Your Family Bank
“An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.” (Proverbs 20:21) What do you want to leave the future generations of your family after you’re gone? What do you want to leave your children? What do you want to leave your grandchildren? Your great grandchildren? Beyond? Would you prefer to […]
Relationships: Government, Kingdom and Economy
The originals meanings of the words economy and government are scarcely much different than in their theological and spiritual connotations. However, the differences and relationship between the two are evident today: For example: The economy is only part of the care and policy-making of a government. It is mainly part and parcel of the the […]
What Do Banks Buy? (BOLI)
“But wisdom is proved right by her actions.” (Matthew 11:19) Did you know that most financial institutions spend a lot of time and money trying to convince people that whole life is a bad place to hold money? Remember, they spend billions advertising each year, and have an amazing level of control over content that […]
Key Observations of Kingly and Priestly Office and Duty: Part 2
This Kingdom is not isolated from God’s Family. Rather it is one with the Family of our Heavenly Father. 1. The intent of God isn’t to enjoy a higher position over mankind. It’s His desire to have Man included in His Family, and through Man, He would subdue all creation and make His Name known […]
The Discipline of Sanctification – Part 2
Yesterday, we began discussing the various types of discipline that play a role in our sanctification. One such line of discipline is akin to a Father teaching a Son. Call it Priestly Wisdom. Out of love for his Father and His brothers, Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cross as the Lamb of God. Thus once […]
The Symbolism of Communion
Spiritual food and water is only available by the Holy Spirit. This is what John the Apostle and Jesus Himself testified: John 7:37-39 [NIV] 37On the last and greatest day of the Feast (of Tabernacle), Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38Whoever […]
Spiritual Life
In the former chapters, we mentioned that God created everything both visible and invisible through Christ, His Son. And that when Adam sinned, Man was “cast out” of the invisible, spiritual world into the visible physical world. We will call this life the life of Natural Man. However, as we are born again through our […]
The Father’s Business
As we are first adopted back into the Family of God, we begin to fellowship with Him as a son with his father. We will live in His love, security and provision. But more than this, the Father will begin to teach us and impart His Likeness to us. The Father’s heart is to have […]
Branches, Leaves & Fruit
“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.” (Matthew 12:33) Only after establishing a strong, thorough root system and a powerful trunk can you have a tree, which you can depend on to produce […]
First-Born: Birthright and Inheritance – Part 2
In order to express His divine thoughts about His Son (as Paul put it, “the mystery of Christ”), God ordered in the family of Man the concept and rules of the first-born. The first-born in the ancient Hebrew culture would have two separate endowments from his father: his birthright and an inheritance of a double […]
