There are three basic positions that must be taken in order to walk.  The extended position, the recoil position and the passing position.  3rd John covers these three positions.  The extended position is a position of hospitality.  The recoil position is a positiion of prayer and the passing position is a position of passing on an example to others.  You can not walk as God intended unless you constantly assume these three positions as a way of life.  Jesus loves you and wants to follow him.  Walk as he walked.

Notes coming soon

 

Do you remember learning to walk?  Do you remember learning to drive?  Do you remember your first road trip?  Did you have a map?  Jesus is our map.  Without him we can't walk in truth and love.  Take time to listen into this podcast and be challenged

In order to practice obeying the scriptures in 1st John try a early Christian discipline used by Jesus, the apostles and early christians.  The book of Acts gives clues the apostles daily disciplines in obeying the command to believe and love.

1st John Chapter 4 --- Us being who Jesus is and our love for other Christians.  How this love is connected to our growth in God.  The power of this love to break the fear in us and others we meet.

Congregational prayers and blessings to the Estrada Family and Nancy Luff as they leave Unalaska.

A key to Jesus building the Church is us giving back the gifts that he put in us.

What does it look like?  How does the bible describe it?  Who is part of it?  What is it's purpose?  Coe looks at important basic aspects of church.

Who is my neighbor?

Earl Bowie - Walking in the Gifting God has given you, desiring more gifts, and working with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to accomplish the calling that God has placed on his church.

Jesus builds a different church

The Body and the Bride. 

Julie Hurzog the Pacific Regional Director of Moms in Touch International and Pacific Team Member Gayle McNeil talk to us about the value of corperate prayer and standing firm.

 

Colossians 4:12b

Stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.

How do I recognized when an evil spirit is directing what is spoken? 
How do know if it is the Holy Spirit who is speaking? 

1 John 4 begins with the answer to these questions then moves into:
What is God's love? 
How can I experience a complete and perfect life? 

Connecting with God's love through the Holy Spirit is a choice God wants us to make.

It is time well spent for the farmer to till the soil till it is soft and mellow.  It is even more essential for us to acknowledge our guilt over sins of all kinds till our heart breaks under the pressure and opens up to God in deeper ways.  Once this is accomplished, we will sense a new desire for prayer and holiness in our lives.  We will then find faith in really drinking in God's word in prayer and fellowship.  Having done that we must pray for the Lord to show us how to express the fresh love of Jesus to others.  Not a selfish love that protects our comfort and security, but a sacrificial love like Christ that produces changed lives.

Jesus identifies three characteristics of his church:

1. His disciples abide in his word,
2. Love as he loves, and
3. Abide in him to bear fruit for God's glory.

Sometimes suffering makes sense, but what do we do when it does not makes sense?

We honor the Father by honoring the Son.

There is no getting around it.  People all over the world are trying to honor the Father while ignoring the Son.  When we honor the Son we honor the Father, and the Father honors us.

7- 7-07   It will be 40 years since the summer of love in San Francisco in 1967.  Many in our culture adopted an immoral, unholy lifestyle of selfish sex and pleasure.  It's time to turn  to a first love, holy relationship with Jesus Christ the coming King.  May the next 40 years show many in our culture turning from the old and turning to a new lifestyle of holy love for Jesus.  Please consider prayer and fasting till 7/7/07 when a great event in Nashville TN called "TheCall" turns to God with prayer and fasting for this great change in our history.  Be a history maker!

www.thecall.com
fastandpray.com

Due to a mishap in the soundroom we do not have a recording of Dennis Kyle on Sunday Morning explaining the need to fast and pray on behalf of our Nation, community, and our selves.  He will be posting his notes soon.
Temporarily I am posting the following
Exerpt from http://fastandpray.com/articles/8

40 Days for 40 Years

There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings.  In these historic moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.  

