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Monday, June 15, 2009

Aquila and Priscilla: A Team for Jesus!

Acts 18:2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. Act 18:3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tent makers.
Acts 18:18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Romans 16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
2 Timothy 4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

In the Bible there are many accounts of this famous couple working together for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They worked and laboured in the Gospel along side each other and alongside the Apostle Paul. They are always mentioned together in Scripture. You do not find one without the other mentioned. They worked together in the natural and in the Spiritual. If married couples today would realize that Jesus put them together for the same kind of ministry, then there would be less dissatisfaction in the home life and the church life. The Apostle Paul did not have a wife. He may have had one in the past before he became an Apostle, because we know he was part of the Sanhedrin, and they were required to be married, but we do not see him in Scripture having a wife. We have many friends in ministry who have great callings of Jesus.
It really encourages me to see them working together in the Gospel. It is a sad thing when only one Partner feels a call to the ministry when both are put together by Jesus for a specific purpose. It means they do not understand that each were given to the other by Jesus for His purpose. I so many times see the wife not feeling a part of the ministry. She is often left out or cast aside while the husband goes out to minister alone. Many times women feel like they are not the one called but He is.That is very far from the truth. If she were not called, then she would not be the one married to the man who is preaching. Maybe she is a teacher or a minister of music. It is possible that she is called to be his administrative assistant etc. We all have a place in the Church of Jesus Christ. The problem is that we have the denominational mentality such as the Baptist or Catholic or Church of Christ denominational background teachings as strongholds and the enemy is using them to keep couples who are called by Jesus from fulfilling their potential in the field that Jesus has called them into.
We cannot use having babies as an excuse. I preached pregnant as did many other Apostolic ladies. I took my nursing babies into the prayer room with me. I have pulled
over in the car many times to comfort a fussy baby coming back from a revival in another city. I was helping plant an outreach church once and my daughter Stephanie would come up in her walker right in front of the pulpit when I was preaching to listen to my voice. We cannot use children for an excuse when the real truth is WE DON"T WANT TO OBEY JESUS! Sister Nona Freeman took her babies to South Africa and still put up tents and preached to the villagers. Sister Alvear down in the nation of Brazil works right along side her husband planting churches and doing the gospel work. One couple went up into Nova Scotia. They had so much church work to do that he pastored one work while she pastored the other just across the border.They did not have enough pastors to go around and someone had to lead the group until a Pastor rose up or came to help them. We have to do what we can for Jesus. I tell my children at home that we should hurry and get all our work done on Saturday afternoon before dark preparing for our Sunday of rest and ministry. The Scripture that speaks of working before the night cometh where no man can work always comes to mind. We need to get together in our own households and families before we are able to teach others or we do not qualify for the work of Jesus.
I waited for years for the ministry Dr.Klein and I have together. I am very thankful for it. I don't expect to see him running off to to teach without me as his Partner, nor am I running off to preach without him as mine. We are a team as Aquila and Priscilla were, we and plan to keep it that way.
In Jesus,
Dana Klein

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Worship Divine Jesus

Jesus is both G-d and man. He is 100% G-d. He is 100% man.

I may understand the issues of Judaism and Islam in not wanting to worship Jesus, a man as G-d. I have studied the theologies of both, being a Jew and studying at an Islamic Institute.

One must look at all the Scriptures not just the ones that support your pet theology.

“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 (To me, this is simply teaching that G-d is not a liar like man.)

“And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.” 1 Samuel 15:29

“Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,” Deuteronomy 4:16 (Jesus is not a graven image. No Christian should be making images of Jesus!)

G-d in flesh or in the form of a man in the Tanach - Old Covenant:

"And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;" Genesis 18:1 KJV
Gen 18:1 "And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day." Jay Green's Literal Translation

Judaism teaches that in Genesis 18 three angels came to visit Abraham shortly after his circumcision. Is this visit months after his circumcision? Would Abraham 'run' after his recent circumcision, Genesis 18:2? This is G-d in flesh or human form visiting Abraham according to these Scriptures.

"And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness." Exodus 24:10

"And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen." Exodus 33:23

"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them." Exodus 6:3

"And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left." 1 Kings 22:19

Tanach - Old Covenant
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:" Jeremiah 31:31

In Yeshua,
Bruce 'Baruch' Klein - Messianic Jew
MA in Islamic Studies

http://brobruce.blogspot.com/

PS. A perversion of the teaching of G-d is the trinity. It is taught by Roman Catholics thus Protestants. The Biblical reality is that G-d manifests Himself in at least 3 ways. Jehovah is G-d's name in the Tanach. His new revealed name is Jesus.

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