sanctify – Matty (Headwind)

August 30, 2020February 14, 2022

Baptism, Cleansing and Regeneration

Joyful boy being baptized at Redemption Hill Church

And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
(Genesis 8:21) NKJV

God renewed the ground so that it would bear fruit again. The promise that God made to Noah. Noah’s flood washed away the salts and toxic compounds that had accumulated. Earth was baptized.

June 18, 2020June 19, 2020

Prepare Your Heart

I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
(Jeremiah 17:10) NKJV

Preparing our hearts doesn’t involve special diets or exercise, it comes down to taking two simple steps: believing in Jesus Christ, and confessing our sins. The sanctification we receive from faith in Jesus makes us a holy vessel in which the Holy Spirit takes up residence. We’re indwelt by the Spirit of God.

June 16, 2020September 11, 2021

Sanctification and Honor

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
(1 Thessalonians 4:3-6) NKJV

If you’re struggling with gender identity try not to worry or fret about it. It’s okay to feel what you’re feeling. It’s okay to process the thoughts that you’re having. Here’s the best advise that I, me, myself, personally, can give you:

Possess your vessel in sanctification and honor.

June 16, 2020September 11, 2021

Obey the Law

Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
(1 Peter 2:13-14) NKJV

A lot of people think that the LGBTQIA+ issue is about making a moral judgement. The thing is, we’re not asked to make a moral judgement, we’re told to obey the law for the Lord’s sake.

June 16, 2020September 11, 2021

Holy Matrimony

And He answered and said to them,“Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
(Matthew 19:4-5) NKJV

Physical relationships between humans are, by their very nature, carnal. There’s only one situation in which the sexual union of two people is sanctified: holy matrimony.

June 16, 2020September 11, 2021

Self Identity: Spiritual

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(Romans 8:6) NKJV

If I want to have an intimate fellowship with the Lord, what do I do? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. We start by obeying. We have to separate between the clean and unclean, holy and unholy.

June 16, 2020September 11, 2021

The Sesame Street Song

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God.
(Ephesians 5:18-21) NKJV

Gender identity is a thing. It’s something which, probably, a large portion of society has wrestled with at some point in their life, or it may be ongoing. How should we handle it on a personal level? What is it to me? What do I need to understand about it?

June 16, 2020June 21, 2022

Holy and Unholy, Unclean and Clean

“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean, and that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”
(Leviticus 10:9-11) NKJV

Once we’ve become a Christian, how are we to live? This is a question which Paul was asked, to which a lot of the content of his letters and those of the other New Testament writers is addressed.

February 1, 2020January 25, 2022

In the Beginning

In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God. From the very beginning the Word was with God.
(John 1:1-2) Good News Translation

The deep existed in the beginning, before God began to create the universe as we know it. This means that creation isn’t Ex nihilo, it’s Ex abyssi. It’s obvious but everyone else missed it completely.

September 11, 2019August 30, 2021

Hydroxyl (OH)

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
(Isaiah 1:16) KJV

If you thought that we had gone off the deep end before, then you should know that the deep end also has a deep end. We’re combining the gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ with Chemistry and Physics.