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Colosians 1:6  All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. Having grace is not an emotion it is a person. Here Paul says that as people meet and understand (get to know) the grace of God, that is Jesus Christ in all his truth they bear fruit and grow. Is your Christianity based on and focused on getting to know Christ, or is it mere religion for the sake of religion? Prayer: Jesus Christ, this really is Gospel or Good News to my soul: I can grow as I get to know You better in all your truth.  Please reveal yourself to me even more and please cause me to bear your fruit in my life. Amen Rev. Kruger de Kock London You can also view and subscribe to receive these messages via RSS on my blog at:  http://wewillseehim.blogspot.com   If you do not want to receive these messages anymore, just reply with 'unsubscribe please' in the subject line.

Theme:  Wisdom from the book of Proverbs Proverbs 4:7-9 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honour you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown." Wisdom is indeed a person that we need to embrace! It is the person Jesus Christ (1 John 1). He treats those that embrace Him as his own, giving them all the privileges and honour that is His.   Prayer: Jesus Christ, it is in you that we find true wisdom.  Help us to prize you, exalt you, honour you and embrace you.  We look forward to share in your eternal honour and glory. Amen Rev. Kruger de Kock London You can also view and subscribe to receive these messages via RSS on my blog at:  http://wewillseehim.blogspot.com   If you do not want to receive these messages anymore, just reply with 'unsubscribe please' in the subject line.

Theme:  Wisdom from the book of Proverbs Proverbs 3:5-8 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.   In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.   Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.   It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. How weighed down and worried are we when we try to be in control of things that's out of our control? Calm your heart, not with your own reasoning and explanations for hope but with the truth that the Lord is in control of your life and that you can trust Him. The night Jesus was captured to be crucified He calmed his heart like this: "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will." Prayer: Our Lord, I trust you and your solution to the difficult situations in my life.  I have all the reason to believe that you can be trus...

Theme:  Wisdom from the book of Proverbs Proverbs 2:1-7:   My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; Are you looking for wisdom?  What is your search for wisdom costing you at the moment?  Do you want real wisdom enough that you are willing to search for it like a lost piece of jewellery?   Great news!  You will find it for God gives it freely to those that look for it. Prayer: Our Lord, I long to have real wisdom, not just random facts about you or your Bible.  Please hear my cr...

Theme:  Wisdom from the book of Proverbs Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,  but fools despise wisdom and discipline.  True wisdom and discipline does not start in the classroom, wikipedia or google. It starts with "fear of the Lord" or with reverence and humility towards the Lord. Real reverence and humility for the Lord can only be experienced through discovering who God is in Christ.  Prayer: King Jesus Christ, you are said to be the real wisdom of God.  Looking at your life, death and resurrection we see that you not only knew the path to life but that you are the life itself.  We therefore want to humbly submit our lives to you again - trusting that you will make us wise and disciplined. Amen.   Rev. Kruger de Kock London You can also view and subscribe to receive these messages via RSS on my blog at:  http://wewillseehim.blogspot.com   If you do not want to receive these messages anymore, just reply wi...

Theme:  Basic Theology   The basics are: 1. Know how great our sin and misery are.   2. Know how we are  set free  from sin and misery.  3. How I am to thank God for such deliverance. We might think that thanking God must be decision, driven by immense feelings of guilt for our past sins.  But Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 6:19   that we are to thank and glorify God with an even deeper motivation: " Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."   The motivation for our 'thanking' of God is not guilt but an entirely new identity, bought with the death of Christ.  To the extent that you are aware of who you now are in Christ, to that extent will you be able to truly thank and glorify God through living a God pleasing life. Take a moment and think not of what others think of you, but...

Theme: Basic Theology   The first basic was: we need to know how great our sin and misery are.  The second basic is to know how we are set free from sin and misery.  Paul explains to the Colossians in 1:13,14 : "For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,  in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."    Being a Christian is about great freedom, instead of slavery to sin. You have been rescued - why are we still sometimes living as slaves to our sins and wrong desires? The Heidelberg Catechism (Question 37) says reminds us: "He has freed us from all the power of the devil to make us His own possession."  Prayer:   Lord Jesus Christ, we sometimes forget that we have been freed from the devil's reign in our lives.  Help us to live out this new freedom through faith in our new good King who has given his life to make us his own, in your Name.  Amen Rev. Kruger d...

Theme: Basic Theology   So, one of the basics of theology is to understand how great my sin and misery are.  If I am a sinner, where did sin come from? Paul says in Rom 5:12  "....just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned."  Sin came into the world through our great forefather - Adam.  But where did his sinfulness come from? The Heidelberg Catechism (Question 9) says: God so created man that he was able to (live without sin). But man, at the instigation of the devil,in deliberate disobedience robbed himself and all his descendants of these gifts. But praise God.  If sin came into the world through one, it can be taken away by One.  ( Rom 5:19: " ...also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.")  Prayer:   Lord Jesus Christ, since I am by nature unable to know or love you, please show me that the weakest inclinatio...

Theme: Basic Theology   So what are the basics of theology I need to know? Paul says it in Eph 5:8-10 :" For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light  9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)  10 and find out what pleases the Lord."   The Heidelberg Catechism (Question 2) states is like this: We need to know: How great my sin and misery are; (We were once darkness) How I am set free from all my sins and misery; (but now I am light in the Lord Jesus) How I am to thank God for such deliverance. (Now I need to live as children of light and please God) Prayer:   Almighty God, thank you that throughout Scripture you tell us how great our sin is, how we are set free through faith in Jesus Christ and how we are to thank you.  Please help us to see it and respond to your Word.  Amen   Rev. Kruger de Kock London You can also view and subscribe...

Theme: Basic Theology   I am going to focus on some basic theological points over the next couple of weeks.  Paul writes to Titus in 1:9 : "...hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it."  Does understanding the Bible make you confused and frustrated? That is not what the Bible is supposed to do with you.  There is one trustworthy message through all of Scripture that can be systematically explained. This simple explanation is called the Gospel and it has as it's objective to encourage you and help you to get to know God.    Prayer: Almighty God, we realise that you are to complex to know - therefore we want to ask that you will help us to see the simple truths about you as it is revealed in Scripture.  Help us to not only know more about you, but that we will get to know and love You more. Amen.   Rev. Kruger de Kock London You can...