Here is First Fruits Ministries' Bulletin for this coming Sabbath and the Holy Days coming up: https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....24/09/26/sabbath-bul
How do you read it?
Turn Over?
or
Over Turn?
There are only two ways to treat the Torah:
We either Turn It Over or else we Overturn It.
How do you handle the holy Word of YHWH?
Do you read it and relish it and run back for more?
Or do you run into it like a wall, realize it requires pain, refuse it outright and run away?
Our terrible teachers have trained us for ages and generations to overturn the life-giving Word.
And they taught us to shun it with scorn.
But that is not the habit of our Master.
It has been ever His good pleasure to show us how to study, to lead us through His Father’s perfect principle, and coming to the end, to turn it over again, that we might find forever and ever the treasure hidden within.
Question Everything
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People of faith should step out in faith - as long as they are doing so in obedience to God rather than in obedience to their own desires. How do we know the difference? That's an important question Barry Phillips and David Jones investigate in this midrash.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/229....2194/episodes/158101
People of faith should step out in faith - as long as they are doing so in obedience to God rather than in obedience to their own desires. How do we know the difference? That's an important question Barry Phillips and David Jones investigate in this midrash.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/229....2194/episodes/158101
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 8:25 ESV
To the carnal mind, it makes no sense to keep waiting and hoping for something intangible, especially something that takes a long time to arrive, but the promises of God are certain. Our faith in God isn’t worth very much if we give up on him when his promises take longer to fulfill than we expected. What kind of faith would that be? We can’t see the tops of the sails yet, but we know the ship is on its way, somewhere beyond the horizon.
For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
Romans 8:24 ESV
Paul’s hope is in the resurrection and the restoration of all Creation. If there is no resurrection, to what are we saved? There is no ultimate purpose in worshiping and obeying our Creator, beyond the basic self-interest of a better life, but “better” is relative.
Is it better to be poor and sick with good relationships or to be healthy and rich with shallower friendships? Of course, a godly man chooses righteousness, regardless of the material cost, but the hope of a resurrection into eternity clarifies the distinction between those two possible “betters”.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18 ESV
Atheists often say that any God who allows suffering isn’t worthy to be worshiped, but their logic requires that they be practically omniscient gods themselves in order to be so certain that there is insufficient good to outweigh the bad.
God has a much deeper understanding of all things than we do. He knows every evil thing that happens in the world, and he also knows how every one of them will eventually work toward a greater good for those who trust in him, if not in this life, then certainly in the next.