Another Perspective with Jason McKinnies
Life is all about perspective, maybe a different view can give us a proper perspective.
Today I want to continue our series on Purpose, the purpose of our church and the principles of our church – these are the foundational core values of what makes this place what it is. We will cover a variety of topics throughout this series 1. Church on Purpose Across the Aisle 2. Church on Purpose [...]
We think we deserve to be cursed because we don’t do what we should and, instead, do what we shouldn’t. However, God looks upon us from a high place and sees the same image. When He looks down, He sees the cross over our lives. Therefore He’s seeing us in light of the Cross and through the blood of Jesus. Even our great enemy has learned the lesson taught by Balaam, try as he might to put a curse on you, he now realizes that the curse can never get on top of the Cross! You must remember that you are not under the curse, you are under the Cross!
Opening Verse Revelation 4:1 (NKJV) 4After these things I looked, and behold, a door standingopen in heaven. And the first voice which I heard waslike a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here,and I will show you things which must take place after this.” In Matthew 24:21 and in Revelation 7:14 the Great Tribulation. The discussion isn’t necessarily about [...]
Revelation 2:8, 9 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich)… The word “smyrna” comes from myrrh. Myrrh was a fragrance released only when crushed. At His [...]
Revelation 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. “Nicos” meaning “conquest” and “laity” meaning “people of the church” leads us to believe that the Nicolaitans were evidently those who came on the scene saying things such as, “I will tell you who to marry, where to live, and what to do because I am [...]