Searching for Answers

Edited version of Sunday 13 September live steamed service. Hosted by Brandon, Worship with Prisca and ministry with Craig. Psalms 139 & Romans 8 featuring Good good Father

Breath of God

The third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son.

Gen 1: 1-2 (Raghaf)

Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

The creation apologetic is then the first evidence of the Spirit of God being associated with the creation activity.

John 1:3 Through him all things were made,

1 Tim 2:5 From the beginning He was the mediator

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God

Psalms 104 When you take away their life’s breath, Spirit

they die and return to dust.

Spirit, wind, breath and mind

Exodus 14:21 strong east wind

Num 11: 31 a wind went out from the Lord

Gen 3:8 – The wind of the day

Gen 2:7 breath of life or lives

Job 19 “My breath is offensive

combines the two to moving air

it is always God’s gift

The sense here is that The Spirit is a life giving energy that God alone possesses permanently by His own nature.

Welcome by the Davids Family

Worship with Grace Live featuring: Dwelling Places, Spirit of God, Uthando

Ministry with Craig

John 5:26 – “For just as the Father has life in Himself, so to the Son

prototype of Jesus.

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn (Prototakos) over all creation.

Ephesians 3:16 –

to be strengthened with power through His Spirit

Thus the emphasis is not on the kind of life but on the Source of Life.

So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

Dwelling Places

Intro by Gary Kleinveld

Worship with Lucia, Vaughn and Joshua

Dwelling Places and So will I

Dwelling places: a picture of the Kingdom

We’ll take a peak at the beginning, the Davidic Monarchy and Solomon’s court

(Isa 11.9)

Lost in translation: an example from Hebrew Alphabet

Aleph beit–בראשית and Tav:

There is always a desire to build a house for His presence Yet there is no place created by us that can house Hims.

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

Under the reign of Solomon, we witness a type of precedent to Christ’s kingdom expression on the earth, reaching its fullest extent to date.

Deuteronomy 17 , 2 Samuel 7

the prophet Nathan & David

The play on the word house and “Name.”

the promise of God and David’s response

the covenant formula; “Israel has become your people and you have become their God” (verse 24), which finds its final expression in the eternal city of God (Rev.21.3).

God’s Presence

There were two kinds of reign for a king – reigning in battle and reigning in peace.

Solomon’s very name is derived from the Hebrew word for peace, shalom, more than the absence of war.

Kingdom celebration and multiplication:
Kingdom peace:
Kingdom life:
Kingdom mission:

The Davidic monarchy ushered in a period of great worship. Solomon built a magnificent temple.

God is king of all the earth(Ps.47.7),

How Do We Experience God’s Reign?

The Lord is King, His kingdom is here and is coming in Glory. What we experience now in part, will be completely established in His return. So we pray, Let your Kingdom Come Oh Lord.

Hosanna To The King

On this Palm Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

We lead of with some worship led by Joshua and Lucia Smith.
Then we dive right into Psalm 118 and the Gospels account of the week before Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.

Solitary confinment is not equal to lonliness.
The value of Solitude and the notion that segrgation cannot divide hearts.
We look at Jesus in the wilderness in preparation for a life of servant leadership.
Crowd behaviour and its influences.
How people’s hearts differ and motives are hidden in mass actions.
Finally how the tension of the Kingdom is necessary to reveal hearts.