by Ray Viola | Sep 3, 2020 | Communion Messages
This is another one of the Psalms of David, the man after God’s own heart. Though the background of this Psalm is not revealed, in verse 3 and 4, we see that David is going through a time of difficulty, opposition or danger that was behind this declaration of faith in...
by Ray Viola | Feb 7, 2016 | Communion Messages, Corinthians
11.23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 11.24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do...
by Ray Viola | Sep 6, 2015 | Communion Messages
In this section of the epistle to the Romans, the implications of justification by grace through faith in chapters 1-4 are now drawn out. The transition from wrath (Ro 1:18) to grace (Ro 3:21) transforms both the status and the experience of the believer. Instead of...
by Ray Viola | Aug 2, 2015 | Communion Messages
Now that the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas has been completed. The churches, which God established through them in the Galatian country, are nearly 100 percent Gentiles. This presents the church with its first great crisis. Here is the crux of the...
by Ray Viola | Mar 1, 2015 | Communion Messages
Ecclesiastes 3.11 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun The city of Corinth, like most metropolitan cities today, prided themselves in their universities and...
by Ray Viola | Jun 1, 2014 | Communion Messages
The New Testament correlates faith and grace to make sure that we do not boast in what grace alone achieves. Faith is the act of our soul that turns away from our own insufficiency to the free and all-sufficient resources of God. Faith focuses on the freedom of God to...