It’s good to be together again!
3 Amazing Transformations:
Creation, Revelation, and Consummation
Men’s Bible Study 3/30/2023 – Bill Morehouse
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Background: Current writing projects for His Kingdom Press
The Joy of Christian Discipleship Course 2
Equipped with Understanding group studies
5. Awakening: The Triumph of Truth
6. Kingdom: God’s Reign in our Midst
7. Heaven: Our Ultimate Destiny
The Joy of Christian Discipleship Course 1
Established in 3 Stages and 7 Steps group studies
1. Stage A – Saved! Rescued by Grace
2. Stage B – Sanctified: Coming Clean with God
3. Stage C – Sent: Becoming a Living Letter
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Plus other works in progress
4. Essentials of the Christian Faith: 7 Steps to Abundant Life, an 8-week daily devotional guide
and The Biblical Festivals, including A Passover Seder
His Kingdom Press and Celebrate Salvation
The Biblical Festivals, including A Passover Seder
Pesach 2023 / פֶּסַח 5783
Easter 2023
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Creation, Revelation, Consummation
3 Amazing Transformations
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Lucien Luis today.
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The Amazing Miracle
of Creation!
Louis Agassiz on God’s role in Creation
Famous 19th Century Naturalist, Adventurer, Professor, Educator
True pedagogy according to Agassiz
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Factoid: Our Milky Way revolves around a huge Black Hole…
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1:1-3 E = mc2
Fearfully and wonderfully made�in His Image, loved, raised up…
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“A child is born!”
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Grown up?
Amazing Revelation
Rebirth
New Door (portal, gate)
New Way (adoption)
New Truth (Kingdom)
New Life (now + forever)
The Omega
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Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Whatever became of sin?
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,�to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading,�kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ��1 Peter 1:3-5
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Our faith in Christ is unlike any other religion or philosophy
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2
When a person is called out and accepts the call to be part of the Ekklesia, they become “born again” spiritually. They are no governed by a set of rules designed primarily to fit them into the world’s mold, teach them worldly ways to “make friends and influence people,” or merely to make them “nice” or sociable or successful. By new birth they have gone qualitatively beyond that and become citizens in and sojourners from an entirely different realm, God’s eternal Kingdom.
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1. Saves a wretch like me, once lost now found, blind but now I see.�2. Sanctifies me while here through many dangers, toils, and snares.�3. Brings me to my eternal home, completely redeemed and whole.
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Two baby sea turtles heading to the sea after embracing life-changing revelations:� �New birth, new life, new direction and goals, new commitments and ultimate destination.
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Amazing Consummation
Resurrection
Recreated in His Image
Millennial Kingdom
Final Judgment
New Heavens + New Earth
Eternity
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In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to consummate all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Ephesians 1:7-10
Life and Death
When the Holy Spirit comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment.
John 16:8
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Whatever became of Heaven and Hell?
Jesus will come again, this time on the clouds�with all His redeemed and resurrected saints at his side!
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Jesus said to him, “But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Matthew 26:64
Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven. Acts 1:11
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen. Revelation 1:7
Your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
For yours is the kingdom
and the power and the glory, forever. Amen
Jesus will reign on earth from Jerusalem�for 1,000 years with His resurrected saints.
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And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air… And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away… They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Isaiah 51:11 and 61:4
Satan bound!
And when the thousand years are ended… I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. �And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.� �Revelation 20:7, 11-15
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Then I saw a
Great White Throne
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Revelation 21:1-2
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Understanding what kind of faith you have
FAITH IN GOD AND HIS WORD
FAITH IN SACRAMENTAL CHRISTENDOM
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Is it time to wake up?
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Hello!
Hello!
Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near. Isaiah 55:6
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