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This sermon explores the biblical significance of the cloud of glory as a manifestation of God's presence, tracing its history from the Garden of Eden to the Exodus. It details how God guided the Israelites through the wilderness with a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, ultimately dwelling among them in the Tabernacle at Mount Sinai. The speaker emphasizes that this heavy, tangible presence signifies God's grace in inhabiting the midst of a sinful people, providing both protection and direction. The narrative highlights the transition from general fellowship to specific covenantal revelation, culminating in the dedication of the Tabernacle, where God's glory filled the Holy of Holies. Ultimately, the message underscores that the center of Israel's life was their worship and meeting at God's mobile presence in the Tabernacle.
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The sermon explores the tragic departure of God's glory from the earthly temple due to the severe idolatry and abominations committed by the people of Israel. It traces the historical significance of the tabernacle and Solomon's temple as places where Yahweh dwelt in concentrated presence among His covenant people. The preacher contrasts this holy dwelling with the spiritual corruption that forced God to vacate Jerusalem, highlighting the seriousness of mixing pagan practices with true worship. Ultimately, the message points to Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the earthly temple and emphasizes the need for believers to approach God with reverence and holiness through the indwelling Holy Spirit.
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A reading with teaching commentary of Ezekiel 2 and 3.
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In today's episode, we sit beside Ezekiel on the banks of a canal. It is his 30th year, and it should be a day of celebration as he begins his active role as a priest. Instead, he is in exile far from home, in a distant land called Babylon. A storm cloud from the north approaches, and as it draws near, we catch up with Ezekiel in a strange and awesome vision.
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This sermon explores the nature of Christian worship through the lens of Ephesians, emphasizing that true worship is a Spirit-filled, communal act rather than a private experience. The preacher highlights the dual direction of congregational singing, which simultaneously addresses God vertically and edifies fellow believers horizontally. By integrating Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, the church expresses a full range of biblical emotion and theological truth while remaining alive to the Holy Spirit's movement. The message strongly advocates for physical gathering over digital consumption, arguing that mutual edification requires the presence of the body of Christ. Ultimately, worship is defined as dependence on God through song and intercessory prayer, reflecting the church's identity as the habitation of the Spirit.
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This podcast explores How the Church Functions, Equips, and Builds Itself Up in Love based on Ephesians 4.
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The message defines the church as the visible earthly presence and body of the risen Christ, emphasizing its central role in God's redemptive plan rather than viewing it as an optional institution. It outlines three primary marks of a healthy local assembly: faith directed upward toward Jesus, love extended outward to all saints regardless of status, and Spirit-given unity maintained through patient humility. The preacher argues that the church serves as the instrument through which Christ continues his ministry and displays God's manifold wisdom to spiritual powers by uniting diverse peoples into one body. This cosmic significance underscores the necessity of face-to-face participation in a local congregation for genuine Christian discipleship and spiritual growth. Ultimately, the gathering of believers glorifies God and functions under the headship of Jesus Christ as they await his return.
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The podcast explores the dramatic life of King Manasseh of Judah, widely considered one of the most wicked kings in biblical history, as a profound demonstration of God's grace, mercy, and willingness to forgive even the worst of sinners. It also serves as a cautionary tale about parental influence and legacy.
Major Points from the Narrative
- A Long, Wicked Reign: Manasseh became king at just 12 years old and ruled Jerusalem for 55 years—the longest reign of any Judean king. He completely reversed the godly reforms of his father, King Hezekiah, by rebuilding pagan high places, practicing sorcery, consulting mediums, desecrating the Temple with idols, and even sacrificing his own sons.
- Divine Judgment and Captivity: Because Manasseh and the people ignored God's prophets, the Assyrian army captured Manasseh "with hooks," bound him in bronze chains, and exiled him to Babylon.
- Repentance and Restored Grace: In his severe distress, Manasseh humbled himself and prayed fervently to God. Highlighting a reading from the Apocrypha text The Prayer of Manasseh, the podcast underscores his deep confession of guilt. God answered his plea, forgave him, and remarkably restored him to his throne in Jerusalem.
- Later Reforms: Following his restoration, Manasseh spent his remaining years tearing down the pagan idols he built, fortifying Jerusalem's defenses, and commanding Judah to serve Yahweh.
- The Long Shadow of a Parent's Legacy: Though Manasseh repented, his son Amon chose to imitate the wicked, idolatrous years of his father’s youth rather than his later years of righteousness. Amon refused to humble himself and was assassinated after a brief two-year reign, which ultimately paved the way for the godly King Josiah.
Practical Applications for Listeners
1. No One is Beyond the Reach of God's Grace. The primary spiritual takeaway is that God is exceptionally compassionate, patient, and ready to grant remission of sins to anyone who genuinely repents. If the "most wicked king" could be forgiven and saved, no listener has sinned too deeply to turn back to God.
2. Pay Attention to Divine Warnings The narrative warns against spiritual stubbornness. Listeners are urged to pay attention when rebuked by God—whether through scripture, preaching, or life circumstances—and to pivot quickly rather than ignoring the warnings as Manasseh initially did.
3. The Reality of Parental Influence The episode highlights how a parent's early life of rebellion can deeply impact their children. Children often mimic a parent's worst seasons rather than their later corrections.
4. Intercede for the Next Generation For listeners who may have come to faith later in life and worry about the negative influence they previously had on their children, the speaker exhorts them to turn to fervent prayer—asking God to awaken their children, show them mercy, and break the cycle of generational sin.
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Every Christian is called to bear witness to who Jesus is and what he has accomplished by his death, burial, and resurrection from the dead for those who believe in Him and confess him. 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, Romans 10:4-13. We are to witness to him by using his Word recorded in the promise in the Law, the prophets, and the psalms, and how Jesus fulfilled them as the Messiah as recorded in the New Testament. Examples are given in Acts 5, 7, and 8 of Peter, Stephen and Philip doing as Christ commanded in Luke 24:44-49.
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"Our Mission Mandate as Christians
I. Introduction: The Core Nature of Christianity
- The Thesis: Christianity is inherently and fundamentally a missionary religion designed to convert others to faith in Jesus Christ.
- The Defect of Passive Faith: Any form of Christianity that does not actively bear witness to Jesus is explicitly labeled as defective, as the Bible strictly mandates this lifestyle.
II. The Historical and Physical Proof of the Resurrection
- The Core Event: The mandate is rooted in historical reality: Jesus was crucified, buried, and physically raised from the dead 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem.
- Tangible Evidence over Isolation: * Jesus did not appear to just one person or in secret; he repeatedly manifested to groups of disciples (ranging from 8, 10, to 11 at a time).
- He proved his physical, bodily resurrection by speaking, allowing disciples to touch his wounds, and physically eating broiled fish.
- The 40-Day Instruction Period: Jesus spent 40 busy days on Earth post-resurrection, using his authority as King to instruct his followers on their vital mandate before ascending into heaven.
III. The Fivefold New Testament Commission (Chronological Review)
The speaker outlines how the critical mission to spread the message of Jesus is uniquely underscored by being recorded five distinct times in the New Testament:
- Commission 1: John’s Account (The First Evening)
- Occurs on the evening of the resurrection behind locked doors.
- Jesus provides peace, shows his wounds, and sends them out with the model: "As the Father has sent me, even so I'm sending you.".
- He breathes on them to receive the Holy Spirit and speaks on the authority of handling forgiveness.
- Note on Thomas: Thomas misses this first meeting, doubts, but makes a grand confession of faith ("My Lord and my God") the following week.
- Commission 2: Luke’s Account (The First Evening)
- Connected to the Road to Emmaus disciples returning to the 11 in Jerusalem.
- Jesus proves his physical nature by eating, then opens their minds to understand that his suffering and resurrection fulfilled the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.
- He commands that repentance and forgiveness of sins be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Commission 3: Luke’s Account in Acts (The Day of Ascension)
- Jesus corrects the disciples' focus from political timing (restoring the kingdom to Israel) to global witnessing.
- He promises the immediate power of the Holy Spirit to make them witnesses from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
- Commission 4: Matthew’s Account (The Royal Commission)
- Takes place on a designated mountain in Galilee during the 40-day window.
- Jesus claims "all authority" in heaven and on earth.
- He issues the authoritative directive to go, make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Triune God, and teach obedience to his commands, backed by his perpetual presence.
- Commission 5: Paul’s Account (The Ministry of Reconciliation)
- Focuses on the conversion and commission of Paul, a former chief persecutor of the church.
- Frames evangelism as being driven by the love of Christ because believers are entirely new creations.
- Defines the church's status as "ambassadors for Christ," entrusted with the message and appeal for the world to be reconciled to God.
IV. Conclusion: The Universal Scope and Purpose of the Mandate
- Not Restricted to the Apostles: The commission was explicitly not just for the original 12 disciples; it is binding for all believers across all time.
- A Shared, Joyful Responsibility: While some possess a distinct spiritual gift of evangelism, every Christian is expected to witness to Christ through both their spoken words and the actions of their lives.
- The Ultimate Goal: To share what God has done so that mankind can receive the forgiveness of sins, walk in eternal life, and be incorporated into the body of believers.
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Why did God choose a single nation in the ancient world? In this illuminating episode of Bible Insights, host Wayne Conrad dives deep into the scriptures to uncover the true connection between God's covenant with Israel and His global heart for humanity.
Walking through the foundational narratives of Genesis, the poetic declarations of the Psalms, and the final visions of Revelation, Wayne unpacks how the calling of Abraham was never meant to be an exclusive country club, but rather the catalyst for a worldwide rescue mission. Discover how Israel's history, laws, and lineage perfectly paved the way for Jesus Christ to come—not just as a localized Savior, but as the redeemer of every tribe, tongue, and nation. Tune in for a profound look at God's unchanging, universal purpose that is still actively unfolding across the globe today.
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A Trinity Sunday exposition of John 14 from Good Shepherd Church. The sermon centers on the profound revelation of God as Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—unveiled through Jesus’ words in John 14, where He declares Himself the way, truth, and life, and affirms that to see Him is to see the Father. It emphasizes that God’s eternal nature, expressed in the divine name 'I am who I am,' is not solitary but a self-sufficient, mutual indwelling of three distinct persons in perfect unity, revealed not through abstract theology but through God’s historical self-revelation in Christ. The passage confronts human attempts to compartmentalize or reduce the Trinity to mere metaphors or mathematical equations, affirming instead that the Father, Son, and Spirit are inseparable in essence and action, with the Holy Spirit dwelling in believers as the guarantee of God’s presence and unity. Jesus’ promise to return and to make His home with those who love Him underscores the intimate, eternal fellowship within the Godhead, which is now accessible to believers through faith in Christ and the Spirit’s indwelling, fulfilling the ultimate purpose of redemption: that humanity may know the one true God and Jesus Christ, whom He sent.
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An interpretative reading of Acts 2 – The Day of Pentecost!
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The sermon presents the ascension of Jesus Christ as a historical event with a profound theological revelation of His ongoing sovereignty, victory, and intercession in heaven. Through visions in the Book of Revelation, Jesus is portrayed as the exalted Lamb, the faithful witness, and the King of kings, seated at God’s throne, triumphing over evil through His sacrificial death and resurrection. These images—of the ascended Christ among the lampstands, the slain yet victorious Lamb, and the rider on the white horse—affirm that Christ’s ascension secures the church’s protection, establishes His eternal reign, and guarantees His ultimate return to judge the world with justice. These truths are comforting and empowering, assuring believers that despite persecution and suffering, Christ reigns supreme, and His followers are already united with Him in heavenly places. We are called to worship, faith, and perseverance, rooted in the confidence that Christ’s death-resurrection and ascension is the foundation of Christian hope and identity.
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The ascension of Jesus Christ, occurring 40 days after His resurrection, is a pivotal event that completes His redemptive mission, affirming His victory over sin and death and establishing His ongoing intercession for believers. Far from being a mere historical footnote, it underscores Christ’s dual nature as fully God and fully man, as He ascended in His glorified, immortal human body into heaven, now seated at the right hand of the Father. This act signifies His exaltation as Prophet, Priest, and King, where He intercedes for His people, sustains the Church through the Holy Spirit, and prepares for His return. The ascension is not a departure but a divine appointment—Christ’s humanity now occupies the throne of heaven, securing our hope and union with Him, and guaranteeing our future resurrection and eternal life. Rooted in Scripture, affirmed in early creeds, and essential to the Christian faith, the ascension is a vital truth that must be recovered in the church’s worship and teaching.
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The sermon calls for a renewed reverence and biblical fidelity in the observance of the Lord's Supper, emphasizing its central role in Christian worship. Drawing from the Gospels, Paul’s letters, and the early church’s practice in Acts, it affirms that the Supper is not a peripheral ritual but a profound act of remembrance, communion, and proclamation of Christ’s sacrifice, meant to be celebrated frequently—ideally weekly—and at the heart of corporate worship. The preacher warns against diminishing the Supper through infrequent observance, mechanical or individualized distribution, devaluing the Supper by viewing it as just a symbol, and the omission of thanksgiving, participation, and teaching. Instead, he advocates for a communal, liturgical, and meaningful celebration using biblical elements—bread and wine—accompanied by the Lord’s own words, intentional fellowship, and a posture of spiritual readiness, restoring the Supper to its rightful place as a vital expression of the church’s unity and identity in Christ. At its core the Lord’s Supper is a spiritual meeting between the risen Lord and His people. By treating it with more reverence and frequency, the church can better participate in the "sweet, intimate fellowship" and the forgiveness of sins that the meal is meant to proclaim.
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"The Imperative of Gathered Worship" — Bible Insights with Wayne Conrad
What if skipping church isn't just a personal choice — but a quiet unraveling of your faith?
In this thought-provoking episode, Wayne Conrad challenges one of the most common habits of modern Christianity: the slow drift away from gathered worship. With a pastor's warmth and a theologian's precision, he dismantles comfortable excuses — "I can worship God on the golf course," "I connect with God better on my own" — and replaces them with a compelling, scripture-rooted case for why community isn't optional for the Christian life.
Conrad traces the thread from Israel assembled at Sinai, to Jesus himself making it his custom to attend the synagogue every week, to the early church meeting house-to-house with prayer, teaching, and the Lord's Supper at the center. The pattern is ancient, consistent, and — he argues — still binding.
But this isn't a legalistic scolding. It's a love letter. Conrad reframes attendance not as a religious duty but as a matter of devotion: Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. Every Lord's Day, he suggests, Christ is waiting — and the question is whether we show up.
Whether you're a faithful churchgoer, a spiritual drifter, or somewhere in between, this episode will make you think carefully about what it means to belong to the body of Christ — and what we lose when we quietly opt out.
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“The Finished Work of Christ on the Cross”
In this episode of Bible Insights, Wayne Conrad teaches that Jesus Christ’s death on the cross was a complete, once-for-all sacrifice for sin, emphasizing the meaning of Christ’s declaration, “It is finished” (tetelestai).
Key Points:
- Christ’s Final Declaration:
When Jesus said “It is finished,” He घोषित that His atoning work was fully accomplished—God’s wrath against sin had been satisfied, and nothing remained to be done. - Biblical Foundation (Hebrews 9–10):
Scripture teaches that Christ offered Himself once for all, unlike Old Testament priests who offered repeated sacrifices. His work is final, sufficient, and never to be repeated. - Christ’s Completed Priesthood:
Jesus “sat down” at God’s right hand, signifying that His sacrificial work is finished—unlike the continual labor of Levitical priests. - Critique of the Roman Catholic Mass:
The podcast argues that the Catholic doctrine of the Mass—as a repeated, propitiatory (wrath-appeasing) sacrifice—is unbiblical and contradicts the finality of Christ’s work.
It references the Council of Trent, which teaches that Christ is re-presented in an “unbloody” sacrifice, and rejects this as inconsistent with Scripture. - Reformation Perspective:
Reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli upheld that:- Christ’s sacrifice is once for all
- The Lord’s Supper is a memorial and thanksgiving, not a repeated sacrifice
- Salvation is by faith alone, not by works or participation in ongoing sacrifices
- Doctrinal Implications:
- Believers have peace with God because the work is already finished
- No human merit or repeated ritual is needed for forgiveness
- Faith rests entirely in Christ’s completed work
- Pastoral Concern:
The speaker urges churches to teach doctrine clearly and deeply, warning that weak teaching can lead people to misunderstand or abandon the biblical gospel.
Conclusion:
The central message is that Christ’s death on the cross is fully sufficient and never repeated. Salvation is accomplished entirely by His finished work and received through faith alone.
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central message of the Christian gospel, especially in the Book of Acts. The apostles consistently proclaimed not only Christ’s death for sins but His bodily resurrection as the decisive proof that He is Lord and Messiah. They supported this message through eyewitness testimony, fulfillment of Old Testament Scripture, and the present power of the Holy Spirit working among them. This resurrection empowered their bold preaching despite persecution, brought thousands to faith, and confirmed both the promise of salvation and the reality of coming judgment. The proper response, therefore, is to repent, believe in Christ, and receive forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
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Day of Atonement: Two Goats and Jesus Christ
Was the sacrifice of Jesus a "down payment" for salvation, or did it pay the debt in full? In this episode of Bible Insights, Wayne Conrad explores the profound relationship between the Old Testament Day of Atonement and its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
By comparing the "shadow" found in Leviticus 16 with the "substance" revealed in Hebrews 9, we examine how Jesus alone embodies the work typified by the two goats. We also dive into a theological contrast between the Reformed evangelical view of a finished atonement and the Seventh-day Adventist teaching regarding the role of the scapegoat.
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The Finished Work: Why R.C. Sproul argued that "if we don’t get the doctrine of atonement right, we don’t have a gospel at all."
Shadow vs. Reality: Understanding the biblical relationship between the rituals of Leviticus and the reality of the Cross.
Atonement Defined: A look at why Christ’s sacrifice provides actual and complete atonement rather than just a "possibility" for salvation.
Join us as we search the Scriptures to find assurance in the "double cure" of Christ’s finished work.
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The sermon presents a profound theological connection between the Old Testament Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16 and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ as revealed in Hebrews 9 and 10, illustrating how the shadow of ritual sacrifice points to the substance of Christ's redemptive work. Through the dual symbolism of the two goats—one slain to satisfy divine justice and the other sent into the wilderness to carry away sin—the Old Covenant ritual prefigures Christ's dual role as both the sacrificial Lamb who bears punishment and the living High Priest who removes guilt forever. Jesus fulfills this pattern not through repeated earthly rituals, but through His once-for-all sacrifice on the cross, His resurrection, and His eternal intercession in heaven, where He now sits at God's right hand, having completed the work of atonement. The result is not merely ceremonial cleansing, but the purifying of the conscience, enabling believers to serve the living God in true worship. This eternal redemption, accomplished through Christ's perfect sacrifice, renders all other offerings obsolete and establishes a permanent, definitive reconciliation between God and humanity.
The Day of Atonement and its ritual of the two goats were a prefigurement of the actual atonement made by Jesus Christ on the cross followed by his death-burial-resurrection and ascension into heaven.
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This episode is a narrative story of the internal worship experience based on the actual worship guide of the service. It begins and ends with the Apostle John's closing words in his letter. Little children keep yourselves from idols. The sermon unfolds a profound theological journey centered on the reality of the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ, the source of eternal life. Beginning with the worshipful acknowledgment of God’s sovereign majesty and self-existence, it moves through the clarifying light of the law, the honest confession of idolatry in all its forms—comfort, reputation, self-sufficiency—and the liberating grace of the gospel. It reveals that true life is not found in human constructs or achievements, but in intimate knowledge of the Father through the Son, a knowledge that transforms identity and purpose. The call to 'keep yourselves from idols' is not a moralistic warning, but a heartfelt exhortation rooted in the reality that only in Christ, the living God, is there lasting fulfillment and unshakable life. The sermon culminates in the sacramental meal, where the presence of Christ is not remembered but experienced, and the believer is invited to dwell in Him who is true, nourished by grace and sustained by the Spirit. Worship guide found on church website: gsccdallas.org
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This episode explores the fundamental theological conflict between merit-based religious practices and the concept of divine mercy.
The Scale of Judgment
Conrad uses the visual of "the scales" to compare how different traditions approach righteousness:
Islam: Highlights the concept of the Mizan, where a believer's good deeds are weighed against their bad deeds on the day of judgment.
Catholicism/Orthodoxy: Discusses how traditions like Lent, the rosary, and penance are sometimes viewed as a means to earn merit or shorten time in purgatory.
General Secularism: Notes that even non-religious people often hope their "kindness" or "charity" will eventually outweigh their faults.
The Problem of Human Effort
Human goodness is an insufficient "currency" because the scale is actually measured against God’s perfect holiness.
Inadequate "Rags": Citing Isaiah 64, he explains that human righteous deeds are viewed by God as "polluted garments".
The Debt of Sin: He asserts that even a single sin outweighs a lifetime of fasting, and religious merit cannot bridge the gap between humanity and a holy God.
The Gospel Solution: Grace and Faith
Salvation must be received as a gift rather than earned through performance:
The Divine Transfer: Christian Gospel is a "divine transfer" where Christ takes on human sin on the cross and, in exchange, grants His perfect righteousness to the believer.
Gift vs. Debt: Drawing from Ephesians 2 and Romans, salvation is a gift of grace received through faith, not a result of works.
A New Motive: He clarifies that while believers should still perform good deeds, the motive changes from earning merit to expressing love and gratitude for the favor they have already received.
The Scale of Judgment
Conrad uses the visual of "the scales" to compare how different traditions approach righteousness:
Islam: Highlights the concept of the Mizan, where a believer's good deeds are weighed against their bad deeds on the day of judgment.
Surah 9:101-103: The trumpet is blown on that day.."those whose good deeds weigh heavy will be successful but those whose balance is light will have lost their souls forever and will stay in hell."
Catholicism/Orthodoxy: Discusses how traditions like Lent, the rosary, and penance are sometimes viewed as a means to earn merit or shorten time in purgatory.
Council of Trent: Conrad references the teaching that a justified person merits an increase in grace and eternal life through good deeds.
Canon XXIV: States that justice received is preserved and also increased before God through good works.
Canon XXXII: Asserts that the good works of a justified person truly merit an increase of grace and eternal life.
General Secularism: Notes that even non-religious people often hope their "kindness" or "charity" will eventually outweigh their faults.
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As we enter the worship of God in the gathering of his people we need to heed the caution lights of Ecclesiastes 5. We are entering the presence of the holy King of the universe and our Father through faith in Jesus Christ. Such a high and holy privilege requires intentionality, putting away distractions and listening to God's Word shared in reading, singing, praying, teaching, preaching. We are to worship God with reverence and awe.
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In this episode of Bible Insights, host Wayne Conrad explores the foundational identity of Jesus Christ through the lens of 1 John 5. Addressing the "doctrinal erosion" that threatened the early church, Conrad breaks down the "triple witness"—the water, the blood, and the Spirit—that confirms Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah.
