Darkness is the way we once used to walk. Darkness is how to describe our lives before we were Christians. Futile. Empty. Devoid of meaning and significance. In Ephesians 2, Paul describes it as a walk that was according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power...
Ephesians 1:13 Meaning and Commentary Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted The Gentile believers, the Ephesians, whom the apostle now particularly addresses; and who participated of the same grace and privileges with the believing Jews; the promise belonged to all that God called, whether ...
and His plan to commission His disciples to do the same. It is therefore no surprise that Jesus’ next words carried the same meaning: “and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 16:19...
This is especially a longing of mine when I struggle with the meaning of Jesus’ words in certain accounts from the four Gospels. I want to be able to go to Jesus and say, “Hey … what did you mean here?” I still long for this, but Jesus knows what is best for us, which is...
The nature of this office is known only from the meaning of the term and the work of those who bore the designation (Acts 21:8; 2 Timothy 4:5) - persons not attached to a particular congregation, but who went about preaching the glad tidings, and otherwise building up the Church, but...
” Of course, we do not think of ourselves as prideful or arrogant, so we quickly give ourselves a pass on humility. However, if we would look deeper at another meaning for humble, we would find there are some things we need to work on (emphases added): “reflecting(thinking deeply ...
meaning of what we’ve come to celebrate. If we pause long of enough, we’d find that the true meaning has been right before us for many many years in two places: 1) The hymns of old and 2) the Scriptures which never grow old. If we pause long enough, we’ll realize that ...