Highlights from several ‘live’ audio recordings made between 2018 and 2022.
Of note is the importance of ‘family’ as the vehicle of God’s blessing to humanity – specifically the family of Abraham and Sarah and their child of promise, Isaac.
By nature of its existence, family is a witness of God’s relational order and in this respect, ‘family’ carries divine corporate responsibility. The wider family of God (consisting of all living believers) is a witness to the world of God’s love and redemption. The strength of this witness (and the family’s fellowship) is determined by the degree to which believers have consumed the Living Bread – the Word of God – into their lives and therefore the degree to which they have a love for the Truth. John said, “to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth”. (2 John 1:1).
Jesus is the Truth (John 14:6) and when the church consumes this Truth (the Living Bread, the Word), the communication between the Head and His church (the body) is clear. Jesus said (in John 18:37), “Everyone who is of the truth, hears my voice”. Without the truth, can we hear His voice?
In this respect, extending Paul’s metaphor of the human body, to the human spine, is appropriate. The 33 vertebrae of the human spine protect the ‘communication’ between the head and the body. If this ‘communication’ represents our spiritual fellowship – with one another and with God – then the 33 vertebrae represent the pure, pristine, apostolic truth which protects our fellowship. Truth protects our communion and fellowship which is otherwise weakened by a faulty witness. The Apostle John is a type of the church with an uncorrupted testimony – able to separate and distinguish Truth from impurities of false teaching and the traditions of men.
Furthermore, the work of God, now, is to believe.
