Sun am 19 July 2009 – Kobus Swart
Eph. 1:17-23; Rom. 11:36; (1 Cor. 15:24); John 12:24; (Heb. 1:3)
What is very closely related to the finished works of Christ is to live a life without a sin consciousness. We do not need to have consciousness of sins anymore because the old outer court rituals fell away when Jesus died on the cross as the once for all Sacrifice. He came and not only forgave, He took away sin. We have somehow allowed the act of redemption to fill the whole spectrum of the gospel to the exclusion of other strands of truth. We made as if God’s ultimate purpose has always been the redemption of human kind. The gospel has become largely centered on the plan of redemption, which made the fall the starting place. The fall is where it all went wrong, so God is totally pre-occupied with restoring what went wrong at the fall. Wrong! The question is;” Did God plan sin in His original purpose for creation?” No, He did not plan sin. But He created Adam and Eve and gave them a choice. It’s that choice where things went wrong.
Sun am 12 April 2009 – Kobus Swart
(Heb. 9); Heb. 8:13; Heb. 10:2, 14; Mark 8:1-8, 14-21, Eph. 4:11; (1 Cor. 12:12);
1 John 4:17b; John 1:12, Mark 9:1; (Matt. 12:6); (Matt. 24:2); (Rev. 11:2)
We are in a very specific kairos season that is on offer to the Church, and blessed are those who have ears to hear what the Lord is saying to the churches.
Two thousand years ago, the outer court fell away. The moment Jesus became the once for all Sacrifice, all further need for sacrificial traditions fell away; the priesthood of the Old Covenant was made redundant.
Sun am 5th April 2009 – Kobus Swart
Acts 2:41-42; Luke 24:27-30, 51-53
Over the years, the church has drifted away from New Testament principles, and people have suffered a great deal as a result of it. In this apostolic season God is bringing many such principles under our attention again. There clearly must have been a reason why the early church walked in such power and with such blessing upon their lives. Let’s look at another one of these principles.
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