The writer of Hebrews referred to a priest named Melchizedek as a pre-incarnate figure of Christ; a man who “resembled the Son of God.” The fact that Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek confirmed his godlikeness.

However, the priesthood of Melchizedek was for a time, and while he may have been the epitome of righteousness in his day, Jesus is the true King of Righteousness, who came to earth to bring peace through His sacrificial death and resurrection. Jesus is also “a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek,” but not through his lineage.

This is the subject of our Sunday night sermon, “A King and a Priest,” as we continue our sermon series entitled “Follow the Lamb.”

There is no easy way to say this, but it’s not what happens to us that determines our spiritual maturity, but how we respond. What happens to each one of us is about the same for everyone – “trouble troubles us all,” but how we respond to it reveals our understanding of spiritual warfare.
This is the subject of our next sermon in this series on Spiritual Warfare. The title is “The Believer’s Call to Spiritual Warfare.” In this sermon, we will look at the armor of God we must wear if we are to be victorious in our battle against Satan.

According to an article by Michael Snyder, we are literally on the brink of an apocalyptic war between Israel and Iran. While the current conflict is with Hamas, the main concern is what will Iran do. If Iran gets involved in this conflict in a major way, in my opinion, the United States will have no choice but to come to Israel’s aid, which will cause the Arab countries to retaliate, and we have the makings of WWIII. Since both Israel and Iran have nuclear weapons, there could be massive death and destruction like we’ve never seen before.

This is the subject of our Wednesday Night Bible Study – “The Prophetic Significance of the Israel-Gaza War.”

Dear Heritage Family and Friends,

Sunday evening at 6:00 PM, I will present an hour-long sermon on the biblical prophecies now unfolding in Israel. We will look at the potential for the Psalm 83 war, the desolation of Damascus, the Gog-Magog war, and the Battle of Armageddon.

While all wars are instigated over some temporal issue, all wars between mankind are, at their core, the fleshing out of that divine war between God and Satan; the forces of good and the forces of evil. Therefore, all wars, regardless of their temporal agenda, began in Genesis 3:15 and will end when Jesus returns to the earth and defeats Satan. These wars in the Middle East are setting the stage for the final prophetic events of this age.

Understandably, the war in Israel has captured our hearts and minds, and we must pray for the families of those who have lost loved ones, and for those whose family members are being held hostage. Of course, we must pray for peace to be restored, but true peace is not the absence of conflict, true peace is the ability to trust the Lord even when we are in the midst of the battle.

However, as Christians, we must not allow the barbarity and savagery of this war to capture our hearts and minds, lest we give Satan an opportunity to fill our hearts with the same evil spirit that is in the hearts of the terrorists. “No hate,” said Betsy ten boon to her sister, Corrie, after one of the guards at Ravensbruck concentration camp had beaten her brutally. As Corrie discovered, that which we are unable to do, because of our sin nature, the Lord Jesus who is in us, can do, and will do, if we will yield to him. Hatred is in the DNA of the devil – love is in the DNA of every born again believer!

I have no crystal ball into the future. However, if you haven’t already you best be putting on the whole armor of God. This is the subject of our next sermon in this series on Spiritual Warfare. The title is “The Believer’s Call to Spiritual Warfare.”

Dear Heritage Family and Friends,

Sunday evening at 6:00 PM, I will have an hour-long sermon on the biblical prophecies now unfolding in Israel. We will look at the potential for the Psalm 83 war, and the potential desolation of Damascus.

There is no doubt that the life and ministry of Moses was nothing less than remarkable, and that God had His sovereign Hand upon this man from his birth to his death! To the Jew, there had never been, nor would there ever be another man like Moses. But even Moses said God would raise up another prophet like him, and from among them, and the Apostle Peter said Jesus was the prophet Moses had predicted!

This is the subject of our next sermon in the series, “Follow the Lamb.”

As we face these troubled days, let us remember, God has not called us to take up arms and fight the enemy. God has called us to stand firm in our faith and in the power of His might, for the battle belongs to the Lord, and our victory is just in sight!

This is the subject of our next sermon in this series on Spiritual Warfare. The title is “The Believer’s Call to Spiritual Warfare.”

As God unfolded the lineage of the Savior, He listed those men who were “types” of the Savior. Just as the life of Joseph paralleled the life of Jesus in over 150 ways, the call and ministry of Moses parallels the life of Jesus in about 75 ways. We will explain that Sunday night in our next sermon in this series, as we look at “Moses: The Deliverer.”

Beloved, God has not abandoned the Israelites – His CHOSEN PEOPLE. In fact, while the wrath of God that will soon be poured out on the earth is God’s judgment upon those who refused to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, perhaps the primary purpose is to bring that last remnant of the Jews, i.e., those of Abraham’s seed, to repentance. This will be followed by God’s reconciliation and restoration of the land of Israel. Amen!

We will see the reasons for that in tonight’s study: “Israel, and the purposes of God,” or “What is so special about Israel?”