If we consider ourselves children of Father God, we must follow His instructions. We must be familiar with His word so that we will recognise if we are being led astray by leaders and teachers who may be well meaning, but do not fully understand the ways of The Lord.

It is sad there has been so much division in the body of Christ, when we should be modelling unity to the rest of the world. This last phrase seems to me to be the most important. We cannot be reconciled with others until we are reconciled to Father God.

There are churches all around the areas of our homes, many of them locked, and in many countries there are crucifixes showing Jesus giving the ultimate sacrifice for us. How many of the people who pass by recognise that as the most important event in the history of the world?

The Bible never tells us exactly where Jesus was living, but it does make us believe that wherever He was, the door was always open to others. How many churches in your area have open doors? Do you know Christians whose doors are always open to others?

What a testimony! They had been with Jesus. Peter and John had spent the night in prison, because they had been teaching a crowd that had gathered in the streets after these two disciples had healed the crippled man who had sat at the temple gates for a long time.

The letter to the Ephesians is very rich, several months ago we did a study on the spiritual blessings contained in those short chapters. I think it is one of the most informative letters of Paul. What is different at the end of this letter is he asks for prayer.

Those who were there on the mountain on the day when Jesus went back to live with His Heavenly Father had no option but to go on and do what Jesus had commanded. So often in reading the gospels, we get the idea that His listeners were transfixed.

If we are believers, then we are a part of the body of Christ on the earth. We must consequently do our part. Christianity is a living active thing and not a faith that demands obedience in church attendance, but obedience in doing what Jesus did. He is our example.

After Jesus sent out the twelve and they had returned, He sent out a much larger group to do the same thing. The first verse of this chapter tells us that those seventy-two went before Jesus to the places He was planning to go! Who were these seventy-two?