and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it(Matt. 16:16–18). When Christ parted with and said farewell to His disciples, He promised to send them another Comforter, the Holy Spirit, Who would instruct them, would guide (ὁδηγήσει) them into all truth, and Who woul...
JOB: I had ten more children, if that’s what you mean. But that did not “make it right.” It just means that God killed half of my children instead of all of them. I will never get over, or forget, the ten babies that God took from me in a single day. ABRAHAM: But at le...
brought sodas into the building with them. This person cut the visitors off at the pass, just in time before they crossed the threshold into the sanctuary, and politely but confidently said, “Here, I will take your drinks and place them in the refrigerator so you can have them after ...
John 15:12 – this is My commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Love is both a cause and the fruit of our justification. Rom. 12:10 – Paul commands us to love one another. Love is a good work, an act of the intellect and will, not just a feeling. 1 Cor...
“Happily the Lord Himself employs this expression of the person of the Paraclete, so as to signify not a division or severance, but a disposition (of mutual relations in the Godhead); for He says, I will pray the Father, and He shall send you another Comforter. …even the Spirit of ...
(of mutual relations in the Godhead); for He says, ‘I will pray the Father, and He shall send you another Comforter. … even the Spirit of truth,’ thus making the Paraclete distinct from Himself, even as we say that the Son is also distinct from the Father; so that He showed a...