Bible Study With Jairus

Bible Study with Jairus- 2 Peter 1 (Part 7) Adding Patience to Temperance: Loving God and Your Neighbor   As I mentioned in our last lesson, a life of patience is needed when dealing with others. We need to be patient with each other before we can develop into the mature Body of Christ. But in order to cultivate patience with one another (the branches), we need to strengthen the trunk (temperance)...

Bible Study with Jairus - 2 Peter 1 (Part 6) The Power of Temperance and the Importance of Focus   In past lessons, we have learned how to nurture the seed of faith so that we can grow in our spiritual lives. First, we must water the seed of faith with virtue. This helps us grow a taproot that roots us deeply in our foundation, Christ Himself. Next, we must supply the seed with the knowledge of ev...

Bible Study with Jairus-2 Peter 1 part 5 Supplement Virtue with Knowledge: Nourishing our Life of Faith   As we learned in a past lesson, Christ’s virtue is the water that nourishes the seed of our faith so the “tree” of spiritual life can take root in Christ. Today, we will extend that metaphor even further by thinking about a tree’s root system. A tree has a large, central taproot and many branc...

Bible Study with Jairus-2 Peter 1-4 Supplement Faith with Virtue: Diligence is an Important Virtue   Let's continue to explore how 2 Peter 1 explains the steps of spiritual growth. As we have studied before, our faith can be compared to a seed. As Peter discusses at the beginning of the chapter, we already possess God’s power, just like a seed already possesses all the potential to grow from an ac...

Bible Study with Jairus- 2 Peter 1 (Part 3) God’s Glory and Virtue Come from the Divinity and Humanity of Christ     As we have seen in the last few studies, 2 Peter 1 is Peter’s reflection on his experience of Jesus’ transfiguration on the mountain. Peter shares his experiences in hopes that readers will be encouraged, challenged, matured, and perfected in their spiritual lives, just like he was...

Bible Study with Jairus- 2 Peter 1 (Part 2) The Difference Between God's Disposition and God's Guidance   In part one of our study of 2 Peter 1, I emphasized that the church needs the gifts of the apostles and prophets. The gifts of the apostles help believers understand God’s disposition and laws, while the gifts of prophets help believers understand God’s guidance. God's disposition and God's gu...

Bible Study with Jairus—2 Peter 1-1 The Epistles of Peter Are His Reflection on the Lord’s Transfiguration   Peter was the first apostle chosen by the Lord, and he was also one of Jesus’ inner circle of followers. Peter, James, and John were the only ones who were allowed to see Jesus’ transfiguration and to be near him in the Garden of Gethsemane. Peter’s spiritual journey was full of dramatic ch...

Bible Study with Jairus – Genesis 49 (part 1) Jacob’s Prophecies about His Twelve Sons   At first glance, Jacob's prophecies about his twelve sons seem very mysterious (Genesis 49). They bring up many unanswered questions.   First, how does Jacob know the future of his twelve sons? Jacob’s grandfather Abraham was described as a prophet, but the Bible never calls Jacob a prophet. Yet both Isaac and...

God’s Call for me to Fight for the Independence of China   Each year on July 4, Americans celebrate their independence from the tyranny of the British Monarchy. On July 4, 2023, I was co-hosting a show named “Fringe” on the Himalaya Global Alliance Farm’s GETTR account. The Himalaya Global Alliance is a temporary structure to manage the branches (also called Farms) of the New Federal State of Chin...

 Bible Study with Jairus - Revelation 12 The Body of Christ Matures   Revelation 12 depicts a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, being crowned with twelve stars (12:1). This represents the body of Christ, the mature bride. This woman is the wife of the Lamb and represents the New Jerusalem (21:9-10).   When the Bible depicts God in anthropomorphic terms, it mentions that hea...

The Spiritual Warfare Behind the Closedown of GTV   “What? Are you crazy?” I replied with anger and puzzlement when my wife told me she wanted to “invest” a large amount of money in the GTV Group and other entities. This happened one night in early 2021 or late 2020. The GTV Group and other entities were promoted by Miles Guo and the Whistleblower Movement he started in 2017.   “Isn’t it obvious i...

Bible Study with Jairus – Revelation 10 The Mighty Angel Strengthens Churches that Go Through Birth Pangs   After the sixth seal judgment, God sends an encouraging vision to those who have endured the six seal judgments. The encouraging vision helps them see the positive things God is doing in the spiritual world, including the mass salvation of the Jews and Gentiles. Similarly, God sent an encour...

