Lessons From The Tent

About Lessons From The Tent

As the title says, this is a podcast about just one thing. Each lesson is roughly six and a half minutes long with the focus on what is the purpose of life. Please don’t confuse this with a religious podcast because it certainly is not. This is a podcast about life from God’s perspective – what He created it to be. Unfortunately, whenever God is mentioned, people instantly think we are talking about religion. That’s a shame because God hates to be confused with man made religion. God is the author and giver of life. Mankind created religion I suppose to help soothe their frustration/discomfort with their personal struggles. And because religion doesn’t solve those issues, we keep creating more religious expressions under the guise that this one is better than that one. I will not be picking on any religious group during these podcasts. I only hope to introduce you to the whole purpose of life on earth according to the Creator of all things and how He designed us to live. I hope you will give these Lessons From The Tent a try and get to understand the purpose for your life. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at mike@lessonsfromthetent.com

Publisher

Mike Bradley

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Sept 2025

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

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   9 Oct 2026

   Living in the Kingdom - The Real You | Section 05 Episode 56

   SECTION 5 LESSON 56 Living in the kingdom – The real you Biblical references: Ephesians 4:17-19 (1) Romans 6:11, 12 (2) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. This lesson is about how to live in the kingdom of God as the title suggests. But I have added at the end of the title these three words “the real you.” Though they are descriptive of this lesson, they are also a caveat, meaning I’m giving a warning about the information that is about to be presented. According to the title of Living in the Kingdom, you wouldn’t think I need to give you any kind of warning about that. So, what type of warning would I possibly need to give you concerning this? The reason I say this is because The real you part of this lesson will expose who you really are to everyone listening to these podcasts, so you probably ought to know that before we begin. There is something nice about this though. I am also going to expose your brother, your sister, your boss, your best friend, your mom, your dad, your spouse and all nine billion people on the planet. So at least you don’t need to think I’m only singling you out. This passage I am referring to exposes me as much as it exposes you and everyone else. Here are the words of God I am talking about. “So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.” (1) What a condemnation of our fallen humanity this is. Some of you listening may want to pound my head in for saying this about you but please give me a little mercy. God is the one who inspired these words, and He knows what He is talking about. Besides, I am not ready to be stoned to death right now. After all, I just beat stage four cancer so I would like to live a little longer. With this passage God does condemn all nine billion people alive on this planet. But what I find so interesting is these words are written to God’s favored ones to teach them not live what this passage says. If someone is not in the kingdom, they have no hope of living differently from what this passage says. A person must have the powerful kingdom reign of God in them to live the surrendered life they were created for. But even though you are born again and have the kingdom reigning inside you now, you still have your fallen nature inside of you. And if you are not working daily to consider it dead as the apostle Paul says, (2) then your fallen nature will be influencing your life more than the Holy Spirit does as this passage teaches. God’s words here are as true a description of us fallen people as has ever been written. If you remember in last week’s lesson, we learned God designed a plan at the beginning of time to fix us fallen humans and destroy the works of the devil. This has already taken place through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. This is why God can rescue His favored ones from the domain of darkness and transfer them to the kingdom of His beloved Son. So where does that leave us today? I’m glad you asked because the next section of lessons is all about what God wants from us now that we are living in His kingdom. And what He wants is both simple and complex. It’s simple because God simply wants His favored ones to actively participate in a relational partnership with Him. But it is complex because there is so much wrong about us that needs to be changed, so we can fully experience this amazing relationship with Him. This passage we are looking at reveals many things about us but the most significant truth it teaches is we are, darkened in our understanding of God and His ways. This causes us to be excluded from the life of God be

