“The Last Days” refers to the period between Christ’s past bodily resurrection and His future bodily return. Why is it termed “The Last Days?” Because it is the last period of God’s redemptive work in the earth. The Last Days is the consummation of redemptive history–when we bask and work within the victory of Christ’s [...]
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I Cor 15:24: “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.” Leave a comment
Ex 20:5: “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;” Leave a comment
Bad habits, bad relationships, the fruit of sin, etc, are generally passed to the next generation. Why is God a jealous God? It is important to understand how the word “jealous” is used. Its use in Exodus 20:5 to describe God is different from how it is used to describe the sin of jealousy (Galatians [...]
Luke 24: 49: “Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye…until ye be endured with power from on high.” Leave a comment
Jesus was saying, in essense, “If you try and evangelize in your own strength, you’ll fall on your face in a short time. You can’t do anything for me unless you’re full of the Holy Ghost.
Mal 2:10 Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Leave a comment
Though the phrase may be cliche, there is a “Brotherhood of man,” and its foundation is that God created us all. The shallow non-thinker denies this and instead creates some theory out of his own imagination to explain creation. Their imagination has never been successful at explaining what is, so instead they fortify their beliefs [...]
Col 1:2: To God’s holy people in Colossae, the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father Leave a comment
This letter was written to a specific audience: the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ and in this case the ones in Colossae. Not to the world.
Matt 5: 16: In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Leave a comment
You have the ability to bring praise to the Father from others. Luther said that it is as well-pleasing to God to sweep the floor as to preach the gospel if it is done in the right spirit. This has not always been the church view, however. Hans Nielsen Hauge joined Luther on this point. [...]
John 1:18: No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. Leave a comment
This revelation is complete. Before the New Testament or any of its books and letters even existed, what writings the world had were only like a half image. Holy men in vain tried to read its meaning til the fullness of Christ came. (I Peter:11-15). But, now, that unto us a Child is born the [...]
Rom 6:4: Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Leave a comment
The day after Easter, the newspaper headline read: “Entire World Celebrates the Risen Christ.” On the same page under smaller headings ran stories about war and death, racial clashes, and an ultimatum issued to the United States by a hostile nation. How contradictory. The headline declares that the entire world celebrates the risen Christ, but [...]
Deut 21:18-21: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. Leave a comment
The community of the atonement cannot tolerate habitual criminals, nor subsidize them by a prison system.
Phil 2:9- 11: herefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Leave a comment
The church’s earliest baptismal confession “Jesus Christ is Lord” was taken from here. A lord, sovereign, or God, for such is the meaning of kurios, is total owner and controller of us, and baptism means that God is now our Lord, our owner. Nothing can be withheld from Him. The verses preceding these kind of [...]