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Today is Ash Wednesday on the Christian Year cycle. A number of Christian group gather for worship for the beginning of Lent. The actual word lent comes from Latin, ver which refers primarily to spring. However, the term as used in church is time of preparation for the coming focus on Jesus' sufferings and death and the glory of his resurrection. Even if you do not observe Lent with fasting and self-reflection the ritual of Ash Wednesday brings before us some vital Biblical truths. Primarily the mark of ash on the forehead carries the truth of our mortality and the need for ongoing repentance in our lives. This podcast looks at the trail of ashes in the Biblical story.
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The writings of the Apostle John gives prominence to the idea of overcoming the devil and world system and the old human nature termed our flesh. We are engaged in a spiritual war consisting of many battles. We can overcome the world, the flesh and the devil in union with our Lord Jesus. We conqueror only because Jesus overcame and our faith is in him. However we cannot be passive in this battle. Our faith must be active in the war. The Lord has gifted us with necessary actions that equip us and build us up. These consist of reading the Bible for understanding of the writer's thoughts, praying which is talking to God as expression of our relationship to him and other believers. A major means is attendance and active involvement in the corporate worship of our God and Savior plus active fellowship with our spiritual family, fellow believers. 1 John 5:3-5 For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whatever is born of God conquers (overcomes) the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is it who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? NRSV
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The Apostle John gives an urgent warning to the Christians he has pastored and to us. Many false prophets and teachers have gone out into the world but we must not gullibly believe them but we must test them. The purpose of the test is to determine if they are from God or the spirit of antichrist. He gives two major theological test and some related social test.
In this episode of Bible Insights, Wayne Conrad teaches on “Testing the Spirits” from 1 John 4:1–6. He explains that Christians live in an age of many persuasive voices—religious, cultural, and spiritual—and therefore must not be gullible nor cynical, but discerning. John’s command is clear: “Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.”
The reason for testing is that many false prophets have gone out into the world. False teaching is not rare, and it often sounds spiritual and convincing. Discernment, however, is not suspicion; it is love guarding the truth.
Conrad highlights several key tests drawn from the text:
1. The Christological Test
The primary test concerns the identity of Jesus Christ. True teaching confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh—fully God and fully man. Any teaching that denies or distorts Christ’s incarnation, deity, humanity, or saving work reflects the spirit of the Antichrist. Redefining Jesus while using religious language is a mark of error.
2. The Apostolic Test
True doctrine aligns with the apostolic witness preserved in Scripture. Those who know God listen to the apostles’ teaching; those shaped by the world reject it. Scripture—Old and New Testaments together—is the authoritative standard for testing all spiritual claims.
3. The Reception Test
The world often embraces false teaching and resists biblical truth. Popularity is not evidence of divine approval. Fidelity to apostolic truth, not success or charisma, is the true measure.
4. The Goal and Fruit Test
The Spirit of truth exalts Christ, produces worship of God, nurtures godliness, and brings assurance through the indwelling Holy Spirit. The spirit of error promotes self-centered independence, false ideas, and deception—even if it appears impressive or spectacular.
The episode concludes by urging believers to:
- Examine doctrine carefully.
- Compare all teaching with Scripture.
- Evaluate whether a message reflects worldly thinking or biblical truth.
The ultimate focus must remain on Jesus Christ—the incarnate Son of God and Savior. By grounding themselves in Scripture and holding firmly to the true confession of Christ, believers can walk in truth and avoid deception.
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Using Psalm 95 the author of Hebrews warns believers, Christians, of the danger of falling away from following Christ.
Two references are recalled of how to Stop the regression by remembering God's Word of promise and the confession of a true faith. "Well, on Saturday, about midnight the pilgrims began to pray; and continued in prayer till almost break of day.
Now a little before it was day, good CHRISTIAN, as one half amazed, break out in this passionate speech: "What a fool," quoth he, "am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom called Promise; that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle." Then said HOPEFUL, "That's good news; good brother, pluck it out of thy bosom, and try."
Then CHRISTIAN pulled it out of his bosom, and began to try at the dungeon door; whose bolt (as he turned the key) gave back, and the door flew open with ease: and CHRISTIAN and HOPEFUL both came out. Then he went to the outward door that led into the castle yard; and with his key opened that door also. After, he went to the iron gate, for that must be opened too; but that lock went exceedingly hard: yet the key did open it. Then they thrust open the gate to make their escape with speed; but that gate, as it opened, made such a creaking, that it waked Giant DESPAIR: who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again, so that he could by no means go after them. Then they went on, and came to the king's highway again; and so were safe." [John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress] https://www.biblebb.com/files/bunyan/pilgrimsprogress1.htm
Martin Luther's prayer from Psalm 119:94 ,taught to him by his friend and confessor Stauptiz, when Luther was in torment over his sins,in the movie, I am yours save me.
When you know you are moving away from the Lord in your heart and actions recall whose your are. You belong to the Lord Jesus. Confess your sins. Get up and use the key of promise in faith. Run to Christ who died and rose you. Get back on the road heading for that city whose builder and maker is God. Do not despair use the key of promise. Run to Christ
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Among all the books that make up the Bible, the Book of Ecclesiastes is unique literature. It is part of the wisdom literature of the Bible. But it is different. Sometimes when people read it they can become sad and feel a sense of loss. The reason may lie in how the word in Hebrew transliterated as havel is translated. The English translations vary. Some render it as "vanity," others as "meaningless" or "futile" and some as "purposeless" A more literal translation would be merest breath (Robert Alter) carrying the idea of a vapor, wind, something real but illusive. The author of Ecclesiastes who says he is a Teacher or Preacher relates how people such as himself try in vain to obtain lasting fulfillment in various things or activities to excess and to the exclusion of God, who alone can give true meaning to life.
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Psalm 86:6-8
Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace.In the day of my trouble I call upon you,for you answer me.There is none like you among the gods, O LORD (Yahweh),nor are there any works like yours. ESV
Psalm 50:14-15
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
This podcast is an An offering of praise to God for his kindness and mercy in answering prayer yesterday in sending help to deliver me and my friend from a serious situation. Bible truth expressed in these verses demonstrated in a personall event.
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The psalmist Asaph, the leader of the temple worship, shares a struggle he had in his mind and spirit with his faith. The struggle was a result of a wrong perspective in considering the arrogant unbelievers in contrast with the believer such as himself. He had thoughts that would have harmed the people if he spoken them aloud. He felt hopeless in understanding God's dealings with the unbeliever and with the believer such as himself. However, when he went into the sanctuary of God he understood the end of the wicked and his own future, " afterward you will receive me to glory." Following this revelation he burst into affirmative praise and confession: Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever!
An interpretive reading of Psalm 73.
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Malachi is the last prophet who ministered to the remnant of the Jews who returned to the land from Persia. See 2 Chronicles 36:15-23. The people have been in the land and have rebuild the temple and their houses. However there are serious problems with the people's relationship to Yahweh, their Covenant Lord. Malachi presents God's message that called for their repentance and His promise to come down himself among in the form of a disputation. It is in the style reverse catechism, that is questions and answers. This podcast only considers chapter 1 using the Christian Standard Bible and the World English Bible.
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Mankind has this God driven need to designate times, seasons and years. In the Bible the designation of a New Year and its yearly celebration is given in Exodus 12, this month is to be the beginning of a year. Our current custom of marking a New Year on January comes from paganism and the Roman emperor Julius Caesar and it is in honor of the Roman god Janus, the two directional god of beginnings and transitions who faces backward and forward. But what is the Biblical meaning attached to new beginnings? Psalm 90 is the prayer of Moses on such an occasion. O God our help in ages pass and our eternal home. Teach us to number our days and give us hearts and minds of wisdom to number our days.
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Although we celebrate the birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth on December 25 it is highly improbable that he was born on this day! The accounts found in Luke and Matthew do not give us an exact day they do relate a timeframe of the year. Consider Luke 2 and the revelation to the shepherds out in the fields at night. No shepherd would have his sheep in the wet cold winter in Israel! This is the season of little grazing grass necessary for their life and health. The time for flocks grazing is the Spring and Summer and early Fall but not Winter.
John's gospel directly links Jesus with the fulfillment of the Feast of Israel recorded in Leviticus 23. After Jesus immersion by John and his return from the wilderness the Prophet Forerunner of the Messiah declared- "Look! The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." John 1:29,35 The lamb and the shepherd are identified by Jesus as pictures of his own life and mission. Using the historical indicators identified in the gospel accounts mostly likely Jesus was crucified at the Passover in the Spring of AD 33 on Thursday or Friday April 2 ,3. The shadow of Law meets its completion in Jesus dying as God's provided Lamb for the sins of his people.
In like manner Jesus birth is connected to the Fall feast of Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. The Hebrew lived in tents during their journey from Egyptian slavery to the Promised land. God also had his tent erected among them as they traveled. And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst. Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it. Exodus 25:8-9 John connects Jesus incarnation with Tabernacles in chapter 1 of his gospel. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.... 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
So does the writer of Hebrews in chapter 8,9,10. "Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. (Hebrews 8:1)
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. Hebrews 9:11-12
Again using historical data and information given in the gospel accounts we can arrive at the approximate date for Jesus birth in the Fall.
But the most important truth is not the date of his arrival but the fact of the historical birth of Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us for us people and our salvation.
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Many people throughout Christian history have been fascinated by the identity of the antichrist. The Apostle John is actually the only biblical write to use the term antichrist! He uses it 5 times in his first two letters. Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. 1 John 2:18
John must have been remembering the words Jesus had spoken recorded by Matthew (24),Mark (13), and Luke (21).“Be careful that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray. Matthew 24:4
John's concern is the theological identity of the antichrist. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 1 John 4:2-3
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 John 7
Thus the spirit of antichrist is found in all those who deny the reality of the incarnation, the coming of the Word, the eternal Son, into human flesh through the virgin birth by Mary of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus became a true human without ceasing to be true deity in his one person for the salvation of sinners. An early Christian confess states, Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory. 1 Timothy 3:16 WEB
It is this truth of who Jesus the Christ (Messiah) is that makes him the one mediator. There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom... 1 Timothy 2:5
Thus, John concludes, Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2:22-23
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This week I have had 3 people I know die. I went to one's funeral but the other two were many miles away and 2 were having funerals today at the same time! All this on my birthday. It causes me to remember Psalm 90 verses 3, 9-12 "You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”
...
For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?
So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
What does the Bible teach us about the reality of death? The location of the spirits of the dead? And how does Jesus Christ birth, death and resurrection address this issue?
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The Apostle John in his first letter writes some intriguing words, "Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you." The old commandment he is referring to is the "Shema," the confession of faith in the one true God to whom we owe full allegiance and devotion. In answer to a scribe's question in Mark 12:28-33 as to what is the greatest commandment, Jesus answers, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. He also relates the second greatest commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself." (This latter commandment is a phrase attached to a list of various laws in Leviticus 19.)
The new component is Jesus' own love for his disciples. He loves us so much that he laid down his life for us on the cross. John 13:1-5, 34f records John's own experience of the love of Jesus shown by his washing their feet. In this context he gives the new commandment, “A new command I give you: Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
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Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday in America dates back to 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaim the 4th Thursday in November a yearly day of thanks. "It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens."
However the tradition of giving thanks to God for his providential care goes back to the Pilgrims who had come over from Holland on the Mayflower. Governor Bradford reports that Plymouth had been stricken with a severe drought. "Upon which," said William Bradford "they set apart a solemn day of humiliation, to seek the Lord by humble and fervent prayer, in this great distress." That same evening it began "to rain with such sweet and gentle showers as gave them cause of rejoicing and blessing God… For which mercy, in time convenient, they also set apart a day of thanksgiving."
They had lived for 10 years in Holland to escape religious persecution from King James toward the Separatists. There they had contact with Anabaptist and Sephardic Jews who observed a feast of thanks known as Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or booths). Our Thanksgiving festival probably goes alway to the Torah indirectly through the Pilgrims having such a feast in 1621. George Webb records a prayer like the one they would have offered on that November 29.
O Lord our God and heavenly Father, which of Thy unspeakable mercy towards us, hast provided meate and drinke for the nourishment of our weake bodies. Grant us peace to use them reverently, as from Thy hands, with thankful hearts: let Thy blessing rest upon these Thy good creatures, to our comfort and sustentation: and grant we humbly beseech Thee, good Lord, that as we doe hunger and thirst for this food of our bodies, so our soules may earnestly long after the food of eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, Amen.
George Webb, "Short direction for the daily exercise of the Christian," London 1625. Courtesy of Plimoth Plantation
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The main idea that drives the Apostle John's first letter is fellowship with God. He makes this clear when he starts his letter. "What we have seen and heard we also declare to you, so that you may also have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:3 He then addresses the need for knowing the truth about God as light and the truth about our sin as a necessity for true fellowship to exist. He presents 3 false ideas that some have. If we assert the believes that sin is a non entity or that humans do not have a sinful nature or that we have not actually sinned we are not speaking according to truth. We lie about the reality of sin and human nature and actually call God himself a liar!
With repentance that is a change in our mind about our sin and God the holy righteous One who has acted on our behalf we can know fellowship with God through Jesus atoning death. John presents Jesus work as the corrective for these false beliefs. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. v9
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. v7
John is a realist and says, My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John 2:2
At the letter's conclusion John writes, I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:13
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The Christian message and life begins not with man, humanity, but with the being of God himself. In fact the Apostle John begins with the One who was in the beginning and with whom he had had physical emotional connection. He is writing about the incarnation of the Word in the person of Jesus the Christ. John's letter to the churches begins at the same place as the Gospel of John! Compare 1 John 1:1-5 with John 1:1-4. He writes of the Word, Life and light. In his letter he adds the eternal life and fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. His climatic statement is- God is Light! At the conclusion of his letter he summarizes in these words, "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one—that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." 1 John 5:20 CSV
If we are to understand the gospel, and the Christian life correctly then we must begin at the right place. We must begin with God, the God who is Father and Son, Jesus Christ- the true God who is the Holy, the Light!
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John the Apostle was the youngest of Jesus' apostles and he had a unique relationship with the Lord Jesus. Both his gospel testimony and his letters to the churches convey a warm pastoral heart of loving care for the Lord's people. One thing I value in his writings is his stated purpose for writing. In his gospel he states, "Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." JZohn 20:30f
in his letters of 1 John he states several times why his writing and to whom he is writing. "that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled. JZohn 1:3-4
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. 1 John. 2:1-2
He addresses all the people under their spiritual maturations of young believers, adult father believers and young adult believers. To each group he gives a reason such as assurance or encouragement in spiritual warfare.
a number of other reasons are given but end his letter with this one. "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." 1 John 5:20
His letter to them will function in like manner for us who pick up and read.
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The various Reformers during the Protestant Reformation restored New Testament worship emphasis especially the centrality of the Bible in the language of the people. Preaching and the public reading of the Scriptures was the focus in the services. They looked to such Bible passages as John 4:24 and Phillippians 3:3; 1 Corinthians 14:16-18,26 and Acts 2:42 for direction.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Phil 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh
Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them
Acts 2:42 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
1 Timothy 2:1-8
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
8 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
2 Timothy 4:1-2
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
Colossians 3:16 6 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
1 Corinthians 14:15-19, 26
15 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. 16 Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? 17 For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. 18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up
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There are a number of very important issues that were addressed by the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Among them is the recovery of biblical spiritual worship offered to God alone. How we worship must be in accordance with God's special revelation first to Israel under Moses and then to the fullness of truth given in the person and actions of Jesus of Nazareth. "The law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." John 1:17
This episode looks at God's first revelation under the Old Covenant through Moses. The first 3 commandments God spoke from Mount Sinai concern his worship. God alone is the object of our worship. His worship is exclusive and tolerates no idols. Under the Old Covenant God's worship involved an elaborate priesthood, sacrifices ,vestments , days, ect. An imitation of these practices rose in the history of the church and is seen in the worship practices of Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches. The various Protestant Reformers rejected the use of idols in God's worship. They looked to Christ as the fulfillment of the law and ground worship on the New Covenant spoken of in the New Testament.
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Some of the great truths recovered at the Protestant Reformation are summarized in some slogans first enumerated as a list in the mid-20th century as the Five Solas. Although the phrase Soli Deo Gloria seems like an outliner it actually moves to the heart of the recovery of the great truth that God alone is the Savior of sinners. Paul expresses this truth well in Ephesians chapter 1, "to the praise of his glory." God does not share his glory. Not to us Yahweh, not to us but to your name be the glory. Psalm 115
I, even I, am Yahweh, And there is no savior besides Me. Isaiah 43:11
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A Reformation Sunday sermon on the Sola - Soli Deo Gloria. Ephesians 3 contains Paul's prayer for believers to glorify God. The church is theater in which the glory of God in salvation and worship is to be displayed. A major concern at the time of the Protestant Reformation was the diversion of the glory of God to idols and ceremonies that center on man himself. Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and others called the church back to God as the sovereign and only Savior to whom people are to give worship alone.
In the 20th century the primary concern of the Reformers for guarding the Biblical teaching of salvation by God's grace alone through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ alone was summarized in which is known as the 5 Solas. The ultimate issue is that God alone is the Savior to Him alone is glory due. Psalm. 115:1
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to your name give glory,
for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
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This podcast is of this past Sunday. I was not sure I would be preaching after a medical crisis on Thursday into Friday but God gave me strength. Ordinarly I just post podcast but this is a full sermon on Jesus Christ as our perfect and one Mediator between God and humanity. The concept of his unique person that qualifies him to be the Savior is unfolded in the sermon epistle of Hebrews 2, 5, 7,8. Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,a minister in the holy places, in the true tent[a] that the Lord set up, not man. Hebrews 8:1 -2.
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David in Psalm 145 tells us the greatness of God by declaring what he is and what he has done. By example he shows how to praise God the King. However, he goes further by speaking at the beginning of the psalm of he various ways he intents to lift up the Name of God. Listen for the various ways he is extolling God and we can join him in these actions.
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David composed a hymn, a song, extolling the greatness of God in the revelation of his nature, his character displayed in his grace to us. Psalm 145:3 Great is YHWH (Yahweh) and greatly to be praised.
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Paul writes in Colossians 3:16, Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
These words address participation in Christian assembly and tells us to use Psalms. We should read them, pray them, sing them and teach and preach them. Three recently used psalms demonstrate this. The psalms reviewed are, first of all, Psalm 130, a prayer of lament and petition resulting in a self exhortation and a group exhortation.
For the next service we turned to Psalm 105. However, Psalm 105 and 106 are actually one psalm of poetic historical narrative of God's dealings with his chosen people, the Hebrews, Israel. The psalm is an exhortation to praise God and a teaching device to encourage spiritual renewal in light of God's faithfulness.
Lastly, we used Psalm 86, a prayer of David in the form of lament and petition to Yahweh, the Lord. It is a heartfelt prayer of deep relationship with God confessing God's uniqueness- You alone are God.
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord,
nor are there any works like yours.
9 All the nations you have made shall come
and worship before you, O Lord,
and shall glorify your name.
10 For you are great and do wondrous things;
you alone are God.
11 Teach me your way, O Yahweh,
that I may walk in your truth;
unite my heart to fear your name.
12 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
and I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your steadfast love toward me
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The Lord's Supper , holy Communion is an integral part of Christian worship and the singing done at the Table should be rich in content filled with biblical orthodox teaching as well as praise and prayer. Jesus set the example at inaugural holy meal recorded in Matthew 26:30 and Mark 14:26. After singing a hymn (probably Psalm 118) they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Consider the teaching of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:14-21 and Luke’s words in Acts 2:42 and Acts 20:7. The Supper was frequent apparently every First Day of the week when the disciples, the believers came together to eat the Lord’s Supper. See 1 Cor. 11 repeated phrase “when you come together”.
Examples of good hymns to sing at the Lord’s Table that express rich biblical teaching and the meaning are cited. From the Baptist Charles Spurgeon, in the 19th century when teaches spiritual presence of the Resurrected Lord Jesus, “Among Us Our Beloved Stands”. Alex Motyer, in the 20th century, “O God Your Mercy Moved by Love” and “Behold the Lamb, Communion Hymn” by the Getty’s in 2006.
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The act of worship that is Christian baptism must contain the proclamation of the Word containing its institution and its meaning. A biblical way of enhance this service is to sing Christ centered gospel focused hymns expressing Biblical truth to both the one being baptized and the body of worshippers participating in this gospel ordinance. Psalm 105:2 ESV
Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works!
Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
There are examples of people who upon being baptized responded with rejoicing Acts 8, the newly baptized Ethiopian went on home rejoicing. The converted Philippian jailer upon hearing and believing the good news was baptized and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God. Acts 16:34
New Testament baptism presents conversion and baptism together. We must not separate what God has joined! The order of human response to God's sovereign move in grace is to repent-believe and baptized.
One very important way of worshiping at the observance of baptism is to read appropriate scripture ,comment upon it and sing songs that express the meaning of the act to both the one being baptized and the others witnessing and sharing in this act of worship.
Here are examples of two hymns that can be used.
The servants of God are baptized,
with Jesus made visibly one;
come, Spirit, and clothe them with power,
the world and its pleasures to shun.
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The servants of God are baptized,
salvation revealed and displayed;
come, Spirit, and seal on their minds
the sacrifice Jesus has made. -
The servants of God are baptized,
united with Christ in his death;
come, Spirit descend on their souls
and fill with your life-giving breath. -
The servants of God are baptized,
immersed in the tomb with their Lord;
come, Spirit, and open their eyes
to walk in the light of God’s word. -
The servants of God are baptized,
they rise up with Christ to new life;
come, Spirit, abide in their hearts
for days of temptation and strife. -
The servants of God are baptized,
with Christians made visibly one;
come, Spirit, and rest on us now
to worship God’s glorious Son.
© Author Nick Needham
When Jesus died upon the cross,
when he was buried in the grave,
he bore the judgement I deserved,
that he, by death, my life might save.
-
When Christ was raised from that same tomb
he rose as firstborn from the dead:
he broke the powers of sin and hell
and lives for me, my risen head. -
And here I also die and rise,
baptized into his holy name;
with him I’m judged, with him I die-
on me the law has no more claim. -
With Christ I’m raised up from the dead
to live for ever with my Lord;
alive to God, with this desire,
to be obedient to his word. -
Now I am yours, O sovereign Lord:
now come, and by your Spirit’s power
help me, with all your people here,
to serve and please you from this hour.
© Author/Praise Trust Peter Misselbrook https://www.praise.org.uk/themes/baptism
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Jesus Christ gave and commanded two ordinances or sacraments for his followers to observe. Both are directly connected to and embody the gospel, the wonderful news of forgiveness and new life with God as our Father through the redemptive actions of Jesus- his life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension into heaven. Through these appointed rites we participate with Christ in his work on our behalf.
To counter the all to common low view of the ordinances we must embrace a robust biblical view of their connection with our salvation through union with the Lord Jesus.
