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“The student of the New Testament is constantly made aware that he is moving in a Roman world,”2 and awareness of the Roman environment is the first step toward understanding its significance and influence on the second volume of Luke’s magnum opus and on the life of Paul. By providing the serious Bible student a primer of [continue reading…]
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by Jim Kerwin
Every time there is a “first” in the Scriptures, it is good to take note of it, because often the Holy Spirit is laying down a special foundation, or principle, or doctrine. I believe this is true in the case of Jesus’ first recorded sermon, which is found in Luke chapter 4.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me
because He anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor.
He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives,
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free those who are oppressed,
19to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”
Part of what I teach leaders when I come to Latin America is the importance of context when they are reading and studying and teaching and preaching God’s word. The two most important points are these:
Let’s think about the context of Jesus’ message in Luke 4. In the previous chapter, Luke 3, Jesus was water-baptized by John; immediately the Spirit of the Lord [continue reading…]
In our in-depth Bible study in the Gospel of Matthew, Pastor Jim Kerwin
of Finest of the Wheat Teaching Fellowship looks at Jesus’ commissioning
of the Twelve Apostles in
Matthew 10
and what the Lord warned them about
The Cost
of Doing Kingdom Business.
Pastor Jim Kerwin finishes up his series called The John the Baptist Experience
by exploring the fear of God and how the Holy Spirit uses it to prepare our hearts for the coming
of Jesus.
(Notes used during the live Bible study can be downloaded
here.)
The Scriptures say that God created Man in His own image. That truth plays a key role
in understanding the importance of repentance, as you’ll hear in this fifth message
of the series, The John the Baptist Experience, taught by Pastor Jim Kerwin.
(Notes used during the live Bible study can be downloaded
here.)
In Pastor Jim’s careful exploration of “The John the Baptist Experience,”
we find that the Scriptures teach us a surprising truth—that God’s moral law
is part and parcel of proclaiming the uncompromised and uncompromising New Testament Gospel.
(Notes used during the live Bible study can be downloaded
here.)
Pastor Jim continues exploring Matthew chapter 3 and the “The John the Baptist Experience” by focusing on the New Testament’s
consistent theme of true and deep repentance. (Notes used during the live Bible study can be downloaded
here.)
As we consider the “John the Baptist Experience,” it is important to understand
the prophecies about John in Isaiah and Malachi. Pastor Jim Kerwin continues a multi-week
Bible study on John the Baptist as he continues teaching through the Gospel of Matthew.
(Notes used during the live Bible study can be
downloaded here.)
Why did John the Baptist need to prepare the way for Jesus and His ministry? And if a
“John the Baptist experience” had to precede Jesus’ first coming, is such an
experience necessary before He can return a second time? Before He can truly come to an
individual? A church? The Church? Pastor Jim Kerwin looks at all
of these questions in the first part of a multi-week series in Matthew’s Gospel, chapter
3. (Notes used during the live Bible study can be
downloaded here.)
A careful reading of the Crucifixion accounts in all four Gospel accounts reveals that Jesus
spoke from the Cross seven times. What were those words and why are they significant to us as
Christians? Jim Kerwin introduces those brief, poignant, revealing utterances of the dying Savior.
The Rejected Blessing
is now available in small-book form from
Revival Classics.
Ray Greenley, pastor of National Prayer Chapel and host of Living
Water Radio, interviews Bible teacher and historian Jim Kerwin, author of
The Rejected Blessing.
Their discussion explores some aspects of the Azusa Street Revival, the heart-preparation work
God laid as groundwork for that revival, and what God must do in His people
before He can send another great outpouring. (Posted here on Finest of the Wheat with the
permission of LivingWaterRadio.com and National Prayer Chapel.)
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Why did the Apostle John refer to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”
(John 21:20)?
And how does our understanding of God’s love affect our faith? Jim Kerwin explores these
questions, providing some helpful answers for those who are seeking God for sanctification.
History, properly pursued, brings the past alive. Biography, properly pursued, can bring a historical figure
to life. Pastor Jim Kerwin has been researching the life of American Holiness Movement leader
Isaiah Reid for over five years. Steeped in Reid’s life story, theology, writings,
and personality, Jim was given the opportunity to “put on” the historical persona of his subject
and address six sessions of the 2010 camp meeting of the
Iowa Holiness Association (IHA).
Listen to
as the IHA’s founder shares his insights with his beloved association for the first time in 99 years…
Jesus gives us good counsel about how to pray, and part of that counsel in
Luke 11:5-13
is to be a persistent “pain in the neck” if necessary. Jim Kerwin looks at importunity
(“being a pain in the neck”) and also deals with another question: “What happens
when you seem to get the opposite answer from the thing you asked?”
Nikolai Bodarevsky's painting of St. Paul on trial before Festus, King Agrippa II and Berenice
What is “the acceptable year of the 
