The Word Transfer

Has God cast off Israel- Has he replaced Israel with the Church of Jesus Christ- Did God speak of these things through His Prophets in the Old Testament- Will the Church go through the Tribulation under the allegorical name of -Israel------Does salvation rest on Sovereign Election or the responsibility of man- And what about His gifts and calling- Does he change His mind- If so, does that mean the Church has replaced Israel in God's promises and long term plan of redemption-----And just where do you fit into all of this- It's all here in a very passionate message driven by the love our Rescuing God-

Getting the Gospel right. Can you take Him as Savior now to get forgiven and then make Him Lord later- What do you think- What does your family think- What do your friends think- The answer to this question is of enormous eternal consequence.----Perhaps you have loved ones who really need to hear this message. Now, today before it is too late. Those who prayed a prayer once and have lived in unbroken sin ever since manifesting no fruit of real salvation. Prayerfully consider emailing this message to one or a number of them.----Let us do all we can, any way we can, any where we can, with whomever we can, for as long as we can...----One flaming heart ignites another.

Rom 9-13 As it is written, -Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.-----This message will explain this verse to you. A verse that is so misused, so abused, so often strikes fear - anger in the heart of sincere Christians... and more...----The message gives the broad panorama of God's plan of salvation showing how God's Word cannot fail. Ultimately it a message of grace, mercy and hope.----If the message helps you answer long term questions, consider emailing it to a friend who has wrestled with this text just like you have. Share the truth that makes you free.----May God bless you as you listen.

Are you weary today- Have you been upright, doing right things in the right way. Reading your Bible, praying... and yet suddenly you find you are so very weary. Are you already turning to outside stimulants to give you -a boost------Many do, only to find things get worse.----So it is we find these words here in Galatians 6-9.-----And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.-----If this message helps you, email it to a loved one whom you know for a fact has grown weary in doing good, and needs the encouragement. It may arrive just in time before they totally give up.----There is practical guidance and refreshment here for the weary soul and tired heart.----May God encourage you to know you are not alone, and He stands ready to bring the strength and renewal you desperately long for.

This message is all about knowing the full extent of what Christ has done for us in saving us. Knowing Christ's work and reckoning it true, to use the words from the passage. It about the death of the old man, the amazing birth of the new man. We see how salvation is not just justification it is also transformation issuing forth in sanctification.----There is much to enlighten you and set you free in your life with Jesus Christ.

1 Pet 2-5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.----We continue to search out the meaning of this amazing text so often glossed over in personal reading and public teaching. In this message we discover just what it means to be a N.T. -Holy Priesthood.-----We tend to use these words and phrases as Christians with very little understanding of the gravity they hold. Hence they bring very little grip and growth to our lives. Let's find out what this means and grow because of it-

From the moment we come to Christ there is a radical transformation in our lives.--We immediately begin the process of becoming like Him. This the where the life of God in the soul of man becomes marvelously evident.

1 Pet 2-4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,----In this message we do more spade work in simply coming to understand what this verse means. Specifically -Coming to Him as a living stone...-----If you do not understand this. You cannot understand the richness of 1 Peter 2-4-10. And what a great understanding it is. With great application for our everyday lives.

It will take several messages to mine the gold of 1 Peter 2-4-10. Here is the outline for this and the upcoming messages.----I. THE BELIEVER'S CHRIST--II. THE BELIEVERS COMMUNION--III. THE BELIEVER'S CAPACITY--IV. THE BELIEVER'S CONFIDENCE--V. THE BELIEVER'S CONTRAST----1 Pet 2-4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,----1 Pet 2-5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.----1 Pet 2-6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, -Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.-----1 Pet 2-7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious- but to those who are disobedient, -The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,-----1 Pet 2-8 and -A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense.- They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.----1 Pet 2-9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light-----1 Pet 2-10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

I. THE DEPTH OF THIS TASTING--II. THE DUTY OF THIS TASTING--III. THE DESIRE OF THIS TASTING----1 Pet 2-1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,--1 Pet 2-2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,--1 Pet 2-3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

In this refreshing non-clich- look at fervent love, whether it be all the way out to the mission field or on the usher team at your church, the focus will be on 3 things.----I. THE APPEAL for fervent love--II. THE ABILITY for fervent love--III. THE ANTICIPATION of fervent love----1 Pet 1-22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart...

