Rescue To Every One That Believes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteGod wants to help us but the Bible teaches that God’s help comes through faith.
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Doing The Works of Jesus!
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe have a tendency to read the Bible as though it’s always addressing us and our needs, but it’s often addressing us as the disciples of Jesus, explaining how we are to meet the needs of others, how we are to collaborate with God in causing the Kingdom of God to show up on the earth, how we are to do the works of Jesus, the works of the body of Christ. That’s the case with this passage…
Whatever We Decree In Jesus Name He Will Do It
Reading Time: 19 minutesHow Jesus taught his disciples, and us, to do the works of the Kingdom of God.
Jesus Wants To Reign Right Now!
Reading Time: 6 minutesJesus was going to be made ruler over all the earth and his disciples would become the instruments, the executors, the putters into effect of his reign. So he says to them, whatever you decree in my name I will do it.
What does “salvation” mean?
Reading Time: 3 minutesLove this discussion of the word “salvation” by Marvin Wilson His talk primarily deals with the blindness Christians have to a true understand of the Biblical message as the result of the influence of anti-Semitism, Gnostic thought, and platonic philosophy on early Christian theology.
Nobody Expects… The Kingdom of God
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn his hometown synagogue, Jesus proclaimed the scripture fulfilled, he said the authority of the anointed was come, that the kingdom of God had at last arrived, the same message that had produced such tremendous results in Capernaum and throughout Galilee, but in Nazareth nothing happened. There were no miracles in Nazareth, no demons cast out, no eyes given to the blind, no lame walked. The kingdom of God had indeed arrived but the unbelief of the people of Nazareth hindered Jesus’ authority to deliver them. Unbelief prevented God from reigning in their circumstances. Unbelief thwarted the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. The kingdom of God has been here and people have been not believing and not receiving ever since.
The Lost Gospel of Jesus, part 6
Reading Time: 15 minutesThat’s what Jesus was announcing when he announced the Kingdom of God in Nazareth, that’s what the people heard… “Salvation, rescue, deliverance, healing is here.” “Power is here.” Power to deliver the poor, the bound, the shattered is here. “The authority of the messiah is here.” The authority to set you free, and rescue you and deliver you, is here. Can you imagine how exciting those words would be? …Imagine the preacher gets up and says, “Today is the day you’ve been waiting for, today is the day God shows up.” That’s what the people in Nazareth heard.
The Lost Gospel of Jesus, part 5
Reading Time: 9 minutes…That’s what most Christians are saying, ‘The Lord will reign… someday….’ But Jesus, the disciples and the Apostle Paul said, ‘God is reigning now’ and they exhorted people to believe that and when the people did, God reigned in their lives. Most Christians are from Nazareth.
The Lost Gospel of Jesus, part 4
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Gospel that Jesus preached was called, The Gospel of the Kingdom of God. We’ll get to what the phrase, “Kingdom of God” means in a bit, but first let me show you that it was the main theme of Jesus ministry.
Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Luke 8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
Luke 9:11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
Jesus ministry is focused on announcing the presence of the Kingdom of God and teaching his disciples how to enter it and participate in its expansion. The Kingdom of God is the purpose, the core, the point of Jesus’ ministry.
The Lost Gospel of Jesus, part 3
Reading Time: 5 minutesPaul said he wanted to preach the same Gospel to the Romans he had preached elsewhere. But when he finally made it to Rome he spent the next two years preaching about the Kingdom of God. So what happened to preaching the Gospel?