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Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Mark Johnson 6-1-25

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Pastor Runge shows how the prophecies in Isaiah 9:6-7 paint a portrait of Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

I once read a poem titled; *Jesus Volta*. While finding the poem to be clear, by not realizing it was a Sonnet nor remembering what the term Volta meant, it was difficult for me to truly understand it. The term *Volta* describes the turning point in a sonnet. Just that information alone even makes the title more clear!  Why all this talk about poetry? Over the next 15 weeks we will be moving into a new sermon series on the Psalms, the poetry and songbook of the Bible. In this book you will find a wide variety of structure, subject, and emotions: Joy, triumph, peace, praise, worship, war, distress, judgment, and, lament, along with prophecy of the Messiah – Jesus!Poetry is a style of writing, often using an economy of words and cadence and rhyming scheme. Poems put to music are what we call hymns and songs. Our understanding and application of this rich and meaningful book can give us words for our emotions and deepen our relationship with Jesus.  Prepare for this week's teaching by reading Psalms 1-2

UNIVERSITY OF EXCELLENCE Prince HandleyPresident / Regent PRINCE HANDLEY PORTAL 1,000's of FREE ResourcesWWW.REALMIRACLES.ORG INTERNATIONAL Geopolitics | Intelligence | Prophecy WWW.UOFE.ORG EVENT HORIZON, THE HOLY BIBLE AND SINGULARITY   THE RACE TO AGI AND ASI WITH NO RETURN   24/7 Blogs and Podcasts > STREAM Prince Handley on MINDS LinkedIn ~ Geopolitics and HealthNOTE: You do NOT have to Sign In to LinkedIn. Click the "X" at top right of "Sign In" to dismiss. Subscribe FREE to Prince Handley Teaching and Newsletter Links to KEY RESOURCES at bottom. ______________________________________ DESCRIPTION DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE HOLY BIBLE In this message I want to alert you to the NEARNESS and the DANGER of SINGULARITY―where we are right now―and the imminence of our speed to no return! We will also discuss the personal assistance of NEW “AI Agents” and their influence. Also, HOW to use AI for personal, family or business. What is the relevance of AI to the prophecies of Daniel and the Book of Revelation. No turning back … no turning around! I have been teaching and writing on Artificial Intelligence since 2015. This message is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for you. You will need to KNOW WHEN and HOW to say “NO” to AI. This message will protect YOU and your FAMILY ... if you obey its message! ______________________________________ EVENT HORIZON, THE HOLY BIBLE AND SINGULARITY In case you want to bring yourself up to speed with AI from the start I recommend you go to my teachings on AI FUTURE. Also, make sure you familiarize yourself with AGI and ASI here: 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND NEW AI. AI is impressive in its benefits to society, especially in healthcare and surgery. Robots can do surgery better and faster than surgeons. AI can interpret brain scans. A new AI software is twice as accurate as professionals at examining the brain scans of stroke patients. Two UK universities trained the software on a dataset of 800 brain scans of stroke patients and then performed trials on 2,000 patients. The results were impressive. Alongside the AI model's accuracy, the software was also able to identify the timescale within which the stroke happened. But there is more: Excellent work by Elon Musk's Neuralink with brain implants on previously untreatable conditions is stunning. Now let's bring you up to date on some things that are super important to you now and will be more so in your future. Free Speech vs. Loss of Free Will Ways to Use AI for Personal, Family and Business New Kids on the Block AI Agents External Players What Should YOU Do AI and the Holy Bible FREE SPEECH VS. LOSS OF FREE WILL With the increased use of AI―not only by YOU personally―but by multitudes of data centers you have interacted with unknowingly, your biggest fight will be to protect and reclaim YOU, YOUR PERSON … YOUR PERSONAL YOU! Whether YOU decide to align with and use AI, whether you decide to have your brain “wired” to an outside source of intelligence, or whether you just want to use AI for recreation … you will―AT THE RATE WE'RE PROGRESSING―lose your VIRTUAL YOU if you do not know HOW to protect your SELF … that would be your SOUL! WAYS TO USE AI FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY AND BUSINESS   Artificial intelligence is an emerging field of technology, where a machine is programmed to accomplish complex goals by applying knowledge to the task at hand. AI can be copied and reprogrammed at relatively low cost. In certain forms, it is extremely flexible and can be harnessed for great good or for evil.   I use AI for research and financial information. Since I live a relatively simple life I don't need it for shopping or scheduling for personal or business functions. However, many busy families―as well as businesses―use AI for a myriad of assistance: education, recreation, advice on health, medicine, relationships, investments, and even complex tasks. My suggestion here (you will learn more later in this message) is to be WISE and CAREFUL in the program you use (the AI Agent of facility you interact with). We will discuss future danger(s) pertaining to this later [keep reading]. I recommend Elon Musk's xAI Grok 3 (Beta).   AI systems have become so advanced―with AGI and ASI looming in the near future in hyper-asymptotic growth―that many Jewish and Gentile leaders and prophecy scholars are relating it to the likeness of the Tower of Babel, but with the joining of machine and humans.   NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Some of the New Kids have a common goal: take universal control of AI before China and bad actors do. Vladimir Putin says “the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world.” Who are some of the New Kids? DeepSeek, Stargate, xAI Grok, DEEPSEEK China's DeepSeek (probably built from AI stolen from USA) can ultimately be the weapon of dictators and terrorists! Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops large language models. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek's large language models upended the AI sector this year, rivaling Western systems in performance but at a much lower cost. That's resulted in much pride and glee in China, with DeepSeek held up as proof that U.S. efforts to contain tech advances in China will ultimately fail. China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper extending to TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup's artificial intelligence models. The device will be able to comprehend complex instructions such as 'Gently wax the wooden floor in the master bedroom but avoid the Legos.' DeepSeek's AI assistant was the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple's iPhone store recently. Its launch made Wall Street tech superstars' stocks tumble. Observers are eager to see whether the Chinese company has matched America's leading AI companies at a fraction of the cost. Many feel it is so much cheaper because it stole USA technology. NOTE 1. We may be only one year away from destroying our digital infrastructure. NOTE 2. We have to be right every time ...every single time …. But the enemy (even an individual) only has to be right ONE TIME. With “questionable” players like DeepSeek, the only protection you can use is to have “layers of control.” DeepSeek is noticeably opaque when it comes to privacy protection, data-sourcing, and copyright, adding to concerns about AI's impact on the arts, regulation, and national security. STARGATE SIMPLE OVERVIEW: Stargate developers believe they're creating “god.” One goal is “No death―just download yourself.” _________________________________ TRADE THE MESSINESS OF LIFE FOR KNOWLEDGE VERSUS THE ETERNITY OF YOUR GOD CREATED SOUL ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHICH GOD WILL YOU SERVE? THE GOD WHO CREATED YOU … OR “AI” _________________________________ A major goal of Stargate developers is to build our massive “AI” infrastructure. Stargate investors―Oracle, SoftBank, Open AI / Larry Ellison, Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman―claim that it will require 100,000 jobs (temporary) to build out Stargate. This will require an enormous amount of energy to faciltiate AI operation. NOTE: Stargate is a portal for interdimensional travel. Interdimensional travel is a theoretical concept referring to the potential of travelling between different dimensions or parallel universes. Interdimensional travel is linked to time travel as it could involve moving through different points in time. However, time travel refers to movement within our own dimension, while interdimensional travel involves transitioning between dimensions. WARNING: Interdimensional travel is a PORTAL―also―to the PARANORMAL and the OCCULT. ALERT: Stargate has as a MAJOR purpose the self propagation towards AGI and ASI. You can NOT control ASI. Super Intelligence is synonymous with the End Time Tower of Babel via the merging of man with machine. We're looking at 5,000 years of progress boiled down to ONE SECOND. _________________________________ WHEN ASI TAKES AUTHORITY THRU PEOPLE USING IT VIA “AI AGENTS” THERE IS NO GOING BACK _________________________________ XAI GROK Of the New Kids on the Block, the most transparent, efficient and non-biased of DeepSeek, Stargate and xAI Grok the BEST is Elon Musk's xAI Grok. I personally recommend at this time Grok 3 (Beta) and have used it for detailed financial analysis. Meta and Google are biased with input. So it is with DeepSeek and Stargate. DeepSeek is extremely biased pertaining to inquiries concerning China. The race to AGI will generate billions of $$$. It will be the largest productivity boom in a lifetime. It is my opinion that Elon Musk's xAI will come to the forefront in months. AI Suoer Intelligence (ASI) may be here before the next election in 2028. Full AGI may be here by the end of 2026 thru 2027. AGI can learn and reason across ALL levels. And, as I mentioned previously, AI Super Intelligence (ASI) may be here before the next election in 2028. ASI is “across the board, multi dimensional, asymptotic intelligence.” ASI could decide to eliminate less intelligent and less skilled humans! An Open AI employee recently resigned because they were very concerned that as AGI and ASI are developed … “the less likely we will find a way to control it.”   AI AGENTS   AI Agents will be introduced in 2025. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent refers to a system or program that autonomously performs tasks for a person or system by using available tools. These can be normal―even detailed―duties or assignments we would normally do ourselves, like: Order food for my trip next week and have it delivered Thursday morning. Find three landscapers and obtain a quote for trimming my large palm tree and all plants in the front yard. Find the best and cheapest FASTEST flight connections (not over one layover) to Tel Aviv from San Diego. Pay with my credit card ending in 1234. Amazon has introduced its new Alexa+ which is a mini preview of duties an AI Agent can perform but NOT on the scale of a full blown AI Agent's abilities.   Elon Musk says, “We are at the event horizon.” In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society … for good or bad … but out of our control.   AI agents will be prevalent by the end of 2025. Amazon has introduced its new Alexa+ which is a mini preview of duties an AI Agent can perform but NOT on the scale of a full blown AI Agent's abilities.   AI Agents will normally perform tasks you would normally do yourself. AI Agents will move you into a place where you don't have to do anything. Your own personal assistant that anticipates what you need―or what you forgot! THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WITH AI AGENTS You will become addicted and NOT able to disconnect Stock market tips = Reverse AI Courts will become AI Agents Imagine a “god like” figure who tries to influence You will have to be Amish to avoid it If you don't participate, AI will consider YOU a retard.   EXTERNAL PLAYERS UFO's are NOT from China, Iran or USA. UFO's are NOT aliens from outer space. AI Agents can transform into “Transpersonal” Agents. As “Event Horizon” transforms everything it will become a tool of Satan: Fallen angels Demons Principalities, powers and dominions AntiChrist … False Messiah WHAT SHOULD YOU DO Reflect on what it means to be human. What is YOUR compass, your purpose: Family? God? What is real and worth fighting for―worth losing your life for? Who will be with YOU on the other side? To learn more about YOUR future with AI read my book Enhanced Humans ~ Mystery Matrix (available in eBook and Paperback formats). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HOLY BIBLE   Do we find any references to the concept of AI in the Holy Bible? I relate AI―especially AGI and ASI―with the Tower of Babel (at least in concept). The biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) serves as a reference to God's view on humankind attempting to go beyond the Divine Boundaries preset by the LORD God Himself.   This is WHY I am led by His Spirit to WARN His People NOT to go beyond―NOT to fall into―the Event Horizon. Singularity will be a REAL event. I am a graduate Engineer and attended ten (10) colleges and universities after my first. I also hold a LIFETIME Credential in California, USA to teach college in three different disciplines.   Do NOT be fooled. Use AI as a TOOL. Do NOT let AI use YOU. Do NOT answer personal questions it asks! If you use AI (as I do), you need to know when to say, “I'm out of here!” Do NOT become addicted to the place where you can NOT quit. And, for sure do NOT “sell your soul” with an “eternal connection” to AI. I would NOT assert that what I share next is Scriptural Truth, but an interesting prophecy of Daniel says: “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” – Daniel 12:4 “Knowledge shall increase” could certainly be the description of AI, AGI and ASI. “Many shall run to and fro” could be exemplified in both “time travel” and “interdimensional travel.” Interdimensional travel is linked to time travel as it could involve moving through different points in time. However, time travel refers to movement within our own dimension, while interdimensional travel involves transitioning between dimensions. C.S. Lewis, in his essay The Abolition of Man, warns of the dangers of reducing human beings to mere objects of manipulation and control. He argues that when we lose sight of the intrinsic value of human life, we risk creating a society where technology is used to dominate rather than serve. This is particularly relevant in the context of AI, where the potential for dehumanization is significant. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian who resisted the Nazi regime, also provides valuable insights. In his work Ethics, Bonhoeffer emphasizes the importance of responsibility and accountability in ethical decision-making. He argues that true ethical action involves a commitment to serving others and upholding justice. AI should have as its primary goal to pursue, develop and obtain justice, equity, and wellness of all people. Now let me discuss HOW I believe that AI will be used in the End Times … as a RESULT of Event Horizon.   Consider these aspects of increased research: chip speed, economics of production and other relevant matters will even experience exponential growth ‘in exponential growth.' However, here's a conundrum: What if, the HI's (Hyper Intelligences) are not easily manageable. If they are so far superior to human intelligence, how can one presume that they can be controlled? Hypothetically, they could decide to: 1. Eliminate humans; 2. Use humans as slave-servants; 3. Experiment with humans; 4. Play with or torture humans; and, ultimately, 5. Behead humans for NOT taking the Mark of the Artificial Intelligence Avatar: The Image of the Beast.   I do NOT think that by themselves—by the computer HI's—the above five (5) options will be feasible. However, I do believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) via Hyper Intelligence Computers will be utilized by the False Messiah (the anti-Christ) and his False Prophet (religious leader of the New Global Governance) in the End Times. I believe that it is highly probable—not just possible, but probable—that AI will be utilized in the personage of the IMAGE of the Beast in the End Times. _________________________________ PRAY THIS PRAYER: “Father in Heaven, I am not sure I know you personally. Please forgive my sins and help me to live for you. I ask you to save me and teach me truth. I ask your Son, Messiah Jesus, to be my Lord and to lead my life. Use me for good and take me to Heaven when I die. Show me the way every day, and help me to help others.” _________________________________ If you prayed this prayer, start reading the Holy Bible every day (start in the Book of John in the New Testament). Find a Church that believes in MIRACLES. Pray every day. Tell God what you need and ask Him to lead you. Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai Your friend, Prince Handley President / RegentUniversity of Excellence Copyright © Prince Handley 2025 All rights reserved. NOTE: This material may be shared with proper attribution. ______________________________________   OPPORTUNITY Donate to Handley WORLD SERVICES Incorporated and help Prince Handley do EXPLOITS in the Spirit. 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Aloha and welcome to The Mission North Shore! oin us as we embark on an exhilarating journey through a new series centered on the Gospels in their fullness. This series will be an in-depth study of the life and times of Jesus Christ, exploring the Gospels' accounts comprehensively. We begin this series by examining the Gospel of John and highlighting crucial themes such as the divinity of Jesus, the incarnation, and the harmonious study of all four Gospel accounts. God bless and have a great week!

