Let me start with this: if you are saved, and are trusting that your position in Christ has secured you a place in heaven (Eph 2:6) and that you will be preserved in Jesus Christ, but you don’t think God could preserve his words, you have a problem. God has magnified his word ...
What does the binding of Satan mean? Revelation chapter 20 verses one thru three mentions the binding of Satan. These passages are about Satan being bound at the beginning of “the one-thousand-year reign of Christ.” Here’s the scripture in Revelation chapter 20: ...
Eventually, I will recognize the truth, seek forgiveness and thank the one who has proven to be the truest and closest of brothers. Let us be authentic, Christ-focused friends to each other, so that we may assist our brothers and sisters as we grow together in the knowledge and grace of...
Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in l...
Paul also speaks of a cruciform leadership pattern that is about identifying with Christ’s death so that the life of Christ may manifest through his weakness. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who...
Additionally, in Ephesians 2:20 we read:So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whome the ...
needs to be a place where all people can freely practice religion without fear of recrimination. Therefore Christians are not nation builders, we are Kingdom builders, because our hope is not in earthly leaders, but in Christ. We usher in the Kingdom of Jesus, conveying the Good news and ...
At the right hand of the king is his mother, the Queen, who intercedes for the people with the king and is a trusted adviser to the king (see 1 Kings 3:19-20; Proverbs 31). • The Davidic monarch was the "Christ," i.e. the "Messiah" or "Anointed One." The anointed status...
I am not putting down the belief in the bible and Jesus Christ, for it is sufficient and need none other. So, I am not calling believers in general to the apologetic movement but if I may say that we are just letting the church of Christ know what we are doing, and appeal to some...
But Sacred Scripture, the written word, cannot be separated from the Living Word, Jesus Christ. In the study of the words of God written down for us in human terms that we can understand, we cannot begin to understand the spiritual meaning of the one without a living union with the ...