On 8th April 2018, Emmanuel church Lusaka had Sunday service, which was opened by the intercessory prayers led by Pastor Musonda, Bible study was led by Missionary James who shared from the book of Romans 8:28-30 with the theme “Predestined”. He explained that its meaning is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God. God takes care of this world with good will.

With reference to “Jeremiah 29:11”, he said that God knows the plans for you, which plans are to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future, because He is the God who does not does not slumber, nor sleep (Psalms 121:3-4). He said that the destination that you have is being a child of God, but to be a child of God, there must exist love and a calling in you and this bring you to glorification in God. He concluded with the four steps that lead to glory and they include the following; predestination or fore knew, this means God knew you before, that’s why He loved you first (1john 4:19), the next one is Calling, you are called by God to be where you are, least but not last Justification, with this he said that Jesus died for your sins in order to be pure an justified by Faith and lastly he concluded with the Glorification that is in serving God.

The main sermon came from the book of Matthew 22:34-40. About “love” this was preached by Evangelist Bwalya, he explained that children of God are commissioned to Love your neighbor as yourself, as well as loving God with all your heart, mind and soul. He drew more light “We should carry each ones burden as a sign of love”. You the parts of the body of Christ, that means there must be imitations of Jesus Christ, for He loved you even when you were a sinner that is why He was crucified.
He urged the Christians to love one another that is the only time they will understand one another, and this will bring out giving. He said that giving comes as a sign of love, not because you want to be recognized by people, God loved the world and gave His only son “John 3:16” Love gives genuinely with a kind heart. He concluded that love is unity, kind, corporation and oneness. “If we want to receive love from God then we ought to love one another as a sign of obeying the commandments from God” He finalized the preaching with a closing prayer. Missionary James led into the benediction hence marking the end of the service.