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Sunday, 30 May 2010 |
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May 30, 2010: Trinity Sunday
Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines, D. D. / Bishop Richard Coleman Bishop Coleman: I declare to you today that we are victors and not victims… I share with you key realities of what we have learned through walking through this Season. The first key: if redemption has been completed, with the empty cross and the empty tomb, Jesus defeating death, hell, and the grave, then you lack nothing. You have been made complete. You are not missing anything. Second: we are not only joint heirs with Christ, we are heirs of God. Everything that God has is ours, and joint heirs with our Lord Jesus Christ. Third: not only have we been made complete because of redemption, not only have we been given joint sitting, not only have we been given power and authority because of Pentecost, but we have been literally commissioned by Jesus Christ to administer the Kingdom in this world.
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 |
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“He Is Indwelling”
May 23, 2010: Pentecost Sunday
Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines, D. D.
Pentecost marks in our lives the love of God, the commitment of God, saying to us, “I am not going to allow you to fail again. Yes, you failed in the beginning, but now, I have taken care of the sin; I have taken the power of sin – hell, death and the grave. Now I am giving to you My Holy Spirit, to dwell within you that will cause you to rise, to face the issues, to have understanding, and to be taught of the things that you need to be taught. You will not be lacking in anything. You have to trust Him. You have to have that confidence.” God dwells within us through the power of the Holy Spirit, and in so doing, He is giving us a share of His divine life so that we no longer need to succumb to circumstance around us. He gives us the ability as Christ has commanded to love. Not only to love our neighbor as ourselves, but now, He takes it up another notch and says, “Love as I have love you.” On our own, we can’t do this. It is impossible; but the presence of the Holy Spirit within us brings us to that place in life where we are able to live and love as Christ did. (Click Read More to view the transcript of the homily)
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 |
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“He Is Love”
The Seventh Sunday Of Easter – May16, 2010
Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines, D.D.
Five chapters about the Last Supper! How valuable and important is that table? Not just for the Eucharist, but for all the promises, all the provision that God says He will do because the Son has asked of Him. It belongs to you, to me. It is time we rise up and claim what is ours. We cast aside the things that don’t belong to us – the fear, the anxiety, the uncertainty, the insecurity, the jealousies, the bitterness, the divisions, the attacks against one another. We have been given love. In love, there is unity and oneness. We don’t need to worry about what is right and what is wrong, how we stand and fight for what we think is right and what is wrong. That love is in us today. The thing that keeps that love from flowing is fear. The thing that keeps us from walking in that peace, in that assurance is fear, anxiety, uncertainty, insecurity. When you know Him, when you know what He has done, and especially this prayer that He prayed, how can you have anything but peace in your heart? God won’t fail you. (Click Read More to view the transcript of the homily) |
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Sunday, 09 May 2010 |
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“He Is Abiding”
The Sixth Sunday Of Easter – May 9, 2010 Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines, D.D. The presence of the Father with us causes the evil to step back. It causes the darkness to flee because we have brought the presence of Christ dwelling with us because of our obedience to His word...Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep My Word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with Him.” When we begin to keep His words, now the presence of Christ and the presence of the Father will be evident among us because He finds righteousness, credibility, that truthfulness that we keep the word that we speak. (Click Read More to view the transcript of the homily) |
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Sunday, 02 May 2010 |
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“He is Glorified”
May 02, 2010 – The Fifth Sunday of Easter Archbishop Loren Thomas Hines D. D. God sends His Son to become flesh. The Son of Man born – flesh and blood. He lived out His life on this earth as we would live out life as humanity. He became humanity with us. Now comes time for this curse to be broken. Now comes time for the sin to be conquered, for man to be redeemed from the sin. So who is going to the work? Who is going to be the one to pay the price? It is going to be Man, in flesh. It was His flesh that was torn. It was His flesh that was exposed. He was shamed. It was His flesh that was nailed to the cross. He took upon the identity of man. He became one with us so that He could redeem us and set us free. He paid the price. The Son of Man glorified. It was flesh that was glorified. This that Christ did, in the flesh, now brings glory to God. This is out of Scriptures, not mine. “The Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.” He brings glory by His act; the flesh now responds to God. Flesh now comes back to Him and brings glory to the Father to what it did. No other one could do this. There was no other one that could pay its price, and that could cause to this event to be fulfilled. “The Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.” (Click Read More to view the transcript of the homily)
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