The Seven Spirits in Revelation 1:4 confounds us because we know God the Father and Messiah Jesus have one Holy Spirit. The expression, “the seven spirits,” occurs 4 times in Revelation. I have explored and pondered what it means and found the key to understanding is in the spiritual meanings of the number seven. Seven … [Read more…]
Exploding Love By Ronald D McGatlin. A powerful explosion of the love of God is beginning to rain down from heaven that changes everything. God is taking us to a new place of LOVE in Him that arms the Body of Christ with all that is needed to accomplish that which the passing church-age systems … [Read more…]
by: Sam Storms When people talk about Jesus, whether they are non-Christians or professing believers, they rarely if ever describe his coming to earth in the way John spoke of it in 1 John 3:8. You will hear them say things like: “The reason that Jesus appeared was to bring justice to the world,” or … [Read more…]
When the perfect has come is the time of the glory to come. Then, we will see God face to face and we will know as we have been known. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even … [Read more…]
Know the truth. “I am the way the truth and the life.” John 14:6 We know the truth, Messiah Jesus. Jesus proclaimed the way, the truth and the life, the gospel of the kingdom, during his 3 years of ministry on this earth. His words are recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Our Father … [Read more…]
Living in the Kingdom of God’s Son in our temporal life on this earth is God’s doing. God has made and is making us what we are through the blessings He has blessed with in Messiah Jesus. That’s what Paul revealed in the first chapter of Ephesians. How our doing is God being through us—how … [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…]
Gospel to Roman citizens was quite different from gospel of the kingdom in meaning. Both meanings come from the same Greek word, euaggeliou. To Roman citizens gospel, euaggeliou, “was the news of, or the celebration of, Caesar.” Particularly, “the celebration of the accession, or birth, of a king or emperor.” N. T. Wright There was … [Read more…]
God has made us His spiritual house in Christ in His Spirit. 1Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander. 2Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation. 3Surely you have tasted that … [Read more…]
Christ reigns—he leads us to respond to His reign by the Spirit. We are God’s kingdom people. He has destined us to love, know and see Messiah Jesus as King of the kingdom of the Son (Col 1:9-14). For, we have been born of the Spirit (Jn 3:3; Jn 3:5-8; Gal 4:6). We see Jesus … [Read more…]