Continuing in Mark Chapter One and looking the consistent theme in the gospel accounts of Jesus proclaiming the Kingdom of God, we spend a few short minutes with a concise explanation of what I am talking about when I reference The Hebrew Root Movement and Messianic Judaism. Please join me for today's episode of Love is Calling Daily.

The clear distinction between the learned religious scholars of Judaism and the quiet yet dynamic power of the Spirit, who is God, in Jesus wasn't welcomed by the big dogs of Judaism. They claimed authority, much like some today talk of "taking authority" over spirits and dominions and cities and houses and situations. The reality is that is not authority. Authority is given by the superior Authority and apart from dying to selfish desires and humbly submitting to God for the authority that comes from His grace, we are simply lying to others and deceiving ourselves.

The amazing picture emerges as we look at full context of what is written in our Bible. A King who came to earth, born in a stable, raised up the son of a carpenter, then vilified, slandered, arrested, beaten nearly to death and then murdered on a cruel Roman cross. This King has never lived in a mansion, an ornate temple in a magnificent city. He has always lived in tents. The Kingdom of God resides in us, as His dwelling, in our tents and it and He is glorious!

Authority is at the heart of man's rebellion. When John the Baptist came preaching repentance and baptizing for the remission of sins, it was rooted in the authority of God is Jesus Christ who was coming, who could only be received if one repented of his own self-claimed authority. When you refuse to die to yourself Jesus can't live in you and through you. Join me in this Love is Calling Daily Podcast, verse by verse in Mark's Gospel.

As one reads Paul's letter to the Galatians it becomes for definitive and succinct in declaring the law espoused by Judaism, as well as today's Messianic Judaism and the Hebrew Roots Movement as weak and beggarly and a place of bondage! For those in the Law of Moses, the die on that religious hill adherent crowd, this letter, in context, may make you want to chuck it, and all the New Testament and Jesus Himself. But if you are one who is a child of God, He won't leave you to this dangerous trap! Wake Up!

Love is powerful! Love is God and He is Spirit and works in us to bear love as the fruit of His workmanship in us. Paul writes in Romans 12 that we are to be kindly affectionate to one another. Man that is so cool. Greeting a brother of sister with a big hug, and hugging them goodbye, being kind to one another, helping one another is all the love born thought us by the Spirit who is God, who is Love! When we offer our selfish desires to Him, dying to our flesh as a living sacrifice, we are open to His work in us as the Implanted Word, the Seed of God, who is Jesus Christ is received by us! It family being family, by the work of our great Daddy! HalleluYah!

TheCorinthian Church of Christ seemed to have some issues of order in the gathering of the children of God. It seems a lot of selfism, arrogance, sectarianism, and men and women not functioning in the God given roles that lifted them both up. One of the ways it was very evident was in the area of speaking in tongues. It seems that some fellowships may be in the same fix as was the Corinthian group. What does the Bible say about the gift of tongues? We know it isn't to be disallowed. But it is to be done decently and in order, as all the service of the body of Christ. What does Paul say? Join me in this 10 minute episode of Saddle Up! and be encouraged and challenged in your walk in Christ.

Speaking in tongues can be as much of a dividing line and hot topic as is Calvinism versus Arminianism or pre, mid, or post tribulation rapture. Tongues are a gift of the Spirit, but what is it's order to be for the believer? We may not have a clear understanding, or we may believe that we do. Either way, does what you believe, or what you do and your making it a hill to die on edify our brothers and sisters, in the Church of Jesus Christ? Join me in the first part of a two parter out of 1st Corinthians Chapter 14, in this short podcast episode.