Train Whistle Media

20/11/2023

Matthew 7:1-3 (ESV)
Judging Others
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Chapter 7 is the ending of the sermon on the mount. In which Jesus makes many moral judgements on how we as the called in Christ to live in the family of God.

Jesus here is not teaching us not to judge. He rather is teaching us to self reflect and take the LOG 🪵 out first from our own eye (life) so that we can lovingly help others remove the SPECK from their eye (life).

Moral of the story is. What family you live in there are ways to conducting healthy relationships. All families have a mode of operation. The family of God has the Bible as a means to educate us on how we are grow in our new adopted family.

Jesus never taught not to make judgements these verses are clearly taken out of context by Christians and non-Christians alike. When they are called out on their moral behaviors.

31/08/2023

One of the primary criticisms levied against dispensationalism and the belief in a pretribulational rapture is its alledged relatively recent origin, attributed to the teachings of Darby (1800–1882). In an article published in the fall edition of Ariel Magazine, Lee Brainard demonstrates that Eusebius (ca. 265–340), a prominent scholar and bishop of Caesarea by the Sea, had advocated for the pretribulation rapture millennia before the time of Darby. Read Lee's article here: https://magazine.ariel.org/?ID=10028048_338681




Ariel Ministries

11/06/2023

14/12/2020

CONSIDER THESE WORDS OF JESUS WHEN THE END WILL COME!
Mark 13:3-13 (ESV)
Signs of the End of the Age
3 And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, 4 “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” 5 And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. 6 Many will come in my name, saying, I am he!’ and they will lead many astray. 7 And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet. 8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.
9 “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them. 10 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations. 11 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. 13 And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

09/12/2020

Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV)
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

In the New Testament salvation and discipleship are so closely related as to be indivisible. They are not identical, but as with Siamese twins they are joined by a tie which can be severed only at the price of death. Yet they are being severed in evangelical circles today. In the working creed of the average Christian salvation is held to be immediate and automatic, while discipleship is thought to be something optional that the Christian may delay indefinitely or never accept at all.

08/12/2020

Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.

Andrew Murray
Humility: The beauty of holiness

30/11/2020

Spiritual Twins: Holiness and Happiness
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings: that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 1 Peter 4:13
I want to bring you my postulate that most present-day Christians live sub-Christian lives. As a result, Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!
Most Christians are not joyful persons because they are not holy persons, and they are not holy persons because they are not filled with the Holy Spirit, and they are not filled with the Holy Spirit because they are not separated persons.
The Spirit cannot fill whom He cannot separate, and whom He cannot fill, He cannot make holy, and whom He cannot make holy, He cannot make happy!
My postulate further insists that the average modern Christian is not Christlike. The proof of this is apparent in the disposition that we find among the children of God. They have moral weaknesses and suffer frequent defeats. They have a dulled understanding and often live far below the standard of the Scriptures and thus outside the will of God.
To be honest, let us admit that the application of the gospel is being pulled down to the standard of the most carnal, the cheapest saintling hanging on by the teeth anywhere in the kingdom of God!

EVENINGS WITH TOZER
DAILY DEVOTIONAL READINGS
A. W. TOZER

29/11/2020

Ariel's School of Messianic Jewish Studies