Archives November 2021

The Power and Necessity of Empty

2021 November 28th Streaming

We trust you all had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving, for those who celebrate this holiday. This week in Sunday Fellowship we will look at Phil 2:5-8. These verses are some of the most powerful verses in our Bible! They are “the answer” to “the question” no one has really asked. Everyday millions of people ask millions of questions and get millions of answers. Many ask a question and many get a answer. Keep in mind, if you don’t ask the right question, you can’t get the right answer. These verses have their beginning before God created anything and provided “the question” and “the answer” all at once. It is here in these verses God reveals the power and necessity of “empty”! But does “empty” mean dead? Or, does “empty” mean death? Please remember death “DID NOT” start with man! Death is a God idea and began with Him, the whole Godhead. I was told once by my dear brother and father in Christ, Dr. Warren Litzman, “the strongest principle in God, is that life comes out of death.” These verses cover this God idea as well as the emptying. Paul gives us what the Spirit gave him. He didn’t explain the meaning of a lot of the revelations he received. That wasn’t his responsibility, but was the responsibility of Holy Spirit, who revealed these marvelous revelations and insights to the mystery in Christ. Paul even told us there were things he was shown that were “unspeakable”. And, he also said the “things of God” are revealed by the Spirit of God. So, let’s talk about it…

What is Unlearning to Learn Spiritual Identity?

2021 November 21st Streaming

Yoda, the Jedi Master of Star Wars, has a knack for saying short, snappy things that cut right to the core of a major life lesson. Whether you’re a Star Wars fan or not, his words can teach us a thing or two about accepting failure, believing in ourselves, and taking action. One of these sayings was this one, “You must unlearn what you have learned.” This particular saying became a part of our teaching in the “In Christ message” and now in the message of “Spiritual Birth and Identity of Sonship”. After all, if you think about it, it would make sense for us to learn something new we would need to unlearn or empty the old thing that can hinder the new knowledge. When it comes to Spiritual knowledge of identity, man-made religion has kept all its children in ignorance and captivity of personal identity of the flesh! This type of religion is rooted and grounded in learning good behavior and unlearning what it perceives as bad behavior. But is this the answer? Let’s talk about it…

Non-binary classifications and Spiritual Identity

2021 November 14th Streaming

Paul’s letter to the Romans forms the link in terms of contrasting binary identity versus Spiritual identity. Paul wrote the letter and I traced the core ideas of his message between chapters one through to four but most importantly Romans chapter 8.
Paul emphasizes that all humanity is hopelessly trapped in sin and needs to be rescued and that this rescue is not going to happen by people trying to obey the laws of the Torah.

Paul expounds that rather God’s righteous character has moved him to rescue the world through Jesus’ death and resurrection so that He could create a true faith-based and not multi-ethnic family of Abraham, but Sons to Him, Spiritual birthed Sons where there are non-binary identities.

Romans 8:1, KJV: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

Let’s discuss this in this next message…

Challenges to binary prompts new thinking on gender, and the exchanges of Spiritual Identity

2021 November 7th Streaming

The 21st Century is pretty much dominated by predominantly biological explanations of gender differences, which emphasize the social and cultural origins, for example, divisions of labor.
Back in 2019, my family and I visited the US for the first time and I remember sitting in a huge lounge with my dear brother David Kenebrew. There, we discussed some general issues of life and whether guilt was innate or learnt across different cultures.

To answer this question, Brother David simply said just consider a man in a tribe somewhere, where the man has never heard about the bible or about of Jesus Christ. A man who understands polygamy, and yet when he longs for another man’s wife, he waits for the man to go away, before he approaches the wife. Why is it that he first waits for him to go out and does not come to his wife whilst he is around? What is it that makes him wait? Is it shame, conscience, culpability or what? Where does this feeling come from?

King David, in Second Samuel, was tempted upon seeing Bathsheba bathe in her courtyard, from the roof of his palace. He had her brought to his chambers and had sex with her, resulting in a pregnancy. Do you think that because he was the King guilt did not apply to him?

Romans 13:14, ESV: “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”

Well let’s take a closer look at the exchanged Spiritual Identity of the Son: