Bethesda Shalom

Part 8 So far, the studies in this series have largely focused on the person of Jesus Christ.   Whilst Jehovah's Witnesses are monotheistic in belief, they are aggressively antitrinitarian in expression. They, like us, believe in one eternal God. The point of divergence comes however when they maintain that the singular being of God is without a plurality of persons.   The doctrine of the Trinity...

Judges 7:1-8 If I were to ask why you so desire a move of God in this hour I wonder what you would say?   When I speak of a move of God, I mean a heaven-sent revival that would turn the hearts of compromising lukewarm Christians back to God in fervent zeal and ardent love.   I mean a heaven-sent revival that would awaken the sleeping dead and sweep whole multitudes of lost sinners from this town a...

Part 7 The long-anticipated event in the calendar of the Christian Church is not Christmas or Easter, but the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Paul writing to Titus, refers to this event as "…that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Tit. 2:13). Peter refers to this day as "…the day of the Lord" (2 Pet. 3:10), while Jesus calls it "…that day" (Mt....

Judges 6:33-40 The men God sets His hand upon for use aren't supermen; they're human men like you and me, fraught with human weakness and marred by many insecurities. Any good biography worth its salt will not only describe the mighty feats of the man it purports to represent but also his frailty.   When the Spirit of the LORD comes upon a man/when the anointing of God is resting upon God's servan...

Part 6 The dictionary definition of the word resurrection is "the act of bringing someone back to life".  Resurrection is not resuscitation.  When someone is resuscitated, they are brought back to life very soon after death. Resurrection, however, is bringing again to life after the person has been legally pronounced dead.  In both cases, the bringing back to life involves a physical body.  A resu...

Judges 6:25-32 Before Gideon could reform a nation, he had to first reform his house!!   The altar of Baal MUST come down and an altar for Yahweh be established!!   See where revival begins!   Admittedly, this is a costly ask — it always is with God.   Can I encourage you — PAY THE PRICE AND GO THROUGH WITH GOD, it will be the best thing you ever do!!!  

Part 5 To deny the deity of Jesus Christ is to be left with a question of paramount importance that demands an answer. If Jesus is not God, then who is He?  The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society have their answer to this question as do the Muslims and the New Agers.  However, when one looks at the alternatives being offered, it becomes deplorable.  Heretics think that by robbing Christ of His pl...

Judges 6:7-24 When circumstances sink so miserably low, we grow accustomed to it and can't see how things can ever change.   WE FORGET!!!   Every revival has begun from the place of low ebbs!! Moses didn't come on a fluffy cloud with a bolt of lightning to deliver Israel.   Where did God find him?   In a place of low ebb, his people were oppressed and enslaved by the Egyptians!   In the days of Gi...

Part 4 Whenever the doctrine of the Trinity comes under enemy fire, it is a direct assault upon the persons of the Godhead and thus a direct assault on God Himself.  The Apostle John understood this when in his day he contended earnestly for the verity of the Christian faith against an early form of Gnosticism called Docetism.  John shot it straight and made no bones, saying, "Whosoever denieth th...

Judges 6:1-12 When a generation loses touch with God and the favour of the Lord is taken away, the next generation coming after will have to start all over again!   I don't know if you've ever had the experience of demolishing a wall.   I'm no builder, but I know for sure that it took whoever built the wall a whole lot longer to build it than it did for the person smashing it down.   My dear peopl...

Psalms 62:1-8 Deliverance is not always instantaneous. Sometimes there is delay, and it's in those seasons of waiting that if we're not careful, we can lose hope!!   This sermon is an encouragement to the Body of Christ NOT TO LOSE HOPE IN THE WAITING!!   Hope is not a throw of a dice, there's no chance with God.   He doesn't deal with probabilities, HE IS GOD OMNIPOTENT!

Part 3 Jehovah's Witnesses, like all true Christians of every denomination, are monotheistic in their expression of belief. They, like us, believe in one eternal God.  The point of divergence comes however when they maintain that the singular being of God is without a plurality of persons.  The doctrine of the Trinity affirms that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons, the Father,...

Proverbs 21:22 There are many names given to us in the Holy Scriptures to describe the enemy of our souls. Before ever Satan was revealed as a dragon, he was first revealed as a serpent.   That's why in Revelation 12:9 we read, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast...

Part 2 As one traces the history of the beginnings of Jehovah's Witnesses, two names are indispensable to the formation and development of this cult: Charles Taze Russell and his successor, Joseph Franklin Rutherford.   In the 1830s, a Baptist minister from New York by the name of William Miller began sharing his new-found belief, that Jesus Christ was going to return around the year 1843.   This...

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

The Sanctuary Conference 2024@Cloverley Hall

1 Peter 3:3-8 The word "joy" appears in some sixty verses in the New Testament of the KJB, and that's not including the 40 additional occurrences of the same root derivatives "joyful", "joyfully", "joyfulness" "joying", "joyous" and "rejoice". This simple three-letter word "joy" is like buried treasure, everyone's searching to find it but they're looking in all the wrong places!   The world you se...

Part 1 As of 2023, there are approximately 8.8 million Jehovah's Witnesses globally, spread across 239 countries.  Between September 2022 and August 2023, 1.8 billion hours were spent in the field of service publishing the news of Jehovah's Kingdom with an average of 7.3 million Bible studies being conducted each month.  If you compare this with the average amount of hours spent in outreach by Eva...

2 Chronicles 34:14-21 I lament the deplorable days of biblical ignorance that pervades so much of the professing Church today Ministers in God's pulpit without a Word from God because they don't know the Word of God themselves — blind leaders of the blind!   Can I suggest to you, that it's not through lack of education that men's knowledge of the Bible is so meagre in this hour, literacy rates in...