Bible study
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(Read John 11:38-44) There’s a man that Jesus loved who’s going to get sick and die, and Jesus is glad about it? I would never say Jesus caused Lazarus’ death, and i would never believe that. But i do believe God took Lazarus’ death in a fallen world and used it to glorify his…
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(read 1 Pet. 3:1-7; Rom. 13:1-2) Christianity is a re-orientation of our world view. It introduces the concept of submission which is exactly the opposite of what we culturally think about individual human rights and the worth and dignity man. Something has changed in us. As believers, now we are to be submissive to earthly…
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In the course of my personal Bible study, I have struggled with a realization that has somehow defined my over-all worldview and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. This has become a path that led me to great peace about the Bible in a day when there is still tremendous controversy about the Bible even…
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but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:7 NASB ‘Kenosis’ – “…but He emptied Himself…” This has been a most controversial, and a most argumentative issue among theologians. Did Jesus leave his deity in Heaven? What did Jesus empty Himself of? I believe this kenosis passage is…
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Psalm 19 basically talks about how has God communicated to human beings. Man has fallen into sin, and you and i are not what God has intended us to be. Fallen human beings only use 10-20% of their potential brain. We are drastically hindered from being the marvelous creatures made in the image of God,…
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(read Rev. 5:1-5) As John wailed because of the specter that no one was found worthy to open the book, one of the elders (acting as an angelic interpreter) comforts John, and tells him to ‘stop wailing, for the seals will be opened. John finds that Christ who is here called ‘the Lion of the…
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The Sermon on the mount (cf. Matthew chapters 5-7) proves to be a great source of blessing and a great controversy at the same time, for the ideal is so high that people say, “We can’t just keep that”. I see the Sermon on the mount as somewhat like the 10 Commandments in the sense…
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The apostle Paul uses the concept of ‘sanctification’ in two ways. it’s used initially of our relationship to Christ upon trusting Him and on His finished work on the cross. It is a ‘position’ (righteousness) imputed upon us solely by the grace of God through faith. Secondly, believers need to ‘possess’ that “position” through an…
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“And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:” – John 16:8 (NKJV) One of the tasks of the Holy Spirit is in connection with the Lost World. He will convict the world concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment. But, what does it mean He’ll convict the…
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Paul wrote in Romans 8:20, “…creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God”. But in Romans 8:28, “God causes all things to…