Guest speaker Richard Koss discusses his testimony, stories from his prison ministry, and the power of prayer.
Today Richard has a powerful prison ministry, but he and his wife come from criminal backgrounds. Between them they have 70 arrests. But Richard had a praying grandmother, which brought about the circumstances that led him to salvation. He shares the salvation stories of several other hardened criminals who found the Lord while in prison because of a praying relative.
Pastor Gray continues his message from last week from John 15, focusing on verse 7.
God wants us to abide in Him as He abides in us. To abide is to remain, and we cannot bear fruit apart from Him. And fruit is the life of Jesus in us–doing the same works Christ did: healing, delivering, and leading people to salvation.
Are you abiding in Christ? Are you bearing fruit?
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Pastor Gray preaches from John 15, abiding in the vine and being pruned. Every believer has giftings, and we will stand before Christ to give account of how we used them.
As we abide in the vine, we will bear fruit, and God, as the vinedresser, will prune us as needed in order that we may bear more fruit.
God expects us to use our gifting and to bear fruit. Are you?
Pastor Gray continues his examination of Hebrews 9:27, that it isn’t about dying but about living.
God has given gifts to all of us. He wants us to use those gifts, as the parable of the talents illustrates. God was angry with the servant who buried his talent.
What giftings has God given you? What are you doing with it? When you stand before the judgment seat of Christ what will the fire reveal about how you used your giftings?
Pastor Gray examines the topic of judgment and looks at Hebrews 9:27, “it is appointed unto men once to die.”
The unbeliever (spiritually dead) will face the great white throne of God’s judgment. The authentic believer will stand before the judgment (bema) seat of Christ.
In ancient times, the bema seat was a raised platform where judges evaluated contestants of athletic games and distributed rewards. This is what Christ does for us when we stand before His judgment seat. It is not about determining our salvation, but examining how we’ve used our God-given gifts and rewarding us accordingly.
Pastor Gray preaches from Isaiah 1 on the rebelliousness of God’s people and what He planned to do about their lack of faith.
God got their attention and told them how He planned to deal with them. We talk a good story, but do we have the faith to live the Scriptures God has given us? God has done for us exactly what He said he would do for the Israelites–He brought us a Savior.
Pastor Bill Grace preaches on how God took the formless, that which was in confusion and chaos, and brought form to it.
The Holy Spirit is always hovering over our lives as He hovered over the formless and empty earth in the beginning of time. God wants to bring a new thing to our lives but we must first open ourselves to Him.
Pastor preaches on receiving revelation knowledge from God’s Word, based on Eph. 1:18.
When we get sick we sometimes think that’s because we’ve failed or done something wrong. No, that’s not true! The enemy is actively coming against us, and so we must stand on the Word. God is with us in every moment of our lives. He wants us to have revelation of His will through the Word and to have victory.
Are you being enlightened by His Word as Ephesians 1:18 declares?
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Pastor Gray expounds on John 11:25-26, “I am the resurrection, and the life,” and all that means for us who believe.
Resurrection means to be brought up from the dead, but another meaning is “stand on your feet again.” When your memories outweigh your dreams, a resurrection needs to take place.
Jesus is the one who will stand us up on our feet and put us on solid ground. Christ gave us zoe life—redemption, forgiveness of sins, bodily healing, deliverance, and being raised to new life. We will never die. Our mortal body will, but our spirit will live eternally with God in heaven.
But what of those who reject Christ?
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Pastor Bill Grace preaches on Romans 12:2-3, encouraging us to be transformed by renewing our mind. We do that by meditating on the Word.
When God created man, He gave him dominion over the earth. We have that same dominion today.
Pastor Grace admonishes us to take dominion over our flesh, our thoughts, and our senses (taste, touch, etc.). We do this through meditation of the Word. With that, God can give us the revelation knowledge He wants us to have, which allows us to function from revelation rather than through our sense knowledge.
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