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Wanted — Kingdom Workers Our text today makes it clear that there are no unemployment lines in the Kingdom of God. Our Lord always needs more workers. Workers needed who share Jesus’ compassion for the lost. As entire world of confused and lost sinners lies before us. “But when He saw the multitudes,…

Numbers 25:10-30:1 REVIEW So far we can summarize what we have studied about Bamidbar - in the wilderness / Numbers by this Summary b’Midbar Sinai, take a census, arrange the camp, and Naso Levites for holy work— b’Ha’alot’cha the lamps, shine through the night for God! Sh’lach l’Cha spies if you must,…

Introduction This Torah Portion goes from Numbers 25:10-30:1 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he…

Numbers 25-31 Continued Wanderings Good evening church. Open your Bibles with me to Numbers chapter 25. If you were with us last week, hopefully you remember the story of the prophet Balaam and his donkey. Balaam was approached by the servants of Balak to come and curse the Israelites that had encroached…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely, that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

“No!” “You can’t!” “It won’t work!” “There is no way.” “We took a vote.” How do you hear it? Do these words give you a sense of victory, or do they give you a sense of defeat? It may depend on whether you’re the one hearing them or the one saying them. Either way the source of these words can often be…

We’ve been moving through CASKET EMPTY, and I don’t want us to lose sight of why we’re doing that. The whole idea of Casket Empty is to recognize God’s redemptive story throughout the Old Testament. Many have wondered did God create the world and then just leave it to run itself, and what we see throughout…

If we’re honest we’re always somewhere on the scale between belief and unbelief. I’ve shared with you many times the Father’s exclamation from Mark 9 when he brings his son to Jesus and asks him to heal him, “if he can.” Jesus responds: And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for…

Remember, we are studying about the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ. The Hebrew christians were not maturing to where they needed to be. The main reason for this is because they simply were lazy when it comes to the scriptures. The author mention a progression of principles that we must accept as…

Numbers 30:1-36:13 REVIEW So far we can summarize what we have studied about Bamidbar - in the wilderness / Numbers by this Summary b’Midbar Sinai, count the army. Count Levites separately, and Naso everyone for special tasks. b’Ha’alot’cha the lamps, shine as a light to the nations. Though spies Sh’lach…

Review The baptism with the Spirit was a supernatural work of God in fulfillment of His promise to empower the early church. After Pentecost, this work was limited to the apostles’ ministry and it ceased with their passing. The Holy Spirit: The Indwelling Of The Spirit (Part 1) There are at least two…

OVERVIEW OF BOOK Title: NUMBERS (Comes from the two CENSUSES that are in the book Author: Moses Date: 2nd month of 1445BC → 1406BC Begins exactly 1 year and 1 month after Exodus Audience: the 2nd generation after wandering in the wilderness Main Characters: Moses Aaron Miriam the nation of Israel Main…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Introduction Last week we learned that our need is twofold: we need reconciliation and transformation, or justification and sanctification. We dealt primarily with the need of Justification: Justification is an act of God whereby He declares unjust sinners to be just after He has imputed to them the…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Introduction: Redemption is a word we don’t use quite as often in today’s world. When we think of the word redemption today, we probably think about coupons! As helpful as saving a few dollars here and there is, this use of the word redemption pales in comparison to the Biblical use of this great theological…

Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there. Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. And the people contended…

Numbers 6:22-27 22 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them: 24 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up His countenance…

Numbers 5:11-31 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully to him, 13 and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there…

Introduction We talked about BeMidbar chapter 3 already when we talked about he Levites. But I have skipped chapter 2 I want to go back today and look at that. Numbers 2:1-34 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “The Israelites will encamp each with his standard, with a banner according to their…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

Taking a look at the make up of man in defining the Spirit.