He has given you everything you need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3) because He has given you Himself (John 15:26) and He is life, (John 1:4) and He is God (John 10:30 & 20:28). He drives out fear, because He is perfect love, and that’s what perfect love does (1 John 4:18). You…
This is the question that must be answered by everyone.
We all know that the Lord Jesus atoned for our sins, right? Actually, He did far more than that.
Moses was a mediator between God and the people of Israel (see Galatians 3:19-20). Then under the New Covenant we are told that there is one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus (see 1 Timothy 2:5).
As we travel through enemy territory here in the valley of the shadow of death, we can remember that the Lord Jesus has subdued our enemy so that we can drive him out quickly.
Perhaps this is what James had in mind in James 4:7 when he wrote, “resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (NASB 2020)
Jesus is awesome, and that is the biggest understatement in the history of the world.
The doctrine of the Trinity is the best way we have found to represent this three-yet-one, one-yet-three God, but like all such doctrine it is imperfect due to our limitations.
Jesus claimed to do nothing but what the Father told Him, and this passage tells us there is something He did not know. How is it then that we can say that the three Persons of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) are co-equal
Jesus is the representative man. Just as Adam represented all people when he chose to sin against God, so in Christ we are re-created, reborn, and made righteous when we choose to believe Him for it.
When Jesus was crucified, we were crucified with Him.When Jesus was raised, we who have agreed to be reconciled to God by Him were raised as well.
Jesus is the thread of Scripture. Jesus is the fulfillment of Scripture. Jesus is foreshadowed in the Old Testament and manifested in the New.
If the Old Testament makes anything clear, it makes it clear that God does not dwell in unclean unholy places. It also makes clear (as does the Revelation) that God dwells among His people. If we are not ACTUALLY righteous, holy, blameless, then He CANNOT live in us.
He is the Message and the Messenger of God
I and the Father are One
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, the Christ.
His birth was announced by angels.
They brought good tidings of great joy for all people.
The Lord Jesus introduces Himself to the church at Philadelphia as “He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens.”
REVELATION Number 36Introducing the Lord JesusPart 4 In Revelation 3:1 we find the Lord’s letter to Sardis. There, the Lord introduces Himself as “He who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.” We know from Revelation 1:20 that the seven stars are the angels, or messengers, of the churches. Having earlier written…
REVELATION Number 35Introducing the Lord JesusPart 3 Our Lord introduces Himself in the letter to the church at Thyatira as “The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and feet like burnished bronze” Revelation 2:18 (NASB 2020). This is the only time in The Revelation where, the Lord Jesus is identified…
REVELATION Number 33 Introducing the Lord Jesus Part 1 The Lord Jesus Christ introduces Himself in the letter to each church. The facets of His character and identity that He selects to highlight vary. By contemplating them in the aggregate, we gain a more comprehensive view of His vast greatness and majesty, His holiness and…
REVELATION The Word and Testimony of Christ Revelation 1:1–3 (NASB 2020) “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the…
Christmas Light At Christmastime we see beautiful light displays like no other time of the year. Colorful and sparkling lights are depicted in movies. Neighborhoods have competitions in which bigger and more impressive light displays result in awards and bestow bragging rights. Indoors and out, trees are decorated with lights. Often a star or angel…
A Religionist Finds the True Gospel There was once a religious zealot named Saul. He studied his religion under Gamaliel, the top teacher of the day. His credentials were many and included these, recorded in Philippians 3:4–6 (NASB 2020) 4 although I myself could boast as having confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else…
As He Is, So Are We I want to share my response with you to a question I once received. The questioner asked that I comment on the relationship between two passages of scripture, Philippians 2:6-7 and 1 John 4:17. As with many questions that arise from scripture, context is the key to understanding. Here…
Your Brother Jesus Hebrews 2:9-11 “But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom…
The Introduction The book of Hebrews is introduced with some truly wonderful words. Hebrews 1:1-4 “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also…
Gentiles Jews and Promises Someone recently asked, “What is The Father going to do with us as new covenant believers? Are we being simply grafted into the Jewish faith as some say. Then heirs of their OT promises?” I’ll include a few verses here, but after you read this article, please carefully read Romans chapter…
