Bethesda Shalom

Bible Prophecy (Pt.2) When we hear the phrase, “Israel, the birth of a nation”; our minds quite naturally are cast back to just over 65 years ago to 1948, when the Jewish people against all possible odds, miraculously defied the systematic state sponsored genocide of Hitler to wipe them off the face the earth and became a united nation again back in the land of Israel after some nearly 2000 years of exile.  However, the real birth of that nation began not in the 20th century AD, but rather some 4000 years ago in the 21nd century BC, when God called a heathen man by the name of Abraham out from his homeland in Babylon to journey to a new land that God was yet to reveal to him; that from him a nation from him might be born! Perhaps one of the most fascinating themes relating to Bible prophecy is where it concerns this tiny nation; a strip of land around the same area size of Wales!!  Yet, Israel’s past, present and future is miraculously contained within the pages of the Holy Bible!!  In this teaching we seek t

Bible Prophecy (Pt.1) Without question, one of the foremost claims to the Bible being the Inspired Word of God is prophecy.  A staggering 27% of the whole Bible is prophetic in nature!   “People are named before birth; kingdoms are outlined before their historical existence; battles are described before occurring, and personal destinies are delineated before the persons themselves are born…” -Bernard M. Ramm, Protestant Christian Evidences God goes down on record; it is written and if it does not come to pass then the Bible is relegated to being a false book and we certainly have no confidence putting our faith in it.  In this first part of a teaching series looking at Bible prophecy, we introduce this fascinating subject and take a look at a prophecy given some 2700 years ago by a Hebrew prophet called Isaiah relating to a nation by the name of Israel and a heathen King by the name of Cyrus.  What you will discover and are about to hear will literally take your breath away and is only one of the many hundred

Matthew 18:21:35 Paul Williams is a Pastor at Temple Baptist Church, Wolverhampton.  He delivers a very sobering and informative sermon looking at the consequences of failing to forgive others when offended.  He asks three fundamental and heart searching questions:  Why should we forgive; what are the consequences if we don't forgive; and how we should forgive?  I trust that this sermon will both instruct and challenge you in this most crucial area of forgiveness.  The bottom line is this…if our horizontal relationship is out of shape, so will be our vertical one also!!

Proverbs 24:30-34 There is not a day that goes by that we are not required to take our place on the battlefield!  The flesh, the world and the devil are our avowed enemies, bent on our destruction!!  All around, I see the multitudes of casualties scattered across the mountains, strewn across the hills.  An urgent and pressing call sounds forth in this sermon, exhorting the Church of Jesus Christ to fight!!  Oh! How so many are tiring, turning aside to take their ease, a little sleep, a little slumber; tiring in the fight.  Dear soul, this is no time to be idle, no time to be passive; no longer is it acceptable to say everything will be okay!!  We are in a war!! Fight we must; battle we shall…to your station soldier of Christ and take your place in the battle for victory!!  

Session 4 of 4 In this final part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates that the Emergent Church through its many spiritual disciplines and exercises that are rooted in Roman Catholic mysticism are not only taking many misled Christians back to Rome but are in fact preparing people for the final end-times spiritual deception in preparation for the coming Antichrist.  The road to Rome is ultimately the road to Babylon!!   This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Roger Oakland, visit:  http://www.understandthetimes.org  

Session 3 of 4 In this third part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates the dangers of the Emergent Church, which claims to be emerging in these last days to meet the needs of a post-modern generation.  Rather than focussing on narrow doctrine, this new movement focusses instead on experience; but the many spiritual disciplines and exercises that it promotes and practises are rooted in Roman Catholic mysticism and are taking many that are being misled back to Rome!!   This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Roger Oakland, visit:  http://www.understandthetimes.org  

Session 2 of 4 In this second part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates that what many within the Evangelical Church are calling the Holy Spirit is in fact not the Holy Spirit of the Bible but another Spirit that is leading people back to the Roman Catholic Church.  You will be informed, warned and equipped during the course of this teaching so as not to be deceived.  We are exhorted in John’s first epistle to test the spirits and failure to do so this last hour is the reason why so many are accepting anything and everything to their own soul’s peril!! This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Roger Oakland, visit:  http://www.understandthetimes.org

Session 1 of 4 In this first part, Roger comprehensively and very competently demonstrates that the Roman Catholic Jesus is in fact not the Jesus of the Bible but another Jesus, namely the Eucharistic Jesus.  You will be informed, warned and equipped during the course of this teaching so as not to be deceived.  The New Evangelisation program of the Roman Catholic Church is a program that leads one not to the Jesus of the Bible but to instead to Rome!! This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Roger Oakland, visit:  http://www.understandthetimes.org  

Alan shares very powerfully his hearts burden for prayer.  He shares many testimonies of that I'm sure will stir your hearts and provoke you to seek the Lord in prayer in this desperate and needy hour!! This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk

Harold brings a very practical, challenging and heart searching message regarding the sin of unforgiveness.  The long and short of it is, are our hearts clear towards those who have offended us?  That offences will come is absolutely certain, both from within the Body of Christ and without.  The question at hand is; what will we chose to do with those offences and with those through whom the offences come? This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Harold Vaughan, visit:  http://www.christlifemin.org  

