Christ Is King Ministries

The Apostle Paul planted churches all around the Galatia region and wanted (and needed) to write to them to encourage them to remain in the faith. He was inspired to write to them to confront the false teaching of a group known as the Judaizers who working to undermine the Gospel message by insisting these new converts also take on most elements of OT Judaism. This pressure to conform to legalistic, extra-Biblical religious standards is and will always be an ongoing batter, human nature rejects the profound simplicity of the Gospel which announces Jesus Christ…and Jesus Christ ALONE…is the Savior.

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It is great to have a church with a wide opened door at the front, all should be welcome to come! In most of our churches, most of our efforts are focused on drawing people into that front door. That might be a great thing if the fact that we also tend to have a massive back door that is not only opened but has had its doors blown off the hinges wasn’t sadly so real. What are we doing about that back door? What happens when church folk just…disappear? Do we care? Do we even notice? If so, do they know we care about them and hope they return to the congregation in hope that the message of the Gospel will go past their heads and will penetrate their hearts?

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Do you believe in the power of prayer? Most Christians are quick to say, “absolutely!” …but do you really? It seems like we are all so prone to turn to the world whenever we face trials and the celebrate with the world when things go well, and when we do that it should cause us to question ourselves about what we truly believe about prayer.

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For the Gospel to be effectively proclaimed, Christians must be taken seriously. When we speak people should believe and trust in our sincerity and have confidence that we know what we are talking about. This goes not only for the formal declaration of Gospel truths, but this should be true when we speak to people on any topic. We must be sincere and credible any time we speak and if not then our witness is shot long before we even get to the details of the Gospel.

The Apostle James says that above everything else, we are to be credible. Our “yes” or “no” should be good enough for anyone that knows us to believe in.

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If you asked most evangelical pastors today about "end times Bible prophecy" you'd probably get the impression that such things are not all that important and certainly not worth spending much time looking into. Of course, that is not at all the Biblical vision of the Last Things, after all, God put all that stuff in there for a reason! Obviously, HE doesn't think it's no big deal!

And the Apostle James directly ties our hope in and mediation upon the Second Coming to our ability to endure hardships, tribulation and trial. He connects our eschatology to our ability to remain patient and steadfast in our Christian walk. Clearly Biblical eschatology is more than just points to debate and cool trivia impress baby Christians with!

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The Bible nowhere condemns wealth, but it strongly condemns oppression of the poor by fraud. The Apostle James sounds much like an OT prophet as he rails against the abuse of wealthy, non-Christian land owners who he warned of impending doom.

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How quick are we to make plans without leaving any consideration for what the Lord would have us to do? How quick are we to accept the glory for good work being done, for profits that are being made or growth that our department or company is experiencing? The Apostle James says living life like that, living as if God is not directly involved in our lives, is a type arrogant boasting.

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One does not need to read the Bible long before they come to understand that God forbids people to judge one another, but have you ever wondered why it’s such a big deal? Often times we chalk up a command like that as one of those “be nice to people” type of things without realizing the serious nature of the sin itself.

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Whenever there are 5 Sundays in a month we like to take a break from our regular study and introduce bonus content that we pray will be encouraging to you! For this 5th Sunday Bonus we go all the way back to July 8th, 2007 when Gary Fox preached at his first church plant, Southside Christian Fellowship (just outside of Akron, OH).

The Bible is clear, the supernatural realm is real. It is impossible to read God's Word and come away believing it is presenting a naturalistic world. It speaks about God, Satan, Angels, Demons along with other beings referred to as Heavenly Hosts, powers and principalities. While this teaching of the Bible is undeniable, how many of us live our day to day lives keeping these realities in mind? There is a fourth dimension with real beings at work…some good and some evil…and life will not make any sense at all until that is recognized and accounted for.

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Fidelity to God is not something He takes lightly whatsoever, and neither should we. The devotion which we ought to display towards God is to be nothing short of radical, hard core and all pervasive. So extreme should our fidelity be to the Lord that it would seem to the world that we have lost our minds. We cannot both love the ways of the world and love the ways of God, and there is no middle ground between those two things.

This week Gary Fox expounds upon the Apostle James’ teaching the difference between spiritual adultery and spiritual fidelity. One is friendship with the world and the other is passionate abandonment of all to draw near to God.

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