The Open Bible Trust Podcast

Interesting comparisons are made between Job’s suffering and Christ’s temptations and Satan wanting to sift all the disciples. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who was Job? Where and when did he live? When was the book written? And why does God bring Job to Satan’s attention? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A look back over the previous 8 podcasts. It summarises the main teachings, as well as focusing on the main conclusions, that we can draw from ‘The I AM Statement of Christ’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John 15 is a most interesting chapter which features us and the Trinity. If Jesus is the vine and we are the branches, what role does the Father play, and what does the Holy Spirit do? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This ‘I AM statement’ was not said to the public, but just to the disciples. Why? And Jesus spoke about ‘My Father’s house’. Was this the temple or an allegorical reference to heaven? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lazarus was dead, but Jesus declared ‘I AM the resurrection and the life’ to Lazarus’ to his grieving sister, Martha. But did that comfort her? Well ... What He did next certainly did! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having stated that “I AM the gate for the sheep”, Jesus then says “I AM the good shepherd” while, at the same time, accusing the Jewish leaders of being bad shepherds, behaving as hired hands who cared nothing for the sheep. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I AM the Gate for the Sheep” is one of the less well-known, or popular, I AM statements of Christ. However, the teaching behind it is profound. We find in John 10:1-10. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Jesus said “I am the light of the world”, the temple and Jerusalem were lit up by four massive menorahs standing 75 feet high in the Court of the Women. They symbolised the pillar of fire that Israel followed in the wilderness but now … the true “light of the world” was in their midst. Would they follow Him? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I AM the bread of life” is a well-known saying of Jesus, but what did He mean when He said they had to ‘eat’ His body and ‘drink’ His blood? This is a good discussion of John chapter 6. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this opening episode Sylvia Penny interviews W M Henry and Michael Penny and they first discuss the origins of ‘I AM’ in Exodus and its use in Isaiah. Then they consider how Jesus uses the words of Himself and the reaction of the Jewish leadership to Christ claiming to be the great ‘I AM’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christians are told to hold their ground, take a stand and ‘put on the full armour’ of God. But who or what are they to take a stand against, and how does this armour help? And why does Paul ask for prayer? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Children are told to obey their parent ‘in the Lord’, but what does that mean? And fathers are told to bring children up in ‘ the training and instruction of the Lord’. But what about mothers? Slaves are told to obey their masters as they would obey the Lord, and but how were masters to treat their slaves? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul states that: a husband is the ‘head’ of the wife; but what does he mean by ‘head’? wives are told to ‘submit’ to their own husband, but what does he mean by ‘submit’? and three times husbands are told to ‘love’ their wives, but what does he mean by ‘love’? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here we are told to be “imitators of God”! But how do we do that? By living “a life of love” and living as “children of the light”. But what does that involve? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul exhorts his readers to “put off your old self” and “put on your new self”, but what is the “old self” and what is the “new self”? When we understand what these are, we are more likely to “put off” the one and “put on” the other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The previous podcast (No. 7) dealt with ‘the unity of the Spirit’. This podcast discusses ‘the unity of the faith’. But what is ‘the unity of the faith’, how does it differ from ‘the unity of the Spirit’ and how are we to attain it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ephesians 4 opens with ‘The Unity of the Spirit’ and we are told to ‘guard’ it , but what is ‘The Unity of the Spirit’ and how are we to ‘guard’ it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A great discussion on the great power prayer of Ephesians 3:14-21: power so that Christ will feel at home in our hearts … and power to grasp the extent of Christ’s love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sylvia Penny interviews W M Henry and Michael Penny to explore this explosive passage, something so new to the world at that time. God had made Jewish and Gentile Christians one. They were now equal heirs, equal sharers, equal partakers in the Body of Christ. Wow! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ephesians 2:11-22 is a summary of what God did to bring the Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians of the Acts Period together into one body in Christ, and this podcast is an excellent discussion of the process and consequences of God doing this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The fantastic climax of this passage is that in the coming ages God is going to show us “the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus”. What will that involve? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

These verses contains Paul’s first fantastic prayer for the Ephesians, in which he prays for them to know the hope of His calling, the riches of His inheritance, and the power available to His people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

These verses contain a great hymn of praise to God for all that He has done for us in Christ and through the work of the Holy Spirit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

W M Henry interviews Sylvia and Michael Penny to discuss work, labour and toil. Is work a necessary evil? Remember … Adam was told to work in Eden even before the Fall, although afterwards it was going to be harder so … Is work a good thing? A gift from God? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.