God’s children are in His family and so bear His name. The precious Holy Spirit impresses upon the sensitive heart the weight of that name. It is holy and worthy of all our reverence for it represents Him… but so do we!
With this in view it is so very important to train our hearts to seek God not only for His power, but His character changing presence.
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As Job’s trials begin we see that the target of accusation is really God.
In this message we begin to uncover some of the basics regarding the suffering of the godly. We also address the issue of Job’s children dying and its connection with Job.
This discussion touches on the topics of authority, what we think we know about satan and demons, temptation and the nature of the coflict between satan and God.
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When we consider Jesus at Christmas time, it is easy to think of Him in His humanity and that is appropriate. However, when in order to truly take in and appreicate Who it is that came and took on human flesh, we need to take a step back from the familiar to rediscover Jesus in the true enigmatic reality of His person.
In His humanity we believe we really know Him, when in reality it is there that we only identify with Him.
To know Him we must embrace Him in all the wonder of His Humanity and Divinity at once.
It is a feat too large for human reason, but Jesus issued an invitation to two of John’s disciples over 2,000 years ago, which is still open to you and I.
You desire to know Jesus in reality and truth? He reponse to you is to “Come and See”.
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The first two chapters of Job are pivotal in understanding the whole book.
In this first chapter, we see that Job is blameless, upright and shuns evil. He is concerned for his children and so offers burnt sacrifices for them regularly.
After having sought the whole earth, satan sets his heart on Job to destroy him and so approaches God for permission.
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“Christians are not perfect, just forgiven.” A familiar phrase which has done more harm than good.
We have been conditioned in the modern church to accept defeat as a norm in the Christian life.
Yes we are forgiven, but the greatest message of the gospel is not one of forgiveness but one of overcoming!
As we conform to Jesus, sin continues to lose its grip on us. We begin living from victory to victory rather than from confession of sin to confession of sin.
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