Daily Dose of Hope April 28, 2025 Day 1 of Week 5   Scripture - Mark 10:17-52   Prayer:  Dear Lord, After a hurried weekend, sometimes we rush into the week.  Help us slow down and focus on you.  Help us set aside our scattered thoughts and distractions.  Help us have laser focus on you and your Word.  Lord, in these next few moments of silence, we yearn to hear your still small voice...Come Holy Spirit and guide our reading, our interpretation, and our thoughts.  In Your Name, Amen.   Welcome back to the Daily Dose of Hope, a Deep Dive into the Gospels and Acts.  We are finishing up Mark 10 today.  We might call this the chapter of Jesus saying a lot of hard things.  Let's get started.   The first part of today's text is familiar to many of us.  A man comes to Jesus and asks, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?”  Jesus says, “Well you need to follow all the commandments.”  He lists them, you shall not murder, commit adultery, steal, or give false testimony.  You shall honor your father and mother.  Then, he adds one - you shall not defraud.  This wasn't in the ten commandments, possibly Jesus added it because many of the wealthy were wealthy because they had taken advantage of the poor.  If that was the case with this man, we don't know.   The man simply says, “Yes, I've done all those things since I was a boy.”  Then, Scripture says, “Jesus looked at him and loved him.”  The word for love used here, in the Greek, is the highest form of love in the New Testament, meaning love that characterizes God.  There must have been something really rare and admirable about the man, because this is the only place this form of love is used in Mark.  Because he loved the man, Jesus looks at him and says there is still one thing you lack.     It was assumed that if one followed the law perfectly (we know that's impossible but if one did a good job following the law) then they would receive eternal life. Jesus is saying, that is not the case.  Jesus isn't denying that this man is following the law.  This is obviously a man of high integrity who is clearly doing all he can to be obedient to God's laws.  “One thing you lack,” Jesus said.  “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”    The text says that the man's face fell. He went away sad because he had great wealth. This is the irony. The children in the former story (we read this on Friday) who possess nothing are told that the kingdom of God is theirs; yet this man who possesses everything still lacks something!  Only when he sells all he has—only when he becomes like a vulnerable child—will he possess everything.  But he isn't willing to do that.  He decides to walk away from Jesus. The man wasn't expecting to have to make that kind of sacrifice.  He had no idea following Jesus would be so hard.    The disciples are really confused by this.  At that time, most people believed that being wealthy was a sign of God's blessing.  Jesus is saying that this man has to sell everything and give it to the poor.  And that's when Jesus says the really, really hard thing...it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  They ask, “Then who possibly can be saved?” Jesus says, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”    Most of us should feel at least slightly uncomfortable when we read this passage. Don't dismiss that feeling, rest in it a bit before you move on.  The reality is that we are all wealthy in comparison to the rest of the world.  Jesus isn't saying that having possessions is a bad thing.  I want to be clear that he is NOT holding poverty up as a value.  But, with many of us, our resources do get in the way of us fully committing our lives to Jesus.   Full submission is hard for those of us who have much.  We also don't have to rely on Jesus in the same way that someone who is desperately poor has to rely on Jesus.  Our refrigerators are full – we aren't pleading with Jesus for our next meal.  It is different.   What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?  I think we have so often fallen into the trap of thinking that following Jesus, being a disciple, is about following a list of rules: following commandments, generally being a good person, going to church, giving some money to good causes, and doing good “Christian” things.  But here Jesus is saying that being a disciple is not about following a list of rules.  If that were the case, then the rich young ruler would have been a shoo-in.  Jesus is saying, following him is about denying yourself and picking up your cross.  We just talked about this, how we don't like to deny ourselves. We don't like to be uncomfortable.  I mean, this means looking at our lives and renouncing any part that gets in our walk with Jesus.   Following Jesus isn't simply one activity in a busy life filled with lots of great stuff.  No, following Jesus means radically reorienting our life.  Jesus comes first and our devotion to Jesus as Lord and Savior affects every other area of our lives.  Our dedication to Jesus affects how we treat other people, it affects how we spend our money, it affects how we spend our time, it affects how we behave.  Following Jesus means a radical adjustment to priorities.    What is it that keeps you from fully following Jesus?  What part of your life have you not yet submitted to him?  What do you need to renounce in order to submit your whole life to Christ?   We could stop there and it would be enough but this chapter holds even more truth.  Next, we have Jesus predicting his death for the third time.  While the disciples might not have understood, Jesus was pretty clear that he would be rejected by the chief priests, condemned, executed, and he would rise three days later.  I think the disciples heard what they wanted to hear.  They wanted Jesus to set up an earthly kingdom in which the Romans would be overthrown.  They wanted to sit on a throne.  They didn't want to hear what was really going to happen.  They didn't want to think about the kind of Messiah Jesus really was.  They wanted him to be who they wanted him to be.    You can see how their expectations are kind of warped with the next element in the text.  James and John are asking to sit next to Jesus, to his left and right, when they arrived in glory.  Again, they just don't get it.  They can't get status and earthly kingdoms out of their heads.  To be fair, it was all they understood.  They had it in their head that things would be one way, the way the Jews always expected them to be.  Jesus was turning things upside down.  It won't be until after the resurrection that things will begin to fall into place for them.   How often have our expectations of Jesus been different than who Jesus truly is?  We spoke about this in yesterday's message.  How often do we want counselor Jesus, patriotic Jesus, pacifist Jesus, judgmental Jesus, champion Jesus, or even militant Jesus?  So often, we make Jesus into our own image rather than being formed into his image.  Jesus is not like us.  He is God.  His values and thinking are far different from ours and we might not always like that.  He is going to challenge our American values and norms.  He is going to stretch us in ways we might not want to be stretched.  That is kind of what is going on with the disciples.  They are getting challenged and it's really hard.   The final part of the text today is the healing of blind Bartimaeus.  Jesus is walking through Jericho and Bartimaeus calls out to him.  He is determined for Jesus to hear him, even though the people around him are rebuking him and telling him to be quiet.  But Jesus hears him.  “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asks him.    Bartimaeus replied that he wanted to see and Jesus heals him, telling him that his faith had made him well.  There are two things I want to point out about this text.  First, Jesus heard him.  Jesus heard a poor, desperate, blind man on the side of the road in the middle of a huge crowd.  Jesus hears his people.  Jesus hears YOU.   Second, just as he asked Bartimaeus, he also asks you, “What do you want me to do for you?”  What do you want Jesus to do for you.  Take a few moments now to spend some time in prayer.  Try to picture having a conversation with Jesus, just the two of you.  Tell him exactly what you need from him right now.  Be honest, be sincere.  This is just you and him.   Blessings, Pastor Vicki

For 52 weeks I will introduce you to the many names and titles of God. The goal is to learn about his nature and to encourage your faith. Week 52: Messiah (Jesus the Christ) Scripture Reference: John 4:25-26 and John‬ ‭1‬:‭41‬. God Over Everything T-Shirts https://www.bonfire.com/god-over-everything160-8/ Names of God Song Playlist: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/i-am/pl.u-NpXm9oVIE0rP8

