“Why God Made Man – Part 1”

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Jesus has been hanging for six hours on a rough, Roman cross. His body is wracked with pain, His mind oppressed by forces both natural and spiritual. Suddenly, with a cry of triumph, He lifts His voice and declares, “It is finished!” The air resounds with the declaration! There’s a finality about it. All creation is suddenly arrested with the awareness that a most important work is now completed.

But what was finished? What work was now completed?

1Why God Made Man_Part 1 The clause “It is finished”, in the Greek language in which Jesus spoke it, means to reach a goal. It also means to pay a debt in full, so that the books balance. Jesus had reached His goal of paying our debt. But to understand the “debt” Jesus was paying, we must revisit the scene in the Garden of Eden: When God begins to work with a pile of dust. He carefully shapes it into the form of a man. Once this human body is finished to perfection, God “blows” His own breath into the nostrils of this pile of clay. All of a sudden, the form moves! Light comes to its eyes! It gets up and stands erect like God. I can see Father God turning to the rest of His creation and saying, Continue reading →

“Patrick of Ireland”

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Patrick of Ireland1 It is such an amazing story! Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400’s to go share the Gospel of Christ with those same Irish people who had enslaved him just a few years before! Yet, without fear, he boldly entered again into that realm and became the agent of liberty to those who had once been his agents of slavery.

He developed this boldness because Christ had revealed Himself to him in such a living way. Patrick’s faith in Jesus was no cold orthodoxy; his was a living relationship with the living, resurrected Son of God! In Patrick’s life, Jesus was Lord! We get a glimpse of the intimacy between him and his Lord when he writes of hearing His voice. With great humility he simply states that God said to him:

“He who gave His life for you, He it is who speaks within you.” Continue reading →

“Judge Roy Moore Demonstrates Interposition”

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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In the Bible there is a wonderful story which teaches us how to fix disordered government with methods God has established. A wicked woman, Athaliah, had stolen the throne of Judah and proclaimed herself queen over the realm. For six years she reigned by oppression and terror. But a faithful man of God, Jehoiada the priest, had hidden the true king, the young boy Jehoash, from the wicked queen. We pick up the story recorded in 2 Kings 11,

“And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard…and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king’s son…And he brought forth the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, ‘God save the king’…And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people.”

In this story we see God’s authority in one realm (the realm of the church) joining with those in lesser authority in civil government (that is, the army) to restore the rightful king to his throne. Continue reading →