The Gospel Of Repentance

There are a few more things I needed to include regarding speaking in tongues. Here they are: Praying with the Spirit and the Understanding In I Corinthians 14:15 Paul says, “What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with my understanding; I will also sing with the spirit and sing with the understanding also.” There are those that believe this means we can pray and sing in “ tongues” (i.e. gibberish), and in our native language. This is not what the text means. What Paul means here is when he prayed or sang, his spirit and mind were totally engaged in the process. He was not saying that he was praying or singing in tongues in private worship. In Paul’s time praying in the spirit could have meant in praying tongues, but I do not believe it applies to us today due to what I said in Part 1 of this article under the subtitle, Has tongues ceased?...

What this article will attempt to explain is what is the phenomenon of speaking in tongues according to the scripture. Who was tongues for; what was it’s purpose? Are there tongues for public and private prayer? Is what we’re hearing today the genuine gift of tongues? Does tongues verify one is filled with the Holy Spirit? This subject will always be one of huge debate amongst several denominations mainly Pentecostals, Charismatics and Apostolics. The word tongues in the Greek is the word glōssa . The word simply means languages. Speaking in tongues was the supernatural ability to speak a foreign known language the speaker never learned yet understood by the hearers. That is why in Acts 2: 4-11 we read, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and ...

We often hear in our worship services, “ Lord send us your anointing, or Lord we need a fresh anointing”, but what exactly is the anointing? What does it mean to be anointed? As always, the answers are in the scripture. To Anoint means the custom of smearing or pouring oil on a person or object, in both secular and sacred contexts or situations. The Hebrew word for Anoint is Māšah as a verb and Māšîah as a noun where we get the English word Messiah. The term appears around 70 times in the Old Testament. One of the Greek terms for anointed is C hristós where we get the English word Christ. Jesus was/is God’s Anointed, his Messiah, his Christ set apart by the Father for a holy, consecrated purpose; to save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). The first time the word anointed appears in scripture is Genesis 31:13 where God speaks to Jacob, I am the God of Bethel (means house of God) where you anointed a pillar where yo...

Salvation is a deliberate act of God Almighty. The Father God didn’t just send Jesus to make men savable, Jesus came to actually save man from every tribe, tongue and nation. What we’ve been led to believe is that once Jesus died on the cross, he did his part and the rest is solely up to us alone to activate the salvation that’s available through his blood sacrifice. No! If it were left up to us, we would have never gotten saved! God must save us! Jesus atonement was an actual one, not a potential one. The belief is also that we can reject this offer of salvation ultimately or trump God’s plan by our disobedience. For those that have been chosen before the foundation of the world, and at the precise moment and time the Father God decides to draw us to Christ, we will come with Godly repentance, respond in faith to the gospel and be saved. God’s plans are never thwarted and he will be glorified. What I will prove from scripture is that those whom God chose before time began will...

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines the word Vision as follows: the ability to think about or plan the future with wisdom. A mental image of what the future will or could be like. An experience of seeing someone or something in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition. The Hebrew word for Vision is Châzôwn. It means a sight (mentally), i.e. a dream, revelation or oracle. In proverbs 29:18 we have the verse that reads, where there is no vision, the people perish, but happy is he that keeps the law. Mostly everyone I’ve listened to has regarded this verse to mean a vision, plan or dream God has given them perhaps for their ministry or just a personal goal. While God does give us plans for our lives in service to him as believers, that is not the meaning of this passage. What the writer means here is, where there is no prophetic revelation , that is no word from the Lord, the people cast off restraint, that is the people will rebel, but happy is he that k...

Quite a touchy subject isn’t it? People are always telling us “Don’t judge me!” Or “Only God can judge me!” What I’ve noticed is the people making these statements are usually the ones that are living sinful lifestyles. Notice I didn’t say those that sin on occasion, for we all do, but those that practice sin. Let’s see what the bible has to say about it. The word judge in the Greek is the word Krinō which means to divide, separate, make a distinction, come to decision, to give one’s opinion. WHEN WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE Jesus in Matthew 7:1-5 commands us not to judge if we’re in the following situation, “ Judge not that ye be not judged. For with the same judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with that measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why behold the mote in your brother’s eye and consider not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me ...

This is a rather strange statement don’t you think? Why would God hate anyone when he commands us not to hate? This statement originates in Malachi 1:2-3 where God affirms his love for Israel, “I have loved you”, says the Lord. In yet you (Israel) say, “In what way have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritage for the jackals of the wilderness.” To understand this statement we must go back to the beginning. In Genesis Issac’s wife Rebekah conceives but the children struggled together within her. Concerned about the discomfort in her womb. Rebekah said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” When she inquires of the Lord, he replies, “two nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall be separated from your body; one people will be stronger than the other and the older shall serve the younger.” So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in ...