7 “I will declare the decree:The Lord has said to Me,‘You are My Son,Today I have begotten You.8 Ask of Me, and I will give YouThe nations for Your inheritance,And the ends of the earth for Your possession.9 You shall break them with a rod of iron;You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’” Psalm 2.7-9
“The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17.20-21
We believe in one God,the Father almighty,maker of heaven and earth,of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ,the only Son of God,begotten from the Father before all ages,God from God,Light from Light,true God from true God,begotten, not made;of the same essence as the Father.Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvationhe came down from heaven;he...
And, in the midst of all these crises, a growing Antichrist spirit is unleashed in the world. I watched the transmission of the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony. It was quite an incredible performance celebrating every culture, every diversity except ours. It had somebody saying something about the glorious, the holy Qur’an, but nothing about the Bible. And it ended up with a bull being...
In the Book of Acts chapter 3, Peter is preaching, and he says to the crowd, Repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the LordActs 3.19 ‘Repent and be converted’. Converted means to be turned around to turn from going one way to going another way. The Hebrew word for conversion is teshuva which means to turn from...
In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus gives us a guideline as to how to pray. Now, you can just repeat the words and you know we pray the prayer at the beginning of the service. That’s good! It’s done to remind us of what God has taught us to pray. However, the words are, in one sense, a pattern prayer. They tell us how to approach God and what’s needful when we pray. They can also...
Let’s have a look at Revelation 13 and make one or two conclusions from it. If you have your Bibles, you can turn to Revelation 13. Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a...
There’s just one scripture that I want to close with in which Jesus, apparently, tells us not to honour our parents. Sometimes this causes a bit of trouble and one of the books which I read recently by a Jewish man (Asher Norman) called ’26 reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus’ quotes this verse to say that Jesus actually told people to break the Commandments...