CyberBlessed

Two-Part Redemption

Galatians 3:13
Christ hath [past tense] redeemed us [past tense] from the curse of [what?] the law,…

If we are redeemed, then we're what? What a glorious walk it could be the Christians. What a declaration of boldness. What a declaration of the greatness of what God wrought in Christ. We as Christian believers ought to manifest across our nation, in our state, in our communities, wherever we live; he hath redeemed us.

California Heartbeat 1982

Wholeness in Christ!

Righteousness, Peace, Joy

You see, people, when we are born again of God's spirit and we know God’s Word, it behooves us to break up the fallow ground and keep good seed in there and get rid of all the rest of the baloney. That takes discipline. And, of course, belonging to a society which is almost totally undisciplined, it becomes very easy for the Christian, as soon as he hears the greatness of God’s Word he gets back in that environment, he stays as undisciplined after he has been fed the Word as he was before. And then you get the whole crop of weeds growing.

And before you know it, the greatness of that revelation is gone, and we walked the other way.

Now, you and I receive an abundance in Christ Jesus. And if we magnify that, introducing that truth and that life and keep renewing our minds on it, we can keep these weeds plucked up. But we've got to break up the fallow ground in our life and put the seed in – and that takes work. It takes discipline. You've got to do this by redoing your mind and setting yourself to the task.

The Renewing of The Mind

The mind tells you "it can't be done"; the Spirit says that with God all things are possible. The mind says you surely won't get what you need; the Spirit says your Father knoweth what things you have need of and they will be supplied out of His riches in glory. In this way, the negative and depressing thoughts of the mind are commanded out, and are replaced with the positive promises of God's Word. The mind is an instrument in our hands. We must command it.

I Would Not Have You Ignorant

1Co 11:3; Col 2:1; Rom 1:13; Rom 1:13; 11:22-25; Col 1:27; Eph 3:6; 1Co 10:1-5; Joh 8:56; 1Co 12:1; 1Co 12:1; 2Co 1:3-8; 2:11; 1Th 4:13; Luk 9:43-45; Mat 13:2, 3, 9, 36; 1Co 14:38

Pressed Down Shaken Together - Running Over

70's Christian Music

God's Joy

Psalms 105:43a:
And he [God] brought forth his people with [what?] {joy}, . . .

Right. This is God's joy: for God to deliver His people. It tickles Him to death when He can deliver us. You never knew God had joy, huh? He sure does. When any believer comes to Him and says, “Lord, turn it on”; He gets tickled to death to deliver His son. He brought them out of that place, and He fed them, took good care of them. And it says He brought His people forth with joy. It was a joy to God to deliver His people – brought them out of Egypt. They had all that silver and gold. There wasn’t one feeble knee among them. He led them with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. He gave them quail to eat, He gave them bread. They had all their need met. It just blessed God that He had the privilege to do it.

Old Testament Believing / Faith

Now, in order to understand Hebrews 11 you have to be sure of one word, and that's the Greek word pistis. P-I-S-T-I-S. That word may be translated either faith, F-A-I-T-H, or believing. And you will never know, unless you follow context, as to whether it should be faith or believing.

Now, in order to set Hebrews 11 for you, so that we can determine without any private interpretation exactly what it should be, whether it should be translated faith or believing, I think we ought to keep our finger in Hebrews 11 and go to Galatians 3.

Galatians chapter 3, verse 22.

Galatians 3:22:
But [in contrast] the scripture hath concluded all under sin, [just body and soul men. Remember?] that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

In other words, that the promise. The promise of what? The faith of Jesus Christ, whatever that is, might be given to them when people believe or that believe. When they believe they're going to get this faith of Jesus Christ. Now, verse 23.

Galatians 3:23:
But before faith came,…

Before faith came. Before it came. Then there must have been a time when there was no what, class? {Faith.} Right. Now that word faith is the word pistis.

Galatians 3:23:
… before faith came, [now it’ll tell you when it was] we were kept under the [what] law, [So the period of the law cannot have faith in it, because faith had not yet come.] shut up [closed off] unto the faith which should afterwards [after the law] be revealed.

Juntos Como Uno

Together As One - Spanish

The Touch of the Master’s Hand

I have been wanting to share with our people on a Sunday night some truths regarding the reaching out and just touching the greatness of the Word that God has made available, and how efficacious this Word really becomes to us in life.

The word “touch” is a very significant word used in the Word of God on a number of different occasions and in a number of different ways. But when I think of touching and reaching out for Christ and the answers to life, it’s an outreach. To touch is an outreach for aid. It’s an outreach for joy. It’s an outreach for peace. It’s an outreach to get the answers – to find out exactly where it is and how I can receive it.

I think of it also as a touch like a child reaching out for its mother. And you’ve seen it; you hold out your hand, the little child reaches out for it. Or you have the little child in your arms, and the child reaches out for whatever you’ve got in your other hand or something; sometimes for your glasses, and hair, and neckties, and a few other little things.

So tonight, we’re just going to spend a little time working the Word on the word “touched”; and in Hebrews, I want to begin. In Chapter 4, and in verse 12: