Bill Vanderbush

You were made in the image of God, not as a set of behaviors you must perfect, but as a capacity for love that has the very God of the universe as its source. But how can we know God? In the New Testament that image turns toward Christ. He is the image of the invisible God. The radiance of His glory. And the destiny God wills for every human being is to bear the image of the man of heaven. The Image Himself has come to dwell with and in us. Christ in you is the image restored. Holy Spirit is the very love of God now living in you, so that the love we were made for is no longer a distant command but the life we already share.

The Pentecostals and Charismatics will say the cessationists who don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit are false teachers. The cessationists and those who don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit will look at all the Pentecostals and Charismatics and say, look, they are the false teachers. And so the problem is that we grab this Scripture, lift it out of context, and only then do we define who the false teachers are based upon who we don't like or who who is somehow going against the teaching that we personally believe to be the absolute truth. And this is where we get messed up because Paul is about to actually tell us what false teaching looks like. And it's not what you might expect.

We don't earn the Holy Spirit. We receive the Holy Spirit. The Baptism IS the Holy Spirit. Faith hears the message of good news and receives it with thanksgiving.

Come and revisit an ancient story that still astounds the heart willing to engage with it. In this podcast discover this beautiful truth. Grace is the Father, made visible in the Son, giving himself to the condemned. I pray that through this message you will find the saving grace that empowers true freedom to experience the love of God.

Salvation is not an event we attend. Salvation is the Man who was wounded for our transgressions and by whose stripes we are healed. The word that appeared nearly eighty times in the Old Testament as a promise now is the name of the One you can call in the night, Yeshua. Jesus. You do not achieve salvation. You receive the One who is Salvation.