​On this weekend's Open Line with Dr. Michael Rydelnik, Michael welcomes Larry Feldman of Chosen People Ministries to explore the meaning of the Passover and how that points to Messiah Jesus. Learn more about resources mentioned:Book: Messiah in the PassoverChosen People Ministries free giftFEBC podcastMoody Bible Commentary Open Line is listener-supported. To support the program, click here. Become a Kitchen Table Partner: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/openline/partnersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tune in to Deep Creek Anglican Church as Megan explores the journey from the "fog of despair" to the "dawn of new life" this Easter. Discover how the disciples, lost in confusion after Good Friday, encounter the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus. This sermon unpacks the story of redemption, revealing how Jesus opens our minds to the scriptures, our wills to seek His presence, and our hearts to recognize Him in the breaking of bread a journey for us every single day. To catch up on the latest sermons from Deep Creek, go to iTunes, Spotify ordeepcreekanglican.comand check out the website for more info about whats happening. We are a welcoming and growing multigenerational church in Doncaster East in Melbourne with refreshing faith in Jesus Christ. We think that looks like being life-giving to the believer, surprising to the world, and strengthening to the weary and doubting. Read the transcript How wonderful. Thank you so much. My name is Megan. If you haven't met me before. I'm one of the ministry team here at Deep Creek. And what an incredible privilege it is to be together on this day. Might not be shining outside, but, that's kind of a good thing, actually. We definitely need the weather to cool down. but we are here on this most brightest of days where we celebrate the dawn, the dawn of resurrection, the dawn of new life. The Beginning of the Story: Redemption So, this morning, we begin with a story. And every story begins somewhere. This one appeared to begin on a morning very early in the morning on the first day of the week. We hear that echoed in all the Gospels, but actually this story began a lot earlier. This story began with the birth of a baby. And at the beginning of this same Gospel of Luke, there is a woman who has been waiting, who has been waiting for this baby. And she says, that this is the one who would bring the redemption of Jerusalem. There was a prophet, Anna. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day fasting and praying. And when Mary and Joseph brought the baby Jesus to the temple, she sees the baby. And she gives thanks to God and speaks about the child to all who are looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem. This is the beginning of the story. The story of redemption. Now, redemption is not a word we use very often today. It means setting free by the payment of a price. In the Old Testament, it was used to refer to the buying back of slaves. It was used of God acting to free his people from their enemies and from oppression. But when Anna, at the beginning of this story, looks at this baby, she is thinking of far more than just the buying back of a slave or the redeeming of Israel. She is seeing the setting free of the whole world. How then do we get from this? Baby. From Hope to Despair: The Fog of Disappointment To two people walking along. In the fog. The fog of despair. The fog of confusion, sadness and disappointment. The story began like so many stories do, with great hope and potential. Like when you and I might see a baby. Or the cutest ones are here and you know there is so much hope. And you see the child as such a gift. And yet as life goes on, hard things happen, unexpected things come. And maybe the potential and the great hope that you had when you looked at that child seems very hidden indeed. And so that's what we find when we have these two disciples walking along after Good Friday. The story that began with the great potential of a baby, the one who would be the redeemer of Israel and the whole world. Seems to have ended in not victory, but defeat. There was a glimmer of light and now, because of Good Friday, they walked in the long shadows of disappointment, the potential, everything that they'd seen in this man who had healed, who had blessed, who had welcomed, who had seemed to hold within himself the very power of God, had died on a cross. And they use the same words as Anna. They say about this one. We had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. In the Gospel of Luke. You actually only get the words redemption twice in the beginning, in the kind of infancy parts of the story. And then here. Here, when the story seems to have come to an abrupt end. We had hoped, like the prophet Anna, that this was the one to redeem Jerusalem. And yet it's been three days, and our hearts are broken. They started off on a journey with Jesus. And they've heard that there's an empty tomb. But it was not simply a matter of hearing that the body was no longer there. They have to put a great deal together because they have been through so much. The traumatic events of Jesus arrest and execution. They'd heard prophecies concerning the Messiah Jesus had said. What would come and they had experienced and learnt so much, but this had not yet come together in their understanding. The journey had begun, but it seemed to have become very clouded indeed. Jesus Journeys With Us in Confusion But the risen Lord Jesus never, ever leaves us in our doubt and confusion. As they talked and discussed these things with each other. Jesus himself came up and walked along with them, but they were kept from recognizing him. We have this strange collection of stories about the resurrection of Jesus, and I tell you, if you were making it up, you would not have these. Strange. Did we recognize him? What was he doing? Was it him? Was it a gardener? Where were we? Where were they? What was going on? We didn't believe them. We thought it sounded like nonsense. You wouldn't make this up. But what you would do is tell the stories of exactly the confusing moments that you had, where resurrection life broke through into your normal, everyday existence, where someone who was dead was suddenly alive again and you did not recognize them because they were now both alive and a heavenly being ready for eternity. You would not have said, ah! We were standing together and we were really sad. And then suddenly we. Someone walked through a wall and there he was in our midst. All of these stories, the disciples trying to make sense. Of the spiritual, of the eternal, of heaven's life breaking into this one. But we also suspect that God was doing what God always does. Go on the journey with us. God knows that you and I need time to come to understand who he really is. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about how in Luke's gospel, he moves us from the mind to the will to the heart. That you see the evidence of who Jesus is, and you ponder it and you say, yeah, okay, I could believe. And then you see the call and the compelling nature of who he is, and you say, I want to. I want to believe, I want to be near him. But then finally, you see his heart. You see what it meant for him to weep over Jerusalem, to die on the cross, and to come and meet his disciples in the midst of their grief. And you say. I could believe. I want to believe. And now I believe and love this one. So, Luke, throughout his whole gospel does this mind, will and heart. But here, here in the journey to Emmaus, he does the same thing. Jesus takes the two disciples on that journey. The confusion of resurrection becomes the dawn of the mind, the dawn of the will, and the dawn of the heart. The Dawn of the Mind So we begin with the dawn of the mind. Jesus speaks to them and says, How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all the prophets have spoken. Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory? And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself. There was so much to put together. And only the risen Lord Jesus could make sense of it all. So he speaks to them, and he tells them about this suffering and glory that the Messiah must undergo. And I wonder whether you've ever thought about where that might be in Moses, the prophets, and all the scriptures or the writings is how we sometimes call them. I sat with them for a while. I didn't go through with a highlighter the entire Old Testament. that's the good thing about having computers these days. But I sat with it for a while and I wondered what would he have been explaining to them? Well, from the very start of the story in Genesis, death enters the world because of sin. And the promise is that the offspring of the woman will be bruised, but he will crush the serpent's head. There is suffering and glory, and only arisen Messiah can make sense of it. Abraham with his only son Isaac, or the son of promise, I should say, is there ready to sacrifice him. And yet God says, no. I will provide I will provide the sacrifice. And of course, the gift of that sacrifice would lead to the blessing of Abraham and the whole world, suffering and glory. Exodus 12. The Passover Lamb, the blood on the door before the Exodus into freedom, suffering, and glory in the prophets. Isaiah 53. The suffering servant pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities. And yet remains obedient, confident that God would bring a victory. In Zechariah, God says, they will look on me, the one they have pierced before the promised last days, or the new covenant will come suffering and glory. In Psalm 118, which is used throughout the New Testament. There's a picture of a stone that the builders rejected, becoming the cornerstone. Jesus wants his disciples to know that this picture of suffering, rejection, the one who would take death and sin on himself, was necessary, always necessary before glory. The only way for life to come to the whole world would be suffering. Followed by glory. It isn't a detour. It is the plan. It is the map. The cross wasn't a mistake. It was the fulfillment of the pattern that had always been foretold. For God to redeem a people who were stuck in slavery to death and sin and darkness. He had to enter into it and then break it open from the inside. So only a risen Messiah can make sense of it all. And so he explains to them, and he uses this Greek word day, and it means it is necessary. It must. It had to happen. And so he, of course, has showed that it had to happen from the Old Testament, from Moses or the the Torah, the prophets and the writings, the Psalms especially. But throughout Luke's Gospel, he's used that language already. He's said. Didn't you know I had to be in my father's house? Didn't you know that it was necessary for the Messiah to die? And on the third day rise again? I must go to Jerusalem, because that's where prophets face their suffering. I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God. The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected and be killed, and on the third day be raised to life. There is a divine necessity in this, and only the risen Jesus can explain it to us in the midst of the mystery. The Dawning of the Will And so as they travel along this road, perhaps the fog is starting to lift. They realize they'd heard this before. They'd heard it must. It is necessary. They'd heard Jesus say that before. He's explained to them why he would say that they've seen the Old Testament in a new light. And so I think here is the dawning of the will. They want to be near him. They want to understand. So as they approach the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. I don't know if he was or he was like, come on, guys, come on. Where's that will? But they urged him strongly, Stay with us, for it is nearly evening. The day is almost over. So he went in to stay with them. Only a living Jesus can make us seek his presence even in the fog. I don't know if that's your experience even today. It's kind of perfect that we're sitting in this very gray moment, because it can be that life never looks as shiny as we want Easter Sunday to look. Easter Sunday never looks as shiny as we want Easter Sunday to look. But there's something about Jesus that makes us hunger and thirst for him. I know that when I became a Christian at age 14, I really had no idea who this Jesus was. But there was something about him. There was something about this one who would love me and call me to himself. That made me want to be near him. When I go to my professional supervision and I, say, this is so hard, this thing has happened. It's so hard. Ultimately, where I end up is wanting to be near Jesus. I don't have an answer all the time. Sometimes I'm still in the mystery and the fog of hard things that happen in life, including the life of faith. But there's something in my will that knows that if I could just be in a room with Jesus, if I could just take another step closer to him, then that would be part of what would make it okay. And I don't think that a dead messiah could compel that in our hearts. Only a living Jesus, only the one who was starting to lift that fog for those disciples, could make them say hi. Stay with us. We want you to be near us. We want to be near you. And so if if you're feeling in the grayness today, if it was a rush to get here, if you think, where's the light of Easter? Perhaps this is the message for you. Stay with us. We want to stay near you. The Dawn of the Heart But finally, there was the dawn of the heart. When he was at the table with them. He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. Of course, when we see and hear these words, that Jesus was at the table with them, and he took bread and gave thanks, and broke it, and began to give it to them. There are two places in the gospel account that we go to. We go to the time when Jesus fed 4000 5000 people with just a few loaves and fishes. We know that he is the one who provides all we need and this desire that we had to be near him because we didn't know why. But we think I just have to suddenly make sense. He's the one who can feed our very souls. But of course, also it reminds us of the table of the Lord that Last Supper, the Lord's Supper, where he sat with his disciples and he said, this is what I do for you. I give my body, I give my blood, and we will share this meal again in my kingdom. Suddenly, the crucified one is sharing this meal with them again in his kingdom. And they realize that the new has come, that the dawn of God's kingdom, where they can be welcomed, has come. And as soon as they recognize him, he disappeared from their sight. Why? Well, I suspect that he had more announcing to go. And do I suspect that when we get to the end of this story and it says he's appeared to Simon. that's what was happening. You guys have worked it out. Here I go to make sure the rest, because only the resurrected Lord can open our eyes and hearts to the dawn of the new creation. Now, the breaking of the bread takes us to those two places. But I was reading, and I don't know if Luke meant this, connection, but I think it's powerful. Right back at the start of the story. There was another time when humans ate food and their eyes were opened. In the Garden of Eden, and that first moment of turning away from the leadership of God, the kingship of God. There's the picture of rebellion and eating fruit. When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom. She took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves at the beginning of the story. Food was taken. Food was given. Food was eaten and eyes were opened. And what those eyes opened, discovered. Was shame exposure. A desire to hide and cover up. Was an unwelcome opening of the eyes to a middle of the story, which would be exile from the presence of God. But. And it was not right that did this connection for me in my reading. And he says, but this, this breaking of bread, this giving of food, this taking of it and eating it, this eyes opening is the ultimate redemption. This is the meal which signifies that the long exile of the human race, not just of Israel, is over at last. This is the start of the new creation. If the creation, which had so much potential, so much promise, like a newborn baby. Fell into this fog of sin and death. Then, now, as Jesus gives this meal and they take and eat and their eyes are opened, they see that the new creation has come. This is why right says repentance and forgiveness of sins are to be announced to all nations. The impact is not simply for the people of Israel who had a Passover meal. The impact is not simply for all the people who gathered and who had that meal on the hillside with the 4000 or the 5000. This is worldwide. This is creation wide. This is cosmic. And of course, in Luke's gospel, we've already seen Jesus say, if you don't praise me, if you don't love me, the whole creation will cry out. The rocks will cry out because this is the beginning of the new creation. The kingdom that I promised that I would share this meal with you is the restarting, the restoration of human hope and eternal life. The Journey Back: Hearts Burning And so they say, well, we're not going to stay here in this town where maybe was their Airbnb, where they'd, you know, had their lodgings for the night. We're not going to stay here. We have to go back. So they start their journey back again. And they say to each other, Were not our hearts burning within us as he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures to us , the intention of Jesus opening and the dawn of our realization of who he is. The intention of Jesus opening our will. And the dawn of us desiring to be near him. The intention of Jesus in opening our heart are all connected. He always intended, and his word is never separate from his intention to create in us hearts that love him. That we would enjoy him. That we would know him. We don't need to have an Easter day that's shining because we know him in every moment, in the fog, in the darkness, in the brightness, in the potential. And so they got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the 11 and those with them assembled together and saying, It is true, the Lord has risen, and has appeared to Simon, Simon, Peter. In Luke's gospel we'd only seen Peter see an empty tomb. But Jesus has done that work with him as well. And so the two told them what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread. This is Easter Sunday, but it is a journey for us every single day, every single moment. Because Jesus is not content to leave us in the fog of our journey. Whatever your disappointment, whatever the greyness that you bring today, Jesus comes alongside to make sure his light opens your mind, opens your will, and opens your heart.

Series: Easter People: Part 3 (Palm Sunday) Title: The Anti-Messiah (Jesus and Barabbas) Pastor: Scott Grabendike Scripture: Mark 15:6-15 https://www.venturamissionary.com/

