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Lessons From The Tent

Lessons From The Tent

著者： Mike Bradley
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As the title says, this is a podcast about just one thing. Each lesson is roughly six and a half minutes long with the focus on what is the purpose of life. Please don’t confuse this with a religious podcast because it certainly is not. This is a podcast about life from God’s perspective – what He created it to be. Unfortunately, whenever God is mentioned, people instantly think we are talking about religion. That’s a shame because God hates to be confused with man made religion. God is the author and giver of life. Mankind created religion I suppose to help soothe their frustration/discomfort with their personal struggles. And because religion doesn’t solve those issues, we keep creating more religious expressions under the guise that this one is better than that one. I will not be picking on any religious group during these podcasts. I only hope to introduce you to the whole purpose of life on earth according to the Creator of all things and how He designed us to live. I hope you will give these Lessons From The Tent a try and get to understand the purpose for your life.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me at mike@lessonsfromthetent.com

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  • When The Kingdom Comes | Section 01 Episode 07

    When The Kingdom Comes | Section 01 Episode 07
    2025/10/06
    SECTION 1 During these first nine lessons I would like to talk about why we are here on this planet called Earth. I do not believe we are here by chance or by some cosmic accident. It is obvious there is a purpose for our existence and that is what Lessons 1-9 are about. LESSON 7 – When the kingdom comes Bible References: Matthew 6:10 (1) 2 Peter 3:9 (2) Acts 3:19 (3) Matthew 13:44-46 (4) Good morning, and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. I wish you could see the male peacocks strutting around the tent right now. They are in full bloom, and their tails are about five feet long and look spectacular. I sure enjoy God’s creation. For this lesson I will be continuing with the idea of God ruling from inside His favored ones, and I would like to begin with a question ─ why would God even want to live and rule from inside such poor in spirit, sinful people? Well, the answer to this question explains the reason God created us, and it also reveals His heart, His soul, and His character. With all that said the answer to this question is actually a pretty simple one in terms of words. But it is far more complex than all the knowledge known to mankind. The simple answer is, He created us humans to have an intimate, relational partnership with Him. He has no desire to rule over those in His kingdom from a distance like other kings and rulers do. He wants a hands-on working partnership with us. Yes, He is God and the creator of everything. Yes, He rules over us. And yes, we are to surrender to His reign. But God is unique in this way. He has a singular desire when it comes to His human creation and His kingdom – He wants more than anything to have an intimate, personal relationship with us even though we are so inferior and terribly disobedient to Him. God did something entirely different when He created us. He gave us humans a soul filled with emotions and individual desires with the freedom to express them in an intimate partnership with Him, even though He knew beforehand that we would eventually fall into sin. But it is our willingness to participate in this intimate relationship with Him that He desires. He will never force anyone to be in His kingdom who does not want to have this partnership with him. To help understand this kingdom relationship we need to look at what Jesus said takes place when the kingdom comes. One day while teaching His disciples about prayer, Jesus told them to pray for the kingdom to come soon, so God’s will can be done on earth, just as it is in heaven.” (1) Now that is an interesting truth about God and His kingdom. Jesus said, when the kingdom comes, God’s will is done on earth, just as it is in heaven. If when the kingdom comes, God’s will is done, then that would mean His will, His desire, and His perfect plan is to reign from inside His favored ones with His invisible Spirit, which is exactly what happens when His kingdom does come. I know a lot of people think God loves to judge them and that He gets a kick out of sending people to hell. But that is absolutely not the God of the Bible. That is not His will at all. In fact, Jesus said hell was created for the devil and his angels. It was not created for us humans. But there are only two places for that we can go after we die and leave earth – one is hell, and the other is the eternal kingdom of God. If you understand what the kingdom is, why would anyone choose to go to hell? You may be thinking right about now, “Wait a minute, no one chooses to go to hell.” But I’ve got to tell you, we choose our own path when we reject His kingdom so in actuality, we send ourselves to hell when we reject His desire to live and reign from inside of us. Let me give you one of the great truths about God’s will that is taught in the Bible, it says. “God is not willing for anyone to be sent to hell. He wants everyone to change the way they think about the purpose of their life and return to Him.” (2) Now that is the will of God. And it takes place when the kingdom comes. Or, to say it another way, when you change how you think about God and His purpose for you and become poor in spirit, you receive His kingdom, and that is what God wants for each of us. In another place in the Bible God says it like this. “Change the way you think about God and Jesus and return, so that your sins can be completely wiped away, so times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord; and He can send you the gift of His Holy Spirit.” (3) Once again, this is the will of God, and it is fulfilled in all those who become favored. God’s will is to live and reign from inside His favored ones and this all takes place when the invisible kingdom comes to earth. This is the will of God and the purpose of your life. Even though we are fallen sinful people we were originally created in the image of God and that is why we are such relational people. But, because of our fallen ...
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  • Becoming poor in spirit should make you morn | Section 01 Episode 06

