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“Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this which you now see and hear” (Acts 2:33) NKJV. It fell first to Simon, the fisher of Galilee, to boldly cast wide the gospel net, at a bemused and unbelieving crowd, to draw them to the shore of faith, by revealing the origin and nature of the Pentecost event, which they then witnessed, but were also about to become a part. To this captive audience, Simon declares that the man Jesus, publicly condemned and executed before their very eyes only weeks before, was not only risen from the dead, but, having ascended to the right hand of God, had received “the promise of the Father” which had now been poured out (Acts 2:33). This world, with all its pomp and pageantry, with all the glistening grandeur it has known or ever could know, such glory as was once paraded full before the Christ, in the wilderness of Judea, by the tempter, now defeated and forever judged; pales before the heavenly throng that gathers to greet the man who enters Heaven by his own authority and presents himself, unafraid and unabashed, before the throne of God, to receive, by means of a solemn and official act, this “promise of the Father,” not for himself, who had the Spirit always, but for the benefit of those he had come to earth to save. This promise of the Father, spoken of in ages past by the prophets of old (Isa 32:15; 44:3; Joel 2:28) had found its crowning utterance on the lips of the man Jesus, who spoke always in the Father’s name, as he prepared his disciples for the crisis of the cross and his imminent departure from them: “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you” (John 14:16-17) NKJV. Risen, glorified, ascended; this man Jesus, the virtue of whose life outshines the Heavenly realm and the value of whose death outweighs all the treasures of Paradise, places them both at the disposal of the sinner and the rebel. Upon man, who for so long has grieved the Spirit of Truth, is this same Spirit now poured out from on high, uniting men to God in the person of the risen Lord. “For the promise is to you,” the fisher of Galilee proclaims, “and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call” (Acts 2:39) NKJV. by Richard Dempsey
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Belief enters God's rest5/31/2021 And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter. Heb 3:18-19 BSB The Israelites were saved and set free from captivity by the blood of the lamb they placed by faith on the doorposts in Egypt. But they were unable to enter God’s rest because of unbelief. If we have placed our faith in Jesus, believe and confess that Jesus is Lord, a multitude of scriptures promise us we are saved. By faith trusting the blood of the lamb as God instructed, what the Israelites did in Egypt was an Old Testament picture, a shadow of the true reality found in the Lamb of God, Jesus, who takes away the sins of the world. We are living in that reality and set free by Jesus one sacrifice for all sins for all time, but find ourselves in the wilderness, just like the Israelites did after being set free from Pharoah, a picture of Satan. The Israelites believed God enough to trust the blood of the lamb, but they lacked a belief that God would fully take care of them in the here and now. If they had continued to walk by faith further down the path, believing all of God’s promises, they could not have avoided His rest. But they began to walk by sight, viewing their problems as greater than God’s promises. Isn’t the same true for us at times? We walk by sight instead of faith. Jesus told us repeatedly to not doubt, fear or worry. He told us it is finished. He promised that God would provide for all of our needs amidst the trials and tribulations we encounter in this world. If we are not experiencing God’s rest, I would suggest we are in unbelief too. God promises His rest in the here and now, a rest that awaits all who believe. Do you believe Him? Jesus said, 'Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest' (Matt 11:28 BSB) by Michael Edwards
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Kierkegaard's faith in grace5/30/2021 At an age of religious turmoil that was the nineteenth century in Northern Europe, and Germany in particular, when liberal theologian David Strauss was denying the divine nature of Christ, having scrutinised it in his 1835 book The Life of Jesus, critically edited; when radical rationalist Bruno Bauer was declaring that “Christianity is stoicism triumphant in a Jewish garb”, and went on to refute the Gospels as literary fiction and Paul’s epistles as forgeries; at an age when the nihilist writer Max Stirner was exalting in his The Ego and its Own the egocentric individual who stands beyond God and morality ― in quiet neighbouring Denmark, a young theologian by the name of Søren Kierkegaard, was penning passionate discourses on the Purity of Heart, the Knight of Hidden Inwardness, the Gospel of Sufferings, and the Single Individual who stands alone and transparent before his Creator. Today, Kierkegaard’s writings are read by Christians and non-Christians alike, for their profound insights into human nature and the psychology of belief. Against the learned arrogance of his German counterparts, Kierkegaard from “provincial Copenhagen” devoted his short life, not in dissecting the strands of Christianity, but in restoring its integrity in our conscience. “Christianity transforms every relationship into a relationship of conscience” he writes in the Works of Love. To many of his contemporaries he may have appeared utopian and anachronistic, but to my eyes he is a brave, uncompromising spirit, who like his beloved Socrates (the subject of his doctorate thesis) uses his subtle dialectical skills and primitive faith to reach his