Christians and Judging by Thomas Leake Pastor-Teacher

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Christians and Judging Part 1
Christians and Judging Part 2
Christians and Judging Part 3

The Christian Faith Under Attack Part 1 -by Pastor Thomas Leake

Christian Faith Under Attack Part 1 - Enjoy

Given to Hospitality

Use hospitality one to another without grudging. (1 Peter 4:9)

I came to our pastor’s house today to borrow a power washer, (got some deck cleaning to do), and his son saw me pulling up in the yard. He smiled at me and I asked him which way I could enter in the house. He said “you can go in anyway, the door is open!” I walked in through my pastor’s garage door and into his house. Nobody was around, I felt “like man, this is awesome; I can just walk right in here”. To my surprise I saw Pastor Tom sitting on the couch with his laptop. I spoke, and he jumped up quickly to embrace me, not just to shake my hand. We talked and he showed me how to use his power washer. He smiled though whole time, if I was a stranger, I would have felt so warm and loved. Ohhh what has happened to hospitality, something that is missing from the body of Jesus Christ. Especially since pastor Tom has been threatened by someone before. Anyways, are we as Christians doing the same? Are we opening our homes up and being hospitable?

Nowadays, your may get a secretary or a deacon that will talk to you, but what happened to hospitality among the brethren. The bible speaks of this:

[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. (Romans 12:10-13)

Philoxenia is the Greek for hospitality. It means hospitableness:--entertain stranger, hospitality, love to strangers. Our homes as Christians should be like this. Our neighbors should be able to walk in and be entertained, taking care of and loved. Everybody now seems to be afraid to let somebody in the door for fear of getting robbed. But are the Christian doors supposed to be this way?

Also, for those of you who look at your pastors, is his door open? Can you go by his home and chat with him? Do you even have his home number? Or is it you cannot get near him because you might through off his anointing? Hogwash, look what the scriptures say:

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; (1 Timothy 3:2)

Oh and it doesn’t stop there check out Titus:

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; (Titus 1:7-8)

A lover of hospitality, what? Yes in the Greek transliteration that means literally loving strangers and generous to guest. Now, is your bishop doing that? Is your pastor holding to that? Are we as Christians opening are homes to the world around us, so that the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be known? Your neighbors should be able to come to you. They should know, “when I go to so and so’s, they are going to let me in!”

I urge you brethren to be and live like Christ Jesus. Open your home, let it be a welcoming place for the lost. And please make sure, this is a quality that your pastor has. God bless you my brethren and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? And [there was] of the house of Saul a servant whose name [was] Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, [Art] thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant [is he]. And the king said, [Is] there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, [which is] lame on [his] feet. And the king said unto him, Where [is] he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he [is] in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar. Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar. Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant! And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am]? (2 Samuel 9:1-8)

Elijah: Man of prayer

The sermon series on Elijah, dealing with prayer. Taught by Thomas Leake Pastor-Teacher of Hope Bible Church. God bless and enjoy:


ELIJAH MAN OF PRAYER: PART-1 PART-2

Good Audio for you

Here are some good Easter messages for those of you that did not have a church to go to this past Sunday. God bless:

Victory over death by Pastor Thomas Leake

What is it that the death of Christ Produces in the church today:
Denial , Discipline , Duty by Pastor John Coleman

God' Wondrous Grace Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3 by Pastor John Coleman

Jesus Cleanses The Temple

Today's sermon for those who don't have a church or house to meet in. God bless

Jesus Cleanses the Temple by Thomas Leake Pastor-Teacher

The Church, Fellowship, Community from FFF

Here's a message by Pastor Thomas Leake from FFF. It deals with the purpose of the church, fellowship, and community. Enjoy. http://fourthfridayfundamentals.com/fff/media/fff-feb09-church.mp3

Also check out on Sunday night, the Standup Ministry Bible study at 8pm EST on PalTalk.