The rebellious generation of the 60â��s seized its moment, and history crashed into the deep abyss of drug addiction, sexual immorality, hatred for authority, and a rejection of the law of God.  1967 was a culminating and defining moment in that rebellion.  In 1967, 100,000 young people, aged 15-25 flocked to San Francisco to experience the hippie movement.  This mass convergence was sparked by the hit song, San Francisco, (Wear a Flower in your Hair).  Once there, they experimented with LSD, pot, casual sex and Eastern mysticism in what became known as the â��Summer of Love.â��

When these newly recruited Flower Children returned home at the end of the summer, they brought with them new styles and ideas, flooding the cities of the US and Europe with a message that opposed authority and scorned conservative morals.  This counterculture rebellion was fueled by music and art, and it rapidly shifted global culture. 

For 40 years we have been falling headlong into a black moral morass in America and all through the west.  We are reaping the waves of destruction in every sector of our post Christian society.  Can America survive another 40 years?  We are declaring NO! A thousand times NO!  Unless a massive spiritual shift occurs at this moment our children will live under an antichrist system and Godless enculturation that will bring about the demise of America, as we know it. 

But God has a prescription for such a massive shift and it is revealed in the power of the great transitional 40-day fast.  God in His sovereign control over the parade of history delivered the Israelites out of Egypt.  Longing to release a moral code that would give foundations for righteousness, for time and eternity, God summoned Moses to a 40-day fast on Mount Sinai.  In that fast all of history changed and the law of God was delivered from heaven to earth.  And if America is going to return to God it must recover that law again as its foundation for truth.

Elijah, at the height of Jezebelâ��s cultic dominion over Israel fasted 40 days, broke the spell of Jezebel off of his own life and received a mandate to anoint the next generation. That fast unleashed a movement that toppled Jezebelâ��s regime of hell, which perpetrated the destruction of family, the killing of innocent children, the silencing of the voice of Godâ��s people and the widespread culture of sexual immorality.  The fruit of that fast culminated in the utter destruction of Baal worship in Israel. 

Also in the fullness of time the glorious gospel era was born when Jesus fasted 40 days and those who sat in darkness saw a great light.  Clearly the 40-day fast is heavenâ��s great transitional prescription, moving nations from failure to fulfillment of promise.  Is it any surprise that when Jesus was to enter into His great sacrifice where death would be swallowed up in victory, Elijah and Moses appear with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration.   All three of them were together as the 40-day fasters.  They presided over the great transitions of history.
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We review selected mothers provided in the Scriptures: Eve, Jochebed, Ruth, Rebekkah, Athaliah, Jehosheba, Mary. Each of these make life choices that profoundly affect the outcome of persons, families, or even nations. The fundamental choices they make reflect their trust in God, or, their trust in their own desires.

After this too brief review, we reflect on Jesus' question, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" We conclude noting his own answer to the matter: "Whoever does the will of God."

Am I filled with envy by the good things others do?  Do I want the position someone else has?  Is there a Christian praising God I want to eliminate?

I need love!  Love doesn't come from me and never will.  Love only comes from God and always will.  Confess envy and hatred as sin and God will forgive you.  After doing that, ask God in Jesus name to fill you with his love.  God gives us his love by the Holy Spirit.  Lets really love each other because love liberally flows from God and can flow through us when we open our hearts to him.

Our love for God is only as genuine as our love for the people of Unalaska.
My love for God is tested and measured by the help I give to the needy within my reach.

Love is packaged in patience, kindness and goodness.  P-K-G.  Pkg.  (package)
You let the love of God flow through you by being patient, kind and good to others.  Plan to love.  Love deliberately.  Love is always a choice moment by moment. 

It is critical that the package is delivered.  How can I show the patience, kindness and goodness of God at the Post Office?  Patience, kindness & goodness or PKG abbreviation for package.

How do I open the PKG at A.C.. 

How do I open the PKG at the Eagle store,

How do I open the PKG at work,

How do I open the PKG in my neighborhood? 

How do I open the PKG at home? 

