Subject: The New Covenant Allows Freedom 

Summary: David Grabbe, focusing on the allegory of the Bond and Free Women in Galatians 4:21, explains the misunderstanding of some antinomian Protestants in their claim that Paul wanted to do away with the law or works. Paul never denigrates law or works but... 

Subject: Pre-Passover 

Summary: In this preparatory message on the Passover, John Ritenbaugh affirms that the New Covenant seals the agreement with the body and blood of Christ, which is consumed inwardly. Partaking of this cup indicates that we are in unity with those in the body-... 

Subject: We Are God's Special People 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh warns that if Christ's sacrifice doesn't bring about a profound sense of obligation,it has done us absolutely no good. As the called-out, sanctified church, sealed by God's Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that we are the precious jew... 

Subject: Pre-Passover 

Summary: In this pre-Passover sermon, John Ritenbaugh compares God's flawless works to the imperfect works of mankind. In addition to being flawless, God's works have a multiplicity of purposes, while man's works have limited utility and many flaws. Like air,... 

Subject: Psalms 22-24 

Summary: In this sermon on the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, Richard Ritenbaugh, using three consecutive Psalms (22-24), affirms that Jesus Christ was the antitype, perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament types, slain as the Lamb of God on Pass... 

Subject: History of the True Church 

Summary: Martin Collins asserts that the large Christian-professing church ruling over the world was not God's church, but Satan's counterfeit. God's church has always been, and will continue to be, small, often fighting for its survival against treacherous w... 

Subject: Our Passover Responsibility 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh observes that we live in a time when people have acquired a weak sense of obligation or indebtedness to family, society, or nation. Though "obligation" does not appear in the King James version of the Bible, the concept of Christian o... 

Subject: Exodus 12:11 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, reflecting on Exodus 12:14, affirms that the expression "in haste" has been mistranslated or used incorrectly. The word chippazon or kaphaz does not mean haste, but apprehension, trepidation, or fear. The only thing sta... 

Subject: Humbling Ourselves As Servants 

Summary: Ted Bowling, focusing upon the foot washing portion of the Passover service, emphasizes that God expects us to aspire to become humble servants, taking on the mindset of our Elder Brother, who set the example of washing His disciples' feet — a r... 

Subject: How Does God Want to be Worshipped? 

Summary: Mike Ford asserts that the sign of the cross is a pagan symbol used by the ancient Chaldeans to honor Tammuz—the sun god. Even if Jesus were crucified on a cross, it would be just as absurd to venerate this instrument of execution as it would b... 

Subject: God's Guarantee to Supply All Our Real Needs 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, reflecting upon the admonition of Christ that we must take the straight gate or the narrow way (symbols of grave difficulty), indicates that our future experience in overcoming and developing character will be fraught with difficulti... 

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Summary: David Maas, referring to Jesus' warning about taking the speck out of our brother's eye before we take the plank out our own eye, warns us that human nature is very standard and predictable, having a blind spot to its own shortcomings. It is almost l... 

Subject: The Importance of Keeping it Properly 

Summary: In this foundational message on the Passover, John Ritenbaugh insists that the annual reaffirmation of the covenant--through the Passover--is at the heart and core of an on-going relationship with Jesus Christ and God the Father, a life-and-death cho... 

Subject: Passover in the New Testament 

Summary: In this final installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh reiterates that the word "Passover" was edited into Deuteronomy 16:1 following the Babylonian Captivity, when both feasts were by tradition called the Passover. Hezekiah and Josiah ins... 

Subject: Can The Jews Be Trusted? 

Summary: In this second installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh insists that it is the Word of God that is to be trusted--not the records nor the traditions of a people who were supposed to be custodians of God's law, but who liberalized and blurr... 

Subject: John 6 

Summary: In the third installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh insists that nine steps had to be included with the Passover process, including the eating of the lamb, all within the house until the morning. The time frame designated for Passover wa... 

Subject: How To Keep Passover 

Summary: In this fourth installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh suggests that the proponents of late Passover (15th) have to make wild speculations about a mass meeting in Rameses, have to discount a series of scriptural details (such as purifying... 

Subject: When Did the Exodus Begin? 

Summary: In this fifth installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh insists that the vital key in establishing Bible doctrine is to allow the Bible to define its own terms and establish its own evidence rather than turning to secular historians or Prot... 

Subject: Passover and the Tabernacle 

Summary: In this sixth installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh distinguishes worldly or carnal scholarship (based upon snobbish, oneupmanship esoteric elitism) from godly scholarship, characterized by an unassuming, childlike unconcern for status,... 