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Hymn singing that is the musical expression of Biblical truth in the form of vocal music is extremely important in the Christian life. What we sing and how we sing it shapes us in many ways. In the Bible singing plays a major role. This is especially true when believers gather. The Scriptures in both the Old Testament and the New Testament command us to sing and gives examples.
The earliest recorded song I find in the Bible is Exodus 15:1ff Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
“I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
2 Yah is my strength and song.
He has become my salvation.
This is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 Yahweh is a man of war.
Yahweh is his name. WEB
Moses concluded his mediator prophet role by composing and singing a song recorded in Deuteronomy 32. Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak.
Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew,
as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name.
Ascribe greatness to our God!
The Rock: his work is perfect,for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
An example of the importance of singing God's truth is the experience of Paul and Silas recorded in Acts 16. After being grossly mistreated and thrown into jail, About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
This is the Paul who later wrote to the churches in Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
and Ephesians 5:19 be filled with the Spirit,addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul's teaching echoes the commands and example of the Psalms.
Psalm 68:4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts;
his name is Yahweh;
exult before him!
Psalm 104:33 I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
To aid yourself and others secure a hymnbook, a hymnal- use it at home.
We need to read the Word, memorize the Word and sing the Word to God in worship to others in teaching, testimony and exhortation and to ourselves in encouragement,understanding and prayer.
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In Ephesians 4 we have a picture of the Lord Jesus ascending back to the Father in heaven. He has as the incarnate Lord entered into the spiritual battle with Satan on the cross. There he He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it. Although Satan thought he was winning in the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus he was in fact being defeated. Christ Jesus dying for his own people given to him by the Father took away their damnation and since he had no sin of his own death had no hold on him. Thus he arose from the dead on the third day in an immortal body. Some 40 days later Jesus ascended into heaven and took a host of captives with him! We are those captives if we belong to Christ Jesus by faith. He rescued us from the domain of Satan and now leads us in victorious procession into heaven to be presented to the Father in union with His own person. Thanks be to God who gives us the victory in Christ Jesus the Lord! He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it. 2 Corinthians 2:14
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When difficulties and sever afflictions happen to us one of the greatest resources is friends who come alongside of us. One Biblical example of this is the story of Job. Although it is common and fair to point out the non-helpfulness of his friends speeches in response to his sufferings we should recognize their coming to be with him in his sufferings. Sometimes our friends can help us physically but the greatest gift they bring or convey is their presence with us.
Job 2 v 11ff "Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great."
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Paul writes in a number of places of our natural identity in Adam as condemned transgressors of God's law born spiritually dead and under condemnation. But the message he had delivered to the churches in Galatia was that the Lord Jesus Christ, had given himself on the cross for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father. No one can be saved by the works of the law because of our state in Adam and our transgressions. The Law can convict of sin but can not deliver those who break it. Accordingly ,we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. (Galatians 2) For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Paul's new identity is that of a forgiven sinner who is a new person in Christ. His old identity in Adam as condemned sinner is replaced because of Christ payment for our sins. Through Jesus identification with us and our identification and participaction in Him we are accepted sons of God. How Paul marvelled that Jesus loved because he died for him, even more by the Spirit's work of union with Christ in his death on the cross Paul as all true believers have been crucified with Christ so that Christ lives in us, in the New I.
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Early believers in the Lord Jesus as the Christ or Messiah did not called themselves Christians. Paul never referred to himself as a Christian! How did he called himself and what name did he used to referred to believers. You discover this by looking at his salutations in his letters- he addresses them to the believers and gives them a designation.
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Sermons on the wrath of God and the final judgment and hell are missing today. This has been true for several decades. But we avoid the message at our own peril and of those who most need to hear God's summons to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus. Revelation 6 contains the vision of the six seals of Revelation. The fifth seal is that of the martyrs calling for vindication and the sixth seal is the response.
Consider the wrath to come from the holy God against all who do not know him and do not obey the gospel by belief in the Son. He who is the Lamb of God that bore the sins of his people and took their punishment is also the One to whom judgment is given. "the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him. John 5:22f
Peter preached to Cornelius that God appointed Christ to be the judge of the world. “[Christ] is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead” by his resurrection from the dead.(Acts 10:42). Paul declare the same truth to the Athenians:“[God] has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. Acts 17:21
The only refuge from the judgment of the Lamb is personal faith in the Lamb. Psalm 2:11b Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
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What happens when a human dies? Many ideas have been suggested. However, the Bible gives a clear but reserved answer. The focus in the Scripture is on the believer in Christ Jesus. Jesus gives a story of the rich man and Lazarus to warn us to heed the words of God now in order to prepare. Jesus also gives great assurance to those who believe on him. He says he gives them eternal life and will raise them from the dead on the last day. Until then he is with them even in death and they enjoy his presence while they await the day of his return to earth. Paul states that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, indicating a conscious and immediate presence with Christ after death. 2 Corinthians 5:8
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The church, those people who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and gather to worship him, are very important to God. This message sets forth the importance of the church to God the Father, to Jesus the Son and to the Holy Spirit. In light of these facts how important is the church to us, to you?
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Happy Independence Day/ Happy Birthday to America
There is a greater freedom than political independence from a foreign power. It is the spiritual freedom that Jesus accomplished for those who believe on him. He came on the divine mission of the rescue of rebel sinners from the slavery of Satan and sin and its consequence of death and hell. (Genesis 3:13-15) His incarnation- the Word, the eternal Son taking mortal flesh - was necessary to free us from slavery to sin, death and ultimate hell. (Hebrews 2:14) He did this by undergoing, submitting himself to the suffering, death on the cross in our behalf in our place. (Colossians 2:15) For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death! He is the true Liberator who fought and won the battle for all who place their faith, their trust in Him. If the Son sets you free you are free indeed! (John 8:36)
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How important is the church to God? To answer the question we will need to understand what is meant by the word "church". There are many misconceptions. However the Bible in both New and Old Testaments define the church. The world and time spanning company of believers take visible forms. How important is the assembly of Christians in particular places and time?
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The Holy Spirit is called the lifegiver in the Nicene Creed that was published 1700 years ago. This universal creed of the Christian church is thoroughly biblical. I considering its declaration concerning the Spirit as the giver of life we noted this points to his regenerating work of giving spiritual life to dead sinners followed by his indwelling presence in the lives of believers corporate and individual. We are made the temple of the Lord. Also his presence in our mortal bodies in the reason for our resurrection from the dead with immortal bodies like our Lord Jesus at his return.
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The Holy Spirit is essential to the existence and reality of the church. Jesus makes this truth clear to his apostles in the Upper Room just hours before his arrest and an execution o the cross. John 14 records Jesus promise to return to the disciples after he goes away. His first return was his post resurrection appearances and after he return to the Father he promises to send the Helper, the Comforter who is the Holy Spirit. John 14:18-24 contains the great truth of the Tri-unity of God and the essential ministry of the Holy Spirit to make the ones believing in Jesus a dwelling place of God. By the Holy Spirit Jesus said "will come to him and make our home with him."
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Jesus is known to refer to himself under a number metaphors that usually pertain to something in the history of Israel or to its system of laws. Leviticus 23 lists the festivals and among them are the Feast of Firstfruits and the Feast of Weeks, known as Pentecost. Both of these festivals concern the firstfruits of a harvest. The first one relates to the barley harvest but the second one relates to the wheat harvest. Jesus in John 12 says that he is the kernel of wheat that falls into the ground and sprouts as a new plant bearing much fruit. His death by crucifixion, burial, and resurrection on the third day was prefigured by the wheat harvest of the Feast of Completion. It is for this purpose he came into the world.
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What is the relationship of the Christian to the kingdom of God? The New Testament has a lot to say about the kingdom. John announces it soon arrive in the Christ. Jesus came preaching the kingdom. He was going around from one city and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with Him. Luke 8:1 And he asserted to a group of Pharisees in Luke 11:20 if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. and in Luke 17:20f, Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed,nor will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘There!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
He as God's appointed King was there in their midst, among there. Where the king is there is the kingdom.
How do people enter the kingdom of God? It is through the new birth, the supernatural birth of the Spirit. John 1:12 as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 3:3,5 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 1 Peter 1:23 you have been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
The Bible teaches that the Christian, the Christians are citizens of the kingdom of God which meets in assemblies. Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe;for our God is a consuming fire.
We are citizens of God's kingdom and as such we have a mission. This mission is detailed in two passages of Scripture. Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,teaching them to keep all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
2 Corinthians 5:17-20 if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their transgressions against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
So then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as God is pleading through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Our power for the mission is
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Jesus' life did not end with his death and burial. No, on the third day he arose bodily from the dead. Also he did not simply arise and disappear. He spent 40 more days on earth visiting with his disciples before he ascended back to heaven. Luke gives us this summary in Acts 1:1-3 "The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
A review of a number of these instances are recorded in the longer ending of Mark 16 plus the more detailed events recorded in Luke 24 and John 20-21. Here is the longer ending of Mark 16 plus the shorter ending for your reference from the Berean Standard Bible. This podcast is an overview of these appearances. They function as proof of the physical resurrection of Jesus in an immortal state. In this body he ascended into heaven on the 40th day after he arose from the dead
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
(John 20:10–18)
9 Early on the first day of the week, after Jesus had risen, c He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had driven out seven demons. 10 She went and told those who had been with Him, who were mourning and weeping. 11 And when they heard that Jesus was alive and she had seen Him, they did not believe it.
Jesus Appears to Two Disciples
(Luke 24:13–35)
12 After this, Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them as they walked along in the country. 13 And they went back and reported it to the rest, but they did not believe them either.
The Great Commission
(Matthew 28:16–20)
14 Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; d 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
The Ascension
(Luke 24:50–53; Acts 1:6–11)
19 After the Lord Jesus e had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
20 And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.
Footnotes:
2 a Literally And very early on the first of the Sabbaths,
8 b Some early manuscripts end the Gospel of Mark after verse 8. Other manuscripts contain only a short ending, a version of the following:
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We meet Peter on numerous occasions in the gospel narratives. He was the great confessor at Caesarea Philippi for all Twelve of the apostles when he declared, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." But we also encounter him at the last Passover with Jesus when he declared his unwavering loyalty, "Even if they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away. Peter said, "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny me three times."
Then tragically we read of his warming himself in the courtyard where Jesus was being interrogated. Three times he was ask if he was not a follower of Jesus. But he denied it. Even asserting, "I do not know the man." On tge third denial he even cursed in his denial!
What will happen to Peter? Surely his sin has permanently disqualified him as chief of the Apostles. John records for us the gentle beautiful interaction of Jesus with Peter on his third appearance to seven of the apostles. John 21:12-19. Jesus asked Peter the love question.
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Philip was directed by God to go on the road to Gaza where he encountered an Ethiopian official returning to his homeland. Philip heard him reading from Isaiah and asked him if he understood what. He read. The man said he needed someone to explain to him who the prophet was speaking about. Philip at his invitation joined him on the chariot and began at Isaiah 53 verse 5 to explain that Isaiah was speaking of the Servant of Yahweh who he identified as Jesus of Nazareth. Using Isaiah 1 and 52:13 through Isaiah 53:12 he could related what happened recently to Jesus of Nazareth and how his death and resurrection fulfilled this prophecy. Then let him hear God’s invitation: Come, says Yahweh, though your sins be as scarlet they will be as white as snow.
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Witnessing is very important in the Christian life. We are commanded by the Lord Jesus to be his witnesses to others. This involves a focus on him as he is revealed in the Scriptures. The content of our witness is Christ Jesus not a plan of salvation or a story of our experience, although we can use what has happened to us as an example of believing. Too often we are focused on a few prooftexts that support steps to salvation. This can lead to faulty conversions that center on the wrong focus. The story of Jesus Christ in fulfillment of prophecy given in the Old Testament leading to an acknowledgement of his identity and the meaning of his death-burial-resurrection and ascension in our behalf must be the substance. Belief is expressed in a change of mind and direction of life (repentance) and faith in Jesus himself expressed in confession that is marked by baptism. This is our calling by the command of Christ our Lord. "You shall be witnesses unto Me." Tell people who I am and what I have done in fulfillment of the promises made to the prophets ."
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I believe in the resurrection of the dead because Jesus Christ arose from the dead. He is the first fruits of all the harvest that is to come,that is all those joined to him in faith. 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.
1 Cor. 15:35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come? Our resurrection body will be like Christ Jesus' resurrection body.
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I believe in the resurrection of the dead because it happened in history. It happened when Jesus of Nazareth arose from the dead. What difference does the resurrection of Jesus Christ make?
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It is Friday afternoon. All is quiet now. The crowds have gone. Darkness has lifted. The earth has violently quaked. Jesus' mother and two close friends are waiting to receive his body for burial. Jesus of Nazareth is dead but ...
Luke 23:44-56
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The time for Jesus to complete the mission of redeeming his people arrived. It was Passover and Jesus gathers with his 12 special disciples. He will soon go through the horror of his sufferings climaxing in his crucifixion. He will actually be the true Lamb making atonement for people. During the course of this ceremonial meal Jesus gave his followers three commandments. Two are recorded in John and Matthew, Mark, Luke and Paul record the other commandment. Three words can help us to remember the 3 commands he gave at this last Passover: wash, love, eat.
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Don't you rejoice when good news comes? When someone is very sick, but they are now well and healthy. Or when a bad situation is reversed.
This is Paul's announcement in Colossians and in Ephesians. He tell us first the very bad news of our spiritual situation outside of Christ Jesus - dead, condemned, sold under transgressions, without God. "But God..."
This simply phrase is how he introduces the good news, the gospel.
God intervened in Jesus Christ to save us, to rescue us from a bad, impossible situation and condition. He acted out of his nature by his electing love in the person of his Son Jesus and the activity of his Spirit, making us alive!
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Many people have a mistaken view of the role of the law in salvation. In fact it is common for people to think they will be accepted by God because their out weights their bad. Others believe God saves you by his grace initially but you must began to keep the law in order to be saved in the end. Exactly what role does God's Ten Words (Law) play in the ultimate salvation when Christ Jesus returns.
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No one likes to hear bad news. However, sometimes bad news is necessary and can not be avoided. At other times bad news is helpful if it leads to a good result where the bad news becomes good news. Paul in writing to the Ephesians states the bad news bluntly in chapter 2 verse 1-3. He introduces the good news that had come to the believers with these promising words, but God.
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The Apostle's Creed which is based on an earlier baptismal creed is primarily a biblical summary of the person and work of Christ Jesus. The bulk of the creed is a direct biblical summary on Jesus. But the third part of the creed has a list of belief statements. This podcast explores the significance of this list as a summary statement of consequences or results of Jesus redeeming work on the cross and his resurrection and ascension. Each statement is directly connected to the Bible and its truth.
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When his disciples ask the Master, Jesus to pray he gave them a model prayer. The roots of this prayer is God's prior revelation through the Law, the prophets and the psalms. Listen to the prayer with some of the old Testament verses that are echoed in this brief pattern prayer our Lord taught us to pray.
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A number of Christian churches observe Ash Wednesday. My church does not usually observe the set period known as Lent. But there have been times when I have gone to an Ash Wednesday service. I have found it to be a biblical time of remembrance of our mortality. God often called Israel of old to remember. Remember who I am and who you are before me. Remember what I have done. Remember you will give an account to me. As God told Adam so he speaks to all of us, Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19
It is a call to confession of our sin and transgressions so that we can receive God's gracious pardon based on the death of Christ Jesus for sinners who put their trust in him. Join with me in a composite psalm prayer of repentance.
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God has some important words addressed to both the rich, the wealthy, and the poor, those with little. Surprisingly, one of the words applies to both alike! This message begins in Proverbs but concludes with Jesus' own words as he observed people giving their offerings in the temple, Luke 21:1-4. God has number of warnings to the rich but both those with wealth and those in want can be guilty of idolatry expressed as the love of money!
The rich should not despise the poor, but rather be generous toward them. The poor should not envy the rich, but should themselves be rich in faith.
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Revelation 14:6-7 - "Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
There is a sect that seeks to say there is a gospel in the first century but they have another gospel for the current generation. They build their view of how they read into and interpert the so called "Three Angels Messages."
However, we must remain very vigilant against any other so called gospel!
The Apostle Paul says in Galatians 1:6-8, "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed."
The first angel's message is a call to worship the true and living Creator God. It's wording is like Nehemiah 9:5-7, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise! You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you. You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham."
The one eternal gospel is the message of Jesus - his person and saving acts in his death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for us sinners. Mark 16: 15 says, "And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
In Luke 24:44-49 we read, "Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
The one eternal gospel is declared in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the tw
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Book beginnings are often very important in understanding what follows in the book. I think this is especially true of the writings, the books, in the Bible. We began a several week reading study of the book of Acts. The opening paragraph of Acts connects to the gospel of Luke. By careful reading of the opening paragraphs we learn the method, the structure and the purpose of Luke's writing his two volume work on the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth in order to establish a believer name Theophilus in the certainty of the teaching he had received as a believer. A challenge is for us to read carefully in a few settings all of Luke-Acts. Let the Word impact you and study the Scriptures. This is a way of loving God with your mind.
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How do you usually pray? Is there a particular position that your body takes? Some believe and it is often announced especially in church meetings to bow your head and close your eyes. What does the Bible say about the positions of our body when we pray? You may be surprised but one of the best positions is to "pray with your eyes open"! Explore with me the various positions of biblical prayer.
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Jesus taught his disciples to pray, Our Father, your kingdom come.
Two words are key to understand this petition. Kingdom. What is this kingdom of God? In what way is it to come?
Jesus who teaches his disciples this prayer is the king of God's kingdom. Where the King is there is his kingdom. The prayer is not focused on geography but on relationship with God in the person of Jesus. So we are asking God to bring in a greater realization of the kingdom in and through our lives culminating in the personal arrival of the king in power and glory at the end of the age. We want God to actively bring in his reign in the midst of the rival kingdom of Satan ultimately totally destroying that kingdom and filling the earth with the eternal kingdom. The kingdom of God has a present and a not yet aspect.
The present reality of the kingdom and its future aspect are present in this petition as demonstrated in the gospel narratives and Acts and Paul's descriptions of the kingdom in his letters. Revelation shows its ultimate fulfillment at the return of Jesus to this earth in power and glory.
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One day when Jesus was engaged in prayer to his Heavenly Father one of his disciples asked him to teach them to pray. Luke 11:1-4 record this conversation. On another occasion when Jesus was instructing his disciples on the mountain side he gave them this prayer model, Matthew 6:9-13. This podcast gives an overview of the prayer by noting its two sections. The first section deals with the concerns of God, his honor and kingdom. The second section deals with our needs as his dependent children. God’s glory and his will must always be our chief priorities, but our material and spiritual needs are also important to him. Let this prayer be a model and guide to you as you come before the Father in praise and petition.
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How should we pray? According to Jesus we must address our prayers to "Our Father". (Matthew 6:9ff; Luke 11:1-4)This episode explores the meaning of this expression both as to what conveys concerning our family relationship to God and fellow believers. But it also looks at a theological question on Jesus as the "only begotten Son" or "the one and only Son" and our being called sons of God. Devotion plus theology is embedded in this broadcast. Exposition leading to worship.
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Jesus gives instruction on praying by his own prayer practice and through instruction on the personal level in Luke 11 and in a more formal public instruction to the multitudes who followed in what we term the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6). From these two accounts with different contexts we can learn principles for praying.
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We often say to one another, "Pray for me." And we are urged, we are pushed to pray for one another. But what should we pray? Praying for the ups and downs and decisions in life certainly are matters for which we should turn to God for help and supply. God has concern for all his children's needs.
The Bible through the examples of Paul would elevate our prayers to deeper concern. His prayers are rooted in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and in the deep reality of conversion as a result of spiritual regeneration. One of these prayers is in Ephesians 3:14-19, "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Christian Standard Version)
Paul adds many layers in his writing from all the fullness of God's saving work in Jesus Christ. These truths and spiritual realities are connected and often one thing leads to another. In this podcast my goal is to summarize two primary petitions Paul prayed for his fellow Christians and also for us as part of the group, "all the saints". Considering these petitions as ones made for me, I in turn now pray them for you.
"I pray that you will be strengthened by the Holy Spirit in your inner being."
"I pray that you will be mentally and spiritually strengthened to comprehend, to have a personal knowing of the intensity and depth of Jesus the Messiah's love for you."
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Christians remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus, son of Mary. Traditionally this has been done throughout many centuries either on January 6 or December 25. The date of his birth is never revealed, but the fact of his birth is essential for the salvation of people. The death of the Messiah Jesus by crucifixion was decreed by God from all eternity. He is the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8, 1 Peter 1:19-20, Acts 2:23).
In order for him to make the one real and sufficient sacrifice for sin it was necessary for the Word, the Son, to assume humanity in a mortal body. Although death had no claim on him he was born the sinless holy son of Mary in order that he might as a man in the prime of his life lay down his life in death on behalf of humans. All people die because they are born sinful in Adam. Because of the virgin birth through the power by the Holy Spirit Jesus was not born in Adam
(Romans 5:16-19). Thus he could offer his sinless body as the sacrifice for the sins of his people (Hebrews 2: 10-15, Hebrews 10: 3-10, John 10:17-18, Isaiah 53).
The hymnist Charles Wesley expressed it thusly:
Christ, by highest Heaven adored;
Christ the everlasting Lord;
Late in time, behold Him come,
Offspring of a virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail th' Incarnate Deity,
Pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus our Emmanuel.
Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Risen with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die.
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
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How does anyone bless God? It is strange sounding yet the Bible exhorts us to bless God and gives examples of people blessing him.
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Psalm 103:1
LORD is Yahweh, the personal covenant name of God.
Psalm 104:1 Bless Yahweh, my soul.
Yahweh, my God, you are very great.
You are clothed with honor and majesty.
The meaning of words is directly connected to the context in which they used. When we speak of blessing such as "be blessed" to another person we are wanting that person to receive something they need or be enabled to accomplish something. But God has no needs! He is the all-sufficent all-mighty self-sustaining eternal holy sovereign one!
Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Deuteronomy 10:14
So to bless God is to speak of God as he has revealed himself to be to God in praise or thanksgiving. We also can bless God by lifting him high above all to others in words that declare his works especially in the salvation of sinners such as ourselves.
Two great examples of blessing God are given around the birth of the forerunner of the Messiah John the Baptizer. Mary the mother of the Lord Jesus, the incarnate Word offers her praise in Luke 1:46ff “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
On the 8th day of John's life on the occasion of his circumcision and naming Zechariah, his aged father's tongue is loosed from his muteness. And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. Luke 1:67ff
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Prayer stimulants and words we can pray are found in the Psalms. In active reading of the psalms we should take note of who is addressed in the various verses. It could be direct speech to God or words directed towards others or to one’s self. Join me in prayer reading of psalms 4 and 5.
