The Newness of Spirit Podcast

7 People Who Disappear: With a Sweet Spirit

Stephen is the next person we will look at.  Here is a wonderful believer, all-out for Jesus, who is suddenly and unfairly taken off the scene.  It looked as though the future of the new church was secured with young men like Stephen set to enter leadership roles.  But he ends up looking more like the Crucified Christ -- and taken. 
Hopefully we will be able to pull the veil back a little bit and understand some of God's heart concerning His precious saints who are taken down this path of sudden disappearance! 

6 People Who Disappear: He Must Increase I Must Decrease

Just a little more on John the Baptist.  This time, instead of focusing so much on the tragedy of his imprisonment and death, we will look at what happened to John from a heavenly view.  Whenever we embrace Christ in His eternal nature, there is sure to be an increase of Him! 

5 People Who Disappear: Crucified Without Honors

John the Baptist is a wonderful example of someone who deeply belonged to the Lord and yet whose life was unfairly cut short.  Why does God not intervene in situations like this?  The answer cannot be found in the created realm or in the heart of man.  We must see Jesus to grasp what happens when an end comes in the form of an unfair death.

4 People Who Disappear: Of Whom the World Is Not Worthy

Christ is in us, and the Father has a relationship with Him!  What if so many things we go through are not really about us at all but about the Father relating to His Son in us?  If this were true, then truly the servant is not greater than the Master.  We participate in our Lord's sufferings because we are vessels of His nature.  Those in Hebrews 11 who desired a better resurrection experienced a life cut short -- a tragedy by worldly standards, but precious to us because it is the beginning of an intimate communion with the Father and the Son!

3 People Who Disappear: Understanding the Beloved Son

Why was Jesus called the Beloved Son?  It is more than just a title!  Jesus did the good pleasure of the Father, which was to give Himself into the hands of the ungodly and allow Himself to be put to death at their hands.  In this way, Jesus is the forerunner of all who would be in His image.  This series will show us that as we learn to partake of this Spirit, we enter into a deep communion with the Father and the Son that cannot be accessed in any other way.

2 People Who Disappear: Jesus our Forerunner

In this series we will be looking at a specific group of Bible characters who have something very important to reveal concerning how the nature of Christ manifests in His people.  In this episode we look at Jesus as our Forerunner.  He, too, disappeared; and He did so under very similar conditions as Abel, who we looked at in the last episode.  What we will discover is the deep value that the Father places on such a disappearance!  May we see Christ and be changed. 

1 People Who Disappear: Introduction

This episode is the first in what will be a series of meditations that explore minor and unnamed characters in the Scriptures.  Why did the Holy Spirit bother with such people at all if He had people like David and Paul to teach us Christ?  Why did so many "little people" give themselves in very big ways, only to exit off the pages of Scripture without a promotion or even an honorable mention?
The answers are found in Christ and in our Father's love for His Son.  May the Spirit of God bring us more deeply into His image. 

Manifesting the Higher Things of Christ

Jesus lives in us!  We know this, but what we are learning is the way in which He wants to live in us.  The Holy Spirit will lift up Christ in ways surprising to us, if we will let Him.  Join us in seeing how the Son lives in Gaius in John's third Epistle!

The Lord Is Unto Us A Place

The Lord is everything to us -- everything.  We know from our hearts that this is so.  But still there can be inner turmoil and conflict when the Lord wants to fellowship with us as a consuming fire!  What will change this?  We need to see the King in His beauty!  Then the Lord becomes a place for us. 

Major Prophets Lesson 12: A Wrap-Up of the Major Prophets

No matter how wonderfully someone is used of the Lord, the true need humanity is Christ living within.  The prophets' words are more fully realized in believers than they ever could in the people under the Law, for the Spirit that brought forth the words in the mouths of the prophets is eternal and speaks of the Crucified Christ.