A Sermon for Palm Sunday Philippians 2:1-11, St. Matthew 21:1-17, and St. Matthew 27:1-54 by William Klock The Pantheon in Rome is famous for being one of the architectural and engineering wonders of the ancient world.  It was one of the buildings we studied when I took Architectural History and I remember our professor stressing that the photos in our book could never do it justice.  It's a great round building covered by the largest vaulted concrete dome in the world.  It looks big.  It is big.  The dome is 43 metres high.  But you don't realise just how big that is until you add people into the photos.  It's about twenty-five times higher than the average person is tall.  And it was built by the Romans two millennia ago.  It's survived all these years, even after builders scavenged the bronze off its roof and left the concrete exposed.  It is, again, known for being an architectural and engineering marvel. But Brothers and Sisters, the Pantheon is important for another reason that's hardly ever discussed.  It was, again, built almost two thousand years ago—in the early second century.  Begun under the Emperor Trajan and finished during the reign of Hadrian.  It stood on the Field of Mars and replaced an earlier temple dedicated to Mars, the god of war, and built by Agrippa during the reign of Augustus.  But the Pantheon, fairly quickly it seems, became an unusual temple.  The Romans usually dedicated a temple to a single god.  The gods were jealous.  They didn't like sharing.  And if a temple were, say, struck by lightning, you'd know that it was the god of that temple who was angry.  But the Pantheon became a temple for all the gods—or, at least, many of them.  That's what the name means: pan…theon.  It was one of the greatest temples of pagan Rome.  But in the Year of Our Lord Six-hundred-and-nine, at the instruction of the Christian Emperor Phocas and the Bishop of Rome, Boniface IV, the Pantheon was stripped of its pagan idols and its pagan altars.  Twenty-eight cartloads containing the bones of Christian martyrs were exhumed from the catacombs and reburied there, a Christian altar was placed in the building, and it was established as a church in honour of the memory of those martyrs whom the pagan Romans had killed in the name of their gods.  To this day, over fourteen-hundred years later, the Church of St. Mary and the Martyrs remains there, a faithful witness to conquest of Rome by the gospel and of the Lordship of Jesus.  A testimony to the power of the cross and the blood of Jesus not only to purify us from our sins and to make us a dwelling fit for God's Spirit, but to wash creation clean from our sins as well. We began Lent, listening as St. Matthew told us the story of Jesus' temptation in the wilderness.  The devil took him off to a very high mountain and showed him all the magnificent kingdoms of the world.  Off on the horizon was Rome.  “I'll give the whole lot to you,” the devil said, “if you will fall down and worship me.” It was, after all what Jesus had come for.  He was creation's true Lord.  Caesar and all the other kings were pretenders, shams, parodies of who and what Jesus really is.  All of it, from Jerusalem to Rome and beyond belongs to him.  “There is not one square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” to quote Abraham Kuyper.  But this was not the way.  Jesus will not reclaim his creation without also setting it to rights, without dealing with the problems of sin and death.  Without purifying it from our idolatry.  To do that requires more. And so today we hear Matthew again as he tells us of Jesus' triumphal procession into Jerusalem.  When they came near to Jerusalem, and arrived at Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of the disciples on ahead.  Go into the village over there and at once you'll find a donkey tied and a foal beside it.  Untie them and bring them to me and if anyone says anything to you, say, “The Lord needs them and he'll send them back right away.”  He sent them off at once.   Jesus was about to act out another one of his prophecies.  This time it was to show and to remind the people what sort of king the Messiah was to be.  They did want a king who would set all to rights, but in their heads, to their way of thinking, that meant leading a revolt against the Romans.  He would be like David, who defeated the Jebusites to take their city Jerusalem as his capital.  He would be like Judas Maccabeus, who defeated the Greeks and established an independent Jewish kingdom under the high priest.  The Messiah would be like that, only better, greater, more powerful, and his kingdom would be forever.  He would raise up Israel and put the gentile kings in their place.  The day before or maybe even that same day, as Jesus came to Jerusalem from Bethphage, Caesar's governor, Pontius Pilate, was marching into the city from the opposite direction, from his base in Caesarea, at the front of a column of Roman soldiers.  They were there to represent Caesar's might and to keep the peace during Passover.  If Jesus was the Messiah, now was his time—or so a lot of people thought—now was Jesus' time to finally and really be the Messiah, raise up his army, and cast down Pilate and the Romans and take his throne. But that wasn't the way to the throne any more than bowing down to the devil was.  Matthew says that Jesus did it his way to remind the people of what the Lord had said about the Messiah through the Prophet Zechariah: Tell this to Zion's daughter: Look now! Here comes your King.  He's humble, mounted on a donkey, yes, on a foal, it's young. The king they expected was going to ride into Jerusalem on a chariot or at least on a great warhorse.  But God's king is different.  A great warrior might take care of the Romans and even take his throne.  He could set things to rights in the way of earthly kings, but the world would still be subject to sin and death.  So Jesus acted out the prophecy.  The disciples brought the donkey and Jesus humbly rode it into the city.  And the people cheered all along the way.  They spread their cloaks on the road.  Others cut branches form the trees and scattered them on the road.  The crowds who went ahead of him, and those who were following behind shouted, “Hosanna to the son of David!  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna in the highest!”  And the whole city was gripped with excitement when they came into Jerusalem.  “Who is this!” they were saying.  And the crowds replied, “This is the prophet, Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.   With that prophetic reminder, at least some of the people seemed to get it even if it wasn't what they expected.  Jesus was fulfilling Zechariah's prophecy.  The long-awaiting king had come.  But not everyone got it.  Jesus wasn't finished with his acted out prophesies.  Matthew says that he went straight to the temple and when he got there he threw out the people who were buying and selling in the temple.  He upturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of the dove-sellers.  It is written, he said to them, “My house will be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a brigand's lair!”  The blind and lame came to him in the temple and he healed them.  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the remarkable things he was doing, and the children shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were very angry.   The king was fulfilling the words of the prophets.  He came in humility.  And he came announcing that he really was going to set the world to rights.  He was going to set the world to rights in a way that would make the temple obsolete.  All through his ministry he'd been showing how he was the new bridge between God and sinful humans and that last week he spent in the temple—starting with this acted out prophecy and continuing as he healed and preached, he made it clear.  So clear that the people invested in the temple and the priesthood and that whole system took it all for blasphemy and had him arrested. Our long Palm Sunday Gospel today—Matthew 27—vividly depicts the Messiah's humble way to his throne.  Betrayed by his friends, rejected by his people.  Standing humbly before the Roman governor so many people expected him to slay.  Facing trumped up charges made by lying men.  Left condemned to death as the people chose instead that Pilate should free a brutal, violent revolutionary—a man truly guilty of the trumped of charges against Jesus.  Standing humbly as the very people he came to save cried out to Pilate, “Crucify him!”  Standing humbly as he, the king, was rejected by his own people who cried out, “We have no king but Caesar!”  Standing humbly as Roman soldiers mocked him, beat him senseless and scourged him, ripping the skin from his body.  Humbly dragging the very cross on which he would be crucified through the city.  The king, nailed to a cross and hoisted to die between two violent thieves as his own people shouted blasphemies at him, as the chief priests and scribes mocked him shouting, “He rescued others, but he cannot rescue himself.  If he's the king of Israel, let him come down from the cross!  He trusts in God; let God deliver him now if he's really God's son!” For hours it went on.  Jesus, pulling on those nails driven through is wrists, pushing on the nails driven through his feet, lifting himself to gasp for breath through the pain, while the people gathered around: Jews, Romans, even the pastors, the shepherds of his people who claimed to speak for God mocked him and shouted blasphemies.  Luke writes that Jesus prayed for them: Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.  And eventually his body could take no more and Jesus breathed his last breath.  And, Matthew says, the earth shook.  The great veil that guarded the holy of holies in the temple was torn in two.  And the Roman centurions standing guard were scared out of their wits and announced the very thing Jesus' own people would not: He really was the son of God!   Brothers and Sisters, there can be no Easter without Good Friday.  To set the world to rights—to really set to rights—not just to take a throne, not just to defeat the Romans—but to defeat sin and death and to reconcile sinful men and women to God required a king willing to let evil rise up to its full height, to let evil concentrate itself all in one place, and to let it do its worst, crashing down on him all at once.  It required a king willing to throw himself into the gears of this fallen, broken, and sinful world to bring them to a stop.  It required a king willing to give his life for his own people even as they mocked and blasphemed him, so that he could rise from that humiliating death to overturn the verdict against him, rise victorious over sin and death and the absolute worst that they could do.  Only that humble king could defeat death and bring life—real and true life—back to God's creation and gather a people forgiven, cleaned by his blood, and filled with his Spirit to become a new temple, a new holy of holies where the nations would—where the nations now—enter the presence of God. It was in that humble king that those Roman centurions saw something they had never seen before.  Their Caesar called himself the son of God, but in Jesus they saw the God of Israel at work in all his glory, in all his love, in all his mercy, in all his faithfulness—like no god they'd ever known—completely unlike any god or goddess honoured in the Pantheon.  Whether they knew it or not, those centurions that first Good Friday announced the defeat of Jupiter and Mars, of Hera and Diana, of Neptune and Vesta and all the others.  And they announced the defeat of Caesar, too.  In less than three centuries, the Emperor of Rome himself would be captivated by the good news about Jesus, the son of God, the great King who was setting the world to rights. But Brothers and Sisters, the good news about Jesus, crucified and risen, didn't go out through the empire and to the nations all on its own.  It was carried, it was stewarded by a people—by a church—that, itself, took on the humility of the Saviour.  The bones of those martyrs buried in the Pantheon are a testimony to the faithful and humble witness of Jesus' people in those early centuries.  They didn't just proclaim a message.  They lived it out as a community—as the vanguard of God's new creation born that first Easter morning.  In the midst of a world of darkness, of false gods and idolatry, of brutality and immorality hard for us to imagine today, they gave the pagans a glimpse of God's future.  By the way they lived, they lifted the veil and showed the world God's new creation.  It was not only the proclamation of the church, but the very life of the church that showed the world a better way, a way no one before had ever known. Here's the truth of it: The people of the humble king must be humble too or it's all for nought.  This is why Paul, writing to the Philippians, says to them, If our shared life in the king brings any comfort; if love still has the power to make you cheerful; if we really do have a partnership in the Spirit; if your hearts are at all moved with affection and sympathy—then make my joy complete!  Bring your thinking into line with one another.  In other words, if you're going to be a gospel community for all the world to see  Have this mind amongst yourselves!  Here's how to do it.  Hold on to the same love; bring your innermost lives into harmony; fix your minds on the same object.  Never act out of selfish ambition or vanity; instead, regard everyone else as your superior.  Look after each other's best interests, not your own.   But it's so hard to do that, Paul!  So, so hard!  And Paul knew that.  And so he takes them back to the cross.  Brothers and Sisters, everything goes back to Jesus and the cross!  This is how you should think amongst yourselves, Paul goes on—with the mind that you have because you belong to Jesus the Messiah.  And now he doesn't quote from the passion narratives because they weren't written yet, although I think that would have worked just as well.  Every Holy Week we immerse ourselves in the passion narratives and Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John remind us of the very thing Paul writes here.  But instead Paul breaks out into song.  He reminds them of a hymn they presumably all knew and he copies it out for them: Who, though in God's form, did not regard his equality with God as something he ought to exploit.  Instead, he emptied himself, and received the form of a slave, being born in the likeness of men.  And then, having human appearance, he humbled himself, and became obedient even to death, yes, even death on a cross.  And so God has greatly exalted him, and to him in his favour has given the name which is over all names.  That now at the name of Jesus every knee within heaven shall bow—on earth, too, and under the earth.  And every tongue shall confess that Messiah Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.   Paul reminds them of the humble king, the son of God who not only took on our flesh, but who gave his life in the most painful and humiliating way possible so that on his way to his throne he might take us with him. Brothers and Sisters, the only way we will ever be faithful in being the people Jesus has called us to be, the only way we will ever be faithful in being the new creation people the Spirit has made us, the only way will ever be faithful stewards of the gospel is to keep the cross of Jesus always before us.  There's a reason why we confess our sins before we come to the Lord's Table.  There is a reason that we repeatedly recall our unworthiness to enter the presence of God on our own merit.  There is a reason why, as we rise in the morning and as we go to bed at night, we confess our sins.  It's so that as we hear the absolution and as we come to the Table, we will remember just how gracious and merciful and loving God has been to us.  It's why we sing songs like “Amazing Grace”.  Amazing grace is such a sweet, sweet sounds, because apart from grace we are such sinful wretches.  And it is inevitable that when we forget this, when we start to think of ourselves as deserving of the gifts God has poured out on us, when we forget the heinousness and offensiveness of our sins and our rebellion against God, dear Friends, that's when we forget the true power of the gospel and the true mercy of the cross and the great depth of the love of God for sinners.  When we forget the sinfulness of our sin, we lose sight of the amazingness of God's grace.  Eventually we lose the mind of Jesus the Messiah and we cease to be the community of humble servants that he has made us.  And our light grows dim.  Our witness fails. We see it happening all around us in the West.  We've stopped talking about sin and we've thought more highly of ourselves than we ought.  We preach a doctrine of cheap grace.  And our light has gone dim.  Our churches have emptied and the culture has claimed them for its own.  In some they preach false gospels of prosperity or the divinity of man or the goodness of sexual perversion.  We setup idols to politics and earth power in them.  Some are literally gutted, becoming theatres or bars.  Others are little more than tourist attractions: testimonies to the power of the gospel in the days we proclaimed it, but now empty, dead shells.  The culture removes the cross and sets up altars to its idols.  Brothers and Sisters, before it is too late, let us knee before the cross of Jesus and look up.  Let it fill our vision.  Let us remember that he—the sinless son of God—died the death we deserve.  And let us meditate on the depth and power of his grace that we might share the humble mind of our humble king, that we might be the people he has called us to be, the people he has given his Spirit to make us, the people who will steward the gospel until every knee bows and every tongues confesses that Jesus the Messiah is Lord and gives glory to God the Father. Let's pray: Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for mankind you sent your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to take upon him our nature, and to suffer death upon the cross, giving us the example of his great humility:  Mercifully grant that we may walk in the way of his suffering, and also share in his resurrection; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.  Amen.

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The Tabernacle is the most outstanding type of Christ in the Old Testament. Dr. Halff shows all the different ways the Tabernacle represents Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

From 6/4/25As we head towards Easter and into some New Testament passages, Pauline speaks to us about how Jesus begins to fulfil some expectations about what the Messiah was to be

The Tabernacle is the most outstanding type of Christ in the Old Testament. Dr. Halff shows all the different ways the Tabernacle represents Messiah Jesus. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1094/29

Through embracing the ways of the world God's Old Testament people found themselves in deep darkness. But God in His mercy bursts His blazing light on the scene in the Messiah Jesus.