truth. “What matters is to find a purpose” he writes in his diary in 1835, “to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth that is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. What’s the use of formulating the meaning of Christianity — if it has no deeper meaning for me and for my life?” Twelve years later he writes: “O, while people deride and ridicule my work, I sit and thank God who grants success to it. Even if everything was taken from me, the best is my original and indestructible blessed thought that God is love. However hopeless things become, I scrape together the thoughts of what a loving, affectionate person is, and say to myself: This is what God is every moment. I hope to awaken similar thoughts in men, so that they stop wasting their lives without ever considering how loving God is.” One year later, in a spell of graceful lucidity, the 35-year-old philosopher recaps his life: “I want to say Amen, as I am overwhelmed with gratitude for what Governance has done for me; that everything can turn out for a man the way it did. Everything that has happened to me was appropriate to my nature and disposition. I am in want of nothing. I became unhappy in love, [ he refers to his engagement with Regine Olsen that he decided to break] but this unhappiness became my blessing. I am saved by one who is dead, my father, [he was indebted to him for his religious upbringing] but I cannot possibly conceive of any living person being able to save me. I became an author because of and according to my potentialities. I was persecuted, [he refers to the relentless slander of a local newspaper against his person] but without it, my life would not have been my own. Melancholy shadows everything in my life, but that, too, is an indescribable blessing. That is how I became myself, by the indescribable grace and help of God ―I could almost say by his partiality had I not believed that He loves every man the same. I have literally lived with God as one lives with a father. Amen”. Kierkegaard did not bother to enter into debate with his spirited contemporaries across the border. But I would imagine that the best response to such an invitation would be what he calls “The Principal Rule” in a late diary entry: “Above all, read the New Testament without a commentary. Would it ever occur to a lover to read a letter from his beloved with a commentary? For everything that has a purely personal significance to me, a commentary is a most hazardous meddler. If the letter from the beloved was in a language I don’t understand — I first learn the language, but I don’t read the letter with the aid of commentaries by others. I read it, and since the thought of my beloved is vivid in my mind and my purpose is to will according to her wishes, I understand the letter correctly. It is the same with Scripture. With the help of God, I understand it correctly. Every commentary detracts; he who sits with ten open commentaries to read the Holy Scripture — is probably writing the eleventh”. Throughout his writings the great existentialist thinker stresses the fact of speaking “without authority”. What does he mean by that? Kierkegaard disliked the pomp and histrionics that goes with a lot of pulpit preaching. In the sermons he listened to, he praises the preachers who use plain words and a modest style to bring their message across, a heart-to-heart communication. He prefers the term “deliberations” for the thought-provoking discourses he pens, and which he addresses to the “single individual whom I consider my reader”, to read them slowly, time and again, in the quiet of solitude. by Costas Nisiotis
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The faith life5/30/2021 “And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 (NRSV) Living by faith in Christ is the least we can give to our Saviour who loved so much that He surrendered His life for us. It is our high calling in gratitude for His highest sacrifice. We seek nothing more but to obey Him in love for His love towards us. We seek neither blessing nor any reward. We simply seek to love Christ. We stand with Paul who argued that everything else is a loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus as our Lord and loving Him entirely. We seek in faith to gain Christ and be found in Him. Faith was the power that possessed and permeated Paul’s whole being and every action. Let it be ours too. May our days be ones of unceasing faith in the loving Saviour. We are not merely putting our faith in the promises of God, or the blessings we receive. We are reaching out in faith to the One who gave Himself so that we could experience an abundant new life and enjoy unceasing fellowship with Him forever. Faith must rest on the infinite love in which Christ offered Himself wholly for us and to live His life over again in us. Just as the Father lived His life in Jesus as He walked on earth, so now will Christ live and work in each one of us. ‘Jesus, Saviour who loves me and died for me, live in me, for you are my life and my all.’ by Jennifer Woodley
