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Send a text The Kingdom of Heaven is God’s rule during this present age and after. The terms Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God are interchangeable. Matthew’s use of “Kingdom of Heaven” is due to his primarily Jewish audience he was writing to.  “The seven parables of the kingdom help our understanding of what is going on in the world, what God is accomplishing, how He is working, how different...

Send a text The Kingdom of Heaven is God’s rule during this present age and after. The terms Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God are interchangeable. Matthew’s use of “Kingdom of Heaven” is due to his primarily Jewish audience he was writing to.  “The seven parables of the kingdom help our understanding of what is going on in the world, what God is accomplishing, how He is working, how different...

Send a text The Kingdom of Heaven is God’s rule during this present age and after. The terms Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God are interchangeable. Matthew’s use of “Kingdom of Heaven” is due to his primarily Jewish audience he was writing to.  “The seven parables of the kingdom help our understanding of what is going on in the world, what God is accomplishing, how He is working, how different...

Send a text The Kingdom of Heaven is God’s rule during this present age and after. The terms Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God are interchangeable. Matthew’s use of “Kingdom of Heaven” is due to his primarily Jewish audience he was writing to.  “The seven parables of the kingdom help our understanding of what is going on in the world, what God is accomplishing, how He is working, how different...

Send a text Understanding the difference between human endeavors and the Power of the Holy Spirit

Send a text “As you yield freely to the dynamic life and power of the Holy Spirit, you will abandon the cravings of your self-life.” (Simmons 2017) (891)

Send a text The term "thriving" is primarily used as an adjective to describe something characterized by success, prosperity, or flourishing growth  The term has several synonyms, including thriving, well-being, and successful.  It’s time to do more than survive; it’s time to thrive. John 10:10 (NKJV) — 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come...

Send a text The purpose of the spiritual gifts is the edification of the Church. If the exercise of the gifts does not edify and build up the body, they are valueless. 

Send a text 1 Corinthians 12:8–11 (NKJV)  8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the int...

Send a text The Background for Spiritual Gifts ·      It was to be expected that special spiritual enablement would be provided in order that the Church might carry out the Divine mission committed to her by the Lord Jesus Christ. [1] [1] Duffield, Guy P., and Nathaniel M. Van Cleave. Foundations of Pentecostal Theology . Los Angeles, CA: L.I.F.E. Bible College, 1983. Print.

Send a text Gifts for Establishment and Maturity  All of the gifts mentioned in the Bible are interrelated. For the sake of study and convenience, we will break them into 3 groups.  

Send a text Part 5. The Vocabulary of Spiritual Gifts Before we study each of the gifts enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12, we first need to explore key words. The nature of spiritual gifts can be determined to a large degree by the vocabulary employed to refer to them. The first reference to the gifts as a general class of phenomena is found in 1 Corinthians, which was written in about 55 A.D. Chapte...

Send a text Part 2 The Work of the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Christian The beginning of the Christian life is initiated by the Holy Spirit, and then He continues to work in the life of the believer. In this teaching we will look at some of the ministries the Holy Spirit. “The work of the Spirit is not completed when one becomes a believer; on the contrary, it is just beginning. He performs a...

Send a text Luke 22:31–32 (NKJV) — 31 And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” 

Send a text 1. Who Is the Holy Spirit? John 14:16–18 (NKJV)  16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper , that He may abide with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth , whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

Send a text In this series of teachings, we will be examining Spiritual Beings from a Biblical perspective. While there may be a plethora of information available through books and online resources, most of them are spurious. A quick working definition will be of great help here. “A non-human entity possessing powers beyond the natural world. In the Bible, this includes angels, demons, and other s...

Send a text In this series of teachings, we will be examining Spiritual Beings from a Biblical perspective. While there may be a plethora of information available through books and online resources, most of them are spurious. A quick working definition will be of great help here. “A non-human entity possessing powers beyond the natural world. In the Bible, this includes angels, demons, and other s...

Send a text Did you know God has His own Secret Service working to watch over and guard you? In this series, Dr. Bruce will unfold from the Scriptures who these angelic beings are and their particular functions in the invisible realm.

Send a text This is message #2 on Angels and their functions in the invisible realm. How do they affect humanity? 

Send a text This judgment of the nations will occur at the conclusion of the Tribulation Period and the beginning of the 1,000-year reign of Messiah in the earth. This will not include the believers taken in the “rapture”.  The nations (ethnos) are: — a large group of people based on various cultural, physical, or geographical ties. These people groups have made it through the tribulation period b...

Send a text The great white throne judgment will follow the thousand-year reign of Christ. This is the final judgment, and only the wicked dead are to be judged. In Rev. 20: 5, believers were resurrected 1000 years before this judgment, and their works were judged at the judgment seat of Christ. 

Send a text This is not a judgment of condemnation but a judgment for transformation. The believers self-judgment means more than judging things in the believers life. When the believer judges his life, the good and the bad in his life come to light; he confesses the bad and forsakes it. 

Send a text “The judgment seat of Christ will reveal our lives of service for Christ exactly as they have been. Not only the amount of our service, but also its quality , and even the very motives that prompted it will be brought into review.” [1] [1] MacDonald, William. 1995. Believer’s Bible Commentary: Old and New Testaments . Edited by Arthur Farstad. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

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