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Think Spot - Fruit and Light

 

Monday Think Spot

Fruit and Light

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.  

These are perhaps some of most popular words within the church today, particularly western reformed Protestantism…  Look at those words again – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control… Beautiful words which I am sure fill you with a sense of well-being and are pleasing to your mind and to your soul… They are indeed beautiful but they are to be maintained by the Christian, because they are evidence that you have the Holy Spirit within you. 

If you are a Christian, this fact – you have the Holy Ghost within you and upon you – He is the seal of your salvation.  But these Fruit are difficult to maintain 24 hours a day. That is why we are to rely on His wisdom and strength as we go through each day, maintaining those fruit as we interact with others as well as in our private life – those moments when we are alone. One thing I have noticed about myself, is that it is easier to show the fruit of the Spirit in the big moments of life, but not that easy in the smaller moments of life such as when the traffic lights go green and the car ahead doesn’t move instantly! How about you?

But the fruit of the Spirit is not just for the individual. The fruit of the Spirit are also to be displayed by the community of Christians – local, national and international. For instance, if another Christian, even one from a church that is not the one you attend, is feeling unloved, it is your responsibility to love them – regardless of any doctrinal disagreements. You may not be able to love them in your own strength, but you can by using the power of the Holy Ghost – ask Him and He will help you!

The fruit of the Holy Ghost is not just for the individual Christian but for a group of Christians. Your church is to exhibit the fruit of the Spirit and all the churches in your town are to exhibit the fruit of the Spirit.  In your town, there is only one church – a church made up of all the churches in the town. How are the churches in your town exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit? By doing that, you are a witness for Jesus Christ – a bright shining light of God in your town.

When you partake of the sacrament of communion with others, there is power in the bread and wine. Whatever your view of the bread and wine – whether you think they are only symbolic of Jesus’ blood and flesh or if they are the actual body and blood of Jesus – there is power because Jesus is there! The Word is there! It has a psychological effect! There is a promise! Jesus said He would be there! So when churches from different traditions get together and take the Sacrament of Holy Communion together, despite the doctrinal disagreements, there is power! Power to show the communal fruit of the Spirit! Remember Paul is writing to a group of Churches in Galatia, not a lone individual or even a solitary church! The churches in your neighbourhood, town, state and country is to be a bright light for the neighbourhood, town, state, province and country! Can you imagine the witness if Churches were seen to be working together despite minor differences?

Go be a light for Jesus Christ this week and beyond – as an individual, a group or a gathering of churches. God loves you so go tell and show others that God loves them too. Go show “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” to others – that is your light of God to those outside the Church. Thank you and have a great week!

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Christian Testimony - God in the Tornado

God in the Tornado

A great wind in the darkness!

It was Thursday night, 26^th May 2011 at 10:10pm.  I was alone sharing in prayer requests with friends on the Internet. It was a cool but blustery night, I had the doors open, letting the air circulate through the screens.  When all of a sudden, the house seemed to shake violently due to the awesome power of a mighty wind. The Rottweiler pup with me began to howl and seconds later the sirens in town went off! There was a tornado alert and the tornado was coming!

Being dark and stormy, plus surrounded by woods, I was kept from seeing any visual signs of the turmoil surrounding me. The sounds were deafening, the force caused the wind chimes to chime loudly and items to be tossed across the yard.

Silence is loud!

Shortly afterwards, the noise dissipated, and the night became calm. Both Aachen & I were OK, but she had saucer size eyes...I probably did too. Checking the weather news, there was a tornado watch alert. Whatever we received was a very mild form of what others recently have endured in Missouri and elsewhere.

Startling, yes...loud and full of power, yes...scary...no, there was peace and calm in the storm. Comfort in the midst of the winds. Praise be to our Almighty God. Next morning we found some items displaced and blown about, but only minimally.

Praise be to God!

Praising God, because just as Jesus was with the disciples in the midst of the storm in the story told in the Gospels, Jesus was here in the storms with me and protecting us! Wow!

Praise God for His loving watch care for this house, property and all that has been lovingly dedicated to God's glory and ministry. This is God's anointed place dedicated to outreach in sharing His love and Word to others. Praising God for the safety of the property and the gardens so far planted. This is a divinely inspired Women's Gardening ministry and outreach to those at risk in society. A ministry of helps and works revolving around the core of God's own Word and guidance.

