Say Ahh!!!
What’s your Scriptural discipline? What do you do, frequently in a consistent manner that gets you into The Word, and thus The Word seeps back into you? For me, one discipline has been to read 5 Psalms and 1 Proverb every morning. The reasoning behind this pattern is simple, if you want to know ‘the heart of God’, read what ‘the man after God’s own heart’ wrote! David wrote most of the Psalms. Then, if you want to know the Wisdom of God, read what ‘the wisest man who ever lived’ wrote! Solomon wrote most of the Proverbs. Repeat each month. This is one way of studying to show yourself a workman approved unto The Author, rightly dividing His Word.
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We are going to finish this series up this month with some statistics. I’ve been teaching in the newsletter over the past six months about returning to the beginning and investigating what the end will look like since Isaiah 46:10 tells us the end is declared out of the beginning. This month I would like to present to you some statistics that Barna Group took. Barna Group is a leading xtian researching firm who take surveys about religion, church, and other aspects of xtian and non xtian lifestyles. I have been beating the drum in all of these newsletters about the mixture and adding to and taking away from the Scriptures that man in the name of religion has done to the Word of our Creator. I would like to now source Barna Group in some recent surveys to see what kind of fruit is being produced by our preaching today. These were from their Top Trends of 2011 article.
In the Name of…
How many times have we heard expressions in various Christian churches about the claim to do any number of things “in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ”? Do we really understand what that phrase means? Yahushua made it clear that He came “in the Name of” His Father, YHVH, and frequently said things like, “the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.” (Yahuchanon/John 10:25)
Even more dramatically, what may well be the most blunt warning in Scripture hinges on an understanding of that concept. Yahushua reminded people that it was DOING the will of YHVH that mattered, rather than simply claiming His Name, and then added, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ “
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