Posts from 2024

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Giving Our Bodies to God (Our Hands)

by Don Wright

Paul exhorts us to use our bodies, not as instruments of sin, but as instruments of righteousness (Romans 6:12-13).  One way we can do this is by using our hands to do the work of the Lord. Psalm 90:17 (ESV) 17  Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish the […]

The Lord’s Church (What It Taught about Israel)

by Don Wright

There is a great misunderstanding of Israel today.  While this is true socially and politically, it is especially true religiously.  What was taught by the Lord’s church in the first century concerning physical Israel being the people of God?  We are not surprised that the Jews thought they were the people of God, even as […]

The Lord’s Church (What it taught about the kingdom of God)

by Don Wright

A part of the good news that Jesus preached when He was here on earth was that the kingdom of God was at hand. Matthew 4:17 (NKJV) 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” This was the ongoing message of Christ throughout […]

The Lord’s Church (Revelation)

by Don Wright

In this series on the Lord’s church, we have seen that first-century Christians did not have the luxury of having the completed New Testament in written form, at least not during most of the century.  They survived without it because many possessed the miraculous measure of the Holy Spirit, which they received by the laying […]

The Lord’s Church (Miracles #5)

by Don Wright

The Lord’s church was a miraculous church in the first century.  The apostles of Christ were guild by the Spirit, having been baptized with the Holy Spirit (John 16:13; Acts 1:5), possessed miraculous powers, and could transfer those powers to others by laying hands on them (Acts 8:18-19).  When the apostles would establish a new […]

The Lord’s Church (Miracles #4)

by Don Wright

Those who believe that the miraculous age continues today seem to make the same mistake that the saints at Corinth made—elevating the gift of tongue speaking over the rest of the gifts.  All charismatic churches may not claim that they have seen the dead raised, but they do all claim to speak in tongues regularly.  […]

The Lord’s Church (Miracles #3)

by Don Wright

The miraculous age ended by the end of the first century.  No one today can speak in tongues.  There are no living prophets today.  No one is raising the dead, healing the blind, or making it so the lame can walk again.  Those miracles have ceased. How can we be sure that miracles have ceased?  […]

The Lord’s Church (Miracles #2)

by Don Wright

In last night’s blog, I indicated that miracles have ceased.  I looked at it simply from a logical standpoint, pointing out that if miracles were still going on today, they would be of the same nature as they were in the first century.  The fact that they are not says volumes about the veracity of […]