The motivation of our hope is a very powerful thing. The potential of a truly Christian mind is an awesome thing. The holiness cultivated in our lives is an extremely influential thing.----We find this and more in the text before us.----1 Pet 1-13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ---1 Pet 1-14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance---1 Pet 1-15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,--1 Pet 1-16 because it is written, -Be holy, for I am holy.-

This message completes our 5 part series on -Salvation Joy in a Suffering World.-----Written to suffering Christians,P eter reaches deep into his vast understanding of all that God has done for us Christ now, and will do in heaven. Hence enabling - equipping us to face the suffering that inevitably comes our way as we travel to heaven. Specifically to face it with the salvation Joy imparted to us by Jesus Christ Himself.

This is the 4th message in a series dealing with Salvation Joy in a Suffering World.

Never forget the Shield of Faith is part of the full armor of God- Have you ever wondered how real your faith is, or just how much you really have- How about this... wondering if you even have any-----Knowing the genuineness of your faith and just how strong it actually is, will snap you into a spiritual reality that can revolutionize your Christian life.----Let's get real. Knowing you have rock solid faith the size of a baseball will do you endless spiritual good. Yet, consider the deception, confusion and defeat that comes from thinking you have faith the size of the moon-----This message is designed to sort out those issues. If you feel it helps you consider leaving a comment. If you have a friend who you know is struggling with this, send them an email so they can get relief from perhaps years of confusion.----May God bless you abundantly as you listen-

There is real comfort hear for troubled hearts.--If you know someone going through real trouble and pain, consider asking them to sit down - listen to this message with you that they find that comfort. Or email them the link. We really need each other in times of hardship, that we might comfort one another in love.----Not one of us like trouble, yet it is inescapable. Through the work of the Holy Spirit our God brings to us deep benefits out of our troubles and pain.----C.S. Lewis put it so well when he said,---God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pain. Pain is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.-----Are you going through trouble - pain right now- This message can permanently alter your perspective on it all. Enabling you from this day forward to find much more joy in this world so full of suffering.

In this message we pick up in 1 Peter 1-5. This is the 1st in number of messages focusing on the unique work of God in our hearts, as we live our lives in the midst of a suffering world.

The high cost of hardcore self-interest.

This is the final message in the Lazarus Plan series. All 4 previous messages have been leading up to this. Each bringing out mandatory details so often ignored in the rush to get to the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Mandatory to gain the full impact of what Jesus plan was from the moment he received the news Lazarus was sick. Taken as a whole these 5 messages reveal--such powerful fresh revelation on the heart of Christ and the ways of God.----We pray you will take the time to listen to each message and come away with a fresh insight, love, appreciation--and gratitude for the ways of God as He works in your life. With many long term questions answered. ----If this message - this series has ministered to you, feel free to leave a comment or pass it on by email to a friend.

On His way to raise Lazarus from the dead, our Lord takes Martha and Mary aside to minister to them privately in their deep grief over their brother's death.----This message is full of application to anyone who has to cope with the death of a loved one.----There is no comfort to be found on this earth equal to that which Christ alone can bring in these times.----This is especially critical considering that the effort of friends - certain family members can often make you feel worse with words that fall woefully short-----In our most painful time of loss there is no replacement for the private, intimate comfort of Jesus through His Holy Spirit, whom he called The Comforter.----If this message ministers to you feel free to leave a comment or email it to a desperately hurting friend.

This message is full of many genuinely surprising fresh insights.----One out of many is whether or not -doubting Thomas- has been give a bad rap and should for a plethora of reasons be rather looked upon as -devoted believing Thomas.- That alone will have you thinking many fresh delightful thoughts in the days ahead.----Join us for a thought provoking, challenging, encouraging message, sure to send you away with an overflowing cup. And a greater love - appreciation for our Lord - Savior, Jesus Christ.

