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Today, Pastor Jack Morris takes us back to the Upper Room, where Jesus shared the first Holy Communion with His disciples. In that sacred moment, Jesus instructed them to Do this in remembrance of Me (Luke 22:19), establishing a lasting practice for all believers. Join us as we reflect on the significance of this sacred act and its impact on our faith today. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1528/29

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! (Isaiah 40:9) My prayer for each of you dear brothers and sisters in Christ is that you will have a BEHOLD day. What do I mean to behold? Well it doesn't mean to glance at. It means to perceive. To gaze upon. The apostle Paul exhorts us to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6). His face is shining upon you, beloved. The more that you behold the face of Jesus, the more clearly you see Him in all of His splendor and glory. The call of God to you and me on this Lord's Supper Sunday is to behold our God. The word behold is so full of wonder. May we gaze upon His beauty and behold His majesty.The prophet Isaiah says to you and me today, “Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young” (Isaiah 40:10, 11). The passages obviously point us to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is your Shepherd. Behold, Jesus Christ is Adonai, Jehovah. He is the Lord, your God, your Great Shepherd who feeds His sheep and gently leads us. In Isaiah 12:1 we read, “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation”.Behold this morning beloved, the Lord God Himself is your salvation. Behold the Lord Jehovah is also your strength and your song. As we draw near to the communion table this morning we hear the voice of John the Baptizer make the following proclamation: “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). By the grace of God, the Lord Jesus has taken away your sin. Hallelujah. Behold what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself declares in Revelation 1:18: “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death”. Glory to God, beloved!Jesus Christ is alive! He has conquered sin and death. And because Jesus is alive, the mercies of God towards you are new. From Genesis to Revelation, we are exhorted to behold our God who was slain from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8). In the context of the Passover Meal in the upper room, Jesus gave the disciples a simple command, this do in remembrance of Me (Luke 22:19). So when we take the bread and cup of common today, may we do it remembering and beholding the redeeming love of Jesus Christ, the One who came to seek and to save that which was lost. SELAH

The definition of apathy is, a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. Atrophy is the gradual decline in effectiveness or vigor due to underuse or neglect. I said last week that spiritual apathy is the kind of thing that will happen when you are so paralyzed by shame that you stay in your shame instead of allowing it to motivate you into repentance. Spiritual apathy, if left untreated, will lead to spiritual atrophy. In Ephesians 5:14-21, we are given a four-fold pathway to keep us from spiritual apathy and to rescue us from spiritual atrophy; last week, I showed the first step for that pathway, and it was: Run to Jesus as your only advocate. If you are a Christian, you were once dead and now you are alive in Christ (Eph. 2:1-5). If you are a Christian, you are alive with Jesus through the redemption of His shed blood (1:7). You, Christian, are, forgiven of all your sin, but you have also been, sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit.... for the day of redemption (1:13-14; 4:30). Because of Gods great love, rich mercy, and sufficient grace, you are His child and even more staggering (in my opinion), you are His inheritance (see 1:18-19a)! Because of all of this, your awareness of your sin ought not lead to apathy, but to the place and time where your redemption was made possible which is the cross of Christ! With that being said, I believe Ephesians 5:15-21 is a pathway and plan to keep us from spiritual apathy and if necessary, to lead one out of spiritual atrophy. Pay Attention to How You Live (v. 15) In consideration of that reality and hope that is yours in Jesus, the apostle Paul continues: So then, be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise... (v. 15). In light of verses 1-14, Paul does not suggest we take care how we walk, but commands it out of the utmost importance. be careful is translated from Greek word blepō (έ) and it literally means and is most commonly translated, see but it can also be translated in the following ways: beware, watch out, or look. Verse 15 is an appeal to pay attention because there are dangers along the way as you Walk. A better translation of this verse is: Watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise people, but as wise... Consider the seven ways the word walk is used in Ephesians. In Ephesians 2:1-3, the Christian once, previouslywalked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. If you are a Christian, you are Gods, workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them (2:10). Because of the great price of your redemption, you are to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called (4:1) instead of walking as the Gentiles also walk... because of the hardness of their heart (4:17-18). As children of God, you are to walk in love just as Christ loved you and gave Himself up for us (5:1-2). You, Christian, are alive with Christ, and because you are alive with Christ, you are light in the Lord and no longer in darkness; therefore walk as children of light (5:8). This brings us to the final verse where the word walk is used in Ephesians: So then, be careful [watch carefully] how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise (v. 15). To watch carefully how you walk is to do so with urgency, care, and wisdom. So how does one walk with wisdom? Proverbs 9:10 tells us what the first step towards wisdom requires: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. According to proverbs, wisdom begins with a fear of the Lord. To have some understanding of who God is will result in an appropriate response to Him, and that appropriate response is one of profound reverence, for this is what the Hebrew word for fear[1] means. This is the response of the Seraphim and the prophet of Isaiah while in the presence of Almighty God, sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted... while the holy Seraphim covered their face and feet, Isaiah responded: Woe to me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips (see Isa. 6:1-5). It was also the response of Job to a better understanding of the nature of God in light of his own suffering: I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes (Job 42:5-6). Jesus spoke of wisdom in relationship to what we do with His words and our lives: Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it felland its collapse was great. (Matt. 7:24-27) To walk with wisdom is to do so with an appropriate fear for who God is and a motivation to do what His Word requires is the spirit of Psalm 1:1-2, How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. In the verses to follow, Paul provides us with key ways to walk in wisdom: 1) Use your time wisely for what matters, 2) live with an awareness of Gods will for your life, and 3) be intentional about what you consume. Use your time wisely for what matters (v. 16) Life is short. The average human life is about 29,000 days. That is all you have... maybe. That is of course if heart disease, cancer, or a fatal accident doesnt get to you first. Of our 29,000 days, we sleep 9,490 (26yrs) of our 29,000 days away leaving us with only 19,510 days on earth awake. So, how does the average person use his/her average number of days on earth? 1,095 days are spent in the bathroom 402 days are spent getting dressed 365 days are spent looking for things we lost. 5 hours a day are spent by the average teen staring at the screen of their computer, phone, and television (that is over 3,100 hours a year spent staring at a screen) 5 days a year are spent on our cell phones (if those statistics remain the same, then within my 14-year-old sons lifetime he will have spent 4,516 days of his life on his phone). Allow me to put something in perspective. The average age of Meadowbrooke Church is somewhere in the 30s, which means that if you are 35 years old and if you average about 6.5 hours of sleep a night, and heart disease, cancer, or an accident does not cut those remaining days short, you have about 12,960 days awake left while the average screen time in America is currently 7.3 hours a day which is another 3,942 days of no human interaction that you can scratch off of those remaining 12,960 days left awake and living. My point is simply this, your time is very limited, so dont waste it on things that do not matter. The apostle Paul wrote Ephesians 5:16 in a day and age when social media and screen time did not exist, but the danger of wasting ones life on things that do not matter was still before the Christian. The evil that surrounded the Ephesian Church is the same evil that surrounds us but with different dress. Ephesus had the Temple of Artemis and we have the porn industry. The Hebrews were surrounded by the worship of Molech where infants were laid upon the arms of the idol as a sacrifice, we have Planned Parenthood offering free vasectomies and abortions in their buss outside of the DNC in Chicago and a well-known gourmet hotdog place offering patrons a free hotdog after their procedures on that bus. How do you keep your soul from spiritual apathy and atrophy? How do we make the most of our time because the days are evil? You do it by taking God-glorifying risks and by making God-exulting sacrifices for what really matters in light of eternity! Live with an awareness of Gods will for your life (v. 17) Living in a way that is worthy of your calling and walking wisely as a follower of Jesus while the days are evil requires that you are aware of Gods will for your life and that you live in light of that awareness. So, what is Gods will for your life? Its simple. We in Ephesians alone we are told that God chose you before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him (1:4). You were created, saved, and redeemed in Christ Jesus, for good works, which God prepared beforehand (2:10). Now that you are saved by the blood of Jesus, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of Gods household... being fitted together... into a holy temple in the Lord (2:19, 21). Because we now belong to Jesus as the Church, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people (4:14). As followers of Jesus, we are expected, to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth (4:24). Because you are now a child of God, we are to be imitators of God, as beloved children (5:1) because we are now children of light (v. 8). What is the will of God for your life? It is to follow Jesus in such a way that He is first and everything else is second for it is He who said: If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me (Luke 9:23). What is the will for your life? It is your sanctification: For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor (1 Thess. 4:3-4). What is the will of God for your life? Here it is: Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy (1 Pet. 1:13-16). Listen, any person, organization, job promotion, or desire that threatens to move you further away from Gods will for your life... IS NOT GODS WILL for your life! If you want to walk in wisdom, you must live with the awareness of what God wants for your life ultimately. Be intentional about what you consume into your mind, soul, and heart (vv. 18-21) The word worship comes from the word worth-ship. What you give yourself to is what you value, and what you value most is what you ultimately attribute worth to. What you put into your mind, you put into your heart, and what you put into your heart, you feed into your soul. Early in this series on Ephesians I said, that you have all of Gods love you will ever need, all of the redemption in Jesus that you will ever need, and all of the Holy Spirit you will ever need. I followed up that statement with a question, and the question was this: How much of your heart does God have? How much of your loyalty does Jesus have? How much of your life does the Holy Spirit have? You see, when you believed in Jesus, you were baptized and sealed by the Holy Spirit, but the filling of the Holy Spirit comes when He has more of your heart. What Paul describes in verses 18-21 has more to do with the culture of your heart than anything else. Anything that you put into your mind will ultimately affect the way you think, and what saturates your mind, will affect what and how you feel about certain things. This is why Paul begins verse 18 with a prohibition: And do not get drunk with wine... The point is simply this: Do not fill your stomach with something that will dull your senses, but fill your mind, soul, and heart with the God you were made to know! R.C. Sproul wrote of this verse: Paul is saying to drink deeply and constantly, keeping ourselves close to the Spirit of God, so that we maximize the means of grace of His presence and of His power in our lives.[2] Getting drunk with wine is debauchery. What is debauchery? It is having no control because the wine you have consumed has inhibited you from exercising good reason. It is not just alcohol that can have this effect on your mind, heart, and soul. If Paul was writing a letter to Meadowbrooke, I think it would include a sentence not all that dissimilar from Ephesians 5:18; maybe it would sound something like this: Do not bow to your phones to be consumed by your screentime but be saturated by the word of God for the good of your mind, heart, and soul! Think about it, how can you expect to experience the power of the Holy Spirit in your life if what is filling your mind is ultimately coming through a screen rather than the lenses of Holy Scripture? How do you do this? You do it by consuming Gods Word, you do it by speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs... (v. 19), which happens when we gather for worship. If you are consumed by the things of God, you will recognize that all the good that you have is from God (v. 20). When you recognize that your life and all that you have belongs to God, you will submit to the authority of God over your life and to, one another in the fear of Christ (v. 21). The Spirit-filled life is a life governed by the Holy Spirit, and the only way you will be governed by the Holy Spirit is by pursuing the following three things: Pursue God by seeking to know Him. Your understanding of who God is will create an appropriate response to Him, which is a deep and abiding reverence for Him and the things and life He wants for you. Live the days you have left with a determination not to waste them but to invest them in what matters. You can do this by recognizing that after your days are up, you will live forever and how you live today is an investment for how you will live in heaven. Be aware of what you put into your mind, heart, and soul. The more of your heart the Holy Spirit gets, the more of Gods peace and joy you will experience. The more of Gods peace and joy you experience, the more of your purpose in this life you will experience. One challenge I would like to leave with you. I want you to try something for a solid month, and if you do, I am confident it will help you grow closer to God and the people He has placed in your life. Here is my challenge: If you are single, put your phone down 30 minutes before you go to bed and thoughtfully read your Bible for 10-15 minutes (Pick any book in the Bible). If you have children, make it a point that anytime you are sharing a meal together, that your phone is off or away from you. Before you eat dinner, thank God for your meal, while you eat dinner check in with each other about what is happening in each family members life, and then when diner is over, pick a verse(s) to read before you get up from the table. [1] The Hebrew word for fear is yirʾā(h) (יִרְאָה); it is a feeling of profound respect for someone or something, often a deity, conceived of as fear according to Lexham Research Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible. [2] R.C. Sproul, Ephesians: An Expositional Commentary (Sanford, FL: Ligonier Ministries; 2023), 78.

