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it was never the gospel; that God wanted us to live as if real life started sometime in the future, in a place called heaven and that this life was simply a waiting room until you discover whether you have done enough to get your name on the roll.He never wanted us to live a life becoming with Him, but a life being with Him.Eternal life is not gett…
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Raised With Christ, from becoming to Being.
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The spirit of the world can only say “Could be”The Spirit that comes from God says “IS”.To live filled with “the spirit of this world”, is to live trying to be a Christian.To live filled with the Spirit that comes from God, is to live being a child of God, for the Spirit persuades our spirits that we are the children of God.Session 1 of 3 messages …
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“You cannot thrive in your marriage if you keep going out at weekends acting as if you are single. What would you say to a friend who got married recently but has decided that every weekend he is still going to go out on the town with all his single mates and do everything they do?That is what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church, the New Creati…
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River City Worship from Pentecost Sunday. "I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters"By Phelim Doherty
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Delivered from death, to walk in the life of Christ.
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A life-giving message contrasting the futility of self, with living from the life God breathes into us in Christ. "Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." John 12:24. This message was given in River City Church on Saturday May 28th 2024.…
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All that you see in the heavenlies, has already happened.
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His words have such power, that by the time you hear them, everything He said is already accomplished.By Phelim Doherty
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Called by your married name. Letting it be, according to His Gospel
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To preach the Gospel in the power of the Spirit is to find yourself, much to your own surprise, speaking to what is not, as if it is. Of all the voices that are speaking to you in this world, the voice of God is the only one that does not speak to you according to your natural state.By Phelim Doherty
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Live reconciled. Live from the party, not from the field. Live from His acceptance, not for His acceptance.It is not your job to reconcile yourself to God. God has done that through the man Christ Jesus.By Phelim Doherty
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Let His life do the work. Let His life be done unto you according to His Word to you. Let the power of the Gospel call up in you, His life.By Phelim Doherty
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All who want a Saviour, have a Saviour; Jesus ChristBy Phelim Doherty
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“You cannot carry the weight of trying to save yourself from death. That burden will crush you and steal from you your innocence; the joy and wonder at just being alive. What you need is a Father, who gives you a life greater than death, and so lifts from you the burden of trying to save yourself."By Phelim Doherty
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A conversation with Jeff and Roger Fields on the beauty and power of the Gospel and our journey in understanding that when we dilute down the generosity of God, we take the metanoia out of the message.By Phelim Doherty
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The Power of the Gospel: The Joy of Good News.
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Here is the reckless scandalous gospel in all its glory….God thinks you are worthy of giving His life to.... so He did! That’s not advice. That’s news and news on such a scale as to awaken those dead to God as He truly is, that they may see the true knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.…
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Jesus Christ is God not leaving you to save yourself.
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When you grow up in a world that doesn't believe in a Saviour, such a world can only teach you to be your own saviour.By Phelim Doherty
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If we don’t grow to know Him as the God who loves His enemies, we will never love ours.By Phelim Doherty
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Only when your heart and mine is persuaded that the Father has not left us to save ourselves, will our attempts to save ourselves through our own piety be put to restBy Phelim Doherty
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The God who never left us to save ourselves
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The natural mind, apart from the Holy Spirit, does not have and cannot have a true image of the Father.By Phelim Doherty
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If Christ and His work is not laid as the foundation of our new life, we will continue to put far too much weight on our own performance/obedience as the foundation for our lives. Of course my obedience to God’s direction is important, but what I want to show you this morning is that my obedience is not the foundation of my new life in Christ.…
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Right the way through the Bible, God’s voice calls life into being.But that being, is not being an individual, it is being with God.By Phelim Doherty
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Everything that religion says God demands from you, He has already supplied in Christ.By Phelim Doherty
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Brighter Than The Noonday Sun: Preaching Christ in a Land of Shadows.
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ never leaves you in the shadow of your own performance.By Phelim Doherty
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In heaven, there is no one trying to become anyone, for all have found their being with God. The Kingdom of heaven is not the realm of becoming. It is the realm of being.By Phelim Doherty
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You Tell Me My Name. Made New In The Presence Of God
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We have lost the wonder of the Gospel.By Phelim Doherty
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Raising The Church, from Becoming To Being.
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10 minute excerpt from a talk given to the Ascension Ministries Council of the Apostolic Church UK on "Shifting from Church-centric to Christ-centric discipleship.By Phelim Doherty
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Raised At His Table. From Becoming to Being.
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In the first Adam our life fell, from being to becoming. In the last Adam our life rose, from becoming to being.In Christ our being is in God.By Phelim Doherty
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We preach the riches of God’s mercy and grace and we will keep preaching that until we all are completely healed of grasping for life and see our lives rise, from becoming to being, for the mind of Christ is not a mind trying to become someone, but being someone.By Phelim Doherty
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You Can't Know Who You Are, Until You Know Whose You Are
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The Gospel preached in the power of the Spirit does not to ask people to produce the Christian life, but calls and equips them to participate in the life of God.By Phelim Doherty
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Let Us The Gospel of participation, not production.
