“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the One who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to take off His sandals. He Himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the […]
Shouldn’t it seem strange to us that no one was asking Jesus when He would start His church? The magi were looking for a King Who was worthy to be worshiped. The disciples wanted to have a place of authority in His Kingdom. The thief who was crucified with Him was looking toward His Kingdom. The two things that Jesus […]
But when they believed Philip, as he proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. (Acts 8:12-13 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©) Philip preached the Kingdom and the Name. If that raises questions in your mind, like, “why didn’t he preach salvation?”, please search for the answers […]
2 Kings 7 tells the story of four men with leprosy helping bring to pass a prophetic word offered by Elisha. The Arameans had besieged the city of the King of Samaria. Elisha announced that the siege was about to end the next day. When the four lepers discovered the truth that evening, they “evangelized” the king’s household: they announced […]
When Jesus saw the contents of the cup of Yahweh’s wrath Wake yourself, wake yourself up!Stand up, Jerusalem,you who have drunk the cup of His fury from the hand of the Lord;you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—the cup that causes people to stagger.There is no one to guide heramong all the children she has raised;there is no […]
Currently we are compelled to go to church. In the end, we are promised we can go to heaven. What about any of that indicates that we are engaged in the answer from Heaven to the prayer Jesus taught His disciples, to pray that the Kingdom of Heaven would come to the earth? What must we do differently to bridge […]
The creators of popular methods of entertainment and the editors of the popular pretense of spreading “news” are not afraid of the good news about the possibility of going to Heaven. They are afraid of low ratings, offending perverts, offending Muslims, and being unempowered by the exposure of their deceptive imagery and monolog. The scene resembles the moment in the […]
And what more can I say? Time is too short for me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength after being weak, became mighty in battle, and put […]
In Acts 3:16, Luke quoted Peter as saying that it was the name of Jesus that healed the lame man who was begging at the Beautiful Gate and made him able to walk. That means that the name has power. Paul, writing to the congregations in Colossae, instructed them to do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus (Colossians […]
If I am still unconvinced that the Scripture references to being members of the body of Jesus are speaking of identity and nature, and the references to the Kingdom are speaking of commandments, obedience, and judgement, I will not be able to properly find the truth in passages like Hebrews 6:4-12. The two judgements that will be faced by every […]