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All Christians at times encounter difficulty in praying. At such times it is important to understand that prayer starts with bring one's attention Godward. Genuine prayer begins inwardly before it is expressed outwardly. Believers have turned to the Psalms through the centuries to help them express their thoughts to God and to themselves and toward and with others. The Psalms gives us models of communication with God. Today we read-pray Psalm 3,"Arise, O Yahweh!
Save me, O my God! Salvation belongs to Yahweh."
We can locate prayer when God is addressed directly by his name or roles. Sometimes the psalmist will engage in self talk and at other times people talk. The Psalms are dynamic in nature and should be read and prayed in this manner.
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Happy birthday! This is a common greeting in America. Birthdays are usually significant in the western world but hardly mentioned in many eastern cultures. The question some ask is, "Why celebrate birthdays?" The Bible never mentions birthday celebrations although there were a number of days marked for celebration in the Mosaic Covenant.
In the ancient Christian churches days of martyrdom were kept. The oldest days of celebration concerning Jesus were termed "Epiphany," which celebrated the recognition of Jesus as King by men from the east (Matthew 2) and the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan by John in which the Father announced him as his beloved Son (Matthew. 3, Mark 1, Luke 3, John 1). His baptism commenced his ministry as Messiah.
We do not know the day of the year that Jesus was birthed by Mary. However, we do know the significance of his arrival. The designation of such an event is properly termed the "Festival of the Incarnation." The Word became flesh and lived among us! In Jesus of Nazareth we have the Lord of Glory as a human!
Why do we celebrate birthdays? We are really celebrating a person's life, their uniqueness, our relationship. A good scripture to read on one's birthday is Psalm 90:12, "Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts."
As a Christian, celebrating one's birthday should involve the blessing of the Lord and so my prayer for you is in the words of Ephesians 1:17, "I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him."
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Paul often began his letter to the churches with a thanksgiving to God for what he has done and is doing in them. Two of the assemblies Paul wrote were Thessaloniki and Colossae. He overflows with thankfulness because of God's work in them and how this is being demonstrated in their lives. Four things are pointed out beginning with God's sovereign grace expressed in their faith expressed in their changed lives.
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God has given his Son Jesus as the great Shepherd of his people. Christ in return has appointed undershepherds. Paul is a great example of such a pastor. He gives thanks to God for his grace at work in his people at Corinth and Philippi. These thanksgivings are found at the beginning of his letters to them.
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One of the most powerful testimonies in the New Testament of the transforming power of the gospel among a group of people is seen in the opening versus of 1 Thessalonians. There Paul thanked God for the clear and obvious evidence of his mighty saving work in the lives of the Thessalonian Christians. It happened then. It can happen now!
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After God has established a covenant with David and his household David comes before the presence of Yahweh God. David's prayer of response can teach us much about prayer. Prayer is an intentional come before God in humility to present our acknowledgement of him and to ask him to fulfill his will.
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The first mention of prayer in the Bible is Genesis 4:26. To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord. LORD is Yahweh. This simple phrase, calling upon the name Yahweh, functions as basic definition of prayer, a vital experience of the Christian life.
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We must look to the inspired Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments for both the substance and as the final or ultimate authority for our teaching and practice. To the inspired, inscripturated Word alone do we find the answer to the burning question, How does a person find acceptance with the all holy God? All humans are sinners and sin is against God's nature! How then can I, a fallen sinful human ever be welcomed into God presence by the forgiveness of my sin and righteousness?
Looking to the Bible alone, all of the Protestant Reformers of the 16th century came to see that the answer is the nature of Jesus Christ's suffering for sin once for all, and we connect to him by personal faith. It is by grace alone through faith in the living Lord Jesus Christ who died on our behalf and was raised from the dead for our justification and ascended into heaven where he serves as our Advocate, our High Priest. Romans 5: 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. This is the core of the gospel recovered at the Protestant Reformations.
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In a sense we could say that the spiritual renewal of gospel that happened in the 16th century with the Protestant Reformers was sparked by a discovery of a correct translation and interpretation of two verses of Scripture. Luther came to see that Matthew 4:17 which had been mistranslated by Jerome as penance(From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.,Douay) should read, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” It was not telling people to do a performance of penance but calling them to a change of mind.
The second verse is Romans 1:17-18 "For in it (gospel) the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith. For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people.." Luther had thought the phrase was speaking of God's direct total holiness and righteousness by which we are judged and damned. But one day by God's grace he saw the verse was referring to a passive righteousness God grants, donates, gives to the one believing in Jesus. This credited righteousness of Jesus is put to the believers account and thus we have acceptance with the righteous God. When this truth came to Luther's understanding he was born again. Quotes from Luther Preface to the Complete Edition of Luther's Latin Writings. It was
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John the Immersionist (baptizer) appeared in the wilderness of Judea on the banks of the Jordan River proclaiming, Prepare the way for Yahweh! He is the prophesied Forerunner of the Messiah in fulfillment of the prophecy of Malachi and Isaiah and he prophecy of his own father, Zacharchi at his birth. And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, Luke 1v 76ff:
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”Mark begins his good news announcement with the message of John concerning the soon appearing of Messiah, King of God's Kingdom. He summons the people of Israel to repentance from the lifestyle of commandment breaking of the Mosaic (Law) Covenant to a heart obedience to Yahweh. He preaches repentance, a conversion to God marked by a new ritual sign of immersion, dipping in the river. He was proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Luke 3:3
In his quoting from Isaiah and Malachi he identifies Jesus as the Son of God and in the quotations from this earlier prophets John gives testimony to the divinity of Jesus, the Messenger of the Covenant who is identified as the arrival of Yahweh!
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There are 4 men named, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John who wrote short books to spread the good news (gospel) of Jesus. Each one has a particular target in mind and the key to their presentation is found in the opening lines. This podcast gives an overview of how the person and deeds of Messiah Jesus are presented. Also listeners are challenged to read through one of the gospel in the next 7 days without reference to chapters and verses.
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Paul in both his letter to the Roman Christians and the believers in Ephesus gives us a picture of our natural state as humans from birth. It is not a picture of innocence or even of a neutral state but one of spiritual death, captivity and rebellion. In fact it is a state of condemnation from birth awaiting execution!
Romans 5: 12 sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
v.15 many died through one man's trespass
v.16 the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation
John 3:17-18 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Ephesians 2:1-3 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
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Grace is a word often used but seldom truly understood. We first hear of it in Genesis 6, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God declared his covenant name to Moses in Exodus 34:5-7Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name. Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin;
Paul uses the word frequently in his letters in the New Testament as demonstrated in Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
God's grace is associated directly with his goodness, his compassion, kindness and mercy. It is God in action to bestow a needed gift on one totally underserving by which he brings us in a relationship with himself based on the work of his beloved Son Jesus the Christ.
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The Apostle John uses a phrase three times in his writings to refer to the nature of God. In1 John 1:5 he makes this declaration: This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
The message he heard and proclaimed was the message of the coming of the Son, the Word into the world. John was his earest disciple along with Andrew and he bears witness to Jesus. This theme is also stated in John chapter 1, He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
The basic truth of the statement, God is light is that in God is absolute moral purity, absolute purity. The context of John's use is contrast between people's walk in darkness, sin and God the pure, holy altogether righteous One.
Later the Apostle Paul will use this language of light bearing to refer to Christian witness and living as children of light.
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When we enter the meeting area where God's people assembly to offer him worship what do we see? In many churches today we see a stage with musical instruments with few if any symbols of the God ordained ways to offer him acceptable praise. Why is this the case? Could it be a loss of the sense of the reverence we owe to God? Have we traded reverence for utility? Consider the words spoken to begin the public service. Worship should begin with a clear scriptural call that marks the time and brings the people into an awareness of God by the speaking of the Word that summons us into God's presence.
This message looks briefly at 3 examples in the experiences of Jacob, Moses and Isaiah.
Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,for our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:28f
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Holiness is the most prominent of the attributes of God. It is the one attribute that is used in a threefold manner as seen in Isaiah 6:1-3 and Revelation 4:8-11. It is often used in connection with other attributes such as love.
When we think of God as holy our tendency is to understand it like we use it to refer to people. But this is the wrong place to start. As a principle of the correct understanding of the vocabulary use in the Bible or any book we must consider how it is first used. This will give us a key to its basic and then developing use. The word holy is first used in Genesis 2:1-4 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.4 These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
Exodus 3 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
The meaning is separate, apart, in a category exclusive. This was true of the completion of creation at end of 6 days. God's rest was the rejoicing in the completed work as Creator. This is not a commandment for mankind but a narrative of God's action. The day like the ground was apart because of God's presence.
God's name is Holy. Here are some references: Psalm 99:Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
Let the earth be moved. 2 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.3 Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy!
Psalm 111:9 He has sent redemption to his people.
He has ordained his covenant forever.
His name is holy and awesome!
Isaiah 54:11 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer.
He will be called the God of the whole earth.
Isaiah 57: 15 For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
whose name is Holy, says:
“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
God is Holy!
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A basic question which the Scripture answers, What makes God, God?
This episode explores God's attributes, or characteristics that he can not share with any. These are possessed by him alone. He is unique a whole divine being not divided into parts.
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I have a question for us. Are we at times due to our emphasis on what in our understanding or opinion God cannot do anymore, pedaling an impotent, weak and powerless God?
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Sometimes we read a verse of Scripture in isolation from its context. This can result in an error of interpretation and false teaching. This podcast takes up a proper method of reading Bible verses in their context. The verses to be considered are 1 Corinthians 4:13 and Jude 24.
“No trial has overtaken you that is not common to mankind. And God is faithful: he will not let you be tested beyond what you can bear, but with the trial will also provide the way through, so that you will be able to endure it.”
Jude 24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,..
Reading these verses in isolation bring some people to the conclusion that a Christian can live a sinless life. That it is possible a believer can stop sinning and never sin again. But is this a correct conclusion? If not why?
The podcast then looks at levels of context that help test this conclusion. What steps should one take as he or she reads verses or passages of Scripture.
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We are familar with the frequent exhortations to believers to sing to God. It is a command of Scripture. An example is Psalm 92: 1-5 It is good to praise Yahweh,
to sing praise to Your name, Most High,to declare Your faithful love in the morning
and Your faithfulness at night,with a ten-stringed harp and the music of a lyre.For You have made me rejoice, Lord, by what You have done;
I will shout for joy because of the works of Your hands.
5 How magnificent are Your works, Yahweh, how profound Your thoughts!
You may find it a refreshing revelation that our God sings over the works of his almighty saving hand. Zephaniah 3:17
Yahweh your God is among you, a warrior who saves.
He will rejoice over you with gladness.
He will bring you quietness with His love.
He will delight in you with shouts of joy.”
In the days of his earthly ministry Jesus, the Word made flesh sang with his disciples. Mark 14:26And after they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. The psalm hymn is Psalm 118.
In his ascension our Lord Jesus is the our great high priest who presents our praises with own to God the Father! Romans 15:8 For I say, Christ has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers, 9 and that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, just as it is written,
“Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles,
and I will sing praise to your name.”
10 And again it says,
“Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people.”
11 And again,
“Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles,
and let all the peoples praise him.”
12 And again Isaiah says,
“The root of Jesse will come,
even the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles;
in him the Gentiles will put their hope.”
What a thought our God sings over us those he has redeemed and given a new heart that they hope and trust in Him!
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Jude not only warns Christian assemblies of the danger of false teaching and teachers who have slipped into the churches but he also gives a summary of how to combat them. He does so in the command "keep yourselves in the love of God. He relates 3 ways of doing this. Jude 20-21 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. NASB
New English Translation "But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit, maintain yourselves in the love of God, while anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that brings eternal life." Jude 20fPaul in his letters to the church in Corinth and John is Jesus letter to the 7 churches give us concrete examples.
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Jude sounds the alarm warning of false professors within the assemblies who lead others astray. He paints pictures of their false teachings and ungodly lifestyle from the Old Testament scriptures depicting evil actions and illustrated by certain individuals.
Jude "Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, and have given themselves up to the error of Balaam for gain, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted, 13 wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.
14 And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these people, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy ones 15 to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they have committed in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16 These people are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous words, showing partiality to gain an advantage.
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An introductory look at the letter of Jude. Jude states his main point and why he is compelled to write this letter to the assemblies.
1 Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ. 2 May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
3 Dear friends, although I was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered it a necessity to write to you to encourage you to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints. 4 For certain men have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, ungodly ones, who change the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ. Lexham English Bible. Logos
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Jesus of Nazareth had several brothers and sisters, among them were two who became well kown in the churches, James and Judas. Yes Jesus had a brother named Judas ad he had two disciple/apostles with that name also. Judas was a common and honored named among the Jews associated with the tribe of Judah from whom David came and from whom came the promised Messiah. However the betrayal of Jesus by his disciple ,Judas Iscariot, ruined the name. Thus this letter bears the name, Jude.
See Scripture verses, Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
Matthew 13:55-57; Matthew 12:46, John 6:42; Galatians 1:19;Jude 1:1
Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”
Disciples named Judas, John 14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
Mark 3:16-20 16 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); 18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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Do you know what truth is? Pilate asked this question of Jesus right after Jesus made a claim as why he came into world. John 18 :29-38
29 So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” 30 They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.” 31 Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.” 32 This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.
33 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.” 37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “**What is truth?”
Truth was starting Pilate in the face and missed. Jesus is the only way to know the true God and to have eternal life!**
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Often people quote Bible verses out of context to promote an idea. One such verse is John 8:32 where Jesus says, "you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Let's consider the verse in its context of John 8:2-30
After these opening startling claims about himself Jesus makes the statement."So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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Is it possible to know that your sins are forgiven and to have the assurance of eternal life? Many believe this is impossible but the Apostle John asserts that it is! In fact he wrote his gospel narrative so that people would come to believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the Son of God and have eternal life. "Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." John 20:30-31
We can not have assurance of eternal life unless we first have received this gift through faith in Jesus. John relates how Jesus defines eternal life and how people enter into it by grace through faith in him. John 3:13-18
"No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven —the Son of Man.
14 “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. 16 For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. (Christian Standard Bible)
Later John in his first letter writes so believers can know they have eternal life. He defines eternal life in these words, "this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life....20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." 1 John 5:11-12, 20
In this podcaast we learn about the meanings of "know" and "faith".
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At the very beginning of the church as we know it is the Day of Pentecost. Acts 2 records this event in detail. There are various teachings today about the meaning of this event. We are left with a clear witness as to its meaning by the witness of John to Jesus promise in the Upper Room and to Luke's account in Luke 24 and in Acts 1 and 2.
The event of Pentecost and its continuing relevance must be determined and articulated by the witness of Luke, John, Peter and Paul. This message looks at 3 meanings assigned to the Pentecost event by the Scripture,
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The Apostle Peter closes his first letter with an exhortation to his fellow elders and the young men. They are to relate to one another in humility. It is in this immediate context that Peter issues his Devil alert alarm. The command is rooted in an immediate context as well as in the context of the whole letter.
Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8
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Paul spent much time and words in exhorting his young ministers, Timothy and Titus to hold to the pattern of sound words in which they they had been instructed. These core beliefs of the faith are to be taught to passed on coming generations. They are the measuring line, the rule by which other teachings and teachers are to be evaluated. Their contents can be determined by the summaries Paul gives in his letters to the churches. In early Christian history they are referred to and summarized in the Rule of Faith. Some Bible passages in which they are in part found are: Titus 2:11-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Philippians 2: 5b-11.
Pattern of Sound Words/The Gospel
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance:
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind,
the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all people.
Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David.
This is my gospel.
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:
[God] He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
This has now been made evident
through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus,
who has abolished death
and has brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.
But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Savior appeared,
he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done,
but because of his mercy,
through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
so that, having been justified by his grace,
we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Amen
1 Timothy 1:15;2:5-6; 2 Timothy 2:9; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Titus 3:4-7
In the early church, Irenaeus was writing in the second century about the "rule of faith" or "rule of truth."
this faith: in one God, the Father Almighty, who made the heaven and the earth and the seas and all the things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was made flesh for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who made known through the prophets the plan of salvation, and the coming, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the bodily ascension into heaven of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and his future appearing from heaven in the glory of the Father to sum up all things and to raise anew all flesh of the whole human race…
— Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10
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God has appointed his Son, the Lord Jesus as the Chief Shepherd of his people.
This is the fulfillment of his own promise recorded in Ezekiel 34
11 “‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and their fold will be on the mountains of the height of Israel. There they will lie down in a good fold. They will feed on fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,” says the Lord Yahweh.
v.23 And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
John 10:11ff
11 I am the good shepherd.Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.Isaiah 56:8 I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, Isaiah 53:7-8 that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
He who is the Chief Shepherd, who has completed his sacrifice and gone into heaven, has called and appointed under-shepherds to care for his sheep gathered in local assemblies. These elders, pastor, overseers are Word Servants to God's people.
Peter drawing from his own calling and experience instructs and exhorts the elder/pastors in how they are to exercise their calling and charge in 1 Peter 5:1-7
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
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Paul enumerated the qualifications for a pastor (overseer, bishop) in Titus 1:9 9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
Titus 2:1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
The Apostle Paul was a great advocate of proper doctrine.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine (1 Timothy 4:13).
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
Although many today neglect sound doctrine or even deny truth God's word puts a high value on teaching the objective truths about. God, humanity, Jesus Christ' person and work. In John 18:37 jesus said, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
Both the belief in and the teaching of God's truths, doctrine, sound teaching of the pattern of sound words, spelled out in the New Testament is absolutely necessary for health spiritual life.
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God as Trinity or better stated the One Eternal God as a triune Being is a crucial teaching of the Bible and therefore is essential to true Christianity. Yet this doctrine is often neglected in the pulpit by pastors. Failure to adequately instruct believers in this truth has resulted in serious errors in the faith touching many other doctrines especially the person of Jesus Christ and his redemptive acts.
How should this doctrine be stated?
A brief look at Matthew 28:16-20 and 2 Corinthians 13:14 and creedal summary statement and hymn expressions.
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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Jesus in the hours before his sufferings and death on behalf of sinful people spent several hours seeking to prepare them. He spoke of leaving them. First a short leaving by his death and burial but in a little while you will see me again. He is prophesying his third day resurrection. Then of a much longer departure when he returns to the Father. It is in this connection that Jesus speaks of the Holy Spirit as his ascension gift that he will send to them. His promise was fulfilled on Pentecost ten days after he ascended into heaven. The Spirit brings the spiritual presence of Christ Jesus and he bears witness to him. He empowers believers in the Lord Jesus to witness beginning with the disciples on that Pentecost day but continuing to this day. He is Christ's ascension gift and he comes with fullness of power and grace gifts for ministry and witness to Jesus.
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In his grace Jesus not only forgave a repentant Peter on the day of his resurrection but he restored Peter 3 weeks later to his role as an apostle. John records this intimate conversation between Jesus and Peter on the shore of Lake Galilee in John 21. For every denial Peter had uttered- I do not know the man- Jesus now allows him to confess his personal love and affection. To each affirmation of love Jesus responded with the commission- Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep. His ultimate command to Peter was Follow me.
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Although Simon Peter loved Jesus of Nazareth in the hour of trial when Peter from the courtyard was identified as a follower of Jesus, he denied even knowing him! How could this happen? The tragic denial by Peter is recorded in all four gospel narratives. How can the designated leader of the apostles and the confessor of Jesus' messiahship deny even knowing him?
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The Apostle Peter is the great example of a true confessor of Jesus Christ. In Matthew 16:16, in answer to Jesus' question to his disciples as to who people were saying he was, Peter declared, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
On another occasion in John 6, after many of the followers of Jesus were deserting him, Jesus asked his dcisples if they, too, would leave him. Peter answered, "Lord, to whom shall be go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and come to know that you are the Holy One of God" (John 6:69).
This bold declaration and confession of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, marked Peter's preaching as he led the early church in the same confession of Jesus .
Peter's untiring confession of the Lordship of Christ led to his own martyrdom. Likewise many true confessors of Jesus are suffering for their loyalty to declare the truth today.
In a world in desperate need of hearing the Gospel, may we likewise not be hesitant to declare and confess that "Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God."
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How did Simon Peter come to know Jesus? How were they introduced? During the early phase of their relationship Simon Peter makes his first confession.
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Paul writes to Timothy concerning our Lord Jesus. God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 10 but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel . 2 Timothy 1:9-10
Jesus in his incarnation abolished death and brought life and immortality. To explore the meaning of this work of Christ Jesus we need to ask and answer two questions. Where or in whom is eternal life? When does eternal life begin. Second Jesus is referred to as the firstfruits from the dead and the firstborn of and from the dead.
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Colossians 1:18And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
What does this mean and what bearing does it have on us and the resurrection from the dead?
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The day of Jesus' resurrection was very busy with his comings and goings to several people and climaxed in the evening with his first appearance to a group of ten of his apostles.
Jesus is raised in the physical body of incarnation and death which is now raised an immortal body. Jesus bestows his peace upon the disciples. He then gives his commission, "as the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you." Having said this he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." This poses several questions that call an answer.
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A most unique attribute of the living God, Yahweh, is his immortality. Christians many times use this term incorrectly. The Bible says God alone is immortal.
1 Timothy 1:17To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 6:13-16
13 I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you observe the commandment without fault, irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which he will make known in his own time, the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords, 16 the one who alone possesses immortality, who lives in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
An early Christian hymn expresses ,
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One
God is the blessed and only Sovereign,
the King of kings,
and the Lord of lords,
16 the only One who has immortality,
dwelling in unapproachable light;
no one has seen or can see Him.
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Jesus gathers with his disciples to celebrate his last Passover meal with them. The next day he will as the true Passover Lamb be lead to the cross. There by the appointment of the Father he will give his life as the substitute sin offering for those who would believe on him. The instructions God gave the Hebrews though Moses were prophetic of Jesus' person and manner of his death. Exodus 12 and John 19..
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A primary reason why Christians know that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the Promised Anointed One, the Redeemer, is the predicted prophecies that are fulfilled in his life. Psalm 22 is a detailed picture of Jesus' sufferings on the cross. Both Matthew and John relate this in their accounts. Matthew records the behavior of people and Jesus' inner experiences of thought and emotional pain as well as his bodily suffering. Listen to the record of Psalm 22 with Matthew 27 and Jesus' own prophecy in Matthew 20.
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When the soldiers came to arrest Jesus in the garden grove where he had been praying he went out and said to them, “Who is it that you’re seeking?”
“Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. He answered, “I am". At this manifestation of his nature they fell down.
When Peter drew a hand sword and cut off the ear of servant of the High Priest, Jesus rebuked him for once again seeking to interfere with God's will that the cross was his destination.
Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me? Jesus said to Peter.
Jesus had spoken of the cup at the institution of the New Covenant in his blood. This pod explores the biblical answer to this question.
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I want to take you to a dark spot. It is in the garden where Jesus is arrested and taken in custody. Here is the account as recorded by John who was an eyewitness to the event. John 18:1-11 with references to prior events.