The definition of apathy is, a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. Atrophy is the gradual decline in effectiveness or vigor due to underuse or neglect. I said last week that spiritual apathy is the kind of thing that will happen when you are so paralyzed by shame that you stay in your shame instead of allowing it to motivate you into repentance. Spiritual apathy, if left untreated, will lead to spiritual atrophy. In Ephesians 5:14-21, we are given a four-fold pathway to keep us from spiritual apathy and to rescue us from spiritual atrophy; last week, I showed the first step for that pathway, and it was: Run to Jesus as your only advocate. If you are a Christian, you were once dead and now you are alive in Christ (Eph. 2:1-5). If you are a Christian, you are alive with Jesus through the redemption of His shed blood (1:7). You, Christian, are, forgiven of all your sin, but you have also been, sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit.... for the day of redemption (1:13-14; 4:30). Because of Gods great love, rich mercy, and sufficient grace, you are His child and even more staggering (in my opinion), you are His inheritance (see 1:18-19a)! Because of all of this, your awareness of your sin ought not lead to apathy, but to the place and time where your redemption was made possible which is the cross of Christ! With that being said, I believe Ephesians 5:15-21 is a pathway and plan to keep us from spiritual apathy and if necessary, to lead one out of spiritual atrophy. Pay Attention to How You Live (v. 15) In consideration of that reality and hope that is yours in Jesus, the apostle Paul continues: So then, be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise... (v. 15). In light of verses 1-14, Paul does not suggest we take care how we walk, but commands it out of the utmost importance. be careful is translated from Greek word blepō (έ) and it literally means and is most commonly translated, see but it can also be translated in the following ways: beware, watch out, or look. Verse 15 is an appeal to pay attention because there are dangers along the way as you Walk. A better translation of this verse is: Watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise people, but as wise... Consider the seven ways the word walk is used in Ephesians. In Ephesians 2:1-3, the Christian once, previouslywalked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. If you are a Christian, you are Gods, workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them (2:10). Because of the great price of your redemption, you are to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called (4:1) instead of walking as the Gentiles also walk... because of the hardness of their heart (4:17-18). As children of God, you are to walk in love just as Christ loved you and gave Himself up for us (5:1-2). You, Christian, are alive with Christ, and because you are alive with Christ, you are light in the Lord and no longer in darkness; therefore walk as children of light (5:8). This brings us to the final verse where the word walk is used in Ephesians: So then, be careful [watch carefully] how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise (v. 15). To watch carefully how you walk is to do so with urgency, care, and wisdom. So how does one walk with wisdom? Proverbs 9:10 tells us what the first step towards wisdom requires: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. According to proverbs, wisdom begins with a fear of the Lord. To have some understanding of who God is will result in an appropriate response to Him, and that appropriate response is one of profound reverence, for this is what the Hebrew word for fear[1] means. This is the response of the Seraphim and the prophet of Isaiah while in the presence of Almighty God, sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted... while the holy Seraphim covered their face and feet, Isaiah responded: Woe to me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips (see Isa. 6:1-5). It was also the response of Job to a better understanding of the nature of God in light of his own suffering: I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes (Job 42:5-6). Jesus spoke of wisdom in relationship to what we do with His words and our lives: Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine, and acts on them, will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of Mine, and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it felland its collapse was great. (Matt. 7:24-27) To walk with wisdom is to do so with an appropriate fear for who God is and a motivation to do what His Word requires is the spirit of Psalm 1:1-2, How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night. In the verses to follow, Paul provides us with key ways to walk in wisdom: 1) Use your time wisely for what matters, 2) live with an awareness of Gods will for your life, and 3) be intentional about what you consume. Use your time wisely for what matters (v. 16) Life is short. The average human life is about 29,000 days. That is all you have... maybe. That is of course if heart disease, cancer, or a fatal accident doesnt get to you first. Of our 29,000 days, we sleep 9,490 (26yrs) of our 29,000 days away leaving us with only 19,510 days on earth awake. So, how does the average person use his/her average number of days on earth? 1,095 days are spent in the bathroom 402 days are spent getting dressed 365 days are spent looking for things we lost. 5 hours a day are spent by the average teen staring at the screen of their computer, phone, and television (that is over 3,100 hours a year spent staring at a screen) 5 days a year are spent on our cell phones (if those statistics remain the same, then within my 14-year-old sons lifetime he will have spent 4,516 days of his life on his phone). Allow me to put something in perspective. The average age of Meadowbrooke Church is somewhere in the 30s, which means that if you are 35 years old and if you average about 6.5 hours of sleep a night, and heart disease, cancer, or an accident does not cut those remaining days short, you have about 12,960 days awake left while the average screen time in America is currently 7.3 hours a day which is another 3,942 days of no human interaction that you can scratch off of those remaining 12,960 days left awake and living. My point is simply this, your time is very limited, so dont waste it on things that do not matter. The apostle Paul wrote Ephesians 5:16 in a day and age when social media and screen time did not exist, but the danger of wasting ones life on things that do not matter was still before the Christian. The evil that surrounded the Ephesian Church is the same evil that surrounds us but with different dress. Ephesus had the Temple of Artemis and we have the porn industry. The Hebrews were surrounded by the worship of Molech where infants were laid upon the arms of the idol as a sacrifice, we have Planned Parenthood offering free vasectomies and abortions in their buss outside of the DNC in Chicago and a well-known gourmet hotdog place offering patrons a free hotdog after their procedures on that bus. How do you keep your soul from spiritual apathy and atrophy? How do we make the most of our time because the days are evil? You do it by taking God-glorifying risks and by making God-exulting sacrifices for what really matters in light of eternity! Live with an awareness of Gods will for your life (v. 17) Living in a way that is worthy of your calling and walking wisely as a follower of Jesus while the days are evil requires that you are aware of Gods will for your life and that you live in light of that awareness. So, what is Gods will for your life? Its simple. We in Ephesians alone we are told that God chose you before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him (1:4). You were created, saved, and redeemed in Christ Jesus, for good works, which God prepared beforehand (2:10). Now that you are saved by the blood of Jesus, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of Gods household... being fitted together... into a holy temple in the Lord (2:19, 21). Because we now belong to Jesus as the Church, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people (4:14). As followers of Jesus, we are expected, to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth (4:24). Because you are now a child of God, we are to be imitators of God, as beloved children (5:1) because we are now children of light (v. 8). What is the will of God for your life? It is to follow Jesus in such a way that He is first and everything else is second for it is He who said: If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me (Luke 9:23). What is the will for your life? It is your sanctification: For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor (1 Thess. 4:3-4). What is the will of God for your life? Here it is: Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy (1 Pet. 1:13-16). Listen, any person, organization, job promotion, or desire that threatens to move you further away from Gods will for your life... IS NOT GODS WILL for your life! If you want to walk in wisdom, you must live with the awareness of what God wants for your life ultimately. Be intentional about what you consume into your mind, soul, and heart (vv. 18-21) The word worship comes from the word worth-ship. What you give yourself to is what you value, and what you value most is what you ultimately attribute worth to. What you put into your mind, you put into your heart, and what you put into your heart, you feed into your soul. Early in this series on Ephesians I said, that you have all of Gods love you will ever need, all of the redemption in Jesus that you will ever need, and all of the Holy Spirit you will ever need. I followed up that statement with a question, and the question was this: How much of your heart does God have? How much of your loyalty does Jesus have? How much of your life does the Holy Spirit have? You see, when you believed in Jesus, you were baptized and sealed by the Holy Spirit, but the filling of the Holy Spirit comes when He has more of your heart. What Paul describes in verses 18-21 has more to do with the culture of your heart than anything else. Anything that you put into your mind will ultimately affect the way you think, and what saturates your mind, will affect what and how you feel about certain things. This is why Paul begins verse 18 with a prohibition: And do not get drunk with wine... The point is simply this: Do not fill your stomach with something that will dull your senses, but fill your mind, soul, and heart with the God you were made to know! R.C. Sproul wrote of this verse: Paul is saying to drink deeply and constantly, keeping ourselves close to the Spirit of God, so that we maximize the means of grace of His presence and of His power in our lives.[2] Getting drunk with wine is debauchery. What is debauchery? It is having no control because the wine you have consumed has inhibited you from exercising good reason. It is not just alcohol that can have this effect on your mind, heart, and soul. If Paul was writing a letter to Meadowbrooke, I think it would include a sentence not all that dissimilar from Ephesians 5:18; maybe it would sound something like this: Do not bow to your phones to be consumed by your screentime but be saturated by the word of God for the good of your mind, heart, and soul! Think about it, how can you expect to experience the power of the Holy Spirit in your life if what is filling your mind is ultimately coming through a screen rather than the lenses of Holy Scripture? How do you do this? You do it by consuming Gods Word, you do it by speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs... (v. 19), which happens when we gather for worship. If you are consumed by the things of God, you will recognize that all the good that you have is from God (v. 20). When you recognize that your life and all that you have belongs to God, you will submit to the authority of God over your life and to, one another in the fear of Christ (v. 21). The Spirit-filled life is a life governed by the Holy Spirit, and the only way you will be governed by the Holy Spirit is by pursuing the following three things: Pursue God by seeking to know Him. Your understanding of who God is will create an appropriate response to Him, which is a deep and abiding reverence for Him and the things and life He wants for you. Live the days you have left with a determination not to waste them but to invest them in what matters. You can do this by recognizing that after your days are up, you will live forever and how you live today is an investment for how you will live in heaven. Be aware of what you put into your mind, heart, and soul. The more of your heart the Holy Spirit gets, the more of Gods peace and joy you will experience. The more of Gods peace and joy you experience, the more of your purpose in this life you will experience. One challenge I would like to leave with you. I want you to try something for a solid month, and if you do, I am confident it will help you grow closer to God and the people He has placed in your life. Here is my challenge: If you are single, put your phone down 30 minutes before you go to bed and thoughtfully read your Bible for 10-15 minutes (Pick any book in the Bible). If you have children, make it a point that anytime you are sharing a meal together, that your phone is off or away from you. Before you eat dinner, thank God for your meal, while you eat dinner check in with each other about what is happening in each family members life, and then when diner is over, pick a verse(s) to read before you get up from the table. [1] The Hebrew word for fear is yirʾā(h) (יִרְאָה); it is a feeling of profound respect for someone or something, often a deity, conceived of as fear according to Lexham Research Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible. [2] R.C. Sproul, Ephesians: An Expositional Commentary (Sanford, FL: Ligonier Ministries; 2023), 78.

