Your utmost ministry is to live in the light. “This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you—God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness. If, while we are living in darkness, we profess to have fellowship with Him, we speak falsely and are not … [Read more…]
We have patient endurance because God our Father has rescued us from the tyranny of darkness and placed us in the kingdom of His Son. “3 We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, praying always for you, 4 having heard of your faith in Messiah Yeshua and of the love which … [Read more…]
Jesus taught right living as we see in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When Jesus was just beginning His public ministry, He began what we call the Sermon on the Mount saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Throughout the next 3 years, He preached the Gospel of … [Read more…]
Training in right living leads believers stick together for the long term. As we grow up in Messiah together, our love of God is shown by our loving one another relationships. One another means reciprocally, mutually. “Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with … [Read more…]
Those without are those separate from Messiah, without God in this world. Paul wrote about to them to the Ephesians and us. “Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands), that you were at that time separate … [Read more…]
Parents “The Lord’s entire manner of educating is one calculated to win people for Himself, so that they willingly follow His leadership, and His example should always stand before the eyes of all parents as an ideal after which they may strive.” Kretzmann wrote that to parents over 100 years ago. The Word to children … [Read more…]
Those of us born into a family where at least one of the parents is a believer are holy—prepared for God pure, clean (1 Corinthians 7:12-17) until the age of accountability. As parents we cultivate our children’s soul and spirit. Children are instructed to obey their parents and parents are to bring them up in … [Read more…]
May God fulfill every work of faith you do with power. “…when in that day He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at among all those having believed because our testimony to you was believed, for which also we pray always for you, that He may count you worthy … [Read more…]
Working together, each part (person) in the body of Messiah is given work to do. We work together best in the new man mode, relating with people we know and relate with personally. Paul gives us us practical advice on how to do it. Working together, we do the works of ministry as we “in … [Read more…]
God’s call is into His own kingdom and glory. The calling, with which we were called (Ephesians 4:1) began with God’s call. For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. You … [Read more…]