web02.fireside.fm Sun, 24 May 2026 22:13:01 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://www.pleadingthecase.org/tags/gentiles Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400 If a tune-up can’t fix a car engine because what it really needs is for the entire engine to be rebuilt, then why would we, in the Christian faith, perform tune-ups on the form and function of our churches when what they may really need is to be completely overhauled? Join the host of Pleading The Case, Andy Mendonsa, where in each episode, he will peal back the culture and traditions that have come to define much of the Church in America today in order to accurately assess whether all that is needed is just a good tune-up, or as he has become convinced, a compete overhaul. en-us episodic "Stand Before The Mountains, Let The Hills Hear What You Have To Say" Andy Mendonsa If a tune-up can’t fix a car engine because what it really needs is for the entire engine to be rebuilt, then why would we, in the Christian faith, perform tune-ups on the form and function of our churches when what they may really need is to be completely overhauled? Join the host of Pleading The Case, Andy Mendonsa, where in each episode, he will peal back the culture and traditions that have come to define much of the Church in America today in order to accurately assess whether all that is needed is just a good tune-up, or as he has become convinced, a compete overhaul. no Andy Mendonsa andy@widows.org http://www.pleadingthecase.org/12 c7857aab-bc48-4107-8796-aa97a99d71f2 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Andy Mendonsa full Andy Mendonsa In Matthew 5:13 Jesus says “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. The lines between the law and grace, not unlike 2000 years ago when Paul addressed this in his letter to the Galatians, may be equally as blurred, if not more so, for much of the church today, thus creating a hybrid Christian faith, if you will, that has become dangerously close to losing its saltiness. 1:39:01 no <p>Is there any reason to pursue a deeper understanding of the law vs grace? There is if we truly believe that Jesus was the promised messiah, and that he came, not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Yes, we need to know what that means for us, now, in our daily lives in him. Otherwise, we will blend the law and grace creating a hybrid Christian faith that blurs the lines between the 2; Thus, blurring our understanding of Jesus and what it means to follow him as well as to look like him. Perhaps the confusion comes, on one level, because we claim salvation through Jesus, but at the same time we have lost sight of what it looks like to live out our lives based on his own life's example. And for Gentile followers of Jesus, this is particularly concerning since gentiles were never under the first covenant (under the law) to begin with. It was only after Jesus fulfilled the law, thus rendering the first covenant null and void, that the second covenant, under grace, was extended to include gentiles as well. In that the new covenant was established on better promises, though, why would anyone ever choose to be subject again to such a yoke of slavery (under the law)? </p> Christian, Salvation, Works, Deeds, Sacrifices, Pharisee, Galatians, Romans, Matthew 5, Ephesians, Flesh, Grace, Law, Unequally Yoked, Israel, Judah, The Promise, Righteousness, Gentiles, Jerusalem, Old Covenant, New Covenant, Abraham, Enmity, Seed, Offspring, High Priest, Shadow and Copy, Superior Ministry, Sanctuary, Tabernacle, Holy of Holies, Sacrifice, Worship, Spiritual Israel, Jews, Middle East, End Times, Obsolete, Is there any reason to pursue a deeper understanding of the law vs grace? There is if we truly believe that Jesus was the promised messiah, and that he came, not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Yes, we need to know what that means for us, now, in our daily lives in him. Otherwise, we will blend the law and grace creating a hybrid Christian faith that blurs the lines between the 2; Thus, blurring our understanding of Jesus and what it means to follow him as well as to look like him. Perhaps the confusion comes, on one level, because we claim salvation through Jesus, but at the same time we have lost sight of what it looks like to live out our lives based on his own life's example. And for Gentile followers of Jesus, this is particularly concerning since gentiles were never under the first covenant (under the law) to begin with. It was only after Jesus fulfilled the law, thus rendering the first covenant null and void, that the second covenant, under grace, was extended to include gentiles as well. In that the new covenant was established on better promises, though, why would anyone ever choose to be subject again to such a yoke of slavery (under the law)?

]]> Is there any reason to pursue a deeper understanding of the law vs grace? There is if we truly believe that Jesus was the promised messiah, and that he came, not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Yes, we need to know what that means for us, now, in our daily lives in him. Otherwise, we will blend the law and grace creating a hybrid Christian faith that blurs the lines between the 2; Thus, blurring our understanding of Jesus and what it means to follow him as well as to look like him. Perhaps the confusion comes, on one level, because we claim salvation through Jesus, but at the same time we have lost sight of what it looks like to live out our lives based on his own life's example. And for Gentile followers of Jesus, this is particularly concerning since gentiles were never under the first covenant (under the law) to begin with. It was only after Jesus fulfilled the law, thus rendering the first covenant null and void, that the second covenant, under grace, was extended to include gentiles as well. In that the new covenant was established on better promises, though, why would anyone ever choose to be subject again to such a yoke of slavery (under the law)?

