“Wherein He (God) hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself.” Ephesians 1:8,9 What is a mystery from God’s perspective but that which is hidden, not revealed as yet, but which in His…
“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 Throughout the Old and New Testaments, we find that God reveals Himself as the Covenant Keeping God. What is a covenant but that commitment by two individuals to honor and agreed upon a certain…
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.” John 17:1 In the days of Habakkuk the prophet, whose book we find in the Old Testament, we find a man of God who is deeply torn by what might be termed a coming storm. However, it is more than a…
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 Christianity is not a set of rules, regulations, principles and promises. It is a LIFE lived, but one which is specific beyond comprehension or measure, unless we limit God by unbelief in…
“Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him and bless His name.” Psalm 100:4 When Satan confronted the Lord Jesus in the wilderness, offering to him “all the kingdoms of the world,” (Luke 4:5), he did so with the power to accomplish it. We know this from the…
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.” Galatians 6:14 Why is the cross of Christ central in the proclamation of God to the world that salvation has come to men, a salvation that…
“Keep silence before Me, O islands: and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.” Isaiah 41:1 In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he speaks of his calling by God, “…who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me…
“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that he died, H died unto sin once, but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.” Romans 6:9,10 There are many things which make Christianity the eternal certainty that it is, with regard to…
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.” Colossians 2:6,7 There was so much involved, when in the history of Israel, after in some measure she had returned from the captivity, and had begun to rebuild the temple,…
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds…” 2 Corinthians 10:4 In the spiritual warfare in which the true believer in Christ is engaged, Paul gives us a vision of the soldier of Christ in his letter to the Ephesian church. This picture, and…