Join us as we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord! After rising from the dead Jesus declared, “All things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me” (Luke 24:44). As we open the Word today we will discover the death and resurrection of Christ spoken about in Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophets! We will also see how the resurrection speaks of the entrance of new creation life into our world!

The origin and basis of Holy Communion is the Passover Meal, for in it we remember Christ our Passover Lamb, who was sacrificed for us. He fulfilled the prophetic picture of Passover, for by His Blood He released us from slavery to sin and from the dominion of the kingdom of darkness, and sets us free to live a new life with Him. Derek describes the original Passover in Exodus 12. The Passover Lamb provided 2 things: (1) the BLOOD, when applied, provided forgiveness for sin and protection from judgment, and (2) the FLESH, when eaten, provided physical healing for their bodies (Psalm 105:37). The type of Passover was fulfilled by Jesus who died as our Passover Lamb (1Cor 5:7). (1) He gave His BLOOD for us, to establish a New Covenant with God, providing forgiveness from sin and deliverance from Divine Judgment, and (2) He gave His FLESH to us, providing strength, health and life. In Communion, the WINE and the BREAD represents His BLOOD and His BODY (flesh) given for us. As there was healing in the Passover, so there is healing in Communion, which is the New Testament equivalent to the Passover Meal, for Jesus instituted Communion at a Passover Meal. At the Last Supper, Christ instituted the Lord's Supper (Communion) as the Memorial Feast of the New Covenant in His Blood by saying: “DO THIS in REMEMBRANCE of Me” (Luke 22:19, 1Cor 11:23-26). He transformed the Passover Meal into its New Covenant fulfilment, showing how all its details were prophetic pictures of how He would fulfil the Passover through His death and resurrection. Pastor Derek describes and demonstrates the detailed Order of Service for the Passover Meal, and relates it to Jesus' words and actions at the Last Supper. In particular he shows how the Afikomen provides a wonderful picture of the Gospel. The AFIKOMEN (representing the Son of God) is brought forth from the MATZA TOSH (the Godhead). Only the MIDDLE PIECE of the 3 pieces of bread (the Trinity) comes into manifestation (the AFIKOMEN), which represents CHRIST, the SON, coming forth out of God and revealed in human form, while the Father and Spirit remained invisible. The AFIKOMEN is a picture of Jesus: (1) UNLEAVENED BREAD (He is the SINLESS bread of life), (2) STRIPED, and (3) PIERCED. The AFIKOMEN was (1) BROKEN, signifying Jesus broken for us on the Cross – His DEATH (Luke 22:19a), and then it was (2) WRAPPED in a cloth, and hidden from sight (signifying His BURIAL). Later, the AFIKOMEN was brought forth from its hiding (burial) place. This symbolised Jesus appearing again, having been resurrected on the third day. Luke 22:19: “Jesus took BREAD (the AFIKOMEN = the resurrected Christ), gave THANKS, BLESSED it and BROKE it, and GAVE it to the disciples and said: “TAKE, EAT; this (AFIKOMEN) is My BODY, which is GIVEN for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” The Afikomen is eaten after its death, burial and resurrection, so in Communion the bread that we eat represents the risen Christ, who was blessed with every blessing on our behalf. Thus we partake of His blessed resurrection life. The Communion Bread is the Afikomen, representing the resurrection life of Christ, given to us. Jesus interpreted the Afikomen as Himself, risen from the dead and giving Himself to us to eat. When Jesus divided up (broke) the bread and gave it to the believers, this represented the resurrected Christ dividing, distributing and giving Himself to us to eat, saying: “I am the BREAD of LIFE” (John 6:35,48). Then came the 3rd CUP of SALVATION: “He took the CUP, after supper saying: “This CUP is the New Covenant in My Blood, which is shed for you...Then He gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My Blood of the New Covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Luke 22:20, Matthew 26:27,28). This is the CUP of BLESSING that we drink at Communion (1Cor 10:16,17). Christ has GIVEN HIMSELF to us through His BLOOD and His RESURRECTION LIFE, and now it's up to us to EAT of His LIFE, and DRINK DEEPLY from His CUP of SALVATION and BLESSING.

The origin and basis of Holy Communion is the Passover Meal, for in it we remember Christ our Passover Lamb, who was sacrificed for us. He fulfilled the prophetic picture of Passover, for by His Blood He released us from slavery to sin and from the dominion of the kingdom of darkness, and sets us free to live a new life with Him. Derek describes the original Passover in Exodus 12. The Passover Lamb provided 2 things: (1) the BLOOD, when applied, provided forgiveness for sin and protection from judgment, and (2) the FLESH, when eaten, provided physical healing for their bodies (Psalm 105:37). The type of Passover was fulfilled by Jesus who died as our Passover Lamb (1Cor 5:7). (1) He gave His BLOOD for us, to establish a New Covenant with God, providing forgiveness from sin and deliverance from Divine Judgment, and (2) He gave His FLESH to us, providing strength, health and life. In Communion, the WINE and the BREAD represents His BLOOD and His BODY (flesh) given for us. As there was healing in the Passover, so there is healing in Communion, which is the New Testament equivalent to the Passover Meal, for Jesus instituted Communion at a Passover Meal. At the Last Supper, Christ instituted the Lord's Supper (Communion) as the Memorial Feast of the New Covenant in His Blood by saying: “DO THIS in REMEMBRANCE of Me” (Luke 22:19, 1Cor 11:23-26). He transformed the Passover Meal into its New Covenant fulfilment, showing how all its details were prophetic pictures of how He would fulfil the Passover through His death and resurrection. Pastor Derek describes and demonstrates the detailed Order of Service for the Passover Meal, and relates it to Jesus' words and actions at the Last Supper. In particular he shows how the Afikomen provides a wonderful picture of the Gospel. The AFIKOMEN (representing the Son of God) is brought forth from the MATZA TOSH (the Godhead). Only the MIDDLE PIECE of the 3 pieces of bread (the Trinity) comes into manifestation (the AFIKOMEN), which represents CHRIST, the SON, coming forth out of God and revealed in human form, while the Father and Spirit remained invisible. The AFIKOMEN is a picture of Jesus: (1) UNLEAVENED BREAD (He is the SINLESS bread of life), (2) STRIPED, and (3) PIERCED. The AFIKOMEN was (1) BROKEN, signifying Jesus broken for us on the Cross – His DEATH (Luke 22:19a), and then it was (2) WRAPPED in a cloth, and hidden from sight (signifying His BURIAL). Later, the AFIKOMEN was brought forth from its hiding (burial) place. This symbolised Jesus appearing again, having been resurrected on the third day. Luke 22:19: “Jesus took BREAD (the AFIKOMEN = the resurrected Christ), gave THANKS, BLESSED it and BROKE it, and GAVE it to the disciples and said: “TAKE, EAT; this (AFIKOMEN) is My BODY, which is GIVEN for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” The Afikomen is eaten after its death, burial and resurrection, so in Communion the bread that we eat represents the risen Christ, who was blessed with every blessing on our behalf. Thus we partake of His blessed resurrection life. The Communion Bread is the Afikomen, representing the resurrection life of Christ, given to us. Jesus interpreted the Afikomen as Himself, risen from the dead and giving Himself to us to eat. When Jesus divided up (broke) the bread and gave it to the believers, this represented the resurrected Christ dividing, distributing and giving Himself to us to eat, saying: “I am the BREAD of LIFE” (John 6:35,48). Then came the 3rd CUP of SALVATION: “He took the CUP, after supper saying: “This CUP is the New Covenant in My Blood, which is shed for you...Then He gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My Blood of the New Covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Luke 22:20, Matthew 26:27,28). This is the CUP of BLESSING that we drink at Communion (1Cor 10:16,17). Christ has GIVEN HIMSELF to us through His BLOOD and His RESURRECTION LIFE, and now it's up to us to EAT of His LIFE, and DRINK DEEPLY from His CUP of SALVATION and BLESSING.