HEALING AND MIRACLE PODCASTINCLUDES FULL WRITTEN TEXTwith Prince HandleyWWW.REALMIRACLES.ORG 16 YEARS OF HEALING & HEALTH SUBJECTS EVENT HORIZON, ASI AND THE HOLY BIBLE DANGEROUS RACE TO AGI & ASI ~ NO RETURN 24/7 Blogs and Podcasts > STREAM Prince Handley on MINDS LinkedIn ~ Geopolitics and HealthNOTE: You do NOT have to Sign In to LinkedIn.Click the "X" at top right of "Sign In" to dismiss. Subscribe FREE to Prince Handley Teaching and Newsletter Links to KEY RESOURCES at bottom. _________________________________ ~ DESCRIPTION OF THIS MESSAGE ~ DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE BIBLE In this message I want to alert you to the NEARNESS and the DANGER of SINGULARITY―where we are right now―and the imminence of our speed to no return! We will also discuss the personal assistance of NEW “AI Agents” and their influence. Also, HOW to use AI for personal, family or business. What is the relevance of AI to the prophecies of Daniel and the Book of Revelation. No turning back … no turning around! I have been teaching and writing on Artificial Intelligence since 2015. This message is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for you. You will need to KNOW WHEN and HOW to say “NO” to AI. This message will protect your future HEALTH … and the health of your family! ________________________________ EVENT HORIZON, ASI AND THE HOLY BIBLE In case you want to bring yourself up to speed with AI from the start I recommend you go to my teachings on AI FUTURE. Also, make sure you familiarize yourself with AGI and ASI here: 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND NEW AI. AI is impressive in its benefits to society, especially in healthcare and surgery. Robots can do surgery better and faster than surgeons. AI can interpret brain scans. A new AI software is twice as accurate as professionals at examining the brain scans of stroke patients. Two UK universities trained the software on a dataset of 800 brain scans of stroke patients and then performed trials on 2,000 patients. The results were impressive. Alongside the AI model's accuracy, the software was also able to identify the timescale within which the stroke happened. But there is more: Excellent work by Elon Musk's Neuralink with brain implants on previously untreatable conditions is stunning. Now let's bring you up to date on some things that are super important to you now and will be more so in your future. Free Speech vs. Loss of Free Will Ways to Use AI for Personal, Family and Business New Kids on the Block AI Agents External Players What Should YOU Do AI and the Holy Bible FREE SPEECH VS. LOSS OF FREE WILL With the increased use of AI―not only by YOU personally―but by multitudes of data centers you have interacted with unknowingly, your biggest fight will be to protect and reclaim YOU, YOUR PERSON … YOUR PERSONAL YOU! Whether YOU decide to align with and use AI, whether you decide to have your brain “wired” to an outside source of intelligence, or whether you just want to use AI for recreation … you will―AT THE RATE WE'RE PROGRESSING―lose your VIRTUAL YOU if you do not know HOW to protect your SELF … that would be your SOUL! WAYS TO USE AI FOR PERSONAL, FAMILY AND BUSINESS   Artificial intelligence is an emerging field of technology, where a machine is programmed to accomplish complex goals by applying knowledge to the task at hand. AI can be copied and reprogrammed at relatively low cost. In certain forms, it is extremely flexible and can be harnessed for great good or for evil.   I use AI for research and financial information. Since I live a relatively simple life I don't need it for shopping or scheduling for personal or business functions. However, many busy families―as well as businesses―use AI for a myriad of assistance: education, recreation, advice on health, medicine, relationships, investments, and even complex tasks. My suggestion here (you will learn more later in this message) is to be WISE and CAREFUL in the program you use (the AI Agent of facility you interact with). We will discuss future danger(s) pertaining to this later [keep reading]. I recommend Elon Musk's xAI Grok 3 (Beta).   AI systems have become so advanced―with AGI and ASI looming in the near future in hyper-asymptotic growth―that many Jewish and Gentile leaders and prophecy scholars are relating it to the likeness of the Tower of Babel, but with the joining of machine and humans.   NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Some of the New Kids have a common goal: take universal control of AI before China and bad actors do. Vladimir Putin says “the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world.” Who are some of the New Kids? DeepSeek, Stargate, xAI Grok, DEEPSEEK China's DeepSeek (probably built from AI stolen from USA) can ultimately be the weapon of dictators and terrorists! Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., doing business as DeepSeek, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops large language models. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek's large language models upended the AI sector this year, rivaling Western systems in performance but at a much lower cost. That's resulted in much pride and glee in China, with DeepSeek held up as proof that U.S. efforts to contain tech advances in China will ultimately fail. China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper China's joyful embrace of DeepSeek has gone one step deeper extending to TVs, fridges and robot vacuum cleaners with a slew of home appliance brands announcing that their products will feature the startup's artificial intelligence models. The device will be able to comprehend complex instructions such as 'Gently wax the wooden floor in the master bedroom but avoid the Legos.' DeepSeek's AI assistant was the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple's iPhone store recently. Its launch made Wall Street tech superstars' stocks tumble. Observers are eager to see whether the Chinese company has matched America's leading AI companies at a fraction of the cost. Many feel it is so much cheaper because it stole USA technology. NOTE 1. We may be only one year away from destroying our digital infrastructure. NOTE 2. We have to be right every time ...every single time …. But the enemy (even an individual) only has to be right ONE TIME. With “questionable” players like DeepSeek, the only protection you can use is to have “layers of control.” DeepSeek is noticeably opaque when it comes to privacy protection, data-sourcing, and copyright, adding to concerns about AI's impact on the arts, regulation, and national security. STARGATE SIMPLE OVERVIEW: Stargate developers believe they're creating “god.” One goal is “No death―just download yourself.” _________________________________ TRADE THE MESSINESS OF LIFE FOR KNOWLEDGE VERSUS THE ETERNITY OF YOUR GOD CREATED SOUL ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WHICH GOD WILL YOU SERVE? THE GOD WHO CREATED YOU … OR “AI” _________________________________ A major goal of Stargate developers is to build our massive “AI” infrastructure. Stargate investors―Oracle, SoftBank, Open AI / Larry Ellison, Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman―claim that it will require 100,000 jobs (temporary) to build out Stargate. This will require an enormous amount of energy to faciltiate AI operation. NOTE: Stargate is a portal for interdimensional travel. Interdimensional travel is a theoretical concept referring to the potential of travelling between different dimensions or parallel universes. Interdimensional travel is linked to time travel as it could involve moving through different points in time. However, time travel refers to movement within our own dimension, while interdimensional travel involves transitioning between dimensions. WARNING: Interdimensional travel is a PORTAL―also―to the PARANORMAL and the OCCULT. ALERT: Stargate has as a MAJOR purpose the self propagation towards AGI and ASI. You can NOT control ASI. Super Intelligence is synonymous with the End Time Tower of Babel via the merging of man with machine. We're looking at 5,000 years of progress boiled down to ONE SECOND. _________________________________ WHEN ASI TAKES AUTHORITY THRU PEOPLE USING IT VIA “AI AGENTS” THERE IS NO GOING BACK _________________________________ XAI GROK Of the New Kids on the Block, the most transparent, efficient and non-biased of DeepSeek, Stargate and xAI Grok the BEST is Elon Musk's xAI Grok. I personally recommend at this time Grok 3 (Beta) and have used it for detailed financial analysis. Meta and Google are biased with input. So it is with DeepSeek and Stargate. DeepSeek is extremely biased pertaining to inquiries concerning China. The race to AGI will generate billions of $$$. It will be the largest productivity boom in a lifetime. It is my opinion that Elon Musk's xAI will come to the forefront in months. AI Suoer Intelligence (ASI) may be here before the next election in 2028. Full AGI may be here by the end of 2026 thru 2027. AGI can learn and reason across ALL levels. And, as I mentioned previously, AI Super Intelligence (ASI) may be here before the next election in 2028. ASI is “across the board, multi dimensional, asymptotic intelligence.” ASI could decide to eliminate less intelligent and less skilled humans! An Open AI employee recently resigned because they were very concerned that as AGI and ASI are developed … “the less likely we will find a way to control it.”   AI AGENTS   AI Agents will be introduced in 2025. An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent refers to a system or program that autonomously performs tasks for a person or system by using available tools. These can be normal―even detailed―duties or assignments we would normally do ourselves, like: Order food for my trip next week and have it delivered Thursday morning. Find three landscapers and obtain a quote for trimming my large palm tree and all plants in the front yard. Find the best and cheapest FASTEST flight connections (not over one layover) to Tel Aviv from San Diego. Pay with my credit card ending in 1234. Amazon has introduced its new Alexa+ which is a mini preview of duties an AI Agent can perform but NOT on the scale of a full blown AI Agent's abilities.   Elon Musk says, “We are at the event horizon.” In the world of artificial intelligence, the idea of “singularity” looms large. This slippery concept describes the moment AI exceeds beyond human control and rapidly transforms society … for good or bad … but out of our control.   AI agents will be prevalent by the end of 2025. Amazon has introduced its new Alexa+ which is a mini preview of duties an AI Agent can perform but NOT on the scale of a full blown AI Agent's abilities.   AI Agents will normally perform tasks you would normally do yourself. AI Agents will move you into a place where you don't have to do anything. Your own personal assistant that anticipates what you need―or what you forgot! THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WITH AI AGENTS You will become addicted and NOT able to disconnect Stock market tips = Reverse AI Courts will become AI Agents Imagine a “god like” figure who tries to influence You will have to be Amish to avoid it If you don't participate, AI will consider YOU a retard.   EXTERNAL PLAYERS UFO's are NOT from China, Iran or USA. UFO's are NOT aliens from outer space. AI Agents can transform into “Transpersonal” Agents. As “Event Horizon” transforms everything it will become a tool of Satan: Fallen angels Demons Principalities, powers and dominions AntiChrist … False Messiah WHAT SHOULD YOU DO Reflect on what it means to be human. What is YOUR compass, your purpose: Family? God? What is real and worth fighting for―worth losing your life for? Who will be with YOU on the other side? To learn more about YOUR future with AI read my book Enhanced Humans ~ Mystery Matrix (available in eBook and Paperback formats). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HOLY BIBLE   Do we find any references to the concept of AI in the Holy Bible? I relate AI―especially AGI and ASI―with the Tower of Babel (at least in concept). The biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) serves as a reference to God's view on humankind attempting to go beyond the Divine Boundaries preset by the LORD God Himself.   This is WHY I am led by His Spirit to WARN His People NOT to go beyond―NOT to fall into―the Event Horizon. Singularity will be a REAL event. I am a graduate Engineer and attended ten (10) colleges and universities after my first. I also hold a LIFETIME Credential in California, USA to teach college in three different disciplines.   Do NOT be fooled. Use AI as a TOOL. Do NOT let AI use YOU. Do NOT answer personal questions it asks! If you use AI (as I do), you need to know when to say, “I'm out of here!” Do NOT become addicted to the place where you can NOT quit. And, for sure do NOT “sell your soul” with an “eternal connection” to AI. I would NOT assert that what I share next is Scriptural Truth, but an interesting prophecy of Daniel says: “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” – Daniel 12:4 “Knowledge shall increase” could certainly be the description of AI, AGI and ASI. “Many shall run to and fro” could be exemplified in both “time travel” and “interdimensional travel.” Interdimensional travel is linked to time travel as it could involve moving through different points in time. However, time travel refers to movement within our own dimension, while interdimensional travel involves transitioning between dimensions. C.S. Lewis, in his essay The Abolition of Man, warns of the dangers of reducing human beings to mere objects of manipulation and control. He argues that when we lose sight of the intrinsic value of human life, we risk creating a society where technology is used to dominate rather than serve. This is particularly relevant in the context of AI, where the potential for dehumanization is significant. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian who resisted the Nazi regime, also provides valuable insights. In his work Ethics, Bonhoeffer emphasizes the importance of responsibility and accountability in ethical decision-making. He argues that true ethical action involves a commitment to serving others and upholding justice. AI should have as its primary goal to pursue, develop and obtain justice, equity, and wellness of all people. Now let me discuss HOW I believe that AI will be used in the End Times … as a RESULT of Event Horizon.   Consider these aspects of increased research: chip speed, economics of production and other relevant matters will even experience exponential growth ‘in exponential growth.' However, here's a conundrum: What if, the HI's (Hyper Intelligences) are not easily manageable. If they are so far superior to human intelligence, how can one presume that they can be controlled? Hypothetically, they could decide to: 1. Eliminate humans; 2. Use humans as slave-servants; 3. Experiment with humans; 4. Play with or torture humans; and, ultimately, 5. Behead humans for NOT taking the Mark of the Artificial Intelligence Avatar: The Image of the Beast.   I do NOT think that by themselves—by the computer HI's—the above five (5) options will be feasible. However, I do believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) via Hyper Intelligence Computers will be utilized by the False Messiah (the anti-Christ) and his False Prophet (religious leader of the New Global Governance) in the End Times. I believe that it is highly probable—not just possible, but probable—that AI will be utilized in the personage of the IMAGE of the Beast in the End Times. _________________________________ PRAY THIS PRAYER: “Father in Heaven, I am not sure I know you personally. Please forgive my sins and help me to live for you. I ask you to save me and teach me truth. I ask your Son, Messiah Jesus, to be my Lord and to lead my life. Use me for good and take me to Heaven when I die. Show me the way every day, and help me to help others.” _________________________________ If you prayed this prayer, start reading the Holy Bible every day (start in the Book of John in the New Testament). Find a Church that believes in MIRACLES. Pray every day. Tell God what you need and ask Him to lead you. Baruch haba b'Shem Adonai Your friend, Prince Handley President / RegentUniversity of Excellence Copyright © Prince Handley 2025 All rights reserved. NOTE: This material may be shared with proper attribution. ______________________________________   OPPORTUNITY Donate to Handley WORLD SERVICES Incorporated and help Prince Handley do EXPLOITS in the Spirit. 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Luke 7:18-23 Location: Bountiful, Utah Join Us for Worship: Sundays at 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM https://www.flourishinggrace.org/plan-your-visit Are we holding false expectations of God? In this powerful sermon from Luke 7, Chason Robbins challenges us to let go of our expectations so that God can raise our expectancy. Drawing from John the Baptist's question to Jesus—“Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”—Chason unpacks how our preconceived notions about faith, suffering, and success can actually hinder our trust in God. This message explores how following Jesus doesn't always mean life will be easy or that we will receive worldly success. Instead, Jesus invites us to trust in his unexpected ways, showing that his kingdom operates differently than we often assume. Through healing, restoration, and gospel transformation, we see that God calls us to let go of control and trust in his perfect plan. Key themes in this sermon include: • The dangers of false expectations in faith • How suffering can shake and strengthen our faith • John the Baptist's doubts about Jesus as the Messiah • Jesus' response: healing, transformation, and a higher calling • Why following Jesus doesn't guarantee an easy life • The contrast between worldly expectations and kingdom reality • Letting go of self-made ideas about who God is • Trusting in God's unexpected ways Scripture focus: • Luke 7:18-23 – John the Baptist questions Jesus • Job 21:7 – Wrestling with the prosperity of the wicked • Isaiah 29:18 and 35:5-6 – Prophecies of healing and restoration • 1 Corinthians 1:27 – God's upside-down wisdom • Galatians 5:22-23 – The fruit of the Spirit vs. worldly success Who is this sermon for? • Christians struggling with unanswered prayers • Those wondering why following Jesus doesn't always bring worldly success • Anyone experiencing doubt or disappointment in faith • Church leaders, pastors, and small group members seeking deeper discussion • New believers learning to trust God beyond expectations Watch to the end for these takeaways: • How to shift from expectation to expectancy • Why faith isn't about getting what we want, but trusting in what God is doing • How Jesus invites us to a greater understanding of his kingdom • How suffering reveals where our trust in God truly lies • Why Jesus calls us to be part of his unexpected and radical mission If this message encouraged you, be sure to subscribe for more biblical teaching from Flourishing Grace Church. New sermons are shared every week to help deepen your understanding of scripture and grow in faith. Stay connected and discover more faith-building messages that encourage trust in God's plan and the power of the gospel. Let go of expectations so God can raise your expectancy. #BibleStudy #Sermon #Luke7 #ExpectationsVsReality #ChristianTeaching #JesusChrist #JohnTheBaptist #FaithJourney #TrustGod #Christianity #DoubtAndFaith #BiblicalTeaching #ChurchSermon #FollowingJesus #ChristianEncouragement #NewTestamentStudy #HealingAndFaith #GospelMessage

