Hearing and Doing!

Righteousness and Justification?

For hundreds of years the Jews were caught in a legalistic trap and they have maintained that now for the last two thousand years, since they are blinded by God so that the Gentiles might come into faith.

We who are saved under grace must be aware of legalism creeping into our walk with Jesus, but I think this verse, gives to us the answer and if we do, what we hear from the word of God we are doing well.

Discipline in the Christian life/walk is invaluable, but let us keep the application of doing right in relation to the commandments?

Exodus 20:1-17, Romans 2:13, Galatians 2:16-17.

Pentecost!

A gap between the Jews and the Gentiles?

Most believers just accept that the Holy Spirit was poured out on all in Jerusalem, ten days after Jesus ascended into Heaven!

But when we read the book of Acts we will discover that this is not true and there is a substantial gap, letting us know that it was the believing Jews who first received and then much later the Gentiles through the work of the Apostle Peter.

This theme runs right through the New Testament in Revelation the tribulation will come to the Jews first, then to the rest of the world.

Acts 2:1-6, 10:44-46. 11:1.

The message we tend to Forget?

After the big rush of Easter.

These three verses are more associated with Christmas and the birth of the Jewish Messiah Jesus, they are hardly mentioned even in passing to the whole picture of the story, mostly because of the fulfilment of Jewish law of both prophetic revelation and Jesus circumcision on the eight day?

But this week we want to keep in focus the light to the Gentiles and the Light of Jesus that is constantly shining out into our dead world, that will bring hope to all in despair from conflicts, wars and social-economic woes, since God will meet with us where and what ever circumstances we may find ourselves in!

Luke 2:29-32, Psalm 98:2, John 8:12, Acts13:47,26:23.

Pro-Israel Christians pulling Back?

Israel’s right-wing anti-Christian Laws!

The problem with U.S. Ekklesia is that they do not know enough of their Bibles in relation to Eschatology and the end times, when Israel will not want, what it considers to be anti-Semitic to its culture?

Judaism is legalistic and it only sees Islam as being more close to what it believes in relation to a shared ancestor Abraham, while Jesus/Yeshua known to us is an imposter and they want nothing of Him!

The other reason is that Israel sees the Christian community as pro-Palestinian and hypocritical when it comes to the word of the Tanakh or our Old Testament that Elohim commands Israel to rid the land of these peoples?

In the book of Romans the Apostle Paul tells us that, ‘the Jews have been blinded, so that the gentiles can come into the commonwealth of Israel or that should rather be the Kingdom (Basilia).

Since they are blinded to the truth, they will want to restore the temple in the area of the Dome of the Rock or Mount Moriah and thus we learn from Daniel and from 2 Thessalonians this will be the place of the desolation and bring on the return of the real Messiah Yeshua/Jesus for us, but for them Ha ‘Moshia/Anti-Christ.

For many believers reading this world-wide, you encompass the Holy Bible and praise the Lord for that, but in the west to much doctrines and replacement theology has blinded many from the truth!

John 12:40, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 1 John 2:11.

Ascension and Return!

The way of the World?

Our societies are moving into unnatural areas of science that will allow two men to have a baby, as is reported from Japan and so we already have three way surrogate parenting which proves the human mind continues to seek out these things!

Man wants to reach the stars with a load of one hundred people at one time, Musk has failed for now but he will get there will lesser, but still enough to build on Mars and go other places?

N-Korea is making threats, the Ukraine situation could boil over along with Israel moving and taking the Temple Mount, aggravating Islam and the beginning of more than one third world war, since we humans are fickle minded?

All of this points us to the days of Noah, eating, drinking and not caring about God, in fact they were and are today side lining Him again to please themselves and so when the Lord appears it will be a dreadful time for them, but for us we will be taken up in the skies to meet Him.

With Easter past the work must continue to preach the Gospel message and teach believers our needs met and conduct kept, to see souls won and to show love to the unloved, the oppressed, the hurting as Jesus has done for us so we must do to others?

Matthew 24:38-39, Luke 17:27-30, 1 Peter 3:20-22,.

Easter. Two.

The Resurrection!

Jesus in not dead like the heads of other religions past and present, He is alive with His Father in Heaven awaiting that great day of His return, when those who refused to believe in Him will see Him and hide!

The rising if Jesus from the grave is the essential factor for our salvation plan, since we rise with Him in believers baptism to the promised eternal life!

Jesus always hinted to His disciples the way that he was going to die and be raised on the third day!

Jesus spent forty days on earth appearing to over five hundred people, apart from His disciples and then in the Ascension he return t heaven?

In the resurrection we are freed from the curse of the law and we are free from the sting of death!

Mark 8:31, 9:30-31, Acts 2:31-33, Romans 6:5-11.

Easter. One.

Purchased from the curse of the Law!

Sometimes the message of Easter can be too focused on the Cross and all other events, but not on some of the essential doctrines of the full meaning of the work that Jesus undertook for us by his sacrifice and the importance of that?

The Old Testament is full of being redeemed, since this was both a business transaction and that of keeping a family together, the Hebrew sense of the word Ga’al Strongs H1350 is that of buying back, while in the New Testament the Greek Agorazo Strongs G59 is purchase.

But the work of Jesus on the stake/cross/tree was also to set us free from the curse of the law and for more so the Gentiles to receive the Holy Spirit, that would break the animosity with the Jews, sadly this remains an allusive condition that is yet to be resolved?

Galatians 3:13-14, 4:5-6, Deuteronomy 21:33, Luke 23:39.

Humanity Gathered!

End of the Heavens?

This is another interesting area for discussion in relation to what it might mean in that people with faith before the flood and the days of Noah are being gathered for the Lord Day.

This may answer the question as to why God confused humanity at Babel in relation to the tower that they were constructing into the heaven, something that they once had to cross space possibly to other human habitation in the Universe and God was not going to allow those in the heavens to be spoiled anymore by the violent sin of Tubal-Cain?

This does not mean that humans in other places are without sin, we do understand from the Holy scriptures that the universe as we know it is in decay, it has fallen too with that of the sin of Eve!

Mark 13:27b, (24-27), Genesis 11:1-4, Deuteronomy 1:28, 4:32, 30:4, Job 8:8, (Matthew 24:26-31, Luke 21{25-28).

Nations Shaken!

We must never think that God will excuse Sin?

As believers we are being saved into the age of Grace and it would seem to many people it is easy to believe that God can be undermined about the sins of deviance and same sex sins, without Him pouring out His wrath?

Our world and societies are in a mess, when feelings have replace truth and reality and many people old and young are being fooled by the roaming’s of Satan to delude us from the truth as he did eve in the garden!

Turkiye and Syria have this month seen horrendous destruction from at least four major earthquakes on a NE-SW fault line that runs for hundreds of miles and the death toll could rise to one hundred thousand?

We are small to the plight of nature and so everything is small in the universe, in the created order to God, yet the Bible tells us the conditions of God coming close to His creation and we need to step back and take a check on ourselves to meet more of His criteria?

Hebrew 12:25-29, Exodus 19:18, Haggai 2:6-8, 20-22.