Ole Anthony's Podcasts

September 1, 2016

What are the works of faith?
James 2: 15
Gen. 22:1
James 2: 17-23

August 31, 2016

James 2: 14-18  If you are not meeting the needs of the needy, your faith is worthless.
Matt. 7: 21  The bottom line is the origin of your works. Is it coming from self?  from self seeking?  We have to die.
Isa. 65: 1
Isa. 66: 1-4
Gal. 2: 20
Deut. 18: 9-19  We must hearken unto his voice
Job  –  He saw God, abhorred himself, and repented in dust and ashes.

August 30, 2016

Background on James, a half-brother of Jesus, head of the church in Jerusalem.
James 1: 2-25
22-25  The doer of the word is the one who sees Christ.  Christ is the only one who can “do” the mystery.
James 2: 1-13  contrasts respecters of persons

August 29, 2016

James 1: 1-12  Our minds are always the enemy of the cross and will constantly tell us that suffering is strange.
1 Cor. 9: 24-25  The crown is the knowledge of the mystery.

August 26, 2016

Heb. 13: 1 Easy way to tell if a group is a church – if one suffers all suffer.
Contentment – inward certainty that God is in control.
Tribulation, persecution comes when we speak what we believe (outside the camp).
Psalm 116 We have the ability to command our soul to be at rest.  If we truly believe we will speak what we believe and will bear his reproach.

August 25, 2016

Heb. 12: 12-17
Gen. 25: 19-34  Esau sold his birthright
Heb. 12 continued   Everything must be shaken so that only that which cannot be shaken (Christ) will remain.
2 Peter 3: 9-14  That all should come to repentance…

August 24, 2016

John 16: 1 No one can convince another to repent.
What’s the difference between sin, trespass and iniquity?
Phil. 3: 17-19  The Holy Spirit’s job is to let us know when we are minding early things.
Gen. 3: 14

August 23, 2016

Heb. 12 1-2
Matt. 17: 1-7   (transfiguration)  This is our inheritance, for the bride (not as individuals), laid his life down on the cross, an instrument of shame.
Heb. 12
Matt. 12: 24  Are your value systems the same as the world?  The evil one is continually trying to cause us to resurrect self.