Power of Prayer

December 2nd, 2008

PrayerTell the Lord what you need and expect positive results. Stand your ground, stand on the Word of God till you see the answer. If it did not happened right away, keep on praying. Luke 11:8-10: 8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. 9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Apostle Daniel Rodes

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Faith is Your Servant

December 2nd, 2008

Faith will serve you. You need to read Bible examples of how somebody was operating in faith. You can’t have faith reading all the negative things in the Bible.

Apostle Daniel Rodes

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November 8, 2008

A Firm Foundation for the Future

November 29th, 2008

Timothy JohnsonIn preparation for the future Jesus said, “31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:31-33). If you focus on those things you’re going to lack in something.I’ll take you how to get a foundation of confidence.

The are keys: 1) Purposes of God.

Foundation of everything is in Genesis 1. If it is not valid in your heart you won’t be able to stand. Romans 4:15-16 15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. 16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all”.

2) The promise of God is as sure as His punishment. The punishment of God will put the fear of God on you. The promise of God will put the love of God on you. The love of God and fear of God are not opposite, they work together. The fear of God will keep you in the commandments of God, in the Spirit. It’ll alert you when you do something wrong. The promise of God will enable you to act. You won’t fret, when evil times come, you will rejoice. Certain people in times of government overthrows will fall.

People in Russia 70 years ago believed that nothing bad will happen, because rapture is coming. They were taught a false doctrine. It put in them a confidence in things which were not true. When it did not come their whole system faltered and many fell away.

God’s promises are for our provision and our wealth. The wealth of the sinner are laid out for the just. We really manifest that; the opportunity we have in these times. It’s not for us to fret when we lose that time. It’s up to us to have confidence that God will do great things not only in peaceful time, but in the time of calamity and war.

3) Diligence. Proverbs 12:24 24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.” Proverbs 12:27 27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.”

Diligent man will take care of what he has. It’s not going to be wasted. Proverbs 13:4 “4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.” Our nation and economy is based on diligent people. Slothful economy is what we call “welfare state”. People don’t want to get for themselves, they want it given to them.

Proverbs 22:29 “29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.”

I use this verse in my business. Diligent man is serious, he has a decisive work ethics, budgeting his time, guards against laziness. He is going to get job for rich people. Lazy person will get bad jobs. I seek after diligence.

Timothy Johnson

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November 22, 2008

Управление финансами. Часть 1

November 27th, 2008

Ч.1. Я их заработал, они мои! Верно?

Эндрю Уоммак

Знаете ли вы, что в Библии о финансах написано больше, чем о небесах, аде, молитве и вере? Иисус учил на эту тему больше, чем на любую другую тему. Так что, очевидно, что наше управление деньгами очень важно для Бога.

Я знаю, что как только священнослужитель заводит разговор на эту тему, то нередко сталкивается со скептицизмом. Люди начинают задаваться вопросами о том, какие мотивы побуждают служителя преподавать на эту тему. Я это понимаю и, честно говоря, есть много других тем, о которых я бы больше хотел учить. Но, так как Бог вверил мне это служение, то это не от меня зависит, а от Него. А Бог хочет, чтобы люди понимали, как необходимо поступать в этой области.

Для тех из вас, кто не слишком хорошо знаком с нашей миссией, и не знает, что я за человек, хочу сказать: «Я пишу на эту тему не для того, чтобы побудить вас присылать мне свои пожертвования, чтобы мне ублажать свою плоть за ваш счет. Я преподаю эту тему по той же причине, по какой я учу об исцелении, вере, благодати или о любом другом предмете».

Когда я учу об исцелении, я делаю это не для того, чтобы мне исцелиться, потому что я уже хочу в божественном здоровье. Подобным образом, когда я учу о том, как распоряжаться деньгами, я это делаю не для своей денежной выгоды, но для вашей. Мы с Джейми1 любим вас и хотим видеть, как вы ходите в благодати Божьей, в вере, являетесь здоровыми и преуспевающими.

Распоряжение финансами, пожалуй, одна из наиболее неверно понимаемых тем в Библии, но также и одна из наиболее важных. Иисус Христос Сам сказал об этом в Евангелии от Луки 16:10-11:

Верный в малом и во многом верен, а неверный в малом неверен и во многом. Итак, если вы в неправедном богатстве не были верны, кто поверит вам истинное?»

