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The Kingship and Priesthood Dimensions of Fatherhood
Preached on Father’s Day, this message explores two callings placed on fathers, kingship and priesthood. It traces kingship to Adam’s commission in Genesis 1 to subdue and have dominion, and priesthood to the calling to till and keep the garden in Genesis 2, then works through the practical kingly duties of protection and instruction and the priestly duty of intercession, illustrated throughout with the example of Job interceding for his children. Scripture Reference And God blessed them, and God said…
The Two Spirits Operating Within the Framework of the Church (Part 6)
Preached from the creation account, this message contrasts the number six, tied to the forming of man and the number of the beast in Revelation 13:18, with the number seven, the day God blessed and sanctified after resting from his work, using this six versus seven framework to describe the difference between a natural, sense-ruled life and a life that has entered into the rest of the Holy Spirit. Scripture Reference Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and…
The Two Spirits Operating Within the Framework of the Church (Part 5)
Teaching on the two spirits at work in the church, this message ties Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3, that God would work in believers according to the power that worketh in us, to the four kinds of hearers in the parable of the sower, then uses the natural law of electrical resistance, comparing believers to conductors, to explain why some Christians receive little from God despite asking, tracing the cause to unremoved resistance rather than any lack on God’s part.…