The Newness of Spirit Podcast

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. 

Major Prophets Lesson 11: The Lesson of Daniel's Life

Daniel's life is a powerful witness of the "excellent Spirit" by which he lived.  More than being an emissary of prophetic messages, this man lived with his roots deep in the Lord in all seasons of his life. 

Major Prophets Lesson 10: Daniel -- A Man of Excellent Spirit

Daniel shines as one who allows the Spirit of Christ to live in him in a very dark place - the seat of government of the Babylonian Empire.  In this overview of the book of Daniel, we begin to understand why God placed this man where He did, and how it shows forth God's glory. 

Major Prophets Lesson 9: Ezekiel’s Visions — The Temple

Ezekiel’s temple is like nothing else in the Scriptures; through it, the Spirit seeks to reveal Christ in a beautiful way.  Here we see a new humanity and a corporate habitation for the Lord’s presence.  It is a spiritual reality that works out on the earth in His body.  

Major Prophets Lesson 8: Ezekiel's Visions -- Wheels within Wheels

In this episode, we look at the wheels in the vision Ezekiel relates to us in chapter one.  All of the prophets speak of Christ, and this passage is no exception.  The Spirit that fuels the chariot of God's glory IS Christ, and we can know Him in such a way that we become part of the wheels that move Him forward in the earth. 
So let's put our eyes on Jesus and participate in bringing His presence wherever He wants to go!