Pastor Ray Bentley Of Maranatha Chapel

Are we in God's plan? Pastor Ray Bentley says it may be more accurate to say God's plan is in us. We are not merely spectators to the spiritual things and revelations of God. We are active participants in the drama of God's amazing and eternal love. From the very beginning, God's desire was that he might live eternally within us, spreading disease out of his people, coming down before the King.

Does God really love us? How do we know? Pastor Ray Bentley answers. I want you to know this God doesn't seek to prove his love for you and me except in this one place. And it's sufficient. It is sufficient that you never have to doubt his love again for the rest of eternity. And that one place and that one act and that one event is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross 2000 years ago.

God is love. We know that's true. The Bible tells us so. But today, pastor Ray Bentley clarifies. Love does not define God, but God defines love. Who God is in his character and his nature and his holiness and his spirit and and his light and his presence. He is the one who defines what love is and what true love is spread.

Pastor Ray Bentley warns us to be on the lookout for false prophets. How can you tell a false prophet it comes down to this. What is there witness or testimony of Jesus Christ? And secondly, what is the fruit of their ministry? And especially, let me say beware when someone says, hey, look, you know, the Bible is hard to understand and in fact, it's better that you don't read the Bible for yourself.

Sacrificial love. Pastor Ray Bentley points to the best example Love is Jesus, who I am sure would have preferred not to have nails pounded into his flesh and nailed to a tree to save you and me. But he did it, and he made the choice to do it, even sweating great drops of blood because it was the right thing to do and the loving thing to do.

Today, pastor Ray Bentley points out, love that doesn't affect our actions may not be real love. If you see a brother in Christ who is in need and you don't help him, oh, I just feel awful about those people. Well, you're, you know, sharing your words and you're having this great feeling inside of you. But that's not love.

What does it take to be a true disciple of the Lord? Pastor Ray Bartley says it comes down to love. Love for God. Love for others. Discipleship is very simple. It's not complicated. It's not. You know, you have to be a brain to figure it out. It is very simple. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

What does it take to be a true disciple of the Lord? Pastor Ray Bartley says it comes down to love. Love for God. Love for others. Discipleship is very simple. It's not complicated. It's not. You know, you have to be a brain to figure it out. It is very simple. Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

The world and its lures can carry us away from God. Pastor Ray Bentley says God is waiting for real revival to stir our hearts. Genuine revival is when your heart changes, when you have an awakening and you realize it. What am I doing? My dad loves me. He wants to bless me. I'm doing. Knucklehead. Won't you sit down?

There's nothing in you that made God love you. Everything has to do with God. It's all in him. It's who he is. Secondly, there's nothing you can do. All your performance to make him love you more than he already does. Pastor Ray Bentley helps us understand agape, the kind of divine love that reaches us in spite of our humanness.

Pastor Ray Bentley clarifies the dual dimension of the life Christ offers. Eternal life is not only a duration of living forever, it's a quality of life that you can experience and feel and know here and now. So this is something that's immediate. If you are abiding in Jesus, you will begin experiencing more about eternal life here and now.

Pastor Ray Bentley takes us to First John for an important message in the last hours of the last days. We are living in an hour of crisis, and what John is writing this letter about is that believers must be on guard against the attacks of the enemy. And the last hour actually began in John's day. After the last hour started 2000 years ago.

Some choose not to follow Jesus. Today, pastor Ray Bentley answers their objections. There are many people who say the world, all that spiritual stuff, it's so hard. Yeah, it is, but it's not complicated. It's simple. It's just hard to do. But it's worth it and eternally worth it all. The world will never change. It will always be here.

Worldliness is not a matter of how much money you make or how many things you have. It's a matter of what your heart is actually in love with and what you are attached to. Pastor Ray Bentley points out, A heavenly perspective takes us to the bounty of God's blessings. The future is even better than what you've had up until now, and everything that God has blessed you with up until now has been merely preparation for the great blessings he has in store for you tomorrow.

Sin. A short word with long consequences today on Maranatha Radio. Pastor Ray Bentley helps us recognize its danger. Here's some words that describe what sin does to us. It destroys lives. It's misery. It's poison. The other thing to notice is that sins have separated you from God. And when we are cut off from him, something dies and shrivels within us.

Today, pastor Ray Bentley says First John is a book that encourages us but also holds us accountable. We need to know and understand that the Book of First John is a book of proofs. It isn't so much what I say, it's what I do. I can say one thing and do another. So what I say only carries so much weight.

Coming up today, pastor Ray Bentley reminds us of the primary job description of believers to display the love of God. What is love? To put it simply, love is to put others before ourselves. That's what love is. The world's idea of love is the world and universe revolves around me. And that's not love. That is selfishness. Love is when I put others needs first spread.

One an example of how to live the Christian life. Pastor Ray Bentley says, Look to Jesus. We can live the life that Jesus lived. He is a model for us. Think of the way Jesus lived. That's our example. That's our model of human life. You say, well, yeah, but he's a messiah and he's God. And. No, no, no.

Jesus paid the price for our sins. Pastor Ray Bentley explains the deeper meaning. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. In a sense, do you know what I think that is saying to us is that when we go and stand before God, there's really only one sin that would separate you from God. The only sin that would separate you from God is if you rejected him, refuse his offer of love to cover you with his grace and his mercy, and wrap him with his own spirit.

Pastor Ray Bentley says, we all have a choice about our personal walk of faith. When you walk in the light and have fellowship with God, you have more joy and peace and love and all the fruits of the spirit. You turn your back on God. You dive into the darkness. You're going to be the opposite of love and the opposite of peace.