Vineyard Assembly of God

During this difficult time of pandemic, social unrest, economic instability, political uncertainty, and moral depravity people are looking for answers and an epidemic of false prophets has risen up to afflict and exploit the Church.  Fortunately, the Bible has already given us guidance as to who the false prophets are, how to detect them, and how to discern and welcome the true prophets and teachers who have been called by Jesus to serve His Church.

Without doubt, we are living in difficult times!  It is part of human nature that when facing difficulty, people often become desperate.  Since desperate people do desperate things, desperate Christians often turn in desperation to different practices and beliefs to try to get God to make their life normal again.  In this message, we see exactly what God requires of us whether the times are difficult or not - or whether we're desperate or not.

The evidence that we are living in the End Times is unmistakable as any comparison of the news and our world with Biblical prophecy will show.  Evidence, however, can be interpreted many different ways.  This is why the Bible presents Israel (the nation and the people) as irrefutable proof that God has kept and will keep ALL of His promises and prophecies!

When difficult, stressful events happen - or when we see these events happening on the news we often want to "wish them away," but we can't.  However, as Christians we can have faith in God that God can use even the most unpleasant events in a most extraordinary way!  Not only to fulfill His plan for the nations of the world, but also for us!

Reopening the church to public services in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis has been challenging as it has necessitated dividing the church into two groups meeting for two services.  In the early days of Christianity, there is a precedent where division that was caused by an unforeseen circumstance was utilized by God to produce unprecedented multiplication in the ministry of the Christian Church.

 

Christians throughout history and around the world celebrate four core ceremonies: gathering for worship & teaching, gathering for fellowship, gathering for prayer, and gathering for the Lord's Supper.  Of these ceremonies the Lord's Supper is the least well understood as Christians have tended to make it into something that it isn't.  In this message, we rediscover the beauty and the majesty of the Lord's Supper.

 

In this encouraging and challenging message during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we learn that restoration always dependent upon operating in two parts: our preparation and God's promise.  The Bible already contains the steps we're to take to prepare for restoration and also reveals the nature of the restoration that God has promised for us.