Tag: Believe
The Holy Spirit
This age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus cheers us not by His personal presence, as He will do soon enough, but by the indwelling and constant abiding of the Holy Spirit, who is forever the Comforter of the church. It is the Spirit’s role to console the hearts of God’s people. He convinces of sin; He illumines and instructs; but the main part of His work still lies in gladdening the hearts of the renewed, confirming the weak, and lifting up all those who are bowed down. He does this by revealing Jesus to them. The Holy Spirit consoles, but Christ is the consolation.
If we may use the figure, the Holy Spirit is the Physician, but Jesus is the medicine. He heals the wound, but it is by applying the holy ointment of Christ’s name and grace. He does not take of His own things, but of the things of Christ. So if we give to the Holy Spirit the Greek name of Paraclete, as we sometimes do, then our heart confers on our blessed Lord Jesus the title of Paraclesis. If one is the Comforter, the other is the Comfort.
Now, with such rich provision for his need, why should the Christian be sad and despondent? The Holy Spirit has graciously committed to be your Comforter: Do you imagine, weak and trembling believer, that He will neglect this sacred trust? Do you suppose that He has undertaken what He cannot or will not perform? If it is His special work to strengthen you and to comfort you, do you suppose He has forgotten His business or that He will fail in fulfilling His loving task of sustaining you? Don’t think so poorly of the tender and blessed Spirit whose name is the Comforter.
He delights to give the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Trust in Him, and He will surely comfort you until the house of mourning is closed forever, and the marriage feast has begun.
Charles H. Spurgeon
The Beginning
Genesis 1
Genesis begins with these words: “In the beginning, God . . . .” This simple introduction to the book—and to the entire Bible—reminds us of an incredibly significant fact: the God who created this world and us has existed forever in glory, splendor, and power.
Think about this for a moment. There has never been a time—ever—that God has not existed. There was a time when you did not yet exist. There was a time when this entire world—the whole universe—did not exist. God, though, is eternal; he has always existed in his perfect being, glory, and holiness. This concept is far beyond our capacity as humans to completely grasp.
In the beginning, before anything existed, God was there; he chose to create the universe, the reality that we know and see all around us. So what does this mean for us as we study the Bible?
God has existed eternally as the same God.
First, it means that God has always been the same; he has not changed throughout time but has eternally existed as exactly the same God. The Bible reveals him to us as one God in three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God has eternally existed in this way, and always will.
This idea that God never changes is very important when studying the Old Testament accounts of God’s dealings with his people. The same God who spoke to Moses and Abraham is the God who invites us to know him and worship him through faith in Christ!
God has life within himself.
Next, the truth of God’s eternality means that he has life within himself. No one gives life to God; he exists completely on his own. This is a difficult concept to grasp because this is true of no other being in the universe, including Satan and all the angels. God is the only being who does not depend on any other factor for his existence. He has existed from eternity as who he is, having life within himself, and in perfect harmony as one God in three persons.
God does not need us.
This truth flows out of the last one. If God has existed eternally with life within himself and with perfect harmony within the Trinity, then it follows that God does not need us. He did not choose to create the heavens, the earth, and human beings because of some deficiency in his existence or because he was lonely! God is completely self-sufficient—“happy” and full of life within himself. It must be that God chose to create simply for his own glory—out of the overflow of his own goodness and pleasure, which he possessed before the universe began.
We need God.
This all means, of course, that while God does not need us, we desperately need him. We are finite beings; because of sin (Gen. 3), we get sick, grow old, and die. Our only hope on this earth is to find a way to know this glorious Creator and to be saved through a relationship with him. Human beings desperately need this salvation. The amazing promise that we learn as we study the Bible is that God truly offers this salvation to the humans he has created.
The Lords Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer (KJV)
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
6 Steps taught in the Lord’s Prayer.
1. Address God’s rightful place as the Father
2. Worship and praise God for who He is and all that He has done
3. Acknowledge that it is God’s will and plans are in control and not our own
4. Ask God for the things that we need
5. Confess our sins and repent
6. Request protection and help in overcoming sin and Satan’s attacks on us
Meaning of the Lord’s Prayer
The Father-Son relationship within the Trinity reveals our potential relationship with God. Christ, the Son of God, grants us the privilege of calling God Our Father by the grace of adoption (Galatians 4:4-7). As a “son of God,” the Christian is called to love, trust, and serve God as Christ does the Father. We must note that God is not our Father simply because He created us. He is the only Father to those in a saving and personal relationship with Him, a communion that only comes by the grace of adoption.
The Book of Enoch
There is a reason why the Book of Enoch, is so Beloved and Strongly Defended by the Conspiracy Theory Crowd, it’s actually a favorite of New Age movement crowd, Witches & Warlocks Soothsayers, Mediums, the Zodiac Crowd, and a Majority of Mystics-They all love it so much for a reason that’s for sure!
They love the Apocalyptic Mysticism and Fantastical Imagery found in the false Book called the Book of Enoch.
Pastor Danno
Holy Faith Bible Church
Do you believe in deliverance?
Someone asked me If I believe in deliverance, and my answer was, of course, when you are saved you are delivered from the penalty of sin and bondage of sin.
But after you are saved you don’t need salvation again, and again, and you don’t need deliverance, again and again – because Salvation is Deliverance, and Deliverance is Salvation!
John 8:36-NASB
So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free
2 Corinthians 3:17-NASB
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Pastor Danno M. Romann
Holy Faith Bible Church
Testing the Spirits
This is how we know if they have the Spirit of God: If a person claiming to be a prophet acknowledges that Jesus Christ came in a real body, that person has the Spirit of God. But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here. But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1 John 4: 2-4,9-10
The Glory Of Christ
The glory of the law repels, but the greater glory of Jesus attracts. Though Jesus is holy and just, yet blended with His purity there is so much truth and grace that sinners run to Him amazed at His goodness, fascinated by His love; they greet Him, become His disciples, and take Him to be their Lord and Master.
C.H. Spurgeon
I Believe, Help My Unbelief
Mark 9:14-27 CSB
[14] When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them. [15] When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran to greet him. [16] He asked them, “What are you arguing with them about?” [17] Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak. [18] Whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.” [19] He replied to them, “You unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me.” [20] So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into convulsions. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth. [21] “How long has this been happening to him?” Jesus asked his father. “From childhood,” he said. [22] “And many times it has thrown him into fire or water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” [23] Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’? Everything is possible for the one who believes.” [24] Immediately the father of the boy cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!” [25] When Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: Come out of him and never enter him again.” [26] Then it came out, shrieking and throwing him into terrible convulsions. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He’s dead.” [27] But Jesus, taking him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
The Berean Christian 