How to Receive God’s Wisdom
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Proverbs 9:10 & Psalm 111:10) Only those who first acknowledge God can have a sense of fear and awe towards Him. God will make His covenant known to those who have a fear of the Lord (Psalm 25:14) and reveal His secrets to them. Yet […]
Wisdom is the Key to Prosperity
Yesterday we discussed Adam and Eve. The Garden that Adam and Eve walked in was very different from our backyard garden and very different from the state of this fallen world today. It is imperative for us to know that the Kingdom is not of this world. So the essence of prosperity is not about […]
God’s Original Plan to Prosper Man
About 500 years later, after the Israelites were delivered out of Egypt led by Moses, God brought them into the wilderness at Mount Sinai. There He gave them the Law through Moses and He laid out peculiar terms about how He will prosper and curse them on condition of their obedience to the Law He […]
Mission Trip – Day 4, cont’d: May 20, 2007
The timing of this mission trip was based upon the Feast of Weeks, or in Hebrew “Shavuot”, or in Christian “Pentecost”. It’s funny that when we returned from The Land and told my Jewish brother that we celebrated Shavuot, he was surprised to hear that Christians celebrated this day. Soon after, Kara was telling her […]
Mission Trip – Day 3: May 19, 2007
Shabbat! The Holy Sabbath. If you read Genesis Ch. 1, you will notice that the way God views it, a new day begins with the darkness and ends with the light. The evening that comes after sunset is the beginning of that next day which will also end in light. I love these tiny pictures […]
Jesus Challenged: Part 1 (Mt 12)
Matthew 12 Yesterday, we discussed Jesus’ teaching that Kingdom life is actually quite simple and is a life of peace. In this whole chapter, scenarios were presented one after another in which some core values and ways of the Kingdom were challenged by religious, unenlightened minds. These men adhered to the traditions of man and […]
Jesus brings understanding of the spiritual (Mt 11:1-17)
Matthew 11:1-17 After training and sending off His disciples, which we discussed Friday, Jesus went to preach in the towns of Galilee. It’s interesting that John the Baptist and the disciples were key players in the ushering in of the Kingdom Jesus came to bring, and yet they didn’t really have a clue what God […]
Does God want us to have religion? (Mt 6:1-18)
Matthew 6:1-18 On Friday, Jesus was teaching us how we will interact in the world when we have been transformed by the Holy Spirit. Today, we’ll begin to discuss how He tells us to accomplish this with an overview of the religious life of His day (which is not so different from what is common […]
Is the Law inside you? (Mt 5:17-48)
Matthew 5:17-48 Yesterday we finished discussing the heart attitude we must have to approach God. Please read the introduction to the Sermon on the Mount before reading this if you have not. It’s important that you understand Jesus is not talking about Salvation in this topic which is another subject. Here, Jesus is teaching us […]