In the last message we have dealt with the Abrahamic and the Mosaic Covenants and in this message we will deal with the Grace Covenant. THE GRACE OR AS COMMONLY KNOWN, THE NEW COVENANT The contents of the agreement between God, Israel and the Gentiles (as we know that this covenant is inclusive of Gentiles or Non Jews as well), are: Jeremiah 31:33-34 (ESVST) For this is the covenant that ...
To those that understand the doctrine of predestination, I just want to say, I am aware of that and take that in mind. If you don’t know it, don’t worry. I say this because it just continues to concern me why we keep holding on to a dead covenant or agreement. There are predominantly 3 covenants that God made with people. The Abrahamic, The Mosaic and the Grace Covenants or ...
Jesus is still in Judea at the feast of booths after telling his brothers to go, he went alone and in private. According to the above verse, in the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and began to preach. The feast of booths was every seventh month on the fifteenth, for seven days. So, in the middle of the feats meant after about 3 days. In ...
Christianity was completely shocked this week by the emergence of the videos and pictures of people eating grass. It is alleged that their pastor had told them that it is how to get closer to God. Wether indeed their pastor told them that or not, I don’t know but, what I do know is that, they did eat grass. Yes, this might have shocked us but, equally shocking, there are ...
John 7:14-24 (ESVST) About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “ How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?” Jesus is still in Judea at the feast of booths after telling his brothers to go, he went alone and in private. According to the above verse, in the middle of the ...
John 7:1-13 (ESVST) 1 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. By the end of chapter 6, we left Jesus in Capernaum in Galillee. Capernaum was one of the places in Galillee. The above verse starts with the words “after this”. Verse 2 below says that, the feast of booths was at hand. Since we ...
In this message, we find Jesus still on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee or the sea of Tiberius. This is after he had fed the 5000 with barley loaves and fish. John 6:16-29 (ESVST) 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come ...
Right at the beginning of chapter 6, we find Jesus whom we left in chapter 5 in Jerusalem, now on the other side of the sea of Galilee also known as the Sea of Tiberius. John does not tell us the exact place Jesus was at, but on the other side of the Sea of Galilee you find places like Gadara, Abilene, Dion, Bethsaida and even further inland Naveh. Most ...
In the Old Testament when God established the judicial law for Israel, one of the things that God did was to establish a way that the truth can be verified. If someone was accused of anything, how the judges would know that it was true. The system that God established was what we would call today as eye witness testimony but, it did not end there, God required that there ...
In our last message, we were busy with Luke 23:39-43 and we had just finished discussing the first part of verse 40 were one of the criminals who was crucified with Jesus was reprimanding his fellow criminal for mocking Jesus. The first question that he asked was if by mocking Jesus like this, did he not fear God. I highlighted that there were four very important points that were made ...
