Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Theology - Prophecy - The Holy Spirit and Prophecy - by Randall Nelsen




Theology

"The Nature of Prophecy"

By Randall Nelsen

In order to comprehend eschatology and prophecy; we must first understand that they are not comprehended through a persons intellectual capabilities and perception alone. Prophecy is Divine and where there is prophetic illumination there is always the revelation of the Holy Spirit. Pray that the Lord grant you the Wisdom to discern first the contextual understanding and then the historical and contextual application of the scripture. This understanding is the base and foundation on which you build begin to build the house of your spiritual perception.Next and more importantly ask that the Lord teach you the deeper spiritual application of the Word. The Logos is Gods word in totality, but the Rhema is the word that speaks to you wherever you are spiritually speaking, or in other words your need at the present time.This Word is unchained and provides us our spiritual sustenance which is our daily bread, the manna sent from heaven . It is the (Rhema ῥῆμα) of the Logos. the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. - John 14:26
This is a good illustration. Gods Word in totality is the (Logos λόγος) which is like our spiritual toolbox in totality. It is all of Gods Word, the whole Bible.The Holy Spirit illuminates the specific word the Rhema to us through the Holy Spirit that dwells within us. This is the specific divine revelation of the Lord for our situation.This is the Spiritual tool that God gives us out of his toolbox (the Logos) for our specific need. This is why you can read the same scripture a thousand times and on a certain day in a certain need, his Word, speaks to your heart. This is why i believe it is an error for scholars to declare that complete understanding is derived only through intellectual in the fields of theology. I am referring to all human based knowledge. The following are just a few examples
1. Biblical Linguistics or Textual Criticism - This includes origin and etymology the study of  Hebrew and Greek, Hermeneutics, exposition, Exegesis, and the philosophy of Languages
2. The Study of History - Historical or Sociological methods of interpretation- this includes cultural studies and biblical archeology.
3. All fields or spheres of  Systematic Theology
 Lets get back to the main topic which is Prophecy. Prophecy is difficult because of Partial fulfillment. Partial Prophetic Fulfillment  means that prophecy can work or apply to multiple time periods and figures. It can apply to the specific person or author of the text and also to an event or person that has not yet occurred. It can also apply to several events, past, present, or future. Prophecy is often disguised because of symbolism, typology, and its unlimited nature.
Here is an example that Jesus quoted
  41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
43 They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
44 ‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?[a]

  JESUS WAS QUOTING 
PSALM 110
 The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.
Here we see the fascinating dual nature of Prophecy
David prophesied in psalm 110. Was not God the father speaking to his son, yet this confounded the pharisees because they just saw part of the picture the words of King David.
Jesus then explains the Prophetic Picture. Jesus also clearly illustrates the prophetic link between the Old and New testament. 
45 If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” 46 And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Please Pray for this new church in Kenya (Pastor Anthony Okello)

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Please Pray for this Man Pastor Anthony Okello. Please Pray for him, his new church building, and congregation. The Lord is doing an Awesome New work in Kenya.The Lord is raising up a mighty Army of faithful soldiers there. Many Great things are happening so please remember to pray for them  


Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Good Shepherd - John 10 1-15



The Good Shepherd


10 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me[a] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. John 10 1-15 NKJV

Sunday, April 21, 2013

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The True Vine - by Andrew Murray


The True Vine
by Andrew Murray
Book Catalog #0016, Electronic Version 1.00 by Adam Woeger


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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Message - Spiritual Treasure Chests - Randall Nelsen

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19 -21 NKJV

 The Heart of man is like a Spiritual Treasure Chest. The type of of person you are today is directly related to whatever is within your heart and mind. The Bible teaches us that it is not the physical things that we consume that corrupt us, but the spiritual. It is not the kind of food that we eat, or the external things of this world that we use that make us unclean. What God really cares about is the internal condition of our hearts. The thoughts and unseen motivations of the heart are the most important they are the things that need to be dealt with.
 So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding?  Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man.  For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.” 
Matthew 15:16-20 NKJV


Jesus rebuked the religious leaders because they taught and believed that they were holy because of their strict ritual observances such as dietary laws, and the washing of hands.The truth is that they missed the point. Jesus was teaching them that the heart of man is what needs washing not the hands. He taught them that it is was not the physical food that that makes a person clean or unclean but the spiritual condition of the heart is what defiles a person

This poses a problem for us because the bible also teaches us that the heart is deceitful and full of wickedness. 
 “The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?  
Jeremiah 17:9
     
 If  this statement is true, and we know it is, then we face a serious problem. The Bible teaches us  that our heart is corrupt and evil. How do you wash away an evil heart. Since our heart is where our treasure is then we must make sure that the treasure is good.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
 Matthew 13:44 

Jesus is comparing  the kingdom of God to a Treasure hidden in a field, but what he says next is a little more obscure. Jesus says that the man hid the treasure and then sold everything he had and purchased the field. It is my belief that what the Lord is saying here is that the man hid the Treasure which is the Kingdom of God in his heart. What this clearly illustrates is that the man accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in other Words he received Salvation. It also explains that the things of this world have no worth in comparison to the priceless Treasure of eternal Life.  


What can be the solution to this problem?
How do we wash the heart?
What is Good Treasure, is that even possible?