Anytime God is doing one significant thing, He is doing many significant things attendant to that.----This message begins a 5 part series on the life changing lessons Jesus wanted to teach through the sickness and eventual death of his very close personal friend, Lazarus. This is brother of his dear friends Mary - Martha.----The chapter is often taught in one message. But in real time it happened over a period of days. By slowing down--we can focus on plethora of lessons Jesus wants to teach during this time.----The Positioning, Preparation, Arrival, Miracle and Results across these days are all used in the end to prepare the masses at passover to receive the arrival of the Son of God.----In a time lacking all the technology - news media of our day, the raising of Lazarus is used as the ultimate -press release- by God supercharging all of Jerusalem with anticipation - expectation.----Every step leading to this is packed with instruction. Hence the mandate for the 5 part series.----Stay with us for each one. And receive the many rich, surprising -life-changers- from our Lord along the way.----If you are blessed by these messages, feel free to leave a comment or email a friend.

The message opens with a definitive look at the abundant life. We see it is found only in Jesus Christ and is manifested by Him in our innermost being. Thus having a very real affect on the circumstances of life around us.----Moving on we see the various responses to the teaching of Jesus. What he had taught to this point was crystal clear.----1. DEDICATION CAUSED BY HIS LOVE--2. DIVISION CAUSED BY HIS MESSAGE--3. DOUBT IN SPITE OF HIS CLARITY--4. DEVOTION TO HIS VOICE----What is are your responses to the one who is Clearly The Good Shepherd-

Having revealed Himself as the Good Shepherd, Jesus continues to reveal the nonnegotiable truth that He is the way to eternal life. The analogy of the Shepherd and the sheep is both warm and extremely familiar to his audience.----He now moves from the analogy of the communal village sheep fold with an entrance that was an actual door, to the open air countryside sheepfold, where the shepherd himself was the -door.- As such the shepherd, the actual individual, was the only way in.----Hence, we read these powerful words before us.----John 10-7 Then Jesus said to them again, -Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.----One is immediately reminded of the Apostle Paul framing the doctrine of salvation in Timothy's mind.----1 Tim 2-5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus...----This is a message that answers questions people are asking. May God bless you abundantly as you listen.----If the Lord really speaks to you in this message, consider taking a moment to leave a comment or email it to a friend or loved one.

As Jesus reveals Himself to be the Good Shepherd, the careful reader - listener will find insights to true salvation enlightening the mind and enriching the soul in a way unique to this passage.----This Good Shepherd passage is a true gift from God through John to us all. One worth going over and over, yielding insights which truly strengthen - bless our relationship with Him.----And for those who think they know Him but do not, Jesus wants to speak directly to you, that He might truly save your soul bringing you into an intimacy with God you never dreamed possible.

This is the 1st of a series of messages in John 10 on the Good Shepherd. There is very fresh insight here on the ways of God. And lots of it from the lips of our Lord.----Danny Bond looks at a passage very familiar to us here... or is it- And just how important is this passage as it relates to our daily relationship with God and all of eternity- Let's find out as we slow down and discover a passage that almost stands alone... right up there with Psalm 23.----John 10-1 -Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.--John 10-2 -But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.--John 10-3 -To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice- and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.--John 10-4 -And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them- and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.--John 10-5 -Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.-

Facing willful unbelief in friends, loved ones and co-workers after coming to know the love of Christ can be very hard.----For the new or uninstructed Christian it helps to know a few things in advance that will save us some pain and prepare us to know how to lovingly respond.----Willful Unbelief-----A. IS VERY COLD----B. IS DIVISIVE----C. IGNORES THE FACTS ABOUT CHRIST----D. ALWAYS SEEKS MORE PROOF----E. IS EGOCENTRIC----We will be examining these points in this message. You likely know a friend who could be helped by this. Pray about passing it on.

