Weekly Message 8-7-2023
This month’s key word is ENCOURAGEMENT!
Author: CLG
Weekly Message 7-31-2023
This month’s key word is HOPE. This week message discusses: Hope for the Third-Day Generation!
Weekly Message 7-24-2023
Church of the Living God
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Jewell Dominion
Weekly Message from General Chief Overseer Bishop Dr. Calvin Worthem
Date: 07/24/2023
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to Him be the Glory, Power, and Dominion forever and ever and to the Holy Ghost that is yet abiding in the body. This month’s key word is HOPE. This week’s message discusses: A Living Hope.
What is living hope? Living hope is a hope that is alive and present in our lives. It is a hope that is real, something that we can have faith and trust in as we navigate life’s unknowns. In 1 Peter 1:4, Peter describes hope as an inheritance that endures: “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you”. We have an inheritance that is imperishable and secure. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we have been given new life and a place in God’s Kingdom. This inheritance and promise are not things that will disappear, but things that will endure and remain with us always. In His great mercy, God has given us an inheritance that is eternal and secure, a gift that can never be taken away.
The Bible is filled with promises and blessings for those who believe with respect to their inheritance. These promises and blessings are powerful. They are as follows:
- It is described as a glorious and magnificent event. (Matthew 24:27)
- It is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. (Matthew 26:64)
- It is the resurrection of believers who have died. (1 Corinthians 15:20)
- It is the rapture of living believers. (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
- It is the judgment of the living and the dead. (2 Corinthians 5:10)
- The establishment of God’s eternal kingdom. (Revelation 11:15)
- The restoration and renewal of creation. (Romans 8:28)
- Reunion with loved ones who have gone before us. (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
- Eternal joy, celebration, and fellowship with God and believers. (Revelation 21:3)
- Perfect and sinless state in heaven. (Revelation 21:27)
- Eternal presence of God. (Revelation 21:3)
- Absence of pain, sorrow, and suffering. (Revelation 21:4)
- Devine reward for faithful believers. (Matthew 6:20)
- Reigning with Christ in heaven. (2 Timothy 2:12)
- Perfect communion with God. (1 Corinthians 13:12 and Revelation 22:4)
- Fellowship with saints and angels. (Hebrews 12:22)
- Complete and everlasting peace in heaven. (Isaiah 65:25)
In closing, God has an infinite number of blessings in store for those who love Him. In 1 Corinthians 2:9. God reminds us that, “…, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him”. Our living hope is found in the return of Jesus Christ. It is Friday. Peter is asleep. Judas has betrayed Him. Mary is crying. A soldier stands guard. A rock is rolled into place. But Sunday is coming! Sunday is here. He is risen! Until next week, remember, “… with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).”
In His Service,
Bishop Dr. Calvin Worthem
General Chief Overseer/Senior Bishop
Weekly Message 7-17-2023
This month’s key word is HOPE. This week’s message discusses: How we can have Hope when everything looks hopeless?
Weekly Message 7-10-2023
This month’s key word is HOPE. This
week message discusses three key reasons for hope and what hope does for mankind.
Weekly Message 7-3-2023
Church of the Living God
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Jewell Dominion
Weekly Message from General Chief Overseer Bishop Dr. Calvin Worthem
Date: 07/03/2023
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to Him be the Glory, Power, and Dominion forever and ever and to the Holy Ghost that is yet abiding in the body. This month’s key word is HOPE.
What is hope? The biblical definition of hope is an expectation with certainty that God will do what He has said he would do. Hebrews 11:1 tells us, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”. Our hope should be based on the fact of who God is. “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil” (Hebrews 6:17-19). Hence, in spite of what we see; in spite of what is going on; in spite of how the situation looks, we have hope because God cannot lie.
GOD GIVES US 7 PROMISES OF HOPE.