Иначе говоря, если вы не можете распоряжаться финансами и стать верным в этой области, вам нельзя доверять ни в чем другом. Финансы - отправная точка.

Многие люди считают, что имеющиеся у них в наличии деньги принадлежать им. В конце концов, они их заработали. Они экономили, наскребали их, они могли даже трудиться на двух работах, чтоб свести концы с концами. Верно?

Неверно! Так может казаться, но это неправда. Первый шаг на пути к ответственному распоряжению финансами и благословению - признать, что источником вашего благосостояния является Бог. Вы могли трудиться на рабочем месте, но это Бог дал вам жизнь, дыхание, таланты, способности, силу мышления и благословил тем, что вы живете во время не имеющий себе равных возможностей… Ничто из этого перечня не было достигнуто лично вами!

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  1. Джейми - жена Эндрю Уоммака []

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

November 27th, 2008

Washington, DC-October 3, 1863

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God…

Abraham LincolnWe have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!1

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863

  1. This paragraph is inserted from “President Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a day of National Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, 1863″ []

Why We Need Discipline

November 26th, 2008

Well disciplined person has integrity, he is law abiding and obedient, has respect for leadership. “Blessed are pure in heart, for they will see God.” (Matthew 5:8) Not everybody is pure, but, praise God, through the cross they can be.

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April 4, 2008

Богословская дискуссия после презентации Д. Форда «Судебная теория искупления во свете Евангелия Христа»

November 16th, 2008

В субботу 6 сентября 2008 г. после первой презентации д-ра Дезмонда Форда «Судебная теория искупления во свете Евангелия Христа» в Лома Линда состоялась богословская дискуссия. В ней приняли участие видные библейские исследователи из адвентистских университетов Ла Сьерра и Лома Линда:

Distinguished Panel

профессора Фриц Гай и Кендра Халовиак (Ла Сьерра), профессор Джон Полин, заведующий кафедрой религии, модератор дискуссии1 и пастор Лэрри Кристоффел из церкви Campus Hill church (Лома Линда). В конце были заданы вопросы из аудитории, на которые отвечал д-р Д. Форд.

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Dr. Jon PaulienД-р Джон Полин: «Дискуссия займет около часа. Около 5 часов мне принесут письменные вопросы из аудитории и с помощью некоторой магической системы я выберу несколько из них для того, чтобы поделиться ими с участниками дискуссии. …

Dr. F. GuyПредставлю наших участников. Итак, вот профессор Фриц Гай из университета Ла Сьерра - специалист по систематической теологии, философскому богословию, один из моих профессоров семинарии2, за что я всегда буду признателен.

Pastor Larry ChristoffelДалее с нами сегодня Лэрри Кристоффел, один из наших пасторов церкви Campus Hill church. Думаю, он внесет пастырский взгляд и практическую перспективу пастырского богословия.

Dr. K. HaloviakСправа от меня - Кендра Халовиак. Мне выпала честь быть ее преподавателем в семинарии. Иногда студенты идут дальше своих профессоров, и Кендра - одна из тех, кем я очень горжусь. Она из университета Ла Сьерра и разделяет вместе со мной специальность по Новому Завету, в частности, по книге Откровение.

Dr. Desmond FordСлева от меня, конечно же, человек часа [Дезмонд Форд]. Хочу начать с небольшого свидетельства. Мы вряд ли когда-либо с Вами [обращаясь к Д. Форду] встречались, думаю, всего пару раз и то мельком. Фактически это наша первая встреча. И я хотел бы сказать Вам: я рос в адвентистской семье и был одним из тех странных детей, которые много времени посвящали Библии. Я знал Библию практически вдоль и поперек. Я даже принимал участие в библейских викторинах в Нью-Йорке, на радио, и добивался значительных успехов еще будучи маленьким ребенком. Однако, две книги Библии всегда беспокоили меня. Это не были книги Даниила и Откровение, это были Послания к Римлянам и к Галатам. Мне казалось, что если б их можно было каким-то образом убрать из Библии, то известный мне адвентизм можно было бы прекрасно отстоять. [смех в аудитории].

