Grace Community Church of Ramona Podcast

When you came to faith in Jesus, you entered into every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ AND you entered into Spiritual warfare with Satan and a host of evil heavenly beings whose power vastly exceeds your own.

Genesis is not about talking animals but about heavenly beings interacting with human beings. The story of Eden to the ancient Israelite would be understood as a heavenly being interfering in human history.

No Submission, No Unity

When we forgive, we are actively imitating God; and our forgiveness becomes a living reflection of His character. What an incredible reality! Christ gave Himself up for us not just so our Father could forgive us, but so that we could forgive and be forgiven by one another.

Neuroplasticity is the brain's incredible ability to rewire and form new neural pathways in response to information, experience, and repeated thought patterns. The "Renewed Mind" is a mind rewired by a deep commitment to rightly understand, meditate on, and submit to God's Word.

We are to pursue lifestyles worthy of our call to salvation and to the church family. Humble, gentle, and patient, we stick with one another in love and make every effort to preserve the unity that comes from the Holy Spirit.

A mystery is a decision of God which He keeps secret until the time He chooses to reveal it. In this case, before the foundation of the world, God determined to unify Gentiles and Jews through Christ and bring them together as one family in the Church.

Brought Near: Ephesians 2:11-22

Though we willingly walked in the way of this ungodly world doing what the devil and we ourselves wanted, God extends His mercy toward us because He loves us and knows we are helplessly entrapped in our own snare.

We, too, like Elisha's servant and the believers of Ephesus struggle to see spiritual realities. Like Elisha, Paul prays God the Father open the eyes of the Ephesians that they may see, understand and be transformed by the spiritual realities of which they are now part. So, also, ought we to pray for ourselves and one another.

Contrary to the impulsive, unpredictable and self-serving ways of the gods, the Ephesians are coming to know that the true God is loving, gracious and centered on His human family to reconcile and restore them through Jesus to the warm, loving, personal relationship for which He created them in the beginning.

The Apostle Paul wrote this letter to Jewish and Gentile believers who were members of house churches located in and around the ancient city of Ephesus.

Love does not insist on its own way. Love is not irritable or resentful. Love bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things.

Not The End

The response of: Judas, deep regret leading to death. The Religious Leaders, Hostile rejection. Pilate, Indifference. The Centurian, Profound Confession. Nature, Cosmic Protest. God, Wrath applied. Jesus, Sacrificial Obedience. What is your response to the death of Jesus the Messiah?

These religious leaders have determined to condemn Jesus at any cost, clearly violating the very LAW that they pretend to hold so preeminent. They had a conviction and were in search of a crime.

Facing the darkest hours of His human existence, Jesus masters His flesh and brings it into submission to His spirit which is committed to doing His Father's will. In contrast, the flesh has the upper hand and undermines the desire of the disciples to be loyal to Jesus.

Jesus knew the purpose of his death. It was for the forgiveness of sins. Not just for the disciples, but for many. This is the working out of God's plan that was revealed through the prophets (Jeremiah 31:31-34; Isaiah 53:10-11).

The role of these young ladies was to escort the bridegroom in a torchlight procession to his house and the wedding feast. The "lamps" were actually torches for outdoor usage - cloth wound round a stick and soaked with oil.

Matthew 24 Review

We believe that verses 4-35 describe the events leading up to the destruction of the temple in AD 70, with two brief comments regarding the Parousia in verses 27-28; 30-31. Verses 36-51 deal with the Parousia.

We believe that verses 4-35 describe the events leading up to the destruction of the temple in AD 70, with two brief comments regarding the Parousia in verses 27-28; 30-31. Verses 36-51 deal with the Parousia.

The hypocrisy Jesus denounces is not personal deceitfulness; it is a distorted perspective which makes the scribes and pharisees think they are doing the will of God when, in fact, they are missing the main point.

And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:34-40)

The invitation will be extended to Gentiles, but for Jews and Gentiles alike, acceptance into the Kingdom is conditioned upon one requirement (22:8-14).