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I have spent enough years believing what people believe about me. Now I want to believe what God believes about me. The Gospel is the proclamation of what God believes about you and me and every person we will ever meet and it is good news because The Gospel preached in the power of the Spirit, does not ask men to produce the Christian life, but in…
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The Gospel that calls forth the new creation: Let It Be!
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The reason so many in the nations remain in darkness is that so many in the church live as light salesmen. We preach a gospel that makes promises to people of light, if only they will pay a price. But there is no power in preaching a gospel that points people to their behaviour as their hope of light. There is no power in a gospel that points peopl…
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Singing the scriptures in River City this morning. John 15:13 "Greater love has no man than this, than he lay down his life for his friends.' and 1John 4:19 "We love Him because He first loved us." Thank you Nicola and Joshua.By Phelim Doherty
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Married To Him Who Was Raised From The Dead
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God does not regard salvation as anything less than a living relationship with Him.Grace is not a gift that God gives, so that you can continue living by yourself, because Grace is not a thing, He is a person.Yes grace is a gift, but it is not a thing that you receive like a gift left on your doorstep. Such a gift that is a thing can be a blessing …
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Do Not Say Four More Months. Lift Up Your Eyes
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The gospel is not the news of what might be, if you. It is the news of what is, because He, Christ!• The Gospel is not the proclamation of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that people may partake of that knowledge and then do something about the evil in their lives.• The Gospel is the proclamation of a dream fulfilled, a tree of life, th…
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The gospel is not the promise of the dawn, it is the dawn rising on the darkness.It is not the promise of glory that dispels the darkness, it is the present glory in us, that dispels the present darkness in the world and that is why right now, when the world has never seemed such a dark place, has never been so blinded and deafened by man-made ligh…
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Until you know your true worth to God, you cannot say you know who you are.By Phelim Doherty
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There Is No Such Thing As A Successful Christian
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"I" can never be like God, because God is not an "I".By Phelim Doherty
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Eternal Life Is Not A Reward For Your Best Life
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Countless believers have deferred their hope of salvation to a place one day, rather than a life today. Better days are always coming, but never seem to arrive.To know God as your father today, is to know today the life of His son, the life that is content in all situations, the life that no longer looks at circumstances to see if God is still my f…
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Man-made religion can only present us with a god like us; a god who is never satisfied.By Phelim Doherty
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"God’s not asking you to make your life new, by leaving your past behind, because in Christ, He has already left your past behind! "By Phelim Doherty
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"The best the voice of a manager can do, is tell you who you could become. Only the voice of a Father, can tell you who you are. We have 10,000 managers, but not many fathers!"By Phelim Doherty
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The God Who Ate With Us, When No - One Else Would.
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When you are full of the Spirit of Him who is no longer counting people’s sins against them, you will no longer count their sins against themBy Phelim Doherty
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"So then, no one is to be boasting in people. For all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come; all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.' 1Cor 3:21-23By Phelim Doherty
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f the Gospel your heart has believed has not astonished you, then it was not violent enough to shake the foundation of your old mindset; I. If the foundations of our captivity are not shaken, then there is no lasting freedom.The life you are believing in, is the life you are living.By Phelim Doherty
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Jesus lived in the IS of the eternal life of the Father, Son and Spirit and from there, He called men and women out of the darkness of religion, the world where everything is becoming but nothing is, into this eternal life, this eternal IS, where you are who you are by the grace of God. That is the Christian life, the Christ life.…
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The life of Christ can never be fathered by the fear of rejection.
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He never had a plan to save the world through our obedience.His plan was to save the world through His loveBy Phelim Doherty
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The Forgotten Gospel: Freely you have received, freely give.
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God is not expecting people to come up with repentance and faith in Christ ‘by themselves’, because ‘by themselves’ is the very condition that they are perishing from.By Phelim Doherty
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What would that look like, if we gave the same grace to the stranger, as we do to our own children.By Phelim Doherty
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The Gospel Of God's Grace. Good news, not good advice.
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The Gospel is not good advice, it is good news and there is a profound difference between the two.• Good News is the news of something that has already happened, that benefits me.• Good advice can only be about something that hasn’t happened yet, but might happen, ….if I follow the advice.Can you see then, that • good news leaves your attention on …
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Revival. The 'now is' of the kingdom of God.
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"Hear the voice of the Spirit, to a church waiting for a better day. Do not receive the grace of God in vain, for I heard you. I helped you and I tell you, “now is the time of God's favour, now is the day of salvation. (2Cor 6:2).The Kingdom of God only manifests on this earth, when God’s people operate by the knowledge of what NOW IS, not the know…
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"Don’t let some fiery passionate preacher on repentance, simply lead you back to eat of the self-effort tree, rather than to partake of the Tree of life.How do you know if that is what has been happening in your life?No matter how many times you hear the Gospel, you can’t seem to help hearing it as good advice, not good news."…
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"Doing all the right things is not the way into the right life; God’s life for you. Such a belief has left many people very religious all their lives and yet they have ended up bitter and alone because their faith was actually in what they were doing for God, rather than in what He had done for them. They had been living on good advice, not good ne…
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