Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode 57-On The Way Again #9

Jesus' Discourse with Nicodemus: The New Birth John 3:1-17

Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God." 3Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." 4Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' 8The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." 9Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 10Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?"

11'Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do no receive our testimony. 12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one is ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

16"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him."

New Revised Standard Version-Study Bible__________

Welcome to Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #57-On The Way Again #9

Scriptures within the message are:

• I John 4:9
  
• John 14:6
  
• I John 4:19
  
• Acts 8:12
  
• Acts 28:23-31
  
• Matthew 11:28
• Matthew 6:33
  
• Matthew 4:23
• Luke 14:25-27
  
• Luke 11:28
• Luke 15:3-8
  

• On The Way Again #9 was originally recorded January 20, 1985.
• Running Time: 1:36 File Size: 88 MB
• Your Hostess with the Mostest Jeanine coming to you from Spirited North Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode 56-On The Way Again #8

Christ's Melchizedek Priesthood Surpasses the Levitical Hebrews 7
1. The Priority of the Melchizedek priesthood

This "King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him."; 2and to him Abraham apportioned "one-tenth of everything." His name, in the first place means "king of righteousness"; next he is also king of Salem, that is, "king of peace." 3Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

4 See how great he is! Even Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth of the spoils. 5And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to collect tithes from the people, that is, from their kindred, though these also belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises. 7It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior. 8In the one case, tithes are received by those who are mortal; in the other, by one of whom it is testified that he lives. 9One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, 10for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek me him.

2. The transitory priesthood of Aaron versus the eternal priesthood of Christ

11 Now if perfection had been attainable through the levitical priesthood-for the people received the law under this priesthood-what further need would there have been to speak of another priest arising according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than one according to the order of Aaron? 12For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. 13Now the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar. 14For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

15 It is even more obvious when another priest arises, resembling Melchizedek, 16one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an indestructible life. 17For it is attested of him,

"You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek."

18 There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual 19(for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

3. The superior efficacy of Christ's priesthood

20 This was confirmed with an oath; for others who became priests took their office without an oath, 21 but for this one became a priest with an oath, because of the one who said to him,

"The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
'You are a priest forever'"-
22accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

23 Furthermore, the former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office; 24but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. 25Consequently he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

26 For it is fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself. 28For the law appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

New Revised Standard Version Study Bible_________
7:1-3 Melchizedek was a Canaanite king who reigned in Salem and who worshiped the true God (Gen 14:17-24). He was therefore a Gentile in the kingdom of God. He was raised up by God to be a representative of Christ and was honored as such by Abraham. The expression 'without father, without mother' means no more than that Melchizedek's parentage has been kept hidden from us so he might typify Christ, who had no human father according to his human nature and no mother according to his divine nature.
7:4 When Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, he paid tithes to Jesus Christ who is represented in Melchizedek. In other words, Jesus is superior to Abraham, the first ancestor of the Jews.
7:9 Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, and by implication, Levi was paying these tithes in his grandfather Abraham before his conception. In other words, descendants of Levi (e.g., Aaron, the high priest), who regularly received tithes, themselves paid tithes to Jesus. Thus the author of Hebrews has demonstrated how Jesus is superior to the priesthood of Aaron.
7:12 a change in priesthood...a change in the law. The tribe of the priesthood was changed from Levi to Judah, when Jesus was born as our high priest. Levi and the law went together, while Jesus and the good news go hand in hand. The O.T. priesthood was weak, imperfect, and could not save. Christ's priesthood is perfect, has power, and takes away sin.
7:17 The quotation from Psalm 110.4 comes from the lips of David. When he wrote this by the help of the Spirit, he would not have known that the author of Hebrews would appropriate it and claim it to be fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who came from the seed of David but whose priesthood sprang from Melchizedek.
7:21 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. The God of the covenant does what is permanent and effective, not what is temporary and provisional. The divine purposes will be fulfilled, sinners will be brought into fellowship with God, and their sins will be forgiven.
7:26 Jesus Christ, as opposed to all the high priests from the tribe of Levi, is precisely the high priest sinners need. The O.T. priests were sinners and they eventually died. Christ, on the other hand, is sinless-he was born without original sin and remained undefiled throughout his life. And he now lives forever exalted above the heavens, even above the angels, because of his personal holiness and dignity.
7:28 Jesus, the Son, is God and shares divine attributes, such as the following: holiness (v. 26; John 8:46; 2 Corinthians 5:21); eternity (Micah 5:2; John 1:1; 8:58; 17:5,24; Colossians 1:17); omnipotence (1:3; Matthew 28:18; Revelation 1:8); omniscience (Matthew 9;4; John 6:64; 16:30; John 2:24; 18:4; Colossians 2:3); immutability (1:11,12; 13:8); omnipresence (Matthew 28:20; John 3:13; Matthew 18:20; Ephesians 1:23); creative activity (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 1:8,10); power to forgive sins (Mark 2: 5,7-10; Luke 24:47; John 1:29; Acts 10:43; 1 John 1:7); the right to be worshiped (Matthew 8:2; Philippians 2:10).

