Today’s passage is Romans 8.  Please join us in study.

The human race and each of us as individuals are hung out to dry, caught between the flesh and the Spirit, the proverbial rock and a hard place.  We live in the flesh and no matter what we try, we just don’t seem to do what we want to do, but rather what we hate, what we don’t want to do.  Paul lays out this dilemma in chapter 7 and ends with the question that haunts us all; ‘What a wretched man I am!  Who will rescue me from this body of death?’  His answer is a resounding ‘Thanks be to God – through Christ Jesus our Lord!’

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Today’s passage is Ephesians 6.  Please join us in study.

The armor of God, as described here in Ephesians 6, has been a favorite of commentators for many years and judging by the Google search on ‘Ephesians 6’ that returned 3.6 million hits, it still is.  There is a lot of truth to be uncovered by studying the armor of God in detail and just what it is.  The subject has been covered well by many others and I am going to limit my comments to a few general observations.

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Today’s passage is Luke 4.  Please join us in study.

The founding episode of Jesus’ ministry is His being baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:21-22), which is followed almost immediately by temptation.  Everything that follows, not only in this chapter, but in the whole of the New Testament, is based on the outcome of these twin events.  Jesus first submits to His Heavenly Father and receives the Holy Spirit through John the Baptist and then is put to the test by the devil to find out if He actually will serve in Spirit and Truth, walking out that submission in concrete obedience.  Then and only then does He move out into the actual purpose and ministry He has been called to among the people of this world, culminating on Calvary and the Cross.

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Today’s passage is 1Samuel 28.  Please join us in study.

The story of the witch of Endor and Saul presents us with several points of interest and challenge.  The Biblical truth is that witches and other mediums or spiritualist do exist and they have powers, powers which are not of God.  God as we see in the passage has specifically prohibited this kind of behavior among His people.  Satan would build up one of two types of strongholds regarding witches and other type of spiritualist.

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Today’s passage is 1Timothy 4.  Please join us in study.

“Through temptation, the enemy builds, block by block, a stronghold–a belief or pattern of thinking–that leads to sin and further separation from God.  We must learn the truth about Christ and His kingdom, and the truth will set us free.”  Pastor Bart Wilkins

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Today’s passage is Romans 12.  Please join us in study.

There are many gifts of the Spirit.  No list will be comprehensive.  Romans makes it clear that God provides us with many different types of gifts.  Romans 12 introduces a couple that we don’t see elsewhere.  We find at least 21 named gifts of the Spirit in the New Testament, some of which are obviously supernatural like prophecy but others would seem to be more mundane like hospitality but we see here even they are given supernatural empowerment by the Holy Spirit!

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Today’s passage is Ephesians 4.  Please join us in study.

The passage emphasis is on the four main gifts of the Spirit given to the Church for leadership; apostles, prophets, evangelist, and pastor-teachers.

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