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The glow of Grace5/28/2021 Among the many classics that I read in childhood, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables stands out for one specific scene. After serving a long prison sentence for stealing a loaf of bread ― a sentence that four escape attempts extended to nineteen years ― released convict Jean Valjean wanders for four days in the countryside before finding shelter in the house of the bishop of Digne, known in the parish as Monseigneur Bienvenu. During dinner, Jean Valjean reveals to the bishop his true identity: Number 24601 in the forced labour camp of Toulon. The clergyman listens attentively and says to Valjean words of comfort before sending him off to bed. The troubled guest wakes up in the dead of night, and on the spur of a bad moment steals the bishop’s silver and runs away. The morning after, he gets arrested by three gendarmes who take him back to Monseigneur Bienvenu and show the stolen cutlery to his host. A classic of literature should be read again, in adulthood, and preferably in the original. Reading Hugo’s epic in later life reveals the author’s personality, his credo of values expressed in the choice of words, metaphors, and descriptions. My first reading of Les Misérables was from a heavily abridged Greek translation, where even the names of the main characters were Hellenised. Hugo devotes the first fourteen chapters of Les Misérables to A righteous Man (Un Juste) as he calls the bishop of Digne. The excerpts that follow are my own free translation. “There are those who work to extract gold; he worked to extract compassion from the mine of universal misery. Suffering wherever he saw it was an occasion for goodness. Love one another, he kept declaring, he wished nothing more, that was his entire doctrine.” Using plain but powerful language Victor Hugo goes on to describe the benevolent bishop as “simply a man who considered the questions of the Mysterious without scrutinising them, without agitating them, and without troubling his mind with them; a man who had in his soul the great respect for the shadow (my emphasis.)” Whereas sublime thinkers applied genius to decipher religion, thereby gliding into madness, “Monseigneur Bienvenu took the path that shortens: The Gospel. He wasn’t casting a ray of the future on the dark roll of events nor seeking to condense in a flame the glow of things. He had nothing of the prophet or the magus. This simple soul loved ― that was all he did.” Let us now go back to the novel. Upon seeing the arrested convict on his doorstep, the bishop exclaims: “Oh, there you are! I am so relieved to see you! Tell me, I had given you the candlesticks which are also made of silver, and you could get another two hundred francs by selling them. Why didn’t you take them along with the cutlery?” Fifty years on, the humanity of that scene still radiates in my mind. “Can human nature be totally transformed from one moment to the next?” The author of Les Misérables wonders. “Can a bad destiny condemn a soul forever? Isn’t there in the soul of every person, isn’t there in the soul of Jean Valjean an original spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this life, eternal in the other, a spark that the Good can develop into a flame glowing so splendidly that no Evil, however strong, can blow away?” “Do not forget, not even for a moment, your promise to use this money in order to become an honest man” the bishop reminds Jean Valjean. “From now on you do not belong to the evil, but to the Good. I buy your soul in order to save it; I take it out of its malice and give it to God.” This last sentence had a life-changing effect on the ex-convict. “The pardon of the priest was a most formidable attack that shook him to the core of his existence; he realised that if he resisted this grace, he would never be cured from his hardness, whereas if he gave in, he would have to empty his soul from the hatred that filled it all those years. The time had now come for a colossal, decisive fight between the malice of his own self and the goodness of that man”. And as with every life-changing fight, the battle takes place in the conscience: “By effects that occur only in states of ecstasy, the figure of the bishop kept becoming larger while that of Jean Valjean diminished until it vanished completely. And then, the bishop filled the soul of that wretch with a magnificent radiance.” Repentance has now taken over the ex-convict’s inner self. “Jean Valjean started to cry. He was crying in sobs. How long was he crying? What did he do afterwards? No one can tell other than the coachman doing the regular service from Grenoble to Digne, who at three in the morning saw a man in the position of prayer outside the bishop’s house.” Victor Hugo was more than a novelist. He was a humanist who opposed absolutism in all his forms. “To love is to act” he wrote two days before he died. In a passage where his poetic licence takes over Scriptural accuracy, Hugo the Christian reflects through the benevolent bishop over God’s attributes: “The Ecclesiastes calls you Almighty, the Maccabees call you Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you Liberty, Baruch calls you Immensity, the Psalmist calls you Wisdom and Truth, John call you Light, the Kings call you Lord, Exodus calls you Providence, Leviticus calls you Holiness, Ezra calls you Justice, Genesis calls you God, man calls you Father; but Solomon calls you merciful, and this is the most beautiful name of all.” The glow of the bishop’s gift, the two silver candlesticks, illuminated the path of the repentant man to the end of his days. The path of mercy stretches under the glow of Grace. by Costas Nisiotis
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In life, we cannot predict what is going to happen in the future to us or what is going to happen in our corner of the world or even what will occur in the next moment. The uncertainties, the unknowns, and the unfamiliar events crash into our now, and in the midst of what we experience emotionally, physically, and spiritually when these events come, we find how inadequate we as human beings are to cope with it all. If one is a believer in Jesus Christ, the way to deal and respond to these events is through the truth of God's faithfulness. In the book of 2nd, Corinthians Paul emphasized that when life throws an unexpected curveball, believers in Jesus as the way, the truth and the life were to place their trust in; 1) God's covenant faithfulness; 2) God’s trustworthy reliability; 3) God’s truthfulness as revealed in Jesus the Messiah. As a believer trusting in the faithfulness of God, He is the heart of my thinking, praying, and hoping, and through an act of my will, I am 'living, abiding, being in the realm of faith, not directed by what I can see or what I know from a worldly stance, but relying in faith on the unseen divine power of the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:7). When I cannot 'see' where I am going in the many challenges in life and I do not know what is going to happen next in this crazy upside-down world, (chaos spilling across the country, political divide, the senseless violent acts, civil unrest, injury, illness, losses), the only light that is sufficient to guide me in the darkness of unknown territory is the light and life of Jesus himself who reveals the Father. "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His glory and excellence. Through these, He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires" 2 Peter 1:3-4 My entire worldview shifts to one of understanding I am to live from God’s faithfulness as revealed in Jesus who has fully and sufficiently supplied all I need to live this life. The role I have as a Christian is choosing to participate in the divine power of the Spirit-life that has been infused into the fabric of my humanity, living Faith in the practical reality of life's uncertainties. I am challenged through life events to respond to the Spirit-life who redirects my thinking, acting, and being from this realm of faith discovered in the reign of Jesus. Jesus is who thinks, acts, and expresses God's faithfulness, God's reliability, God's promised security, and God's full assurance that in Christ there is hope, light, and life, regardless of difficulties. The unseen realm of the spirit and the divine power in Jesus whose life has been imparted into mine is the anchor and source I tie my life (thoughts, attitudes, motivations, desires, passions, activities) to and all I experience; including the bad things ------ become filtered through Jesus' life passing through mine in a God-consciousness. Jesus-being-life is who calls me, draws me, beckons me, and ushers me to come to Him, to place my belief and trust Him that in each event, I experience, including every situation (each circumstance, relational issue, conflicts, not understanding, questioning, doubting, fears, anxieties, suffering, etc.) and in the ups and downs of this journey - God is trustworthy in All seasons. You and I can be encouraged we are not left alone as there is a sanctuary discovered in this divine power of Jesus's life as a sanctuary of love and light. When life shows you and me as inadequate and life’s uncertainties push us beyond capacity, we know that there is certainty in trusting God as the Faithful One. The Spirit-led-life which Jesus gifts to each and every believer, imparts an all-sufficient grace that enables us to live faithfully and confidently in a hostile and uncertain world. by Lorraine Taylor
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God in a box?5/25/2021 Many Christians make the mistake of relating to God as if he were ‘in a box’, that they can keep on a shelf, until they have a life event that requires his help. It may seem to them to be a tidy and very convenient way of being a Christian. Their lives can go on as before, but they can still call on God ‘when they need him’. I know I used to live my Christian life in that way. The problem with this approach to the Christian life, is that the God we claim to serve is a living God. It is impossible to put him into a box or place him in a corner only to call on him in an emergency. If you pray to God and feel he isn't answering, your experience could be due to the simple fact that you do not know him as you should. Jesus explains in Luke 13:22-30, that simply wishing to enter God’s rest in Christ is not enough. The door to salvation is pictured as ‘narrow’ because we are meant to ‘strive’ to enter in. Our striving in the Spirit is our participation in the life of Christ (Philippians 3:12,14; Colossians 1:29; 1 Timothy 4:10). Far from putting fear into our hearts, the truth of our union with Christ should encourage us to want to grow, as the apostle Peter admonishes us (2 Peter 3:18), in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. We do this by developing a personal relationship with Jesus, which will guard our minds, letting nothing but good through (Philippians 4:8). I assure you that once you develop that personal relationship with God, your fears will melt away as you lean on him. God is loving beyond any description a person could ever set down in mere words. Even our faith comes to us from our loving God, as the free gift of his grace (Ephesians 2:8). If you believe in Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, who died as a propitiation for our sins and was raised from the dead on the third day, then you should take yourself to a quiet place, free of distractions, and simply talk to your Heavenly Father. Trust and believe that he is there and listening, for he is. He will never turn you down when you ask in this manner. Tell him that you are his to use as he sees fit, as an instrument of his will, not of your own will (2 Timothy 2:20). Ask him to make himself known to you in a very personal way, through Christ who dwells in you by the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:10; Galatians 2:20). Always be truthful with God for, as your creator, he knows all about you and knows what is in your heart before you pray it (Matthew 6:8). God wants to have a personal relationship with you. God loves you unconditionally...love him back in the same way (1 John 4:19). Now, go forward putting God before, within, and around you. Jesus told us to become perfect like our Father is perfect (Matthew 5:48). The closer you draw to God in Christ, the more you look, act, and think like him. Read the scriptures with a view to becoming more acquainted with your Lord and Saviour, Jesus, and have a long personal talk with him each and every day. God is real, we serve a living God (Hebrews 9:14), not a physical object that we can ‘put in a box’ and store away somewhere, expecting him to act when we call on him, only when we feel we need him. That’s not the God of scripture. by Jim Newton