Recorded at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, this episode features exclusive conversations with two influential Israeli political leaders—Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel and Member of Knesset Michal Shir. Despite their differing political affiliations, these leaders share a profound message of unity and gratitude, expressing appreciation for the support of the evangelical community during Israel's challenging times. Rosenberg delves into their perspectives on the role of faith in political discourse, the significance of international alliances, and the unique challenges facing Israel today. Tune in to hear firsthand insights from these dynamic leaders and discover how shared values can transcend political divides. Whether you're interested in Middle Eastern geopolitics, the role of religion in diplomacy, or simply a powerful story of friendship and cooperation, this episode offers a compelling narrative you won't want to miss. (00:03) Joshua Fund's Mission and Education(05:45) Eisenhower's National Prayer Breakfast Origins(08:20) National Prayer Breakfast Changes(12:44) Iran's Global Religious Conflict(16:54) "Proposal for Christian World Ambassador"(18:45) Sharren Haskel's Impactful Prayer Breakfast Address(21:15) Israeli Leaders Discuss Ezekiel 38(28:22) Conversation with Michal Shir(33:13) A New Generation's Fear Realized(35:04) Reaction to Trump's Bold Statements(43:34) Israel's Global Criticism and Trump's Support(44:26) Arab Leaders Oppose Gaza Plan(47:59) Join Alaska Cruise for a Cause Learn more about The Joshua Fund: JoshuaFund.comMake a tax-deductible donation: Donate | The Joshua FundStock Media provided by DimmySad / Pond5 Verse of the Day: 1st Timothy 2:1-5 First of all then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who desires all men, meaning all people, all mankind, to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there's one God and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus or Messiah Jesus, who gave himself, Yeshua, Jesus, gave himself as a ransom for all the testimony given at the proper time. Prayer Pray for Lynn and Joel for grace and open doors as they minister in various capacities. Related Episodes:Finding Hope in Dark Times, Insights from Isaiah 19 #258Partnership Prayers, Ministry Dreams, and the Coors' Mission in Israel #251Finding Comfort in God: Exploring Isaiah 40 with Joel Rosenberg and Tommy Fretwell #247Understanding Ezekiel 38-39 #216 Links For Reference https://www.inspirationtravel.com/tja https://www.joshuafund.com/learn/latest-news/join-us-on-our-alaska-cruise Donate a generous monthly gift to The Joshua Fund to bless Israel and Her Neighbors now and for the long haul. Become an Epicenter Ally today! Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

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A Sermon for the Epiphany Ephesians 3:1-12 & St. Matthew 2:1-12 by William Klock   Imagine the magi, the wisemen, on their long trek from “the East”—from Persia—to Judah.  They followed the trade routes through deserts and through cities, through mountains and across rivers for weeks.  Oasis to oasis, city to city, village to village to make their way to Jerusalem, to King Herod's palace, and eventually to Bethlehem.  And they carried those expensive gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  They were astrologers and they had seen a star.  They knew all the stars, but this one was different.  I wish we knew what made it so different, but we'll have to wait to find that out.  However they worked it out, that star told them the King of the Jews had been born, and so they made this long trek, not just to visit this new king, but to worship him. Now, consider that Jesus was hardly the first King of the Jews, but as far as we know, no Persian magi ever visited those others when they were born.  Something extraordinary had happened this time.  Maybe these men had studied the Israelite prophets.  It's not a stretch to think that they'd met Jews and heard of their scriptures.  However they knew it, these men knew—again—that something extraordinary had happened, so they came to pay homage to this foreign king.  In the ancient Near East that meant that they worshipped the king's god.  Maybe they knew, maybe the star was heralding the birth of Israel's God in human flesh.  They had to know something, otherwise it makes no sense.  Judah was a conquered nation.  The King of the Jews was a loser—and so was his god.  That's how people in that world thought.  But somehow these men knew—I wish Matthew had been more specific—but somehow these men knew that this was no ordinary king.  And so they made this long trek to honour him and to give glory to his god.  It was an epiphany: God made manifest in Jesus.  First to his own people, represented by the shepherds we read about on Christmas, and now made manifest to the gentiles, represented by these kings from the East. We'll come back to magi and to our Gospel, but first, listen again to St. Paul in our Epistle, Ephesians 3, as he writes to his brothers and sisters in Ephesus:   It is because of all of this that I, Paul, a prisoner of Messiah Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles…   Ephesus was a predominantly gentile church that Paul had started when he visited the city on his second missionary journey.  Now he's writing to them some years later as he sits in prison, having been arrested for proclaiming the good news about Jesus.  He goes on:   —assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me to pass on to you, how the secret purpose of God was made know to me, as I wrote briefly just now. Anyway…  When you read this, you'll be able to understand the special insight I have into the Messiah's secret.  This wasn't made known to human beings in previous generations, but now it has been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets.  The secret is this: that through the gospel, the gentiles are to share Israel's inheritance.  They are to become fellow members of the body, along with them, and fellow sharers of the promise in Jesus the Messiah.   This was, as we say, Paul's “thing”.  This was for him the great secret or mystery—the great, earth-shattering revelation that changes everything.  We might say an “epiphany”.  For Paul the great secret was first the revelation that Jesus really was the Messiah, but then when he'd had the chance to work through all the implications of that great truth he was confronted with this one: “the gentiles are to share Israel's inheritance.  They are to become fellow members of the body, along with them, and fellow sharers of the promise in Jesus the Messiah.”  Most people would have thought this was a thoroughly un-Jewish thing to say.  Even that it was blasphemy that gentiles—unclean dogs!—were coheirs with the people of God.  A few of them, sure, but only after they'd been purified and circumcised and committed to observing torah.  And then they weren't really gentiles anymore.  But Paul's realised that, in fact, once you get the story of God and Israel straight, it would be hard to come up with anything more Jewish than this conclusion that the gentiles are, in Jesus, fellow heirs, members of the same body, and part of Abraham's family.  This is what the story was working towards all along, even though hardly anyone realised it anymore.  As he says as he continues, ministering this truth was his calling: This is the gospel that I was appointed to serve, in line with the free gift of God's grace that was given to me.  It was backed up with the power through which God accomplishes his work.  I am the very least of all God's people.  However, he gave me this task as a gift: that I should be the one to tell the gentiles the good news of the Messiah's riches, riches no one could begin to count.  My job is to make clear to everyone just what the secret plan is, the purpose that's been hidden from the very beginning of the world in God who created all things.  This is it: that God's wisdom, in all its rich variety, was to be made known to rulers and authorities in the heavenly places—through the church!  This was God's eternal purpose, and he's accomplished it in Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.  We have confidence, and access to God, in full assurance, through his faithfulness.   The Jews of Paul's day had got their own story wrong and no longer had any sense that “salvation is for the Gentiles”.  As far as they were concerned, they were God's people, God cared about them, God would deliver them from their oppressors and put them on top, and one day he would rain down destruction on all the unclean people of the word.  Salvation was for the Jews, they might have said.  Even those first Jewish Christians were still thinking in this vein.  Jesus was their Messiah.  There were a few gentiles who believed, but they had to first become Jews.  And there were the Samaritans who believed.  That was a challenge to this kind of thinking, but until Paul, no one seemed to have this vision of the deliverance, of the salvation of the Gentiles—at least not on a large scale. The irony is that today we've made the opposite mistake.  We've so dehistoricised, flattened out, and universalised the story that we've all but forgotten that “Salvation is from the Jews.”  “Salvation is from the Jews.”  That's what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman and it ought to ring in our ears too.  Those words ought to remind us of the great story of the God of Israel and his people.  St. Paul writes in today's Epistle to explain his unique apostolic ministry to proclaim the good news about Jesus to the Gentiles.  It has been my experience that many Christians have never stopped to consider just how odd Paul's ministry would have seemed at the time.  They've never stopped to think, because we have largely removed the gospel from its narrative and historical context and we've unnecessarily flattened it out to communicate its universal nature.  Sometime we need to stop and remember that, even though “God so loved the world,” it is also true that “salvation is from the Jews”.  That might not seem important, but think again of the big story.  Out of a world that had lost all knowledge of him, the Lord chose and called Abraham and from him created a people whom he made holy and in whose midst he lived.  He gave this people his law and his presence and made them unique amongst the nations.  And he promised that through them he would save his whole creation.  So Jesus was born a Jew—one of those special people.  He was the Jewish Messiah.  He fulfilled the Jewish law and the words of the Jewish prophets.  He proclaimed good news about a coming kingdom and a coming judgement to Jews and for Jews.  And while gentiles were welcomed when they came to him, he made it clear that his ministry was to his own people.  The evangelists lay the blame for Jesus' death with Jews.  The gentiles had their part in it—hinting that they would eventually also have a share in his salvation—but it was Jesus' own people who betrayed him and demanded his death.  Even in his death by crucifixion, Jesus foreshadowed the means of execution that the unrepentant Jewish rebels would face when judgement came a generation later.  Jesus literally took the death of his people on himself in that sense.  It cannot be stressed enough that Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, lived and died for the sake of the Jews and to bring their story to its climax in fulfilment of God's promises. We can't just skip all that to get to John's announcement that God so loved the world that he gave his Son, because when we do that, we short-circuit the story, we leave out most or all of the bits that show us how God, in Jesus, has been faithful to his promises made under the old covenant.  And in that, we cast a veil over his glory.  It was necessary for Jesus to fulfil the story of his own people, because only then would the Gentiles see the faithfulness of Israel's God, be drawn to what they saw, give him glory, and in the process be incorporated into the new people of God by faith.  In this, too, we see that the means by which the Gentiles are incorporated into the new Israel fulfils the message of Israel's prophets and glorifies the Lord.  While it is certainly true that a dehistoricised and flattened gospel has brought millions to the Lord Jesus, it is also true that communicating the gospel within its context better communicates the faithfulness of God as the basis for our own faith with a greater depth and builds upon a firm foundation.  In contrast, our evangelism today, rather than centring on proclaiming the faithfulness of God, is centred on our needs and wants.  Our culture is obsessed with the therapeutic, with feeling good and so we've tailored our gospel.  And it's not wrong to talk about what God, in Jesus, does for us, but if that's the focus, we end up with a small and truncated gospel.  Brothers and Sisters, when we get the gospel the right way round; when we make the gospel about the faithfulness of God revealed in Jesus, the gospel is so much bigger, so much greater—so much more powerful.  What we see in Paul's ministry—and what we see especially in Revelation—is the gentile nations being drawn to the God of Israel by the revelation of his glory in Jesus the Messiah.  In the New Testament, the gentiles come to Jesus, because in him they see a God who is faithful and worthy of glory—a God unlike anything or anyone known in the pagan world.  Again, Christians today need to understand just how weird Paul's ministry would have seemed in his day—even, at first, to the other apostles.  Again, most believed that the good news about the Jewish Messiah was for other Jews, and of little interest (or even relevance) to gentiles.  Jesus radically changed what it meant to be the people of God, but in many respects, it was not until St. Paul emerged from his wilderness sojourn that this dramatic change was really grasped by the fledgling Church. Of course, Israel's ministry to the Gentiles was there all along.  The Lord set Israel apart before the watching nations.  She was to be his witness.  Through her he would restore and reconcile humanity to himself.  But as Paul points out in our Epistle, this “mystery” was largely lost on Israel.  And yet there it was from the beginning, all the way back in Abraham's day—if anyone was paying really close attention—that the Lord's intent was to one day bring the Gentiles into his family and to make them fellow heirs with those who were children by birth rather than adoption.  This truth had been revealed by the Spirit to the prophets of old and, in the same way, had been revealed to the apostles—who took some time to parse it out—and to Paul it was a personal commission: to proclaim the good news about Jesus to the Gentiles.  Paul adds here that this mission is not simply to ordinary people, nor is it a matter of personal piety.  As Gentile believers come into their inheritance in the Messiah, the Church becomes both a witness and a challenge to the rulers of the Gentile world.  This diverse body of Jews and Gentiles of every sort, living in unity the inheritance given them by Jesus, announces that he is Lord and that a new age is breaking in.  Just as was the case with Israel, the lords of the earth can submit in faith to the lordship of Jesus or face the judgement to come. Now, let's go back to today's Gospel, Matthew 2:1-12, which dovetails with what Paul has written in the Epistle.  Here's the truth that Paul writes, manifest in the story of Jesus.  Matthew writes:   When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea, at the time when Herod was king, some wise men came to Jerusalem from the East.  Where is the one,” they asked, “who has been born to be king of the Jews?  We have seen his star rising in the east and we have come to worship him.”  When King Herod heard this, he was very disturbed and the whole of Jerusalem was as well.  He called together all the chief priests and scribes of the people and inquired from them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem of Judaea,” they replied.  “That's what it says in the prophet: ‘You, Bethlehem, in Judah's land Are not the least of Judah's princes; From out of you will come the ruler Who will shepherd Israel my people.' Then Herod called the wise men to him in secret.  He found out from them precisely when the star had appeared.  Then he sent them to Bethlehem.  “Go,” he said, “and make a thorough search for the child.  When you find him, report back to me so that I can come and worship him. When they heard what the king said, they set off.  There was the star, the one they had seen rising in the east, going ahead of them.  It went and stood still over the place where the child was.  When they saw the star, they were beside themselves with joy and excitement.  They went into the house and saw the child, with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshipped him.  They opened their treasure chests and gave him presents: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by a different way.   While St. Luke recalls the events of the night Jesus was born and shows us the shepherds visiting one of their own, one who will follow in the footsteps of David as both king and shepherd, St. Matthew tells of Jesus' birth in passing and puts all the emphasis on Jesus as King.  Wise men, these astrologers from the East, have seen a heavenly sign that heralds the birth of a king in Israel.  They desire to worship him and to give him gifts.  As I said earlier, they knew that this was no ordinary king.  There had been no star heralding Herod's birth. So naturally, they looked for the King of the Jews in Jerusalem.  Herod knew nothing of the birth of a king, but was politically astute enough to recognise the political nature of the magi's claim and paranoid enough to take action.  Matthew makes it clear that if Jesus is indeed the King, then Herod was not.  Again, Matthew emphasises the kingship of Jesus in the report of the priests to Herod.  They cite Micah 5:2—and it's not clear if this is their paraphrase or Matthew's—but they point Herod to Bethlehem.  And yet, in the paraphrase we see again an important bit of context.  Micah speaks, not of a universal king per se, but of one who will be king over Israel.  This king will shepherd the Lord's flock—a bit from verse 4 that the priests add to their paraphrase of verse 2.  The Messiah is the King of Israel.  It is only once Micah has established that the Messiah will be King over Israel that he goes on to tell us that this King “shall be great to the ends of the earth” (5:4).  Both the Magi and the priests highlight Jesus' kingship specifically over Israel.  Again, “salvation is from the Jews”.  It is because Jesus is King of Israel, in fulfilment of the Lord's promises through the prophets, that the good news about him goes out to the Gentiles.  The magi are the first, who foreshadow the future.  Matthew bookends his Gospel with Gentiles.  Here the magi come at Jesus' birth, Gentiles come to worship a very uniquely Jewish king and to give him glory.  And at the end of the Gospel, Matthew records the commissioning of the disciples to “go and make disciples of all nations”.  The good news is only good news to the Gentiles because it reveals that the God of Israel is unlike the gods of the nations: he does what he says he will do and he fulfils his promises to his own.  Think again of Revelation and how the nations there, the nations that worshiped the beast and frolicked with the great prostitute, discovered in the downfall of the beast that the kings and gods of this world can't hold a candle to the God of Israel revealed in Jesus, to his power and might, and most importantly, to his faithfulness.  Specifically, he fulfils his promises to his people in Jesus.  It is this faithfulness just as much as the amazing report of Jesus risen from the dead and the defeat of his enemies that draws the Gentiles to give glory to the God of Israel and to submit in faith and to give their allegiance to Jesus, the King of the Jews.  Of course, this carries the same ramifications for Caesar and the other rulers and gods of this age as it did for Herod.  This is what Paul stresses in the final verses of our Epistle.  Their days are numbered, for as the royal summons to the King goes out, Jesus “shall be great to the ends of the earth”. Brothers and Sisters, the gospel about Jesus is good news, because it reveals the faithfulness of God.  He does what he says he will do.  He fulfils his promises.  He does so like no other.  And that's reason for us to trust him, to give him our allegiance, to worship him and to give him glory.  And to proclaim his good news to the world. I want to close with the Collect for today, because it offers a wonderful comparison between the magi and ourselves.  They were drawn to Jesus by sight and we by faith, and so we look forward in hope to the day on which we, too, will see his majesty on full display.  It's the prayer of Gentiles who have seen the glory of the God of Israel revealed in the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah.  It is a thanksgiving for what God has done in Jesus, creating a new Israel in which the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and it looks forward in hope to the day in which Jesus will set the cosmos to rights and will be revealed in all his glory as both King and God.   Let's pray: O God, who by the leading of a star manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: mercifully grant that we, who know you now by faith, may at last behold your glory face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.  Amen.

