In times of oppression, poverty and distress, how should the local church behave. Scripture gives us examples of the right way and the wrong way for churches and individuals to live in troubling times. https://www.youtube.com/@GraceAliveMinistries https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586207050239
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
Sermons by Galen Bloom
Romans 8:18 speaks of the suffering of this present time, which makes clear that we will suffer during this lifetime. The common belief that God will heal us and help us solve our problems is borrowed from a different time when God was doing something special. When Christ was on earth healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, cleansing lepers and…
Trouble comes into everyone’s lives. It could be physical, financial, mental, or a myriad or other tribulations. What should we do when that feeling of hopelessness comes our way? How can we handle it? Paul tells us that tribulation works patience, and patience experience, and experience hope. And after that, comfort that can be shared with others going through what we have…
The number seven in scripture is very important. It is often identified with completion. Interestingly, Christ have to have seven characteristics to be Israel’s Messiah. He also had to take seven downward steps to achieve our salvation in him. We also have to take seven steps up to be saved – yet all of those steps were achieved for us by Christ.…
He is called the Father in creation. He is called the Father by covenant. He is called Father through our oneness in Christ.
To understand Matthew 5 – 7, it is helpful to first look at to whom was this message given, and to whom do those promises apply? Christ says that they will inherit the earth. The body of Christ is blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. What were the prophetic circumstances when they were given? What, according to Daniel, was to…
Many Christians say that the Sermon on the Mount is the model for Christian living today. But if that were true, why is much of it already found in the Old Testament? This shows that rightly dividing the word of truth is vital to understanding how and where to find the pattern for the body of Christ. https://www.youtube.com/@GraceAliveMinistries
Everything we are and everything we have is in Christ. We have died with Christ (circumcised with the circumcision made without hands). We have been buried with him (buried with him in baptism). We have been made alive with him (wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead).…
In Colossians 1:25-26 Paul declares: “Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:” A mystery is something that has been kept secret. So what secret…
Galen gives his perspective on how Paul could have fit into the end times if Israel had accepted Christ as their Messiah. Paul had started out persecuting the church of God, but ended up being persecuted for the cause of Christ.