The More Abundant Life

God 534 – Believing Versus Worry, Doubt, and Fear You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. I've been thinking about believing versus worrying, doubting, and fearing. We know how important it is for us to believe and trust God, but one thing that tries to destroy that is fear. We're going to learn how to defeat fear. Mark 11:22 "And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have...

God 533 – Spiritual Matters You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. Looking at the last words that Jesus Christ spoke before he was taken up. Mark 16:15 – 20 "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17 And these signs shall...

God 532 – I Would Not Have You Ignorant You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. I've been reading a book by Tom Kelso. "I would not have you ignorant." At the Clergy and Elder meeting a couple of weeks ago, we were asked to do a teaching on, "I would not have you ignorant. I redid the teaching at our fellowship on Sunday. This is the podcast from that teaching. The bo...

God 531 – The Mercy of God You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. Righteousness, grace, and mercy are the foundations of the renewed mind. This is the starting point for a renewed mind: knowing that you're righteous, knowing that it comes by grace, and remembering that God is merciful.  Grace is divine favor. Something given to you that you didn't have to work for. I...

God 530 – Righteousness, Grace, and Mercy You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. Righteousness, Grace, and mercy are the foundations of the renewed mind. This is the starting point to the renewed mind, knowing that you're righteous, knowing that it comes by grace, and remembering that God is merciful. Romans 3:21 – 21 "But now the righteousness of God without the law...

God 529 – The Precious Word of God You can follow along with the Scritures and my notes as I read them. 2 Peter 1:1 – 18 " Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 Accordin...

God 528 – Be Strong and Thankful You can follow along with the Scriptures and my notes as I read them. I was invited to teach at the international Zoom Fellowship that was run by the Ministries in Venezuela. I was very excited to teach at that Fellowship, but I was blown away by all the fellowships in South and Central America that zoomed in on the Fellowship, and I was very blessed to teach. Then...

God 527 – The Resurrection of Jesus Christ You can follow along with my notes as I read the Scriptures below. A while ago, I taught a class on "The Last Supper, through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ." I designed a syllabus for the listeners to follow along as I read the Scriptures of each event from all four Gospels, in chronological order. I did this to make it easier to follow along as we rap...

God 526 – The Last Supper You can follow along with my notes as I read the Scriptures below. A while ago, I taught a class on "The Last Supper, through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ." I designed a syllabus for the listeners to follow along as I read the Scriptures of each event from all four Gospels, in chronological order. I did this to make it easier to follow along as we rapidly move from on...

God 525 – Knowing Your Election of God You can follow along with my notes as I read the Scriptures below. Do you know the dignity that you have? That's what we're gonna look at today. God has made you his son. It's Christ in you. You can do the works of Jesus Christ in Greater. And many other precious promises are available to you. We're gonna to start in investigating this today. 1 Thessalonians...

God 524 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 5 Steve Reads Colossians While Paul was in prison, he wrote three Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. All around 62 A.D. You can follow along as I read the Scriptures below. Colossians 1:1 – 29 " Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse...

God 523 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 4 Steve Reads Philippians While Paul was in prison, he wrote three Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. All around 62 A.D. As I was putting together the teaching, I was looking for spiritual connections as I had before in the review of Paul's writings. The only thing I thought of doing was to read the whole chapter and point out a few things....

God 522 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 3 Steve Reads Ephesians While Paul was in prison, he wrote three Epistles: Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. All around 62 A.D. As I was putting together the teaching, I was looking for spiritual connections as I did before in the review of Paul's writings. The only thing I thought of doing was to read the whole chapter, pointing out a few things. Ep...

God 521 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings pt 2 Can you imagine living in the first century Church? And you were at a fellowship, and someone came in with a letter from Paul. And read it to the group. That must have been an exciting time. Paul's letters, or Epistles, were circulated, meaning they were passed around to all the churches. Would it matter the order in which you read them?  No, I don't thi...

God 520 – Reviewing of Paul's Writings We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's podcast is "Reviewing of Paul's Writings."  Chronological order of when Paul's letters were written. Before going to Jerusalem. First and Second Thessalonians: 51 and 52 A.D First and Second Corinthians: 53 - 55 A.D. Romans 55 - 57 A.D. Galatians: 50 - 60 A.D. After going to Jerusalem, a...

God 519 – Paul Gets to Jerusalem We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's podcast is " Paul Gets to Jerusalem." Acts 21:14 – 21 "And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. 15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem. 16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought w...

God 518 – Paul on His Way to Jerusalem We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's podcast is " Paul on His Way to Jerusalem." Acts 19:21 & 22 " After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. 22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them t...

God 517 – Paul's Second Itinerary pt 2 We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's podcast is " Paul's Second Itinerary part two."   Acts 17:16 – 23 "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. 17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the mark...

God 516 – Paul's Second Itinerary We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's podcast is " Paul's Second Itinerary." Acts 16:1 – 4 "Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father  was a Greek: 2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were...

God 515 – Don't Frustrate The Grace of God, pt 2 We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's podcast is part two of the last weeks podcast "Don't Frustrate The Grace of God.  Acts 15:30 – 41 "So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: 31 Which when they had read, they rejoiced for th...

God 514 – Don't Frustrate The Grace of God We're continuing along in our series on "Paul of the Bible." This week's teaching is entitled "Don't Frustrate The Grace of God. We need and have the grace of God in our lives. We know that others who are born again have the grace of God in their lives. We need to think of it that way. We all live in Grace. Acts 14:26 – 28 "And thence sailed to Antioch, f...

God 513 – When did the Shepherds and the Wise Men Meet ? God is perfect. Jesus Christ is perfect. So God's Word must be perfect. God cannot contradict himself. When reading the Bible, we need to use all the keys required to let the word of God interpret itself. We need to be like detectives following the clues. Two things, amongst others, that I watch for are tradition versus truth, and I never tr...

God 512 – The Grace of God Declared Paul of The Bible, part 3 Continuing with the series I'm doing on "Paul of the Bible," this is part 3, "The grace of God declared." We're going to look at the first 17 years of Paul's life, after his conversion on the road to Damascus. Acts 9:22 – 31 "But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is v...

God 511 – Paul's Prize in Literature How do we know anything about the Apostle Paul? It's through the God-breathed Scriptures—the Believer's Prize in Literature. The Church Epistles are the most fantastic literature ever written because they teach all the truth we need to live more abundantly, be successful, and experience personal victories. KJV Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called...

God 510 – Paul of The Bible This is the start of a series I'm doing on Paul of the Bible. The second most important person written about in the Bible is the Apostle Paul. Second only to Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son. Like any historical figure, he has different parts of his life. He had an early influence, learning and changing throughout his life. We are going to look at Paul's life in th...