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THREE CUPS There are three cups that God holds out for us to drink from. They are; The cup of Iniquity - The cup of the New Covenant – The cup of suffering. These are all cups of new beginnings. Each one of those three cups has a different setting but they all symbolise the continuing wrestle of The Holy Spirit within our hearts, a wrestle that challenges a state of mind and heart in us that resis...

RESURRECTION In the in the last podcast I did called ‘From the cross to the grave’, Jesus had come to visit those prisoners of time in Paradise. So this account of the Resurrection could be called ‘From the grave to the sky’. The bible says that Jesus then preached to all those prisoners of time the message of the plan of Father (The Gospel) in sending him to cancel sin and to bring new life, and...

FROM THE CROSS TO THE GRAVE 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 ene...

HOLY WEEK PART 2 THE LAST SUPPER THE GARDEN AND THE TRIAL We are continuing in the Holy Week series with part two, after Jesus had had the incident with the money changers, and the ensuing debates and confrontations with the temple priests and leaders. We are now looking at the Last supper and the events leading up to Jesus’ arrest and trial. Rather than simply reading the Scriptures I will tell t...

Holy Week , that week during which Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey while crowds called out Hosanna, was also the week where he turned over the tables of the money changers, the week of the Last supper, the week where he was betrayed and where he agonised in the Garden of Gesthemane,. He was denied by Peter, put on trial, and crucified. That week was preceded by a build up of momentum over...

LIFE ON BOARD THE ARK This is really part two of last week’s Make yourself an Ark. We saw then that the ark had three levels, which we saw represented the Father, the Son, and The Holy Spirit. That means being in relationship with God in faith and and prayer through a time of global life changing crisis. I want to look at more of the detail of the structure and design of the Ark. Genesis 6:9 Make...

MAKE YOURSELF AN ARK There are some remarkable similarities between the event of Noahs ark in the time of the flood to this time of the novel (brand new) corona virus and the global pandemic that has us all shut in. novel new like the flood – never been seen before Genesis 6:14…Make yourself an ark…18… and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. And of e...

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD PSALM 46 I’m speaking today of the great need for all of us in this current crisis of the global coronavirus pandemic to know what to do... What do I do next what do I not do OR What is happening – God is happening AND God is telling us what he wants us to do – he is saying Be still etc. He is telling us what the big question is that we should ask him – WHO ARE YOU...

Isaiah 30:15 For the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, says: Only in returning to me and waiting for me will you be saved; in quietness and confidence is your strength; but you would have none of this. No, you say. We will get our help from Egypt (the world). They will give us swift horses for riding to battle. But the only swiftness you are going to see is the swiftness of your enemies chasing yo...

The upside down theology of Christianity- down is up and up is down – We lose ourselves in order to find ourselves; admit we are wrong so we can be declared right; are strongest when we’re weakest;. this one is We rejoice in suffering instead of learning to just get over it or learning to put up with it. There’s a secret here, a mystery, a hidden treasure as usual which declares the reality of a l...

  Now our world is just a mere ‘Global Village’. A somewhat fragmented world is becoming...through media technologies like the internet enabling such things as transnational commerce on a level never before achieved ...through the migration and interconnection of nationalities and the sharing of the thoughts and ideas of multiple cultures...through the vision for the future to see a single globali...

1Corinthians 2:13 We are not using the words that human wisdom teaches but those which the Holy Spirit teaches, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. Intelligence is a knowing of a particular kind. Do you have any intelligence concerning the cause of a certain matter? We have ways of measuring wisdom for different areas of our lives. One is called our IQ or Intelligence Quotient, w...

Hebrews 2:6. Someone wrote in Scripture the words, ‘What is man that you pay so much attention to him, or the son of man, that you would come and be with him?’ (the name Jesus used for himself 81 times) 7. You created him of a lower spiritual order than angels, and yet now you have given him a crown of glory and honor and placed him in authority over everything that is yours. 8. He is in command o...

Shakings bring forth the eternal that can’t be shaken. Courage comes and the chapter closes and a new chapter awaits. What is next? Comfort and renewed strength now happen and the course is set for a new way forward. Elijah was a man that experienced the same human emotions as us. He felt the frailty of his limited humanity after the shakings of the battle with the prophets of Baal. Elijah has jus...

Paul was encouraging and warning the Hebrew Christians who had been undergoing great affliction and persecution not to give up on trusting in God to show himself strong on their behalf. Courage (heart) is putting your heart into the truth that you believe in. 1. Hebrews 2:1-4 – In one ear and out the other (flow by - drift away) 2. Hebrews 3:7–4:13 – hardening of heart and not entering the rest 3....

2 Chronicles 16:9  For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect (salem – to complete, reciprocate, be at peace and at one with) toward Him. The mind goes where the eye goes. We look back at God with a renewed mind (Isaiah 26:3) 2Corinthians 4:18 ... we look at (skopeo) the things not seen that are eternal… This...

Answered prayer comes from praying in the will and purpose of God (aligned prayer). God is in command of his purpose. Jesus modelled this relational partnership. God is love and love is his relationship with us, desiring his ultimate good for us. Will his love stop acting if we ask him for something that is not his best for us? No, he will help us to know how to hear. The Holy Spirit aligned the w...

1John 3:20 If your heart condemns you God is greater than your hearts and knows all things Problem – Our heart condemns us. We have a sin consciousness that makes us miss the mark about our life and its meaning. That makes us judge ourselves on how good or bad we are, and condemnation emphasizes the negative. Thanksgiving disappears and makes us block God out in our minds. That kills our relations...

PRAYER IN CRISIS The bushfire situation is a time of crisis for our Nation. My prayer is for us to see God at work in this crisis. We experience crises of one degree or another constantly in our lives and God uses these crises to bring us to a point of decision concerning our response to that crisis - do we come closer to God is the main point in the searching out of what is in our hearts. (2020 C...

Standing where Abraham stood ‘Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place (ha makom) afar off’ (Gen. 22:4) Humans make primary connections to things (or people) from which they believe (or have been persuaded) they will draw life, identity and purpose. As children we find these in parents, lineage and country. These are important things which constitute our human pedigree and g...

THE CONTRADICTION OF CHRISTMAS Luke 2:25 God, you can now release your servant; release me in peace as you promised. With my own eyes I've seen your salvation; it's now out in the open for everyone to see: A God-revealing light to the nations. Jesus' father and mother were speechless with surprise at these words. Simeon went on to bless them, and said to Mary his mother, This child marks both the...

Luke 2:8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you glad tidings (Gospel - Luke 4:18) of great joy which will be to all people. For there is...

Isaiah 8:11 The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, don’t live in dread of what frightens them and call everything a conspiracy, like they do. Dedicate your life to The Lord of hosts He is the one you should fear, the one who should make you tremble. 14. He will keep you safe. He will be a stone that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. A...

THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT FOR THE GREATEST VALUE Luke 10:25… One day an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus by asking him this question: “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What does the law of Moses say? How do you read it?” The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And,...