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THE HIDDEN COMMANDMENT  There is a commandment that does not get a mention in the Ten Commandments but that is being indicated right throughout the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, especially in the Prophets and in many Psalms (Isaiah 12:6, Psalm 31:14  John 14:27).  It the New Testament the commandment is stated as ‘Be anxious for nothing’.  Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in ev...

You will be as God? Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image (selem – a representation, resemblance), after our own likeness (mut – as us, like us). There are significant differences in the two words, however this statement ‘You will be as God’, or ‘like God’ was declared from the beginning by both Lucifer and God. The first we hear this statement is from out of the mouth of the s...

THE HIDDEN TREE OF LIFE In the story of creation, the Bible says there were two trees in the midst of the garden of Eden. They were the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge o...

Commandment Three – Taking God’s name in vain Does this Commandment mean more than just people using God’s name in swearing? How do Christians use God’s name in vain? What does God’s name mean? What does it mean for God to ‘not hold people guiltless’ for taking his name in vain? Does this Commandment operate for people who do not believe in God? All the commandments deal with relationships, and th...

ASCENSION AFTER FORTY DAYS From 'The Plan'  Paul O'Sullivan - Sydney, Australia.   pauloss@me.com   Jesus had brought millions of souls from the grave to the sky and his time in heaven for the celebration of this victorious journey was momentary, as he had left the tomb just before dawn and had to return to earth that same day. He would now spend forty days on earth as a witness to his resurrectio...

When Jesus gave up his Spirit to his Father he then descended in his Spirit on a mission of great purpose. Below him was a place called Paradise, and next to Paradise was a place called Hades. Jesus had spoken about these places when he told the story of The rich man and Lazarus, the beggar. The rich man who lived sumptuously in arrogant self indulgence all of his life ended up in Hades and Lazaru...

Pontius Pilate asked the Centurion to command an escort of guards around Jesus to take him to Calvary, or Golgotha, which means The place of the Skull. One of the Centurion's men put the beam on Jesus' bleeding shoulder as they left the yard and went into the crowded street. The already large crowd continued to grow, some of them followers and friends, others bitter enemies, and yet others who wer...

Paul’s mission in life started as a religious mission for the Jewish religion and ended up becoming a spiritual mission for the whole of humanity. As Saul the Jewish Pharisee his mission was one of persecuting Christians wherever he could find them.  We see the record of the transformation of the religious mission of Saul into the spiritual mission of Paul in the Book of Acts. It is the account of...

About 2000 years before Jesus was born God took Abraham and Sarah and chose them to be the parents of a Nation and a culture that he would set aside to reveal himself to, and for about 1500 of those 2000 years that Nation would be trained up in the Jewish religion. God invested his love and wisdom and truth and power and discipline into them. It was as if a nation were kidnapped and put in custody...

POLITICS AND GOD’S GOVERNMENT  The Book of Isaiah is a story is of a people who are meant to live in hope, turning to God, waiting for God, and being surprised by God’s goodness to them.  After Solomon, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were divided. There were 20 kings of Israel in the north and not one of them did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and of the 20 kings of Judah in the south,...

A LIVING HOPE  1Corinthians 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide (remain, continue eternally), these three; but the greatest of these is love. The greatest of these is love – beginning with God’s love for us, because it causes the faith and the hope to exist. God’s love is the beginning and end of all things. That is the source of the hope that we can live in at all times. That is the reality...

Commandment Two  Paul OSullivan and Scott Kardash  uncreated.podbean.com Is idolatry a rare occurrence these days or does it abound prolifically in today’s world? Do idols have supernatural power? Does everyone have a self image? How does a person develop a self image? What does it mean that God is a jealous God? Exodus 20:4 `You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of any...

JUSTICE AND MERCY  Micah 6:8 ‘He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?’ The prophet Micah had a burden for justice to be seen amongst God’s people Israel. In chapter three Micah opposes two groups in Jerusalem, the spiritual and the secular authorities. First, he opposes some of the other prophet...

