GIG287 Seeing Him Who Is Invisible
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #287 Title: Seeing Him Who Is Invisible Web Description: What is faith? According to Hebrews 11, faith is the evidence of things not seen. And men and women of faith saw God who is unseen and brought into this world His works that were unseen in their day. Let us be those whose faith does the same in our day. Instead of struggling to believe, dwell where you are seeing Him who is invisible and make His will visible in the earth. Show Notes: Yeshua (Jesus) said, “All things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”...
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GIG286 New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #286 Title: New Year’s Connection With Our Fellow Workers Web Description: Elijah stood at the entrance of his cave with his awareness fixed on the Lord to hear how the Lord would direct him. And today we stand at the precipice of a new year, determined to stand before the Lord with an awareness of Him that hears His instructions, understands His directions, and applies them to our lives. Show Notes: In a New Year’s meeting with our , we review the past year and look to the year ahead. Last year, Hargrave Ministries...
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GIG285 Renewing Your Mind
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #285 Title: Renewing Your Mind Web Description: Imagine a recording continually playing in your mind, telling you how unworthy you are and how incapable you are of doing the will of God. This in effect is what takes place in our subconscious minds and works against what we are consciously trying to achieve. This podcast delves into the subconscious issues that we all face and offers some scriptural and practical solutions. Show Notes: We know that Christ’s sacrifice on the cross brought salvation to the world. We also...
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GIG284 Receive God’s Glory, Oneness, and Love
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #284 Web Description: Do you ever struggle to believe that God truly loves you? Are you ever discouraged by the lack of unity among Christians? According to John 17, the glory we have received from Christ is the answer to those problems. His glory means that the Father loves us with the same love He has for Christ, and together we have the same oneness that Christ and the Father have. This is our reality. Let us live in it today. Show Notes: Religion tends to put everything in the past or in the future. And when we are conditioned by...
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GIG You Are the Temple
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #283 Title: You Are the Temple Web Description: Hanukkah celebrates the reality that we are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in us. We take this time to dedicate ourselves on a deeper level to be those in whom God is living and moving. Therefore, as those who are His dwelling place, we wash away any unbelief and separate ourselves from the pollution of this world. Show Notes: Hanukkah celebrates a time of miracles when the people of Israel defeated the powerful kingdom that was oppressing them and took back...
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GIG282 My Resolution for the New Year
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #282 Air Date: 12/31/2025 My Resolution for the New Year Web Description: The period from the ascension of Christ to the present has been labeled the Church Age. In reality it should be called the Age of the Holy Spirit. Yeshua (Jesus) did not tell His disciples, “The Father will teach you how to have good churches.” He promised that they would be endued with power by the Holy Spirit and be His witnesses in the earth. My New Year’s resolution is to change my emphasis from church to being filled with the Holy Spirit first and endued with...
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GIG281 Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #281 Title: Christmas, Celebrating the Son of Man Web Description: The symbolism that most often defines Christmas is the Nativity scene. And the Nativity scene is about the reality that Christ, the Messiah, the Savior, the King of kings, was born and lived as a human being. At Christmas we are not celebrating His divinity. We are celebrating His humanity. We are celebrating the fact that He came to earth as a man who went through everything we go through and is thus able to lead us and help us through everything. Show Notes: ...
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GIG280 Hanukkah—Do Not Be Conformed to this World
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #280 Categories: Biblical Feasts Web Description: In Romans 12, Paul exhorts us not to be conformed to this world. That is what Hanukkah is all about. It expresses the refusal of the Jewish people to be converted into something that was against the will of God and against the teachings of God. We as believers in Yeshua (Jesus) should have the same resistance to the culture that is set to move us away from the Scriptures, away from our Christian values, and convert us to a different way of life. Hanukkah is not a substitute for Christmas....
