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1 Corinthians (Program #47) – Dealing with the Gifts (3)
No division in the Body of Christ, is it too idealistic to think that they could actually be no division in the Body of Christ as the Bible charges in 1 Corinthians 12:25?
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Exodus (Program #157) – The Ingredients of the Compound Spirit Typified by the Compounded Ointment
One of the truly great promises of Christian life is found in 1 John chapter 2, there it says o”if that which you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father”. Verse 25 says “And this is the promise which He Himself promised us, the eternal life.” The condition of this promise is that we need to let that which we have heard from the beginning abide in us. No genuine lover of the Lord Jesus would want to miss promise. But what is it that we need to let abide in us that will bring us into this marvelous reality?
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1 Corinthians (Program #46) – Dealing with the Gifts (2)
Did you ever wonder what the purpose of the gifts of the Spirit, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is?
Many Christians thinks the goal is their own personal self edification. But the apostle Paul care more for the building of the Body of Christ. Stay tune for a special word from 1 Corinthians chapter 12.
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Exodus (Program #156) – Isaiah Program 28, Life-study of Isaiah 35
From time to time during this lengthy life study of Exodus we like to go back and pick up a highlight program from one of our earlier life studies. Today we go back to the book of Isaiah and look at a wonderful verse that fits very well in this current study of Exodus regarding the unveiling of God in His Trinity. We hope that you enjoy today’s highlight program from Isaiah 9:6
All true believers love God’s word and love the genuine and undeniable words of prophecy. It seems that most people today may favor prophecy concerning Christ second coming. But much of the richest prophecies in Scripture concerns His first coming. Like these famous words of Isaiah written some 700 years before Christ’s birth…
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1 Corinthians (Program #45) – Dealing with the Gifts (1)
To our natural understanding the structure of a book like 1 Corinthians may seem random and really lacking any particular significance. But if we realize that the book is specifically arranged with the last half of the book focused on how God is administrating the entire universe for the accomplishment of His eternal purpose, we will have a key to open a much deeper understanding and appreciation of this portion of Scripture. It’s particularly important to use this key when we come to the matter of the gifts of the spirit in 1 Corinthians chapter twelve.
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Exodus (Program #155) – The Ingredients of the Compound Spirit – Death, Resurrection, Mingling of Divinity and Humanity
What is the single greatest teaching in the Bible? Well that may be an impossible question to answer. But as God’s people who love His word It is worth contemplating. One matter that at least deserve to be considered is the revelation in Scripture that our God, the God of the Bible both Old and New Testaments is Triune; one yet three, an indescribable mystery. Yet what can be grasped by all His children is that the marvelous three-one God is Triune for man to experience Him, even live by Him.
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1 Corinthians (Program #44) – Dealing with the Lord’s Supper
In 1 Corinthians chapter ten, the apostle Paul first addresses the matter of the Lord’s table.
10:16-17 “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the fellowship of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of Christ? Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.”
But then he moves quickly onto to talk a length about the matter of head covering at the beginning of chapter eleven. Heading covering that is a sign we, the believers are in absolute subjection to the unique headship of Christ. But following this he returns again to the Lord’s table in chapter eleven where he calls it the Lord’s supper and we see it developed in a marvelous and thorough way.
Why then he inserted this fellowship regarding head covering in the midst of his lengthily word regarding the Lord’s table?
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Exodus (Program #154) – The Ingredients of the Compound Spirit Typified by the Compounded Ointment
At the time of the New Testament, there were many teachings regarding Christ. Was He God or just a man? Or was He a God-man, possessing both divinity and humanity? The speculations then were not that different than they are today. How can we be sure that we are not being led astray in our understanding and knowing the truth? Well 1 John in the New Testament gives us the key and Exodus chapter 30 gives us the picture of the very Christ as God intends us to know Him. You won’t want to miss today’s life study of the Bible.
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1 Corinthians (Program #43) – Dealing with Head Coverings
When the apostle Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, it”s clear that he dealt with many specific problems that were disturbing the believers in Corinth. He addressed these problems in a marvelous way by separating them into two groups.
The first group as we’ve seen covered in the first ten chapters deal with problems in the human life; things like division and argument, dispute between individuals and problems in the married life.
But beginning of chapter eleven he turns to deal with problems that touch things in the spiritual realm. Specifically things that deal with God’s administration in the universe. The first of these spiritual matters is head covering. We may not have much realization about this matter in today’s age. But if we hear Paul’s word on the matter we will get more deeply impressed because it touches the very matter of God’s headship in the universe.
11:3-5 “But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head;”
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Exodus (Program #153) – The Compound Ointment—The Compound Spirit (2) Titles of the Spirit
The Spirit, of course is the third of the Godhead. It is also a major topic of the Bible. But it is known or referred to by many different titles; the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and in the New Testament, the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Reality and of course the Holy Spirit. So the question arises, why so many titles for the one Spirit? Surely God was not being careless neither was He trying to confuse us. But rather these titles convey significant revelation for us to be those who genuinely walk in and experience the Spirit in our daily lives.
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