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  1. Д. Полин - также автор урочника субботней школы по Евангелию от Иоанна []
  2. имеется в виду семинария при ун-те Эндрюса []

Praying Hyde

November 14th, 2008

Mr. Hyde had a wonderful experience to which he owed, I believe, his power with God, and therefore with man. He used to speak of it as one of the most direct and solemn lessons God ever taught him. He was up in the hills resting for a short time. He had been burdened about the spiritual conditions of a certain pastor, and he resolved to spend time in definite intercession for him. Entering into his “inner chamber” he began pouring out his heart to his Heavenly Father concerning that brother somewhat as follows: – “O God! You know that my brother now is” — (”cold” he was going to say) when suddenly a hand seemed to be laid on his lips, and a voice said to him in stern reproach, “He that touches him, touches the apple of mine eye.”1 A great horror came over him. He had been guilty before God of “accusing the brethren”. (Rom 2:15) He felt rebuked and humbled before God. It was he himself who first needed putting right. He confessed this sin. (He claimed the precious blood of Christ that cleanses from all sin!) (1 John 1:7) “Whatsoever things are lovely … if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on ‘these things.’” (Phil 4:8)

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  1. Zechariah 2:8: For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. []

There Ain’t No Free Lunch

November 14th, 2008

Willie SlaboughWe keep clipping of branches of sin, but we need to go to the root. Calvary is enough to deal with sin. Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to the cross I cling.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:4-9).

Pastor Willi Slabaugh

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The Date and Meaning of Christmas

November 13th, 2008

Another Look at the Date of Christ’s Birth

 

Pastor Noel GohNoel Goh, Pastor and Professor

Christmas is a church tradition that celebrates and commemorates the miraculous event of birth of the Son of God from a virgin’s womb to save the world from sin. It is a festivity that continues to have a major impact on the commercial world as well as family gatherings and gifts giving. Many look forward to this year-end Christmas break even if the significance of the birth of the Christ child is not fully appreciated or embraced. The result is a much treasured and much loved holiday.

Objective of this Study

This review seeks fresh insights from the written account available in the Bible for a possible re-dating of Christ’s actual birth.

Given the weight of tradition and sentiment resting on December 25, it would not be unreasonable to encounter the axiom - “don’t confuse me with the facts; my mind is already made up.” Not withstanding that, allow me to respectfully invite you to an open review of the question: Was Jesus born on December 25 or at another time?

Many people acknowledge that Christ was not born on December 25. Even Sunday school children participating in nativity plays, especially as shepherds, realize that it would be much too cold for shepherds to be outdoors watching their flocks by night in the bleak mid-winter, even if it is only a milder winter in Israel. Furthermore, many more are aware of how the origin of Christmas on 25 December derives from the celebration of the return of the Sun god on the day of the winter solstice - a day which is now corrected to December 21. History records how the Catholic church stepped in and redeemed an otherwise festival of great wanton orgy in Roman times and transforming it into a festival commemorating the birth of the Son of God.

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Tools of the Trade

November 10th, 2008

Tools help to accomplish work. In this study we must learn to use each tool that God has equipped us with, either to build, re-build, or in some cases to tare down. Each tool has to be used correctly, the way it was designed or what we are building will end in disaster.

1 Corinthians 3:10: According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

Pastor Kevin Campbell

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Mark the Perfect Man and Behold the Upright

November 5th, 2008

JD RiehlWe’ve experienced the goodness of God. We are a long way from what we once were. God cries out to us, “Come up higher.” Psalm 37:37 “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.”

Do you intend the power of God to rest upon you? My plans are to finish my course, to keep the faith and do my job.

God cannot protect you if you are in strife and contention. Psalm 78:38 “But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.” God met every need of the children of Israel in the wilderness, but some were cut off. We need to be completely free to flow and move together without offence to one another.

JD Riehl

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Why Does My Faith Not Work?

November 5th, 2008

Why is that, when other people pray and things happens, by when I pray nothing happens?

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Pastor Kevin Campbell

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O Let Me Not Wander From Thy Commandments

November 4th, 2008

JD RiehlBible says, “Do everything without murmuring and complaining”. This is a command. The way you pull the roots of evil desires out is by continuing in well doing.

We don’t know how to make the Bible a practical guide, a road map. Today we can get back to it.

