NextStep Ministries Las Vegas

Rom 11:16 And if the first-fruit is holy, so is the mass: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

The apostle Paul is here warning the Gentile believers, pictured as grafted branches on a tree foreign to their own type of tree, that just as some branches(Jews) were broken off to make room for them, their own human pride could cause them also to be removed from the tree. Matthew Henry put it like this:

“It is the natural state of every one of us, to be wild by nature. Conversion is as the grafting in of wild branches into the good olive. The wild olive was often ingrafted into the fruitful one when it began to decay, and this not only brought forth fruit, but caused the decaying olive to revive and flourish. The Gentiles, of free grace, had been grafted in to share advantages. They ought therefore to beware of self-confidence, and every kind of pride or ambition; lest, having only a dead faith, and an empty profession, they should turn from God, and forfeit their privileges. If we stand at all, it is by faith; we are guilty and helpless in ourselves, and are to be humble, watchful, afraid of self-deception, or of being overcome by temptation. Not only are we at first justified by faith, but kept to the end in that justified state by faith only; yet, by a faith which is not alone, but which worketh by love to God and man.”

Some of Gods’ chosen people, the Jews, had become unfruitful, rotten and decaying, quite far removed from Jehovah who had chosen them out of the nations. His plan was to prune away those who were no longer productive and replace them with those who were, even Gentiles! We can see today that His church is composed of a majority of Gentile believers, the Jews to be brought in in large numbers at a future time.

(Rom 11:22 BBE) “ See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.”

Albert Barnes says of this verse: “Christians do not merit the favor of God by their faith and good works; but their obedience is an indispensable condition on which that favor is to be continued. It is thus that thegrace of God is magnified, at the same time that the highest good is done to man himself.”

Come celebrate Resurrection day Sunday April 4, at Desert Breeze Park. We will be there @ 8:00 AM setting up and getting ready to BBQ a brunch for all of you coming to service, we hope you will join us on this important celebration. 

The Rock & Worship RoadShow With:

MercyMe & David Crowder Band

Sunday April 11, 2010

The Orleans arena

$10 at the door NO tickets will be sold.

Spirit West Coast 2010

 Monterey CA. - July 1-3, 2010

We were blessed to be able to take two groups of about 25 people on this trip in the past, and we would love to be able to do it again. We can not do it without YOUR prayers and financial support. This trip cost us $6,500 this includes, tickets to the event for ALL three day's, camp site's for us all, ALL the food and drinks, three rental vans, ALL the gas for the vans (this is about a 9 hr. drive.)

Spirit West Coast | Christian Music Festival | July 30 - Aug 1 :