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Sermon - Joy and Judgement Leviticus 9

Joy and Judgement

Leviticus 9:22-10:3 & 1 Corinthians 3:10-15

Introduction

The first seven chapters of Leviticus talk about the different offerings or sacrifices that Israel was to make to God. Then in chapter 8 we see the beginning of the priesthood and the joyful work of Aaron and the priests. Their main role as Priests, was to act as mediators between a holy God and the people of Israel, particularly in the role of making those offerings and sacrifices. In fact, these Priests were the ultimate multi-taskers, as they seemed equally adept as butchers, doctors, teachers, quality assurors and public health inspectors! The passage we have in front of us today shows the culmination of this priestly ordination. Let us witness together a scene of great and exuberant joy!

 

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Christian Testimony - Steve

Glimpses 57- Stephen

This is the story of Stephen. He lives in Bournemouth and he shares how an encounter with Jesus changed is life from hatred, violence, cruelty and drug addiction... Come and hear!

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What is a Christian Testimony

Why I am a Christian?

 

The Apostle John, writing in 1 John 5:9-12 - "We accept man's testimony, but God's testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."

Why Is It So?

A testimony is an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact. For the Christian Disciple, classically it is generally expressed as how they became a Christian Disciple. But I think it is more than just how, and should expressly include why you are a Christian Disciple. I wonder what is your testimony about how you became a Christian Disciple? When was the last time you thanked God for your testimony?

Have you even thought about your testimony of how you became a Christian Disciple? I am sure you have all heard kids in the supermarket yelling out "Why?" to their parents. We all have, I am sure, questions we want to know the answer to. Why? The question I am often asked is "You are a Christian. Why is it so?"

Why I am a Christian?

Now I could say that at the age of 12, we moved to a town on the coast of Australia, and was invited along to a local youth group and several weeks later, gave my life to Christ and became a Christian. Of course that is partly true. I can't even claim to be a Christian because I was raised in a Christian country. Australia was and is probably the second most secular country on this planet. Sure Australia has its moral base grounded in historic Christianity, but for the latter part of its history, Australia has been thoroughly secular and non-religious. Even if I had been raised in a country such as England, with Christian parents, that would also, only be partly true and I could have rejected Christianity as many people do. The reason that I am a Christian is not because I chased God, but rather He chased me. Unknown to me at the time, God was chasing me and following my every path with the urgency of a lover after the beloved, just as described in the Song of Songs 2:2-14.

God had been pursuing me

This piece of poetic Scripture speaks about the love that God has for his people, and the energy He puts in to calling his people to Himself. He is always reaching out, for all to return to His arms. As for me, it wasn't until I was a 12 year old that I heard that I needed to accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. Before that I didn't know I had to do anything with this Jesus. Jesus was only a curse word for me at the time. That or was just someone or something that the RE teachers bored me with at school. We are primarily Christians, not because we come to church services or just happened to have been born in a supposedly Christian country. We are primarily Christians, because God first chased and harried us into His arms. We are Christians, if you are one, because God first loved you. And as a tremendous lover, He beckons and calls people all the time to respond to His call, and back to Him. How does He chase us with His love? He chases each person differently, just as each Christian testimony is different.


Take for instance the Apostle Paul in Acts 8 & 9. God chased him through Paul's mind and his religious upbringing and education. Paul had known about God from his childhood. Paul was a righteous Pharisee who saw persecuting these ‘Christians' as his religious duty, so that he may somehow find favour with God. As Paul was gloating over the death of the martyr Stephen, God was pursuing Him, probably raising doubts in Paul's mind as to why Stephen would say at the point of death "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit and forgive them for what they do" (Acts 7:54-60). Surely doubts must have been raised in Paul's mind as he approved of this death (Acts 8:1).

Paul was also wrestling with his conscience. Externally he was a righteous man, a Pharisee of Pharisees. Yet when he internally examined himself and his heart, he found himself failing regarding covetousness, which is the last of the Ten Commandments. Then finally, Jesus himself makes a sudden and dramatic appearance before Paul and confronts him directly, "Why are you kicking against me? Why are you rejecting my advances?" (Acts 9) Paul's conversion to Christianity is often described as being sudden. But the only thing sudden about his conversion was this climatic appearance of Jesus. Just as that was true of Paul, it is true of me, just as it is true of all those who profess to call themselves a Christian Disciple.


