Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Essence of Worship
We are acquainted with God and we want to believe him. I discovered my sinfulness when I was young and it made me think the Lord had forsaken me but He showed me He hadn’t, He said I’m still here. I saw my mistakes and said, now I’m up to my neck in my overwhelming senses of my sin. In this condition the Lord drew near to me and said look up, I am still here. We want to gather together often to remember how personal God is with us. Jesus makes us free through His Word, not magic. The centurion said to the Lord, speak only and my servant shall be healed. It was an overwhelming experience the power of the Word. Read the rest of this entry
How to Have Kindness
Paul Godfrey
Jesus is tenderly calling, calling us to enter in at the strait gate to enter into His love. He is calling us with this tenderness. My question is, do you hear Jesus calling you tenderly? Do you hear Jesus calling you to enter into these characteristics of love that we have considered? Do you hear Him calling? It is my prayer that we will hear Jesus calling us to enter in at the strait gate. We have looked at a few character traits and the last one was patience, how to obtain patience. There were five main instructions that the Bible brought out and that was to connect patience with the other fruits of joy, peace and trust. As you seek for the joy and peace and trust, this is one step of obtaining patience but the second one we considered was knowing Gods will and knowing God so you could say with the scriptures, I know that all things work together for good. I know that everything I go through is actually positive working and because we know that, we can have patience. The third instruction that the Bible ruled out was being temperate. We are to add temperance to patience and self-control both in diet, in the natural but also in the spiritual. The fourth one was patience which is gained by experience and experience is gained by patience. The Spirit of Prophecy says that if we want to cultivate patience, we need to practice patience. Read the rest of this entry
Pain with Hope or Hopeless Pain
John Thiel
Pain with hope, or hopeless pain, which one will you choose? As sinners, you and I are destined for redemption. Every inhabitant on this planet must pass from death unto life and there is not one person who must not pass from death unto life.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Read the rest of this entry
Hypocrisy – It Means me
Camron Schofield
Audio: mp3
Christ gave his disciples a warning;
Luke 12:1 Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
The leaven of the Pharisee’s. Leaven is like a yeast. You start with a small bit and as you add it to the bread it pervades and causes things to grow. Hypocrisy if it is not dealt with will leaven the entire being until we grow up full of air, full of pride, full of air like a puffy loaf of bread. In order to make a good loaf of bread you have to give it a good punch and knock the air out of it. However, no hypocrisy can be tolerated in heaven therefore He says beware of the leaven of hypocrisy. We often like to examine ourselves and say that was the leaven of the Pharisee and I’m not a Pharisee so therefore I don’t need to beware of the leaven of hypocrisy. Well the Pharisees didn’t realise they were hypocritical. Read the rest of this entry
The New Covenant Christian
Paul Godfrey
Audio: mp3
Are you a new covenant Christian? Are you born again? Are we under grace? Are we in the faith? Scripture asks us to take the Word of God, read it and assess our position individually. These are the questions we want to think about today. There is a principle that we need to understand in the Bible. Jesus gave us a parable to dwell upon. Read the rest of this entry
True Repentance and Man’s Response to the Cross
John Thiel
Jesus the ladder of Jacob’s dream was the communicating link between divine and fallen humanity. The base of the ladder including man in his fallen experience communicates him step by step with the sinless nature of the divine. Our nature and condition is likened to a pit. Read the rest of this entry
From Defeat to Victory
John Thiel
The night is dark and I am far from home. Is that true?
Is the night dark? We live according to the Word of God in a time of gross darkness. The danger for us is that we may not know it, but because we have living truth that has been given us through the three angels’ messages we become more conscious of it. So indeed, you and I, who dwell under the three angels’ messages are aware of the fact that we must be of the number that are recorded in Revelation 14:1-5 Read the rest of this entry
The Power of Forgiveness
Steven Caruana
It isn’t hard to believe that Christ can forgive your sins, 
after all He is everything that is good and lovely and pure but to believe He can stop us from sinning isn’t always easy to believe. To believe that we can be perfectly obedient in this life is something we aim for but do you really believe you can achieve it? It is a fact that for us to be part of the 144,000 we have to be perfect, keeping the commandments and having the faith of Jesus. But just how can we achieve this? The power lies in understanding and receiving the true blessing of Christ forgiving our sins. Read the rest of this entry
The Seal of Consistency
John Thiel
Those who are under the three angel’s messages, must be found among the 144,000. It is more now than at any other time since 1844 that this predominating thought must be governing us. I must be among the 144,000. I must be among the church triumphant. Read the rest of this entry
Making Room for Christ Our Righteousness
Steven Caruana
For the purpose of this study I need to assume the role of someone other then myself so I will go about outlining the steps I would take to convince you and the rest of the world that I am not me but rather my friend Paul Godfrey. I would like go about proving to the world that I am Paul Godfrey, a dear friend of mine. Let us say for the moment that I have the appearance of Paul Godfrey and I speak as he does and, genetically I am identical to him. Read the rest of this entry
