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Send us Fan Mail Paul continues this section by going into another specific relationship. Having completed his commands concerning the husband wife relationship, he now moves on to the parent child and will conclude with the master slave relationship. These relationships are all a reflection of our relationship with Jesus. Therefore, the key to all our relationships is our relationship with Jesus....

Send us Fan Mail In this chapter we see the mighty sovereign hand of God moving. Joseph has been thoroughly prepared by God. Now God will raise him up to the position for which he has been prepared.  Joseph has spent thirteen years in God's school of preparation. It has been a slow, hard and painful preparation. But now he is ready for the task that God has prepared him for. Joseph will be us...

Send us Fan Mail In this study we transition from our walk in Christ to making application in our relationships as believers.  The first relationship we look at is the husband wife relationship. As we will see, a godly marriage in Christ Jesus can only be possible if we are walking in obedience, continually being filled with the Spirit and living in the fear of God.  A godly marriage in Christ Jes...

Send us Fan Mail We continue to look at Joseph being prepared by God to be the man that He has called him to be. The preparation is difficult to say the least. It seems that God has sent the perfect person to Joseph who will play a major role in Joseph getting out of prison. Indeed, the butler will play a key role in Joseph being released from prison. However, the time is not now. Joseph will rema...

Send us Fan Mail We now come to the fifth command concerning our walk with the Lord. Paul has commanded us to walk worthy, to walk holy, to walk in love, to walk in the light and now to walk circumspectly. This fifth command concludes this section in Ephesians.  The question we must now ask is obvious. How is my walk. Not my walk yesterday or my walk tomorrow. How is my walk today? Having a great...

Send us Fan Mail In this study we will take a deep look at Ephesians 4:11. The entirety of the passage and the verse we will key in on is straightforward, hard hitting and quite frankly may be uncomfortable. Regardless, it is God's word. We must hear it, know it and obey it. I will be attaching links to the email blast to help you on being a Berean. Unfortunately I cannot attach them to this...

Send us Fan Mail In this recording, we had a minor glitch towards the end. We lost about a minute of the message and the closing prayer. In this chapter, we come back to the life of Joseph. God is preparing Joseph to be the man that God has called him to be. His training includes betrayal by his brothers, his father thinking he is dead, being sold as a slave in a foreign country, being another man...

Send us Fan Mail Paul continues to command us on how we should walk. First, he commands us to walk in love. Then he commands us to walk in light. So, the totality of our conduct, behavior and manner of life is to walk worthy, walk in holiness, walk in love and walk in light.  We don't walk in this manner to become saints. We walk in this manner because we are already saints. We are saints bec...

Send us Fan Mail In this chapter we take a break from the life of Joseph in order to get some background on the life of Judah. All that we look at in this chapter takes place while Joseph in in Egypt. This chapter presents Judah to us in complete honesty. What Judah does in this chapter is not right before God. Judah is a man who will be greatly used by God. But first we must see how God works in...

Send us Fan Mail We continue in the life of Joseph. Here we see the beginning of his suffering. It is a suffering that will last 13 years. In this time, God will work in Joseph in order that He may work through Joseph. What we will see in this chapter and all that follows is how God prepares a man for great use. In order to be greatly used by God, we must be greatly broken by God. In all of this,...

Send us Fan Mail Paul has just commanded all who are in Christ to live in holiness. We are to put off the old man, be renewed in the spirit of our mind and put on the new man. Now that Paul has declared this great truth, he follows up with application. The truth in God's word will always be followed by how we are to apply this truth.  Paul lays out for us the commands we are to follow in orde...

Send us Fan Mail We now begin to transition from Jacob to Joseph. There is much to learn through the life of Joseph. We will learn much about Jesus through the life of Joseph as he is in many ways a type of Christ. We will highlight as we come to them. Also, in Joseph we will see the theme of suffering as a test of character. In Joseph we will see both a testing of his faith and the triumph of his...

Send us Fan Mail God has done such great things for us in Christ. All that we have been saved from, all that we are and all that we will ever be is because of Jesus. God has displayed His grace towards us in His Son Jesus.  In response to all that God has done for us in Christ, we now have a great responsibility to live for Christ. Paul refers to this as our walk. In this study we are commanded to...