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On the day of his triumph ride into Jerusalem two of Jesus' disciple approach him with a request. Some visiting Greeks who had come to Jerusalem for the Passover wish to meet with him personally. Rather that happened or not we are not told. Jesus took the occasion of the Greeks request to reveal the truth of his unfolding destiny. His hour, the hour set by the Father for him to be sacrificed on a cross has arrived! In his declarations he also speaks of the results of his death. Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out."And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” Explore with me John 12:19-36
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The visit of the Jews with Jesus at the synagogue in Capernaum the day after he had fed them by the multiplication of the loaves and fish took the form of a series of questions. Questions are asked for various reasons such as information, to further a discussion, to express unbelief or belief, to express disapproval. This podcast reviews these questions as Jesus claims to be the Bread of Life.
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One of the greatest signs that Jesus did that bolstered his apostle's faith in it was the feeding of the Five Thousand men plus. It is recorded in all four of the gospel narratives. Reading from John's account with some additional information from the other narratives we can relate day's the event . We can observe some obvious applications.
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This podcast relates Jesus' third messianic sign in his healing of a paralyzed man in one of the Temple porch areas. The man had been in this condition for 38 years but on this day Jesus at the Father's direction heals him. He miraculously restores his limbs so that he instantly got up and walked carrying his own pallet. And it was the Sabbath!
Now his religious enemies began to plot his murder.
Consider John 5:1-16 with Isaiah 35:5-6 and Matthew 11:1-6, John 7:21-24
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John's gospel narrative is organized around 7 miracles that demonstrate that he is the Messiah, the Promised One, the Deliverer, the Savior. But in addition to these ministry signs Jesus gives other signs. After he cleansed the Temple he was challenged concerning his authority. He gave them the sign- Destroy this Temple and I will raise it up in three days. He was prophetically speak of the temple of his body that would be raised back to life after he was killed. The climaxing sign in John's gospel is Jesus resurrection from the dead.
Nicodemus , a ruler of the Jews, came to visit Jesus during the early days of his ministry in Judea. He said to Jesus, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus startled him with a discourse on his need to be born again by the sovereign work of the Spirit. He then gives Nicodemus this sign which explains how it is possible for God to forgive sinners and have access to God. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.' John 3:14-15
This was a reference to what happened during the wilderness days of the Hebrews in route to the Promised land. When they grumbled and spoke against Yahweh and Moses God visited them in judgment by poisonous snakes that bit thousands who died. The people beg Moses to ask God to take the snakes away and to stop the punishment. God told Moses to make a bronze snake image and put it on a pole so that when a person was bitten by a serpent he could look on the snake imaged on a pole and live. (Numbers 21:4-9)Jesus told Nicodemus this was sign pointing to him. It was a prophecy of his destined death by crucifixion when he would take the judgment due his people and when they looked to him in faith they would live . He will some 3 1/2 years later speak his being lifted up to some Greeks who came seeking him. (John 12:32-34) Paul explains the meaning of Jesus death in terms that explain the divine transaction that took place with Jesus in 2 Corinthians 5: 19, 21 In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. ...For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Christians are referred to as God's Temple twice in Paul's letter to the Corinthians. Interestingly, Paul uses the pronoun "you" to refer to the group, a plural "you," in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, but later he uses the singular "you" in 1 Corinthians 6:19. This podcast considers the practical applications of the truth that we are God's Temple in both the corporate and the personal sense.
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A certain class of prophecy watchers are looking to developments in Israel to detect any sign of a rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem. To them this would be the signal of the end of the world. Perhaps in light of the New Testament we might need to listen closely to Jesus' teaching about the temple and the proper worship of God. Ezekiel's vision of a future Temple is recorded in chapters 40-47. The key to the meaning of this extended description of the Temple perhaps is found in the depiction of the flowing water from the Temple that becomes life giving water, a river of life. Jesus' words about himself in John 4 and 7 and the picture of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21-22:5 should help us see that the ultimate Temple is Jesus dwelling with his people.
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After cleansing the Temple is Jerusalem in his early days of ministry Jesus answered the Temple authorities question about his authority to do this with a cryptic statement. Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. John explains that jesus was speaking of his body. The utterance came true when Jesus was raised from the dead and ascended into heaven. This message gives an insight into its profound significance.
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John's gospel narrative is structured around the signs that testify to Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God. They function to reveal his nature, his character, and his divine mission. They are done so that people will believe in him. The healing of the royal official 's son from a distance of many miles demonstrates that Jesus is the life-giver because as the Word he is life (John 1:4). This man believed Jesus when he told him, "Your son. will live." On his way home his servants met him with the news, "He lives?" " When did it happen," he inquired, "At 1 yesterday afternoon." That was the exact time Jesus had said, "Your son will live."
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The concept of sign is very prominent in the Gospel Narrative of John. It is an organizing principle of his witness to Jesus as the Messiah. Soon after Jesus has gathered his first disciples, 5 in all, they go to Cana in Galilee because they were invited to a wedding feast. It was probably a relative of Mary and Jesus who was the bridegroom. When the wine ran low the situation was presented to Jesus. He solved it by turning the wash. water into wine! John 2:1-12 Let's listen to the conversation of Mary, Jesus, the servants and the Master of the Feast.
Notice key words:
Wine
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After Jesus baptism by John he begins to gather his disciples. The first two, John and Andrew, were disciples of John who now begin to follow Jesus. Andrew enlist his brother Simeon (Peter). Jesus then finds Philip who in turn enlist his best friend, Nathaniel. Nathaniel's encounter wit Jesus leads to this first confession of a disciple to Jesus identity as the Son of God, the King of Israel. What is he confessing? What lead to this confession?
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John the Baptizer was the appointed fore-runner prophet of the Messiah (Malachi 3:1-4; Isaiah 40:3; Luke 1:5-80). God sent him to proclaim the arrival of the kingdom of God through the Messiah. John received the sign of water immersion for repentance for heart preparation to receive the Christ when he arrived. God told John that he would know for certain who this man was when he saw the sign of the Spirit coming to rest upon his head. When Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan River the baptizer both saw the sign and heard the voice of God speaking to Jesus. After this he loudly announced regarding Jesus, "Behold the Lamb of God." The first sign was specifically given to John, and John in turn becomes the first witness, a confessor of Jesus as Messiah.
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John's gospel or good news testimonial to Jesus' person and nature is summarized in this key verse: And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 ESV)
Who is this Word? What is the nature and purpose of his coming? To fully grasp the meaning of this sentence we must consider the context. The context constitutes verses 1 through 18 which we call his Prologue, "the word before the word" that sums what the writing that follows consists of and serves as an introduction to its layout.
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Jesus of Nazareth , the son of Mary, unlike anyone else. existed before he was conceived and born. He existed from eternity. Although he was born a true human male of the tribe of Judah, descended from Abraham through Isaac and Jacob and from the line of David, he had a prior life of Deity which continued unabated, but then he added to himself humanity. There are a number of Scripture verses that pull back the curtain and tell us the backstory.
Consider Genesis 1:1-3 with John 1:1-3, 14,18. Also Paul's letter to the church at Philippi, chapter 2:5-8, and the sermon letter of Hebrews chapter 10 quoting Psalm 40%-7. At Christmas we sometimes sing high biblical truth about Jesus Christ. Such is the hymn, "Of the Father's Love Begotten" - something of the backstory and the new story of Christ's birth are included in it.
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Christians rightly celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary, because it was in fulfillment of God's promise to send a Deliverer, a Redeemer. And he came!
This unique Son of God, the Word taking to himself human nature, offered himself as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. He died. He was buried in the cave. Three days later in that body he was raised to life. Forty days later he ascended into heaven. His departure was seen by his disciples.
Where exactly did he go? How did he get there? Why is he there? How long will he be there?
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Paul details in Ephesians 6 the spiritual armor our Lord has provided for each of his disciples, his soldiers. The last grouping is found in Ephesians 6:16-18: In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.
This 3rd episode in a three-part series on our spiritual armor considers what a solider connects to his body at the time of a spiritual battle. We place the helmet on our head, take up the shield and grasp the sword and go forth to meet the enemy. Christ's solders remain alert for the bugle call or the sound of the enemy approaching.
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Message 2 of a 3 part series on the Christian Armor listed by Paul in Ephesians 6. The armor can be seen as defensive weapons and defensive-offensive weapon. This message looks at the what the solider wears next to his body for protection from the enemy's assaults. . 14 Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. This are then followed by the weapons he takes up in times of actual combat.
What is the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness and the shoes of the gospel of peace?
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This is the first episode of a 3 part consideration of the spiritual armor Paul list in Ephesians 6. Before one can understand and interpret the various pieces of armor he must consider the whole suit on the Christian. A couple of verse in Paul's other writings can help as well as consideration of the context in Ephesians in which the armor is discussed. Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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The Reformations of the 16th century was no less than the rebirth and resurrection of the church of Jesus Christ from false doctrine that laid an impossible burden on people and robbed christ of his glory as the all sufficent Savior of sinners through personal faith in him. The recovery of key doctrine is expressed in later adopted mottos of the five solas- Scripture alone, Grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone for the glory of God alone.
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Major conflict among nations especially if it involves Israel usually leads to many people feeling the end of the world is at hand. However, a careful read of Jesus words in Luke 21, Mark 13 and Matthew 24 reveals that Jesus said, this is the beginning of birth pangs and the end is not yet. He went on to say no one knows or can know the time of his return in power and glory.
Let's assume that the end is near. How then should we prepare? Jesus, Peter, Paul and the author of Hebrews all speak to this question.
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Informal reflexions on the historical roots of Thanksgiving in our nation and how this foundational religious background directs us to the real source of our blessings: God himself and his mercies. Wayne and special guest Jeff Gregory recount the historical record, Scripture and personal testimony which engender great thankfulness in our lives, especially at this season of the year.
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The Protestant Reformation recovered a number of fundamental truths. These are expressed in the five solas. At the foundation of the recovery of the gospel was the recover of God's Word to the people in translations based on the Greek and Hebrew, read and preached. All doctrine taught must be based on the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. This podcast looks at four statements of the Reformers and one from today. God's Word of the Holy Bible as the supreme and sufficent authority was recovered. We must guard this truth in all generations.
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What was recovered at the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. The short but accurate answer is, The Gospel! Now the gospel is the announcement of the person of Jesus Christ and what he accomplished for us people and our salvation.
It is the good news of salvation from sin and its consequences to eternal life in felowship with the holy God through the actions of Jesus- lI delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died mfor our sins nin accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised oon the third day pin accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me....He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Acts 1:3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
The recovery of the gospel is summed up in the slogan- Christ Alone
Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men[a] by which we must be saved.”
John 14:6 “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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When the various movements of Reformation came the worship services of the churches were transformed. Out with the old form of singing by choirs and monks and other clergy and their musical instruments. Any thing that was only for entertainment and passive worship in Latin was to go or be transformed into the language of the people in a style that was easy to memorize and sing. Based on the principle that what the church did in the worship of God must be based on the Scripture alone two schools of thought emerged. One could do in the service what was glorifying to God and upbuilding to the church if it was not prohibited by Scripture. This normative principle was followed by Luther and later the Anglicans. Luther himself wrote 37 hymns many based on the Psalms but all containing truths of Scripture. This was a major way the Reformation truths were taught and spread.
The second principle followed by the Reformed such as Zwingli and Calvin is known as the regulative principle. Therefore one could only do in the congregational worship what was clearly authorized by the Scripture. So at first due to reaction to what was considered idolatrous no singing was done. Calvin however made the restoration of congregation singing a condition of his return to Geneva. He introduced the singing of psalms with the human voice only. He produced the Geneva Psalter.
The scripture authorizes and commands singing in the assembly gatherings. Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, Ephesians 5:19
1 Corinthians 14:15 What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.
Hebrews 2:12 applies Psalm 22:22 to Jesus when it says, “In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.
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The restoration of the gospel, the Bible in the languages of the people and the restoration of aspects biblical worship began around and throughout the 1520's. There are 4 key players. This podcast relates a simple summary of their principal contributions.
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The church is the whole multitude of all repenting sinners that believe in Christ, and put all their trust and confidence in the mercy of God; feeling in their hearts that God for Christ's sake loved them, and will be, or rather is, merciful to them, and forgives them their sins of which they repent; and that he forgives them also all the motions unto sin, of which they fear, lest they should thereby be drawn into sin again (30).
William Tyndale, Church and Congregation
The church consists of believers who are miserable sinners; yet it consists of believers whose sins are forgiven. Quoting 1 John 3:9 (“no-one born of God commits sin”) and other texts, Tyndale states that the church consists of sinners who ask God for forgiveness and show amendment of life. The church comprises sinful believers, who are totally depraved and totally saved.
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In the early 1500's the various church reform movements led by Luther, Zwingli and Tyndale tore apart the political landscape of Europe. Although many recognized the corruption and moral laxity of the Roman Catholic Church, they only advocated clean- up actions within. Why was it necessary to separte from Papal Rome? At an Imperial Diet at Speyer John Calvin's letter to the Emperor Charles V was read. In it he sets forth the necessity of reformation and why the Protestants are not guilty of schism. On the contrary, the Papists had so corrupted the church in the vital areas of worship and salvation that a total reformation was needed. The church needed to return to the Bible as its standard and authority. So the Protestant Reformation was a necessity in order to rescue the church from the fatal disease of extraneous doctrine and practice that had engulfed the Roman Catholic Church.
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Martin Luther and Huldrich Zwingli were the first of the Reformers in the 16th century. Both were Roman Catholic clergy. Luther was a monk and theology teacher; Zwingli a parish priest. Both of them obtained hot off the press a copy of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament in 1516. Encountering the raw text of the Bible in Greek helped uncover and correct mistranslations in the Latin Vulgate. Ultimately Luther was converted as he came to understand Romans 1:17. Zwingli became greatly influenced from preaching through the text of the Gospel of Matthew. After he recovered from near death in the plague of 1519 his breakthrough is recorded in his "plague poem." God's Word is powerful and works the miracle of regeneration and conversion as the Holy Sprit moves in the heart of people.
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There is a vital principle of Biblical worship that was recovered at the Protestant Reformation. The worship of God in the assembly or congregation must be in the common language of the people. Language used in worship must be understandable. Paul spells out this principle in 1 Corinthians 14. 9 So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air. 10 There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning, 11 but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me. 12 So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
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God was very careful in the Old Covenant to have special furniture constructed and placed in the Holy Place of the Tabernacle and later Temple. There were three pieces or items. The Table of Showbread, the branched Candlestick and the Altar of Incense. The items carry theological meaning. Are there principles here that should impact our current worship space in our assemblies?
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Do you read history? A related question is do you value history especially the actions of God in the history of the Hebrew people and in the Christian churches.
This podcast considers God's attitude toward the history of his actions, his deeds and events that involve his people. This would include biblical history and historical Christian movement.
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When Isaiah received his inaugural call as Prophet of Yahweh he encounter God in the temple following the death of the King of Judah. Isaiah saw the real KIng, the Sovereign Yah, on the throne of heaven. becoming conscious of being as witness of God's heavenly worship he is overcome with a sense of panic and awe. He cries out his awareness of his sin and God in grace fits him for worship and for hearing God call for Prophet Herald. Isaiah's experience is a Biblical patter for worship of God by his people.
How should we approach God in worship? Hebrew 12: 28 tells us, Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
Isaiah 6 shows us a true example. Isaiah saw the Lord. The sequence of events function as a paradigm for Biblical Christian worship.
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This message is based on Isaiah 6 and is a consideration of the call of Isaiah to be God's prophet, with a reading and explanation of the text. We see Isaiah's personal experience of encountering God in his holiness as Sovereign King of the universe resulting in his conviction of guilt and need for divine cleansing. Then from a position of a provided atonement he hears and answers the call of God to be his special prophet. What kind of commission is this when he is informed that people will not listen and repent so judgment is decreed? But in the midst of wrath and judgment God remembers mercy in accord with his covenant promises to send the Seed who is Jesus the Messiah.
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Perhaps you have heard the expression a call to preach or a call to the ministry. Exactly what does this mean? How does it work?
This podcast looks at a few examples of men called in the New Testament time and to two quotes of statements from Paul on the called ministry of the Word.
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The God of the Bible is very skillful in asking questions. He does not ask to learn something from us but he asks in order for us to learn. His questions reveal our heart and they can spur us to a proper response to him. This podcast looks at several questions God asked people beginning in Eden with Adam.
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One of the most interesting characters in the first section of the Bible know as the Law is Balaam. He is a prophet of God who on his way to try and curse the children of Israel enroute to Canaan had an actual conversation with his donkey! This was God's supernatural intervention to press upon Balaam his absolute need to speak over the Hebrews only the words he would put in his mouth. (Numbers 22-24) Even after Balaams blessing not cursing the people he found a way to get the money from Balak by advising him how to lure the men of Israel into idolatry by using the women of Moab. Numbers 25:1-3.
Numbers 31:16
Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord.
2 Peter 2:15-16
Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
Matt. 16:26 Jesus words
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
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The prophet Isaiah open the two sections of his prophecies with a prologue. These prologues are found in chapter 1 verse 1 through 9 and chapter 40 verses 1 through 11. This message considers the contrasting messages and tone of the prophets words.
The prologue to the first half of Isaiah's prophecy in chapter one brings forth the strict indictment of Yahweh God against his people for their flagrant, rebellious sins. These persistent sins led to God's hand of judgment which finally fell in the ravaging of Jerusalem, the temple, and the people by the Babylonian army.
Yet when the 70 years of captivity in Babylon were completed, God extends great comfort and consolation to his people, assuring them of his never-failing covenant love and mercy.
The basis of his forgiveness of their iniquity lay in the future at the cross of Calvary, where Judah's sins were paid for and removed by Jesus' death and resurrection.
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When the church last gathered for worship was the public reading of the Scripture in the assembly a part of the worship service? I do not refer to a minister reading a verse or two and then preaching on it. Was a significant section of the Bible or portions of the Bible read aloud as an act of worship? We are commanded to worship God with his Word read as well as taught it.
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A continuation of a previous podcast on a Biblical Philosophy of Christian Worship. This podcast uses the example of recent service to illustrate how we approach the Holy God through his grace. We are called to worship by God and in recognition of his holiness. Thus we humbly confess our sins with joyful assurance through our Great High Priest and only Mediator, Jesus Christ.
Copy of Service Entry is the written Transcript as the example read
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What underlying principles should guide us as we engage in public worship? This is a satement of my personal philosophy that guides me as I construct an order of service. In other words shapes the structure of the liturgy. It is based on the whole of the Bible primarily guide by the New Testament especially the book of Acts and the apostolic epistles which fleshed out how the early disciples of Christ Jesus followed Jesus instruction in his commission. Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:42; John 4:23-24; Philippians 3:3,;Ephesians 2:18;Hebrews 10:19-25
Matthew 28:18-20
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Acts 2:42
42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
John 4:23-24
23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Philippians 3:3
3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—
Ephesians 2:18
18 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
Hebrews 10:19-25
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
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Suffering to common to all humans. The sufferings of this world take various forms. They exist because we live in a fallen world. Christians are not exempt from suffering. In fact they can suffer for simply being believer in God and follower of Jesus Christ. Peter addresses his letter to Christians who are experiencing various trials. He gives at least three reasons why Christians suffer.
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Peter's first letter is addressed to the Christian assemblies in Asia Minor who are undergoing trials because of their faith in Jesus Christ. Why do trials come? What is there connection to Jesus and his own suffering as the Messiah for the salvation of God's elect? What is the purpose of such trials, such sufferings?
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Where should we turn when times of loss, of sorrow and grief or times of doubt and confusion and fear confront us? My good friend once share with me how the words of the preacher at his grandmother's funeral impacted him. These are the words that were spoken, "In times like these we need to turn to the Bible." They have also impacted me. In times like these I invite you to turn to the Bible with me.
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Who hasn't seen a rainbow and marveled at its beauty? God put the rainbow in the clouds after the worldwide flood that destroyed all the earth except for Noah and his family and the animals that he took on board at God's direction. The story of the bow in the clouds as God's covenant sign is found in Genesis 9. The rainbow reminds us that God always keeps his promises because he is the God who remembers!
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Numbers 21 records a tragic event in the camp of the Hebrews on their way out of Egypt and bondage to Canaan. When the food and water were scarce they spoke sinfully against God and Moses and despised the provide manna food. As a result of their rebellion God send poisonous vipers into the camp and hundreds began to die. Then the hurried to Moses asking God to have mercy. Moses prayed and God an unusual instruction. Make a bronze sake and put it on a pole.
What is the meaning of this and how does it relate to Jesus?
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I want to tell you this story about the first humans in a perfect Garden who met up with a talking snake. The events in the Garden of Eden in Genesis Chapter 3 had profound effects upon the human race. Satan, the great Deceiver, managed to convince Eve to eat of the fruit of the tree from which God had forbidden them to eat. Adam followed her lead instead of God's command, and also ate the forbidden fruit. .
God's responded by turning Satan into a creature condemned to crawling on his belly. Yahweh God also declared that the descendent of the woman would bruise his head, while Satan's descendent would bruise the heel of the woman's descendent.
Satan's fate was sealed in the coming of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, whose death and resurrection brought the fatal curse on Satan's head.
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I was happy when they said to me, Let's go to house of the Lord!
Why? Because I am meeting the living God in an assembly of his people. Such a weekly meeting is to identify myself as a believer in the true God and to fellowship with other believers through the offerings of joint hearing of God's word, singing and prayers. Cooperate worship of God through and in Jesus Christ is a command and is necessary for my soul's health, encouragement of fellow believers and the honoring of God. It is a chief expression of love to Jesus the Christ who made to way into the holy place through his sacrifice of his body on the cross. I never have to decide if I am going to the holy assembly. Unless I am unavoidably stopped I will be there. It is my joy! It is a holy habit, a spiritual discipline that expresses love to my Lord and to his body the church, the holy assembly!
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Peter's first letter is addressed to a group of several local churches in part of the area we now know as Turkey. He wants each church to understand that they are a special group of people loved and chosen by God to belong to Jesus Christ. Although each person comes to God by personal faith, they do not come isolated from other believers. 1 Peter 2:9 describes each community of faith as together a priesthood, that is, a group of priests who minister to one another. Each church is holy, set apart for God's possession. And each group of believers is called to proclaim to the world the excellencies of Christ. Peter wants us to live out our Christian lives in active, loving fellowship with other believers. This is the spiritual house that we belong to and that he is building.
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The Apostle Peter in his first letter writes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow. 1 Peter 2:2 Beginning with the writings of Moses given in the first 5 books of the Hebrew Scriptures that we commonly call the Old Testament, Joshua, Moses successor, was told, "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." Joshua 1:8
Paul writes in Romans 15:4 , "For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope." So reading the Bible, God's written revelation, is essential for spiritual life and spiritual growth. What are some important things to know as we approach the reading of the Bible?
