Category: Faith

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.

illness!

Happy 2023?

One is so sorry not being able to write for the past five weeks due to illness and missing Christmas and much more!

As believers we will be attacked by the enemy from time to time, it is expected and we have to just bear it trusting our Lord that He is with us as we go through it?

The Holy Bible is full of sickness, suffering and who God has interacted with us to warn, to heal as we see that most of the ministry of Jesus was the healing of many who were sick, but it did not stop when he ascended, the Apostles also faced these problems themselves and with others it was and remains something of a challenge?

Psalm 41:3, John 11:4.

Consolation of ISRAEL!

The Invitation to accept Messiah. Luke 2:25.

This passage is related to a portion of scripture that is generally over looked by the Ekklesia in relation to Jesus being circumcised and thus fulfilling the Law.

Without this knowledge or understanding, we later can be come confused about the legal matters that this portion has to do with Him and thus replacement theology takes over to give us a wrong impression!

Simeon gave his word over the prophetic in relation to the baby Jesus, Messiah, since he had been kept alive by God for this moment the consolation of Israel, when the Jewish occupied nation were to receive their invitation to be saved from their past failings in Jesus final sacrifice for sins.

Isaiah 40:1-2, 57:18-18, Hebrews 9:26.

Christmas Approaches!

A really busy time for Ekklesia?

Each one of us has the challenge of pulling something new out of the story that by tradition seems to be fixed and at that it in its own right is a tremendous one, but there are many part to it that can be added depending on who one is preaching too?

When we look at this story we are seeing the fulfilment of Jewish history and we know that in that brief time of some thirty four years, his own people rejected Him, but since thirty three AD the way and the Ekklesia just keeps on growing and spreading out and now we live in an age that allows us to see it recovering older areas that have died lack to keep sharing Jesus?

Christmas is also a time when we see the dregs of society, the self-opinionated and the good people come to fellowship with us for plethora of reasons, sometimes guilt, other memory of childhood, others just like the atmosphere without the reality and others still in despair of life?

Numbers 24:17, Matthew 2:2, 9-10, 2 Peter 1:19.

‘Fate?

S-Korea 154, India 141, and Somalis 120 lives lost this weekend!

It is a tough call when loved ones are lost to fate, going out to a festival, being silly or just going about everyday life and death comes suddenly as we have seen in these three nations mentioned?

Some Christians will say they should not have been their for Halloween, others why were people jumping on that bridge and others, well terrorism can’t be helped!

Jesus told the crowds that the people under a falling tower were not worse than them and people would die in disasters human and natural!

We may know much in relation to the end times, but we could be as mistaken as Israel was when Messiah came and they had missed the scriptures in relation to Him?

We cannot change fate, since these things are hidden from us, but we can be wise in hearing God and not doing certain things, by not allowing ourselves to get into a crowded space or avoiding certain buildings in countries were terrorism is likely if we can?

Ecclesiastes 9:1-6, Luke 13:1-5, Ephesians 5:15.

End of a Divine Reign?

British Queen Elizabeth-II Regina 8th September 2022.

The sad loss of the British Queen has left the United Kingdom fluxed, with a weak successor Charles-III Rex and an idiotic government that could start world war-III with both Russia and China and total economic collapse, leading to some serious rioting and a civil war by her daft policies to defend the rich?

Queen Elizabeth had a divine reign that will not, if never repeated again and what she has left, may too soon disappear from a unbelieving nation, that is even embarrassed by the mention of God or the recognition that she was Born-Again rather than what many want as a Roman-Catholic or High-Anglican?

Now she is asleep waiting to meet Jesus her Lord and Master at the resurrection of the dead and the final Judgement and not to hear or listen to the rubbish that is said about her in the media, politicians or even those in the Royal court!

Revelation 5:5, 7:5, 19:16.

How God see’s Us!

Embracing and Kissing?

Luke 15 found in the Gospels of the New Testament is not a chapter to be overlooked, since it is the story of salvation and a revelation of how God see’s us!

Sometimes in the Ekklesia we forget some essentials mentioned by Jesus, such as the one s in Luke 15:20-21 and the ministry of washing each others feet as maybe not literal, when they are?

This young man has squandered his inheritance and sees sense to go home, he thinks through what he must say to his father!

But his father sees him coming and is ready with love for the one who was lost, this theme is not new, we see it with Esau and Jacob love in practice!

We also see it with Absalom even though much was given to him, he chose to fail and oppose his father for the throne, that was not his to have!

Genesis 33:4, 2 Samuel 14:33, Acts 14:33.