Theocracy means literally ‘the rule of God’ and the term was invented by Josephus (ad 38-c. 100) to describe the ancient Hebrew constitution and the role of Mosaic law. However, if you do not literally believe that the law has been handed down by God on tablets of stone, it may be difficult to accept theocracies on their own terms.

- Lincoln Allison

I make this small post to introduce an idea. Allow me to introduce you to a word which has greatly captivated my imagination of late, THEOCRACY.

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Aaron Ireland

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he the doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be manifest, that they are wrought in God
John 3:18-21

It is an offense to the carnal mind that a sacrifice is required for God would consider him to be righteous. There is a tendency to compare ourselves to others, in hope that we can find more people who are “worse” than us, than those that are “better” than us. Call it insecurity, call it what you will, but there is something in our make up that recoils at the thought of not being good enough. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

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Watchman Nee

“O wretched man that I am!” cried Paul, “who shall deliver me from this body of death?” There is nothing more musical in the ears of the Lord. This cry is the most spiritual and the most scriptural cry aman can utter. He only utters it when he knows he can do nothing, and gives upmaking any further resolutions. At last he discovers there is no use in his making up his mind any more. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

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Ron Bailey

Delivered at a conference in Devon UK. Session 1 examines the nature of genuine repentance by demonstrating its essential God-consciousness. It distinguishes between a genuine sorrow which leads to genuine repentance, and the world’s sorrow which leads to death.

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Dan Stone

Our natural tendency is to think that God will only speak of pleasant things, and Satan only of unpleasant things, but that is to live from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

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Dan Stone

Rather than trying to become more like Christ, we are to let Christ live his life through us, as us.

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Dan Stone

To the degree that we understand eternal realm, we are freed from the temporary realm. This constitutes the Something More of Christianity.

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Arthur Katz

Some reflections on the controversial Tent of Shem message and Israel’s final destiny.  A transcription of a spoken message by the same title.

These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb (Revelation 14:4 KJV).

The Lord is looking for a virginal first-fruits company that will follow the Lamb withersoever He goes, and in these last days, this ‘withersoever’ is going to bring us to places we never could have imagined and where we ourselves would balk, like Peter when he said, “Let this be far from You, Lord.”  This is a statement of such remarkable generosity and breadth of the spirit of compassion for his Master that it would have obtained for Peter the ‘Man of the Year’ award; yet, it would have impeded the Cross.  John the Baptist, of whom Jesus said, “There is no greater,” and, “I have need to be baptized of You,” had to be persuaded to demonstrate the “withersoever” of Jesus, by baptizing the One who patently had no need of repentance, that they might fulfill all righteousness.

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Aaron Ireland

The following thoughts came to me after meditating upon Rom 10, particularly v1-4:

1 Brethren, my heart desire and prayer to God for Israel, is that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knoweldge
3 For they, being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For, Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, unto every body that believeth.

To set the scene for my train of thought, I’ll include a number of assumptions that can be made.

Paul, being a pharisee, knew what Isreal considered to be righteous.

Paul had not given up on Israel.

Israel, as a people, were particularly zealous for God.

Rather than trying to find the heart of God, they distilled all the statements of Moses and the Prophets into a detailed list of “dos and don’ts”.

Christ’s purpose is that people would cease to follow these letter of the Law, and being to operate out of a heart for God.

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David Takle

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel (Gal.1:6)

The Western Christian Church today is currently undergoing a precipitous decline in numbers, power, and relevence. Many theories have been suggested as to why we are no longer reaching the people of our culture, and why it is that we can now refer to this time in the West as the post-Christian era. I would like to propose that the reason is simply this: that the Christian church as a whole is no longer preaching the Gospel of the New Testament.

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