The Faith of Abraham
06 October, 2024
Abraham is identified by the apostle Paul as "the father of us all." That is, the father of us all who believe! We briefly consider what Paul emphasises as at the heart of Abraham's faith, by way of being encouraged ourselves in trusting in our Lord…
Abram Enters Canaan
29 September, 2024
Sent to a "land I will show you" by God, Abram arrived in Canaan, where God appeared to him. In response, Abram built an altar, and called upon the name of the Lord. In this way Abram is on the path to establishing a life of faith with the true and…
The Great Name/Gospel/Blessing and Cursing
29 September, 2024
In Abram's initial call by God we find the Gospel of Christ, the great Name of Christ, and Blessing and Cursing of Christ, and the apostle Paul opens these up to us.
The Great and Holy Name
22 September, 2024
Part of God's original promise to Abram was "I will make your name great'. Of course, this promise was made to Christ, the holy Seed, before it was made to Abram, and it is His Name that is here first intended.
Nathanael, An Israelite Without Guile
15 September, 2024
Looking at Nathanael, and the extraordinary depth of his confession of the identity of Jesus, on the barest evidence, we look a little below the surface at the spiritual significance of a guileless heart, and a simple childlike faith.
The Great and Holy Nation
08 September, 2024
The Lord called Abram from his land, kindred, and father's house, promising, among other things, to make of him a great nation. We see how from this passage concerning God's call of Abram, and also from a passage where God instructs Moses, concerning…
Becoming Jesus' Disciple
25 August, 2024
In the gospels we read of how, with the utmost simplicity, Jesus called men to follow Him, and how in doing so the faithful disciple forsook all. In the process His disciples were deeply transformed in their lives. We also see in this message how…
Pray the Lord of the Harvest
28 July, 2024
George emphasises the place of prayer in the work of evangelism. God is not willing that any should perish, and we as workers together with Him have a responsibility before the Lord of the harvest
The Knowledge of God
21 July, 2024
At the heart of our covenant relationship with God is the intimate personal knowledge of God Himself by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. In the wake of his experience on the mount of transfiguration with the Lord Jesus, Peter speaks to us in his…
The Introduction of Covenant
14 July, 2024
Mankind, under the striving influence of the Spirit of the Lord during the antediluvian era, reached such a point of irrecoverable rebellion against God that, apart from eight people, the whole race had to be destroyed. Following the Flood we find…
The Unseen Hand of God
30 June, 2024
By means of a number of vibrant testimonies, and a consideration of the situations of Zacchaeus, Joseph and the Ethiopian eunuch, we are encouraged that our sovereign God, in unseen ways, works together with the sovereign choices of man and women to…
The Spirit of Truth
23 June, 2024
A key aspect of the expression of authority in the kingdom of God is the administration of truth by the Holy Spirit. We look at this in connection with the judgement of the Flood in the days of Noah. The Lord teaches us that the Father seeks those to…
Our Rewards
16 June, 2024
Understanding, as we do, that it is by grace, through faith, that we are saved, we do not often consider that paradoxically, that which we freely receive not only without any merit of our own, but having much demerit within ourselves, comes also with…
Taught of the Spirit
09 June, 2024
God is Spirit, said Jesus, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. Throughout the history of the world God has sought the hearts of men and women by His Spirit. By the agency of whatever other means He uses - the scriptures…
His Fellowship With Our Sufferings
26 May, 2024
Faced with the necessity of the judgement of the Flood, God was sorry that He had created man upon the earth, and it grieved Him at his heart. This was not regret; neither was it an egoistic "Woe is me!"; nor was it a cosmic "Oops!" Knowing all that…
Family of God
19 May, 2024
Ken presents John the Baptist to us as a demonstration of what it means to serve the Lord Jesus with a single eye, in the context of that which He has called us to in this life. Faithfulness to Him is paramount and there is nothing that He has…
For Such a Time as This
12 May, 2024
In the sovereign purpose of God we are where we are, and our circumstances are such as they are, that the glory of the Kingdom of God and the manifestation of His name should be served. Whether we actively, and with insight which the Lord gives…
Philippians 3:10
05 May, 2024
Paul the apostle expressed his longing to know Christ, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death. We take here a brief look at what is involved in this for each of us in Christ as we…
Christ's Resurrection, So What Next?
28 April, 2024
Taking Paul's succinct presentation of the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15, Ken explores the significance of that in the lives of those who have surrendered to Jesus as Lord and Saviour. In a word, as it took place firstly with the disciples, and those…
Cain Reprobate; the Race Reprobate
21 April, 2024
Cain has been cursed by God. The race then degenerates into a condition of complete apostasy, but for eight people, and after the Flood is hell-bound again with Nimrod and Babel. God then divides it and puts a restraint upon its eventual complete…
The Ground Cursed; a Man Cursed
14 April, 2024
As part of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, the Lord's dealings with the incorrigibly wicked is addressed in the case of Cain. We are encouraged in the times in which we live to establish our hearts, knowing that the Presence of the Lord is here…
Spiritual Seed and Natural Seed
31 March, 2024
As the world is focused on the middle east George focuses us on the need to pray for the Jews, and emphasises the only way of salvation, whether Jew or Gentile, is through faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
Love's Freedom - Fear's Mastery
24 March, 2024
With the Jews' final rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, their King and Messiah, we observe Jesus' freedom in the love of His Father, manifest in the peace and purity of His heart and mind as He is physically, verbally and spiritually maligned, abused…
The Mystery of God Part 10
24 March, 2024
The confession of nakedness, the confession of fear, and the candid confession of sin, in the context of the non-condemnatory approach of God following the Fall, mark the further unfolding of the hidden things of the God's rule on earth.
The Mystery of God Part 9
17 March, 2024
The isolation, shame, and guilt of nakedness as a result of disobedience to the Spirit of truth results in God's coming to us in mercy and grace, without condemnation, seeking simply a free confession of our hearts that He might have mercy and…
The Mystery of God Part 8
10 March, 2024
God placed man in the garden of Eden, allowed the devil access, and then concealed Himself from the consciousness of the man and the woman as they were exposed to the devil's evil devices. In their infantile knowledge of God they were easy prey for…
Our Heavenly Father
25 February, 2024
We are given a scriptural overview of the character, office(s) and function of our Heavenly Father. Terry summarises this in connection with our Father's delegated authority to His Son in His redemptive purpose, and by way of our Father's full self…
The Mystery of God Part 7
18 February, 2024
The Cross of Jesus Christ is popularly understood, in a purely natural sense, as an extraordinary forensic device which God uses to supposedly satisfy His justice by "balancing the scales" of His righteousness in the consideration of man's sin. We…
Psalm 33
11 February, 2024
In the days in which we live we can be assured, by meditating on the thoughts of the psalmist, of the faithfulness, the creativeness and the power of our God, knowing that He has the world and all that is unfolding in the train of His eternal purpose…
The Mystery of God Part 6
28 January, 2024
The mysteries of the Kingdom of God, hidden for ages and for generations, with the coming of the King are made known through the apostles and prophets to those in Christ. We discover something of those mysteries in the beginning of creation, and…
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