Keynote Series

The endurance of Job

by Victor Hall | 16th May 2013
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The apostle James wrote, ‘We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.’ Jas 5:11. James is drawing our attention to Job as an example to follow. His experience and testimony encourage us to endure in times of suffering. But we also find instruction concerning the transition that many parents need to make in relation to the redemption of their children.  ...Read More

The faith of Christian parents

by Victor Hall | 18th April 2013
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The desire of most Christian parents is for their children to heed the call to follow Christ and become a son of God. We want our children to know salvation and to continue on the pathway of sonship that God has predestined for them. When a child rejects this call, it is great a grief to families. Some parents can become condemned at this point and blame themselves for failing to sufficiently train their children in the way of the Lord. Others can seek to bridge the gap between the rebellion of their children and their own Christian walk, in the hope that they might return to the fellowship of the body of Christ. What is important to understand in relation to our families and the salvation of our children is that the word of God comes calling to every single person. Irrespective of the context in which a child is brought up, they will be accountable for their own response to the word. This, however, does not diminish the importance of family culture in the care and training of our children. Rather, we are caused to consider the aspects of godly family culture that can support their response to the word and their participation in offering.  ...Read More

Prosperity Through Forgiveness

by Victor Hall | 29th November 2012
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Did you know that God wants you to find prosperity through forgiveness? This is an amazing statement and one that presupposes many things. It presupposes that many injustices will occur in your life. And you will do likewise to others; for no one is a special victim. My mother instructed me all my life, saying, ‘There are no victims in Christ’. It is important to understand this, particularly if you feel you are a victim. Christ alone is God’s Victim and we are all joined to His offering. As we begin to comprehend this, we understand that all things work together for good. An endless supply of life is coming to us so that we are not destroyed. Rom 8:28. And God is turning the things that befall us into discipline or training so that we are being prepared, in this life, to reign in the world to come. But nevertheless, even in this life, there are seasons that we go through where things go wrong. So how do we find prosperity? We will find it through forgiveness.  ...Read More

Receiving His Word Through Offering

by Victor Hall | 8th November 2012
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Can you recall a time in your life when God spoke a word to you but it seemed not to eventuate? There are many illustrations of this in Scripture. In most cases, there is a discrepancy of time between when we hear a word from God and the fulfilment of what was said. And the psalmist tells us that the word of God tries us during that period of time. Psa 105:17-21. This is what the apostle Peter called ‘the trial of faith’. 1Pe 1:7.  ...Read More

Confidence in the Gospel

by Victor Hall | 6th September 2012
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It is the mandate of every son of God who is receiving the gospel of sonship to likewise become a messenger of this gospel. Every messenger must be confident to proclaim this message. Therefore, they must be confident in the message. They must know what it is and allow it to become their joy and confidence. In order to understand how we, as messengers of the truth, may have confidence in the gospel we are proclaiming, we need to understand the confidence of Christ; Him who is the Pioneer and the Messenger, the One who has brought the message near and the truth of God to us. ...Read More

The Reign of Christ

by Victor Hall | 1st August 2012
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Christ reigning

Christ is Lord of heaven and earth. He is Yahweh the Son in the flesh, enthroned at the Father’s right hand, and He reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords. Christ is enthroned in the heavenly Zion, the Jerusalem that is in heaven, and administers the affairs of His church from the heavenly places, through an administration of ministry-gifted overseers that He holds in His hand.¹ ...Read More

The Pathway of Suffering

by Victor Hall | 26th July 2012
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Let us look at the pathway of suffering that a Christian endures. The cause of suffering is not a mystery to us, but the reason for suffering is, and belongs to the mystery Christ. The Scriptures teach us that the purpose of God is accomplished in our lives through suffering. Suffering is part of the mystery of the gospel. Suffering is a curse. How, then, does God turn it into blessing?  ...Read More

Christian Living: Spiritual or Carnal?

by Victor Hall| 17th July 2012
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As Christians, the battle we are embroiled in is not primarily good against evil, nor is it the secular against the spiritual. Our warfare is against sin. Suffering and death is the product of sin. The guilty and the innocent both suffer wherever sin is active and personal suffering is the outcome for any Christian who strives by the Spirit of God to overcome sin. The author of Hebrews wrote, ‘You have not yet struggled and fought agonisingly against sin, nor have you yet resisted and withstood to the point of pouring out your own blood.’ A Christian must accept that they are embroiled in a warfare against sin, and this will cause them suffering.  ...Read More

The Words of Eternal Life

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My plan in this booklet is to discuss something of the nature of the life that God is giving to us; the zoe life from above. This will involve an examination of what our lives will be like in the new heavens and new earth.

Clearly, there is much to understand and I will focus particularly on the apostle John’s account of this life. In fact, we will see that John documents the discussion by Christ Himself on how this life is appropriated. John records this in his Gospel and epistles. This is truly the gospel proclaimed throughout the New Testament and this is the gospel that God is opening up to us here and now. We’re looking at the appropriation of life from above, and we should keep this focus as the background to our lives from week to week. ...Read More

The Word comes Speaking

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I have had a burden, born in the Holy Spirit, to express again a precept that seems to have been largely lost in the last thirty years. It is that very basic aspect of our understanding of the gospel – the ‘new birth’. How is the gospel proposition transacted? What is the relationship between the new birth transaction and our adoption as sons of God? Have we or have we not participated in this transaction? To this end, my theme in this meditation is that the word comes speaking; a word of God comes speaking, calling into existence that which does not yet exist. I would ask you to ‘reason with me’ as we search this matter out together. Isa 1:18. ...Read More