriptures, so this
could be the start of a small Bible study
in that part of the community. The ladies
at Saturday’s Bible study in Steiland have
been asking wonderful questions and it is
faithfully continuing. Please pray for these
studies. If anyone has any questions or
comments please feel free to e-mail them.
Our internet time is very limited so we
might be slow in replying but we welcome
any correspondence.
Shalom In Jesus.
Salvi and Di.
THE PRINCIPLE OF GODLINESS
1 Timothy 3:16 – “By common confession,
great is the mystery of godliness:
He who was revealed in the flesh, Was
vindicated in the Spirit, Seen by angels,
Proclaimed among the nations, Believed
on in the world, Taken up in glory”
The fact that Jesus was vindicated in
the Spirit means that He was wronged in
the flesh. You can only be vindicated if
you have wronged or have been wronged.
As Jesus was sinless we know that He did
no wrong, so He could only have been
wronged. Jesus was never really seen for
who He was while He was on the earth. It
was a rare occasion that someone like Peter
would say, “You are the Christ, the Son
of the Living God.” But Jesus was seen by
angels. He preached only to the people of
a tiny country, Israel. He said that He came
for the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
God had promised Abraham that through
his seed all nations would be blessed. But
in His vindication Jesus was proclaimed
among the nations. We read about that in
the book of Acts. In the flesh no one really
believed in Him. 5,000 people followed
Jesus for the food but left at His teaching.
South Africa News
When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead,
no one believed that Jesus could do it. Even
Martha’s faith failed. She had displayed
faith concerning the fact that God would
give whatever Jesus would ask, and concerning
the fact that Jesus was the Christ,
the son of God. She had also believed in
the resurrection on the last day. When it
came to the actual raising of Lazarus, her
faith failed. But in Jesus’ vindication He
was believed on in the world. And lastly
Jesus died a cruel, shameful and humiliating
death. He died the death of a convicted
criminal, though He did nothing wrong.
But in His vindication He was taken up in
glory. Jesus did not snatch at His vindication
but He trusted on His heavenly Father.
He waited for God to initiate it and He responded
to God’s leading.
The Gospel shows a relationship between
God and man where man is helpless
to save himself and has no righteousness
of his own. Therefore God, out of His own
initiative, stepped in and initiated salvation
by what Jesus did on the cross and by the
Gospel’s call to repent. God offers salvation
and man must respond. This is not only
true of salvation, but it is also true with all
our blessings. And this is true spirituality:
that I respond to what God is telling me
and showing me in faith. The idea that we
can initiate anything in our Christian walk
is pseudo-spirituality. Everything that we
do in our Christian walk is in relation to
what God has already done. We believe because
He has told us and we love because
He loved first.
Y’varechecha Adonai
December 2009 • Moriel Quarterly 25