Category Archives: Jesus

Nailed Cross

Nailed to His cross

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Paul stresses the need for ongoing Faith to the Colossian believers, as well as the need to stay established in the truth.

Both Jews and Essense were influencing this church to consider the aesetic practices of neglect of the body and observance of the externals of the ceremonial Law of the Old Testament for righteousness.

Paul explains that such things have been removed out the way and nailed to the cross with Jesus our Messiah.

In this message we also address the misunderstanding of Paul’s words regarding obeserving sabbath days. This he clearly meant in relation to the other laws he listed which were all celemonial and exterior in nature. ALL Feast days had associated sabbath rests which were in no way related to the Sabbath day declared Holy by God on the 7th day of Creation and the 4th commandment of the Law.

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Laying Hold Mystery

Laying Hold of the Mystery of Christ in Us

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In the letter of Paul to the Colossian believers, he stresses the importance of being found well pleasing to God.

That pleasure is directly connected to the mystery God has kept hidden in Christ from before time began. It is the mystery of Christ in us!

As Michael Card so clearly stated in his song, Live this Mystery “The Mystery of life in Christ, is that Christ can live in you!”

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Teach Will

Teach me to do Your will

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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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Is Jesus the Promised Messiah? Come & See!

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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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Overcoming forgiven

Overcoming, not just forgiven

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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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