Too often, we quit when we should persevere. We need a commitment that will keep us moving toward conscience-driven goals even when the darkness sets in and vision fails us. Wisely determined goals should be worked on . . . with determination!
What began to “go forth” from Jerusalem on Pentecost was the preaching of the truth about God’s means of saving the world in Christ. Since then, anyone who has heard ...
One way we might define those who are God’s people in the new covenant is that they are those who know God. And don’t misunderstand: they are those whom God ...
In the prophets, God’s judgment upon sin was always accompanied by a message of great hope for those who would come back to Him. In our study of the “new ...
It was a privilege for Israel — as the family of Abraham, the family God used to bring the Messiah into the world — to be the first to receive ...
That which could never have been known about God, it is now possible for us to know. Of course, Jesus did not by His bodily characteristics show us what God ...
Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30). So it is a colossal truth that Paul presents when he says that in Christ “the whole fullness of deity ...
Can God be known? Yes, He can. God has, in Jesus Christ, made it possible for us to know Him (John 1:18; 17:3). Sin robbed us of the truth about ...
The portrayal in Isaiah 53 of Jesus’ silent, lamb-like suffering is part of the depiction of what would happen to the Messiah as He underwent the punishment for our sins. ...
All of the phrases in Isaiah 53 say what many other Scriptures affirm: the Messiah’s death was vicarious. He suffered FOR us — substituting Himself on our behalf at the ...
When God entered the world as a human being, He did so in very lowly circumstances. He wanted those who would be attracted to the gospel to be people who ...
Immersion in water wouldn’t produce the forgiveness of sins if somebody did that in a rote, mechanical way, with no genuine penitence or faith in Christ. Nevertheless, Peter says that ...
In Acts 8:34-36, the Ethiopian saw that Jesus fulfilled Isaiah 53. Then he concluded that Jesus, as the Messiah, was his Savior. Next, he listened to how the gospel must ...