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Friday, June 20, 2008

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode 52-On The Way Again #4

Jeremiah 11-13

11 Has a nation changed its gods,
even though they are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory
for something that does not profit.
Be appalled, O heavens, at this,
be shocked, be utterly desolate,

says the Lord,

13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.

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On The Way Again #4 was originally recorded January 4, 1985.
Running Time: 1:36 File Size: 88.6 MB
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode 51 'I Saw The Lord'

Isaiah Cleansed and Commissioned

1. God's holiness revealed

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings; with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.'

2. Isaiah's repentance

4 The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. 5 And I said: 'Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!'

3. His cleansing and commission to preach

6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: 'Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.' 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I; send me!' 9 And he said, 'Go and say to this people:

'Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand;
10 Make the mind of this people dull,
and stop their ears, and shut their eyes,
so that they may not look with their eyes,
and listen with their ears,
and comprehend with their minds,
and turn and be healed.'
11 Then I said, 'How long, O Lord?' And he said:
'Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;
12 until the Lord sends everyone mfar away,
and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.
13 Even if a tenth part remain in it,
it will be burned again,
like a terebinth or an oak
whose stump remains standing
when it is felled.'
The holy seed is its stump.

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Isaiah 6

I Saw The Lord was originally recorded January 3, 1985.
Running Time: 1:25 File Size: 78.4 MB
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Friday, June 6, 2008

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #50-The I Don't Want Toos

Good News of Salvation Isaiah 61

a. The commission to preach the good news

61 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners;
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who morn;
3 to provide for those who morn in Zion-
to give them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.

b. Exaltation of Zion in the final age

4 They shall build up the ancient ruins,
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.

5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
foreigners shall till your land and dress your vines;
6 but you shall be called priests of the Lord,
you shall be named ministers of our God;
you shall enjoy the wealth of the nations,
and in their riches you shall glory.
7 Because their shame was double,
and dishonor was proclaimed as their lot,
therefore they shall possess a double portion;
everlasting shall be theirs.

8 For I the Lord love justice,
I hate robbery and wrongdoing;
I will faithfully give them their recompense,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their descendants shall be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge
that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed.

c. Song of praise for God's redemptive love

10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
my whole being shall exult in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its shoots,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring up before all nations.

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The I don't Want Toos was originally recorded December 30, 1984
Running Time: 1:35 File Size: 87.4 MB
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #49-On the Way Again

The Inner Confusion

An inner breakdown has taken place according to an international thinker: 'It is manifest that the breakdown in international comity is not solely due to economic and political causes.' The breakdown is due to a breakdown in something back behind the economic and the political-a breakdown in the spiritual. Something has collapsed there, and the outer collapse is simply an outer expression of a more serious inner collapse. The outer arrangements of men are awry becuse the inner arrangements of men are awry. For the whole of the outer arrangements of life rests upon the inner. Men cannot get along with each other because they cannot get along with themselves and they cannot get along with themselves because they cannot get along with God.

An appalling sense that you are not on the Way is a sense of 'not-well being'. Something is missing. You are feeling out of joint with reality, or not sustained or backed-disconnected or separated-outside the Great Design of life. You cannot advance in life with any buoyancy, that bounce in your step, unless you are on the Way. Our souls need cleansing and reconciliation washing away all fear, doubt, guilt and uncertainty. 1

Love the Lord with your all your heart, mind and soul; and Love your neighbor as yourself. The Law of Love insures Universal backing without separation.

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On the Way Again was originally recorded December 28, 1984
Running Time: 1:31 File Size: 83.9 MB
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1 'The Way' E. Stanley Jones

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Friday, May 23, 2008

Tongues of Fire Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #48-The Christian Way is the Way

Christian

This name for the followers of Christ occurs only 3 times in the New Testament: Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, I Peter 4:16. The only definite information about its origin is the statement in the first of these passages, that 'the disciples were called Christians for the first time in Antioch'. The name does not seem to be used by Christians themselves until the middle of the 2nd century AD and even then it is used chiefly by apologists writing for pagan readers.

The Roman historian Tacitus says that it was used by the populace in Rome in the time of Nero (Annals, XV,44.3). In the important MS of the New Testament, the Codex Vaticanus, the spelling Chrestian(os) is found in all three passages, and the same spelling is common in early inscriptions. This points to a derivation, not from Christos, but from Chrestos, which is presumably the common Greek adj. chrestos, 'good', 'kindly', regarded as a proper name. (The ending -ianos, which is Latin rather than Greek in origin, does not seem to have been used except in formations from proper names;cf. in the New Testament itself Herodianoi, Mark 3:6 etc.)

