Luke 6:38 (NKJV)
.38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Teachings - March 2015
Here are various teachings which have been compiled by me and shared with you all. I encourage anyone with specific doctrinal or biblical questions, to contact me.
The Holy Spirit
Posted: March 01, 2015
During the Middle Ages, Christian translators created a way to make the English Bible reflect their belief that the Holy Ghost was not the Holy Spirit.These theologians coined the phrase "Holy Ghost" to designate the Third Person of the Trinity. In contrast, they used "Holy Spirit" to refer to the Spirit of God or Spirit of the LORD encountered by the Hebrews and Jews in the Old Testament.
Then, in the 16th century, Bible printers reinforced this distinction by introducing capital and small letters. In the OT they used "spirit" and "holy spirit." In the NT they printed "Spirit" and "Holy Ghost," but with subtle distinctions.
These translation and printing differences do not exist in the Bible itself, in either Hebrew or Greek.
They are invented theological biases imported into the (English) Bible. They provided both verbal and visual validation for the already existing conviction that Christianity must be separated from its Hebraic/Jewish foundations.
At the end of this study I raise questions about the implications of these biases. For example, if the Spirit of the Lord in the OT is not the Holy Ghost of the NT, when did the Spirit become the Ghost, another person in the godhead? Or are there two spirits in the godhead?
Most modern translations have discontinued the "Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit" distinction. But they still retain a misleading printing bias implying that the Ghost is not the Spirit.
Jesus is Glorified
Posted: March 01, 2015
Jesus is glorified when the power of God is demonstrated in and through the church. Father Glorify Your Name. Ephesians 3:10 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.Ephesians 3: 20-21 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations [a]forever and ever. Amen.
First you love, Then you obey..
Posted: March 01, 2015
It is not possible for someone who does not love Jesus to keep His words, John 14:24. First you love, then you obey. Obedience involves not only doing what we have heard God tell us to do; but doing it with a good attitude. Obeying with joy, even when we do not understand, is true obedience..