Thursday, 2 May 2024

The Bailey Drink

The Bailey Drink – A Blog by Pastor Frank Bailey

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John 14:20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

This was one of the first passages I was asked to memorize in my Bible School days. It is one of those simple, yet profound teachings of Jesus. He was able to say things in a few words that contained an entire theological system buried inside of them. This is one of those sayings.

First, He speaks of He Himself being in the Father. This is another glimpse of the profound mystery of the trinity. If we ha..

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Rom. 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

One of the sure evidences of my conversion was a new sense of peace that immediately took over my life. It was really quite comical, I had been a worrier all of my life. For whatever reason I was stuck on a negative, you might say pessimistic, bent very early in my life. I was sort of of the belief that if anything could go wrong it probably would. I would then find myself worryin..

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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
Gal.3:13
One of the most amazing things we find in the scriptures is seen in this verse, Christ bore the curse of sin that rightfully fell on me. I saw this very clearly several years ago while watching the movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. In the violent scene where Christ was being beaten and whipped by the Roman soldiers I can remember the anger against His oppr..

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Psa. 110:4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

The supernatural nature of the heavenly ministry is critical for us to experience the power of a true Pentecostal Christian faith. Many Christians never think about the heavenly ministry of Jesus, they only think of what He did for us in His sacrificial death on the cross. It was the work of the cross that enabled Him to obtain His heavenly ministry. It is in His work toda..

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Psa. 110:4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

Powerless Christianity; the scary thing is that it is not just tolerated today, it is what everyone has come to expect because it is the experience of the vast majority of the Christian population. Because of no power to resist sin many make up lame theological excuses for our compromising lifestyles. Sex outside of marriage, homosexual behavior, drunkenness, are all cove..

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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.” Gen. 32:25

God has a way of getting our attention. All through the Bible we could read accounts of men and women being stopped dead in their tracks. Jacob is one of them. Jacob was just about to “fall right into it” when he was met with an angel in the dark of night. Jacob always managed to get himself out of s..

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James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

There is a river of cascading light flowing down from the Father above. He is the fountainhead and giver of all life. This river of light effects us powerfully once our eyes have been opened. Before Christ opened our eyes we were blind; blind to His goodness and to all His gracious work all around us. We were blind to the glory of the ..

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Rom. 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I can remember the moment my second conversion experience began and I stepped into the joy of heaven. ‘My second conversion’, you may wonder? That’s what I like to call what happened to me in August of 1994, twenty-one years after I had been born again. By that time I had pastored Victory Fellowship in New Orleans for sixteen years and I was experienci..

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Rom. 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I love this verse, Paul connects joy and peace to the God of Hope. If you really think about it, joy is the fountain from which all of our actions spring. We go on vacations in pursuit of joy, we look forward to the football game in pursuit of joy, we look to the end of the work day for the joy of rest after a hard day’s work. We even do the unlovely t..

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Rom. 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

If you focus on the stuff happening all around us, hopelessness is the result. All of human promises and expectations ultimately fall miserably short. Humans have a tendency to put their hope in something. For example, some put their future hope of happiness in the spouse that will make all their dreams come true. Others may put their hope in a politic..

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