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Revelation in these chapters shows us the telescopic work of judgment and redemption as God seeks to rescue those who will repent under His judgments against sin and humanit's alliance with wickedness. Here are some thoughts for us to take away: What’s your little scroll? What do you have to say? You are a constant witness of God’s redemptive, saving love. Even as you are facing your own life diff...

This is a BSF Global Lecture provided by headquarters. God's Call for Repentance in the Trumpet Judgments. When in court, the evidence is presented by witnesses and testifiers, we anticipate just and faithful judgment and a righting of wrong by an impartial judge who gives a fair and right verdict. Human justice however is limited because it cannot undo all wrong and our discovery and due diligenc...

Lesson 13: The Security of God's people, Revelation 7 The six seal is opened and the world's elements - mountains, islands, lands, sun, moon, and stars are dislodged, dislocated, untethered from their places. When we insist against God being at the center and put ourselves or "man made ideas or things" in God's place, can the center hold? No, Revelation continues to tell us that only God can be th...

Revelations 6 Why does Jesus the Lamb of God unseal the scrolls? What are the horsemen of the Apocalypse and what can we learn about God's righteousness and goodness through this terrible description of difficult things to come for humanity? We will learn that God is just and cannot allow evil to continue unmitigated to humanity's demise. We'll see today God has a plan and purpose in revealing His...

Revelation: What is the Day of the Lord? Lesson 11: The Day of the Lord, Joel 1–3; 2 Peter 3 In previous lessons, we looked at how all reality is centered around God who is have complete sovereignty and authority over all things in the cosmos before every power and dominion. But the pivotal revelation we learned in Revelation 5 is that the Reign of the slain Lamb of God, the Savior, is the One who...

Guest Lecturer: Hollie Roberts - Executive Director of BSF International shares her reflection on our current lesson. The Book of Revelation reveals the higher order and reign of God above all things. He is high and lifted up, and there is profound worship and praise through the cosmos. So why is John weeping as he sees a Scroll with Seven Seals that no one can open? What's the significance of the...

Lesson 9: The Throne Room of God, Revelation 4 The Book of Revelation is a Vision of a much much greater reality. The Vision is meant to enlarge your small view of God's plans and purposes. This begins with your view of God's sovereign rule. If we don't have a proper view of the cosmic, and boundless greatness of God's Rule and Reign above all things, we will not have a property view of ourselves,...

Lesson 8: God's Kingdom: His Plan for History, Daniel 1–2; 6–7 The world has always known kingdoms in conflict. The Bible describes kingdoms of mankind in the form of rapacious beasts ferocious in their exploitation and abuse of all that God has made, destructive and unheeding to repentance or submission to God. What is God's plan then for humanity and what puts an end to all the evil we see in hu...

What happens to people who don't have a plan or road map for their lives? How is a good life, a deeply meaningful life tied to having an understanding of one's purpose within God's plan. Today, we're looking at why God specifies the plans and the promises He outlines in the Bible for His people. God assures us that His promises are True and Never Fails. We can rest assured that despite the passing...

Does Jesus care what's going on in the Church? What might He have to say about believers in our generation? How does suffering for Christ produce in believers strength and hope? Contrastly, how does a lukewarm church remain so complacent and self-righteous, it fails to understand its own position, be self-reflective and repentent? Doctrine: Works Aim: CATL…Jesus assures the steadfast and warns the...

Revelation 2:12-3:6 Does the Church need to be overly anxious about heresies and heretics? What does God do with the occults and false religions? God is a faithful Father who will retain the fidelity of His Faithful Children to the end. He will always have Lampstands ready throughout the world, trimmed and bright among His people and angels who are His divinely directly and managed messengers that...

What does it mean to forsake your first love? Why does God allow suffering among His people - faithful ones like John the Baptist, the prophets of the OT, and even the Apostles and early church believers? What does it achieve? We will reflect on these as it applies to us today.

Jesus's Letters to the Churches, Part 1 Revelation 2:1-11 Why does Jesus tell the Ephesian Church they had forsaken their first love. What is a first love and how might it matter for our relationship with Christ? Today, we explore issues that appear at first quite small but can have consequential and detrimental impact on the witness and power of the Church to testify of Christ. Aim: CATL Christ o...

Revelation 1 is an entirely new depiction of Christ than we last saw Him. Jesus meek and mild? Hanging on the Cross despised and forsaken? No, Here is Jesus who overcame and conquered death and hell for all the Redeemed Ones of God. Here is Christ terrifying and awe-inspiring, declaring that He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. The One who was, and is, and is to come, who not only con...

Lesson 2: God's Glorious Consummation. What does it mean that God fulfills all His Promises in Jesus Christ? Remember that consummation comes from the union of the Latin Con + Summa, the bringing together of everything. That's Jesus. If we ever wondered what God's doing in the world, we can know for certainty by the Words and Works of Christ Himself and all that He said He will do. Focus Verse “Bl...

Revelation: Lesson 1 Prophecy: The Telling and Foretelling of God's Story Focus Verse “For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21) Outline Prophecy’s Characteristics Prophecy for God’s People Prophecy of Messiah Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy

Gospel of John Final Overview and Debrief We're in our final week of looking back on all that the Holy Spirit has taught us through this remarkable study on the Gospel of John. As you think about the project of writing the Apostle John had in writing to us about Jesus and His Gospel with the constraints he was working with, the size of scrolls, the ink available, the portability of it to the c...

John's Epilogue - What is that to you? You Must Follow Me Lesson 29 John 21 When we don't understand the Vision, we languish in our devotion and everything goes downhill from there. Jesus cared about our reconciliation with God. Being reconciled to God meaning becoming full members in His Kingdom purposes by fulling claiming the Vision He has shared with us. Wonder what happens when vision...

Jesus's Resurrection Lesson 27, John 20 For many Christians, the Resurrection of Jesus is nothing more than a nice event, surrounded by the pastel colorings and cute images of Easter bunnies and candy. Fewer believers really appreciate that the whole of Christianity hinges on this most vital event in history when Jesus rose from the grave, conquering death, and continuing His victorious march...

The Burial of Jesus Christ John 19:31-42 Did you know that all the elements of Bible prophecy, everything that God was communicating to humanity is bound up in Jesus's laying down His life to be the perfect Atonement for all humanity's most insidious problem. Today, we're looking at the 11 important verses around His burial - and how they point to significant details of God's great...

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ Lesson 25, John 19:17-30 Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? Why do Christians think of this event as the center of all human history infused with so much meaning and purpose? Isn't the cross by Romans a defeat and utter failure? How is this a moment of God's great deliverance and conquest for humanity? We'll look at these questions and more on this...

From Pilate to the Cross - Jesus Suffers for Our Transgressions and Sins Lesson 24 John 18:28-19:16 Why does the matter for you? If we don't have truth, we can't have much confidence on which to live a purposeful and meaningful life. That is why Jesus clearly tells us that He is the Truth that leads to life. He is explicit and He is clear. Then what does this mean practically? Today, we wi...

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Jesus's Arrest and Jewish Trials John 18:1-27 In this time of Lenten, the Church tries to subtract and declutter our hearts and minds to think about the central event in all Human History when God's Son, Jesus made His way to the Cross to die for our sins. Today, we're looking at what this substitutionary death of Jesus means in the context of God's Promise, His Covenant spoken thr...

This is a Global Lecture provided by BSF's HQ. The local lecture will be uploaded on Wednesday at noon.