  FIRST COMMANDMENT – Putting God First.  Paul O’Sullivan – Go to http://uncreated.podbean.com/  to view complete series Is it logical to say that if people would have obeyed the First Commandment there would be no need for any other Commandments?   This commandment is actually the be-all and end-all of the commandments. It tells us that we should look to no other person or thing than God Himself...

THE KINGDOM WITHIN   Paul OSullivan    spiritcode.podbean.com When Jesus was betrayed by Judas and arrested by the temple guards, he was then tried by the Jewish High Priest and the council of elders and then handed over to Pontius Pilate the Roman Governor of Judea. When Pilate questioned Jesus about being King of the Jews he asked him why he had been tried by his own people and why they had brou...

YIELDED PRAYER Our acceptance and patience and trust in God as our Father in times of adversity is the measure of our growth in faith. We do not grow in faith if we think faith is getting what we want simply because we pray for it and think it should happen.  God allows contrary and painful circumstances to confront us. These things challenge our trust and faith in him as a good and loving Father...

CITIZENS OF HEAVEN When Paul wrote to the church in Philippi they had been living under Roman rule for a couple of generations. They had a proud cultural and philosophical heritage and a fierce sense of citizenship going back to the first Greek culture in Athens five centuries before which was the first ever democracy, and all the citizens of Athens had the opportunity to vote. They had a proud cu...

After their meeting with Herod the Wise Men followed the star which remained bright in the sky and were guided to the house where Joseph and Mary and the child Jesus were still staying. When the men were invited to see the child they went down on their knees and worshipped him. They then presented him with gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. These peculiar gifts have a spiritual message for us t...

Relationship is the key value in the whole theme of the commandments, because God wants us to be fulfilled in life through relationships, both with Himself, and with one another. We find then that the first four commandments deal with our relationship with God, and that the next six deal with our relationships with one another. That is why the New Covenant had a promise that the law would be writt...

AN ERA OF PEACE  A prophet called Micah made an amazing prophecy that foretold the birthplace of Jesus over seven hundred years before Jesus was born. This verse also tells us that he would be our peace. Micah 5:2. "O Bethlehem, you are but a small Judean village, yet you will be the birthplace of my King who is alive from everlasting ages past!" God will allow the conflict and disorder to remain...

GOD WITH US The appointed time finally came to heal the earth. It was twisted and torn and it could not heal itself. There were many religions apart from Judaism, and all the rituals, the pomp and ceremony, had only allowed that gap between God and man to remain. God was about to give humanity the perfect answer, not a religion, but Himself. The Divine Being, Jesus God, was to make his transition...

PROPHETIC PAUSE  We are looking at the message of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament. It is a prophecy about preparing the way for Messiah to come to his Temple people, and turning their hearts back to God as their loving Father. It is a message for us in these days, as his people, his Temple. Malachi was the last prophet to speak in the Old Testament. He was speaking to the people who ha...

GETTING YOUR BEARINGS.  To be able to go in a direction that will make us sure that we reach the goal or destination we are meant to arrive at in life we need to know the answer to three questions; Who am I? What is happening to me? And What am I meant to do? We need to know who we are so that we can understand what is happening to us, and we need to know what is happening to us so that we can kno...

CHRIST OF THE COSMOS I’ve been sharing what is happening on the ground in society these troubled times and also what is happening regarding the spiritual darkness in the heavens. Now I want to talk about the God of the heavens and the earth, the God of the Bible, Christ of the Cosmos. Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16. For through him all thing...

IMAGE MAKERS  How do we become who we are - how do we see ourselves as that person that we think we are. That is an image – that is an idea in our head – where did it come from? A person does not make up an image all by themselves. The image we have of who we are is an already formed idea of what gets reflected back to us through our life that we accept and act out from.  The image of who we are c...