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward” (Hebrews 10:35). We fall back into temptation, we get upset and lose our confidence, because we think we should have already repented. “Why Lord am I still doing this thing? I repented.” You are reaping what you sawed. It is not something to be upset about, it is something to lay hold of. Our confidence have to be in God, not in feelings.

Brother JD Riehl

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Is the Name of Our God Hallowed in You?

November 2nd, 2008

We all know the prayer, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.” (KJV Luke 11:2). First thing you need to do when you come to God is to hallow His holy name. Do you hallow His name above all the other names?

Pastor Kevin Campbell

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The Mark and Number Of The Beast

October 26th, 2008

ENDTIME ISSUES No. 139

Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D.

Throughout the centuries Christians have speculated about the meaning of “the Mark of the Beast” and “the Number “666″ of the Beast” mentioned in Revelation 13. Today the interest continues unabated for this apocalyptic endtime Antichrist who will control the economic, political, and social life of mankind by placing a mark and a number upon people.

In evangelistic crusades, the sermon on THE MARK OF THE BEAST usually draws the largest crowds and convicts more persons about the validity and importance of the Sabbath than any other lecture. The search engine GOOGLE contains over five million entries on “The Mark of the Beast,” and its number “666.” At a time of political and economic uncertainty, when terrorism and natural disasters are threatening the security and prosperity of numerous countries, many Christians turn to Bible prophecies to find out what is going to happen in the near future.

The key passage that has been the object of endless speculations, is Revelation 13:16-18. The reason is that this passage speaks of the mark, the name, and the number of the beast that will be placed on the right hand and forehead of people: “[The Beast] causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six” (Rev 13:16-18).

In this prophecy we are told the endtime generation will receive the mark of the beast. We are told that the mark of the beast is the name of the beast, and the name of the beast is its number 666. In other words, the mark, the name, and the number 666 of the beast are essentially the same. Of the three, the number 666 is most important because it provides the code to decode the name and mark of the Beast.

The call is for wisdom to understand the Number 666 of the Beast, rather than the Name or the Mark of the Beast. Apparently the reason is that the meaning of the number 666, is also the meaning of the name and of mark of the beast. The fact that the three constitute an indissoluble unity, should warn Bible students against attributing one meaning to the Mark of the Beast and a different meaning to the Number 666 of the Beast.

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When the Going Gets Tough

October 25th, 2008

When there is a drought in your spiritual life many people want to back off. “I just don’t feel like I did before. Maybe I committed unpardonable sin? Maybe I missed it somewhere? What is wrong?” And you want to jump to conclusions, which lead to wrong decision. Don’t make decisions when you are weak. When it’s tough it’s not the time to sleep or take vacation. Stand and withstand. Don’t let the enemy to plunder your field.

Mahlon Riehl, evangelist

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Panel Discussion of Dr. Desmond Ford’s Presentation on Forensic Atonement

October 23rd, 2008

On September 6, 2008 following Dr. Ford’s presentation “Forensic Atonement Theory in Light of the Christian Gospel” at Loma Linda a distinguished panel engaged in a dialogue and discussed various aspects of the lecture.

Distinguished Panel

The panel was composed of scholars from La Sierra and Loma Linda Adventist Universities: Professor Fritz Guy and Professor Kendra Haloviak from La Sierra University School of religion, Larry Christoffel, Pastor of the Loma Linda campus Hill church and Professor Jon Paulien, Dean of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University, the moderator of the discussion.

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Dr. Jon PaulienJon Paulien, PhD: Let me introduce our members. We’ll be going a little less than an hour, and around 5 o’clock written questions will be delivered to me and by some magical system I will choose a few of those to share with the panel. …

Dr. F. GuyWe have Fritz Guy who is with us from La Sierra University - a systematic theologian, philosophical theologian, and one of my Professors at seminary, for which I will always be grateful.

Pastor Larry ChristoffelWe have Larry Christoffel, who is one of the pastors here at the campus Hill church. He will bring us, I think, a bit of a perspective of practical pastoral theology.

Dr. K. HaloviakTo my right is Kendra Haloviak, who I was deeply privileged to have as a student at the seminary. And sometimes your students go beyond you, and Kendra would be one of those who I’m very proud of. And she is at La Sierra University, and we share a specialty in the New Testament and in the book of Revelation in particular.