Subject: God's Festivals & Paganism 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, using an analogy from the Rodney King incident, suggests that people who opt for a fifteenth Passover do not do so from a pure motive for seeking the truth, but instead reflects an irresponsible grab for power. Unfortunately, major r... 

Subject: Josiah, Hezekiah and Deuteronomy 

Summary: In this eighth installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh asserts that it has always been a pattern of Satan to counterfeit celebrations of those true celebrations God has given to us. Both kings Ahaz and Manasseh went headlong into Baal wor... 

Subject: Deuteronomy 16 and Passover 

Summary: In this ninth and penultimate installment of the Passover series, John Ritenbaugh reiterates that Josiah's temple Passover observance (II Chronicles 34) was supervised by the king so they wouldn't revert back to paganism. The only proof text of the 1... 

Subject: Deuteronomy 16, Passover, and the Days of Unleavened Bread 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh, focusing on the Night to be Much Observed, rebuts those who derisively called this event "Armstrong’s folly." In Deuteronomy 16, the word "Passover" is out of context in the first verse because it was intended as an overarching... 

Subject: A Ray of Hope Beyond Our Troubles 

Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh, after a pessimistic prologue, urges us to look upon the Passover as a beacon of hope in an otherwise hopeless milieu. The book of Job, initially a seeming extended treatise of hopelessness, turns into Job‚s speculation about... 

Subject: Passover 

Summary: In this sermon on the admonitions of I Corinthians 10, John Ritenbaugh warns that, like our forebears, we can lose our salvation if we live a life of divided loyalty even though we have mechanically and physically gone through the ordinances. Like th... 

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Summary: In this broadcast focusing upon the differences between Easter and Passover, Herbert W. Armstrong asserts the impossibility of a Good Friday crucifixion and an Easter Sunday morning resurrection based upon the sign of Jonah (Matthew 12:40, Luke 11:30... 

Subject: Old and New Testament Symbolic References to Pouring 

Summary: John Plunkett thoroughly goes through the subject of pouring, applying it to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Passover and more specifically, how they both link to the Feast of Pentecost. At the Passover, our Savior, Jesus Christ, willingly allowed... 

Subject: Passover 

Summary: In this Passover message, John Ritenbaugh observes that the world's religions are in abject bondage to falsehood because they do not observe the Passover. Freedom comes to God's called out ones incrementally from continuing on the way- the relationsh... 

Subject: Colossians (D) 

Summary: In this twenty-third installment of the Covenants, Law and Grace series, John Ritenbaugh focuses upon two sets of verses (Colossians 2:16-18 and Galatians 4:9-10) which certain Protestant theologians have blasphemously charged that Paul was referring... 

Subject: Justification and Obligation 

Summary: In this fifth installment of the Covenants, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh reminds us that under both the Old and New Covenants, refusal to keep to keep God's Law severs our relationship with Him. Like loving parents who give rules to their ch... 

Subject: Seven Final Utterances of Our Savior 

Summary: Martin Collins, focusing upon the misconception of Jesus Christ as a physical rather than a spiritual Messiah, asserted that both foes and friends of Jesus realized that He, having come as God incarnate, brought unusual insight and wisdom with author... 

Subject: Night to be Much Observed 

Summary: In this sermon devoted to the Night Much to be Observed, John Ritenbaugh asserts that far from being the "pipe dream" of Herbert W. Armstrong as some have disparagingly called it, this event is a commanded part of the beginning of the Days of Unleave... 

Subject: The Governance Of God In The Affairs Of Men 

Summary: David Grabbe asserted that Benjamin Franklin, in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention, called for a prayer at the beginning of each session of Congress, suggesting that as the Most High is concerned about every sparrow that falls, He must likewise b... 

Subject: Who Can Take It and Why 

Summary: Only emergency or unavoidable circumstances should one ever seek to reschedule the Passover. Nevertheless, because of its seriousness, God has provided a mechanism for a rescheduling if there is a legitimate need. For example, in II Chronicles 30, wh... 

Subject: Mistrial of the Millennia 

Summary: In this sermon on the Mistrial of the Millennia, Richard Ritenbaugh recounts the myriad illegal events of Christ's trial, highlighting no less than seventeen illegalities, including corrupt judges, bogus witnesses, switching charges, changing venues,... 

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Summary: In this Bible Study on unity, John Ritenbaugh shares some insights he gleaned while preparing for the December 2007 ministerial conference. Jesus, in His prayer recorded in John 17, fervently asks for unity among His Disciples (and by extension-all o... 

Subject: Putting the Focus Back on God 

Summary: John Ritenbaugh asserts that we keep the Days of Unleavened Bread, not just as a memorial of the Passover and Exodus event, but because of what the Lord did to bring us out of sin (typified by Egypt) by the strength of His hand. What God does sets ev...