The good pleasure of goodness is a blessing of God that motivates us to be useful and productive in things of eternal importance. We find spiritual meaning and purpose in our life in Messiah Jesus, doing what God motivates us to do. When God blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Messiah … [Read more…]
“This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah.” John 17:3 WMB We have a taste of eternal life right now, but our natural body has not yet been changed into the glorified body we will live in in the new heaven and … [Read more…]
Messiah Jesus is seated in heaven at the right hand of God. For the joy that was set before him, Jesus endured the cross. Messiah Jesus is seated in heaven at the right hand of God, we are seated with him. 1 If then you were raised together with Messiah, seek the things that are above, … [Read more…]
Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus baptizes those who believe in him, with the Holy Spirit and those who don’t, with hell fire. John the Baptist prepared the way before Messiah Jesus. John baptized with the water of repentance and drew the Jews who had a guilty conscience before the LORD. (Heb … [Read more…]
Our Messiah leads us to follow him in his kingdom and clear a highway before him. Right now, the culvert is out. In 1978, God gave me a dream about our call to build the way our Messiah leads instead of man’s way. Now, years later, I can see much progress in the restoration of … [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…]
Our personal identity is we are new creatures created in Messiah Jesus. Our God ordained purpose is to do good works, in which God long ago planned for us to live. In Ephesians 2:1-10, Paul Paul sums up both our former and our God given personal identity and purpose. Spiritually dead 1 You were made alive … [Read more…]
The wisdom of the world is carnal (1 Cor 1:20; 1 Cor 2:6; 1 Cor 3:19) and the carnal mind is at enmity with God (Ro 8:7). The secular (heathen) Left carries enmity with God over to enmity with Christians. The secular Left run on wisdom that is “not that which comes down from above, … [Read more…]
Our being to the praise of God’s glory is God’s doing. He has made us what we are. God has made us His holy ones/saints and blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Messiah, “to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before … [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…]