A Healthy Christian Self Image by Pastor Thomas Leake

Good listen for you guys. How do you view yourself? Enjoy

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Mid-Atlantic Bible Fellowship Conference

For those of you in the Baltimore-Washington DC-Virginia area, come out to the Mid Atlantic Bible Fellowship Equipping the Saints Conference. The Conference subject will be "The Church & Israel in End Time Prophecy!" So you eschatology lovers, come on out. You may also get a chance to see what I look like in person (I will be helping out with registration.) The conference is free, only thing they are charging for is lunch (that's if you choose to eat lunch there). You can register by clicking here: Register

Conference speakers are:

Thomas Leake

Alan Plumley

Joe Babij


Mike Nevarr


Tim Coyle


SCHEDULE:

span>8:30 - 9:00
Check-in & Continental Breakfast


9:00 - 9:15

Welcome, Song and Introduction




9:15 - 10:00




Session I - Pastor Tom Leake


Hermeneutics - The Foundation

of End Times Study




10:00 - 10:15
Break





10:15 - 11:00




Session II - Dr. Alan Plumley

The Dispensations of God’s Plan





11:00 - 11:15
Break





11:15 - 12:00




Session III - Pastor Tim Coyle

The Future of the Church





12:00 - 1:00
Lunch & Fellowship




1:00 - 1:45





Session IV - Pastor Mike Nevarr

The Future of Israel




1:45 - 2:00

Break




2:00 - 2:45




Session V - Pastor Joe Babij


The Millennial Kingdom & Beyond




2:45 - 3:00
Break





3:00 - 3:45




Q&A with Panel of Speakers

Should Women Speak In Church by Pastor Thomas Leake?

I have gone to different blogs, some arguing against women preachers, some arguing for. Whatever the case, Christians, we must wake up and see that the bible is clear on this subject. Many years of arguing on this subject is not necessary due to the fact of many doing eisegesis to a text of scriptures. People use many types of scenarios and added things, which attempt to justify women pastors, bishops, apostles, prophetesses etc etc. I will state this, because it is not biblical:

-Because God called you to preach ladies, doesn’t justify you to as a pastor-teacher

-Because you prayed about ladies, doesn’t justify you to be a pastor-teacher

-Because you think Paul was writing based on the culture, doesn’t justify you as a pastor-teacher -Because you have teaching gifts (even better than the men), doesn’t justify you as a pastor-teacher.

Why Karsten? Why not! Does the bible say for a man to learn in silence? Does the scripture say that a bishop (pastor-teacher) is to be a wife of one husband? Has the scripture shown once God has ever called a woman to teach over men? If so, where? These questions are similar to asking a Preterist to indicate where the bible states that all the things in scripture have been fulfilled in 70 AD. You will not find it. The case for their arguments are on the scriptures that plainly which say what women cannot be. “Let’s argue these scriptures, (really eisegesis), to bring something to a text that is not so.”

We can look at the motivation for this. Why do women want to be pastor-teachers? Why do men and women argue this so much? Is it really that God has changed His mind? Why so much wrestling over this? Why is this a hot topic in this church generation, and not in generations before? Simple:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

As the days continue, soon they may be arguing that Jesus Christ was a woman and they can prove it. Or maybe that Christians can get sex changes according to God’s Word. Or better yet, God is gay in His nature, and approves of homosexuality. Anything to move away from the truth of God’s Holy Word, people will come with an argument, better yet an attack on the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Many men ignore truth, because they don’t like the real God! I have been accused by my close friend of worshipping the bible, and not the God of the bible. But what my friend doesn’t understand is: the only way I can know the Lord Jesus Christ of the bible and worship Him, is through the sound teaching of the Bible (which is the Holy Spirit leading me into all truth). There’s so many lies out here today , the bible is the only Truth that points to the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Sorry, I cannot let down my guard because of something you may struggle with, or a theology you have disagreement with. You study an study to see if your belief is true.

I am placing Thomas Leake, the pastor-teacher of Hope Bible Church message up on this. Hopefully the scriptures expounded will equip you male or female Christians in righteousness. I pray that you are edified and grow up even more in His truth. I love you and thank you for coming to this blog. Now, Thomas Leake, a pastor-teacher of the Lord Jesus Christ

Should Women Speak In Church?

Can Women Be Submissive and Liberated? - 1 Part-2 Part-3

Motivation for Christian Endurance - Pastor Thomas Leake

Here's a message from Pastor Thomas Leake. Endure and Enjoy:

http://hopebiblechurch.org/audio/download/787/12-10-08+Motivation+for+Christian+Endurance.mp3

Praise the Lord O My Soul

Thanksgiving message for you Christians out there. May God richly bless you in Christ Jesus. Solus Christus!!!!

Praise The Lord O My Soul by Pastor Thomas Leake of Hope Bible Church Fulton, MD

Permanence of Love

For those of you struggling with what gifts have ceased or not, this is a good message on 1 Corinthians 13:8-13. Please of course be open minded and examine the scriptures for yourself. God bless

http://hopebiblechurch.org/node/778