Jacob's Ladder
26 January, 2025
Having obtained the blessing of Isaac by trickery, Jacob is sent to Haran, for a wife, by Isaac. En route he encounters the Lord in a dream, and this encounter with God is the beginning of his gradual disarming of his strength and devices, that he…
Jacob's Straitness of Soul
19 January, 2025
Jacob craves the blessing of God; he has the blessing of Isaac by trickery and deceit, and he is bent upon the blessing of God. However, to have what he longs for he must be delivered of all his own energy and devices; he must be broken out of the…
Grow to Maturity
13 January, 2025
Ken encourages us in the process of growing to maturity in our faith in Jesus Christ. Central to this is our attention to the Spirit of the Lord in our daily lives, and our ongoing dependence upon Him and His provision.
The Living God Who Speaks
12 January, 2025
We look at God who speaks to us in the book of Hebrews, encouraging the Hebrew believers to go on to maturity - in particular, to graduate from the letter to the Spirit. This message from some years previously is a reminder, as we continue to walk…
Life and Destruction
05 January, 2025
The whole purpose of life, the meaning and direction we need in even the most mundane affairs of our lives, our families, marriages, work, and all our social intercourse in the society of men and women, is only found as it should be in the pre…
The Blessing of Isaac
29 December, 2024
In the course of tracing Jacob's spiritual development toward his being blessed by God, we consider his being blessed by Isaac, usurping the place of Esau, all in the order of the divine purpose according to the promise of Yahweh to Rebekah when the…
Peace to Men of Good Will
25 December, 2024
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, to men of goodwill." So spoke the heavenly host to the shepherds the night Christ, the Prince of Peace, was born in Bethlehem. We consider in the wake of this tremendous visitation of God in His…
Jacob Gains the Birthright
22 December, 2024
Esau, the skilful hunter, the man of the field, who minds earthly things, fails in the field, and, ready to "die", craves Jacob's lentil stew. Jacob, the plain man, who minds heavenly things, yet to really encounter God, who is nevertheless captive…
Jacob Was a Plain Man
15 December, 2024
A simple statement about Jacob within which is hidden rich meaning. As we pursue eventually the significance of the name Israel, whom Jacob was to become, we consider something of the meaning of this brief description of the man God loved.
Christ Our Scapegoat
08 December, 2024
From a series of sermons on the Atonement, we look at the scapegoat on the Day of Atonement, and how it prophetically anticipates the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. This is our real deliverance from a life of sin, by the…
Effectual Fervent Prayer
17 November, 2024
We consider in this message what, to some degree, is involved in the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man. As James does, we do this with reference to Elijah's prayer for drought and rain. In the later parts of this message we can hear the…
The Apostles' Teaching Part 2
10 November, 2024
Just as Jesus embodied the teaching of His Father as His life, so too did the apostles. We see that the mind of the Lord is that all who would follow Jesus should likewise embody that same teaching, and that it should be our life, not merely…
The Apostles' Teaching Part 1
03 November, 2024
Luke identifies four key functions of the church in this present age as The Apostles' Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread, and Prayer. In this message we begin to look at the meaning and significance of the Apostles' teaching,
Prayer Knowing the Will of God
27 October, 2024
Concerning prayer according to the will of God, the prayer where John assures us that we obtain what we pray for from the Lord, we look at principles of answered prayer where God hears, remembers, looks, and has respect unto those who pray according…
Prayer - The Words and Works
20 October, 2024
We consider the words and works of God in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and those same words and works in ourselves, in Christ, as the expression of our life in Him, and prayer in His name.
The Elder Shall Serve the Younger
13 October, 2024
In the ongoing course of discovering the meaning of the name "Israel" we look at the birth of the twin brothers Esau and Jacob and what the Lord says to Rebekah concerning the two boys.
The Faith of Abraham
06 October, 2024
Abraham is identified by the apostle Paul as "the father of us all." That is, the father of us all who believe! We briefly consider what Paul emphasises as at the heart of Abraham's faith, by way of being encouraged ourselves in trusting in our Lord…
Abram Enters Canaan
29 September, 2024
Sent to a "land I will show you" by God, Abram arrived in Canaan, where God appeared to him. In response, Abram built an altar, and called upon the name of the Lord. In this way Abram is on the path to establishing a life of faith with the true and…
The Great Name/Gospel/Blessing and Cursing
29 September, 2024
In Abram's initial call by God we find the Gospel of Christ, the great Name of Christ, and Blessing and Cursing of Christ, and the apostle Paul opens these up to us.
The Great and Holy Name
22 September, 2024
Part of God's original promise to Abram was "I will make your name great'. Of course, this promise was made to Christ, the holy Seed, before it was made to Abram, and it is His Name that is here first intended.
Nathanael, An Israelite Without Guile
15 September, 2024
Looking at Nathanael, and the extraordinary depth of his confession of the identity of Jesus, on the barest evidence, we look a little below the surface at the spiritual significance of a guileless heart, and a simple childlike faith.
The Great and Holy Nation
08 September, 2024
The Lord called Abram from his land, kindred, and father's house, promising, among other things, to make of him a great nation. We see how from this passage concerning God's call of Abram, and also from a passage where God instructs Moses, concerning…
Becoming Jesus' Disciple
25 August, 2024
In the gospels we read of how, with the utmost simplicity, Jesus called men to follow Him, and how in doing so the faithful disciple forsook all. In the process His disciples were deeply transformed in their lives. We also see in this message how…
Pray the Lord of the Harvest
28 July, 2024
George emphasises the place of prayer in the work of evangelism. God is not willing that any should perish, and we as workers together with Him have a responsibility before the Lord of the harvest
The Knowledge of God
21 July, 2024
At the heart of our covenant relationship with God is the intimate personal knowledge of God Himself by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. In the wake of his experience on the mount of transfiguration with the Lord Jesus, Peter speaks to us in his…
The Introduction of Covenant
14 July, 2024
Mankind, under the striving influence of the Spirit of the Lord during the antediluvian era, reached such a point of irrecoverable rebellion against God that, apart from eight people, the whole race had to be destroyed. Following the Flood we find…
The Unseen Hand of God
30 June, 2024
By means of a number of vibrant testimonies, and a consideration of the situations of Zacchaeus, Joseph and the Ethiopian eunuch, we are encouraged that our sovereign God, in unseen ways, works together with the sovereign choices of man and women to…
The Spirit of Truth
23 June, 2024
A key aspect of the expression of authority in the kingdom of God is the administration of truth by the Holy Spirit. We look at this in connection with the judgement of the Flood in the days of Noah. The Lord teaches us that the Father seeks those to…
Our Rewards
16 June, 2024
Understanding, as we do, that it is by grace, through faith, that we are saved, we do not often consider that paradoxically, that which we freely receive not only without any merit of our own, but having much demerit within ourselves, comes also with…
Taught of the Spirit
09 June, 2024
God is Spirit, said Jesus, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. Throughout the history of the world God has sought the hearts of men and women by His Spirit. By the agency of whatever other means He uses - the scriptures…
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