How can you not absolutely fall in love with this passage in John chapt. 9- Truly there is -power in the details- of this account.----For you who love to meditate on Jesus. Think fresh thoughts about Jesus. This passage is for you- Think about Jesus passing through a mob bent on murdering him. Rather than running for his life, he pauses to heal this blind man right outside the temple. Amazing----- J. B. Phillips, the author of one of the modem para-phrases of the Bible, sensed this keenly in his translation work and has written of it.-- -I had deep respect, indeed a great reverence, for the conventional Jesus Christ whom the Church wor-shipped.-- But I was not at all prepared for the unconventional man revealed in those terse Gospels. No one could possibly have invented such a person- this was no puppet-hero built out of the imaginations of adoring admirers. 'This man Jesus,' so briefly described, rang true, sometimes alarmingly true. I be-gan to see now why the religious establishment of those days wanted to get rid of Him at all costs. He was sudden death to pride, pomposity, and pretense.-- -This man could be moved with compassion and could be very gentle, but I could find no trace of the 'Gentle Jesus, meek and mild.' He was quite terrifyingly tough, not in a Bulldog Drummond-James Bond sort of way, but by the sheer strength of a unified and utterly dedicated personality.-- He once -at least- walked unscathed through a murderous crowd. I have known a few, a very, very few, men who could do that. But then I find that this sheer strength was still His after hours of unspeakable agony in the garden of Gethsemane.-

Look at these two verses.----John 9-4 -I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day- the night is coming when no one can work.--John 9-5 -As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.-----Now read the first 2 word in verse 4. -I must...- Coming from the lips of the son of God... think about it. -I must...-----Now read the first 10 words in verse 4. -I must work the works of Him who sent Me...- Think about it for a minute. Now apply this to your own life. -I must... must work... the works of Him who sent me.- That really preaches itself.-----I must.- God help us to come under the grip of those two words.----Listen and see how it all unfolds. Then be ready to go to God with a -bent knee, a broken heart and wet eye.-----I preached this message on August 5th 1998. It is December 2013. And right now 15 years later, I feel the grip of those words. Just as our Lord did in His brief time on earth, setting the example for us all. It is my prayer those words will have the same affect on you as you listen.-----I must work the works of Him who sent Me... as long as I am in the world...-----Danny Bond December 2013

It's going to take us more than one message to plum the depths of what is here. The subject of suffering is to important to -gloss over.-----For those of you who are going through suffering you never dreamed God would allow in your life, there is great comfort and practical help for you in this message. We'll start here - continue next time.----For your benefit we will focus on these issues concerning suffering-----1. WE ARE GOING TO SUFFER----2. WE ARE PRONE TO FALSE ASSUMPTIONS----3. THERE ARE NO CANNED -COOKIE CUT---ANSWER-S TO SUFFERING----4. WE ARE SAFE IN GOD'S ALLOWANCE OF SUFFERING IN OUR LIVES.----None of us want to suffer and it is so hard to deal with why God allows it. But the fact is He does. So somewhere along the line we have to embrace this truth. The sooner the better. For then, the sooner we can rest in God's will.----The prayer of Ole Hallesby is helpful on the heels of the above thought.-----Lord, if it will be to Your glory, heal suddenly. If it will glorify You more, heal gradually- if it will glorify You even more, may your servant remain sick awhile- and if it will glorify Your name still more, take him to Yourself in heaven.-----May God the Holy Spirit give you ears to hear and heart to embrace, what he has for you in this message.

The Outline for this message-----I. THE GREAT PROMISE--II. THE DEVILS TOOL--III. THE GREAT I AM--IV. THE HIDDEN SAVIOR----The text-----John 8-51 -Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death.-----John 8-52 Then the Jews said to Him, -Now we know that You have a demon- Abraham is dead, and the prophets- and You say, 'If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.'----John 8-53 -Are You greater than our father Abraham, who is dead- And the prophets are dead. Whom do You make Yourself out to be------John 8-54 Jesus answered, -If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God.----John 8-55 -Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. And if I say, 'I do not know Him,' I shall be a liar like you- but I do know Him and keep His word.----John 8-56 -Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.-----John 8-57 Then the Jews said to Him, -You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham------John 8-58 Jesus said to them, -Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.-----John 8-59 Then they took up stones to throw at Him- but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

After our last message, Jesus is still not through with the hypocritical Jewish leaders and they are by no means through with Him...----This is one of those intense, gripping, eye opening passages in which John excels at communicating the recalcitrance and flat out rejection of a religious person toward Jesus Christ Himself. All with a long term exposure to the scriptures and the preaching and teaching of Christ.----These are the religious -many- on the broad road to destruction today. Thinking they are on the road to heaven.

Here we are face to face with one of the great -I Am- statements of Jesus Christ. The promise He gives is both radical and completely life changing-----John 8-12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, -I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.-