Welcome to Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #56-On The Way Again #8

Scriptures within the message are:

• John 1:14-18
  
• John 14:6
  
• John 1:45
  
• John 6:66-69
  
• Colossians 2:16
  
• Hebrews 13:13
  
• Hebrews 12:1
• Matthew 5:17
• Matthew 12:6
• Revelation 1:17
• Revelation 3:7-8
  

• On The Way Again #8 was originally recorded January 18, 1985.
• Running Time: 1:30 File Size: 83 MB
• Your Hostess with the Mostest Jeanine coming to you from Spirited North Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
• Make an Audio Comment the number is 1-715-808-0318 I would like to hear from you. Like voice mail it is recorded and can be played on the podcast.
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Shop.org 2008 Online Merchandising Workshop

Today I am in Huntington Beach, California attending the Shop.org Online Merchandising Workshop 2008. I am joined by 250 retail members and exhibitors. The retailers represent a 200 billion dollar ecommerce industry that started about 15 years ago. It started by a few people who had a need to join a community of like minded retailers who saw a future in ecommerce.

While I attended the Shop.org Marketing Workshop in April 7-9, 2008, earlier this year, I recorded a conversation with Elaine Rubin, President, Ekrubin, Inc., whose passionate vision lead to the development of a 200 billion dollar industry that we know today to be ecommerce. She shared her inspiring story with me after lunch on the last day of the workshop. I know you will enjoy this inspiring conversation.

Listen to my introductory conversation with Elaine Rubin here.

Elaine Rubin's conversation about her vision of ecommerce here.

It was Pastor Paul's Club's, our online retail store, one year anniversary after becoming a member of Shop.org whose motto is, 'By the member, for the member'. Later I found out just what a valuable connection I had found while Google searching 'online marketing'.

Today Shop.org's vision 'To be the world's leading membership community for digital retail commerce (DRC)', started with the passionate vision of Elaine Rubin. Her passion for her vision brought like minded people together to learn and share that developed Shop.org. Today Pastor Paul's Club can share in that vision.

You can find my archived Shop.org posts to the blog beginning here, Thank You 10 Year Anniversary.

I have a recorded conversation with Shop.org's Scott Silverman, Executive Director, about the future of Shop.org to expand internationally that I will post next, as well as, a conversation with Larry Joseloff, VP, Content who inspired me to attend the first Shop.org Online Marketing Workshop in April 18-20, 2008.

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #55-On The Way Again #7

I Corinthians 13

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13 But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Welcome to Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #55-On The Way Again #7

Scriptures within the message are:

• Ephesians 1:9-10
• I Corinthians 13:1-13
  
• Revelation 21:1-5
  
• Romans 8:19
  
• Mark 2:11
  
• Mark 1:27
  
• Hebrews 1:2-3
  
• Matthew 7:28-29
  
• Matthew 11:6
  

• On The Way Again #7 was originally recorded January 13, 1985.
• Running Time: 1:08 File Size: 63.1 MB
• Your Hostess with the Mostest Jeanine coming to you from Spirited North Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
• Make an Audio Comment the number is 1-715-808-0318 I would like to hear from you. Like voice mail it is recorded and can be played on the podcast.
• Send your comments, questions and suggestions to me, jeanine.at.pastorpaul.org
• Make a comment at the Blog-wwwpastorpaul.blogspot.com (no dot after the 3W's). Your comment will be posted.
• Pastor Paul's Mission is located in the historic Mikro Kodesh synagogue in North Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode 54-On The Way Again #6

Our Statue of Liberty
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36

During the national observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, I was struck by the great emphasis on the number of immigrants who had often left everything behind, coming to America with nothing but the clothes on their backs, risking their very lives for something they valued more highly than everything they had left behind: freedom.


This is a picture of what we must do when we come to Christ. We must forsake allegiance to the things of this world and all that this world has to offer and become immigrants in the kingdom of God. His statue of liberty is in the form of the cross.

The statue in New York Harbor lifts her lamp 'beside the golden door.'

The statue of liberty [the cross] on that Golgotha hill lights the way into the eternal life. That light is ours if we will only come to God through the One [Jesus] who said, 'I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.' John 8:12

This light gives freedom to men and women in the darkest of prisons in nations which are intolerant of the preaching of the gospel. One can have political freedom and still be a prisoner of sin, while one who is in a political prison and knows Christ can be more free than his jailers.

Freedom in Christ is the ultimate freedom to be celebrated not only on special days, but all year around.1

1 Billy Graham's 'Unto the Hills' page 172

'I lift up mine eyes to the hills,
From whence does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

Welcome to Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #54-On The Way Again #6

Scriptures within the message are:

• Ephesians 5:17
• I John 4:9
  
• I John 5:3
• I John 2:8
  
• John 15:6
  
• John 10:10
  
• John 1:1-3
  
• John 12:5
  
• John 5:11-12
• John 12:50
  
• Luke 13:25
  
• Colossians 1:16-17
  
• Matthew 6:22
  
• Matthew 11:30
  
• Matthew 19:16-22
  

• On The Way Again #6 was originally recorded January 11, 1985.
• Running Time: 1:29 File Size: 81.5 MB
• Your Hostess with the Mostest Jeanine coming to you from Spirited North Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
• Make an Audio Comment the number is 1-715-808-0318 I would like to hear from you. Like voice mail it is recorded and can be played on the podcast.
• Send your comments, questions and suggestions to me, jeanine.at.pastorpaul.org
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