In order to fully understand the power of God's great love, one must also understand the power of God's great wrath. Without Jesus Christ, one understands none of God's power and cannot truly respect it.
Psalms 90:11 KJV Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Each of our days is numbered. Regardless of the number of days that have been squandered, let's commit the remainder of this number to His glory, honor, and service.
Psalms 90:12 KJV So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
For forty days after His resurrection, Jesus spoke of the kingdom of God. Rarely throughout His ministry on earth was He concerned with the kingdoms of men. Perhaps this should be our priority too.
Acts 1:3 KJV To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
While many have been baptized with water in the absence of faith, baptism with the Holy Ghost is not so – it only occurs in the presence of faith.
Acts 1:5 KJV For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
1948 Antichrist Israel is not the restoration of the kingdom to Israel, for such a kingdom requires a King who sits on the throne of David. If you believe otherwise, you are a deceived fool.
Acts 1:6 KJV When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Acts 1:7 KJV And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Gospilled Minute #119
If the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will witness for Christ. If you never speak of Him, I highly doubt that the Holy Spirit even knows your name.
Acts 1:8 KJV But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
"120?" says the carnal preacher. Little does he know that he foolishly rebukes the initial New Testament church that the Lord established. You can keep your carnal congregations; I am looking for disciples.
Acts 1:14 KJV These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Acts 1:15 KJV And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
Unless you have personally seen and heard Jesus with your own eyes and ears, you have no authority to claim the title of apostle. Furthermore, unless one of the original apostles has personally acknowledged your apostleship, and you can provide testimony of having seen Jesus firsthand, as in the case of Paul, it would be wise to reconsider your title.
Acts 1:22 KJV Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
May we be so filled with the glory of the LORD today that there's no room left for self.
Exodus 40:35 KJV And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
By God's grace, I am not moving unless the cloud of the LORD is moving. I do not care which direction the clouds of pollution are moving.
Exodus 40:36 KJV And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
Exodus 40:37 KJV But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
Exodus 40:38 KJV For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
If you understand the Jerusalem above, you will understand the mother's house. Whereas, many Christians today have allied themselves with the wicked stepmother.
Song of Solomon 3:4 KJV It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Galatians 4:26 KJV But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Father, may we be fit vessels for the filling of Your Holy Spirit. In Jesus' Name, Amen.