How do I open the PKG driving through construction on the bridge?

  

John Honan - As we read 1 John 3:1-10 it mentions the family of God into which we born and adopted.  We are doubly secure in Christ.  Not only that but our sins are lifted off, taken from us and put far, far away.  Now that makes us free.  Freedom is now, not something I hope for.  But how do I experience that freedom today?  Earlier in 1 John we are called to confess each sin, then we must exercise our faith in the death of Jesus for each sin and see ourselves completely free from the sin confessed and exercise that freedom by choosing to love each other, not with words but in clear, practical acts of patience and kindness.

Easter Sunday Message

Honan - On the basis of all the evidence for Christ's resurrection, and considering the fact that Jesus offers forgiveness of sin and an eternal relationship with God, who would be so foolhardy as to reject Him? Christ is alive! He is living today.

You can trust God right now by faith through prayer. Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. If you have never trusted Christ, you can do so right now.

The prayer I prayed is: "Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and trust You as my Savior. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be. Thank You that I can trust You."  (From" Evidence that demands a verdict" by Josh McDowell

Reflections in 1 Corinthians (A)

The overriding principle of 1 Corinthians stands in this: Christ Jesus is Lord. Therefore, everyone who claims Jesus as Lord needs to live his/her life in keeping with what Christ wants. Jesus does not force his lordship, our submission is willingly given. But if we have chosen to give him lordship over our lives, then his call is that we live that way.

The Lord Jesus calls men and women to live as Jesus himself lived: not for his own gain, but for the gain of others. So we love as he loved.

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John Honan -  There are bible chapters that are famous for certain topics.  Hebrew's 11 "The faith chapter", John 15 "The abiding chapter", Psalm 23 "Shepherd's chapter" etc.  1 John 1 to me is "The fellowship chapter".  The secrets to true fellowship are found here.  It starts with how real we see Jesus who came with real flesh and blood.  Jesus' physical body was just like ours, except without sin.  If we accept him fully as complete man and complete God we can have complete fellowship with him.  Secondly our fellowship with each other is based on how completely we walk in the light.  We walk in the light completely by acknowledging our sin and confessing them.  The blood of Jesus is in full swing cleansing us and opening guenuine fellowship when we walk in light and not in darkness.  Some people are hard to relate too.  Each day, ask God to bless them and forgive you for any bad attitudes.   This is walking in the light and this is how your joy with Christ and other Christians will be full.

1 Corinthians 16:1-16

The last specific matter that Paul addresses with the Corinthian Christians concerns money that they have promised to share with the poor in a far-away country, Judea. Paul reminds them of their promises and gives specific instructions on how to make the collection and how to send it to their brothers and sisters in need.

Paul closes the letter with various greetings.

posted by: Jon Paden

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Paul continues his discussion about resurrection to show that resurrection makes sense. (a) In order for a seed to grow into a plant, the seed must "die." If the seed does not yield itself, then no plant grows. (b) A seed has a certain shape, different from the plant that grows from it.

In the same way, our present material bodies are like the seed. The material body must die, it must yield itself, so that a "spiritual" body may arise from the ashes. It is substantive, but has qualities the former body does not have: the new is imperishable and immortal. (The former was perishable and mortal.)

This new, spiritual body is not to be confused with a non-physical existence: rather, it is to be "further clothed" than ever before (to borrow from 2 Corinthians 5:4). It is a body like that of the Risen Christ!

