The Ekklesia Project - Episode 93

A freedman of God hosting a journey to discover the lost ekklesia of God.
As we continue this mini-series exploring how one obtains eternal life, in this episode, we delve into the meaning of darkness and light as applied in the prophesy of Isaiah 9:1-2, reiterated by Zacharias’s prophesy in Luke 1:76-79, and fulfilled in Matthew 4:12-17. We examine the natural consequence of a land under the dominion of Satan, that leads to widespread deceptive false teaching, creating darkness, that leads to unrighteous, i.e., evil, deeds, that leads to death. Thus, all those sitting in darkness are in the shadow of death. We discuss how many unrighteous, or evil, deeds do not appear evil to man as they may align with the standards that man has created to categorize the deed as righteous. If it were easy for most to identify true righteous deeds from those that are unrighteous, Satan would not be living up to his reputation as the Great Deceiver. Yet, Satan continues to thrive as the Great Deceiver by appealing to the hubris of every generation to believe they have special wisdom and discernment their forefathers lacked, and portraying any truth teller as a fringe babbler that needs to be ignored.
In the alternative, we discuss how Jesus, as the Light of the kosmos, spoke the words of the Spirit, who gives life. John 6:63. A gathering or individual under the dominion of God produces true teaching that results in righteous deeds that leads to life. The word of the Spirit feeds a living spirit, strengthening the spirit and weakening the flesh. This is why Jesus is called the Bread of Life.
We also examine how Jesus identified the “key of knowledge” of salvation that the Pharisees had “taken away” from the people, resulting in the inability of the Pharisees to enter the kingdom and the hindering of others attempting to enter. See Luke 11:52, 42-44; Matthew 23:23. Such circumstances is also present today as the church system has taken away the ”key of knowledge” of salvation by abandoning the teaching of the ekklesia of God in this New Covenant age. As almost all the commands of Christ are made in the context of an ekklesia of God, the abandonment of this teaching has made it nearly impossible to understand the New Covenant way of salvation, which certainly hinders, if not prevents, anyone who might attempt to enter the kingdom of God.