The two names were at this time pronounced in almost the same way. Christians sometimes accepted this implied derivation without remark, but they can scarcely have invented it for themselves. It is therefore probable that the name was originally invented and used by non-christians.1

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The Christian Way is the Way was originally recorded December 23, 1984
Running Time: 1:42 File Size: 93.2 MB
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1 'A Theological Word Book Of The Bible' Contributed by J. Y. Carpenter, M.A., Professor of New Testament, Westminster College, Cambridge

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode 47-Pride Pt 2

Introduction to
THE PSALMS

Authorship, Date and Background: The book of Psalms has followed the tradition of the Septuagint for its name. Literally, the Greek rendering Psalmoi means 'song to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument.' The Hebrew title for the book is Tehillim, which means 'praise songs.' Psalms contains 150 chapters or psalms and has been divided into five segments, each one ending with a doxology-As follows:

(1-4)
(42-72)
(73-89)
(90-106)
(107-150)

The date and authorship of this book is unique in that some of the authors are known and others are not, and the dates for composition of the various psalms range from Moses to the period of the exile and shortly thereafter, from ca 1400 to 500 B.C. Seventy three of them are ascribed to David, two to Solomon, one each to Ethan and Heman, one to Moses, and twenty-three to Levitical clans of Asaph, leaving forty-nine psalms whose authors cannot be ascertained.

Modern scholars have challenged the Davidic authorship of a number of the psalms attributed to him and have opted for a late dating of virtually all of the psalms. Interestingly, this is inconsistent, because some of the instructions for the singing of the psalms were written in a language that had already become untranslatable in the sixth century B.C.

Characteristics and Content: The psalms vary widely in their purposes. Scholars have noted eight different categories of psalms:

Personal psalms
prayer psalms
liturgical psalms
historical psalms
praise psalms
penitential psalms
Messianic psalms
psalms which exalt the majesty and might of God. Some psalms fit neatly into a category, while others fit into several categories.1

Psalm 20
A liturgy for the king
A. Prayer for victory
To the leader. A Psalm of David

The Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
The name of the God of Jacob protect you!
May he send you help from the sanctuary,
and give you support from Zion.
May he remember all your offerings,
and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices.
May he grant you your heart's desire,
and fulfill all your plans.
May we shout for joy over your victory,
and in the name of our God set up our banners.
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

B. Assurance of divine help

Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed;
he will answer him from his holy heaven
with mighty victories by his right hand.
Some take pride in chariots, and some in horses,
but our pride is in the name of the Lord our God.
They will collapse and fall,
but we shall rise and stand upright.
Give victory to the king, O Lord;
answer us when we call.

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Pride Pt 2 was originally recorded July 7, 1985
Running Time: 1:15 File Size: 69.5 MB
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1 'New Revised Standard Version Harper Study Bible' Zondervan

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #46-Pride

Pride
'Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.' Proverbs 16:18

A distinctive feature of biblical religion is its teaching about pride and its converse, humility; this is unparalleled in other religions and ethical systems. According to the Bible (and to the classical Christian moral teaching), pride is the very root and essence of sin. Sinfulness consists essentially in the rebellious pride which attributes to self the honor and glory that are due to God. Pride was the sin of Adam. Boasting, and the pride which trusts in oneself or in any human prince or army, are constantly contrasted with the true humility which trusts in God alone.

Christ agrees with John the Baptist in condemning pride of race (Luke 3:8, Matthew 8:10). He likewise condemns the pride of the Pharisees-spiritual pride which resulted in ostentation (Matthew 6:5, 23:5, Luke 18:9) and all forms of social pride (Matthew 23:6, Luke 14:7). To his followers, he used the example of the humility of children, and said they should refuse titles of honor (Matthew 23:8-10) and positions of privilege (Mark 10:35-45). The washing of the disciples feet was the perfect symbol of his life of lowliness (John 13). More by Christ's life and deeds than by his words, he introduced a new virtue-Christian humility-into the world.

St Paul perceived the theological significance of the lowliness of the Son of God in his incarnation: he who was in the form of God emptied himself and humbled himself (Philippians 2:6-8): he who was rich became poor for our sake (II Corinthians 8:9, 13:4). The wonder of the divine humility is revealed in the manger at Bethlehem. Paul, a converted Pharisee, constantly warns us against spiritual pride (I Corinthians 4:6); neither Jew nor Gentile has grounds for boasting (Romans 2-3). The Christian may boast of one thing and one thing only-the cross of Jesus Christ; for the rest, he will be content to glory in his weaknesses, out of which through the power of Christ he is made strong ( II Corinthians 11-12-13). 1

Welcome to Tongues of Fire-Pastor Paul's Podcast-Episode #46-Pride
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Pride was originally recorded July 5, 1985
Running Time: 1:14 File Size: 68 MB
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1 'A Theological Word Book Of The Bible' Alan Richardson, D.D., Canon of Durham
Bibliography-R. Niebuhr: 'Nature and the Destiny of Man', I Chapter VII

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