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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 019 - What We Don’t Know about “The Anointing”

Strong's Concordance entry

Part of a 'Strong's Concordance' entry on the word 'anointed'

Review of last week’s episode, An Unhappy Heresy, the first installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

Study on the words anoint and anointing

  • No one in the New Testament ever prayed for “the anointing,” so why are so many Christians praying this way?
  • If orthodoxy is right belief, what the early Christians taught and believed, then..
  • Orthopraxy is right practice, that is, how the early Christians lived out what they believed.
  • In all the prayers we read in the Book of Acts, in Paul’s epistles, etc.—in other words, in any passage that would give us insight into New Testament orthopraxy—nobody ever “prayed for the anointing.” What was it that New Testament Christians understood that we don’t? [click to continue…]
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Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 012—Are You Fulfilling Bible Prophecy?

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Are you helping to fulfill Bible prophecy by not reading the Scriptures regularly?

Prophecies You Don’t Want to Fulfill!

  • Some Christians will fall away from the faith, drawn away by deceitful spirits, teaching of demons, and conscience-less liars — 1 Timothy 4:1-3
  • The time will come [has come!] when some Christians won’t endure sound teaching, will want their “ears tickled,” and will turn their ears away from the truth — 2 Timothy 3:13–4:8.
  • False Christs and false prophets will be bent on deceiving God’s people — Mark 13:21-23.
  • The most sobering prophecy — the day when Jesus says to many of those who thought they were serving Him, “I never knew you; depart from Me.” — Matthew 7:21-23
Side note: The Adversary knows the Scriptures well, and can use them against you if you don’t know them well.  He had the audacity to attempt, unsuccessfully, to deceive Jesus in this way (Matthew 4:3-11); what makes you think [click to continue…]
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