It's another long Bank Holiday special here. Me (Luke) and TK have sat down for the best part of 3 hours to look back on one of the most chaotic games in Premier League history. We then unfortunately then go back to Arsenal's demolition at the hands of Man City, ask who can overcome Pep's side and much more. Indulge! Hosted by Luke Byron and joined by Tom Kennett

I love reading and meditating on the Psalms. I'm looking forward to reading through the entire book of all 150 chapters with you over the next several months. I'm convinced that we can learn as much about the Lord Jesus from the Psalms as we can anywhere else in Scripture. Remember after the Lord resurrected and He was meeting with the disciples in the upper room, revealing Himself to their unbelieving hearts He said, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me" (Luke 24:44). Jesus included the Psalms as a great source of learning about how He is the fulfilment of all the prophecies concerning the Messiah! I believe the Psalms bring us close to the heart of God and teach us how to both pray and to praise Him. When the Lord hears us praying and personalizing the Psalms it must bring Him great pleasure and He hears His own Word come back to Him. The Psalms teach us to pray in faith because “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Romans 10:17). And “without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6)! In this last section of Psalm 35, David prays for the LORD to vindicate him (vv. 19-28). As you read these verses you can't help but get the picture that David was almost to the end of the rope and the enemy was confident of victory. "Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it". They thought they were about to see David's defeat (v. 21). In his imagination, David saw Saul's men winking at each other arrogantly (Prov. 6:13; 10:10), as if to say, "He's done for!" They would never accept a truce or even talk about peace. But we should remember that this was God's way of judging Saul for his sins and eliminating him from the political equation in Israel. After Saul's death, David had seven years of trouble with Saul's son (2 Sam. 1-4), but the Lord eventually solved that problem. David prayed that God would vindicate him, because David's cause was God's cause, and the Lord's reputation was at stake (v. 24). In verse 26, he repeated his request from verse 4 and asked that the enemy be shamefully defeated. David's desire was that the Lord be magnified in His own way and in His own time. I love the way this Psalm ends. In contrast to the shame of the enemy in their defeat, are the joyful shouts of the righteous in David's victory (vv. 27-28). Unlike Elijah, who felt he was fighting all alone (1 Kings 19:10-18), David knew that many people in Israel supported him, those who were living "quietly in the land" (v. 20). Even in the darkest days of Israel's history, there has always been a faithful remnant that stayed true to the Lord and prayed for His will to be done. Thank God, we still have a faithful praying remnant in America today too! David closed the psalm with a song of confidence and joy, witnessing to God's righteousness and power. The word translated "prosperity" (v. 27) is the familiar Hebrew word "shalom—peace," which means much more than a mere cessation of hostilities. It carries the idea of well-being in every aspect of life, including peace with God, with others, with yourself, and with the circumstances of your life. David's experience reminds us of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, who was also hated without a cause (John 15:25) and falsely accused and attacked by those for whom He had shown nothing but kindness and love. God delivered David from his enemies, but the Father "spared not his own son but willingly gave Him up” to die for the sins of the world. Now we can be assured that “He will freely give us everything we need to overcome the enemy and live as conquerors” (Romans 8:31-39)! God bless!