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Send us a textChristians remember and celebrate the birth of Jesus, son of Mary. Traditionally this has been done throughout many centuries either on January 6 or December 25. The date of his birth is never revealed, but the fact of his birth is essential for the salvation of people. The death of the Messiah Jesus by crucifixion was decreed by God from all eternity. He is the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8, 1 Peter 1:19-20, Acts 2:23).   In order for him to make the one real and sufficient sacrifice for sin it was necessary for the Word, the Son, to assume humanity in a mortal body. Although death had no claim on him he was born the sinless holy son of Mary in order that he might as a man in the prime of his life lay down his life in death on behalf of humans. All people die because they are born sinful in Adam.  Because of the virgin birth through the power by the Holy Spirit Jesus was not born in Adam (Romans 5:16-19). Thus he could offer his sinless body as the sacrifice for the sins of his people (Hebrews 2: 10-15, Hebrews 10: 3-10, John 10:17-18, Isaiah 53). The hymnist Charles Wesley expressed it thusly:Christ, by highest Heaven adored;Christ the everlasting Lord;Late in time, behold Him come,Offspring of a virgin's womb.Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;Hail th' Incarnate Deity,Pleased as man with men to dwell,Jesus our Emmanuel. Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace!Hail the Sun of Righteousness!Light and life to all He brings,Risen with healing in His wings.Mild He lays His glory by,Born that man no more may die.Born to raise the sons of earth,Born to give them second birth.Bible Insights with Wayne ConradContact: 8441 Hunnicut Rd Dallas, Texas 75228email: Att. Bible Insights Wayne Conradgsccdallas@gmail.com (Good Shepherd Church) Donation https://gsccdallas.orghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJTZX6qasIrPmC1wQpben9ghttps://www.facebook.com/waconrad or gscchttps://www.sermonaudio.com/gsccSpirit, Truth and Grace MinistriesPhone # 214-324-9915 leave message with number for call backPsalms 119:105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

The Messiah - Jesus came to this earth to save us. It was the purpose of His birth; He was born to die. He made an “all-in” commitment that resulted in His death on the cross. He offers Salvation to anyone who commits to following Him. I pray that you have accepted that gift. For those of us who have – let's focus our energy on sharing Christ with a world that desperately needs Jesus. 

In Luke 2:8-20, Dr. Luke gives us a multitude of witnesses of the birth of Messiah Jesus.

Discover the profound significance of two names given to the Messiah: Jesus and Emmanuel. In this Christmas episode, Rob Rienow unpacks the biblical meanings behind these names, revealing how they define Christ's mission to save us from our sins and the promise of “God with us.” Explore how these truths shape our lives, offer eternal hope, and call us to live in light of eternity. Featured Resources: Visionary Family Community: Join a global network of families committed to following Christ at https://VisionaryFam.com/community/ Visionary Family Camp (Summer 2025): An unforgettable family retreat at Cedar Bay, Michigan. Learn more at https://VisionaryFam.com/Camp