I am a Christian Disciple not because of anything I have done, but rather because He first chased me, and because He first loved me. Jesus himself said "I came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10). If you are a Christian today, it is not because of anything you have done. It is because of the events at Christmas and Easter that you are a Christian, when God entered this world as a human baby and took all the necessary steps so that all people could have the choice to be His people or not.

In my more smug moments I used to congratulate myself for being a Christian. How proud I was that I, was a Christian and that God was a jolly lucky God that I had decided to follow Him. It was during one of my less self-deluded moments, that I examined myself and I found God pricking my conscience and correcting me, and I read the New Testament "For the Son of Man came, not to be served but to give His life as a ransom for many" (Mark10:45).

 

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Archive 2023 June

Archive June 2023

Podcast Edition Link

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement1/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement2/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement3/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement4/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement5/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg11/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg12/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/glimpses058/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/issues-troubles/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-113/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm-117/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm-14/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm-28/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/pod-psalm128/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/psalm148/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/sermon-acts20/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/sermon-romans6/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/sermon20200913/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/testimony-greg-richardson/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/wow-word-04-father-god/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg01/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg02/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg03/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg04/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg05/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg06/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg07/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg08/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg09/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/diwg10/

 

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http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/49kee/PartakePOD-Psalm028.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/7c4f92/PartakeTestimony_GregRichardson.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/7j47/PartakePOD-Psalm148.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/exadef/Partake_Issues06.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/hvn23g/PartakePOD-Psalm113.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/iga4tj/DGR_Sermon_Romans6.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/ta7th/PartakePOD-Psalm014.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/w2chb8/Glimpses58.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/x6jzed/PartakePOD-Psalm128.mp3

http://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/yukp/PartakePOD-Psalm117.mp3

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/mf/web/3q5nfy/PBC20170625-Acts20.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/amgwp0/Partakers-Atonement04.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c9ec0h/Partakers-Atonement03.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/eyx5kx/WW04_FatherGod.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fyiadp/DIWG03.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/g7tnju/DIWG02.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/geqqw4/DIWG11.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hjnc7k/DIWG01.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/htigze/Partakers-Atonement01.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i7appa/DIWG07.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/jn73pw/DIWG10.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t9aa0v/Partakers-Atonement05.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tu4ia6/DIWG05.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/u62g6g/DIWG04.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wel9na/DIWG08.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wewhkb/Partakers-Atonement02.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xuvm84/DIWG12.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yl3b8w/DIWG09.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zjknwy/Sermon-Psalm94-APrayerOfAnger.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zqyouz/DIWG06.mp3

 

Archive - Atonement series

Archive - Atonement series

A series of 5 podcasts concerning that big Bible Word, Atonement.

Podcast Edition Link

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement1/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement2/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement3/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement4/

https://davegroberts.podbean.com/e/atonement5/

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/htigze/Partakers-Atonement01.mp3

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c9ec0h/Partakers-Atonement03.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/amgwp0/Partakers-Atonement04.mp3

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/t9aa0v/Partakers-Atonement05.mp3

Psalm 28 - Psalm on Demand

Psalm 28

28:1 To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me;

lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

28:2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,

when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

28:3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked,

with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,

but mischief is in their hearts.

28:4 Give them according to their work,

and according to the wickedness of their doings.

Give them according to the operation of their hands.

Bring back on them what they deserve.

28:5 Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh,

nor the operation of his hands,

he will break them down and not build them up.

28:6 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

28:7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield.

My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.

Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.

With my song I will thank him.

28:8 Yahweh is their strength.

He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

28:9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance.

Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

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Christian Testimony - Christine

Listen to the testimony of Christine King!

Amazing testimony as are all testimonies of God's saving power through Jesus Christ...

 

Romans 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

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Christian Testimony - Greg

Testimony - Greg Richardson

Christian testimony - the son returns

The story of Greg, who became a christian largely due to the effort of others praying for him! Thanks be to God!

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