Make sure to join us for this awesome broadcast classic where Bob Enyart interviews Jonathan Cahn on the end times, AND for the first 10 minutes of our Bob Enyart End Times seminar. To get the entire seminar, click here! * About this Interview and on this Page: We a'e eagerly looking forward to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but that should not make us vulnerable to fake news, even Christian fake news, and confused Bible teaching... - Rejecting The Harbinger's Claim of Divine Signs (far below) - Leading End Times Preachers All Dyin' of Old Age (just below) - List of the Erroneous Calculated Dates - Last Days vs. Last Minutes - The Timing of Christ's Return has Changed And related BEL Resources: - Debunking the Blood Moon Claims with a Creationist Astronomer - Bob Schedules Meet with End Times Preacher 9/24/17 (after predicted rapture) - BEL Y2K Survival Kit Cuts Power to House (so our wives don't think that were nuts) - Two Decades After 9/11 End Times Predictions Still Pending - Bob Enyart's End Times Seminar filmed four days after 9/11 to a live and "still here" audience!* 2016 Update: If Christian brother Jonathan Cahn would have paid closer attention to Bob's comments in this interview, and had taken this written show summary to heart, he could have averted the embarrassment of his failed prophecy of economic collapse for 2015. Further, at rsr.org/blood-moons#rsr-vs-the-apocalypse-gurus we make our argument that while the predictions of the End Times gurus are systematically wrong, here at Bob Enyart Live and RSR our biblically-based general and science predictions have an uncanny way of being confirmed!  This is a Special Edition of Real Science Radio. * LIST OF LEADING END TIMES PREACHERS * Leading End Times Preachers All Dyin' of Old Age:  The modern end-times movement really took off way back in the 1970s and 1980s. Did all the big-name end times teachers think that they would still be preaching in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, and as a group dying of old age? No, of course not. We discuss this in a series on BEL beginning on May 14th, 2018 for the 70th anniversary of the modern State of Israel. See specifically the program, How to turn perfectly good Scripture into bad predictions. We love these guys, and Bob personally (and literally) sat at the feet of Chuck Smith and Chuch Missler for scores of Bible studies. But clearly, their dying of old age indicates that they got something very wrong in their interpretation of the headlines and the Scriptures...   - Tim LaHaye (90, 1926 - 2016, Left Behind Series) - Chuck Smith (86, 1927 - 2013, founder, Calvary Chapel) - Chuck Missler (83, 1934-2018, end times teacher) - Harold Camping (92, 1921-2013, founder, Family Radio) - Hal Lindsey (91, b. 1929, Late Great Planet Earth) - Noah Hutchings (92, 1922-2015, six decades on Southwest Radio Church) - Irvin Baxter (75, 1945-2020, Endtime Ministries) as described by B.E. - John Hagee (81, b. 1940; recent error: Blood Moons) - Jack Van Impe (88, 1931-2020; had celebrated his 60-year anniversary with Rexella; began in ministry in 1948 and as a preacher in 1952). See Enyart discuss all this with WND readers.  * 2020 Update: * List of the Erroneous Calculated Dates: Here's an example of the never-ending, and so far, universally incorrect, calculating of end times dates by a Christian author, and then another example by the leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses...   * Remember When -- The Dates & The Headlines: Countless Christians were told that the following dates were significant because they represented end-times markers. Thousands of news headlines were misinterpreted prophetically to arrive at these erroneous dates. Of course the Lord will return one day, and hopefully, soon. But confused teachers used events and dates like these to confuse others. - 1850 for the ascent of the Anti-Christ (calculated by London's protestant scholar Robert Fleming, V.D.M in 1701 by adding to 608 A.D. the "1260 days" of Revelation, converting each day to a year - 1948 the nation of Israel is reconstituted in the Middle East - 1957 European Common Market (ECM) established with six nations - 1973 The ECM added three more nations, prophecy teachers added this up to Daniel's "ten toes" - 1980 In the decade of the 80s, three more nations joined the ECM, still adding up to Daniel's ten toes - 1993 The European Union (EU) was formed with 12 nations - 1995 Ten Nation European Alliance (WEU) formed, claimed to be Daniel's 10-toed prophecy - 2001 Islamic terrorist attack on America, claimed to represent the end times - 2010 Ten Nation European WEU decides to disband claimed as major fulfillment of prophecy - 2011 Ten Nation WEU officially disbands and absorbed into the EU - 2016 The now 28-nation EU begins to unravel with the UK's Brexit and Italy's no-confidence vote- 2020 With the U.K. officially out, the EU is down to 27 nations.* Counting Backwards From 2020: It's been... 1,520 years since A.D. 500, the year when Irenaeus, et al, predicted that Jesus would return 1,220 years since A.D. 800, the year when Sextus Julius Africanus predicted Armageddon 1,020 years since A.D. 1000, the year when Pope Sylvester II, et al, predicted the beginning of the end 176 years since 1844 when the early 7th Day Adventists believed Christ would have returned 170 years since 1850 when Robert Fleming, writing in 1700 A.D., calculated the anti-Christ's reign 142 years since 1878 when Jehovah's Witnesses said would be the last year for the church on earth 116 years since 1914 when the Jehovah's Witnesses said it would be the end 99 years since 1921 when the JW's said millions now living will never die 84 years since 1936, the year when Herbert W. Armstrong predicted the end (updated to 1943, '72, '75) 72 years since 1948 when Israel became a nation again after World War II 63 years since 1957 when the European Common Market was Daniel's ten-nation alliance 39 years since 1981 when Chuck Smith, et al, taught the seven-year tribulation would begin 35 years since 1985, the year Lester Sumrall wrote about in his book, I Predict 1985 38 years since 1982, the year Pat Robertson predicted would be the end of the world  32 years since 1988 a generate after Israel became a nation with 88 reasons for the Rapture in '88 26 years since 1994, the year that Harold Camping predicted would start the great tribulation 23 years since 1997, the year that Bishop James Ussher predicted would be the end of the world20 years since 2000, when the Y2K bug was predicted to herald the end times, and when and Lester Sumrall predicted would be the end, and when Jerry Falwell predicted would see God's judgment. 19 years since 2001 when America was attacked on 9/11 13 years since 2007, the year Pat Robertson wrote in 1990 would be the end 6 years since 2014 when the blood moons were supposed to indicate the end times.* Last Days vs. Last Minutes: Many years ago my call screener put through to me someone who told him that the diseases in the world were evidence of the Last Days. The guy, Jim from Columbus, Ohio asked me, "Bob, where do you stand on the Ebola virus?" I answered, "I'm against it." Looking at the news events listed above, when they occurred popular prophecy teachers claimed they represented end times prophecies. Well, it's been a long time since. The "end times" is a lot longer than any of them would have predicted. As we say at Denver Bible Church to those misinterpreting last-days prophecies, "From now only, will you only tell us about the Last Minutes?" Afterall, the most famous end-times teachers are all dying of old age and these last-days interpretations have been around for more than half a century. * The Bible shows the Timing of Christ's Return has Changed: You can link directly to this section as kgov.com/second-coming-timing or kgov.com/second-coming-timing-has-changed. For most folks, before reading this list we recommend praying, "Lord, if Your Word clearly teaches something that I will tend to reject because it conflicts with some of my biases, please help me to be humble before You and willing to challenge my preexisting beliefs." - God Views the End Times Calendar as Changeable: "I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time" Isa. 60:22 - Believers Can Change the Time of Christ's Return: Peter wrote that believers too should set about, "hastening the coming of the day of God" 2 Pet. 3:12 - Even the Length of the Tribulation will Change: Jesus said that, "those days will be shortened" Mat. 24:22 - Like God Shortening His Punishment of Israel: the Old Testament precedents for God shortening the coming Tribulation, include, "choose... seven years... Or... three months... Or... three days' plague..." And David said... "His mercies are great..." So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel. 2 Sam. 24:12-17, 25 - For God Promised Mercy Regardless of Prophecy If...: "The instant I speak concerning a nation [Israel], to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will repent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it." Jer. 18:7-8 (see also a dozen more Category 1 verses like that one, including the next, about Nineveh) - Again, Get This Down, God Promises Mercy Regardless of Prophecy If: "...forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown! [But then] they turned from their evil way; and God repented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it." Jonah 3:10 - Before You Get Through Israel's Villages: "...I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes." Mat. 10:23 (yet this did not happen, because as warned, God changed His plan for Israel; Jer. 18:9-10; Rom. 11) - Some of You Won't Die Until: "there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." Mat. 16:28 (this didn't refer to the Transfiguration which occurred about a day later; see too Mark 9 and Luke 9; yet they all did die, because God changed His plan for Israel, and grafted in the Gentiles; Jer. 18:9-10; Rom. 11) - John Might Not Die Before: "Then this saying went out among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, 'If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?'" John 21:23 - This Generation Won't Pass Until: "Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place." Mat. 24:34  (yet that generation did pass away, because God changed His plan for Israel and instead grafted in the Gentiles; Jer. 18:9-10; Rom. 11) - Before Paul, Believers Sold their Homes: "all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold, and laid them at the apostles' feet; and they distributed to each as anyone had need." Acts 4:34-35; 5:1-2 (this behavior, appropriate at the time, changed after Paul's Acts 9 conversion when God grafted in the Gentiles) - Christ's Soon Return Permeated His Teachings: "Sell what you have and give alms" Luke 12:33; "And everyone who has left houses... or lands, for My name's sake..." Mat. 19:29. "...do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on" Luke 12:22. The "ravens... neither sow nor reap" yet "God feeds them" Luke 12:24. "He commanded them to take nothing for the journey except a staff——no bag..." Mark 6:8. "Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your moneybelts..." Mat. 10:9. "Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and... come, follow Me" Luke 18:22. (yet He did not return soon, as He had warned that He may change His mind). And even that Jesus went about all Galilee preaching "the gospel of the kingdom" Mat. 4:23; 9:35; 24:14; Mark 1:14-15 and Jesus said, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel [of the kingdom]" Mark 1:15; Mat. 3:2; 4:17 - With Homes Sold, They Became Poor: Remember that "all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them... and they distributed to each as anyone had need." Acts 4:34-35; 5:1-2 - It Was the Converts of the Twelve Who Fell into Poverty:  1 Cor. 16:1–4; 2 Cor. 8:1-9:15; Gal. 2:10; Rom. 15:25–31; Acts 11:27–30; 24:17 for communism quickly fails; the sale of pesonal property was to be a short-term tactic to survive the Tribulation and enter the Kingdom; the Postponement led to their poverty. - Paul's Converts Kept Their Homes and Provided Relief: (The "apostle to the Gentiles" was able to raise relief from his converts) 1 Cor. 16:1–4; 2 Cor. 8:1-9:15; Gal. 2:10; Rom. 15:25–31; Acts 11:27–30; 24:17 to support the believers in Judea who fell into poverty; they hadn't immediately become poor after selling their property, but after the delay in Christ's previously-expected soon return  - God Warned He may Not Give Israel their Kingdom as Prophesied: "And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will repent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it." Jer. 18:9-10 (see also Jer. 18:7-8; for God, unlike a juvenile judge, does not make empty threats) - One Year Probation Followed Three-Year Earthly Ministry: "'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree [figuratively, Israel] and find none. Cut it down...' But he answered and said, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.'" Luke 13:7-9 - Daniel's Seventieth Week Suspended: The prophet Daniel's 490-year prophecy (Dan. 9:24-27) of 483 years between the command to rebuild Jerusalem (by Artaxerxes Neh. 2:1-8) until the execution of the Messiah, followed by the next seven years that were to be the Great Tribulation (Mat. 24:15; Mark 13:14); but Israel rejected their resurrected Messiah so as God had warned (Jer. 18:9-10) He changed what He had prophesied for them by postponing both the tribulation and the Kingdom it would usher in. - After the Cross Ten Signs of the Tribulation Were Evident: See chapter 9 of kgov.com/the-plot for details; in the year beginning with Christ's death the signs of the Great Tribulation that occurred included the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, signs and wonders, earthquakes, believers beaten by councils, the laying on of hands to imprison, arrests leading to occasion for testimony, martyrdom, expectation of an abbreviated end times and of the soon appearance of signs in the sun, moon, and stars, irresistible wisdom displayed. - Fulfillment of Prophetic Seven Feasts of Israel Suspended: God ceased the apparent fulfillment of the Feasts of Israel on their very calendar days, for Jesus died on the day the Jews killed the Passover lamb; He was in the tomb during Unleavened Bread; raised on Firstfruits; gave the Holy Spirit on Pentecost; and He "tabernacled" among us (John 1:14, with the Greek saying not "dwelt" but "tabernacled"), likely fulfilling that feast; but the remaining two feasts including Trumpets are yet awaiting fulfillment, as God postponed His prophetic plan for Israel.    - Jesus Hardly Spoke About the End Times Until Just Before the Cross: The apocalyptic Olivet Discourse happened when Jesus said to His disciples, "You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." Mat. 26:1-2 - God the Son Didn't Know the Timing: and neither did God the Holy Spirit but only the Father, for it is in His purview to decide when Jesus shall return. Just Google: open theism verses, and see Category 15, which includes the following: The Holy Spirit, third person of the Godhead, did not know something that the Father knew, namely, the planned day and hour of the Second Coming Mark 13:32 and of course that lack of knowledge did not negate His divinity for the quantitative attribute of omniscience is not like the absolute qualitative attributes; likewise, no man, no angel, nor even the Son knew, for "of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only" of the persons of the Godhead, with even the Second Person not knowing the timing of the Second Coming which was in the purview of the Father alone Mat. 24:36. - Israel's End Times Signs Not Relevant Today: When the Lord temporarily set aside Israel's Kingdom and their covenant of circumcision and grafted in the Body of Christ with its covenant of grace (this is not replacement theology), God's new sign, so to speak, of the end of the Body of Christ's time on earth is the "fullness of the Gentiles", whatever He means by that, be it a billion believers to populate heaven, or the Gospel preached worldwide, or holiness within the Body, etc.; so that, when "the fullness of the Gentiles has come in" then God will graft Israel back in again, "for God is able to graft them in again", and thereby resume the countdown on their end times calendar; Rom. 11:11-32. - To Read More about the Changed Date of the Second Coming: Click to get a copy of Bob Enyart's life's work, The Plot: An Overview of the Bible is the Key to its Details and review the list of 33 Categories of more than 500 scriptures at opentheism.org/verses. * Tonight on Denver's 7News: Bob Enyart said on 7News to Colorado's ABC audience that Christians who say that the death penalty is immoral are unwittingly accusing God the Father of being unjust, for He required a payment of death to pay for the sin of the world. We thank God for the opportunity to promote the principles of the Gospel on the nightly news! Please also see AmericanRTL.org/death-penalty.    