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Apples of gold5/24/2021 “The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life…” (Proverbs 10:11 CSB). In an age of “critical theory” and critical people in general, it’s refreshing to key into a critical need of believers in Jesus — the need to give an uplifting word or a compliment to someone, even more so when they least expect it. It doesn’t come naturally to the flesh. Our sinful nature is bent on touting ourselves, and staying mum regarding those we consider “competitors” in the grand contest for admiration and favour. Worse, we can withhold a good word or a deserving compliment under the pretence of “not wanting to give someone else a big head”. Since we don’t have the right to judge how big someone else’s head might have the potential of getting, we should stop and take into account how large ours might be getting in the meantime. So, instead of being stingy with our praises, we should consider how our withheld blessings and encouragement might possibly rob—not only an individual from recognizing his or her potential, but might inhibit them from developing and sharing their gifts with others to the glory of God. The Bible says “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver” (Proverbs 25:11 KJV). Let’s share some apples today. Let go of any haughtiness of mind or a critical spirit and be a blessing to someone else in Jesus name. by Toni Babcock
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The missing peace5/23/2021 The shapes of puzzle pieces have always intrigued me. Especially the ones that look like people. An image, difficult to be unseen, once noticed. As an artist, I wanted to capture this figure in a painting. Sounds simple enough. At least the shape is simple. Being the overthinker I am, choosing the perfect colors and design to put on that missing acrylic puzzle piece proved difficult. Taking a journey to the back of my daughter’s closet, I pull off a box from the top of a dark shelf and return to my table of art. Here I begin removing all the pieces resembling a person. Studying the colors and design of each, I sketch out some ideas. None of which spark a creative flame. I leave the bleach white shape on the canvas for another day. Then it happened! I had one of those beautiful moments I love so much. You know the ones. When your heart, and entire body down to the tip of your toe, burns with an overwhelming joy. Joy that can warm the coldest spirit, like a grilled cheese partnered with tomato soup on a cold blustery day. That all-consuming joy, showing up out of nowhere, on a day when there is really no reason to be joyful. It’s like bottled-up sunshine wanting to spew out in every direction, capable of warming the coldest feet and lifting one’s spirit out of the darkest winter storm. This, this is what I want to capture in the sterile white piece missing from the painting. The piece waiting to be filled with paint! A depiction of burning passion running from the soul, to the heart and all the way to the toe. Blood red must be the color! Passionate blood shed by Jesus for our sins. Red flames of peace and joy that can only come from the Holy Spirit himself. I love the assurance Jesus gave when he told the disciples in John 14:24-26 that they, as well as ourselves, would not be left alone after He leaves. Jesus said He would ask the Father to send a Counselor to be with them forever while He’s gone. Jesus said this Advocate, the Holy Spirit, would teach us everything and would remind us of all the things He has taught us. Yes, red is the perfect color for the passion that fills our soul in those unexpected moments. Blue should surround the passion running through the puzzle piece, representing the blue moods brought about by the battles we are all fighting. Battles with loneliness, fear, sorrow or rejection. There is no fathomable reason why we should be filled with such joy at a time when gale winds are holding us down as we defend ourselves from the sharpness of a cold pounding that could destroy us in seconds if our tenderness was exposed. But not on this day. Blue Mood will be chased away by the blueness of contentment and peace as passion and joy are emanating from the vein running through. For today we are filled with a glee. We realize we are in the presence of God! Earthly problems become small when compared to the love He has for us. All is well with our soul. Paints spread out, canvas before me, I pick up the brush and streak an acrylic line of bold red passion flowing from the head, to the heart, to the toes. Mixed hues of blue and aqua cheerfully develop around the vein as joy warms the body and soothes our spirit. Blues of inner peace and tranquility splash around inside as excitement fills our entire being. Every day, even during the challenging times, we need to practice making the choice to be filled with joy. We can ask the Holy Spirit to come into our heart and chase away the blue mood we are incapable of stamping out on our own. This is possible in every storm, or season of life, when following God’s truths and trusting him with our future. When we trust him, our worries go away. Our face will radiate peace during our struggles. An unmistakable peace, noticed by others, which will become our witness to God’s love and trustworthiness. by Angela Mattingly
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