Living to please God gives us the good pleasure of goodness plus meaning, purpose and fulfillment in the work of faith. And we get to live in the environment created by Messiah Jesus with our brothers and sisters in in that being and doing. In Romans 12 Paul tells us how to go about living. … [Read more…]
How to put our minds to work in our one another gatherings is explained by Paul. He begins by urging us to prophesy when we gather together. All of us have a need to gather together for edification and exhortation and cofort. How to prophesy is by the unction of the Spirit, using our minds. … [Read more…]
Walking worthy of God in good works is what God created us to do. “For we are his workmanship, created in Messiah Yeshua for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them” (Eph 2:10). Anything we do that is motivated by the love God pours into our hearts by His Spirit … [Read more…]
Jesus compared the work of the Holy Spirit Pneumatos in our new creature spirit to the invisible force of wind. The wind pneuma we can’t see works powerfully in nature. So it is with the Holy Spirit in our new creature. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but … [Read more…]
Kingdomview and worldview are different perspectives that determine our thoughts and actions. These views come from either God or man and are poles apart in America. Our differing responses to the coronavirus pandemic are graphically illustrated, as we will see at the bottom of this article. The propensity of the perspective of Democrats and Republicans. … [Read more…]
Peter gives eternal perspective “to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Yeshua the Messiah.” 2 Peter 1:1 He starts with a blessing of grace and peace, then shows us God’s divine power “has granted to us all things that pertain to life and … [Read more…]
What is your foremost perspective today? That’s a good question we need to consider every day. Especially when we endure hard times. Our way of looking at things determines how we live now and how we will live eternally. So, we have chosen to set our minds on the things that are above (Col 3:2). … [Read more…]
The perceived presence of God is with our spirit, soul and body, for we have been born again as new creatures, created in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:10). From Adams fall until the resurrection of Jesus, the presence of God with His people Israel was perceived with their body and soul. About Fifty days after the … [Read more…]
God’s wrath comes on unbelievers, for they are hostile toward God. “For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s Torah, neither indeed can it be. Those who are … [Read more…]
Stand up for Jesus! and against the Left’s worldview. The Lefts worldview is big enough to accommodate all of the works of the flesh (Gal 5:19-21), declare them right according to their worldview and demand the right to practice them with impunity. The Left obviously considers the works of the flesh to be politically correct … [Read more…]