    Becoming poor in spirit should make you morn | Section 01 Episode 06
    2025/09/29
    SECTION 1 During these first nine lessons I would like to talk about why we are here on this planet called Earth. I do not believe we are here by chance or by some cosmic accident. It is obvious there is a purpose for our existence and that is what Lessons 1-9 are about. LESSON 6 – Becoming poor in spirit should make you mourn Bible References: Matthew 5:4 (1) 1 John 2:1, 2 (2) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. I hope you are feeling really lousy today. If you have been thinking on what Jesus said about becoming poor in spirit, you should be feeling miserable about yourself. And if you are, then you’re right where you should be and ready to become happier than you have ever been before. Now don’t be thinking I am delusional for saying if you are miserable then you are ready to be happy. All I am doing is drawing attention to a genuine paradox that Jesus taught, after He said we need to become poor in spirit. Here is what He said. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (1) Again, Jesus starts with the word blessed just as He did when saying, blessed are the poor in spirit. This word blessed is a life defining word because it refers to a special type of happiness. It’s not the kind we experience when having a good day or after getting a better-than-expected raise at work. This happiness has nothing to do with circumstances. What Jesus refers to here is a joy that touches you deep inside and is specifically the result of something God does. But how can someone be happy while feeling miserable about themselves? I mean, what was Jesus’ thinking? When you do come to terms with your poor in spirit condition, it should naturally make you feel awful because God designed you to be a perfectly righteous, happy person and the truth is, you are not. That is why this attitude of mourning should be natural when you understand how bad you really are. But this comfort is unique because it’s something that only God can make happen, you cannot do it for yourself. This word comfort is a verb, and it refers to an action that the Spirit of God does to your mourning. Remember what we learned last week. When you recognize and acknowledge how poor in spirit you are God gives you His kingdom, which is the invisible Spirit of God living and reigning from inside of you. But you must understand, the Spirit does not just sit there idle on the throne of your heart. He is constantly working inside of you. And when you mourn for your awful condition, He floods your emotional feelings of sorrow with a kindness that lifts you up from your despair and stands you happily on the mountaintop of His forgiving grace. The question is how in the world does He do that? There is a word that defines His action of comfort, and it’s called propitiation. This is one of the most comprehensive words God uses to describe what Jesus accomplished on the cross. Here is its definition as used in the Bible. Propitiation is the means God uses to lavish grace and kindness on us sinners without violating His own judicial righteousness. The only way God can lavish grace and kindness on a poor in spirit; horrible sinner, is because of the means He chose to deal with our sin. God didn’t just ignore it or excuse it. Instead, He punished the hell out of it by placing His own Son Jesus on the cross and then had Him become our sin. Then, while Jesus was nailed to the cross and filled with everyone’s sin, God punished Him with the full payment that all our sin requires. And because of what Jesus accomplished on the cross, whenever a person mourns for their horrible condition, God is free to do what He loves to do, which is to lavish His propitiatory grace and kindness on our sorrow. The Holy Spirits’ comfort reaches deep into your emotions, where nothing can diminish its effect on you because His comfort addresses the reason for your sorrow. Mourning and happiness are quite a contrast of emotions. But the reason God can comfort our sorrow is because His judicial nature, which cannot overlook sin, has been completely satisfied through the propitiation of Jesus.(2) This attitude of mourning, while at the same time being intensely happy, makes living in the kingdom unlike anything else. For nothing can take this joy away due to the fact it didn’t come from outside of you. It comes from the indwelling Holy Spirit who takes God’s grace and kindness and lavishes it upon your poor in spirit sorrow. Whenever I teach this, I like to have my wife make a beautiful plate of strawberry shortcake and then I take a full can of whipped cream and start spraying it on top of the strawberry’s. While I am doing this, I ask someone to tell me when I have reached the point of lavishing the whipped cream. No one ever stops me until the whipped cream is so high and wide it covers the entire plate of strawberry shortcake. It usually gets about a foot high ...
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  • How to become favored by God | Section 01 Episode 05

