One another ministry works by the Spirit, Messiah in you, the hope of glory. (Col 1:27) Paul reveals: the Spirit of Messiah is in you. Messiah is in each one of us because we have believed, repented, been baptized, been born again by the Spirit (Jn 3:1-8) and we follow Messiah Jesus in one another … [Read more…]
Being spiritually useful and productive glorifies the name of our Lord Jesus in us. Not only that, we are glorified in him. Paul actually prayed that for the Thessalonians and us. To this end, we always pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of His calling, and that He will powerfully fulfill … [Read more…]
Lukewarm Christians are in trouble with Messiah Jesus. Paul warned they would abound in the last days. 1But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of … [Read more…]
Good Works God prepared beforehand come supernaturally natural to God’s saints. Ephesians 1:1 Anytime we do anything motivated by God’s love, we are doing a good work. The good works in which God planned for us to live are prompted by the Holy Spirit and motivated by love. We feel the tug of divine love … [Read more…]
Celebrate living in spiritual light, for God has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light and has delivered us out of the power of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of His Son. In that, God has made us His people. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy … [Read more…]
The power of God’s grace is revealed in Zechariah 4:7, during the building of the Second Temple. “Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.” Back in 1834 Albert Barnes provided the most profound insight … [Read more…]
God is our Father in heaven who adopted us as His children and heirs. Our inheritance is stored up in heaven for us. It is the culmination of salvation, which is eternal life, God dwelling with us in the new heaven and new earth. (Rev 21 and 22) The Spirit testifies with our spirit that … [Read more…]
Christ Jesus revealed why we follow him through the a parable he spoke to Jews gathered at the temple during their feast of tabernacles. Recorded in John ten. Just prior, in John nine, we see Jesus healed the blind man. Not only that, but the formerly blind man was a Gentile and declared he believed … [Read more…]
God works in our hearts, beginning His work in our old self and continuing in our new self. It is with our heart that we believe and the mouth we confess. But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which … [Read more…]
The kingdom view proclaimed by Messiah Yeshua was the gospel of the kingdom including signs and wonders. Messiah Jesus proclaimed it for 3 years after he was baptized in the Spirit. Messiah Yeshua Baptized in the Spirit (Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:29-34) 13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan unto John, to be baptized of … [Read more…]