Ask and it shall be given into you. This is His promise to us, that through His power we can overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. We are now free to seek the perfect will of God, and walk in His ways not our ways, and to have His thoughts and not our thoughts.
As God gave Adam the image of Christ in Adam’s creation, so Christ took on the image of flesh to atone for all of man’s sin and to give us the image of Christ.
It is the fullness of the Godhead bodily that determines all the determinate counsels of God so that all the Old Testament and New Testament truths apply to all saints in one way or another.
Our total being is unique for we have become a person within a person. What has this statement to do with the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet? . . . .
Christ gave Himself to take the burden of the law away, yet leave a record of it for man’s moral control. Christians, therefore, are free from the burden of the law, but we are not free from the moral standards of the law.
The past, the present, and the future all laid out by God for us in perfect order. In Psalm 22 we have history and time woven together. In Psalm 23 we have the blessings of our present age. In Psalm 24 we have the future to come. If you want to know what is waiting for humanity in the future, read Psalm 24.
We are a chosen generation, before the foundation of the earth we were known in Christ. We are a royal priesthood that we may offer up to God praise and glory which is the fruit of our lips. We are a nation that is unseen by man, and yet surrounded and unified by the Holy Spirit of God. We answer to the righteousness and the Holiness of God Almighty; yet, to the world we are truly a peculiar people.
Psalm 22, Part IV But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. (Psalm 22:19) Be not far from me, here is another appeal to God the Father. The loneliness of the cross is weighing heavy upon the Lord Jesus Christ, what…
Psalm 22, Part III But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. (Psalm 22:9) The Divine Son now reflects on His birth. We remember the Divine conception when the angel declared to Mary, “the Holy…
Psalm 22, Part II This Psalm is full of prophecy concerning the work of Christ. We shall look into the thoughts of the Holy Spirit. He is opening the door to our souls in three distinct views of the sufferings of Christ. First in the garden, as the Son of…
Nine Words My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art…
Why all this rage and anger? The word of God tells us why!