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After King Uzziah of Judah died Isaiah records his encounter with God in his glory. Perhaps he had gone to the temple with David's Psalm 27 on his mind and even on his lips. Psalm 27:1-2,4
Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
Whom shall I fear?
Yahweh is the strength of my life.
Of whom shall I be afraid?
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after:
that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life,
to see Yahweh’s beauty,
and to inquire in his temple.
What ever the circumstance Isaiah encounters God's glory! Consider his experience and what it teaches us about the glory of God and how a person properly responds. It may not be as you expect!
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The Bible has much to say about the glory of God. The psalmist prayed and longed for the glory of God. In fact we pray for it in the Lord's Model prayer for his disciples. Psalm 104:31-34 NIV
May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works— he who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD.
‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10
Moses gives us an example of a person who seeks the glory of God. Exodus 33:12-34:9
Why does he seek to see God's glory? How does God manifest himself? What is its purpose and what is Moses reaction?
God's glory is the outshining of God's nature and attributes manifested in his exalted presence and his declared Word concerning himself. It is preeminently seen in Jesus Christ. John writes, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14-15
To seek the glory or to be under the glory for one's own benefit is idolatry but to seek to give glory to God or to glory in God is worship.
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The Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary to becoming a Christian, a believer in the Lord Jesus the Christ, and He is indispensable to the Christian life. Jesus, early in ministry told a respected teacher and leader in Judea/Israel, "You must be born again," born from above by the sovereign Spirit (John 3). The Holy Spirit is the Life-giver. He brings spiritually dead people (Ephesians 2:1-7) to spiritual life through the Word of the gospel so they hear God's call to repent and believe. The Spirit's work of regeneration is manifested in being awakened to their spiritual condition of being dead, deaf, and under God's wrath. Awakened by his sovereign grace, they hear Christ's call and come gladly and freely to the Savior. He caused us to be born again. "In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory." (Ephesians 1:13-14)
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The Christian confession of God is totally unique. It is the result of historical revelation of God's actions in the life of the Hebrew people and the life, death, burial and resurrection and ascension. of Jesus Christ plus the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the believers on the Feast of Pentecost in the year of Jesus' ascension. The uniqueness and glory of the Christian Faith is there is only one God (Yahweh) that eternally exists in thee persons. This reality of God's nature,being and activity lies at the heart of true Christian worship. Two verses in the New Testament bring this truth of God forward. The Apostolic Benediction of 2 Corinthians 13:14 and the Great Commission of Jesus given to the church in Matthew 28:16-20.
God is one. God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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Loving God is the first and the greatest commandment both in the Torah and on the lips of Jesus:
4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. 5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. Deut.. 6:4f
And he [Jesus] answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” (Luke 10:27).
But there are questions to think deeply about. How do you command love? How do you love an invisible God?
1 John 4:19 gives us the key of how we can learn to love God. "We love him because he first loved us." Why should we love him, and how shall we love God?
Consider the love of God, and the love of Jesus for us. Knowing this through the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of spiritually dead sinners will result in our response of loving him.
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People who come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ have God's seal placed on them.
God's seal guarantees that we will take possession of the inheritance of ultimate and full salvation. What is this seal and how does it function? Is it an external or internal mark?
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Forty days after Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead he physically ascended into heaven. Luke records the event for us in Luke 24:49 and in Acts 1:9-11. Jesus started speaking of ascension, that is he return to the Father in heaven in the first few weeks of his ministry. He stressed it in the hours he shared with the disciple in the upper room just prior to the events unfolded that resulted in his crucifixion and burial followed three days later with his being raised back to life. For 40 days he came and went in various meeting with his disciples teaching them and giving them the message they were to preach and teach others. The record of this is found in the gospel narratives and the New Testament writings. Why was the return of Christ Jesus, the Word made flesh, the Son, to the presence of the Father so important to him? Why is it important to us?
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Most Christians are familiar with what is often term the Great Commission recorded in Matthew 28. But Jesus gives direct orders to his disciples several times between the day of his rising from the dead and his physical ascension into heaven. In fact his direct orders are given to the gathered Apostles and other believers with them in the room where they were gathered behind locked doors. The event and the summary substance of the conversation is recorded in John 20:19ff and Luke 24:44ff.
The authority for the mandate is given and Jesus teaches them in detail how he was written about in the Scriptures- the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms. Proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah and his fulfillment of these writings by retell events from his life, ministry and the sufferings and death, burial and resurrection was the message. He gave them the promised Holy Spirit to accompany their words of witness.
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Almost weekly I get an email notice of photos of me activities and people I was with on that day. It stirs memories of them and events.
Peter was the designated leader of the apostolic band. In the gospel narratives we can see snapshots of him on certain days and what he did. Each photo has a title that details something about him. Seeing and hearing him may reveal your own life.
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All of us have trials in life. All of us have periods or times of grief brought about by those trials. These are common to all humanity, but the remarks of the Apostle Peter in first Peter chapter one are addressed primarily to Christians who are going through the trials of life in their faith journey. As pilgrims through this world to the world that is to come, we are faced with various trials. Not only do we share the regular trials of life. in addition, Christians can sometimes also share in greater trials that are connected directly to our faith and its practice, and to our effort to disseminate the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. Listen to Peter’s words on rejoicing in our trials: 1 Peter 1:3-9.
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Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ we who have faith in him have been born again to a living hope! What is Christian hope? What exactly is this living hope?
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Most Christians through the centuries beginning after the resurrection of Jesus and his appearances have gathered for corporate worship on the First Day (Sunday) of the week. Yet the Mosaic covenant in the commandments specify the Seventh Day as the Sabbath. What is explanation and how do Sabbath and First Day Christian Worship relate?
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One week after Jesus arose from the he appeared again to them where the apostles had gathered. Thomas who had been absent the evening of Jesus resurrection when he had appeared was with them this time. He had expressed skepticism when the Ten had told him they had seen the Lord. This time Thomas is with them! Jesus suddenly appears and said to him: “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” John 20:27
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On the day he arose from the dead Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah appear on three different occasions. His second appearance was to the two disciples who were walking back from from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. He join them but their eyes were prevented from recognizing them so he could show them his death and resurrection in the revelation God had given in the Law, the Psalms and the Prophets.
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We do not know Jesus' first words as a baby but we do know the first words he spoke and to whom he spoke them on the morning of his resurrection!
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Christ has been raised. Hallelujah! Christ is risen and alive. Now at the Father's right hand and he shall come again. A reading of a section of a composite account of the day of Jesus Christ resurrection from the dead and his appearance with his disciples.
Based of Jesus Christ ministry, sufferings, death, burial and resurrection a reading of the Easter Morning Liturgy of the Moravian Church. Readings fro Bible passages with response prayers.
Readings are drawn from Cheney, Johnston. Jesus Christ The Greatest Life
E-book: A Unique Blending of the Four Gospels (pp. 508-525). Paradise Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Liturgy reprinted from the 1995 Moravian Book of Worship. ©1995, IBOC Moravian Church. Used with permission.
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A reading of the Passion(Intense Suffering and Death) Christ Jesus on behalf of sinful people according to the Apostle John, chapter 18-19 from The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. A few comments and concluding prayer.
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Jesus gathered with his Twelve disciple on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread for the Passover Meal as commanded by God through Moses. It commemorated by means of a ordered ritual meal the deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt by means of the blood of a sacrificial lamb whose blood was applied to their dwellings. When the death angel went through the land in judgment those who were in their homes with the covered blood were passed over and then brought out the next day. This was in fulfillment of God's promise in Exodus 6:6-8: "Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments. I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”
Jesus is now to go to the cross and literally be the true Passover Lamb who brings deliverance from sin and judgment by his shed blood. Taking two elements from the Passover meal, Jesus gives his followers the sign of the New Covenant in a meal we call the "Lord's Supper." Mark 14:22-24 states, "As they were eating, he took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."
As the Apostle Paul says, "For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." 1 Corinthians 5:17b-18
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On Tuesday of the week of Jesus' crucifixion he was asked a number of questions by the religious authorities and parties. Their purpose was to drive a wedge between the people and Jesus. Luke tells us "he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words." Luke 19:47-48
So one after another group came to him with questions. The first question was about his authority. The second was a political-theological question on taxes. Now some of the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came up and questioned him. They related a story of 7 brothers who in succession married the same woman in fulfillment of a law concerning the necessity of a family heir. "In the resurrection who will have her as wife?" They were asking a foolish question to make fun of the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead (see Mark 12:18ff). We can learn much from Jesus' reply to these religious unbelievers about God, death and the life to come following the resurrection of the dead.
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On Tuesday of the week when Jesus was executed, his religious political enemies sought to entrap him by various trick questions. The first one was the political question on the payment of taxes. It is a theological-political question that relates to life in the society and to life as a Christian. If he had said, "Pay the taxes," the Jewish people who resented Rome would possibly have turned on him and if he had said, "Do not pay the taxes," then he would have been in trouble with the political power of the Roman occupiers.
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Jesus on the way to his execution heard many voices. Voices of sorrow and lament. Voices of mockery and lies. Voices raised in curse and abuse. But Jesus also spoke. On the way he stopped to give a prophecy. From the cross he uttered prayer words and words of acceptance and assurance of eternal life to the repentant thief who believed in him. This is a reading from the passion narrative according to Luke, with comments.
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So often we do not take the time to read the detailed accounts of the sufferings, trials and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ. All four gospel writers- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John have left their written account to his death, burial and resurrection. This is Mark's account which relies on the Apostle Peter plus his own personal knowledge. In these words the Holy Spirit bears witness to Jesus, the Son of Man, delivered to death on the cross for our salvation.
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It is Tuesday of the week in which Jesus will be crucified. After his joyous crowd reception and proclamation that he was Messiah, the Son of David, he had returned to the temple on Monday and cleared it of merchants. He had brought the temple to a temporary halt and chaos to call the Temple back to its true purpose. Now he has returned. The crowds of people with him and he teaches, preaches and heals them. Now a large delegation of integrators approach with a challenge question. In the vernacular, Who do you think you are to do what you did? Who gave you this authority? This is the question so what is Jesus' answer?
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After Jesus' celebrative ride of kingship into Jerusalem with the throngs of people he went into temple. He looked all round, observing the people and actions. Mark 11 relates that that on Sunday Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
But the next morning, the second day, our Monday, he returns with the Twelve and crowds await him. On this day he does two prophetic, provocative actions. They are related to two themes: God's temple and the Messiah as the Son of David. He rebukes and teaches by means of a rhetorical question. In other words, he threw down the gauntlet - the bold challenge to his enemies to carry out their stated intention among themselves, which was to kill him.
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We usually began our consideration of Jesus' death by his riding into Jerusalem on a donkey when a large crowd welcomed him with acclamations of praise, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" However, there is a story before the story that set everything into play. Jesus arrived with his Twelve disciples 6 days before Passover to the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Only 2 weeks before Jesus had raised Lazarus back to life after he had been in the tomb for 4 days. Because of this miracle and the once dead man now restored back to life and reunited with his sisters, a huge crowd was always present. It grew when Jesus arrived and this threw the religious leaders into a frenzy because people were increasingly believing in Jesus! This had to end. So they plotted to kill Lazarus as well as Jesus if they could isolate him away from the crowds. They had motive to kill but they needed either to assassinate him or somehow get the crowds to turn on him.
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We often hear people talk about the signs of the times or the signs of the end time. They speak about the natural disasters and the raging wars around the world especially in Europe and the Middle East, new diseases, etc. Now some of these things are mentioned in Mark 13 and Luke 21 plus Matthew 24-25 but according to Jesus' words recorded for us in these chapters we are often mistaken about their meaning. Join me in the reading of the text of Mark 13 with some comments and see what Jesus' answer is to his disciples' question.
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This message considers Jesus' saying: "Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." Mark 11:23-24. We must consider the contexts in which Jesus states it. Jesus gives this saying on two separate occasions- the healing of the demonized boy who was rendered mute and deaf, and this occasion of his curing the fig tree.
What is the big deal about the fig tree that Jesus cursed It?
We consider Jesus' saying in the broader context of Mark's gospel narrative and Jesus' visits to the temple the week before he is crucified. To understand Bible verses we must interpret them in context.
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Jesus uses an exaggerated illustration of mountain moving faith on several occasions to show the power of prayer offered in faith to God in his name, on his authority for the accomplishing of God's will and his glory. Matthew uses the statement twice, first in Matthew 17 when Jesus healed the boy of a deaf and mute spirit and later when he came into Jerusalem in Matthew 21. What is Jesus' main point and his teaching? This podcast considers the illustration in its contexts- immediate, connecting and broader New Testament context.
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A look at Jesus statement in Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
Applying the skill of reading the sentence in its context to determine Jesus main point in using this hyperbole. Follow along with your Bible. The whole context is verses 1-10. Consider to whom he speaks and why. The apostle's request after hearing the teaching on the necessity to forgive your brother if he has wronged you and repented.
In light of the context what does verse 6 mean?
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Paul exhorts that believers and especially teachers must handle God's written revelation with care. 2 Timothy 2:15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Many times people uses verses from the Bible wrongly. This can result in people thinking a teaching is biblical when it fact it is error because the text has not been interpreted in context. This podcast is an introduction of this challenging task.
(My apology for a couple of glitches.)
Sample passage- Mark 11:23-24 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
This passage is often used incorrectly. Jesus says it more than once in different circumstances. We must consider the verses in their various contexts comparing scripture with scripture.
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One of the most touching stories in the gospel narratives is the one that focuses in a blind beggar, Son of Timaeus (Bartimaeus). He heard that Jesus of Nazareth was passing his way. Although the crowd was loud and thick he cried out, Jesus, Son of David have mercy on me! Rebuked by the crowd and sternly told to be quite he cried out even louder. Jesus, Son of David have mercy on me.
And his cry was heard. Jesus stopped. He said, Bring him to me. Bartimaeus threw off his cloak and went to Jesus.
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God and clouds are often associated in the Scripture.
Sing to God! Sing praises to His name.
Exalt Him who rides on the clouds —
His name is Yahweh—and rejoice before Him. HCSB Psalm 68:4
There is a special cloud that we read about in the Old Testament and later we encounter it in the New Testament. In short, this cloud both hides God's full glory while at the same time conveys his special manifest presence and from it he communicates his revelation. In the Old Testament it appears first at the Exodus and later covers the mountain when Moses went up to receive God's revelation. After the Tabernacle is constructed we read according to Yahweh's instruction, we read in Exodus 4033ff: So Moses finished the work.Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys."
This happened again later at the temple dedication.
This cloud also has a special appearance in reference to Jesus Christ - on the Mount of his transfiguration, at his ascension into heaven, and at his return he will come again in the cloud of God's glorious presence.
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The Bible witness is that Jesus the Son of Mary is the unique Son of God. This is basic Christian belief. But when did Jesus consciously know his unique identity as the Son of God, the Messiah? There are two events in his life that helps us answer this question and what it means for our salvation. The first event is when he was 12 years old talking in the temple to the religious leaders and teachers of Israel. After a 3 day search his parents found him in the temple. Mary asked him,“Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”
The second event was at his baptism when he was 30 years of age and he began his ministry. These events must be understood in the light of his pre-existence as the Word (John 1:1-3, 14 and Philippians 2:5-9 and Hebrews 10:5ff
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There are a number of incidents recording in the gospel narratives of Jesus casting out demons. He delivered people from demon activity in their lives that held them in some sort of captivity. Mark 9 records such an incident right after Jesus had been glorified on the mountain in view of three of his chosen disciples. When they descend the mountain and came to the 9 other disciples a large crowed was gathered and an argument was underway. It revolved around a father and his son who was afflicted by a demon and the disciples had not been able to make it leave. Jesus and the father talked and then Jesus vanquished the demon. Listen to the story with my running comments.
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Peter, James, and John were the three disciples whom Jesus chose to accompany him at decisive points in his ministry and this day was one of those special and unique times. Jesus had them come with him up on the mountain to pray. Suddenly Jesus' appearance changed and he became brighter than the noonday sun. If this were not astonishing enough, two of the most prominent figures from the Old Testament, Moses and Elijah, appeared, talking to Jesus. The subject of their conversation was his coming "exodus" or departure at Jerusalem - in other words, the redemptive work of the cross. Then a cloud enveloped them all and a voice was heard, "This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!"'
What was happening on the mountain was that the Old Testament predictions from the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (represented by Elijah) regarding the coming Messiah were being fulfilled in Jesus - he was the One they were pointing to.
What the three disciples saw that day was not only a revelation that Jesus was the promised Messiah but his innate, divine glory, what had been hidden by his humanity, shown through before them and they got a glimpse of what all his people will see when he returns on the clouds of glory at the end of this age.
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The journey of the Hebrews from the edge of Egypt before the Red Sea all the way to Canaan land was marked by God's cloud. The LORD himself was in the cloud and it gave them protection and guidance. Exodus 13:21 The Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
The people soon showed a tendency to forget the Lord's protect and the great power of his deliverance at the Red Sea and they began their practice of grumbling against the Lord and against Moses. Nevertheless God mercy and grace was given to them in the provision of the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. God led them all the way in spite of their sin. God goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go. Deuteronomy 1:33. Even after the judgment of the first generation dying in the wilderness with the two exceptions of Joshua and Caleb God never withdrew his cloud or stopped the provision of daily manna. A hymn of the journey written in the 1700's captures this story and turns it into a prayer that we as God's redeemed people have sung. God guide me O Thou Great Jehovah.
Guide me O Thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through this barren land.
I am weak, but You are mighty;
Hold me with Your powerful hand.
Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven,
Feed me till I want no more;
Feed me till I want no more.
Verse 2
Open now the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing stream does flow;
Let the fire and cloudy pillar
Lead me all my journey through.
Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
Be Thou still my Strength and Shield;
Be Thou still my Strength and Shield.
William Williams, 1745
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Jesus issues the call for true discipleship in startling terms! Taking up the cross is a call to utter loyalty to him even to the point of death. Only the grace and strength the Spirit supplies in the time of need can give us confident hope in being such a disciple. Deny yourself is not about being less selfish or looking out for others or making time for God and Jesus. It has nothing to do with t-shirts or slogans. It is the call to come and die. As his own people those who belong to him by faith we must have total loyalty to his person.
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There have always been various opinions about Jesus of Nazareth. This was true in his own time and it is true today. On one occasion he asked his disciple Who do people say I am. The general opinion then was you are a prophet in not more. But Jesus directly asked them- Who do you say I, the Son of Man am? Then Peter makes the great confession that Jesus told was revealed to him by the Father. Peter replied in answer to the question- You are the Christ the Son of the living God!
Here is the question I want us to explore- Who did Jesus think he was? What was Jesus’ self-identity?
The correct answer to this question is essential.
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There are at least two occasions when Jesus elicited a confession of who he was from his Twelve disciples. All thee of the synoptic gospel record the conversion at Caesarea Philippi. After their report of the popular opinion of him Jesus asked them, "Who do you say I am?" Their reply voiced by Peter was, "You are the Christ (Messiah)." What exactly are his disciples confessing?
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Did you know that Jesus the Messiah, Jesus Christ received three baptisms during his life and ministry? He began his ministry as the Promised One who would redeem his people and bring in the Kingdom of by being dipped in the Jordan River by John his forerunner. John cam preaching a baptism of repentance. Jesus asked John to baptize him. John did not think he should because he knew Jesus was sinless. Jesus said we do it to fulfill all righteousness. Immediately coming up from the water Jesus is immersed (baptized) with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. He is filled with the Spirit to do his ministry as Messiah and fulfill the three offices that received an anointing by oil under the Old Covenant- as Prophet like Moses, as High Priest like Aaron and as King like David.
Later in last half of his ministry he spoke of his baptism of suffering he would undergo to redeem his people. Luke 12:50
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What is the devil doing in the story of Messiah Jesus birth? Actually Satan has a lot to with the coming of Jesus the Christ, the Word incarnate. This message looks at the reasons from God's Word and relates the activity of both God and the devil in the coming of Jesus into the world and in his continued ministry.
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on the 8th day after his birth Jesus under went two highly significant events, his receiving the covenant sign of circumcision and the bestowal of his personal name.
Names in the Hebrew and other Semitic cultural are not mere labels but often carry profound meanings. The name Jesus was given to him from heaven by the angel Gabriel to his chosen mother Mary before she became pregnant and repeated to Joseph in a dream. The name tells of the child's origin and his mission that would be completed when he became an adult.
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Jesus eighth day after his birth by Mary was highly significant. Two great events transpired as recorded by Luke 2:21 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. More precisely Eight days after his birth, the child was circumcised and named Yeshua. This was the name the angel had given him before his mother became pregnant. [Name of God Translation]
By his circumcision Yeshua is marked as a child of the Abraham Covenant and under the later added covenant with Israel through Moses. On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised, Leviticus 12:3
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner--even those who are not your offspring. Genesis 17:12
Paul relates in Galatians, But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law. Galatians 4:4 4 But when the right time came, God sent his Son into the world. A woman gave birth to him, and he came under the control of the laws given to Moses. (NOG)
Here is the question. What does Jesus' circumcision have to do with the cross and what bearing does it have on the life believers, the Christian?
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We are familiar with the birth narratives of Jesus the son of Mary from Nazareth but what is the core meaning of this event? Who is this child and why is his birth so important.
Two Christmas carols are quoted in part that ask the question but the quote giving the answer is after the tag sign off.
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It is important who your mother is. Matthew does something unusual in his genealogy of Jesus. He mentions women- 4 before Mary the mother of Jesus. This message looks at Ruth and the wife of Uriah. There are a number of lessons that can be drawn from the stories of these women ancestors of Jesus and the sons born of them.
Consider the 4 women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and the wife of Uriah. What do they have in common and what can we learn from their placement in Jesus' family line?
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Have you ever traced your family ancestry? In many societies of the world and especially in the Bible times among the Hebrews (Jews) it made a big difference who your father was. As we open the New Testament and the gospel narrative of Matthew we are presented with Jesus ancestry through the legal line of Joseph. Matthew's genealogy is very unique and constructed to highlight that Jesus is a descendant of Abraham and of David. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.... 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.
And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, ... 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
Luke 3 :23 Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli...
A very unique feature of this family is the inclusion of 5 women especially 4 that are the first section. They are Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and the wife of Uriah. Why are they listed? There is even shameful evil behavior associated with 3 of them.
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The Bible helps us understand the nature of faith in the lives of God's people by giving us the examples of faith in Hebrews 11. This chapter is often called the Roll Call of Faith. Here are listed some of God's examples of people who had faith in him. Hebrews 11:1 is not a definition of faith but a description of how faith operates. The author then demonstrates by various examples. We are familiar with most of them and we call things that happened in their lives as people of faith. However we often do not see or comment on the author's main point in the chapter. Let's consider what he wrote. Hebrews 11:13-16 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
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39-40 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
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When your hear the word advent what comes to mind. Probably you think of the birth of Jesus, Christmas as we call the holiday. This however is not what came to mind in the early churches. Advent came with the promise of Jesus to return to the earth after his ascension to the Father. The New Testament writings refer to Christ return, his advent or second coming hundreds of times!
