Reflections on Regeneration
June 16, 2017
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Peter wrote to the Jewish Christians scattered throughout Asia Minor who were suffering and being persecuted. Peter knew the persecution was going to get worse. As Peter addresses their suffering, he did not teach prosperity theology. Peter gave some wonderful insights into why God permits His people to suffer. Peter addresses election and being born again. According to Peter, there is such a thing as spiritual conception, a spiritual gestation period and the crisis of the new birth.
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In the New Testament we see three different Peters, but all the same man. In the Gospels his name is Simon, who is up and down, hot and cold, and impulsive, but Jesus called him Peter, a "rock"; after Pentecost we see a Peter who is full of power; finally an old and wise Peter, the apostle of hope. He wants to comfort and console those people in their suffering. The theme is truly knowing God through Jesus Christ.
June 15, 2017
The theme of the epistle written by James the brother of Jesus, is sanctification that drives life and ministry. What you really believe, you do. All the rest is just religious talk. Works are as vital a part of a living faith as breath is to a living body. James tells us the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be the ultimate solution to all of the problems we have here on earth. James tells us to take our masks off and be honest with each other.
June 14, 2017
James tells us about the sources and the sequences of sanctification. Jesus and James teach that the solution for the problem of sin, even sexual sin, is Scripture because the Word of God is alive and powerful. James emphasizes the importance of obeying and applying God's Word to our lives. James focuses the sources of discipline and that the tongue absolutely must be disciplined. We are to bring our life under the control of the wisdom of God, not earthly wisdom.
June 13, 2017
The intensely practical Epistle of James has been referred to by some as "The Proverbs of the New Testament." It is like a running commentary on the teachings of Jesus Christ, especially the Sermon on the Mount. James tells us about the sources and the sequences of salvation. James addresses suffering and tells you to "count it all joy" when you experience these temptations. We are to welcome our trials as friends because they can produce mature, spiritual character.
June 12, 2017
Hebrews says to discouraged, persecuted people, "Do not throw away your faith because a great cloud of witnesses surrounds us!" Hebrews chapter eleven is known as the "faith chapter", and gives reasons why we should hold on to our faith. Faith saves and gives substance to our hope. We must live by faith. The author gives many examples of what faith can mean and what faith can do. The author closes with an exhortation to obey those who are our spiritual shepherds.
June 9, 2017
The Book of Hebrews is filled with exhortations and warnings about the subtlety of apostasy. The mission of the book is also to strip false assurance from those who had not yet made a commitment of faith. "Exhort one another daily, while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." His exhortation throughout is directed to professing believers who have not yet been born again because they stop short of saving faith in Jesus Christ.
June 8, 2017
Hebrews, "The Mysterious Masterpiece," more than any other book in the Bible, ties the Old and New Testaments together. The Book of Hebrews presents Jesus Christ as the Messiah Who was prophesied in the Old Testament, as the Lord Who was revealed in the New Testament and as the coming King of kings Who is going to come again. Faith is one of its themes and there are three key words: "better", "believe" and "beware" that guide our study.
June 7, 2017
In Second Timothy, Paul is reminding Timothy of instruction already received. Paul instructs that God has a unique plan as to who, what and where we should be. Scripture is a living power, brings new birth and builds up those who have been born again. Paul says, "I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith and, "I have stayed true to Him. I have won the fight and the victor's crown."
June 6, 2017
In this session we survey the last letter of the Apostle Paul. As Paul writes his second letter to Timothy he knows his days are numbered. Paul uses illustrations of a soldier, athlete and a farmer to emphasize the disciplined, difficult and patient work of living out the Gospel as disciples of Jesus Christ. There are rules for the life in Christ, and one of them is you must pick up your cross and be willing to follow and suffer for Him.
June 5, 2017
Philemon is the fourth of Paul's prison epistles, a brief and dynamic letter Onesimus took in his hand when he went back to his master, a wealthy believer. Although a short letter, it is long on its social application and its social implications. The fact that God has made us creatures of choice who make deliberate choices seems to be very important to Paul. Jesus Christ is the only Solution we have to our personnel or relational problems.
June 2, 2017
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Read how God gives hope in the face of persecution!
Read about courageous men and women whose faith is flourishing in the face of ISIS and other terrorists. You’ll weep at believers’ suffering and losses . . . and laugh at the creative audacity of indigenous church planters who just won’t take “no” for an answer, whether in the former Soviet Union, in corners of India where Hindu extremists are burning churches, in communist holdouts in other parts of Asia, or in challenging places in Africa and Latin America.