Send us Fan Mail Jacob has finally led his family back to Bethel. While it is a time of rejoicing, he has experienced much sorrow as well. There have been three graves and the horrible sin of his eldest son. Yet he has faced all these tragedies as Israel, not as Jacob. All who are in Christ will face sorrow and tragedy. Sorrow and tragedy are the tools God uses to sanctify us and to set us apart f...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus has given gifted men to His church in order that they would equip the church for the work of the ministry. This equipping has led us to an established unity built on the faith and knowledge of the Son of God. This will only happen in a well fed, well nourished, well protected church under the consistent Spirit filled, in depth teaching of God's word. From this will come...

Send us Fan Mail Paul continues to build on the unity that we all have in Christ. He presents to us a diversity of gifted men who have been given to the church. These gifted men have been given according to the measure of Christ. Jesus gave these gifted men in order that His church would come to unity, maturity and Christ likeness. As we look at this passage, it is important that we know that all...

Send us Fan Mail Jacob is finally leaving Shechem and heading on to Bethel in obedience to God. After ten years he is returning to the LORD. God has commanded Jacob to build an alter once he arrives in Bethel. In Shechem, Jacob built an alter in place of obedience. Now in Bethel, he will build an alter as a result of obedience. Jacob also offers a drink offering. This is an act of gratitude that l...

Send us Fan Mail Jaco is a man that has experienced great spiritual advantage. He has every reason to live as Israel yet has chosen the path of compromise and disobedience. Jacob has selfishly put his whole family in grave danger by choosing this horrific path. What we see before us is a cruel horrible story. It shows us what we are all capable of when we choose the path of compromise and disobedi...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible is honest about its hero's. David was without question a great man of God. He was a man after God's own heart. Yet in this study we will see how he failed. His failure was so great that unless God intervened, David would have lost his life.  David's failure was that he stopped fearing the LORD. David shares transparently with us his experience in order tha...

Send us Fan Mail Jacob had an incredible encounter with God. God changed his name to Israel, a man whose life is now ruled by God. Yet as soon as he steps out of this encounter, Israel immediately reverts back to being Jacob.   Jacobs past experience with God is no guarantee of him living faithfully as Israel in the present. We cannot live on past experiences. The key to living the life of Israel...

Send us Fan Mail Paul now makes a transition. He goes from telling us who we are in Christ and all that we are in Christ, to challenging us to live for Christ. Considering all that God has done for us in Christ, the command to live for Christ is more than reasonable. We are called to walk worthy in order that we would keep the wonderful unity that we already have in Christ. Paul explains to us wha...

Send us Fan Mail Jacob is on his way to meet his brother Esau. Jacob has no idea how this meeting will turn out. It has been twenty years since he deceived his father in order to get the blessing. It was a bitter departure. How will Esau respond to Jacob? But before Jacob can meet with Esau, he must first meet with God. God has been working in Jacob and preparing him for this moment for twenty yea...

Send us Fan Mail Paul concludes the first half of Ephesians with his second prayer. In the first three chapters Paul described for us the amazing wealth that we have in Christ. He discussed the doctrine of salvation and the church. But before moving on to how all of this should impact the way we live for Jesus; he had to pray.  Paul's prayer is the perfect prayer for all those in Christ. It i...

Send us Fan Mail Jacob has left Laban for good. This course in the school of faith is now complete. Jacob must now move on to his next course which involves his brother Esau. Jacob will have no peace until he faces his brother. His past unforgiven wrong must be dealt with. Righteousness always comes before peace. Jacob will come to learn that Esau is not the problem. Jacob himself is the problem....

Send us Fan Mail Paul has now established what the mystery of the church is. He will now speak to God's purpose for His church. In the church, we see the wisdom of God, filled with beauty, variety and complexity. It is Divine wisdom unlike any wisdom we know. It is through His Church that God displays His wisdom to all the angels, both good and bad in the heavenly places. This tells us how pr...