The word advent refers to the arrival of a notable person or event often with eager expectation. This is mindset of the early Christians. Christ came the first time in fulfillment of prophetic promises but his Messiah work embraces both a first and second coming. He is coming again to resurrect the dead and establish the new earth where he will live with his people. Are you looking for his return with eager expectation? Are you an advent Christian?
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Paul writes a deep insight in Romans 8:2-4. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.To understand what the law could not do we must understand its purpose. We ask the question what can or does the Law do . When we grasp this then we can understand what it could not do but what God must do in Jesus Christ for our salvation.
On the day of his resurrection from the dead Jesus twice revealed himself to his disciples at a meal. He was made known to them in the breaking of the bread. (Luke 24:31f and Luke 24:43). Perhaps this is the reason the Lord's Supper or Communion is referred to in Acts as "the breaking of the bread" (Acts 2:42; Acts 20:7).
Jesus connected his spiritual presence to the partaking of bread in his teaching on himself as the bread of God come down from heaven in John 6.
A question: How do we know Jesus today? I have never seen Jesus in the flesh, or heard his voice, yet I can say that I know him. I am not just speaking about him in the New Testament narratives but really knowing him personally and having fellowship with him. True, God's Word is necessary, but the Holy Spirit is the One who makes Jesus known. Jesus spoke of him as another Paraclete, or Helper - the Counselor who would come in his name and make Jesus known to us. Jesus spoke of what we now call the Lord's Supper as a meal in which we take and eat bread and share a poured cup of the fruit of the vine . He used these words of instruction and interpretation, "Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. (Matthew 26:26-29)
Paul brings all of this together in 1 Corinthians 10:16 where he writes, "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?" The required answer from the context is "Yes." "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread." He contrasts this with pagan worshippers partaking communion with demons in their feasts. He is speaking of the real spiritual presence of either demons, on the one hand, or the Lord Jesus himself, on the other hand. Paul writes, "I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons."
The Holy Spirit is the One who makes Christ Jesus' presence real to us. Through the Holy Spirit we have communion, fellowship, participation with the living Ascended Jesus Christ who is in his body with the Father, yet spiritually present with us by the Holy Spirit. Some words in the communion service express this truth, "Take and eat, and feed upon Christ in your hearts by faith with thanksgiving."
Psalm 73 is a testimony of a true believer whose faith is put on trial. He believes that God is good to Israel but when he sees the prosperity and arrogance of the wicked he gives way to envy. His thoughts become a vexation of spirit. "Surely I keep myself pure for nothing." He is tempted to share his doubts with others but God held him back. In retrospect he said, "If I had spoken like this I would have betrayed your children." When he went into the presence God in his sanctuary he was granted an understanding of the divine perspective. When he compared the fate of the wicked with his own assurance of God's blessings he confessed his sin and is restored to the joy of those know the God of Israel.
If you were ask for a verse in the Bible that expresses the gospel many would quote John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. Now this is a glorious and wonderful statement of truth but it does not contain the whole of the gospel. The sentence requires context which Jesus supplies by referring to the bronze snake on the pole in the wilderness (Numbers 21:5-9) Jesus explains more in John 12 when he speaks of the Son of Man being lifted up.
Paul in his great letter to the Romans expounds the righteousness of God in saving his people. Paul quotes this prophet in his statement of the theme of his letter to the Romans.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17 quoting Habakkuk 2:4.
in Romans 3:21 he explains that "the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.Habakkuk, a prophet bears witness to God's righteousness and then furnishes an example of loving by faith in the true God. His prophecy is easily divided into 3 sections.
Chapter 1 The prophets complaint that wickedness and violence fills the land and God needs to do something. Why aren't you putting a stop to this evil of your people the Hebrews blatantly breaking the Mosaic covenant.
God answers- I am doing something. Something you would never imagine I am sending the Babylonians to judge my people and rid the land of their wickedness.
Habakkuk What! How could you? These people are the worst of the worst. How can the holy God use the greater evil to judge your people. I will go on the rooftop and wait for God to answer me. God answered and his answer fill the prophet with dread yet he had confidence in God . His responsive prayers demonstrates living by faith in the holy righteous God who is the God of our salvation.
Jesus tells a story that illustrates how a person can be declared justified, in right standing before God. It is found in Like 18:9-14. Two very different people with very different prayers- one an outstanding person zealous for God who does all the right things and avoids the obvious bad. He prays basically to himself about himself with a thank you to God for his help. He regards the other man with contempt.
The other man knows he is unworthy and has nothing to commend himself but with deep awareness of his sin, his person as a sinner, he calls upon God for mercy based on the atoning sacrifice. In essence he prays, God be my mercy seat!
What is the outcome? Jesus said only the repentant tax collector who call on God to show him undeserved mercy based on the atoning sacrifice. This is a picture of the great truth of salvation by grace alone in Jesus Christ alone received by faith only.
It puts flesh on the declaration of Romans 3:22-26
Sin creates a problem for people because by it we are condemned before God and damned. The Law reveals this but it can not rescue us. Why? Because we are lawbreakers and continue to transgress. Our sin also creates a problem for God who desires to receive us into his fellowship and has chosen us in Christ. How can he righteously forgive us and then treat us as sinless and righteous before him? He cannot maintain his holiness and righteousness unless the sin and the guilty sinners are punished and pay for their sin. God is able to justify, treat as holy and righteous sinners who believe in Jesus. How does God do this? He accomplishes it through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. He, the Righteous One, took our sin, our guilt, upon himself and paid the debt, endured the curse, and exhausted God'd wrath against us. 2 Corinthians 5:21 states, "For our sake God made Jesus to be sin, the sinless One who knew no sin to be the sinner so that in him we might become the righteousness of God!" God in Christ's atoning death expiates, that is, removes our sin, and in Christ's resurrection life clothes us with his righteousness. It is external to us, a righteousness that belongs to him and his holy righteous life but credited to us! This is the glorious gospel of our Lord!
Psalm 8 looks back to the original creation of humanity in Adam. It relates the language of God's command to Adam found in Genesis 1 and 2. Man was a glorious creature made in the image of the Creator God. He was a marvel in a perfect world that God had made for his habitation. But something happened, and Adam and Eve disobeyed God. In the Fall man was cursed and cast out of the garden. Even the created order was affected by man's fall into sin. Although humans remain in the image of God that image is marred, distorted with a dead spiritual nature and a mortal body destined to perish. Psalm 8 can provoke questions since man does not currently have undisputed or full dominion over the earth. Even the flood with its judgment that cleansed the earth and in a way had a second beginning in Noah, humanity remains in a fallen state of sin and the curse of death. But there was hope given to mankind in the curse God put upon the Serpent that the Seed of the woman would one day destroy the Enemy and restore mankind to the full image of the Creator. When we look in the New Testament we see that Psalm 8 is treated as a Messianic psalm. It looked forward to the coming of the Man Christ Jesus, the Second Adam who represents those whom the Father has given him. Thus Psalm 8 is treated by the author of Hebrews as speaking of the incarnate Son of God, the Son of Man. Although we do not currently see all of mankind enjoying the rulership of the original order we do see Jesus! See Hebrews 2:5-9. We see Jesus in his incarnation who suffered our curse of death in all of its dimensions now risen and glorified. Jesus in his whole dual nature is crowned with glory and honor. He bears the perfect image of God, and humanity is restored in him to an even more surpassing glory than the original state of man. Redeemed humans, those connected in faith to the Lord Jesus, will be resurrected in his image and will exercise their God-ordained role on the new earth in the eternal state.
Psalm 8 is a great psalm that has often inspired worship of his name and wonderment that such a glorious Being would care for people. The psalmist is overwhelmed in his thoughts of the glorious majesty of God and the creatureliness of mankind. Such a glorious God thinks about people and reveals himself to them. God's glory is seen in the universe and it is displayed in the earth. O LORD our Lord how majestic is your Name in all the earth. These words have often lead to poem expressed in psalter renditions and hymns such O Lord, Our Lord, Thy Glorious Name and the well known hymn, How Great Thou Art.
Jesus the Messiah is the fulfillment of the tabernacle of Israel and later the temple in Jerusalem. Jesus is the perfect fulfillment of all that the tabernacled foreshadowed. The whole system of Hebrew worship that God instituted by Moses is an object lesson of the person and work of the Lord Jesus. John wrote, And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth. ..For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:14,17)
The author of Hebrews writes in chapter 8:1-2 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
The Psalms have always played a central role in the life God's people, in both Israel and in the Church. They function in many ways: prayer, instruction, confession, and affirmation. They are songs expressing the range of human emotions in relation to God and others. We should read the Psalms, pray them, sing them, and connect them to the story line of the Bible. Psalm 91 is a well-beloved psalm. It has a warmth about it and express a word to God, a word about God to others, and a revelation of God in his divine speech in the last paragraph. This podcast incudes a reading of the psalm with notations of who is speaking and how each of its distinct sections embrace a creed, affirmation or confession of faith, instruction about God, and God's response to the one who trusts in him.
John introduced early that his purpose in writing his good news of Messiah Jesus announcement was that people would believe on the Son. As many as received him he gave the right to be children of God. But what does this mean? How does Jesus explain what it means to receive him. John 1 and 3 give us the answer.
John's introduction to his witness of the Messiah begins with a prologue that spells out his main idea. He first identifies the Word as preexistent in eternal fellowship with God as God, face to face. Then he moves in verse fourteen to declare the great truth of the incarnation. The Word became flesh and pitched his tent for a few years among us in order to redeem us. This required that the Word became a mortal human man who could die and be resurrected.
Who is Jesus the Christ? John's gospel was written to answer this question. His entire thesis is summarized in the first 18 verses known as his prologue. In these verse he sets forth the relation of Jesus to God, to deity, to time, to creation and to mankind. In the first three verses he declares that Jesus is the logos or Word of God and is Eternal.
Who is Jesus Christ? Whose Son is he? This is question to which we must give an answer. What did Jesus say about himself and his relationship to the Father? Did Jesus ever claim to be God? If so exactly how did Jesus claim deity? John's gospel gives us the answer to these questions.
Jesus explained his own person, his mission, and the meaning of his coming, his death, burial and resurrection and his return to the Father in the words of the prophets of old. He referred and quoted or alluded to the writings of Moses in the Law, of David in the Psalms and the prophets. This is the place where and he commissions us to do the same. We should the gospel in the earlier revelation and be ready and able to present the good news of the Savior from the shadows and prophets. His command in Luke 24:44-49 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
We can follow their progress in the Acts as they preached the good news of salvation by faith in the crucified and risen Savior the Messiah Jesus. We are to do the same.
Hymns have been associated with the Lord' Supper or Holy Communion since the night in which Jesus instituted this act of worship. We read in Mark 14:26 And when they had sung a hymn they went out... Mostly likely they sang from the later part of Psalm 118. A psalm associated with the Passover.
In keeping with the Biblical purpose of singing in the worship of God in Christ Jesus the psalms, hymns and songs we sing should be a way of the word of Christ dwelling in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom with thankfulness in our hearts to God.
This message illustrates the use of hymns in three recent communion services. The songs varied in their purpose from teaching, words of institution to sung prayers to God.
The hymns recited from three recent Sundays are:
How Sweet and Awesome is the Place > a teaching followed by prayer
Service 2
Jesus Invites His Saints >a teaching and exhortation song at beginning
For the Bread Which You Have Broken > a prayer hymn to the Lord Jesus at the conclusion
Service 3
When on That Night ('Twas on that Night) a hymn of the words of institution in two parts. First 3 stanzas before the Bread and the last 4 for the Cup
The Supper requires the right people- believers
the right words the Scripture especially Jesus words of institution,
the right elements the bread and the fruit of the vine (wine or grape juice) shared and the people consuming the bread and wine
Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Holy Supper is a corporate act of worshipped commanded by Lord Jesus and spiritually beneficial to his people who eat and drink in faith.
Jesus great Commission to his disciples recorded in Matthew 28:16-20 comes in the context of the advancing of the kingdom of God. Our continuing mission as demonstrated in the preaching of the early church by the apostles and others is to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. This good news is that the King of God's kingdom has arrived in the person and the redemptive acts of Jesus and it is now being extended through the conversion of rebel sinners to Messiah Jesus. In repenting of sin and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ we enter God's kingdom in its present form even as we pray and labor for its fullness to arrive in the return of the King! Baptism is the initiation sign of entrance into the kingdom. This is one of the meanings attached to this gospel ordinance or ritual of immersion of believers into the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. This mark the beginning of the life of discipleship.
We are told, actually commanded, to engage in singing in the worship of God. Singing must be in conformity to God's Word and should contain a lot of the Scripture truth. Psalms exhort us to praise God with singing and music (Psalm 149:1-2; Psalm 95:1-2). The New Testament commands expand the role of singing to engagement with our fellow worshippers.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Ephesians 5:18b-20 be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Illustrations of this is offered from some portions of recent services showing engagement of prayer through singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to the Lord and to one another.
The commission or the command of Jesus to his disciples was and is to preach, or announce and herald the good news of eternal salvation in the person of Jesus the Son of God. The gospel concerns God's unique Son, the Son of Man who came to give his life a ransom for many. The written words of Mark and the Apostle Peter show that the gospel is the act of Jesus the Messiah in his redemptive work on behalf of sinners and he is to be proclaimed that people may repent and believe on him resulting in their eternal salvation.
For a person to come to genuine faith in Jesus Christ there some necessary understandings that must exist. Otherwise the seed of gospel lands on hard ground and does not take root. A person must be convinced he needs a Savior. This message looks at some necessary beliefs before one can understand and accept the gospel as good news. These truths revolve around God, mankind, sin, revelation and Jesus.
In my last podcast we looked at the entrance into worship in which we can sing prayers of praise, adoration and belief to God. The second movement in biblical Christian worship that in which we engage is the acknowledgement of our sins and a calling on God for renewal by fresh cleansing. This movement helps us declare the gospel to one another. We come before a holy God but as sinful people we cannot come in our righteousness but only by his grace. This part of the worship is ripe for singing our prayer either of confession proper or the declaration of God's pardon through Christ work and our renewed dedication to walk as his children. John Calvin began his public order of service with a call to worship immediately followed by the confession of sin. The prophet functions as a model here in the worship he experience in the temple. Isaiah 6
Jesus quoting Isaiah 56:7 said, my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”Christian worship includes public prayer as an essential element. This truth is reflected in the title, Book of Common Prayer used by Anglicans. Prayer is essential for worship.
But here is a question. How is prayer done in our gathered assemblies for corporate worship? How much are our congregations, the people present, involved in offering prayers to God? A principle way that prayers can be offered by the people is through the structured intentional used of hymns, psalms and spiritual songs. There are certain things that work against this happening and certain steps that can be taken to make prayer happen by the singing of hymns and songs . This brief message takes a look at the first movement in our worship service from a recent Sunday gathering. The service begins with a Scriptural call to worship, opening hymn of faith declaration in the Triune God with the intent to pray to him followed by two hymns that are prayers addressed to him. We worship God through and in Jesus Christ. Come let us worship in the singing of words addressed to him!
There are two prominent yearly feast or religious holidays that feature a lamb sacrifice. The Passover among the Jews although the lambs have not actually been killed since the Jerusalem temple was destroyed in 70 A. D.; however, the festive meal and ritual continue with a substitute meat. In Islam the Greater Eid or The Sacrifice Feast is celebrated with the actual killing of the animal usually a lamb, goat or beef and in some places a camel is performed as a re-enactment of Abraham's sacrifice of his son when a lamb was killed in place of the son.
However, the Lamb in also featured in the Christian faith but not as an animal killed but the memorial meal of the Messiah Jesus as the fulfillment of Abraham's sacrifice and as the true Passover Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. What is foreshadowed in the historical events of Adam's fall and God's clothing of them with animal skin, Abraham's sacrifice and Moses and the Hebrews slaying of the Passover lamb is all fulfilled in the person and the atoning sacrifice followed by resurrection of Jesus the Christ.
Although we often associate Jesus' Great Commission with his appearance in Galilee and the words recorded in Matthew 28, Jesus gave his disciples the commission on a number of occasions during the 40 days between his resurrection and ascension into heaven. The first time was on the very evening of the day he was raised back to life, recorded in Luke 24 and John 20. His command to share the good news of himself - his person and his accomplishment through the cross and resurrection echoes his prayer to the Father in John 17:21, "As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
After observing the Lord Jesus often in prayer one of his disciples on behalf of all of them ask him to teach them to pray. Luke 11:1-4. In response Jesus said:
When you pray, say:
“Father, hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.”
We can and should set aside time each day for prayer in a disciplined way. However, prayer can also take the form of a spontaneous expressions.
A Reading of Revelation 5 with portions of a sermon text by Martyn Lloyd Jones on Revelation 6-7. To correctly understand the prophecy of John in Revelation we must remember the theme. The revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. The book is about the Lord Jesus Christ who is in the midst of his churches who are in the world. They have been saved by his blood and resurrection and they bear witness to him by declaring the gospel and from among humanity God calls and redeems his elect. God's people in the hostile world face opposition but the Lion who is the Lamb is the Savior. His people are safe and secure in him.
The meaning of this book did not need to wait two years for us to unlock its meaning. The meaning was given to those who first received it and it is found in the symbols and images of the vision. It spoke powerfully to them and it can to us also if will put aside our newspapers and open the book and read it. We will see Christ and his people engaged in conflict with the kingdoms of this world and we take encouragement and are confident in our Lord's victory!
The God of Biblical revelation that Christians confess is Father, Son and Holy Spirit! Why do Christians believe this? It is expressed clearly in a few verses that name the three as one such as Matthew 28:19 and 2 Corinthians 13:14. However it is words of Jesus himself in the teaching he gave his apostles before his death and subsequent resurrection and ascension back to the Father and the promised descent of the Holy Spirit that compel us to confess God as Father Son and Spirit. This is the God who makes himself known saving in and through Messiah Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Let's listen to his words!
The Day of Pentecost recorded by Luke in Acts 2 quotes Peter who said, the ascended Jesus having been exalted at the right hand of God, has received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, He has poured out this which you both see and hear. The Holy Spirit came as promised by the Lord Jesus. Jesus himself in preparing his apostles for his death, burial and resurrection and ascension to follow spoke of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in helping the apostles produced the sacred writings and details the Spirit's primary mission to testify to the Lord Jesus Christ recored in John 15 and 16.
Forty days after his resurrection from the dead Jesus was taken up in a cloud and received into heaven. The ascension is essential to our salvation. He enters into heaven as our Great High Priest. He fulfills in his own person, his incarnate body both the atoning sacrifice for the sins of his people and his continual intercession for his own. Read Leviticus 16 and then consider Jesus death, burial, resurrection and then his ascension into heaven and he shall appear again from heaven in the cloud of great glory and receive us in our resurrected glorified bodies like his! Christ has died, Christ was buried, Christ arose in accordance with Scripture and Christ ascended and Christ shall come again for who believe in Him.
What amazing love and selflessness Jesus displays on the eve of his crucifixion. He prepares his closest disciples, the eleven apostles with words of encouragement and promises. I am leaving he says and sorrow will fill your hearts but you soon see me. He is prophecy his death, burial followed y his resurrection on the third Day. Then he will spend 40 days coming and going in their midst before he returns to the Father.
Jesus spent his last Passover meal with his Twelve Disciples just hours before his arrest and death on the cross. He spent time seeking to prepare them for what was about to happen to him. Surprisingly he talk to them about the most profound doctrines of the Christian faith. At the heart of his message is his teaching concerning the Holy Spirit. In this episode Jesus answers the question about the Holy Spirit. According to Jesus who or what is the Holy Spirit? Remember Jesus words- If I go away I will send him.
Since we know that Jesus himself raised at least 3 people from the dead how can he be called the Firstborn from the Dead? This designation ties Jesus actions on behalf of his people with the consummation at the end time.
There are only two directed commanded worship actions that the Lord Jesus gave to his church, All other worship elements are found in both the First and the New Testament. These two commanded rites or rituals are the baptism of those who repent and believe the gospel and the observance of the Lord's Table. There are many facets to the teaching on the Lord's Supper . This broadcast considers briefly why we come to the Table and the essential biblical elements, the words and actions to its proper observance. How central it is to full Christian worship is evidence by the inclusion of the account of its institution in all three Synoptic gospels- Matthew, Mark, Luke and Paul's Letter to the Corinthians chapter 11 and also a reference in 1 Corinthians 10. John records another action at the Passover and his teaching preparing the disciples for his departure via the cross and resurrection plus his ascension.
This is the year 2022 and last Sunday we began our worship service with the proclamation Christ is Risen and the response of the people He is risen indeed. Today the Day called Easter was celebrate in the eastern churches such as the Orthodox. There is a difference in the yearly calendars use by the Western churches, so again our service begin with Christ is risen. He is risen indeed! Why do we do this? What is the meaning associated with the yearly and in most of churches in the world weekly Lord's Day, the First Day of the week? This message explores this celebration.
In the fourth year of his ministry Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah went to Jerusalem for the expressed purpose of dying on behalf of his people. Why did Jesus died on the cross?
After the ordeal of the trials, abusive treatments and beating Jesus is led away to be nailed to a cross. Here he hung for 6 hours but during that time he uttered 7 sayings or words. This message considers the first word from the cross.
In Luke 9:51 we have this statement- he set his face to go to Jerusalem. An older translation says it in the words of Isaiah 50:7, therefore I have set my face like a flint, to go to Jerusalem. From this point on in Luke's narrative Jesus is traveling to Jerusalem with his eyes fixed on what awaits there for him. Interesting this beginning of the travel log of Jesus six month walk occurs soon after his transfiguration. On the mountain with 3 of his closest disciples as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah,who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
In John's gospel narrative we encounter another repeated phrase. Jesus spoke of his hour which had not come but did come when he entered Jerusalem recorded in John 12:23, the hour has come.
What lay behind these repeated markers? His eyes where fixed on Jerusalem and there his hour would come.
The life of the Christian in this world is often pictured as spiritual warfare. We are exhorted to fight the good fight of faith and to put on the full armor of God so that we can stand against the devil and his attacks Three pieces are provided as body wear to protect the soldier at all times. So put on the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness and have our feet shod with the gospel of peace..
After Jesus told the story of the Sower or farmer who scattered seed to the crowd His disciples asked him for the meaning of the story. Luke introduced the context in chapter 8 with these words:Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him. Jesus tells the story to the crowd without reference to the kingdom. But when the crowd disbands his disciples asked him the meaning of the story. Mark 4:10When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that,
“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
He then gives the meaning of the story in light of God's elective purposes of grace. Each element is defined- the sower, the seed and the soil but the climax of the story is the abundant harvest from the seed planted in the good soil.
