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Msg# 1231 Intimacy Indeed
What The Bible Says
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Intimacy, a descript of a powerful bonding relationship between two humans, is what God wants in his relationship with you. Surely you have a close friend who can share anything with you and you with them. It is not carnal at all. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” (Gen2) Five chapters of John which portray such intimacy with God start with the assurance that you are a disciple indeed and then, in chapter 14 we are assured this intimacy indeed. Its precious beginning, resounded at so many precious funerals, assures “And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.” With an intimate friend one can share all ones hopes and dreams, desires and plans with no fear of laughter or scoffing. Herein Jesus shares his most intimate plans for the future and we are included in them. With an intimate friend one gets to know every aspect of who they are and what makes them 'tick'. Jesus says “If ye had known me, ye should know my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.” The OT portrayal of conception in marriage is carefully worded as “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived.” Indeed our purpose is to know Christ. With an intimate friend one can ask them anything; and herein Jesus confirms to us “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.” An intimate friend is forever a personal comforter. On his physical departure Jesus promises “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.” From an intimate friend... “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”
An Essay from week # 31, Sunday, July 29, 2012
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Msg# 1242 The Close of This Dispensation
What The Bible Says
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When one understands the seven epic spans of human testing which God orchestrates for humankind, one can understand the word 'dispensation' in Ephesians 3, and the close of our current dispensation as well as the 2nd Coming of Christ. Without a dispensational understanding one will never grasp the transition from the 'Dispensation of Grace' that Paul writes about to the 'Dispensation of Millennium' that Christ speaks about. Without it one cannot comprehend God's transition of dealing with his Church to dealing with his Chosen Nation. Without it one confuses God's dealings with the Church with God's dealings with Israel and their 144 thousand. With it we can visualize the seven stages of Church history and the importance of each Church message in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. With it one can understand the two trumpet calls, one to gather the saints to meet the Lord in the clouds of the air, and one that calls Israel to the promised land when his foot touches down on the Mount of Olives. Understanding that God will end the presence of His Ecclessia in this world, when he calls to them “Come up hither,” clarifies the removal of the restrainer, his Holy Spirit, that indwells them. The way is made clear for the White Horse, the Red, the Black and the Pale, which usher in a 7 year tribulation like this world has never seen. Indeed Mattthew24, Mark13, and Luke21, yeah the whole of the 'Olivet Discourse' now comes into a clear crisp focus, when, and only when, one comprehends the dispensations of God spoken of as the mystery in Ephesians. Most Christendom think they replaced Israel and Christ will never occupy Jerusalem. There is only a remnant of Bible believers who comprehend dispensationalism. They were called re-baptizers, today just Baptists.
An Essay from week # 42, Sunday, October 14, 2012
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Msg# 1239 Our Pentecost
What The Bible Says
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The feast of weeks, 50 days after Passover and called Pentecost, should
certainly be of utmost interest to the believer. One Sabbath day after the
feast of unleavened bread ended with a holy convocation and day of rest, a
counting of seven Sabbaths measured out 49 days with the next day, a Sunday,
being the feast of weeks. This Jewish Holy Day perpetually fell on a Sunday,
the first day of the week, the day of the week that the Lord Jesus the
Christ arose from the tomb, a day to be revered by Christians and called
'the Lord's Day' wherein believers have a 'holy convocation' and have for
1,982 years now, Sunday. In Pentecost the Jew remembered his redemption from
bondage. It was the feast of weeks, had its placement in the first week of
the grain harvest, i.e. feast of first fruits. Where the feast of unleavened
bread placed an emphasis on being pilgrims and sojourners in this world, not
being here long enough for bread to rise, this feast, Pentecost, was a true
feast of plenty, a feast of festivity, a feast of harvest and a feast where
leaven was required to make their bread full and their celebration
completely satisfying. The Bible teachers who have made the presence of
leaven represent only sin and evil come up disturbingly short on this vivid
Pentecost illustration. Every believer knows that at this feast of weeks
called Pentecost, this feast of celebration and plenty in the Jewish
Calendar, the Lord Jesus Christ sent the 'other comforter', the Holy Spirit
of God, to indwell, instill and empower the believer and make his life a
feast of plenty, a feast of festivity, a feast of remembrance, a feast of
harvest where leaven makes the bread full and our celebration completely
satisfying.
An Essay from week # 39, Sunday, September 23, 2012
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Msg# 1240 Our Trumpet Sound
What The Bible Says
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As the trumpet was used for gathering the hosts of Hebrews to their Holy Convocations so does it symbolize the greatest gathering of all the tribes of Israel to their Promised Land in the last day called the Day of the LORD. The Christian significance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur still lie hidden from all Protestant Christendom. Concealed in the dark veil spread by their mother catholic conception whereby a Mother Church owns all the promises previously given to God's Chosen People, Israel. Calvin's Institutes further scatter and muddy Biblical truth by laying claim to such 'chosen status' and formulating the ill conceived Covenant Theology which reeks of catholic replacement theology. Be wise herein Bible believer. No imagined catholic system can erase the Feast of Trumpets which will call the 12 tribes of Israel to their salvation. No Calvin Covenant Theology will prevent the Promised Messiah from setting on the Throne of David in the Holy Hills of Zion for a 1,000 year millennial reign. No wild allegorical method of the Revelation of Jesus Christ can stop the gathering of all nations to the great Battle of Armageddon that it calls out. Catholics and Protestants try to obscure it in their dark veil but Bible believing Christians are looking for a very similar Trumpet Call that says “Come up hither!” and marks the rapture of the true Church in preparation for God's delivering of Israel from the Abomination of Desolation. Protestant theologians scoff, but the Bible says. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds!”
