Category: God

Why Four Gospels?

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Have you ever wondered why there are four “gospels,” or four accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ of Nazareth in the New Testament? Actually, there is a significance to this fact that many are not aware of.

Each of the gospel accounts, as they are called, has a particular bearing on the nature of God, Jesus Christ, and God’s government, and on the kingdom of God destined to be established in the future on this earth. The gospel accounts provide insight into major aspects of the nature and character of the government of God that will be established on the earth and of the one who is to be at it’s head, Jesus Christ. The Father has set Jesus Christ “far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And he put all things under his feet…” (Ephesians 1:21-22).

The gospels are about Jesus Christ the Messiah, the King, who is at the head of a government that will one day rule all nations and will encompass the entire world. And even beyond that it’s a government that has authority over all creation, everything that exists whether physical or spiritual. The gospels are a message about both the king and the kingdom. They are about what kind of ruler he is and what kind of government he will administer.

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What Are True Values?

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Not infrequently in public discourse we hear the word “values” mentioned. Many of the issues we face as a nation and a world boil down to a question of values. For example, the questions of abortion, human rights, women’s rights, homosexual rights, religious expression, family, out of control government spending and national debt? Do these issues have anything to do with values?

Nearly every political and social issue you can name touches on the personal values of citizens and the public values of the nation. There is a sense among many people that the United States, as well as other nations, has abandoned sound values and that fact accounts for many of the problems the nation faces, along with the world in general.

The profound changes that have occurred in recent decades in the nation’s values are seen reflected in pathologies such as the dramatic increase in out ­of ­wedlock births, incidence of drug abuse, proliferation of pornography and social changes such as legalization of abortion, same-sex “marriage,” dramatic increases in criminal activity, and many other aspects of personal behavior and public life.

What are values? Are values important, and if so why? Does it matter what your values are? Finally, what are the “true values”? The Bible has answers to the question of values that may surprise you.

The Foundation of Godly Faith

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Have you considered the question of what is the foundation of your faith? Or what is the proper foundation of godly faith according to Scripture? The faith of many is on a weak or flawed foundation. It may be on a human personality, on false teachings, on confidence in one’s own opinions or rationalizations, on popular opinion, or what others among their friends and aquaintances believe. It may be in an organization, perhaps a Church.

The faith of one who would be a genuine disciple of Jesus Christ must not be founded on any of the things mentioned above.

In our message titled “The Foundation of Godly Faith” by Rod Reynolds is explained clearly from the Scriptures what your faith must be founded on and how having the right foundation is essential to your relationship with God and how it is of benefit to you spiritually, and how you may go about building and maintaining your faith on the proper foundation.

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Binding and Loosing, Part 2

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The idea that God gives to some individual or individuals unrestrained authority to make judgments that only he can make concerning salvation, condemnation, and matters of doctrine and law, reward and punishment, has been a cause of unbounded confusion and immense injustice for vast numbers of people.

What did Jesus mean when he said, “…whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”? Indeed, did he even say such a thing?

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Binding and Loosing Part 1

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Various churches and ministries have misapplied and misused what the Bible says about “Binding and Loosing” and the “keys of the kingdom of heaven,” associated with the former as in Jesus’ statement to Peter in Matthew 16:19. The result has been that many Christians have been confused about what the Bible really teaches about the aforementioned “keys” and the concept of binding and loosing, and much mischief within professing Christianity has resulted.

In this message, learn what the Bible tells us about what it means to have the “keys to the kingdom of heaven.”

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