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The Five Solas of the Reformation became the rallying cry of the Reformers.  Sola Scriptura or Scripture Alone is the foundation for the other four Solas.  Scripture Alone is our final and infallible authority for the faith and life of the believer.

As Disciples of Jesus Christ we are encouraged to discipline our thinking to align with His thinking which we find in His Word the Bible.  As we renew our minds to the scriptures many of the areas of our lives that are troubled will begin to clear up.  We may even benefit physically through reduced stress as one example.  Paul exhorts us that we have the mind of Christ.

The Feast of Tabernacles points us to the coming Messianic Kingdom in which we will rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years.  It also reveals a great end time harvest prior to His return.  It is a time to celebrate harvest and the good things the Lord has provided for us.

Jesus has fulfilled the Day of Atonement for us so that we now have access to His presence before His throne through the blood of Jesus placed on the Mercy Seat on the Ark in heaven.

The final three trumpets in Revelation.  The trumpets represent the final call to repentance.  As they increase in intensity and scope the world is given an opportunity to return to the Lord before He pours out His wrath.

The Feasts of the Lord were memorial feasts for Israel and revealed the soon coming minstry of Messiah.  In the Fall Feasts of Trumpets there is a call to repent in preparation of the Day of Atonement.  We note that in Revelation the seven trumpets reveal the final call to fallen mankind to repent before the Day of the Lord.

Redemption is the undoing of the fall of mankind through a series of covenants leading us to the New Covenant with Jesus the Son of God.  He is our hope and our redemption.

Make you calling and election sure are the exhortations in the two Kingdom parables  we are looking at.  We not only accept the invitation to labor in the Lord's vineyard and attend His Son's wedding we are activily engaged in the harvest and in appearing before Him clothed in His righteousness.

We are not qualified to judge one another we are called to radical acceptance and love.  We are not called to separate the righteous and the unrighteous, Jesus said He would send angels to do that at the end of the age.

You are the Lord's Special Treasure

The Kingdom of heaven is presented by Jesus in parabolic form.  Our lives as believers are lived out as citizens of Christ's kingdom until the end of this age, hence the Kingdom of God and eschatology.

Our view of the end of this age is informing our view of the Kingdom of God.  If we are going to obey the Great Commission of Jesus Christ we need to understand what Jesus meant when He said, "Make disciples of all Nations" (ethnic groups)

The blessings of the anointing flow to us, in us, and through us to bless others.  Anointed preaching brings conviction which leads to repentance which releases the blessings of the Lord in our lives.

We have been anointed to proclaim the Gospel, good news to the poor, and to warn them that God's justice and judgment are coming upon all mankind.

Isaiah 61:1-3 give us a beautiful prophecy of the coming Messiah.  Jesus quoted this passage in part and applied it to Himself at the beginning of His ministry thereby declaring that He is the awaited Messiah.  The power of the anointing was released through Jesus as He proclaimed His Gospel.  We are called to the same anointing so that we might continue all that He began to do and teach.  Not as individuals but as the body of Christ, His Church.