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2025-06-06 | Pentecost 2025 | A Power Worthy Church
Are you perfectly content with commemorating Hallmark holidays that are dedicated to man-made traditions, while completely ignoring the Feasts of the Lord—Yahweh’s Biblical Holidays? When you explore the prophetic relevance and magnificent imagery of Pentecost, you will no longer be satisfied with celebrating pagan holidays. Certainly Pentecost is a holy day that Christians would be interested in remembering, seeing that it was then that the Holy Spirit came to indwell all who believe that Y’shua is the long-awaited Messiah of Israel.
Unfortunately, it would seem that while the world remains inundated with lies and wrapped in chaos, the Church often bows to a lower authority. Instead of being the dominant power in and influence over the world, in many cases the world has overpowered the Church and become the dominant influence, ruling God’s people as if they have no authority in the earth. Have Church leaders and thus church-goers been deceived? Have God’s people become devoid of power because they are prophetically ignorant and untrained about the times and seasons? It’s time to wake up; “discern the signs of the times,” and reclaim your rightful access to Divine power! Let’s begin with a deep dive into Pentecost, the Festival of Truth and Spirit.
2025-05-30 | II Peter | Object Lesson: The Prophetic Word Confirmed
There are prophetic moments in history when events collide and what is revealed alters mankind forever. You cannot unsee what you have seen. And even though those who were blessed to be the eyewitnesses of such an event were instructed to keep it under wraps until the proper time, and they were obedient to do so, that time had come.
Here in Peter’s last will and testament, he has been faithful to remind us of what it takes to attain to Christlikeness. And then he harkens back to a prophetic moment that links together the events beginning at Y’shua’s baptism and all the way into the future of our prophetic destiny.
We have the prophetic word confirmed. Obedience to the faith opens up what is revealed through the prophetic Scriptures to holy men being moved by the Holy Spirit. Are you such a person who can be trusted to steward God’s prophetic Word. Paul wrote, “Let a man think of us as Christ’s servants and stewards of God’s mysteries. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.” Let us faithfully execute this ministry and begin to interconnect all the pieces from that prophetic moment almost 2000 years ago: the prophecies and the players; and then let’s take a sneak peak into our prophetic destiny.
2025-05-23 | II Peter 1:9 | Object Lesson: Christ in You the Hope of Glory
Make every effort to add to your faith these seven things, and in this precise sequence, if you wish to experience all of God’s exceedingly great and precious promises, culminating in your expression of the Divine Nature. To your faith add virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love. Adding these things in this sequence is what it means to practice your faith. The benefits of doing so are exponential because you were made in God’s image and to express His nature; “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
And yet, there is one thing that will shipwreck everything! If you don’t truly comprehend your new identity in Christ and all that it entails, you are bound to gravitate to your old identity. If you don’t consistently embrace your new saintly nature, you will be repeatedly tempted to express your old sinful nature. In other words, your old nature, which should be dead and buried, is resuscitated. Reenergized by your own willful desires, your dead nature resurrects, and your new identity in Christ fades into the background of your daily life, as if you never really received one. Don’t let that happen to you! You’ve spent enough of your past doing the will of the pagans. It’s time to lay aside all the heaviness that comes with sin and to release all the iniquity which, in the past, clung so closely to you. Now, run the race that is set before you with steadfast, unwavering endurance, and get ready to experience the only victory that never perishes.
2025-05-09 | II Peter 1:5-7 | Object Lesson: Love
Object Lesson: Love
Faith is the foundation of the Christian life and it is a gift from God that came to you by way of His grace. And you must practice your faith if you wish to gain continual access to that grace. To do so, add these things to your faith in this precise sequence. First add virtue. That means to seek the Lord’s voice for what is right in every matter and don’t even attempt to seek new information or take any action before you are confident you’re in alignment with God’s will.
Once you are certain about God’s directions, to truly demonstrate wisdom, begin by gathering any missing information before you act. It is only after you have the necessary knowledge to proceed judiciously that you should take any decisive action. It requires excellent self-control to both take wise action and to refrain from acting when God tells you to be still. It is also critical to recognize that challenges and temptations surely await; they will test you, misdirect you, and humble you. Nevertheless, one must stay the course to fulfill God’s desires, and that takes perseverance. By the way, unless you humbly come to the conclusion that you made an error that must be corrected before you continue, persist until you succeed; a display of permanent self-control is part of the process. However, if you do discover you’ve made an error, it is prudent to retrace your steps to find your mistake. Begin by reconsidering if you’ve misinterpreted God’s original instructions and proceed from there.
This entire process is meant to be pursued in every area of life. Doing so is the very essence of godliness. No doubt, your imperfections will be exposed as you progress, but godliness is not characterized by perfection. Godliness, instead, is the authentic grace-empowered pursuit of perfection, not the achievement of perfection. It’s hallmark is a never-ending desire to pursue God’s will in all things, and to make the appropriate corrections along the way.