Bible Study with Jairus – Revelation 11 The Maturity of the Church Opens up the Heavenly Temple and the Ark of the Covenant   Revelation 11 talks about John measuring the temple, the altar, and the worshipers. He does not measure the outer court, because it has been given to the Gentiles to trample for three-and-a-half years. The chapter also mentions two witnesses prophesying for three-and-a-half...

Bible Study With Jairus - Revelation 9 God's Great Love for the Lost, Hidden Within the End-Times Plagues   As God unveils the fifth and sixth trumpet judgments in Revelation 9, the plagues are becoming increasingly serious. In the fifth trumpet judgment, locusts torment people on Earth for five months. The pain is so severe that people wish for death, yet death flees from them. In the sixth trump...

Bible Study with Jairus - John 21   When God Establishes Us and Deepens our Spiritual Life, We Can Witness His Resurrection   As John wraps up his gospel in chapter 21, he acknowledges that his account of Jesus’ life is not comprehensive. He says that if he had written down every event in Jesus’ life, “I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written” (21:25).   Ho...

Bible Study with Jairus - John 20   How To Deepen Our Knowledge and Experience of the Resurrection of Jesus   Do you know the risen Christ? Have you experienced His presence? Has he appeared to you personally? You may say, “Is it possible to experience the resurrected Jesus and know him personally?” My answer is, “Yes, you can. But you have to remove the obstacles that are preventing you from seei...

Bible Study with Jairus- Daniel 2 The Relationship Between the "Great Image" in the Book of Daniel and the "Kingdom of Christ" in the Book of Revelation   The book of Daniel discusses a great image that was crushed by a large stone. The stone was cut out of a mountain without human hands. It then became a great mountain that filled the whole earth (Daniel 2:35). Each of these objects is symbolic....

Bible Study with Jairus - Revelation 8   The Prayers of the Saints Advance God’s Plans for Judgment on the World   In Revelation 7, we learned how Jesus, the Cornerstone, connects the Jewish and Gentile believers and lays the foundation for the New Jerusalem. The construction of the New Jerusalem is one of the themes of the Book of Revelation.   Another theme is that the newly-built body of Christ...

Bible Study with Jairus – Revelation 7   The Cornerstone Brings Together Jews and Gentile Believers   The end of Revelation unveils the beauty of the New Jerusalem, a magnificent city that has been recently constructed. First Peter 2:5 tells us that we as believers are the living stones that compose that spiritual temple, the New Jerusalem: “You, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritu...

Bible Study with Jairus —Revelation 6   The Beginning of Birth Pains   In Revelation 6, God reveals the first six of the seven seals. In Revelation 7, God gives John an encouraging vision that takes place between the sixth and the seventh seals. And in Revelation 8, the Lamb unveils the seventh seal and begins to reveal the seven trumpet judgments. The vision that takes place between the sixth and...

Bible Study with Jairus – Revelation 5   The Prayer Of The Righteous Person Has Great Power   In Revelation 5, John has a vision of God seated on his throne. In his right hand is a scroll which is sealed with seven seals. This scroll reveals God's plans and mysteries for mankind. And this mystery can only be unlocked by the victorious Christ. As the chapter opens, John is weeping because no one is...

Bible Study With Jairus- Revelation 4   Where Are the Humans?   Revelation chapter 4 records the vision John saw after heaven opened. In previous lessons, we’ve discussed the seven stages of spiritual growth for the church, which are described in the seven letters to the churches. As we pass through these seven areas of growth and deal with the seven aspects of spiritual problems the Lord reveals...

Bible Study with Jairus- Revelation 3 Part 3 The Lord’s Work in the Church in Laodicea Opened the Heavens   Unlike the letters to the other churches, Jesus’ letter to the church at Laodicea does not begin with words of praise. Instead, it only appears to contain criticism. To further understand Christ’s rebuke to Laodicea, let’s look at Christ’s words through Paul to the sister church in Colossae....

Bible Study with Jairus- Revelation 3, part 2 The Mission of the Church in Philadelphia is to be a replica of the New Jerusalem   Traditionally, our understanding of the letter to the Church in Philadelphia is limited to noticing a few key facts. We point out that this church was one of the few churches in Revelation that was not criticized by the Lord. We also observe that the word "Philadelphia"...

Bible Study with Jairus- - Revelation 3 Part 1 The Epistles to the Seven Churches Reveal Seven Spirit-Filled Stages of the Church and Individual   The Letter to the Church in Sardis Reveals God’s Expectation for the Church to Live in Righteousness   The letter to the church in Sardis reveals God's expectation for the church to live righteously. As we learned in our last study, the letter to Thyati...