A controversy arose in the early Church regarding circumcision, and coming under the Old Covenant, as opposed to faith in Jesus Christ and being redeemed through his sacrifice. Paul addressed this controversy in the book of Galatians. How is explained Paul’s statement to the Galatians “God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ”?
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Unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth
God intends that we learn spiritual lessons from his commanded festivals. What does keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (I Corinthians 5:8) teach us about how our corrupt fleshly nature may be replaced by a new and different nature — the Divine nature of God?
God Is Love
If you were to choose one word to summarize or epitomize God’s nature, what would it be? Various Greek philosophers had their ideas, as did the Egyptians and other cultures.
But there is one concept of the epitome of God’s nature which is found nowhere in Greek philosophy or Egyptian religion, but is found in the Bible. And in this concept we can come to understand in a profound way not only the nature of God, but how we can, with his help, become like him as he intends. The Bible tells us that “God is love.”
God’s love is reflected in the festivals he commanded to be kept, such as the Passover, which depicts the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to pay for our sins. In this message learn more about God’s love, and how you may benefit from it, and learn to share in it, to the end of eternal life in God’s family and Kingdom.
What Can You Know About God?
Is it true that you cannot know much about God? Is God’s nature so shrouded in confusion and mystery that we cannot have a fair understanding of his nature and of his person? In this message, Rod Reynolds explores the Biblical answers to the question, what can we know about God and how can we know it?
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What Must We Do to be Saved?
When the Apostle Paul was in Philippi preaching the gospel he was accused of sedition, beaten and thrown into prison. During the middle of the night God caused an earthquake and miraculously all the prison doors were opened and the chains binding the prisoners were loosed.
“And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, ‘Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.’ Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. And he brought them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'” (Acts 16:27-33).