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Msg# 1238 Our Passover
What The Bible Says
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Each of the three great Hebrew feasts required in Scripture reveals some tremendous insights for a Christian. On the tenth day of Abib a lamb without spot or blemish was selected from the flock and kept out until the 14th day. In the afternoon it was slain and roasted whole such that not a bone was broken. It was eaten with bitter herbs till there was none left over on the 15th day of the month, which was a high sabbath, a holy convocation, and the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. This was not a feast of plenty nor festivity, it was a feast of unleavened bread which lasted seven days. Each day there was a burnt offering of 2 bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs, three tenth deals of flour mingled with oil for each bullock, two tenth deals for a ram, and several tenth deal for each lamb. There was daily ?one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you,? and again ?on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.? A Church is an Ecclesia, a ?called out and gathered together body of believers.? The Hebrew mirrored term is the 'holy convocation' called for in these feasts. It includes the concept of 'gathering together.' When you get saved your added to the family of God, not the Church of God. There is no catholic, universal, invisible church that you are a part of until you show up at a 'gathering' of believers and unite with that local Church. Christ our passover lamb ushered us into a period of 'unleavened bread', where a burnt offering is a reasonable service, where sin is atoned, and where a holy convocation happens every Lord's day.
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Msg# 1237 Dwelling with God & The Hebrew Tabernacle
What The Bible Says
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And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. Exd 25:8
The Hebrew Tabernacle was the place wherein Jehovah God dwelt with the Hebrews after their redemption from Egypt. It did not just symbolize his presence, it was the housing of his presence. Certain conditions needed to be met before our holy, all powerful Creator could make his tabernacle with mere man. The study of these certain conditions makes for a powerful manifestation of the God – man relationship. Chapter upon chapter of the Pentateuch are consumed with the detailed description of this tabernacling of God with man. The Hebrew will comprehend no other portion of the Torah without ready access to these 'certain conditions'.
And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud,
and stood in the door of the tabernacle.
The Christian will not completely comprehend the completed work of their Christ and Saviour without studious entry into this Sanctuary where God dwelt with mankind. Indeed the second book of the Holy Bible, yeah, the second book of the Hebrew Pentateuch, provides overwhelming detail about the layout and then construction of this tabernacle. The 3rd book, Leviticus, describes the necessary procedures for man's approach to God's dwelling, and the 4th God's careful description of its mobility. These wordy and detailed descriptions are a significant portion of God's revelation to man. They have carefully been copied and preserved word for word, yeah letter for letter, yeah more, dot for dot and tittle for tittle, for 3,500 years! The Hebrew Tabernacle carries such weight in the revelation of God that we are delinquent if we do not study and explore every revealed detail. And this we will do in the pages of my upcoming book.
An Essay from week # 37, Sunday, September 09, 2012
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Msg# 1236 Happy GSBC Anniversary
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
The Roman Catholic Religion used its power over the Roman Emperor to cause
to perish any person who would own or read any portion of the Holy Bible in
the English language. When Wycliffe had translated the New Testament to
English 150 years earlier they found open preaching of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ completely overthrew their exclusive power over the government and
the masses. When Erasmus published the unaltered Greek New Testament there
was found no penance, no priest, no veneration of Mary, no canonizing nor
prayer to saints, and ONLY ONE offering that would forgive sin. That one
offering, which would not benefit Roman Catholic coffers one little bit, was
derogatorily called by Roman Pope Leo X “the fable of Christ!” William
Tyndale, fluent in 8 languages, who saw the power of the preaching of Jesus
Christ and Him crucified, sent to the printing press hundreds of copies of
the New Testament in English, even as the vile and wicked Roman Catholic
entity sent thousands of men, women, and children to their death for owning
or reading one. The Catholics, Anglicans and Reformers, lost the battle
against the printed Word when King James authorized and funded its wholesale
translation into the English language. Hold your King James Bible close to
your chest. These entities still want to destroy it and revise it away. Out
from the pits of these Romanized 'churches' and the tainted manuscripts of
Clement-Origin's Alexandria Egypt, regurgitate the RSV, NIV, ASV, NASV, ESV
et. al. Happy Anniversary Good Samaritan; 21 years of holding dear ONLY ONE
precious book, the one and only complete English translation of the
inspired, infallible, inerrant Holy Word of God , the King James Bible. Hold
it close and preach it on the streets while we still have that freedom.