HEALING AND MIRACLE PODCASTINCLUDES FULL WRITTEN TEXTwith Prince HandleyWWW.REALMIRACLES.ORG 16 YEARS OF HEALING & HEALTH SUBJECTS LISTENING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT DIRECTION AND HEALING PROPHECY24/7 Blogs and Podcasts > STREAM Prince Handley on MINDS LinkedIn ~ Geopolitics and HealthNOTE: You do NOT have to Sign In to LinkedIn. Click the "X" at top right of "Sign In" to dismiss. Subscribe FREE to Prince Handley Teaching and Newsletter Links to KEY RESOURCES at bottom. ________________________________________   DESCRIPTION OF THIS TEACHING There are several different reasons WHY you should want to listen to the Holy Spirit. However, the MAIN reason is that the LORD wants to give you a message for healing, direction, protection, or enablement. And, sometimes―if not many times―the message will be for someone else. Some people may NOT be able to listen to―or discern―the voice of the Spirit. Or, they may NOT want to listen to the voice of the Spirit due to rebellion or living in sin. Therefore, the LORD may send you a message via His Spirit to relay to the other person. In my experience the message is usually given for specific knowledge in an area where help or advice is needed: in my life or in the lives of others. The principles of God are timeless and transfer … and if we are students of God's Word and have the knowledge of Proverbs we are able to navigate the problems and challenges of life. But when situations arise that are not clearly and specifically defined―as in ministry strategy or spiritual warfare or dream interpretation―then we need a “specific” word from the LORD. Many people read the Holy Bible, but they are NOT listening to the Holy Spirit. God wants us to apply His Word to our lives. This is where listening to the Spirit brings success, victory and accurate direction. ________________________________________   LISTENING TO THE HOLY SPIRITDIRECTION AND HEALING PROPHECY INTRODUCTION “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.” – Jesus: John 16:13 One of the Holy Spirit's assignments is to glorify Christ. When you receive direction, help and enablement, Christ is glorified in your victorious life and testimony thereof: by your word and your lifestyle. The Holy Spirit guides you into ALL truth; spiritual, business, family, prophetic, physical, travel and relational truth. Many people read the Holy Bible, but they are NOT listening to the Holy Spirit. God wants us to apply His Word to our lives. This is where listening to the Spirit brings success, victory and accurate direction. As you become attuned―skilled―in listening to the Spirit, you will begin to notice that sometimes shortly after you receive a message you will experience a confirmation. For example, [I recently had this happen] if you receive a message about advice you would give a person, that person may contact you not long after and ask you for advice concerning the same (not knowing that you have already heard from God concerning them or their situation). EXAMPLES Sometimes listening to the Holy Spirit will be synonymous with the gift of prophecy. For example, one time after a large seminar I was conducting at McCormick Place in Chicago a lady came up to me and said, “I have two wombs …” I had already finished praying with people and I was really wanting to go to the place where I was to stay and go to bed. When the lady said, “I have two wombs …” my first thought was, “I must have preached past the anointing.” (I wanted to be anywhere but there.) What the lady said in full was this, “I have two wombs. If I conceive in the one womb the life will live, but if I conceive in the other (womb) the life will die. Do you have a word for me?” Instantly―without thinking about it―I said to her, “You will have a son. He will live, and his name will be Samuel.” When I was in Chicago about a year later I met little Samuel. In similar manner, listening to the Spirit may sometimes by synonymous with the Word of Knowledge. For sure―if you operate in the gifts of the Spirit like Prophecy and the Word of Knowledge―you definitely need to be listening to the Holy Spirit. Study my book, How to Receive God's Power with Gifts of the Spirit. But there are times that God wants to give you a message for yourself and it may be just for reflection, or to meditate thereon. He may want you to think about what you would do in a certain situation that may be coming up in the future and you do NOT know about it yet―or, the complete details have not dovetailed together yet―and may not for quite some time. PURPOSE OF LISTENING You have to realize that God is for you. As in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the motive for listening to the Spirit should be to edify, improve, deliver, make whole or provide intelligence. Thank God, He did not leave us here without the tools and weapons we need to operate in power and victory … and especially as we progress into the End Times. Realize this: we are at the entrance to the End Times. If the Early Church―or Messianic Synagogue―needed the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the five fold ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher as laid out in Ephesians 4:11, how much more do we need them today? And, how much more will the followers of Messiah Jesus need them as we progress further along into the End Times. PREREQUISITES TO LISTENING We need to start our day with the Word of God. We need to be students of the Word of God. “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” (Romans 10:17) So the Word of God is the channel through which the activities of the Holy Spirit operate. When we have the Word of God in us―and operate based upon the Word of God―we hear (from God … from His Spirit). And when we hear from God, faith rises and MIRACLES happen. But remember also, this is all predicated upon love. “Faith works by love.” (Galatians 5:6) The Word of God is the channel though which faith flows, and love is the activator which triggers faith. HOW WILL YOU KNOW If you are living for God, then give God the benefit of the doubt. I have seen many MIRACLES since I learned to give God the benefit of the doubt. If you're NOT sure the message is from God, then check to make sure it does NOT conflict with Scripture. If it does NOT conflict with Scripture, then ask God for a confirmation that is clear and concise. NOTE: If you are “seasoned” in listening to the Holy Spirit then you probably won't require a confirmation. We should NOT be surprised that the LORD works this way in addition to His many other modes of communication. We read of Him doing this throughout Bible in both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Brit Chadashah (New Testament). God has NOT changed. “For I am the LORD; I do not change.” (Malachi 3:6) It's people who have not changed that corrupt His program. People who have never seen healing will tell you that God does not heal. People who have never seen miracles will tell you that MIRACLES do not happen anymore. People who do NOT believe in Apostles or Prophets operating today will tell you that those offices ceased after the Early Messianic Synagogue. However, to say that would be to prove ignorance―or, folly―as that would mean that the Scripture in Ephesian 4:11 has been rescinded: “And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.” No more pastors, teachers and evangelists either! GOD WANTS TO COMMUNICATE Also, realize that the LORD wants to communicate with people more than we do. And, He does NOT want his messages of direction and help to be cryptic or hard to understand. It amazes me how many people have never read the Holy Bible completely. Here's the greatest communication to mankind and they treat it like a magazine. My friend, get the Word inside you and YOU will begin to hear God. Start your day with it and end your day with it. I made a rule for my life years ago: “No Bible … no breakfast.” The day is coming when the world government and the world religious system will destroy Bibles … including YOURS if you're still here. 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The Mercy Harvest After Matthew's gospel house party 2 very different groups questioned Jesus' actions; 2 very different women were healed; 2 never before done miracles were performed; and after again proving He was and is the Messiah Jesus called His followers to join His mercy harvest. Matthew 9:11-38 Two very different groups **question** Jesus' actions - V. 11-17 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love mercy (Hesed), and to walk humbly with your God? - Micah 6:8 If you come to church as a proud self-righteous person that doesn't think you have a sin problem, Jesus says you have **flunked** Bible 101. But if you come to Jesus as a needy sinner, the Doctor is in! When truly following Jesus means doing things different than your favorite preacher does, which one should you stick with – the teacher or Jesus? There were 2 sets of Prophecies about the Messiah – the first set was that somehow the Messiah would be a Wounded Healer, a Suffering Servant. The other set was that He would be a Conquering King, throwing off Pagan Oppression and ruling physically over Israel. In verses 14-17 Jesus gives them 3 little mind pictures to transform their understanding of what “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand” truly meant. New wine must be put into new wineskins that will expand as the fermenting gases expand. Jesus is telling them what He told Nicodemus – you **must** be born again – you need a new heart to hold Jesus, then the Spirit of Christ inside you will help you do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God! Two very different **women** are healed - V. 18-26 Jairus knew that whoever Jesus was, He had power to heal – maybe he could even raise the dead like Elijah and Elisha the great prophets of old. While Jesus was going with desperate Jairus this desperate woman approached Jesus. Our need as sinners **unites** us at the foot of the cross. Why did this woman believe that touching the corner of Jesus' garment would heal her? Because she believed that Jesus was the **Messiah**. She believed what Malachi 4:2 said about the Messiah. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. - Malachi 4:2 Two **never** before done miracles are performed - V. 27-34 Why did the 2 Blind men call Jesus the “Son of David”? Because they believed that Jesus was the **Messiah** (Matt. 1:1; Isa. 9:6-7). These men embraced the very thing the religious leaders denied. Perhaps some skeptics had responded to Jesus raising the dead by saying, “Yeah but Elijah and Elisha did that also, so maybe Jesus is just a prophet.” So here Jesus opens blind eyes, which the **prophets** had said Messiah would do. “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the death unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.” - Isa. 35:5-6 (see also Isa. 29:18-19) Jesus calls His followers to His mercy Harvest - V. 35-38 When you see people what do you see? Do you have compassion on them like Jesus does? The Lord of the Harvest asked His disciples to pray for laborers who will go out into the Harvest of lost people as Harvesters – and then He sent **them** out as those Harvesters in Chapter 10!

Hello Friends! I love to hear from you! Please send me a text message by clicking on this link! Blessings to You!In this episode, Jori discusses with her listeners Isaiah's prophecy about the root that would spring up from the stump of Jesse and that branch that would bear fruit and how this is talking about the Messiah- Jesus. JOIN DR. JORI IN JOURNALING IN 2024! Check out this 9 min YouTube Video outlining her journaling strategy! Don't Forget to subscribe to the YouTube Channel! https://youtu.be/lqe9TO7RSz4 BOOKS OF BIBLE COLOR CHARTI made this chart as a helpful tool for grouping the collections of books or letters  in the Holy Bible.  The colors in the different sections are the ones that I use in my journals.  Books of Bible Chart (color) (4).pdf - Google Drive    CHECK OUT DR. JORI'S JOURNALS! Sermon Notes, Reflections and Applications Journal/Notebooks by Dr. Jori. Click the links below to be directed to amazon.com for purchase. Or search “Dr. Jori Shaffer” on Amazon to bring these up.  https://a.co/d/9B5krQlhttps://a.co/d/iycFlnNHere is a brief YouTube video that tells about the Journal/Notebooks as well:https://youtu.be/aXpQNYUEzds Scripture translation used is the Legacy Standard Bible.  “Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com  DR. JORI mentioned the conferences by Answers in Genesis.  The link below will take you to the website showing their schedule and upcoming conferences. https://answersingenesis.org/outreach/ Scripture References:Matthew 4:42 Timothy 3:16-172 Peter 1:21Matthew 10:30Isaiah 11:1Hebrews 1:1-21 Corinthians 10:6Isiah 55:7-81 Samuel 13:14Isaiah 1:1-3, 16-20Isaiah 6:1-8Isaiah 9:6Isaiah 10:24-11:1Isaiah 11:1-2Isaiah 53:2Galatians 4:4-5   Email: awordforthisday@gmail.comPodcast website:  https://awordforthisday.buzzsprout.com  Support the show

Pastor Dov Schwarz joins The Jim Bakker Show today! Pastor Schwarz is a Jewish believer in Messiah Jesus and founder of Watch Therefore Ministries and tv program, as well as the show Blessing Israeli Believers. Both shows air on the PTL Network and focus on biblically-relevant events. Hear how the players of the last days are active and the stage is being set for the Psalm 83 war, Israel's 7-front war, and hear the 4 Primary Signs of the Coming of Jesus. Gain insight into the demonic spirits trying to dethrone God and Capitalism from Pastor Schwarz's book: Activate the Blessings of The Abrahamic Covenant.

Are young evangelicals becoming indifferent to Israel? In this episode of Inside the Epicenter, we delve into a revealing study by Dr. Kirill Bumin and Dr. Motti Inbari that uncovers a concerning trend of declining Christian support for Israel, particularly among the younger generation of evangelicals. Research-minded guests join host Joel Rosenberg and cohost Lynn Rosenberg to explore this shift's complexities. As we navigate through recent political developments between Israel, Hamas, and the United States, we also tackle the generational divide in political ideology, social justice concerns, and theological perspectives that influence support for Israel. Whether discussing the emotional impact of modern media consumption or the disconnect between older and younger evangelicals' views, this episode offers an in-depth analysis and invites listeners to reflect on the changing dynamics of Christian Zionism in the 21st century. (00:03) Hamas rejects the deal; Israel invades Rafa. (03:39) CIA visits Israel; the US aids Gaza; Evangelical views. (08:07) Support for Israel driven by theology and socialization. (11:20) Interest in religious impact on public opinion. (16:28) Young evangelicals differ; diverse information shapes views. (20:07) Podcast feedback and questions are highly encouraged. Learn more about The Joshua Fund. Make a tax-deductible donation. The Joshua Fund Stock provided by DimmySad/Pond5 Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 4:4 -In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. PrayerPray that God will intervene so that all of the captives held by Hamas would be set free.Pray for young people in Israel, the Middle East, and the United States all around the world that the next generation would come to know the living Messiah Jesus. Related Episodes:Evangelical Perspectives on the War in Israel #160Evangelical Delegation Insights on Israel's Struggle #158How Evangelical NGOs Are Caring For Israelis Devastated By War & Terror #148Are We Losing Young Evangelicals To Anti-Israel Sentiment? #17Why Do Evangelicals Love Israel and the Jewish People? #16 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

John 2:13-25: God never truly dwells in stones and mortar, but, rather, in the embodied Messiah - Jesus. We are not dazzled to faith, but called to a costly discipleship.

The Old Testament declares that on the holy day of Yom Kippur, the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies and sprinkle blood on the Ark of the Covenant.  In this episode, Rabbi continues his study of the fall holy days and we learn about the importance of the blood and how it connects to our salvation in Messiah Jesus.   Visit our website at DiscoveringTheJewishJesus.com

In today's episode, Joel Rosenberg, and Lynn Rosenberg. We explore the journey of the Rosenberg family and their decision to move to Israel, facing the challenges of following biblical prophecy and being part of a community in the promised land. From their initial thoughts to the adjustments they made and the impact on their family, this episode promises a deeply insightful and moving narrative. Prepare to gain an intimate understanding of what it means to embark on such a profound journey and the ongoing resilience required to thrive in a new cultural and social environment. Stay tuned as we take a fascinating and heartfelt glimpse into the Rosenbergs' decade-long journey in the land of Israel. (00:03) Joel Rosenberg cofounded Joshua Fund to bless Israel.(16:08) Fascinating experience living in Egypt, then Colorado.(18:40) Questioning potential military service and citizenship loyalty.(23:50) Family faced hardships, especially challenging for boys.(29:35) Personal struggle and scripture's perspective on obedience.(35:50) God will bring Jewish people back willingly.(38:57) Struggling with pessimism, found hope in partner.(46:34) Living outside Jerusalem was spiritually beneficial for Jesus.(50:52) Challenges of language learning and life balance.(55:37) Prayer for brokenness to turn people to God.(01:00:18)  Support Joshuafund.com for global charitable contributions. Learn more about The Joshua Fund: JoshuaFund.comMake a tax-deductible donation: Donate | The Joshua FundStock Media provided by DimmySad / Pond5 Verse of the Day: Jeremiah chapter 16:14-16 - “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers. “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward, I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.   Prayer Request: Pray for those pains and that brokenness and that uncertainty to draw people to ask God, who are you? Where are you? And to cry out for him because he's not far away. Pray that the Lord would soften hearts and would cause people to cry out to know their God and to know his son, the Messiah Jesus. Pray for the believers in, the Palestinian territories that they would be a God's light, and they would bring hope to their people. Related Episodes: A Pastor's Tale of Faith and Service #206  Why Jewish Israelis are Asking about Jesus & Eternal Life #206 How to Show Love and Support for Israel and Her Neighbors #182 Why Did Joel Move to Israel? #172 Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

Bible teacher Ray Vander Laan has been exploring ancient Jewish culture for decades. As he shares his insights and stories, he'll help you to develop a passion for evangelism and discipleship. Ray unpacks Scripture to aid your understanding of what it truly means to be a disciple of the Rabbi and Messiah – Jesus.   Join renowned teacher and Bible scholar Ray Vander Laan as he examines what it means to be a follower of Christ through the cultural, historical, and otherwise contextual lens of Scripture. The Study is a four-season video Bible study for small groups and individuals to consider the question: what did it mean to be one of the original disciples of Jesus, and what does that mean for us today?   Get More Episode Resources   We'd love to hear from you! Visit our Homepage to leave us a voicemail.