I refer to this article which informs us that a signficant number of Anglican bishops are boycotting the Lambeth conference, which is a conference of bishops called by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is traditionally regarded as the leader of the Anglican communion.
Romans 1:3 … concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,
People have all kinds of opinions about the identity of Jesus Christ. Even anti-Christian people have views acknowledging Jesus as a prophet, an enlightened master, a guru or a wise man. But Paul here gets straight to the point and tells us that:
1. Jesus is God’s Son. This does not mean that God had sex with Mary, the mother of Jesus, as some muslims suppose Christians believe, to produce an offspring. Jesus is the eternal Son of God.
Commentary on the Book of Romans
Romans 1:2
… separated to the gospel of God, (vs 1)
vs2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,
Gospel means good news. What is the good news from God? It is simply this: that God would make a way to save people from sin and its consequences, and restore what we had lost through disobedience and rebellion towards GOd.
This promised was fulfilled through the death and resurrection of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, in our place.
Commentary on the Book of Romans
Romans 1:1
1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God
Even though Paul was and is probably the most influential apostle in the history of the church, notice the humility with which he writes this letter to the Romans. Even the name “Paul” means “little”. His name was changed by the Lord from Saul to Paul.
Paul, describes himself firstly as a bondservant, which in the greek really means “slave”. Paul is saying he is a slave of Jesus Christ.
Jesus told us to watch out for false prophets. If they were powerless to deceive born again Christians, I don’t think Jesus would have told us to “take heed”.
In this article, I show how true Christians can become false prophets. The Bible clearly shows that there are men who start off hearing and obeying the LORD God, who end up as soothsayers and destroyers of God’s people.
The New Testament warns us in 2 Peter 2 and the Book of Jude to watch out for arrogant, money loving preachers. Paul warned us against the times when people would heap up teachers who tell them what their itching ears want to hear. You won’t hear too many expositions of these passages on Christian TV today. What a pity, they were never more needed.
Here is a video showing some of the bizarre things that can happen when “strange fire” is allowed to predominate in a service.
In a previous post I made reference to the problems that can occur when people step beyond the limits of the authority God has given them and try to assert authority over matters which do not belong to them.
Jesus never delegates his Lordship but he does appoint people – both Christian and non-Christian, to have areas of authority in different spheres. What are these spheres?
1. Civil Government. See Romans 13. Christians are called to submit to civil government in matters of public administration.
2. The Family. See Ephesians 5 and 6.
My first encounter with our loving God was in March of 1994 while we were living in Ankeny, Iowa. I had recently accepted new employment as an Engineering Tech.2 with a Consulting Engineering firm after the manufacturing company in Osceola, Iowa closed ending my employment as Engineering Project Coordinator. Osceola had been good to me, I had experienced rapid success and was very fortunate to have worked with an extremely talented and experienced group of people.
Osceola was also my wife’s home town and we had both attended high school there.
Brethren, Jesus Christ is Lord (master) of the Church. HE is the one who bought us all with His blood. (That is to say, by his death on the cross, He paid for your sins and purchased you and me out of the hand of the devil). It is now our duty to submit to Jesus Christ absolutely. HE is Lord of all.
I hope these Scriptures below will suffice to make God’s viewpoint on this matter absolutely clear to you, that both corporately and individually, we are owned by God.
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I believe Jesus Christ will return some time in the next 30 years at the latest. I DON’T believe this simply because there is a great increase in occultic activity (which there is), or because governments are stripping away the civil liberties of people in the name of fighting terrorism (which they are), or because Satan is trying to unify the nations under one global empire (which he is).
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