Most people have a deadly disease and do not realize it. This is the disease that prevents them from seeing God for who He is. This is the disease that prevents them from seeing Jesus as their True Elder Brother. Before we reveal this disease lets read again from the Parable of the Prodigal Son:
The [...]
October 20, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, God Sense, Prodigal God, Stiff-Necked, Stiffnecked, communion, god . Tags: celebrate, come to your senses, communion, Elder Brother, Father, Feast, Forgiveness, God of the Living, God Sense, Lords Supper, Love, Now, past, Prodigal Father, Prodigal Son, repentance, Salvation, Stephen, stiff necked Jews, stiff neckitis, stiff-neck, wilderness wanderings . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Elder Brother has accepted the Father’s invitation and gone in to the party celebrating his younger brother’s return. This is my imagining:
IMMEDIATELY I notice this is a REALLY FESTIVE party. You can not imagine the feast that our Father has prepared. Really HUGE! My younger brother is the center of attention. He looks totally transformed by what [...]
October 9, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, Prayer, Prodigal God . Tags: Banquet, Brothers United, Elder Brother, Father, fattened calf, Feast, Forgiveness, Friend of Publicans, Friend of Sinners, Heaven, Jesus, Prodigal, Prodigal Son, Watchman Nee, younger brother . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
Jesus wants to be Lord of our PAST, but He can do it ONLY if we allow HIM to be LORD of our FUTURE!
October 8, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Peter, Prodigal God . Tags: agape, Dive, dive in, Feast, Feed My Sheep, Fish, Fishing, Forgive, forgiven, Future, go in, introspection, Jesus, join the feast, lovest thou me, Peter, phileo, pity, Prodigal Son, regret, Rejoice, Relationship, self-centered, sorrow, Steven Curtis Chapman, Sulk . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Father pleaded (’parakaleo’) with the Elder Brother to come in and enjoy the feast with his brother. It was a call to fellowship, it was a call to relationship, it was a call to repentance from his selfish and unloving ways. Much the same way our paraclete (Holy Spirit) comes alongside us each and [...]
October 7, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, Prodigal God . Tags: But I say unto you, ears, Elder Brother, Father, Grace, He that has ears to hear, Isaiah 50:4, Law, Life, Listen, Obey, Prodigal Son, Sermon on Mount . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
“Now to Him who is able to set you on your feet as His own sons – according to my Gospel, according to the preaching of Jesus Christ Himself…“(Rom 16:25 Phillips)
Am I willing to be like Christ and do what is needed to build up prodigals into God’s Sons? My life must first be built [...]
October 6, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Prodigal God . Tags: Elder Brother Types, Empty Bottles, Empty Lives, Eternal, Foundation, Friend of Sinners, Friends, Fun, Jesus, Joy, Life of Purpose, Liquor, Master Builder, Romans 16:25, Stablish, Two Sons, Younger Brother Types . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
Elder Brothers must realize they can be all righteous and moral but inwardly be walking corpses, dead to God! Our morality is worthless without a LIVING RELATIONSHIP with our LIVING FATHER!
October 5, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Flesh, Holy Spirit Power, Obedience, Power of God, Power of Holy Spirit, Prodigal God, Relationship with God, god, mudpreacher . Tags: Adoption as Sons, Anger, Assurance, Baby Christians, Child, Coldness, Dead yet Living, Death to Self, Elder Brother, Elder Brother Type, Flesh, Holy Spirit, huios, huiosthesis, Jesus Christ, Living Yet Dead, Milk, Prodigal, Selfish, son, Spirit, teknon, Two-Face, Walk in Spirit . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
He calls all Elder Brother’s to COME! Are you looking back like Lot’s wife? Does His CALL reveal the worldliness and selfishness of your heart? Are you so self-focused that you would hate to be interrupted by the RETURN OF JESUS? If so, I hope you like salt.
October 3, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Prodigal God, Rapture . Tags: Banquet, Come in, come up hither, Elder Brother, Feast, Heart, Left behind, look behind, Lots Wife, Luke 17:32, pillar of salt, Prodigal, Prodigal God, Rapture, Remember Lots Wife, Return of Christ, Salt . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
The Elder Brother angrily argued with his Father because he was lavishing a wasteful feast upon his wayward younger brother. The Father had never done such a thing for him, the obedient Elder Brother. His appeals to stop the feast went unheeded, because the Father was intent upon celebrating the finding of his [...]
October 1, 2009
Categories: Abraham, Elder Brother, Prodigal God, god . Tags: Abraha, Abraham, Abram, Anger, Banquet, Communication, Destroyed, Elder Brother, Father's Heart, Feast, god, Gomorrah, Lot, Rescue, Righteous Lot, Sodom, Sulk, younger brother . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
Moses was called to lead a bunch of Elder Brother Types across the wilderness desert into the Promised Land. All the pictures of Moses show him with a full head of hair, but I know he must have pulled it all out by the time he passed away. Elder Brother Types do not take leadership [...]
September 30, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Prodigal God . Tags: Daily Bread, Daily Trust, Elder Brother, Give, Lack, Manna, Manna from Heaven, Moses, Prodigal God, Prodigal Son, Provide, Rotten Worms, Spoiled, younger brother . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
John the Baptist was an only child. His parents were very old when he was born, and he may have been orphaned at an early age. We don’t know much about John except he was STRANGE! Funny clothes, funny food, he was an outcast in hygiene conscious Israel. There was something about his message though. [...]
September 29, 2009
Categories: Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Prodigal God . Tags: depressed, doubts, Elder Brother, failure, Imprison, Jesus, John the Baptist, Lord, Offended, Prodigal, purpose, task . Author: mudpreacher . Comments: Leave a Comment