Paul shares a very passionate plea, calling believers in Christ to love one another.  In an age of apostasy where Christians are earnestly contending for the faith, it is very easy to give place to offence and allow the love of God to grow cold in your heart.  This message will stir and challenge your heart to rekindle your first love!!  This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Paul M. Williams, visit:  http://www.bethesdashalom.org  

Alan brings a very practical message to encourage the body of Christ in times of difficulty and need.  Are you feeling pressed down and struggling to see past a certain difficulty that has come upon you, then this message will certainly lift up your eyes towards the Saviour and bring hope into your situation. This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk  

In this message, Harold brings an urgent call for the Church to rediscover the awesome fear of the Lord in a generation where by and large, the fear of God is non-existent! This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Harold Vaughan, visit:  http://www.christlifemin.org

In the day and age where so much division exists in the Body of Christ, particularly over secondary matters of doctrine, pride and offence; a powerful exhortation is delivered by Paul calling the Body of Christ to unity in obedience to the high priestly prayer of Jesus Christ as found in John Chapter 17.  Whilst the wold calls for a false unity, our prayer is that the true Bride of Christ would again cry out for true unity!!   This message is part of The Sanctuary Conference 2015.  For information about future conferences please visit: http://www.sanctuaryconference.co.uk For more messages and teachings by Paul M. Williams, visit:  http://www.bethesdashalom.org

1 Samuel 17:1-54 Behold the specimen of a man...Goliath of Gath, the champion of the Philistines!!  For 40 days, morning and evening, this ferocious giant challenged the armies of Israel to put forward a man to fight him.  Fear gripped the armies of Israel as they looked upon Goliath's huge and menacing stature, concluding in the natural that there was no hope!!  Dear Christian, what is the Goliath in your life?  Will you not trust the Lord to give you the victory over this fearsome foe?  See the shepherd boy David who by courageous faith in his God, brought the fight to this Philistine and took his head off!!   This message is an exhortation for Christians to overcome the Goliath in their life.  Say not, I am weak and have no power; say not that the foe is too strong…who will set their eyes to the LORD of hosts and prove their God in the hour of conflict?  I trust that we might be found such ones!!   

John 1:43-47 Our Lord said of Nathaniel..."Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!  He who searches the hearts of men and tries the inner most thoughts and intentions could say of this man that he was the genuine article and not a fake.  I wonder...could Christ say such words of you and I; "Behold a Christian indeed, in whom is no deceit"?  The missing ingredient and the root cause of so many living double lives today is that they are not REAL before the only one we CANNOT fool - God.  Dear soul, when we try to hide our sin from God, it shows that there is no fear of God in our lives! This message is a passionate plea for all God's people to come out of the dark and into the light.  "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy" (Prov. 28:13).

Romans 1:13-16 In the day and age in which we live, an ascending cry is being heard, sounding forth from those dissatisfied with the old paths.  It is a cry for the "new"; change has become the buzz word of our day, out with the old and in with the new!!  Society fueled by the Western media now prides itself that it is at last emerging from the puritanical and bigoted age of Victorianism, to a new liberalism without moral absolutes, where man is now free to make up his own morality.  No longer is it popular to talk about sin, no longer is it acceptable to hold and promote a moral worldview based upon the Word of God; there is simply no stomach for it!   Sadly, in an effort to reach this post-modern generation the Church has changed and adapted its message; the gospel is out and clever methodologies are in.  Dear brethren, we must resist such a temptation, Paul said that he was not ashamed of the gospel for he know that it was the power of God unto salvation.  Paul determined to know only one thing among a peo

Joshua 24:13-15 Brethren, we are living in unprecedented times; all around us, to our left and right, before and behind lies the world with all of its lures and attractions.  To be a Christian in this generation, in this hour, in this location calls for a special effort on our part and a single-mindedness birthed out of a conviction that though living in the world, we are not going to be of this world!  The missing ingredient in Western Christianity is sanctification!!  We are called by God to be saints "holy ones".  God is indeed seeking a last days people, even calling forth in our day such a people, who might have written across their lives like the High Priest of Israel had engraved across his forehead, "HOLINESS TO THE LORD".   Its high time that we rise up to be the people God has called us to be and to put away from our midst the strange gods and to incline our heart fully unto the Lord God of Israel!!  May God give us the grace to so do!

Luke 1:80 "Only one life, 'twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last.  And when I am dying, how happy I'll be, if the lamp of my life has been burned out for Thee".  The words of C.T Studd still live on and continue to speak to the depths of our hearts!  Brethren, I believe with all my heart that God is doing a work in these last days in preparing a people for Christian service.  It is not a work done in the open but one done in obscurity in the wilderness.  "...the child...was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel" (Lk. 1:80).  Is God doing such a preparation in your life and heart?  A preparation for service?  Oh! that the cry of our hearts might be that He might get the glory of our lives this side of eternity!!!  A prophet is not  born in a day!  Those who God uses, He first prepares and trains for service.  Who will lay aside their own business to seek's the Father's?   Who is willing to be brought into that place of obscurity and there to lay hold on God in the secret pl

Psalm 27 Jim Cottington Pastors a Church in West Sussex and is a council elder for Christian Ministerial Fellowship International (CMFI).  In this sermon, Jim gives great encouragement and an exhortation to believers to stand fast and firm in the last days in which we find ourselves.  May the Lord minister to you through this sermon and provoke your heart to seek His face of the Lord in these difficult times!  Be encouraged dear Saints!!