An Essay from week # 36, Sunday, September 02, 2012
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Msg# 1235 Intimacy in The Lord's Prayer
What The Bible Says
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The chapter that best encapsulates the intimacy that a believer has with his Christ is the one properly called “The Lord's Prayer” and found in John 17. The four previous chapters detail his teachings on the new intimacy in this relationship, but this chapter is a powerful summary of what we now have in this relationship. Prayer is the most bonding and unifying practice for two or three people. Not the dinner prayer, or the public prayer, but the sharing of ones heart and desire with their Father and Creator in the presence of a friend. It can heal marriages if you dare to practice it. Here Jesus shares his most intimate conversation with the Father. Your study of John 17 can teach you three important things about the trinity and God becoming flesh; three important things bout the disciples and their longevity with the Lord; and three important things about the believer and theirs as well. Lay thine hand upon a pen, outline the nine points, remember the battle, but then do more. Prayerfully examine the intimacy with your Chirst that is portrayed herein. It likely was prayed by him after his work was finished. It was likely heard in first person by the apostle John. It was most certainly recorded verbatim by the inspiration of God almighty. It is given here, in the midst of Jesus' powerful lessons on the new intimacy we have with our Christ with careful organization within John's recorded gospel of Jesus Christ. Don't waste it on just a nine point outline.
An Essay from week # 35, Sunday, August 26, 2012
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Msg# 1234 Our Comforter is Their Reprover.
What The Bible Says
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The 16th chapter of John continues the discourse Jesus undertook to prepare his disciples for his departure. “These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended.” Believers will be killed in the name of the Lord, yeah they will suffer all kinds of wrong for his names sake. They have. It's surprising today how both Islam and sodomy are accepted in our society and government schools where both the Holy Bible and the name of Jesus Christ are cursed, mocked, and banned; but we were warned that it would be so. This world hates Christ and his believers. Present in the believer is the comforter, and although he is that to us, to the world he is the reprover. He leads us into all truth, but he reproves the world of sin because they believe not on Jesus the Christ. He seals us forever in the righteousness of Christ, but he reproves the world of theirs because all their righteousnesses are as filthy rags. The Comforter compels us to know the judge of the quick and the dead but he reproves the world that “as it is appointed unto man once to die, and after this the judgment,” they fear, curse and reject the righteous judge and his righteousness judgments. This society, about to replace a sodomy approving, baby killing, liberal leader with a pagan Mormon -Roman Catholic economy team, is no friend of my Lord and God, Jesus Christ. They might put a band aid on our hemorrhaging, socialist economy but it will take your witness filled with the Holy Spirit of God to fix the soul of this nation. Your presence will reprove the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment today, give them the Gospel of Christ while you are at it.
An Essay from week # 34, Sunday, August 19, 2012
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Msg# 1233 Revive Us Again?
What The Bible Says
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Lord wilt thou not revive us again? When the Lord returns will He find faith on the earth? Without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. America does not. If the 1,500 race-fans personally surveyed in Watkins-Glen with Evangelist Garraway are representative, not one in 500 have your faith, even less a diligent seeking. We are blessed in grace. We want others to be that blessed, but America is incensed with scoff and ridicule for God's Word. What overwhelms in in this plight is that someone risked scoffing and ridicule to get you the Gospel truth. In the midst of all the convincing deceit and lies that swallow up the majority, God drew you with his truth and caused you to believe; securing in you the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. God is good. When you share that glorious salvation with a neighbor think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you. Jesus assured you “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” There are Christians suffering real persecutions in this world. In America there are laws protecting your speech about the love of Christ. Chick-Fillet found them barely tenable but the laws are still in place. You are revealing the glory of God like a light in a dark place, when darkness comprehends it not, remember we are still joint heirs with Christ. When we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified together. Wilt thou not revive us again. Really? Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as Christ is pure.
An Essay from week # 33, Sunday, August 12, 2012
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Msg# 1230 Intimacy With Christ
What The Bible Says
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“Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.” This first verse of John 13 marks another turning point in the teaching ministry of the Christ. The next five chapters develop an intense intimacy between Christ and the believer. It is, unfortunately, more intimate than most believers ever experience in their relationship with their Lord. Joun 13 begins describing this intimacy with two powerful points. The disciple indeed is a servant indeed, and the disciple indeed is a possessor not just a professor. Every, all to frequent, Baptist Church fight, I've seen far far to many, mimics the disciples quarrel “Who is going to be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven,... I want the position on Christ's right hand.” There is no greater reproof or grander lesson than the Master girding himself in a servant's towel and washing the disciple's feet. He crowns this lesson with: “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” It is scary; so many unhappy Baptists. Jesus then tactlessly asks each disciple to examine their reality. One would betray him and one would deny him. “Is it I?” is the question he means for each to ask. It is easy to 'be' Christian. It is difficult to 'act' Christian. Further, wearing Peter's overzealous mouth does not capture the humble heart of a servant. “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” How is your love? Intimacy with Christ starts here. Are you a servant indeed? Are you a disciple indeed? Happy are ye.
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