    How to become favored by God | Section 01 Episode 05
    2025/09/22
    SECTION 1 During these first nine lessons I would like to talk about why we are here on this planet called Earth. I do not believe we are here by chance or by some cosmic accident. It is obvious there is a purpose for our existence and that is what Lessons 1-9 are about. LESSON 5 ─ How to become favored by God Bible References: Luke 4:43 (1) Matthew 5:3 (2) Romans 3:9-18 (3) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. After last week’s look into the invisible kingdom, I hope you are beginning to have a great interest in becoming favored by God. Especially since today’s lesson is all about how to become favored. I love it when a plan comes together. We humans have come up with at least a thousand different ways we think as the way to please God, but really there is only one opinion that matters on this, and no its not mine. Since God is the one who determines who is favored, then it doesn’t matter what any of us think. It’s His choice not ours, so we need to know what He says about how you get the kingdom. When Jesus first started going from city to city doing miracles and teaching, He said the reason He was sent here by His Father was to tell everyone about the good news of the kingdom.(1) If that’s why Jesus said He was sent here, then you would expect at some point in time He would have explained exactly how to become favored by His Father. And sure enough, one day Jesus sat down on a hill and explained how someone can become favored and inherit the kingdom. Here is what He said: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (2) And there you see how to become favored, and to think it only took Jesus thirteen words to explain this. But make sure you understand what He said ─ if someone becomes poor in spirit, they are the ones who get the kingdom. And this would also mean they have become favored by His Father. So here it is, God declares someone favored when they become, poor in spirit. Can it get any simpler than that? But this stirs up an important question for us – What does it mean to be poor in spirit? Well, I can tell you this, it is not about being financially broke. This poverty that Jesus refers to, concerns the condition of your spirit. Another way you can think of this is your spirit does not possess enough righteousness to become favored by God. That is the poverty Jesus is talking about. Human life has to do with our spirit so, poor in spirit means your life is completely destitute of what God created it to be; therefore, you possess nothing that would allow you to become favored by Him except the ability to recognize how broken you are. From what Jesus said here we can take the whole world and divide it into two groups of people. One group God favors and the other group He does not. Both groups of people are considered broken, horrible sinners by God, but the difference between them is one group recognizes how destitute they are and is humbled by their condition, while the other group does not see themselves this way and therefore, they are not humbled by their spiritual poverty. What we learn from this is the way to become favored by God is all about having the right perception of yourself, and that must be according to how God sees us; not how we see ourselves. I guess then we better look at who God says we really are. The best way to understand this is to put yourself personally into God’s description of all humans. Let me show you what this looks like by inserting the personal pronoun “I” into His description of everyone as written in the Bible. (3) “I am not righteous at all I am not truly wise and I do not seek after God as I should I have turned away from God and have become useless to Him I never do what God considers good, it just isn’t in me I condemn people with words and I get bitter so easily about things I even commit murder with my angry attitude towards people I am destructive and misery follows me. It is far too easy for me to get down about my life and others I do not possess true peace and contentment And I don’t fear and respect God as I should” This assessment of who we are is the poor in spirit attitude that God is looking for. And all this is, is an honest evaluation of yourself from God’s perspective. But with all this ugly, there is actually some very good news about this. God’s assessment means it is not the rich, the mighty, the smart, the beautiful, the righteous, the religious, or the best people that He favors. God favors those who understand how awful and helpless they are ─ to become favored by Him. And that is really good news because it means everyone has the same potential to inherit the kingdom, because we are all bankrupt when it comes to what we need, to become favored. Jesus doesn’t tell us we need to get better to inherit His kingdom. Instead, He wants us to see ourselves truthfully the way His Father ...
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