Fill The Lamp

“The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God’s glory. It’s that simple. That is the substance of our Message. We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity"

Col 1: 26-27

In reality,  all believers are “ministers.” Our model is Jesus, who came not to be served, but to serve. We find that in (Mark 10:45).  Jesus equated service to God as service to others.  Our unselfish service should be rendered through our spiritual gifts, which are given by God to the saints that they might minister to one another. 

“21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He (Christ) has reconciled, 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.  That word “enemies”, in the Greek can be translated “hateful”.  Unbelievers “hate God” and resent His Holy standard because they love their “wicked works

Colossians 1: 21, 22

Paul was pleading with God to also give them Knowledge with Wisdom and Spiritual Understanding.  “Spiritual” modifies both wisdom and understanding. It’s like the two are blended together to accumulate and organize the principles of scriptures for application in life.  Bottomline, we must have aggressive Intimacy with God!

Neil Parks

Christ’s Blood had to be poured out to cover the Bride and the Wife to Be’s sin!  The Bride had to be forgiven to be wed to the Groom.  Hebrews 9:22 “In fact, under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness [neither release from sin and its guilt, nor cancellation of the merited punishment].”

Neil Parks

He (Paul) is asking God to pour out His Holy Spirit upon us, so that more and more of the Spirit would remove our spiritual blindness and murkiness of vision that enables us to see God for who he really is.

“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.   And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.” Rev 21

There are many churches all across the world that have the “look” but are “Just going through the Motions”. The Church is called to lift up “The King” to a lost and dying world. Yes, we are to edify and lift up one another in prayer and encouragement, but without using the talents, gifts and being the voice, that God has given us, in passionate outreach’s, to help in life-or-death situations, we are Dead as a church as well.   

Neil Parks

Here we go again following Pergamos and their Compromise and now Thyatira with Corruption. The tactic is Satan’s plants within the church.  So here we are 2000 years later, and nothing has changed.  The weeds are still in the Garden.  Have you noticed?   Weeds will become dominant if allowed.