Dr. Desmond FordTo my left of course in the man of the hour [Dr. Desmond Ford] and I’d like to open this discussion with a short testimony. We have hardly ever met, I think just in passing a couple of times. So this is really our closest acquaintance. And I would like to tell you that growing up as a Seventh Day Adventist I was one of those weird children who spent a lot of time in the Bible, and kind of knew the Bible back and forth. I was even in New York City on some Bible quizzes and came out very successfully over the radio as a small child. But there were two books of the Bible that always troubled me. They were not Daniel and Revelation, they were Romans and Galatians. And it just seemed to me, if somehow those could be left out of the Bible, the Adventism I knew could be perfectly defended [laughter in the audience].

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Things So Divine

October 22nd, 2008

The Spirit things, so divine, the best, the greatest things in life (protection, deliverance, healing, wisdom, ability, authority) seem to most people like a desert. We spend our space on appetisers, and the main course, so when it comes to desert, to things of the Spirit, we don’t have room for it any more. But things divine can come into you is only through the vine. Jesus said, “I am the vine.”

Pastor Kevin Campbell

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Create In Me a Clean Heart

October 19th, 2008

Our hearts have to be prepared. How?

#1. Guarding the flame in your life. How is your fire burning? You need to add things to it to keep is up. If you stop adding the fire will go out. He told them to take olives, beat them in order to get oil out of them. If you are going to get anything out of the Word of God, you need to get into it, to pound it, to get involved. Don’t just get olives, don’t just read the Word, get the oil out of it. Add to your life things that will burn. All of us can quote certain Scriptures. You need to get oil out of it. You have to have your lamp full if you want to get through the dark times.

#2. Get rid of evil heart of unbelief. Traditions of men can be an evil heart of unbelief.

Pastor Kevin Campbell

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Living in the House

October 14th, 2008

What does it mean to be justified? In order for you do be saved you need to put your eyes on Calvary. Confessing your sins is not getting you right with God. When a person is not walking with God we call this person lost. Where is he headed to? To hell. If this person quits drinking, smoking, fornicating and doing all other sins, is he going to heaven? No. Then why do we push it?

It’s not sin that keeps you out of heaven, it’s your unbelief, it’s resisting God’s work in your life.

When I put my faith in what Jesus did at Calvary, that’s what saves you.

Pastor Willi Slabaugh

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Honor and Glory

October 14th, 2008

Are you free tonight from the fear of tomorrow? The ultimate purpose for God having His own people is that He could demonstrate to the world around them that there is a living God.I am hungry today not for the information, but for the presence of God.

Pastor Willi Slabaugh

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Translating the Physical Into the Spiritual

October 14th, 2008

There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. If spiritual body is limited because of carnality you cannot function the way you should, it is deadly.

Apostle Daniel Rodes

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Судебная теория искупления во свете Евангелия Христа

October 8th, 2008

Как прямо сейчас стать правым перед Богом несмотря на греховность, поражения и безрассудство

Desmond FordЛома Линда. 6 сентября 2008 г.

Д-р Дезмонд Форд

Если вы испытываете нетерпение в течение последнего получаса, я знаю кого-то намного более грешного в этом отношении. Он говорит с вами.

Тем не менее, я рад быть здесь. Вообще-то в моем возрасте я рад быть где бы то ни было [смех].

Прошу вас не судить о содержании по названию, которое мне поручили для этого выступления. Мою тему можно было бы легко назвать «Какова самая главная метафора Библии о том, как прямо сейчас стать правым перед Богом несмотря на греховность, поражения и безрассудство?» Слово «судебная» звучит так металлически, безлично, холодно. Но это слово значит просто «в соответствии с законом». А закон означает «любовь». Закон - не творение Бога, а Божья природа. Закон жив на престоле Божьем, он царствует, покачивая Божьим скипетром и наслаждается Божьей славой. Без закона мы с вами не прожили бы и 5 секунд. Закон сообщает нам, что вселенная не беспорядочна и не случайна. Он сообщает нам о том, что секретом продолжительной радости является послушание закону - физическое, умственное и духовное. Когда заходит подобный разговор, нередко преобладают формальности. Я не могу себе этого позволить. Жизнь слишком коротка. Большинство из нас, находящихся здесь, умрут неожиданно. Лишь горстка людей из сотни доживает до глубокой старости. Остальные из нас умирают в результате несчастного случая или болезни. Я не могу себе позволить поступать опрометчиво. Но у меня есть возможность делать то, что в моих силах для того, чтобы мы с вами встретились у великого белого престола.