Who is the principle Sower, the associated sowers?
What is the seed? Primarily and secondarily?
What is the soil in reference to the kingdom of God?
There is more to the story than meets the ear on the first telling! Locked in this simple story are kingdom secrets.
Jesus of Nazareth was and is a master teacher. One of his most effective ways of teaching was the use of parables. Possibly the most famous of them is known as the Parable of the Sower. This episode looks at Mark's account in chapter. As part of the crowd following Jesus that day what lesson would you have received? Most people still only receive this general meaning and application- Pay attention to the lesson or listen to the sermon. What you receive from it is largely dependent on what type of listener you are. In other words, What kind of soil are you?
There is a real personal being of supreme evil known by the titles Devil or Satan. We must be aware of him butChristians are not to live in fear of him. He is a defeated foe because of Jesus death on the cross descent into hades and glorious resurrection and ascension.
And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Luke 10:18
And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Colossians 2:15
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, Hebrews 2:14
In his letter to the Galatians Paul defends the gospel of God's grace. He had become a Christian only by the sovereign intervention of God in his grace given in the Lord Jesus Messiah. This is the good news he had proclaimed in Galatia that they had embraced. If one comes to faith in Jesus the Savior it is by God's intention - his call and our response of faith.
Beware of those who would preach another or other gospel or teach contrary distorted messages!
Paul writes his letter to the churches in Galatia in defense of the pure gospel he had preached among them. His opening words ,however, are full of good news from God. Before he begins his passionate defense he gives a brief summary of the gospel he had believed and that they had received. We can not effectively defend the gospel without a clear definition of its content.
On the eighth day after his birth from Mary in Bethlehem Jesus received his name at the time of his circumcision. This name had been chosen by God and conveyed, first to Mary, and later to Joseph by the angel- You shall call his name Jesus ("Yeshua" in Hebrew) for he will save his people from their sins. Both Jesus' personal identity and his mission or work are in his name: Yeshua (Hebrew) or Jesus (English) means Yahweh is salvation.
There is One who hears our every word, our conversations with one another. Our words betray our attitudes, our thoughts. God regards with great seriousness what we say about him. The writing of the prophet Malachi forcefully illustrates this truth.
John's account of the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth is unique in the gospel narratives. It is the last one produced and as an eyewitness to Jesus teachings and actions he selects 7 sign miracles in which Jesus showed his glory as the incarnate Word. He also records 7 I Am statements of Jesus related to the very name of God, Yahweh, I AM THAT I AM.
John uses the psalms, law and prophets to show Jesus as the Promised One, the Messiah. The covenant Lord himself come in the flesh, a true human and true deity. His purpose is clearly stated: John 20:30-31 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Although we do not know the day of the year in which was born of Mary we do know what happened on the eighth day of his life. In fact two very significant things transpired. First he was circumcised and thus formally entered into the covenant God made with Abraham and his offspring and he cam under the law covenant God made with Israel by the hand of Moses. This message answers two questions. What is the meaning of Jesus' circumcision? His circumcision involves not just him but as the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants. The second question is how do the deeds done by Christ in our behalf become a reality in our lives?
How do you begin to tell the narrative of Jesus of Nazareth son of Mary in the days of his ministry? There are four gospel narrative accounts and Luke is one of them. He begins with the birth narratives and continues in an orderly sequence to Jesus resurrection and ascension. His narrative uses certain key names or titles to communicate who Jesus is and what he came to do.
Perhaps at no other time of year is good Biblical theology sung as it is during the Christmas season. There is much fluff in some Christmas songs that has little to do with Jesus and the coming of Messiah but there are a number of Christmas/ Advent hymns that carry the message of who Jesus is and why he came and the result of our faith in him. This podcast considers two of Charles Wesley incarnation hymns- Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus and Hark! the Herald Angel Sings.
One of my favorite hymns is "I Greet Thee Who My Sure Redeemer Art" or modern English I Greet You Who Are My Sure Redeemer. In this episode we read and explore the meaning of the text. It is a personal word addressed directly to the Lord Jesus whom we acknowledge to be our Redeemer Savior King who did suffer for us. We turn to him to request what we need most in light of his glorious person and nature.
How do you begin to tell the story, the narrative of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Mary and Messiah. We have four written narratives in the New Testament. Two are written by direct apostles who travel with Jesus during the 3 years of his ministry, Matthew also called Levi and John. Two are written by close associates of apostles. Mark related the memories and preaching of Peter. Luke is a close associate and travel companion with Paul. He uses personal historical research to give an orderly account. Then we have a fifth narrative of Jesus current ministry in heaven based on the fulfillment of the Old Covenant by Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews. All these writings we refer to as the Gospel. They have the power when received in faith to connect us to God in Jesus his unique Son.
Gift giving is often an activity of the Christmas season. But it can be very superficial and phony. How do we assess our giving? We ask hard questions of ourselves and give honest response before God. Here are some questions to help us in this process.
When Jesus was born from Mary she first placed him in a manger for his first bed. This was open box to hold feed for livestock not the usual baby bed! This became the sign that the angel gave to the shepherds so they could locate the infant Messiah. But the manger sign tells us far more than the location of Jesus first bed. It also testifies of Jesus person, his mission and his experience. come let us go straight to Bethlehem and see what has happened which the Lord has made known to us.
Jesus had a family tree. In fact his family line is very important. This sermon looks at the genealogy of Jesus as given by Matthew and then by Luke and its importance and application. Romans 1:1b-3 the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jesus with reference to his humanity is descended from Abraham and from David and is the fulfillment of the covenants God made with Abraham and later with David. In Luke Jesus lined is traced to Adam and he came as the Second Adam and as the Seed of the woman.
In reference to his divinity Jesus is the Word incarnate --He is the eternal Son of the Father in the unity of the one God.
Bethlehem Ephrathah,
you are small among the clans of Judah;
One will come from you
to be ruler over Israel for Me.
His origin is from antiquity,
from eternity
Do you believe in the virgin birth? Many don't. It is unbelievable to them. In fact the first doubter of the virgin conception was the pledged husband of Mary! Matthew relates Joseph's story in chapter 1:18ff. Listen and learn what the birth of Jesus, what we call Christmas, is all about.
Christmas is the season in which the birth of Jesus is remembered and celebrated and it seems to begin earlier every year. The focus on a baby seems to lend itself to too much commercialism. Perhaps we think too much about the baby Jesus and his young mother and lose sight of the meaning of his birth of the virgin Mary. The church has a worship corrective in a focus on advent- the future return of this same Jesus to earth as the rightful Ruler. So to help understand the full significance of Messiah's birth remember to where it is leading. He who has come will come because he who is the Son of David is also David's Lord.
Christians face spiritual conflicts but God has made provision for both our defense and our victory. He provides us with full armor. Paul describes this armor in Ephesians 6. John Bunyan's classic book, Pilgrims Progress, introduces us to the armor and its use in battle.
Christians are to a thankful people. Paul wrote: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (4:4-6)
King David led his people in thankful rejoicing as the ark was brought to Jerusalem. He gives 3 basic reasons why we should give thanks to Yahweh. Then Jesus healed 10 lepers and sent them to the priest to be declared clean so they could rejoin the community but only one returned to fall at his feet and say thanks. Where do you find yourself in this story?
One way Christians are depicted in the Bible is that of soldiers in God's Armor. We must put on the whole armor of God. What is the whole armor?
Christians, believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, are engaged in spiritual warfare, intense battles of the soul and mind from the forces of wickedness. We are not defenseless but we must be aware of and take up and use our spiritual weapons.
October 31 was the day when Luther unbeknownst to himself at the time lit a spark that led to a widespread recovery of the gospel of Jesus the Christ. His invitation to a debate resulted in his further discoveries of salvation by the grace of God alone through faith alone in Jesus person and work on our behalf alone based on the authority of God's glory so that a person's salvation is all for the glory of God alone. Let us celebrate this truth not as the world but as the recipients of God's gracious deeds on our behalf. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17
Romans 3:22-26 "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Soli Deo Gloria !
We are engaged in a spiritual war. For us to enter into the victory of Jesus Christ in the spiritual battles we fight we must be war conscious and use the spiritual weapons provided. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Revelation 12:11. This message explores three weapons mentioned in this verse that can help you to stand firm in the faith and have victories in your walk with Jesus.
We are often told in the Bible in both Old and New Testaments to be strong. What does this mean? How can this be a reality in my life? The name of the LORD is a strong tower. Hear God's exhortation and remember his mighty deeds of old.
What is your attitude toward work? toward your job? The Bible has quite a bit to say about work. We need to think biblically about vocation and the every day work routine. We are placed by God's appointment to be engaged in ministry.
Jesus gave two overarching commandments to the people of God. This message explores how we are to concretely apply this commandment to our fellow Christians.
Jesus was a master at using illustrative stories and parables to bring people to the gut. issues of life. One such incident is recorded in Luke 7 with Jesus as a dinner guest at a Pharisee named Simeon's house.
Do you love yourself? Should you love yourself? Important questions. Proper self love is necessary if we are to love God and love others as we love ourselves. Proper love of self flows out of proper motives.
A Christian marriage takes 3 not just 2. This broadcast explores the who and the how of a Christian marriage.
What does the Bible have to say about singleness? Since the single state involves more than half of the population in. the United States and many people experience the single state in all age groups we need to re-evaluate how we think about singleness and the Christian faith.
We often think and sometimes say- What does God look like? But this is the wrong question because God is above his creation and is totally unique. The better question is What is the nature of God. The Bible has definite answers to this inquiry. A fundamental statement is God is a spirit- he is Spirit. Jesus declared this truth in John 4:24. But what does it mean?
Every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ is called to the ministry. What all does this involve? Are you a functioning priest and faithful minister to others?
We have more free time in our generation than in any previous generation. Yet this has not always resulted in positive constructive outcomes. Often our free time become busyness- trivial and wasteful resulting in boredom. There are at least two misconceptions Christians have about leisure. But the Bible can give us guidelines to help us enjoy our leisure hours.
Holy appears as God's special word in the Bible. People today have a weak view of the nature especially of his holiness. Yet the understanding of God as the Holy is necessary for us to truly understand what our dilemma as sinners who are not holy. How can sinful people ever know or live with Holy God?
As a nation we rightly celebrate our history of the American Revolution which led to the establishment of our Republic. However our greatest need is to acknowledge our dependence on God who in his providence led to the formation of this blessed land/.
Many people become centered on prophecy concerning the future with every major event or leadership change. But this is trying to fit today's headlines into the Bible. This is a mistaken emphasis. There are major things about the future and the end of the age that the Bible clearly states. What are they? How will this impact my future as a Christian?
Have you being reading a book full of high adventure and suspense that you could not wait to see if the main character makes it? So you go to the last chapter to ease your anxiety. In the conflict of this world brought on and fleshed out by people's rebellion against the holy God you may wonder how will it end. God has given us a glimpse in the last chapter of Revelation. Consider the reassuring message God gives us in it.
Christians can benefit from reading the book of Revelation. However many avoid reading it because they have believed it requires specialists to understand it. This is not correct. All Christians can benefit from reading the book. Certain guidelines will increase your benefit. So listen to this message and take up the book and read.
The one who reads this is blessed, and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep what is written in it are blessed, because the time is near! Revelation 1:3 HCSB
People in their natural condition are not in a right relationship with the holy God due to man' state of sin. When people are awaken to their situation they attempt to build bridges to reach God on their own. Self generated bridges will never reach God. If a person is to be saved, find access and acceptance with God then he must walk on the bridge God has built. Only faith in Jesus Christ will brings us to the holy God.
The ascension of Jesus into heaven 40 days after his resurrection is one of the most significant events in history. The resurrected Man Messiah Jesus who in his person is both true God and true man entered the very throne room of heaven, the holy of holies. There he presents his once all sufficient for all sacrifice to the Father on our behalf. He ministers for us in receiving and conveying our prayers and worship to God. Consider Jesus our great high priest!
Jesus Christ arose from the day three days after his crucifixion and for 40 days he met with his disciples under various circumstances. Then he disappeared! So where is Jesus now?
Luke gives us the answer in Luke 24 and Acts 1. The Man Messiah Jesus returned to Father in glory. The gospels and the letters of the New Testament treat the ascension of Jesus and his rule at the right hand of God as present reality. This podcast considers two reasons why Jesus ascension is so important.
We can only understand the meaning of the death of Jesus of Nazareth when viewed from the fact of his resurrection from the dead. Jesus arose. He who was dead 3 days arose from the dead and he lives forever. The New Testament is written from this perspective. The proclamation of this reality that his foes could not counter is what spread the message. A living Savior who had atoned for them filled their hearts with joy and their souls with peace. Christ resurrection proved his claims and was the divine receipt that sin had been atoned and people could now have eternal fellowship with the holy God.
That Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, arose from the dead after his crucifixion and walked out of the tomb where he had been buried is at the heart of the Christian faith. This podcast examines the following questions. What is so significant about the resurrection of Christ Jesus? Why is it so important? What did the resurrection mean to Jesus Christ personally and what is the meaning of his resurrection for us?
Which apostle do you think would not be one of the first eyewitnesses to the resurrected Jesus? Surely not Peter who had denied publicly three times and with curses! Yet Peter was the first of the Apostles to actually see the risen Jesus. How could this be? What happened with Peter and his Lord?
The resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead in flesh and bone is the bedrock foundation of the faith. Evidence for the resurrected Christ is grounded on historical fact and eyewitness testimony and the subsequent lives of his disciples. Consider a brief summary of the lines of evidence.
What did Jesus do on the day that he arose from the dead? He showed himself alive to several of his followers. Review this busy day events with me from the Word of God. Come and see!
Jesus died on the cross at 3 pm on the day of his crucifiction and by late afternoon Joseph of Arimathea had taken his body down from the tree and with Pilate's permission he was allowed to bury it. It was prepared for burial by the women who had been at the cross and Joseph and Nicodemus who supplied the burial cloths and 75 pound of spices. He was dead and he was buried. Jesus burial is part of the good news. Why? Explore it from the Scripture.
When Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross a startling event occurred in the Temple courts- the veil dividing the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place place was torn in two by the invisible hand of God! This miraculous event is highly significant, It is a picture of the finished work of Messiah Jesus on behalf of his people when his body was torn open on the cross. He put away our sin forever and the way into the presence of God is forever open for those who believe on his Name. Draw near to God and cry out from the heart those words of responding love- "Abba Father."
The week of Jesus crucifixion he was the central figure in two processes. He entered Jerusalem on the first day that we now call Palm Sunday announcing his kingship. Later in the week he took the journey to his place of execution- Skull Hill. Come journey with Jesus with me.
Legalism was a problem in the early churches and it continues today. It rears its ugly even in fundamental and evangelical Christian groups and individuals. Paul was God's instrument in breaking the back of such deadly teaching and Jesus had much to say about it. Definition and major marks of this error are covered in this podcast.
The average person in the world tends to regard Christianity as a negative. Christians have often contributed to this attitude by the way we accent what we do not do as believers rather than what God has now enabled to do. As Paul writes in Romans 13:10, Love is the fulfillment of the law. As Jesus inferred in his teachings we have not truly obeyed a prohibition unless we do the good God intended. James writes, So it is sin to know the good and yet not do it. (James 4:17)
God does not have a one child family! When we come to faith in Jesus Christ we were joined him and to our spiritual brothers and sisters in a bond of life. Belonging to Christ involves belonging to his body, the Church. His spiritual family takes visible expression in local congregations. This message gives several reasons for participating in a local assembly.
Reading the Bible and listening to the Bible read is a commanded activity. In an effort to do this we often advise people to read the Bible through in one year. Although this is good advice, I am. not convinced that is the most best way to read the Bible. So what are some alternative methods to read the Scripture with maximum profit? Explore this topic with me!
Why should we praise God? There are a number of incentives for lifting our voice in praise to God. Listening just might loosen your tongue and engage you in worship!
Praising God is an essential activity for man was made to glorify God and thus enjoy him forever. This is the first episode considering practical lessons on living the Christian life. We are commanded to praise for who he is- the only true God. Let's just praise the Lord!
Do you know there are three deaths a person may die? Two are inevitable for all and a third will be experienced by multitudes times multitudes. This message looks at the definition of each of these three deaths and the way of escape from two of them.
Covenant lay at foundation of Biblical revelation. We are saved because of God's covenant by which Jesus acted for us in our redemption. God's New Covenant is all of grace but it calls us to respond in faith and to live the Christian life as a love response of gratitude. One way to personally respond is to renew our covenant vows to God our Savior. I share my personal covenant to God as one of his redeemed children saved by the blood of the crucified One.
A look at what the Bible has to say about death and life beyond the grave with special reference to the Christian and death. The Gospel of Jesus Christ brings great hope in the face of death. Why is this so? What is the state of those who died in the Lord? And what is our ultimate hope and comfort?
There were various responses to Christ's first advent, to the birth of the Messiah Jesus to Mary in Bethlehem. These same responses are found today. The Shepherds and the Wisemen show us the proper responses that should be found today. Explore these with me.
Like Noah after the flood we can glimpse the mountain tops of a new beginning. It is good to consider the mountain tops of God provisions for a new day before we walk the valley. What does God provide for us?
Jesus of Nazareth was conceived supernaturally in the womb of the Virgin Mary. This truth is at the core of the Christian message. and is foundational to the gospel. This podcast looks at the fact and the significance of Jesus' virginal conception and birth.
A little at how Americans often celebrate Christmas without Christ at the center. A challenge to Christians to purposely put Christ in all the activities in which we engage during December. Practical suggestions are offered to help us make Christmas all about Jesus the Christ.
Jesus Christ who came into the world to be our Savior through his death and resurrection is coming back to planet earth to consummate our salvation. He will wrap up history and usher in the eternal state. How should we prepare for his return?
Advent means the arrival of a notable person or event. We celebrate the arrival of Messiah's birth of Mary many centuries ago. The Word was incarnate and Jesus grew manhood and in his prime died, was buried and on the third day arose. After 40 days he ascended into heaven. He who came and departed is scheduled to return! What are differences in his comings? How do his advents affect you?
Some people say doctrine is not important. It is the practical stuff that matters. When you look at how the Bible addresses everyday problems you will discover theology. The deepest theology applied to how we live!
One great sin people commit is that of ingratitude but we should always be thankful to God for the blessing we do have. Christians above all others should have hearts overflowing with thankfulness for the blessings of eternal life in Christ Jesus our Savior.
The Jews are a remarkable people. They were chosen for a special task in the world as the recipients of God's revelation. Who are God' s Jews today? Are they merely those of ethnic origin, or is there more to the story?
What is involved in our Lord's mandate to evangelize? There is more involved than just telling others about Jesus. This podcast briefly examines the mandate of Matthew 28:16-20.
What came first the chick or the egg? Let's apply this to the church and the Bible. The question to answer is "what is the relationship of the church to the Bible."
What right do you have to enter God's heaven? Many give insufficient responses to the holy God. Your eternal destiny depends on the only righteousness God accepts!
When Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses for debate he sparked the Protestant Reformation. His first hammer blows were against the sale of indulgences and theology of a treasury of merit composed of the extra merit saints had above what they needed to enter heaven. Such treasure was available to the Pope and the Roman church to dispense to others via prayers and holy actions and good deeds especially for money to help build Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. He presents it as a grand money scheme! Luther had begun his growth into a better understanding of the righteousness of God made available to people by faith alone in Jesus Christ without any merit of the recipient. Luther wrote: The true treasure of the church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God. and in Heidelberg the next year he wrote- He is not righteous who does much, but he who without work, believes much in Christ.
All Saints Day should cause us to inquire of the Bible- who makes the grade? How does a person become a saint? Much false teaching has been associated with saints leading to forms of idolatry when homage is given them and they are treated as intercessors. Explore with me what the Bible says about the true saints.
Baptism is a central practice in the New Testament beginning with John continuing with Jesus and his apostles. It is part of the command of Christ to make disciples. To discover the meaning of baptism one must begin with its introduction, its early practice and meaning attached to it. Baptism expressed repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus as response to God's call in the gospel. The pattern is the gospel preached, heard, understood and believed then baptism.
Jesus is precious to those who believe on him. The Bible uses many descriptions and word pictures to convey this truth.
Discovering family lineage has become a popular activity traceable through DNA. The Christian faith also has roots, an understanding of which strengthens our faith.
Fellowship is a crucial Biblical concept which in many describes the essence of our relationship with God and other Christians.
We often read about the Pharisees in the New Testament. Exactly who are they? What conflicts did Jesus have with them? If we pay close attention to what Jesus said to them we may find that we are uncomfortably close to them!
All of us are prone to worry. Why is worry a sin? And what is the solution to worry. Jesus and Peter and Paul have words for us to consider.
Confessing Christ is necessary for salvation. But what are we confessing about Jesus the Christ (Messiah) and how do we confess Christ?
Jesus the Christ came as a mighty Savior, Deliverer! He acts wonderfully for us sinners. His salvation is multifaceted. A look at what this means.
Everyone experiences days when things go wrong. We often react in negative ways that compound the problems. What is a Christian to do? God's Word gives us guidelines and promises that help us handle the situations.
Christians have been left behind in this world. After we believe why are we left to go through sufferings and toil and to endure temptations even sin? God's Word tells us that we have been left on purpose.
Unas breves palabras sobre la importancia de la Biblia para guiar nuestro pensamiento y acción como pueblo de Dios.
To have "faith in faith" is useless. A look at the substitutes for true faith, and the content of saving faith.
A look at Jesus' command that his disciples are to be watchful, spiritually alert. In what ways should we be on the look out?
David describes who the Lord is to him under the word picture of a good shepherd. This brings comfort, strength, peace and assurance to God's people.
Many people have made various claims about Jesus of Nazareth but what claims does Jesus make about himself?
Death in inevitable and we will face at death of people we love and at our own demise.
How can a Christian face this enemy? What is our response in encountering it? The Bible shows us the way with its life transforming truths.
An exploration of the Christian experience of conversion and Christian walk using John Bunyan's allegory Pilgrims Progress and his autobiography Grace Abounding to the chief of sinners.
The mind is of crucial to the Christian life. God expects us to fully engage our minds in our knowledge of and relationship to him. Christian growth is tied to the transformation of our minds by their being renewed by the Spirit using the Word of God. By this we can love the Lord God with our mind.
Jesus is Lord is the central Christian confession. This episode explores the meaning of the term Lord in reference to Jesus Christ both biblically and personally.
Knowing God is more than agreement that he exist or knowing somethings about him. It is a person knowledge that comes him to in the person of Jesus by putting our faith in him.
What does it mean that humans are "made in the image of God? " A look at the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2 in light of the sinful state of mankind and the work of Jesus Christ.
A brief look at man's wrong images of deity followed by the way to learn of God is by his revelation of himself to mankind.
An exploration of the question- What's it all about? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here?
A brief word on the importance of the Bible tio guide our thinking and action as the people of God.