Tune and Prepare!

Our enemy, satan, tries to make us hate our fellow humans. The apostolic teaching warns: we do not have war on a physical and visible level, but in the invisible, heavenly world. {Eph 6:10} At work, in the marketplace, among rivals, on the battlefield: The "enemy" almost doesn't matter. War always starts with condemning-judging others. But who am I to do so? {Mt 7:1-2} Whoever proclaims a war {by the secular power of any religion/trend} lives in a carnal way, under a battle psychosis. Under judgement. Why? Because it is the means /tools, not just the end that counts. If the fight is physical, the person eventually begins to follow the path of satan and serves it with physical warfare. And he dies. {Jesus warns in Mt 26:52} Since life and death are basically spiritual things, it would make sense to keep all of these in God's power. He gives us grace to have life. {Jn 10:10} He is the way, the truth, the life. {Jn 14:6} The good news is that believers have de...

Ellenségünk, a sátán megpróbál minket arra rávenni, hogy gyűlöljük embertársainkat. Az apostoli tanítás figyelmeztet: nem fizikai és látható szinten van háborúnk, hanem a láthatatlan, mennyei világban. {Ef 6:10} A munkahelyen, a piacon, a riválisok között, a csatatéren: Az "ellenség" szinte mindegy. A háború mindig mások elítélésével kezdődik. De ki vagyok én hogy így tehessek? {Mt 7:1-2} Aki háborút hirdet {bármilyen vallás/irányzat világi erejével}, az testi módon, harci pszichózisban él. Ítélet alatt. Miért? Mert az eszköz is számít nem csupán a cél. Ha a harc fizikai, akkor a személy végül a sátán útját kezdi követni, és fizikai hadviseléssel szolgálja azt. És meghal. {Jézus figyelmeztet a Mt 26:52-ben} Mivel az élet és a halál alapvetően szellemi/ spirituális dolgok, ésszerű lenne mindezeket Isten hatalmában tartani. Ő kegyelmet ad, hogy életünk legyen. {Jn 10:10} Ő az út, az igazság, az élet. {Jn 14:6} A jó hír az, hogy a hívők legyőzték a Sátánt a bárá...

an ESV Article from the "10 Things You Should Know" series 1. God’s love is incomprehensible No human mind can comprehend God. We cannot define God. We cannot provide a comprehensive account of who he is. He "dwells in unapproachable light" (1 Tim. 6:16). If God is incomprehensible, then so is his love. While we may and must speak truthfully about his love, we can never fathom it, because it is divine love, as different from our love as his being is different from our being. 2. God’s love can be known We cannot define God in the sense of delimiting exhaustively who he is, but we can nonetheless describe him truthfully. We can do so because he has made himself known to us in his Word and he opens our eyes to that Word by his Spirit. How is that possible, given the divine difference? It is possible because God makes himself known to us in creaturely reality. He takes up the things he has made and uses them to describe himself to us. Thus he is a lio...

Worship is a complex lifestyle in the Scriptures, not an event. Adoration, honor, praise, reverence focuses on the holiness of the majesty, the mightiness, the beauty of the Lord, – this is a constant priestly activity: sacrifice before the Lord, per-se. When we worship in holiness, unity and agreement, "God dwells among us": JHVH Shammah is his name which also clearly points to the name Immanuel : "Gd is with us". Gd's names represent His mighty character. Jesus clearly teaches that His Name should be holy before us: "hallowed be Your Name". His prayer model is the base of the everyday priestly prayer and adoration. In respect. In unity. In love. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. Psalm 20:7-8 The full article is here ☆

study in the Chapterhouse The Constant Need Ephesians 4:1-16 Holman Christian Standard Bible 1 Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received, 2 with all humility and gentleness , with patience {tolerating}, accepting {bearing} one another in love, 3 diligently keeping the unity * of the Spirit with the peace that binds us. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to {called in} one hope at your calling— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all. *Keeping the unity means: acceptance and active love ( agape: inviting love / or 'Hesed' ), creating an environment with mutual trust and support. See: David Guzik's article about unity (see: the apostolic heart in Rm.1:12 and 14:19 ) 7 Now grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of the Messiah’s gift. 8 For it says: When He...