- The Hope of God’s Provision: Matthew 6:31-32; Philippians 4:19
- The Hope of God’s Presence: Deuteronomy 31:6
- The Hope of God’s Protection: Psalms 119:114; Psalms 27:1,5
- The Hope of Eternal Life: Titus 1:1-2
- The Hope of Christ’s Return: Titus 2:11-13
- The Hope of Inheritance: 1 Peter 1:3-4
- The Hope of Answered Prayer: 1 John 5:14-15
In closing, hope is one of the greatest gifts God has given us. His 7 promises of hope are designed to inspire hope within us. Hope gives us the ability to look at any situation and know that regardless of how it may appear, God is going to come through. First Corinthians 15:19 tells, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ…”. My brothers and sisters if we remove the element of hope we will discover that our joy, enthusiasm, peace, focus, motivation, and everything attached to our walk with God will be removed. That is why we cannot lose hope. God is the God of hope, Christ is the hope of Glory, and the Holy Spirit is the one who births hope in us. Romans 15:13 says, “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost”. Until next week, remember, “… with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).
In His Service,
Bishop Dr. Calvin Worthem
General Chief Overseer/Senior Bishop
Weekly Message 6-12-2023
Church of the Living God
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Jewell Dominion
Weekly Message from General Chief Overseer Bishop Dr. Calvin Worthem
Date: 06/12/2023
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to Him be the Glory, Power, and Dominion forever and ever and to the Holy Ghost that is yet abiding in the body. This week’s phrase is “Faith in Focusing on Eternal Life.”
Faith comes from hearing God’s Word (Romans 10:17). If we don’t hear that Jesus came to bring us back into an intimate relationship with God, then we won’t have faith for that and we won’t experience it. There are many people who have come to the Lord and received the forgiveness of their sins, but they are saved and stuck. They are just waiting for heaven so they can really start living. They are missing the main point of salvation. If there was no afterlife, if there was no heaven or hell, John 3:16 reveals that Jesus would still have come and died for our sins so we could once again have an intimate relationship with Him and His Father, in this present evil world. Galatians 1:4 reads, “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father…”.
This was one of the main differences between the first-century church and our modern church. Those people knew God intimately. They had a relationship with the Lord that wasn’t waiting to start in heaven, but was working in them while they were still in this world. They didn’t have the advantages of radio, television, internet, or any other modern means of communication. Yet, these believers turned the known world upside down with the truths of the Gospel in just thirty years. Acts 17:6 tells us, “And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also…”. They impacted their world much more than we are impacting our world today. Why?
Because they had such a depth of relationship with a Living God that it was contagious. In Rome, Christians knew their God so intimately that they sang His praises as they were burned at the stake. There are historical accounts of Nero the emperor sticking his fingers in his ears and saying, “Why must these Christians sing?” They had much more than a doctrine and a hope, they had faith. Their faith gave them a present-tense relationship that allowed them to endure with joy, terrible atrocities. There are historical accounts of Romans, when witnessing the joy of these Christians who were being martyred, jumping out of the stands and rushing to them. They knew they would be doomed to the same fate, but they willingly accepted death so they could know God in the same close, intimate, and personal way as these Christians.
In closing, Let me ask this question. How many people do you know that would die to have what you have? Do you know someone who is envious of your relationship with God? If there is no one, then you are not experiencing eternal life as the Bible describes it and as our Lord Jesus Christ died to give us. In fact, if this isn’t your experience, you are not really living. This is what drove the Apostle Paul and all the early Christians. “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death” Philippians 3:10. It’s all about having a personal, intimate relationship with the Lord. And the good news is that our Lord wants us to have this more than some of us do. Until next week let us remember, “… with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).
In His Service,
Bishop Dr. Calvin Worthem
General Chief Overseer/Senior Bishop
Message from First Lady Worthem – 6/10/2023
Church of the Living God The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Which He Purchased With His Own Blood, Inc. Jewell Dominion Message from the Desk of First Lady Deaconess Linda Worthem Date: June 11, 2023 Greetings my brother and sisters in the name …