Now Back to the Harbinger: * Enyart & Cahn Agree on the Theme of The Harbinger: Bob Enyart interviews Jonathan Cahn, the NY Times bestselling author of The Harbinger. Bob appreciates Cahn's warning to an America defiant of God but Enyart disagrees with Cahn's claim that 9/11 was a specific sign from God. See just below Bob's notes regarding his reasons for disagreeing with Jonathan Cahn's claims of a specific divine message in the events following the Attack on America.   * Rejecting The Harbinger's Claim of Divine Signs: (This is not meant to be harsh, for we love and appreciate Jonathan Cahn, and though airing a daily radio talk show, we don't want to be like David who became battle hardened; yet, this is meant to be direct.) The last nine minutes of audio on today's program were recorded twelve years ago at an End Times seminar conducted in Winona Lake, Indiana only four days after Sept. 11, 2001. Bob Enyart predicted that sincere Christian authors (who love and honor God and preach the Gospel) would find a Bible passage with a few uncanny similarities to 9/11, and so would claim that therefore Al Qaeda's attack on America was a sign from God. Consider Jonathan Cahn's few parallels (which get repeated often) from Isaiah 9:10 to 9/11 events. In the audio from September 2001, Bob Enyart illustrates how easy this is to claim fulfillment of a prophetic pattern when, compared to the Harbinger, he quoted more, and more significant, 9/11 parallels, not from Isaiah but from Revelation 17 and 18. As one small example, the greater parallel between Scripture and 9/11 is not a sycamore and a fir tree, but Washington DC and NYC debating the patent rights of murdered unborn children so that "the merchants of the earth" can buy and sell the "the bodies and souls of men." So Bob intentionally misinterpreted the Scriptures to show how easily (and even innocently) this is done, and while Cahn's parallels get to select from events over a period of years, Bob's many more prophetic parallels were all fulfilled on the very day of September 11th. Harbinger Expert Critic says: "Bob, I read your analysis this morning and it was dead right on every point." - David James, 3/24/13 The Internet hasn't existed for 2,700 years. Jonathan Cahn's nine harbingers are based on a quote in the Bible of men defiant against God, who, after suffering God's judgment, repeated in utter ignorance, "The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars" (Isaiah 9:10). If the web had been forever, a Google search would probably return countless pages recording, after attacks, utterances throughout Judeo-Christian history of that quote. About 18 minutes into the program, Jonathan Cahn says about Isaiah 9:10 and the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor that back then, "you don't have anyone quoting the Scripture of judgment." Perhaps, perhaps not. In the very center of the Internet's page of Pearl Harbor Quotes we read Isaiah 9:10, not in the NIV or NASB, because those versions were translated later, but in the King James Version. Cahn chose to present his message in a book of fiction. Not unlike the folks who think Star Wars is real, for many readers, Cahn's literary device blurs the distinction between truth and fiction. The requisite suspension of disbelief necessary to enjoy the elements of the story, a wary reporter, a surprised liaison, and an unnamed prophet with curious ancient seals, works to bias the reader who emerges from the novella into the real world lacking the desire to expend the mental energy necessary for an objective consideration of The Harbinger's theological claims. The first harbinger (i.e., a seal in the book's metaphor) is the 9/11 attack. Cahn says at about 6:30 into today's program that a first attack is a sign of God's judgment and that God's protection will be further lifted if the nation does not repent. Bob suggests to Cahn that not unlike 9/11, Pearl Harbor suffered 3,000 casualties, about 2,400 of whom were killed. We live here, today, and so we are inclined to discount far-flung attacks over the last 2,700 years and view the world, unsurprisingly, through our own eyes. Bob mentioned to Jonathan that years ago he had interviewed the beloved Hal Lindsey who, through a similar here-and-now-centered interpretation, suggested that the Second Coming would be in 1988. (This was not unlike superstitious European Christians who would panic when pestilence coincided with Halley's Comet, nor unlike those who thought Jesus would return on the Y2K computer bug, nor unlike those who thought that lightning strikes signified judgment from Zeus, until that is lightning rods ruined the divine aim. Superstition, sadly, is as rampant among Christian authors as it was among the Greeks who worshiped the pantheon.) We interpret our own suffering as though it were of biblical proportion, as Cahn said at about 21:40, that in addition to the harbingers (signs), America has suffered "economic collapse". Well, collapse means different things to different people. Within 48 hours of our prerecorded interview, Dow Jones reached an all time high, and at the very minute today's show began, Reuters reported, "Housing starts point to growing economic momentum." Compare that just to even recent decimation by tsunami, typhoon, earthquake, and to the countries bankrupted, the millions slaughtered, and tens of millions ruined by war, and even to the billions in Asia and Africa who've truly suffered debilitating poverty. That's economic collapse, whereas if God brought economic sanctions against America, it wouldn't look like a downturn, and it wouldn't primarily hurt the poor and middle class. Given the freedom to be arbitrary, fans of Nostradamus (who apparently predicted the second coming, to America in the year 2013, of Twinkies and Ding Dongs) and Jean Dixon point to fulfillment of prophecy. Ironically, Isaiah 9:10 itself is not even a prophecy, so any claimed fulfillment is metaphorical at best. However, The Harbinger itself fulfilled an actual prophecy, uttered in the very week of 9/11, at that End Times seminar, which predicted that such books would be written :). And I'm not even a prophet. Over a million Americans were killed in the civil and world wars. Weren't those lives worth a Bible verse? Around 25 minutes into the program, Bob agrees with The Harbinger, in that "for Israel, being a prophet was a matter of life or death" (p. 9). Enyart then explains that today, God has withdrawn His accountability system for prophets. Jonathan did not anticipate Bob's statement that stoning a false prophet to death is no longer commanded, nor permitted, by God, as the New Testament says, that with "the priesthood being changed [by Christ], of necessity there is also a change of the law" (Hebrews 7:12). So today, while Christians tend to forget and forgive (often without even admitting) the false prophecies of their brethren, unbelievers have long memories and stumble over our false prophecies and prophetic interpretations.     The actual parallel between Israel and America, regarding 732 B.C. and 2001, is only thematic, not divinely particular. When a nation ignores God, she becomes increasingly weak and vulnerable to destruction from within and without. Contrary to The Harbinger's emphasis (p. 19), this is true for Israel and America and for Italy, Germany, and Argentina. Christians disagree terribly over interpretation of the plain words in the Bible. Realize how loose our interpretations will then be of events! What is the meaning of a flood? An earthquake? An attack? It is God! Or perhaps it's the devil! Or was it, in fact, Osama bin Laden? Jesus disapproved of such interpretations of current events in Luke 13:1-5, and when Enyart debated D. James Kennedy's Professor of New Testament from Knox Theological Seminary, this very passage, regarding 2,000-year-old headlines of murder and a fallen tower, was central to the matter. The Harbinger makes the important observation that, "during national judgment, both the righteous and the wicked perish" (p. 30). Then Cahn writes, thankfully, that God was not with Al Qaeda, but he claimed this as part of the prophetic pattern, in that, God was not with Israel's enemies who attacked her. But again this is arbitrary, for there were plenty of times when God Himself orchestrated the attacks on Israel in punishment for her national adultery. Yet it is wrong to extrapolate from those extraordinary biblical interventions that, therefore, God is the one who orchestrates a molester's rape of a child, or the Holocaust. Attributing to God the designs of the wicked comes close to blasphemy, except that it is done in ignorance, although often, through negligent ignorance. Jonathan Cahn says, rightly I assert, that God was not with Al Qaeda, yet because of a degree of superstition, he then interprets defiance against Islamic terrorism as defiance against God. Is Israel defiant today against God? Yes. (Sadly, like America they are a nation of socialists who defend abortion and homosexuality.) Does that mean that Israel's defiance of Hamas is inherently condemnable? Of course not. Cahn takes a Time magazine reporter's perfectly valid quote as a double entendre, with the entire thrust of the book implying that the defiance is against God, even though it is typically explicitly stated, as in this case, that it is against Islamic terrorists. "Rebuilding Ground Zero was going to be America's statement of defiance," (p. 63, from July 1, 2008) "to those who attacked us."Four days after the attack on American on 9/11, in our End Times seminar at Winona Lake (home of a famous Bible center, Billy Sunday, and a prayer launch pad for Billy Graham's first crusade), I didn't have to stretch the details, as Jonathan does somewhat, to make far greater and more substantive parallels between 9/11 and the book of Revelation. The world trade center, her sins had reached to heaven, the nations, peoples, tongues, and languages, Babylon the great, is fallen, the kings of the earth see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance for fear of her torment, watching the smoke of her ruin, the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury, her plagues will come in one day, death and mourning, she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her, alas, that mighty city, for in one hour your judgment has come, their commerce has ceased, no merchandising today of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, silk and scarlet, every kind of object, of wood, bronze, iron, and marble, incense, wine and oil, flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, pork bellies, and bodies and souls of men. For in the previous week, the targets of God's wrath, New York and Washington D.C. were debating the patent rights of the tiniest innocent babies, the embryos destroyed so that their bodies could be harvested and sold, by the Israelis, to businesses around the world, while American financial interests were angered that they may not be collecting the royalties they were demanding. And on the Hudson and in the New York harbor, all who travel by ship, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What is like this great city?" Both can't be correct, but either or both, the Harbinger and the Revelation 17-18 prophetic "parallels", could be wrong. As the above paragraph demonstrates, the more powerful and biblically extensive prophetic interpretation of 9/11 is not The Harbinger, but The Revelation. And that one is certainly wrong! For one, I intended it to be wrong. And secondly, if Revelation 18 was being fulfilled before our eyes on September 11, 2001 that would mean that we are now twelve years into Revelation chapter 19, and by now, the Second Coming should have occurred. So if the strong prophetic parallel (Revelation) isn't true, the weak one (Harbinger) probably isn't true either. Allow me to be petty. A sycamore tree and a Norwegian fir (the claimed sixth and seventh signs) do not come close to the extraordinary depth of substance and parallel between 9/11 and Revelation 17 and 18. Besides (and these are insignificant, but mentioned because such trivialities in reverse, are used in The Harbinger to make its point. The World Trade Center wasn't made of bricks. (On the contrary, it is noted for being the first supertall building to be made without masonry.) And yes, (p. 72) New York City and America rebuilt. But so did Berlin. And Rome, one could say. Destroyed cities throughout history rebuilt, with notable exceptions like Nineveh. Isaiah speaks of many sycamores, not one as at the WTC. And as Cahn acknowledges, that tree destroyed on 9/11 had the same name, sycamore, but it was a different kind of tree; in fact, a different species, and a different genus. And a different family, and a different order. If it were much different, it wouldn't be a tree, one could say. (But then again, what couldn't one say?) Isaiah says the Sycamores (plural, not singular) would be cut down (not crushed) and replaced with woods of cedar, not with a single pine tree. (2014 Update: And as the replacement of the tree was a sign of the end times, so was the removal of the tree, after it died, said Cahn.) The Harbinger also embraces the invalid contradiction of freedom yet being forced, justifying this by saying, "It takes two oars to make a boat go straight" (p. 86). Yes, but that boat illustration presents not even a theoretical contradiction, let alone an actual one. And the world isn't going straight, unless we mean straight to hell. Some of the claimed fulfillments of the prophetic pattern are really the same thing, repeated references to the attack itself, and tower falling, and the rebuilding, and the quoting, in hubris, it is true, of Isaiah 9:10 to rebuild, as by one significant government official who was… John Edwards? That disgraced non-official failed vice-presidential candidate. The 8th harbinger, coming with some peculiar justification in that spoken words are invisible, has to do with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which is as it should be because D.C. was also a target (although there was no harbinger from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for that was not an intended target no doubt). A claim repeated about slavery and the civil war is that every drop of shed blood was due to the judgment of God. So then why could the British and much of the world end slavery without a similar judgment? (That could be answered, but would require prophetic interpretations specific to the unique history of each country.) And a biblical hewn stone did not need to be quarried from a mountain, let alone in upstate New York, though that claim adds flavor to the fiction and yet another confirmation of the prophecy! One would think that bureaucracy could not thwart a divine sign. That stone, though, that Jonathan writes so much about, being quarried and celebrated, ended up not as the cornerstone at ground zero but at a suburban office building. For Mayor Bloomberg, et al., changed the One World Trade Center design and diverted one of the harbingers… to Long Island. A few words about Jonathan Cahn. We don't think that we convinced him, nor even gave him pause. Yet, at the same time, we don't think that he loves God any less than we do, nor do we believe that God approves more of us than He does of Cahn. We're just asking God to help us to do our best to rightly divide, and to urge all believers to rightly divide, the Word of Truth. The Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore publicly apologized here on KGOV.com for misinterpreting something as simple as a court ruling. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the partial-birth abortion "ban", Judge Moore, currently Alabama's chief justice, praised that ruling as a godly pro-life victory. Traveling to Birmingham, Alabama we challenged him to actually read the opinion, and he did, and so admitted that it was the most brutally wicked ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court (and that's saying something). So there's hope for Jonathan too :) The great upside of Cahn's book is its theme, which is the nation's desperate need to turn to God and the horror of losing His blessing, for as Jonathan quoted a Bible commentary, "The defiance of God shuts out immeasurable good" (p. 76). The Harbinger's downside though, is that many of its Christian readers will become even more superstitious. -Pastor Bob Enyart Denver Bible Church (See also Bob's Writings at KGOV.com/writings, and Bob's End Times seminar, and his super fun verse-by-verse study of the Book of Revelation!)  Today's Resources: Bob Enyart's Last Days Bible Studies! Have it your way! You can enjoy Bob's: * Last Days Bible teaching on the end times (downloadable or on MP3 CD) * End Times seminar in Indiana given the week of 9/11 (downloadable or on MP3 CD) * Verse-by-verse studies on 1 Corinthians and 1 & 2 Thessalonians, both of which address rapture passages, or * Bob's Bible Study on The Book of Revelation, or read the End Times chapter in Bob's life's work, * The Plot. With any of these resources, you'll get the benefit of decades of Bible research!* See Our Bible Study Resources: We invite you to check out our theologythursday.com or our monthly subscriptions.

