Teaching, reproof, correction and training in right living is vital to growing up in all ways into Messiah, relating in koinonia and becoming useful and productive in the body of Messiah. “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, showing what is wrong, improving and training in right living so that a … [Read more…]
Picture this Lord’s Supper gathering as a special meal for a special guest in your home. Christ Jesus is the special guest (Mt 18:18-20). It is a feast. This feast is filled with prophetic signs of our salvation (1 Cor 5:7-8; 1 Cor 10:14-17). Your guests should all fit around your dining table. Put out … [Read more…]
We are in the heir stage of the kingdom of God in the kingdom of the Son and in the Spirit and look forward to receiving our inheritance, eternal life in the world to come. Being an heir of God through Messiah. 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after … [Read more…]
KOINONIA is a Greek word indicating rich interpersonal relationships, mutuality and interdependence in the body of Christ. It is the main the share word of the community of our King—Jesus. Related share words are KOINONEO, SUNKOINONEO and KOINONOS Those share words words indicate communion, community, communication, distribution, fellowship, sharing in common, partnership and participation. Strong’s Concordance shows koinonia … [Read more…]
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He has blessed us in the Messiah with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm Eph 1:3 ISV Affirming the ways God has richly blessed us builds us up in our faith. So, I put together a personalized get started list of ways … [Read more…]
Grace is relational. Truth is relational. Grace and truth come from God our Father and His Son, our Savior, Lord and King, building us together in close relationships in Christ. The grace of God our Father IV. The higher Christian signification, based on the emphasis of freeness in the gift or favor, and, as commonly … [Read more…]
Living in the Kingdom of God’s Son is living as saints in marvelous light. Colossians 1:12-14 God has “made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the holy ones [saints] in light, who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, … [Read more…]
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” Mt 5:43 The rabbis added hate your enemies. It is not in the Bible. See WMB footnote. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as … [Read more…]
In the Gospel of the Kingdom—Part 1, we hear Messiah Jesus introduce the Gospel of the Kingdom with Beatitudes–the heart we should have to follow Him. We should feel as poor as the destitute rather than rich in our own moral power to serve God. Jesus says the poor have the kingdom of God. In … [Read more…]
Resurrection is a blessing for believers in Messiah Jesus. Paul wrote the historical and logical proof for the resurrection of the body, described the nature of this resurrection, revealed the fact of the transformation of the last day, and closed with a triumphant hymn of victory. Reading, thinking on and heeding his inspired words in … [Read more…]