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   28 Sept 2026

   Gods Plan for Dealing with the Fall and the Evil Snake | Section 04 Episode 55

   SECTION 4 Everyone is well acquainted with purpose. The majority of things we do every day all have a distinct purpose for them. Some are obviously far more important than others, but we cannot function without purpose. This is how God made us and it is how normal responsible people live. This next section is all focused on the singular purpose God has for us humans. We started these lessons with the reason we humans are here on earth and that is to inherit the kingdom. But now we are shrinking down that purpose to an infinitely small one that is to actually touch every facet of our lives. I always find it amazing how much God is able to take what appears to be a small thing and expand it into truths of gigantic magnitude. That is what we will see with this section titled The Ultimate Purpose of The Good News of the Kingdom. I hope you are able to understand the purpose God has for your life in a whole new magnificent way as we work through section 4. LESSON 55 God’s plan for dealing with the fall of mankind and the evil snake. Biblical References: Genesis 22:18a (1) Galatians 3:16 (2) John 3:16/John 17:3 (3) Hebrews 4:16 (4) 1 John 3:8b (5) Hebrews 10:12/Colossians 2:13, 14 (6) Hebrews 10:18/Psalm 103:12/Colossians 1;13, 14 (7) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. Following the two previous lessons, today I would like to continue by examining one of the most exciting verses in the Bible. We are going to see God’s plan to fix the fall and stop the evil snake’s power to prevent God’s favored ones from continually living the blessed life. To accomplish such a thing would be impossible except that this is all the result of God’s doings. No one else but God could do this. It is also the one thing Satan has spent all his efforts trying to prevent. But with all his greatest efforts, he could not stop God. And there is no chance of anything preventing God’s plan from taking place exactly as He said it would. The passage I am referring to is a prophecy concerning a future seed of Abraham which is how God will restore us fallen, un-surrendered people, back to the original blessed life. It is also what God does to dismantle Satan’s power over the favored ones. Here is the passage I am referring to. It may only be one sentence long, but its truth flows through every moment of time since the first day of creation and it will still be working forever after the last day of life on earth. Here is that prophecy. “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,” (1) God is speaking to Abraham, who is considered the father of the Jewish people. And this prophecy says that his seed will come and restore all the nations back to the original blessed way of living. The seed this is referring to is Christ as the Bible so beautifully states. Listen as God gives more details about this prophecy. “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, ‘And to seeds.’ As referring to many, but rather to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ.” (2) This word blessed used in this prophecy is the same word used in Genesis 1 which means Jesus came to restore us fallen humans back to the original “blessed” relationship that God established with Adam and Eve in the beginning. And Jesus is not restoring us to a once-a-week blessed experience during a church service. Jesus’ restoration allows God’s favored ones to live in this blessed or surrendered state of being twenty-four hours a day. When Adam and Eve listened to Satan and un-surrendered to God, their relationship with Him was instantly broken. In the new intimate partnership that Jesus restores us too, this relationship is eternal, meaning it cannot be undone. (3) Nothing can change it. This prophecy concerning Jesus reminds us how important the blessed life is to God because this is the very reason Jesus allowed Himself to be crucified. I remind you again, that He wasn’t crucified to keep us from hell. As i

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   24 Sept 2026

   The Evil Snake in Action | Section 04 Episode 54

   SECTION 4 Everyone is well acquainted with purpose. The majority of things we do every day all have a distinct purpose for them. Some are obviously far more important than others, but we cannot function without purpose. This is how God made us and it is how normal responsible people live. This next section is all focused on the singular purpose God has for us humans. We started these lessons with the reason we humans are here on earth and that is to inherit the kingdom. But now we are shrinking down that purpose to an infinitely small one that is to actually touch every facet of our lives. I always find it amazing how much God is able to take what appears to be a small thing and expand it into truths of gigantic magnitude. That is what we will see with this section titled The Ultimate Purpose of The Good News of the Kingdom. I hope you are able to understand the purpose God has for your life in a whole new magnificent way as we work through section 4. LESSON 54 The evil snake at work Biblical References: Genesis 1:28a (1) Job 1:1 (2) Job 1:8 (3) Job 1:13-15 (4) Job 1:16 (5) Job 1:17 (6) Job 1:18 (7) Job 2:7 (8) Job 2:5 (9) 1 Peter 5:8 NLT (10) Good morning and welcome to another Lesson From The Tent. Let me begin by reminding you where we left off last week. We started to examine the word blessed which is one of the most important words in the Bible because it shows us how God wants us to relate to Him. (1) All humans are to think of God and respond to Him through the blessed life. And what is essential to know is every human will be held accountable for whether they did or did not relate to God exactly like this. If someone truly does surrender to God in respect, honor, praise and worship, this is something impossible to hide. A person cannot have a proper relationship with God in secret. The attributes of the definition of the original word blessed must be expressed outwardly through the way a person lives if someone truly surrenders to God. Now, let’s bring back the evil snake Satan. God does not reveal how long the first two humans lived in the Garden of Eden before Satan came into the picture. But when he did, immediately he devised an evil plan to trick the first two humans into un-surrendering to God. So how did Satan get them to do this because they did not have a natural bent toward sin as we do? They were still in the righteous image of God. He did this by causing Adam and Eve to question whether God really told them not to eat from one particular tree in the garden. And once Satan got them to doubt their disobedience to His commandment naturally followed. And when Satan got Adam and Eve to un-surrender and disobey God, they then quickly hid from Him in fear. They were no longer in the righteous image of God because their disobedience had completely distorted God’s righteous image in them. Since then, every person is no longer in the righteous image of God at birth. Because of this it is not easy for anyone to live surrendered to God’s reign in the manner we should. But there is yet another reason why it is so difficult to stay true to God’s original blessed way to live. In the book of Job, we see Satan doing what he loves to do, and it is a scarry thing. Here is how the story begins. “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.” (2) As you can see, God considered Job a special person and Satan could not stand that. He hates everyone surrendered to God’s reign, and especially if they live the way Job did. But now we get to see the evil heart of Satan in action. I want to make this very clear at the beginning, God loves Job, but He allowed Satan to extremely test him. (3) Satan is limited by God concerning what he can do, but what we see is how evil the snake Satan is when allowed to tempt God’s favored ones. Satan first causes the unruly Sabeans to come take Jobs oxen and donkey

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