23 Oct // Rev Scott Pilgrim // October Outreach Series – Crossing the Street: Modelling the Heart of Jesus – Yet not I but through Christ in Me (Luke 7:11-17)

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Isaiah 9:2-7; Philippians 2:1-11; Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 When Jesus sent out His followers to proclaim the Word of His kingdom to all who would listen, He assured them: "The one who hears you hears Me" (Luke 10:16). Those who responded in faith knew that the kingdom of God had come near to them and their joy increased knowing they were truly members of the household of God. Although this sending of the 70 took place some 2,000 years ago, the same reality is ours today! Jesus continues to send out His workers in order that they may preach His Word, preside over His Meal, and welcome into the household of God all who trust in Him. We are listening to Jesus Himself as His kingdom comes near to us. What peace and joy can be ours when we trust that heaven's grace is ours to receive!

In this episode of Treasures in Heaven, Catholic charismatic Billy Ayles talks about how Christ prophesied, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning Me" (Luke 24:44). The Law of Moses foreshadowed our redemption by way of the Lamb of God. And during this time of Lent, we are drawn to the sacrifice of God's Lamb, and to live our lives as a living sacrifice. (March 4, 2022)

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me” (Luke 4) “So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened […] The post The Anointing…the Presence of Jesus…Jesus is God…Receive Him as Lord & Savior appeared first on Wonder & Reality.

The Red Zone Series: Each One Bring One February 13, 2022 AM Elwyn N. Johnston 1. What's holding you? Matthew 19:16 – 22 “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?” Matthew 19:16 “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” Matthew 19:21 “when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.” Matthew 19:22 2. You make the call Luke 23:33 - 43 “So You're the Messiah? Prove it by saving Yourself—and us, too” Luke 23:39 “Jesus, remember me” Luke 23:42 “today you shall be with Me” Luke 23:43 3. Almost isn't good enough Acts 26 “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.” Acts 26:28 “the ‘right time' is now. Today is the day of salvation.” 2 Cor. 6:2 “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” 1 Kings 18:21 “How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?” Galatians 3:3

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me” (Luke 4:16). “So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened […] The post The Anointing…Another Preview…Jesus' Glory is Available! Amen! appeared first on Wonder & Reality.

Is money good or bad? Is it moral, immoral, or amoral to be rich or poor? Are people with money better or worse than those with less money? Read on to find out! Table of ContentsMistake 1: Thinking Something Is Amoral When It Is Moral or ImmoralMistake 2: Thinking Something Is Immoral When It Is AmoralThe Amoral Nature of MoneyHow We Spend Money Is MoralHow We Feel About Money Is MoralThe Love of Money, Versus Money, Is the Problem During college, I took a world religions class. A Buddhist monk was brought in as a guest speaker. He had no modern-day luxuries, such as a vehicle, computer, or refrigerator, because he thought these were sinful (immoral). He thought it was good (moral) to allow himself only what was necessary for survival, such as food, water, and shelter. But this is not what Jesus meant when He said, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me” (Luke 9:23). There, Jesus referred to denying ourselves immoral pleasures, but the monk was abstaining from things that are amoral (non-sinful, or spiritually neutral): If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.Colossians 2:20-23 When people rigorously neglect the amoral and follow legalistic, man-made commands, there's “an appearance of wisdom,” but there's “no value against [indulging] the flesh,” which is to say there's no spiritual benefit. It's heartbreaking when people spend years rigorously denying themselves in ways that have no moral or spiritual benefit. The Bible teaches that drunkenness and homosexuality are immoral (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). It's tragic when people spend years getting drunk or participating in homosexual relationships because they're convinced their immoral actions are amoral. We must understand morality because if we don't, we might find ourselves in one of the above situations and fail to see the goodness (morality) of certain behaviors and the sinfulness (immorality) of others. These are the two mistakes we typically make with morality. Let's consider them in more detail so we'll be prepared to view our money correctly. Mistake 1: Thinking Something Is Amoral When It Is Moral or Immoral Many verses discuss the morality of our words. For example: Matthew 12:37— Jesus said, “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”1 Peter 3:10—“He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.” Most people know their speech is moral, but they might not know that the amount they speak (and listen) is also moral (versus amoral). James 1:19 says, “My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” This verse contains three commands, which means we're dealing with morality: it is moral to be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; and it is immoral to be slow to hear, quick to speak, and quick to anger. Anger and listening might be mentioned together because they're closely related. As a pastor, when I'm counseling couples, sometimes it's obvious early on who's more at fault when problems arise because they're slow to hear and quick to get angry. Ecclesiastes teaches that one way to identify fools is they talk too much: “A fool's voice is known by his many words…a fool also multiplies words” (Ecclesiastes 5:3; 10:14). David took so seriously how much he spoke that he prayed God would protect his mouth: “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips” (Psalm 141:3).

Jesus First Became a Bondservant…There are many questions Christians have about the Lord's Supper, and not all of them revolve around the nature of the substance of the bread and wine. There is the question about timing, how often are we to celebrate it? And then questions about meaning, is it symbolic, or does it truly transfer some tangible grace to those who partake? But the biggest question, for me, is in regards to its significance. After all, there is a judgment attached to the Lord's Supper. The Scriptures teach those who partake of it in an “unworthy manner” will bring judgment upon themselves, even to the point of sickness and death. That's right. Read it yourself in 1 Corinthians 11:27-30. That seems a bit heavy-handed to me. Does it to you? That is until I began to see a deeper meaning in the Lord's Supper, something right below the surface. For years, when Jesus broke the bread and gave it to His disciples, we focused on “this is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19), referring almost exclusively to the physical suffering and death of Jesus on the cross for our sins. And that is true. But there may be more we have been missing. And when Jesus said, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you” (Luke 22:20), again, we usually interpret that to only mean the physical shedding of His blood as His sacrifice for our sins. And that is also true. But there could be more to this than meets the eye. Since we tend to think linearly, we often jump from the Upper Room, with the bread and wine, to the cross, with His broken body and shed blood, and assume we have the point of the Lord's Supper all wrapped up in a neat package. But what we miss is what happened between these two, the turmoil in the garden, where Jesus had to determine for Himself if He would fulfill His commitment to His Father that He made long before He came as a Babe in Bethlehem. Never forget, between the upper room and the cross, was the garden. And it may be that what happened in the garden is what the Lord wants us to remember every time we partake of the Lord's Supper. Let's look at the commitment Jesus made to His Father. And Then He Came in the Likeness of MenIn Philippians 2, we have a scene before us that reveals the Lord Jesus making Himself (His action) a “bondservant” (doúlos) of His Father and then, as a bondservant, a voluntary slave, becoming obedient to His Father “to the point of death, even the death of the cross” (Phil. 2:8). And in this passage, we see the depth of the relationship between the Father and His Son and the reason for the suffering of Jesus in the garden. Consider the following: Let this mind (phronéō – to think, to have the mindset) be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being (to be or exist in a state or condition) in the form (morphḗ – shape, essence, replica, the expression of something that reflects or manifests fully and truly the essence of what something is) of God, did not consider (hēgéomai – view, regard, esteem, count, reckon) it robbery (taking something by force) to be equal (ísos – alike in quantity, quality, dignity) with God, but (His action) made Himself of no reputation (kenóō – to make empty or void, of no value), (to what degree) taking the form (morphḗ – shape, essence, replica, the expression of something that reflects or manifests fully and truly the essence of what something is) of a bondservant (doúlos – a slave, one who is in a permanent relation of servitude to another, his will being altogether consumed in the will of the other), and coming in the likeness (homoíōma – similitude, resemblance) of men. And being found (or recognized) in appearance (schḗma – form, external appearance, mode) as a man, He (Christ's actions) humbled Himself (tapeinóō – to bring low, to abase, to render oneself to a...

