Chronicles of a Watchman by Dr. James P. Norman Jr.

As a company of regenerated persons, not degenerate folks looking for a hope of Heaven without changing from immoral to moral.   In reference to this fact, only persons giving evidence of regeneration are proper subjects for baptism.   However, baptism cannot be the means of regeneration alone.   It is the appointed sign, but is never the only condition for the forgiveness of sins.   This also i nvolves obtaining a mind that is willing to accept change as the word of God is being taught. We must be willing to begin the process of conforming to His image, which began at the nature of Christ’s intercession.   Intercession is the way Christ is formed in us and developed through intimacy, love and time spent with Him.   There exists a nexus in terms of Christ’s intercession to that of the Holy Spirit, which is very difficult without one being filled with the Holy Spirit.   The Holy Spirit is an advocate within us teaching us how to pray as we ought. ...

(Romans Chapter 8 from the Message Bible) With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved.   Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation.   The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death. God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son.   He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant.   In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all.   The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that.   The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it.   And now what the law code asked for but we coul...

My last post described some evidences of humanism disguised as faith doctrine. In this post, I would like to offer some evidences of someone who is truly walking with the Lord. I pray that these virtues draw you to dig deeper into your relationship with God. His benefits are manifold, His ways are higher than anything you can face, I pray you are blessed as you read and do what the Word of God prompts you to do. Faith is not only a declaration of dependence; it is also a vow of allegiance. Faith is not only a declaration of dependence. Believers can find themselves void of a divinely healed life if they are limiting their faith to trusting God who is The Great Physician. In fact, God requires that we obey Him (John 14:15; Deut 11:1)By doing what The Doctor has prescribed, we prove the trust that we say that we have in God. For no physician will long care for a patient who refuses to obey his orders, some were healed and went their own way. Faith is the self-surrender to t...

A lot of folks want to have a spiritual life or spiritual mind working for them. However, an unseen obstacle with this is that in the beginning of our spiritual walk, we still have a carnal mind. This old mind is to be abandoned before the walk of faith can begin.  We rely too much on ordinances such as water baptism, and a few spoken confessions to totally renew their minds.  Hence being a lot of truth to the saying, “The Word of God” is profitable and quick rebuke has its place. A carnal mind must have some element in it to start with of knowing the difference between right and wrong along with knowing the difference between good and evil. This must be measured the time must be taken. This brings in the need for small groups--to find out where people stand carnally. Without this yardstick, you will down the road appoint people as your leaders and even pastors promoting them strait up the line of spiritual authority. Therefore, recognition of the truth of God’s rev...

Christ Jesus claims for Himself all that belongs to God (John 6:37, John 10:29), and declares that the Holy Spirit shall reveal Him to be the rightful inheritor. Some could say that declaration would classify Him as a heretic. However, The Father has confirmed this in the affirmative along with company of the Holy Spirit it with signs following. Only a divine Christ can extend an unpresumptuous hand to take all that belongs to the Father. And by the Holy Spirit baptism, can this authority be transferred in the inheritance of the saints. Therefore, a Saint (one who lives in the acknowledgement of being set apart by God) will thrive without any and all fear of missing the things that His Word promises to those who live by faith. The rapture will be the final reward to those that stayed in the body of Christ until the end. The rapture will be the final reward to those that stayed in the Body of Christ until the end. The Son in whom our very being rests and trust is truly God. A...