Heralds Digest

   “ And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12 : 23 - 24 KJV Grounding and glorying are literally treated as words and opposite. But spirituality, grounding is complimentary to glorying. Beyond Christ as word becoming flesh to announce God’s plan of redemption, “ Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die” heralded the death, crucifixion and burial of Christ before the glory of His resurrection is unveiled. Invariably, the grounded glory is the unique testimony of Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Starting from the first apostles in the early church, disciples of all ages in the past over 2000 years ago have been lifting up the redemption story with glorious testimonies of conversion from sins and deliverance from satanic oppression. Likewise, any believer...

   “ Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?”  1 Samuel 6 : 6 KJV The sermon according to the priests and diviners of the Philistines teaches that life’s encounters with either mercy or misery depends on the interplay between the holy hands of God and the hardened hearts of men. The extension of God”s holy hands through the instrumentality of the Philistines  against the Israelites was still within His prerogative. God wanted to punish Eli and his children for their sins and atrocities, as earlier announced. Unfortunately, the Philistines in their arrogance and pride went beyond their bounds by their confiscation of the Ark of the Lord on one hand, and its confinement in the temple of Dagon on the other hand. And in an apparent ‘Let my presence go ’ warning about the Ark of the Lord at the temple of Dagon, the lords of th...