In Luke, Jesus is revealed as the Messiah, the Savior. In Luke 4, He reveals the anointing. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me” (Luke 4:18). “So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up […] The post The Anointing… Revealed in Luke 4:18-19…Jesus is Alive! Amen! appeared first on Wonder & Reality.

Thank you for listening! Please enjoy our weekly sermon from Pastor Mike Rodrigues of Aliante Community Baptist Church. We invite you, your family and friends to join us as we study God's word. We pray that you will be blessed by today's lessons from God's Word and we invite you to contact us with any questions you may have - especially questions regarding your relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. We want to help you with your walk of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and with your understanding of His Holy Word, the Bible. May God richly bless you! Scripture Reference Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:16-21, Matthew 13:53-58 Key Points “…The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me…” Luke 4:16-19 Who are the recipients of the Message? Luke 4:18-19 What difference does the Message make in the lives of the recipients? Luke 4:18-19 How long shall the Message be proclaimed? Luke 4:19. A question for each of us: What can “I” do to make a positive difference in the lives of others? Ensure that you are a Christian. If not, accept Him today! 2 Cor.6:2, Rom.10:8-13, 2 Pet.1:10-11 Pray, Pray, Pray! 1 Thess.5:16-22 Devote yourself to the study of God's Word. 2 Tim. 2:15, 3:16-17 Become-(continue to be) a faithful disciple. 2 Pet. 3:17- 18 Share the Message of the Messenger, Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord! Mark 5:19 Live life with Jesus today!   Contact Information info@aliantecommunitybaptistchurch.com Website www.aliantecommunitybaptistchurch.com Recorded on May 16th, 2021 at Aliante Community Baptist Church in North Las Vegas, NV.  

AGREEMENT REMOVES THE IMPOSSIBLE Jeremiah 32:27 NKJV “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? Luke 1:37 AMPC For with God nothing is ever impossible and no word from God shall be without power or impossible of fulfilment. Genesis 18:14 Is anything too difficult for the […] The post Faith for the Next Step first appeared on Covenant Life Church.

More Series: The Time is NOW October 4, 2020 AM Elwyn Johnston Matthew 9:18 - 35 Verse of the Week: “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.” Matthew 9:33 1. Persistently pursue Jesus “two blind men followed Jesus, crying out, ‘Have mercy on us, Son of David!’ When Jesus entered the house, the blind men came up to Him Matthew 9:27 & 28 “You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.” Hebrews 10:36 Humility gets God’s attention “a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him” Mt 9:18 “Jesus got up and began to follow him” Matthew 9:19 “endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and had not gotten better. In fact, she had gotten worse.” Mark 5:26 “Who touched Me?” Luke 8:45 Desperation positions you for the miraculous. Persistence… Develops fortitude Sharpens our focus 2. Patiently wait on God “had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone” Luke 8:43 Requires us to trust God Requires us to spend time with God Builds Christlikeness in our lives. “they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31 “a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Jesus.” Mt 9:32

Me Luke and Paul talk games to get newbies into gaming and do some ryyyssss randoms

Me Luke and Paul chat our greatest gaming achievements!!

Me Luke and Paul chat what games we love playing against our friends and Luke sounds just like a Pokémon!!

What is communion or The Lord's Supper and why do we do it? Communion consists of the elements --bread and the fruit of the vine-- is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4) Jesus, at His last Passover, instituted the ordinance of the taking of bread and the fruit of the vine as a memorial of His atoning death: “And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me’ ” (Luke 22:19). SCRIPTURE: Luke 22:19 Acts 2:42,46 Acts 20:7,11 Acts 27:35 CONNECT WITH US AT: ► Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/pulsestudents ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulse.students/ ► Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pulse_students/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pulsealbany Subscribe to Pastor Khalil's personal Youtube channel for even more: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2-YBdXm-8O1VB7_CBDaoQ

Me Luke and Paul discuss our childhood games we would love to see remastered

Me Luke and Paul catch back up and we welcome the return of Rys randoms

Me Luke and Paul chat Halo and beating shart select at call of duty

Me Luke and Paul break down the last of us 2 and also bring our thoughts of season 4 so far

Jesus said, “For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do […] The post Communion: “Do This in Remembrance of Me” Luke 22:19 appeared first on Wonder & Reality.

Me Luke and Paul discuss what we’re up to and if we continued our warzone streak!

Me Luke and Paul are back for our new weekly chill Pixi podcast talking what we're up to I'm the video game world and what's going on in it too

Cleopas and Me Luke 24:13-35 This is a Special Extended Episode. There is no PDF transcript available for this story. 

December 29 2019 - Sunday PM Sermon  A Fresh Look at a 2000-Year-Old Building - Matthew 16:18 The Ravages of Time The Cozy Killer - Luke 5:39 Short Term Blindness - Luke 14:28-30; Matthew 13:20-21 The Persistence of Me - Luke 9:23 Simplistic Substitutes Meme Madness - Matthew 23:27-28 Lethal Lists - Matthew 19:16-20 Dry Bones Death - Ezekiel 37:1-2 You've Got My Attention The Plan - Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16 The Personification - Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:28-29; Galatians 4:19 The BIG Picture - Ephesians 4:11-16 Duration 32:39    

"...He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19-20). Recorded on Sunday morning, December 1st, 2019 at Sovereign Grace Church in New Caney, Texas USA

"...He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19-20). Recorded on Sunday morning, December 1st, 2019 at Sovereign Grace Church in New Caney, Texas USA

"...He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19-20). Recorded on Sunday morning, December 1st, 2019 at Sovereign Grace Church in New Caney, Texas USA

Lesson 18 in Come Follow, Me - Luke 12-17; John 11 - May 6 - 12 - “Rejoice with Me; for I Have Found My Sheep Which Was Lost” Sorry there was an issue uploading to iTunes this week. Just found out. Hopefully it is fixed now.

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Jesus and the “Impossibles” Why read, study and meditate on the scriptures Romans 15:4 For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. What we should do: Proverbs 3:5-6  Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the one who will keep you on track Why we should trust God Hebrews 11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. God’s view on impossibilities “Impossible” Scriptures Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.” -Part of Jeremiahs prayer after God asked him to do something that did not make sense to him -A look at creation served as a reminder to Jeremiah that nothing is too hard for God Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.” ….……….. too hard for God Jeremiah 32:27  Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? - God’s response to Jeremiah prayer God also made some promises to Jeremiah that were fulfilled in spectacular fashion Read Jeremiah 32 to get the whole picture Jeremiah 32:27  Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? - God is asking you & me to substitute our impossibilities Is my………. too hard for God?Luke 1:37   For with God nothing will be impossible.” - Angel Gabriel response to Mary’s question “How can this be, since I do not know a man?” Luke 1:37   For with God nothing will be impossible.” With God ………. will be impossible.” Luke 18:27  “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” - Jesus response to the disciples question “Who then can be saved?” Acts 2:23-26: Jesus & the Power of Death  …this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.  Why do you seek the living among the death? He is not here (Angel proclamation to the women after Jesus resurrection) I am He that was death but now alive forevermore ( The Risen Jesus affirmation to John on the Island of Patmos) Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.” Jeremiah 32:27 Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me? Luke 1:37 For with God nothing will be impossible.” Luke 18:27 “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.” Name your “impossible” situation My work …… My …….. My business ………(Nehemiah with all the enemies) My family situation………(Naomi & Ruth) My health situation ……. (too numerous to mention in the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) My marriage ……. My (children) schooling ……… (Moses, Daniel) My (relative) salvation …….. (Paul) My terrible habit(s)……….. My financial situation…….. My …………. Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. Encounter with Jesus- A crowd “Impossible” Situation  John 6: 1-13

Pete Spear preaches the sermon "Grateful for Those Who Share the Gospel with Me: Luke 1:1-4" in the "…and He Stirred" series

Pete Spear preaches the sermon "Grateful for Those Who Share the Gospel with Me: Luke 1:1-4" in the "…and He Stirred" series

THE GOSPEL OF LUKE / Let the Children Come to Me / Luke 18:15-17 / Pastor Philip Caines

1. Humble History: God Came to Earth (Luke 2:1-5) 2. Humble Birth: The King Sneaks In (Luke 2:6-7) 3. Humble Crowd: The King for You and Me (Luke 2:8-14) 4. Humble Response: Worship the King (Luke 2:15-20) https://youtu.be/suowe2czxcA

Blessed is He who is not offended because of Me (Luke 7:23)

Let the Children Come to Me (Luke 18:9-30)

This is a small statement often neglected from contemporary Gospel presentations.  Just three small requirements that will literally change everything! "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must (1) deny himself, and (2) take up his cross daily and (3) follow Me" - Luke 9:23.Do you wish to come after Him?  Really?The following is a study of True Salvation