When these things take place, and they all take place in the order and timing of God, then death itself will be destroyed, swallowed up in the victory of Life! Consequently, and despite the challenges to the contrary, every work the believer pursues with great diligence is not in vain in the Lord.

posted by: Jon Paden

What do you love?  Wickedness?  Truth?  Love for the truth is something everyone can have.  It is God's desire for you to be filled with love for the truth.  If you want love for the truth, you must first accept the truth.  Jesus is the truth.  Accept Jesus by faith into your heart by simply asking him in prayer.  Now love for the truth (in Jesus) is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit!  Wow, say something like, "Lord, please fill me with love for the truth.  I open my heart to the love your Holy Spirit gives us.  Thank you for filling me with love for the truth!  Amen
In the second chapter of second Thessalonians, Paul goes on to tell us that Jesus won't come back untill the great rebellion occurs against God and then the Anti-Christ comes on the scene in world wide power.  Well, befor there can be a great rebellion their must be a great revival.  So at this time we are seeing great momentum world wide in people come to Christ. This will continue till the glory of God has swept the earth and people have had the chance to "taste and see that the Lord is good."  Then the great rebellion will occur.  In the meantime... lets keep doing good in Jesus name by praising him, loving each other in practical ways and sharing what we have with those around us.  This combined with prayer will open the door for the good news and great glory to spill into our world till Jesus returns.

 

1 Corinthians 14:20-40

The Corinthian assemblies were undisciplined, chaotic, confusing events so that (apparently) when visitors might attend the assembly they would respond saying these people were mad. Paul's responds to say that God does all things in decency and in order, and the Church should do so likewise. He explains that tongue speakers, prophets, and certain disruptive wives need to hold their peace. There is a time and place for speaking, for asking questions, indeed, for challenging whatever is said.

But what takes place during the assemblies of the whole congregation needs to be done in a way that edifies, that engenders love for God and growth in Jesus.

posted by: Jon Paden

Coe Whittern teaches on Jesus and the baptism and power of the Holy Spirit in and on and through Jesus as he obeys the Father because of his intimate relationship with Him.

Jesus laid down his former glory and was a man like you and me except without sin.

John 14:8
Jesus ,"I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.  He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.  You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it."

"If you love me, you will obey what I command."
It requires maintenance but we can be clean.

We have to take time and pursue God.
"If you seek me you will find me"

To the measure we seek intimacy with God and obey him is the measure of God's presence in our lives.

Jesus did what he did as a human just like you and me, but he was without sin.  He had a completely intimate relationship with the Father.  He had an unlimited anointing of the Holy Spirit but he turns around and says we can have that same relationship and we can have the same results and we need to not settle for less. 

But we cant go for the power.  We have to go for being clean.  We have to go for pursuing intimacy with the Father that loves us dearly.  We have to yeild ourselves to him, wanting Him to be free to work his plan in us.  Knowing it is an ongoing progressive thing that will work over time to give us our full inheritance and make us like his character.  That we can be what he said, we can be full of power.

Acts 10:37-38

Luke 3:16
Luke 4:1, 14

 1 Corinthians 14:1-19

Paul now returns to other aspects of the Corinthian assemblies. He establishes the purpose of the customary, weekly, Lord's day assembly: to build up the body of Christ.

Any worship activity that inherently fails to strengthen others, needs to be set aside. For example, though speaking in tongues may allow one's own spirit to address God, it does no one else any good, because no one understands the language. So, if there is no one to interpret the language, then such activity needs to be kept to oneself and the Lord. Paul gives another example to say that prophets, though speaking by the Spirit of God, must take turns in their speaking so that everyone may have opportunity to understand and to evaluate what was said.

Paul's interest, in short, is that genuine love prevail so that each person may use whatever gifts one has to help others be edified. And not to grandstand or show off.

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Coe Whittern, Jon Paden, and John Honan talk about the congregational meetings and what Jesus is specifically saying to our church body

1 Corinthians 13

How does one live out the call of Christ on his or her life? The "most excellent" way is the way of love.

But this love is not merely a sublime feeling or emotion. It is a love that makes a demand on one's life to behave in a certain way. It is a behavior that pursues the best outcome for another's life.

This love is a way of patience, of kindness; a way that erases wrongs against one; it is a way that protects and endures. Even when we don't feel like it.

This love is eternal, not only in the sense of duration, but in the sense of quality. To walk out Jesus' call on our lives is to love passionately the best interests of our fellows.

