Some people compare the butchery of ISIS to some of the Old Testament accounts of Israel fighting for God. Is that accurate, fair, or even comparable? Here is that question worked out from the Bible with even the history of Islam and Judaism all explained over to give perspective. This is a vital insight for thinking Christians.
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One of the sad aspects of some American professed Christians is the forsaking of the meeting together in corporate worship. The claim is along the lines of not needing to go to a building to worship God. Or it may be the claim that organized religion just isn’t for them. Or the person says they’ve been hurt by the church before.
However, the writer of Hebrews offers this charge in 10:23-25 (with special focus on v.25) “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”
Along with this decree, Pastor John Samuel Barnett instructs us from God’s Word that He desires to lead us in gathered worship. The fact of the Church, that is Christ’s Body, can never be separated from the Head of Jesus Christ. And a proper understanding of the New Testament writing testifies to this truth.
(From 2015MAR01 – FTF-21 – Thy Will Be Done – Learning How To Invite God To Guide Me Through Life)
We continue with Pastor John Samuel Barnett as we learn more reasons why Christians should desire for God to guide them.
(From 2015MAR01 – FTF-21 – Thy Will Be Done – Learning How To Invite God To Guide Me Through Life)
One of the most amazing things about God is that, yes, He’s supremely sovereign; yes, He is the creator of all things; yes, He causes nations to rise and rulers to fall; yes, He holds all things together.
The amazing thing, as Pastor John Samuel Barnett points out, is that God wants us to rely on Him and desire that He guide us. Which He does do so!
(From 2015MAR01 – FTF-21 – Thy Will Be Done – Learning How To Invite God To Guide Me Through Life)
When those last moments of life come, and you are aware that death is close–what will you be holding on to, tightly? Here on King Herod’s monumental tomb we ponder that thought as believers.
Continuing from yesterday, Pastor John Samuel Barnett continues the list of things we should surrender to God such as our days, emotions, time, or mind.
Once again, the consequences for refusing to allow the Lord to control those leads to internal, spiritual, and daily living conflict.
(From 2015FEB15 – FTF-20 – What Happens When We Forget To Seek First The Rule Of God Over Our Life Each Day)
Whether we like it or not, we live in a world controlled by God. As such, there is an objective set of rules we should conform ourselves too. Failing to do so results in consequences that robs Christians from deeper fellowship with God, among other things.
Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives consequences from God’s Word about not surrendering our treasures, body, motives, and thoughts.
When we surrenders those things before God, we come to realize how little we are giving up and how much we are gaining.
https://youtu.be/xtuv0p6Y8ps
(From 2015FEB15 – FTF-20 – What Happens When We Forget To Seek First The Rule Of God Over Our Life Each Day)
Marcionism is a 2nd century heresy that says the God of the Old Testament was not the same God in the New Testament. The OT God is a lower god than the one in the NT. Many people today don’t know what Marcionism is but many people claim something of the same lines. Usually it’s in the form of the OT God is meaner than the NT God.
However, those people are ignorant of the further revelation of God the Father by His Son, Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Today, Pastor John Samuel Barnett shows that Jesus continues the lesson of self-sacrifice that is presented first in the Old Testament and presents it further in the New Testament. Only Jesus is Lord and we have no authority to edit God’s Word but must accept and believe the “whole counsel of God”. Let us hear Him speak to us through His Word today.
(From 2015FEB15 – FTF-20 – What Happens When We Forget To Seek First The Rule Of God Over Our Life Each Day)
The Lord’s prayer is not a prayer just to help us in our physical needs. As Pastor John Samuel Barnett points out, prayer is also a cry for our spiritual and emotional needs. A cry to cleanse, protect, and empty us.
https://youtu.be/pn5LZbsvsSk
(From 2015FEB08 – FTF-19 – Control Me – Learning To Seek First The Rule Of God Over My Life Each Day)
At that start of the new work week, what better way to keep our mind set on the things above with Pastor John Samuel Barnett‘s message on prayer as a request of God to control us. This control isn’t like being in the driver’s seat and every time the car needs a slight correction, God reaches over from the passenger seat and nudges it back over. No, this control puts God in the driver’s seat with his hands on the wheel the entire time.
https://youtu.be/Kfn3ews3x0c
(From 2015FEB08 – FTF-19 – Control Me – Learning To Seek First The Rule Of God Over My Life Each Day)
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