HE REALLY DID TAKE OUR PLACE
Jesus’ work of redemption did not cease at Calvary. 1 Jn. 2:1 says that He intercedes with the Father for us. Every time we have been tempted and succumbed, He says to the Father, “I understand and I have died for them, and I pray for them”. O, Jesus knows the pain of sin and…
BE READY, BE PRAYERFUL, AND BE FAITHFUL
There are numerous passages in the Bible that deal with the whole subject of eschatological events or end-time happenings, or the 2nd Coming, and probably one of the fullest is found in Matthew chapters 24 and 25. The New Testament just like the Old Testament looks at the end of history by using contemporary occurrences.…
WHY APOCALYPTIC SPECULATION IS INAPPROPRIATE
In 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, the apostle Paul specifically addresses a specific issue related to the 2nd Coming of Jesus and the day of the Lord. Somebody in the Thessalonian church community had been spreading wrong information in Paul’s name, saying that God’s final act of justice on human evil, the day of the Lord…
SIN IS NO LONGER A ‘MUST’ IN THE LIFE OF THE CHRISTIAN
“For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves…
DOES GRACE ENGENDER ANTINOMIANISM?
“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?” Romans 6:1 (NASB) The dialectical tension that is so obvious in most if not all Biblical truths is really picked up in this rhetorical question in verse 1. This question relates to the statement which Paul made in chapter…
THE FOCUS IS NOT YOU, IT’S CHRIST!
(read Judges 6:11-7:22) Gideon was one of the many judges God raised up in Israel during the time when the tribes were very loosely identified as they had no central shrine, and no central worship. They got into big trouble in the Judges period so God would raise up from this tribe, and that tribe…
CONFIDENCE TO ENTER THE VERY THRONE ROOM OF GOD
“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,”. (Heb. 10:19) When on Calvary where Jesus died, it says the veil in the temple – that’s the veil right before the Holy of Holies, was ripped in two from top to bottom, symbolizing the way…
HEAVEN IS NOT FUTURE, HEAVEN IS NOW
(read Colossians 3:1-2) We are alive in Christ. As He was raised from the dead, so are we raised from the dead. Heaven is not future, heaven is now; it’s not some day out there (cf. Eph. 2:6). We have intimate, immediate restoration of the image of God damaged in the fall when we trust…
OUR SIN FOR HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS – WHAT A QUID PRO QUO!
(read 2 Cor. 5:16-19) The word “reconciliation” in Greek has the idea of an “exchange”, a ‘quid pro quo’ if you please. Believers have exchanged their sin to God’s Righteousness. They have been reconciled to God through the vicarious work of Christ. The enmity between man and God because of sin and rebellion had been…
PERSEVERANCE IS AS A VALID BIBLICAL EMPHASIS AS ASSURANCE
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.” John 15:4 (NASB 1995) read verses 1-10 of John 15 Some Christians have not realized in their lives all that God wants them to be,…
ISRAEL – THE NATURAL BRANCH
“For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me until you say, ‘BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!’” Matt. 23:39 (NASB 1995) Jesus has been teaching in the temple around chapter 21 to 23 of Matthew, and closes that section out by saying some startling things…
THE CHRISTIAN’S ATTITUDE TOWARD GOVERNMENT
(read Romans chapter13) There is a difference in the Bible between how we treat civil government and how we look at it. Paul seems to be very respectful, and Peter seems to say the very same thing. But John in Revelation 13 calls human government the ‘Beast’ as the ultimate enemy of God. The anti-Christ…
Lorenzo Palon 