God’s plan for Satan’s defeat is foreshadowed in the book of Joshua. When Israel entered the land after Jericho, their first battle was against the city of Ai. God instructed Joshua how to go about defeating them, and Satan should have paid attention. Joshua hid 30,000 men behind the city by night. Then at daybreak, Joshua made a frontal attack on the…
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
Sermons by Tracy Plessinger
The promised Messiah was to come from the line of David, but Solomon’s line was written childless at Jehoichin, destroying the kingly line. Christ wasn’t of Solomon’s line, but was born of a virgin: the seed of the woman. But Joseph, his adopted father, was of that line, and Mary was of the line of Nathan, the son of David. Herod then,…
Isaiah 14 records the declaration of war by Lucifer to God when he proclaims: “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” God…
Society at large in America is in crisis today, largely due to the fact that the church is in crisis today. One of the main reasons the church has fallen into the state that it is in is because we have, in large part, lost sight of our hope. When one considers what maturity is and compares that to the state of a…
In I Corinthians 15, Paul is laying out the proof for resurrection from the dead to the Corinthians who said that there was no resurrection. In verse 51 he declares: “Behold, I show you a mystery . . .” Resurrection from the dead was never a mystery. Even in Job, the first book of scripture to be written, Job says that he…
Paul’s message from the very beginning had one main issue – resurrection from the dead. To the Jews he used resurrection as proof that Jesus was the Christ. He used resurrection when speaking to the Gentiles to prove that Jesus Christ is God. Without resurrection there is no salvation, there is no hope, our faith is vain, and we are still dead…
Faith, hope and charity are the operating characteristics of the Godhead and should be how the body of Christ operates also. But I Corinthians 13 says that charity is the greatest of these. Why is this? It is obviously because both faith and hope will eventually pass away, just as the sign gifts have passed away in this dispensation. When Christ comes…
Even as the Godhead works within itself by charity and the patience of hope, it also operates in a faith relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Romans 3:25 speaks of the Father’s faith in the blood of Christ to satisfy His justice. The Father believed that what had been promised before the world began would be achieved by Jesus Christ.…
As we have seen the Father, Son and Holy Spirit work together in charity, so also do we see them work together in hope. God promised the hope of eternal life before the world began. When He created the universe, He created time. As God works out His plan through time, He is working within time. God is now patiently working out…
It is interesting that Paul tells us that now abideth faith hope and charity. These abide today because when one looks at the manner in which the Father, Son and Holy Spirit interact with each other, we find that these are the three principles that they manifest. Charity is the manner in which each part of the Godhead works with each other…