Priesthood unto Perfection
09 March, 2025
We consider Christ's high priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek. This culminates in the perfection of our union with God in the Spirit and Life of Christ, the one mediator between God and man.
The Milk and the Meat
02 March, 2025
Envying, strife, and divisions in the church are evidence of immaturity and carnality where those so ensnared are only fit for milk, and are unable to be fed the meat of the Word of God. Such have very limited knowledge of, or taste for, the deep…
Biblical Perspective on Old Age
23 February, 2025
We consider the significance of a long life on earth, and discover that a purposeful attitude that aims to gain wisdom, and especially that given by the Spirit of the Lord, will fit us for a fruitful sojourn prior to our eternal destiny.
Jacob Prevails as Israel
16 February, 2025
By way of coming to understand the meaning of the name/term "Israel" we have been following Jacob as God has progressively brought him to a repudiation of his own not inconsiderable devices and schemes. These he has exercised with all the integrity…
The Spirit Strives With Jacob
09 February, 2025
Jacob has encountered God en route to Haran, to obtain a wife from his father's family. He then spends twenty years of labour being rewarded with two wives and their maids, eleven sons and one daughter, and much livestock, menservants and…
This Beginning of Signs
02 February, 2025
The supreme exercise of His sovereignty in Jesus doing the will of His Father is hidden within this sign. Although it is brief, and the record of Jesus' words is minimal, nevertheless, as is ever the case, His words are spirit and life, at all times…
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
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