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GIG279 Eight Reasons for Christians to Celebrate Hanukkah
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #279 Categories: Biblical Feasts Web Description: Hanukkah may be best known for the lighting of the menorah and the miracle of the oil lasting for eight days in the Temple following the Maccabean revolt. But the true heart of the Hanukkah celebration is the cleansing of the altar and the rededication of the Temple after a small group of Jewish farmers had defeated their enemies. Just as there are eight candles burning on the menorah during the celebration of Hanukkah, there are at least eight good reasons for Christians to celebrate...
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GIG278 Walking With God Is Doing
Growing In God with Gary Hargrave
Growing In God Podcast Program Number: GIG #278 Title: Walking with God is Doing Web Description: How do we walk with God? By taking steps to act on what God is telling us to do. The Scriptures are more than ideas to learn about and discuss. They are a way for God to speak directly to us what He wants us to do. We can know His will for us in the Scriptures when we are willing to do His will. And we can know the blessings of a walk with God when we find the way to do His will as He makes it real to us in His Word. Show Notes: There is an abundance of material available to...
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Program Number: GIG #270
Title: Atonement and Our Purification
Web Description: We are coming to the Day of Atonement, which has great significance for us as Christians. It is about the forgiveness of our sins, something we understand well. But it is also about something we need a greater revelation and appropriation of, and that is our purification and the removal of our sins. Let this be our experience as we celebrate the Day of Atonement this year.
Show Notes: We read in Leviticus 16 that the Day of Atonement is about cleansing the people of their sins. It was a solemn assembly, a time for the people to humble themselves and repent of their sins. Then the first goat was sacrificed as a sin offering, speaking to the forgiveness of their sins. But there was also a second sacrifice. The goat of removal was sent into the wilderness to take away all the iniquity of the people.
Most Christians relate to Christ who is our Atonement in the context of the forgiveness of sins. But the Day of Atonement is about being cleansed of our sins. And cleansing is more than external washing. It is about our purification. The prophecy of the Messiah in Malachi tells us that He comes for the very purpose of purification. Yeshua (Jesus) HaMashiach, the Messiah, came for our purification, which along with forgiveness is the cleansing and removal of our sins.
Therefore, we absolutely should celebrate the Day of Atonement this year. And as we celebrate it, we should remember that our atonement is not only about the forgiveness of sin. It is also about the purification of the believer, enabling us to truly enter the presence of the Father. With great thankfulness we reach in during this time to humble ourselves before Him and appropriate all that He has provided for us on this Day of Atonement.
Key Verses:
• Leviticus 16:29–31. “It is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you.”
• Leviticus 16:18–22. “The goat shall bear on itself all their iniquities to a solitary land.”
• Malachi 3:1–3. “He will purify the sons of Levi.”
• Hebrews 10:1–2. “The worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins.”
• Psalm 103:12. “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.”
• Hebrews 10:14–23. “Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean.”
Quotes:
• “The Lord through the blood of Christ forgives us. But again, there’s something more that the Day of Atonement is pointing to that we want to receive. And that is this removing out of us the iniquity and the sin so that we don’t continue going through the same process of sinning.”
• “We as believers are not just to live lives having been forgiven of our sin. We are to live lives that are more represented by this event in the Day of Atonement that we are forgiven but also cleansed and purified.”
• “When God forgives, He does forget. He remembers our sin no more. But He goes beyond that because in the purification He is then able to put His law upon our heart and upon our mind.”
Takeaways:
1. On the Day of Atonement two sacrifices were made. The first sacrifice was to forgive the sins of the people. The second sacrifice was to remove the sins of the people. We understand the forgiveness of our sins in Christ but not so much the removal of our sins.
2. Atonement is for our cleansing. And that is not just cleansing as we relate to cleansing ourselves by taking a bath or cleaning something by wiping the surface of it. It is talking about purification.
3. Malachi tells us that when Messiah comes, He is like a refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap and will sit as a smelter. The sacrifice of Christ forgives our sins but also puts us through the process of purification that is like the refining and purifying of gold or silver.