1 John (Program #32) – The Virtues of the Divine Birth to Practice the Divine Love (5)

All of the apostle John’s writings in the Bible stress the divine birth through which the divine life is imparted into the believers.  In his gospel he says you must be born again.  In chapter 3 of his first epistle, John says,  3:9 “Everyone who has been begotten of God does not practice sin.” And once again the stress is on the divine birth.  But in chapter 5 he gets even more specific about not just the fact of the divine birth, but the location of the divine birth. When he says,  5:4 “For everything that has been begotten of God overcomes the world;”

Why does he change everyone in chapter 3 to everything in chapter 5?   The answer reveals very much about the key to overcoming not just sin and the world but all of the negative things surrounding us in our day to day living.

Genesis (Program #29) – Cain and Abel

We are going to be in Genesis chapter 4 today and the story of two brothers.  It seems like whenever there is two brothers, there is always a story involved in the Bible.  Why is this story an important one in term of our study of Genesis?

1 John (Program #31) – The Virtues of the Divine Birth to Practice the Divine Love (4)

In his first epistle the apostle John talks very much about love.  Chapter four particularly places a strong emphasis on love. But if we examine John’s presentation of this most visible virtue of the divine birth we realize that the love spoken of in this book is not a vague or general love nor is it a natural love, a love that finds its’ source in the human heart. It is the love that flows from the divine source from God Himself.  In verse 8 of chapter 4 John puts it this way, “He who does not love has not known God, because God is love.“

Genesis (Program #28) – The Second Fall of Man (1)

We’re going to go on today in Genesis chapter 3.   We’ve seen in our last couple of programs that God Himself proclaim a gospel message to Adam and Eve…

1 John (Program #30) – Proving the Spirits (2)

In 1 John we are warned to prove every spirit to see whether it is of God. The apostle John was inoculating the believers against the spirit of Antichrist. Just the term “spirit of Antichrist” probably give raise to thoughts of immense evil and wickedness. Yet John tells very simply that any spirit that denies that Jesus has come in the flesh is the Spirit of Antichrist.  What is the significant of denying that Jesus has come in the flesh?

Genesis (Program #27) – God’s Dealing with Man’s First Fall (2)

We are looking at Genesis chapter three and the shadow of the first gospel presented to man.

The gospel was first preached by God Himself in the third chapter of Genesis verse 15.  Of course, before this we realize that there was a fall and God came in to expose man’s sin, but at the same time He gave a promise and that promise was really the preaching of the gospel by God Himself…

Genesis (Program #26) – The Serpent, the Woman, and the Seed of the Woman (2)

Today, we are dealing with a very meaningful verse in Genesis 3:15.  We saw the last time, this verse presented us with three significant figures; the serpent, the woman and the seed of the woman.  Today Witness Lee is going to focus primarily on the seed of the woman.

1 John (Program #28) –  The Principle of Antichrist

We have all heard about the Antichrist, but did you know that there are only four verses in the Bible that use this term Antichrist and they are all in the apostle John’s epistles?

Many  people today are awaiting the Antichrist, you might be surprised to learn today that there are actually many Antichrists.

Genesis (Program #25) – The Serpent, the Woman, and the Seed of the Woman (1)

Today we come to the first part of a two-part message, continuing with Genesis 3:15.  This is a really profound portion that we are going to be looking at today with the first proclamation of the gospel in the entire Bible.

Genesis (Program #24) – God’s Dealing with Man’s First Fall (1)

Today Witness Lee is going to develop and expound more on Genesis 3:9-15.

What these verses talk about is what happened to Adam and Eve after they fell and partook of the wrong tree and the element of Satan which is sin, entered into their being.  This passage of Scriptures started off by God asking Adam “where are you?”