God’s gifts to us are his Word and the local churches. The fact that there are self-governing local churches at all is astounding in light of how God interacted with Israel. In Israel, God had one dwelling place, and they were bound by His law to come up to that dwelling place three times a year. But after the fall of Israel,…
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
Sermons on Right Division
1 John 3:8-9 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.…
One of the main themes of I john is loving each other and loving your brethren. But when he begins to introduce this topic, it seems confusing because first he says that he’s not giving a new commandment, then in the next verse he says he is giving a new commandment. The new commandment he is giving isn’t to love your brother,…
The sin that needs to be confessed in I John is not only the sins of the fathers, but the sin of the nation in rejecting their Messiah. This confession is for national blessing, not for personal salvation. The commandments mentioned again and again in I John are not the commandments of the law. They are “his” commandments – the commandments that…
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
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.
In Colossians 1, Paul emphasizes that he was made a minister. This is because there were two aspects to his ministry. The first aspect was his ministry as he spread the gospel of the grace of God throughout the known world. The second aspect of his ministry was that a dispensation of God was given to him, making him the apostle of…