Month: January 2023
The Cross is Where Justice and Peace Met
How can God allow sinful man to come to Him? He is a holy God. He has to judge every sin. His Holiness will condemn everyone and no one will be able to come. On the other hand, He is a loving God. God loves sinners but He has to punish sin. If He allows…
Faith Pictures
The Bible is full of faith pictures to give you visions from the Lord. Abraham lived at a time there was no scroll or bible. God used stars and the sun to build Abraham’s faith and to give him visions. People got to know the Lord from objects in the sky because The heavens declare the…
The Age of Grace
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God.…—Isaiah 61:2 The Greek word for “acceptable” here is dektos. According to the Greek scholar Thayer, dektos is “that most blessed time when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.” Praise be to God, we are still in…
Pure Heart
Acts 15:8-9 says “So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.” Their hearts were purified by their believing right—believing that those who believed in the Lord would receive the remission of sins and be made the righteousness…
Right Time, Right Place
The more you receive the abundance of grace and gift of righteousness, the more you will reign, the more you will perform, the more you will be responsible, the more you will glorify the Lord, and the more you will fulfill your call, duty, and destiny. Because Mary did the one thing needful and focused…
Head Knowledge vs Heart Knowledge
In order to be a chief priest or a Pharisee, one needed to be a student of the Word of God from a young age, and to know the Torah from front to back. Yet the religious leaders, who were zealous for the law and knew all about the Torah, were the very people who…
A quick test of a doctrine or interpretation
People can argue about doctrine, about law, and grace, about the confession of sin, about your eternal security, and about different Bible interpretations. But at the end of the day, let me teach you how to test every doctrine, teaching, and scriptural interpretation.Ask yourself—how is our Lord Jesus valued in this teaching? Does it make…
Knowledge of God and of Jesus
2 Peter 1: 2 “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord” The word for “knowledge” in Greek is epignosis, which refers to a heart experience of what and Who God is, rather than mere intellectual knowledge of facts about Him. It is the knowledge that…