]]> http://www.pleadingthecase.org/6 7497c664-a686-4ce0-aea9-0cfdfa1c0e6c Mon, 04 Jun 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Andy Mendonsa full Andy Mendonsa Part V concludes the series "The Church As Last Eve-Proving Jesus Came To Redeem A Bride." Based on Genesis 2:25 "Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame" as well was Acts 12, the account of Peter being imprisoned by Herod, bound and shackled and then delivered out of this setting by an angel. 1:26:29 no <p>Years ago I found myself asking the question if Jesus is the last Adam, then would that mean that the church, Christ's bride, is in effect the last Eve? If not literally, at least symbolically? How to prove this, though, became more than a challenge for knowing where to even begin such a search. After much thought and deliberation I finally realised that the place that I needed to start was at the beginning with the creation of the first Eve through the first Adam. That if we, as the church, Christ's bride, are seen by God as the last Eve, if you will, then there should be correlations between the description of the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-25 and passages in the New Testament having to do with Jesus and what he did on our behalf in order to redeem his bride. This episode, the fifth and final part in a 5 part series, concludes with Genesis 2:25 proving that Jesus not only came to redeem a bride, but the bride he came to redeem, is in effect, the last Eve.</p> angel, bondage, bride, bridegroom, citizenship in heaven, commitment, covenant of grace, covenant under the law, covering our shame with material goods and wealth, deliverance-redemption-restoration theology, dress and keep, first adam, first eve, gentiles, greed, herod, husband, idolatry, imprisonment, jesus as bridegroom, jews, last eve, love, marriage, nakedness, peter, second adam, shackled, shame, spiritual israel, widow-bride-marriage theology, wife, worship Years ago I found myself asking the question if Jesus is the last Adam, then would that mean that the church, Christ's bride, is in effect the last Eve? If not literally, at least symbolically? How to prove this, though, became more than a challenge for knowing where to even begin such a search. After much thought and deliberation I finally realised that the place that I needed to start was at the beginning with the creation of the first Eve through the first Adam. That if we, as the church, Christ's bride, are seen by God as the last Eve, if you will, then there should be correlations between the description of the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-25 and passages in the New Testament having to do with Jesus and what he did on our behalf in order to redeem his bride. This episode, the fifth and final part in a 5 part series, concludes with Genesis 2:25 proving that Jesus not only came to redeem a bride, but the bride he came to redeem, is in effect, the last Eve.

]]> Years ago I found myself asking the question if Jesus is the last Adam, then would that mean that the church, Christ's bride, is in effect the last Eve? If not literally, at least symbolically? How to prove this, though, became more than a challenge for knowing where to even begin such a search. After much thought and deliberation I finally realised that the place that I needed to start was at the beginning with the creation of the first Eve through the first Adam. That if we, as the church, Christ's bride, are seen by God as the last Eve, if you will, then there should be correlations between the description of the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-25 and passages in the New Testament having to do with Jesus and what he did on our behalf in order to redeem his bride. This episode, the fifth and final part in a 5 part series, concludes with Genesis 2:25 proving that Jesus not only came to redeem a bride, but the bride he came to redeem, is in effect, the last Eve.

]]> http://www.pleadingthecase.org/5 056c9755-e29c-4dc3-9c5e-5235ebc8125a Mon, 28 May 2018 18:00:00 -0400 Andy Mendonsa full Andy Mendonsa Part IV: Marriage and the first covenant under the law vs. marriage and the second covenant under grace. Genesis. 2:24 "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. This episode explores why our physical marriage relationships suffer when we put them ahead of our marriage relationship to Jesus as our first priority. 1:26:28 no <p>Years ago I found myself asking the question if Jesus is the last Adam, then would that mean that the church, Christ's bride, is in effect the last Eve? If not literally, at least symbolically? How to prove this, though, became more than a challenge for knowing where to even begin such a search. After much thought and deliberation I finally realised that the place that I needed to start was at the beginning with the creation of the first Eve through the first Adam. That if we, as the church, Christ's bride, are seen by God as the last Eve, if you will, then there should be correlations between the description of the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-25 and passages in the New Testament having to do with Jesus and what he did on our behalf in order to redeem his bride. This episode, the fourth in a 5 part series, begins with Genesis 2:24 proving that Jesus not only came to redeem a bride, but the bride he came to redeem, is in effect, the last Eve.</p> adam, adultery, bride, bridegroom, citizenship in heaven, commitment, covenant of grace, covenant under the law, divorce, eve, gentiles, husband, idolatry, jesus as bridegroom, jews, love, marriage, spiritual israel, ten commandments, wife Years ago I found myself asking the question if Jesus is the last Adam, then would that mean that the church, Christ's bride, is in effect the last Eve? If not literally, at least symbolically? How to prove this, though, became more than a challenge for knowing where to even begin such a search. After much thought and deliberation I finally realised that the place that I needed to start was at the beginning with the creation of the first Eve through the first Adam. That if we, as the church, Christ's bride, are seen by God as the last Eve, if you will, then there should be correlations between the description of the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-25 and passages in the New Testament having to do with Jesus and what he did on our behalf in order to redeem his bride. This episode, the fourth in a 5 part series, begins with Genesis 2:24 proving that Jesus not only came to redeem a bride, but the bride he came to redeem, is in effect, the last Eve.

]]> Years ago I found myself asking the question if Jesus is the last Adam, then would that mean that the church, Christ's bride, is in effect the last Eve? If not literally, at least symbolically? How to prove this, though, became more than a challenge for knowing where to even begin such a search. After much thought and deliberation I finally realised that the place that I needed to start was at the beginning with the creation of the first Eve through the first Adam. That if we, as the church, Christ's bride, are seen by God as the last Eve, if you will, then there should be correlations between the description of the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:21-25 and passages in the New Testament having to do with Jesus and what he did on our behalf in order to redeem his bride. This episode, the fourth in a 5 part series, begins with Genesis 2:24 proving that Jesus not only came to redeem a bride, but the bride he came to redeem, is in effect, the last Eve.

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