Dave Honan gives a 4 minute message and asks us to do some homework.

The church honors Pastor John Honan on his 53rd birthday by sharing how he has impacted their lives.

John 10:1-18

Jesus uses three illustrations to show his relationship with his people.

(1) He compares himself to a shepherd that knows his sheep by name, and whose sheep know him intimately.

(2) He compares himself to a secure gate, that opens and closes to give his sheep safe passage from the fold to the pasture, and back again. He secures an abundant life for his sheep.

(3) He compares himself to a "good" shepherd, distinct from hired hands. When trouble comes, a hired hand runs away. Jesus, rather, makes the choice to allow the wolf to feast upon him, and thus saves his sheep.

In modern American society, there is little if anything that symbolizes to people generally that one honors some else by their dress. In Corinthian society, however, headgear in the Church's assembly spoke volumes about honor and dishonor toward others.

Paul's writing to the Corinthian Church is very clear: Men and Women have differing places related to honor and dishonor. How men and women relate to one another has root in the fact that Jesus himself has a head, an authority, over him: God. The relationship, consequently, that people have with Christ, is modeled by Christ toward God.

John Honan - 1 Thess 5 - My discipline, will power or effort is not the answer to my struggle as a Christian.  God opens his hand to me through Jesus Christ.  Learning to slow down and look to Jesus from a place of total weakness in myself is where the power will begin to flow and bring victory.  Believing Jesus really is all I need.  It is very difficult to learn to completely reject self reliance and completely trust the Lord.  How many times will you have to fail to before this is learned? 

John Honan - A new year message from 1 Thessalonians 4 attempting to expose and destroy every false hope through scriptures - illustrating the point that the wicked, foolish, and godless persons have no hope.

When the bible is used to define who the wicked, foolish, and godless are -  there is no one left.

Having clearly destroyed the hope of all mankind for 2007 and all eternity the ground work has been laid to properly present a real hope that never disappoints.

Only those "in Christ" can pass the hope test according to the scriptures.

Steps are given from the scriptures on how to start the new year with a eternal, proven guarantee.

May women pray or prophesy alongside men in the church's assemblies? The answer is: Yes. But.

Whether a man prays or prophesies, or a woman prays or prophesies, they each must demonstrate that they are in subjection to their respective heads. This is accomplished when the man who prays or prophesies must do so with his head uncovered. Otherwise, he dishonors his head. A woman who prays or prophesies must do so with her head covered. Otherwise, she dishonors her head.

In short, when the church has assembled (similar to our present-day "regular" Sunday morning services), a man who prays must not have a hat on, a woman must have a hat on. If they are not praying or prophesying, then there is no discussion about their headgear that applies.

Jorge Alvarado - Sunday message - Don't worry about what is behind and to the right or to the left, we can focus on Jesus now.  We know where we are going

Philippians. 3:11-14 (NIV) 

and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.  Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,  I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

1 Cor. 15:57-58 (NIV) 

But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

What are the valleys, mountains, crooked roads and rough roads in your life that John the Baptist is talking about. 

Can you do anything about it?

In preparing, it's good if you have received Jesus into your heart. 
Now it's time to mature and prepare by pressing into Jesus. 

How do we do that?

It has to do with humility, prayer, seeking and waiting, repenting.  Can you tell how humble you are?  How proud you are?  Can you tell if you are waiting for God? Is repenting affecting your behavior? Your perception vs. reality.

 

Jon Paden - Sunday Message

Let us draw near to God

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering because he is faithful

Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and to good works

Paul reminds the Corinthian church of his right as an apostle of Christ to them. After he establishes that right, he refuses to take advantage of it. He wants them to learn humility in order that their arrogance not destroy them.

Paul then shows the Church how he sets aside his personal advantage in order to focus on the work Christ has set out for his people. He calls the Church to do likewise.

Paul's own focus is to become all things to all men so that by all means "some may be saved."