OpenHeaven.com | David Seargent | Activity https://www.openheaven.com/members/dafydd/activity/ Activity feed for David Seargent. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:31:10 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 903eb1d269ea906b9d13f4702ec68b28 David Seargent started the topic Discerning God's will & Spheres of Influence in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION – Articles, Personal, Encouragement, Prayer, Testimonies, Fellowship, Missions , Revival, etc. https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/discerning-gods-will-spheres-of-influence/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:10:06 -0500 In 17th. Century England, God raised up a prophet named George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement. Unlike reformers such as Luther and Calvin, Fox had no great theological dispute with the “official” church of his time, but unlike most preachers of his day he saw Christianity as something to be experienced and not merely believed as an…[Read more]

]]> 0eb786922d0826f528146958f47f1529 David Seargent started the topic Christ-as-us & Kingdom of God in the forum KINGDOM TEACHING - Articles, Videos, Discussion https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/christ-as-us-kingdom-of-god/ Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:43:34 -0400 That great saint of last century, Norman Grubb, preached the rule of Christ within us, as us (i.e. as the Source of our life) and through us. It follows that if we were always obedient to Christ within us, the Kingdom would be manifest here and now. Please read article at daffydd.simplesite.com regarding this vital message.

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]]> d7ac831dab25a9a9ad96a4b4c50f7664 David Seargent replied to the topic Growth in the Kingdom - By Janelle Hatten in the forum KINGDOM TEACHING - Articles, Videos, Discussion https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/growth-in-the-kingdom-by-janelle-hatten/#post-11435 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:11:11 -0400 We can only grow if we are broken; if we no longer act from our own ego, but from the Spirit of Christ within. Meditate on Gal. 2:20 until this becomes, not just part of our theology, but part of our life. Our true life is from Christ within. Any other “life” is sin and ultimately death, no matter how “good” we might seem to be. If possible,…[Read more]

]]> 1b51ff90110b09e637b292bb3e44e2a8 David Seargent started the topic God has placed us on a special planet in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION – Articles, Personal, Encouragement, Prayer, Testimonies, Fellowship, Missions , Revival, etc. https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/god-has-placed-us-on-a-special-planet/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 06:00:18 -0400 If astronomical science has shown us anything in recent years, it is just how special the Earth is! Although many science textbooks still say that the Earth is “average” and “not special” those astronomers who study the conditions for life in the universe tell a very different story.

Compared with the other rocky planets in our solar system,…[Read more]

]]> cba2bc7288b474ce6a7bb1254cd473df David Seargent replied to the topic Jesus Crucified during a Solar Eclipse? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION – Articles, Personal, Encouragement, Prayer, Testimonies, Fellowship, Missions , Revival, etc. https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/jesus-crucified-during-a-solar-eclipse/#post-11386 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 03:18:48 -0400 This is an interesting suggestion, but there are some serious problems with it.

For one thing, the length of the darkness was too long for a solar eclipse. The partial phases are not really “dark” – in fact, the eye adapts to the reduced sunlight and hardly notices the “twilight” phase, making the few minutes of near-total darkness at totality…[Read more]

]]> b84bde80c9a1e0732c46b305878302e8 David Seargent started the topic The Kingdom & Christ Living in Us in the forum KINGDOM TEACHING - Articles, Videos, Discussion https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/the-kingdom-christ-living-in-us/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:14:18 -0400 Recently, God led me to a little book called “It’s As Simple As This” which, although not specifically about the Kingdom of God, has shed much light on that subject. The simple title and brevity of this book gives little hint of the depth of teaching that it contains, but of chief relevance is the light that it sheds on the teaching of Paul summe…[Read more]

]]> 376a11f4440a61ddc1000d8a09a651b1 David Seargent replied to the topic The Kingdom of God is within. in the forum KINGDOM TEACHING - Articles, Videos, Discussion https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within/#post-11031 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 01:07:20 -0400 Further to the above, I should add that the “Kingdom consciousness” is also the awareness of the old sinful self having been crucified with Christ and therefore DEAD, GONE, VANISHED. It can no longer “compete” with Christ within for control of one’s life, so temptation to sin no longer arises from it. Such temptation is from Satan or the human…[Read more]

]]> f4126b815f15757b03d9164c8177fcd5 David Seargent replied to the topic The Kingdom of God is within. in the forum KINGDOM TEACHING - Articles, Videos, Discussion https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within/#post-10992 Mon, 06 Aug 2018 03:49:56 -0400 When Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is within you, the “you” seems to have been collective and is sometimes translated as “in your midst”. Nevertheless, the presence of Christ within us by the Holy Spirit is strongly taught in the New Testament. The”religious consciousness” approaches Christ as Other, in a sense of worship. The move to the…[Read more]

]]> b6ae858c70e87205687fed5888263622 David Seargent started the topic Self Development courses - sinful? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION – Articles, Personal, Encouragement, Prayer, Testimonies, Fellowship, Missions , Revival, etc. https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/self-development-courses-sinful/ Mon, 06 Aug 2018 01:07:38 -0400 In the opinion of that great saint of last century, Norman P Grubb, “self-development” is impossible and its  pursuit is sinful! His reason for saying this is because the belief that there is a (more or less) neutral natural human ego (fallen, but able to be redeemed) is an illusion. On the contrary, we are either governed by “the sin that is in…[Read more]

]]> 5eda9e25227f77737b284d7ae04516e5 David Seargent started the topic Evil in the best of all possible worlds in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION – Articles, Personal, Encouragement, Prayer, Testimonies, Fellowship, Missions , Revival, etc. https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/evil-in-the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/ Wed, 11 Jul 2018 01:44:26 -0400 The philosopher, G. F. Stout, taught that because God is all-good the only world worthy of His creation is the best of all possible. But by this he did not mean the “safest” or the one in which humans would be most comfortable. Stout meant the one that contained the maximum number of virtues. But some virtues can only exist in a struggle with…[Read more]

]]> 012aae6d2d4d22fdf8512e3a83914f35 David Seargent started the topic Inner transformation & Kingdom of God in the forum KINGDOM TEACHING - Articles, Videos, Discussion https://www.openheaven.com/forums/topic/inner-transformation-kingdom-of-god/ Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:09:57 -0400 <p align=”left”><span style=”font-family: Times New Roman, serif;”><span style=”font-size: medium;”>The Kingdom of God is surely central to Christianity. We may note that the opening petition of the so-called Lord’s Prayer (which should really be called the “Disciples’ Prayer”, as it is really the model of prayer given by Jesus to His followe…[Read more]

]]> 545203f1c4eb4500964af5b8d2ab9523 David Seargent became a registered member https://www.openheaven.com/activity/p/302/ Sat, 23 Jun 2018 02:46:26 -0400 1