Девочке, которая задавала слишком много вопросов, сказали, что любопытство убило кошку. Девочка спросила: «А что кошка хотела узнать?» [смех].

А о чем вы хотите узнать больше всего? В течение того недолгого оставшегося у вас времени что вы больше всего желаете узнать?

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Possessing the Kingdom

October 6th, 2008

Willie SlaboughCan I trust God for my finances? Сan I trust God to meet my needs? Matthew 6:25 “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”God says not to worry of those things. He says not to make provisions for a rainy day. If we are to possess the Kingdom of God we need to seek the kingdom first, and all other things put on a lesser value. Matthew 6:33: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Are we truly seeking the Kingdom of God first?

Pastor Willi Slabaugh

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Power of Joy

October 5th, 2008

People see how we handle difficulties. They see you when you smash your finger. They see you when things are going well. My question is this: are we happy only when things are going well; and when they are not going well are we still happy? You can rejoice. When there is no joy it is a sign that connection with the Father is not where it has to be. How can an unthankful person be joyful?

Pastor Jake Reihl

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Forensic Atonement Theory In Light Of the Christian Gospel

October 2nd, 2008

 

Bible’s Chief Metaphor on How to Get Right with God

Right Now despite Sinfulness, Failures and Follies

Dr. Desmond Ford

Loma Linda, September 6, 2008

By Dr. Desmond Ford

If you have felt impatient in the last half hour, I know someone much more sinful in that respect. He is talking to you.

None the less, it is a joy to be here. As a matter of fact at my age, it is a joy to be anywhere [laughter].

I beg of you not to be put off by the title assigned me for this lecture. It could just as easily have been “What Is The Bible’s Chief Metaphor On How To Get Right With God Right Now Despite Sinfulness, Failures And Follies?”

The word “forensic” sounds so metallic impersonal, cold. But it just means “according to law”. And law is codified “love”. Law is not God’s creation, it’s God’s nature. Law is alive on God’s throne, sways His scepter, basks in His glory. Without it you and I could not survive 5 seconds. Law tells us, that the universe is not haphazard. Law tells us of the secret of lasting joy is obedience to law - physical, mental and spiritual.

In a talk of this nature technicalities often prevail. I cannot do that. Life is too brief. Most of us here will die unexpectedly. Only a handful of people out of a hundred die in a real old age. The rest of us die as a result of accident or sickness. I cannot play fast and loose. But [I have] the opportunity to do what I can that we might meet together around the great white throne.

A little girl who asked too many questions was told that curiosity killed the cat. She said, “What did the cat want to know?” [laughter]. And what do you most want to know? In a little time left what do you most want to know?

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Establishing What We Have Heard

October 1st, 2008

Pastor Jake ReihlWhen a leader compromises it encourages people to compromise. Is there such thing as a weak Christian?

Pastor Jake Reihl

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Casting Your Cares Upon Him

October 1st, 2008

You will run your race easier and win if you don’t have heavy burdens to carry with you. God says, “You have to get rid of extra weight and win the race. Cast your cares upon Me, because I care for you.”

Pastor Kevin Campbell

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Itinerary for Bishop Daniel Rodes

September 29th, 2008

Itinerary for Bishop Daniel Rodes

October 6-9, October 23- November 9 (Month Visit) Corvallis, Montana; Oasis of Truth Ministries, Pastor Eric Campbell.

October 19 - 20 - Post Falls, Idaho. Brother Rob Moser. For more information call (208)-457-9540

October 21-22 - Spokane, Washington. Brother Harold Shipley. For more information call (509)-926-7743

November 9-14 - Garnett, Kansas, Beacon of Truth, Apostle Reuben Esh.

November 21-23 - Virginia. Highland Retreat Center. Special week for our USA affiliate church leaders (by invitation only). For more information call 1-800-311-1277