Messages That Matter By Dr. Andrew Corbett

Throughout the times that backdrop most of the Old Testament, the nations that surrounded Israel conceived of a world in which there were gods that ruled over a nation or territory. Several of these territorial deities are named in the Old Testament - Ba’al, Dagon, Molech, Rimmon, Nebo, Bel, Marduk, and Azazel, for example. But the God of the Bible, Yahweh (“Yar-way”) refused to be thought of as a mere territorial god! Yet, despite His constant revelation to His covenant people, the Hebrews, even they could not conceive of their God as being any greater than the conception of gods by the surrounding nations. Ultimately this wrong theology would lead to Israel’s demise time and time again. Then, what the Middle-Eastern Lutheran theologian, Dr. Munther Isaac, calls “the Jesus Event” happened! And once-and-for-all from that time on, no-one could ever be excused for conceiving of the God of the Bible as anything less than the GOD of all Heaven and all Earth!

Charles Spurgeon said that the Lordship of Jesus was one the topic that every preacher loved to talk about but it was also the one topic that every preacher was incapable of expressing adequately. Tim Keller said that a preacher should talk about the message of hope to be found in Jesus as though those sceptics listening to it would say, “Wouldn’t it be great if that was true!” And that’s the Good News about this story about Jesus - it is true!

Throughout the Old Testament, God made certain promises to the patriarchs (Abraham, Issac, and Jacob/Israel) that their descendants, the nation of Israel, longed to see fulfilled. These promises centred on having a holy Homeland and a Messiah. Over the centuries that followed their expulsion from their Land which sent them into exile into Babylon initially and then into Persia, the Israelites became known as Jews. Their expectations of how these divine promises would be fulfilled then became greatly embellished with the promise of a homeland being interpretted to mean that the Romans would be overthrown and expelled out of ‘their’ land, by the promised messiah who would then have to be a powerful military commander. These embellished expectations then gave rise to the Jewish sect known as the Zealots; and, prior to the Zealots it led various other unsuccessful Jewish revolts. But when the messiah actually appeared, He was not the military commander that the Jews were expecting. How could this carpenter’s son

The Lordship of Jesus Christ - Part 3 by Dr. Andrew Corbett

The Lordship of Jesus Christ - Part 2 by Dr. Andrew Corbett

HG Wells said, "You can always tell the impact of a historical figure like you can measure the size of a passing boat by the size of the wake that it leaves on the shore - and no other person in history has left a bigger wake than Jesus Christ!" This is an introduction by Dr. Andrew Corbett about who Jesus was.

The Apostle Paul concludes his Epistle to the Galatians by "boasting in the cross" of Christ. His Epistle concludes with an injunction to be part of God’s new family - the church, the "Israel of God."

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 13: Do Good To Everyone by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 12: Walk in the Spirit by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 11: For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians was his first 'church epistle' and ended up literally changing the world. In it he rebuts the false teachers who were teaching that salvation was a mix of faith in Christ plus our good works.

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 9: Breaking the Bondage of False Religion by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 8: We Have Received Adoption by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 7: Set Free From Sin's Prison by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 6: Hearing With Faith by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, Part 5: Confronting Hypocrisy by Dr. Andrew Corbett

To say that the Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Galatians has changed the course of human history is to make one of the biggest understatements any Biblical scholar could make! The contents of Galatians have literally changed the world - at least measured by the impact of the Protestant Reformation. In this video we introduce this important epistle.

To say that the Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Galatians has changed the course of human history is to make one of the biggest understatements any Biblical scholar could make! The contents of Galatians have literally changed the world - at least measured by the impact of the Protestant Reformation. In this video we introduce this important epistle.

Galatians Part 2: A Different Gospel by Dr. Andrew Corbett

Galatians Part 1: Freedom In Christ by Dr. Andrew Corbett