Series: Beginnings in Eden
Sun am 13 March 2011 – Kobus Swart
1 Cor. 15:20-28; Rev. 21:3
Understand what it means that we have been crucified with Christ, in the first Adam. Satan will try to reactivate and resurrect your past. He will try to focus you again on a history that was nailed to the cross. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. The only voice he has, is the voice you give him! We must confess the truth that we (in the first Adam) have been crucified with Him. Jesus – the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. He opened up a new level of living to us. We are seated with Him in heavenly places!
Series: Finished Works
Sun am 6 March 2011 – Kobus Swart
Heb. 12:1-3; Gen. 2:7-9; Rev 2:7; Gal. 2:20; Rom. 6:5-7; Matt. 16:24-25; Luke 23:39-43
What more does the Church of Jesus Christ need to become overcomers?
The apostolic mandate is to present every man complete in Christ. Believers must always be migrating, growing spiritually. What God has been giving us faithfully over the years is not to focus on sin by attacking the sin habit in our lives, but to provide a formula that can deal with the sin nature or our misunderstanding of that sin nature. The Gospel of the Kingdom talks about Jesus Christ as Lord over our lives.
What happened to the old Adamic nature when we were born again?
Series: Beginnings in Eden/Christ in me
Sun am 6th February 2011 – Kobus Swart
1 Sam. 17:38-40; Josh. 5:7-15; (Jude 1:5); Gal. 4:4; John 1:29; Eph. 1:3-5; Matt. 28:20; Ps. 139:13; Jer. 1:5; Col. 1:13-20; John 17:9
So often we still fall for the temptation to put on yesterday’s armour; it feels “comfortable” – that which used to work! At Saul’s suggestion, David tried the old armour, but soon threw it off. We have to identify that which used to work in previous seasons. Throw it off, otherwise you will remain trapped under the thinking patterns of yesterday. As the mantle fell upon Joshua to lead the people of God into the Land of Promise, he had to go through a major paradigm shift. The people who continued to function under an “I am saved” mindset in the wilderness, all perished.
Series: Beginnings in Eden
Sun am 30 January 2011 – Kobus Swart
Gal. 3:1-5; Gen. 3:14-19; Matt. 13:3-9,22; Col. 1:13; Matt. 6:10; Matt. 18:11; Gen. 1:28; John 20:6-7
This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? … does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? (Gal. 3:2-5). In a subtle way religion has brought alternatives and gimmicks. By receiving the proceeding word with faith we can receive our miracle where we are sitting – listening with an ear that is ready to receive. All seven letters in Revelation which are written to the seven Churches end with “He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”
Series: Beginnings in Eden
Sun am 23rd January 2011 – Kobus Swart
1 Cor. 2:14; Matt. 5:6; Job 32:8; Gen. 2:25; Gen. 3:6-10; James 4:10; Prov. 16:18; Gal. 5:17; Rom. 8:14; Matt. 5:8; Matt. 10:34; Gen. 3:21; James 3:17-18
Many Christian believers, with the Holy Spirit inside of them do not show a constant hunger to know more of God. Knowing more about God comes as a response to our hunger and thirst after more of God. (“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied” Matt. 5:6). By being just a good Christian we are often backsliding without knowing it. You either move forward or backward, there is no standing still spiritually in this walk with God.
Sun am 28 November 2010 – Kobus Swart
Gen. 1:26-28; Gen. 2:8-9, 16-17; Gen. 3:1-7; Gen. 4:26; Heb. 7:22; Acts 10:43; Isa. 61:1-3; Rev. 22:2; Isa. 51:3; Song of Solomon 4:12; Isa. 11:6-7; Isa. 65:25; Rev. 22:2, 5; Rom. 8:19-23; Eph. 1:5; Eph. 2:10; Rom. 8:1-7; 1 John 5:18; Eph. 3:10
Everything that God originally created was mandated to bring forth after its own kind (Gen. 1:12, 21, 24-25). Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” (Gen. 1:26). God has always been looking for a people like Himself.
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:8-9). The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree (including the tree of life!) of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”(in your dying you will die) (Gen. 2:16-17). (more…)
Sun am 21st November 2010 – Kobus Swart
Gal. 4:24; (Luke 15); (Matt. 13); John 12:24-25; (Gen. 1-3)
What most people forget to do when reading the Bible is to read deeper than the story itself. The only correct way to understand the Old Testament is to interpret it through the New Testament. Then you go back to the Old Testament and you look for the types, shadows and parables or allegories. There are certain principles and emotions that are very difficult to describe, unless you get a good artist to paint something that communicates what you are trying to say, or if you write a story to convey a principle.
The Bible has not been written primarily to convey historical or geographical facts, (more…)