“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” Jesus John 4:24 ISV Jesus spoke those words to the woman at the well and speaks them to us by His spirit. Here’s the context: “Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Yeshua was making and immersing … [Read more…]
Build and edify closely identify God working in us to will and to do His good pleasure. We build up ourselves and one another and edify ourselves and one another through prayer, fasting and participating in the Lord’s Supper. Those lead us to maturity as we grow up into Christ the head of His body. … [Read more…]
The flow of the Spirit comes from the throne of grace. We come to the throne, setting the enlightened eyes of our hearts (Eph 1:15-23) on spiritual things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God (Col 3:1-4). The throne of grace is located in the heavenly Jerusalem. We are … [Read more…]
Your ministry is to walk in good works. “For we are his workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.” God created a new order of mankind in Christ Jesus. By His grace, God made us alive together with Messiah. 1 You were made alive … [Read more…]
The washing of regeneration prepares us for the inheritance and the regeneration is the inheritance of eternal life in the kingdom of God in the new heaven and new earth. We can see that as we read of regeneration the only 2 times it occurs in the Bible. The washing of regeneration 4But when the … [Read more…]
God’s blessings are what He has done for us, what He is doing in and through us and what He will do. God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Messiah Jesus in the heavenly realm (Eph 1:3). God has poured His love into our hearts by His Spirit (Ro 5:1-5). God is enlightening … [Read more…]
We are new creatures created in Christ Jesus to do good works and walk in them. “For we are God’s own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.” Ephesians 2:10 WNT “For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this—that … [Read more…]
The heart of early Christian worship was table fellowship. Throughout the first three centuries Christian communities gathered once a week for a meal. Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire, 2016, pg 186. I like that Alan uses the word “communities” rather that “church.” … [Read more…]
Breaking Bread Together is God honoring fellowship that involves each of us as participants. To help us comprehend and soak up the blessings of table fellowship, I wrote the following: Breaking Bread Together Breaking Bread Together is God honoring fellowship that involves each of us as participants. Typically we pray before we eat. I like … [Read more…]
If you invite lone followers of Jesus for the Lord’s Supper in your home, you will be bringing them into agape fellowship. The 3,000 Jews that turned to Jesus on the Day of Pentecost had that kind of fellowship and it continued for over 150 years as it sparsely does to this day. I ask … [Read more…]