And that is how a disciple of Christ becomes an effective minister of reconciliation—one who readily imparts God’s grace. His relentless pursuit of godliness has crafted him into a man whose surrendered life is poured out in sacrifice for the priorities of others. He is a beacon of brotherly affection who exudes kindness, a true disciple of Christ recognized by the love he shares. He imitates the character of Christ, and that is the constant meditation of his heart—to look more and more like Christ by how he loves.
God is love; so, to become love is to become like Christ. Thus, to imitate God’s love is the only true measure of a perfect man—the full stature of Christ. And that is the goal of discipleship. Therefore, practice diligently if you wish to experience the fullness of God’s precious and exceedingly great promises, the greatest of which is the promise to partake in God’s Divine Nature.
2025-04-18 | II Peter 1:5-7 | Object Lesson: Brotherly Affection
Faith is the foundation of the Christian life and it is a gift from God that came to you by way of His grace. And you must practice your faith if you wish to gain continual access to that grace. To do so, add these things to your faith in this precise sequence. First add virtue. That means to seek the Lord’s voice for what is right in every matter and don’t even attempt to seek new information or take any action before you are confident you’re in alignment with God’s will. Once you are certain about God’s directions, to truly demonstrate wisdom, begin by gathering any missing information before you act. It is only after you have the necessary knowledge to proceed judiciously that you should take any decisive action. It requires excellent self-control to both take wise action and to refrain from acting when God tells you to be still. It is also critical to recognize that challenges and temptations surely await; they will test you, misdirect you, and humble you. Nevertheless, one must stay the course to fulfill God’s desires, and that takes perseverance.
By the way, unless you humbly come to the conclusion that you made an error that must be corrected before you continue, persist until you succeed; a display of permanent self-control is part of the process. However, if you do discover you’ve made an error, it is prudent to retrace your steps to find your mistake. Begin by reconsidering if you’ve misinterpreted God’s original instructions and proceed from there. This entire process is meant to be pursued in every area of life. Doing so is the very essence of godliness. No doubt, your imperfections will be exposed as you progress, but godliness is not characterized by perfection. Godliness, instead, is the authentic grace-empowered pursuit of perfection, not the achievement of perfection. It’s hallmark is a never-ending desire to pursue God’s will in all things, and to make the appropriate corrections along the way. And that is how a disciple of Christ becomes an effective minister of reconciliation—one who readily imparts God’s grace.
His relentless pursuit of godliness has crafted him into a man whose surrendered life is poured out in sacrifice for the priorities of others. He is a beacon of brotherly affection who exudes kindness, a true disciple of Christ recognized by the love he shares. He imitates the character of Christ, and that is the constant meditation of his heart —to look more and more like Christ by how he loves. God is love; so, to become love is to become like Christ. Thus, to imitate God’s love is the only true measure of a perfect man—the full stature of Christ. And that is the goal of discipleship. Therefore, practice diligently if you wish to experience the fullness of God’s precious and exceedingly great promises, the greatest of which is the promise to partake in God’s Divine Nature.
2025-04-12 | Passover Haggadah | The Telling: 2025
Haggadah 2025 | From Anointing to Resurrection | Sermon Video
When your children ask, what will you tell them? What happens when God’s children have separated from their roots, forgotten their heritage, and have no recollection from where they came? Yahweh built reminders into His culture to deter that from happening, but unfortunately it has. Christians have disconnected from the roots of their faith, surrendered to common culture, and adopted the traditions of the world around them. “Do not love the world or the things of the world,” John warned. Are you guilty of committing the same neglect, of which Y’shua accused the religious hypocrites in His day, “making the word of God of no effect through their traditions which they have handed down?”
I fear that too many Christians today could offer no acceptable defense for their traditions! “How can this be true?” you might be thinking. Just look around during the holidays and you will see the majority of Christians flocking to manmade celebrations, steeped in pagan traditions. And if their children ask, “What do these holidays mean?” or, “Has God has allowed us to do this?” they will have no legitimate answer. Instead like religious hypocrites, they have “made the word of God of no effect through their traditions,” which they too are handing down to their children. If Y’shua appeared on the earth today, would He ask a similar question of our religious leaders that He asked two thousand years ago? “Why do you violate the word of God with your traditions?” And would they be angered by Him as they were, or would they change? John warned us about loving the things of the world, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life…” May the Body of Christ once again run from such things.
Then, the next time your children ask, “What does this holiday mean?” with confidence you will be able to say, “It’s the Passover; we were slaves and now we are free; may your children tell their children, and their children the next generation. It is a memorial forever.” The frightening alternative is this, “These are our pagan roots; go find your painted eggs and chocolate Easter bunnies. Fill your baskets; this is now how we remember the death, burial and resurrection of our blessed Savior.” Oh, how far we have fallen from the truth! I don’t know about you, but when my children ask, I will say “As for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh!”