What Does It Mean To Be The Light of the World and the Salt of the Earth For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: Walk as children of Light (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the…
Category: God the Son
Some Thoughts On Balance and Maturity (Part One)
Some Thoughts On Balance and Maturity Not As One Who Has Arrived But As One Desiring To Be Led More Deeply In The Way I. THE CHRISTIAN’S OBEDIENCE TO THE WILL OF GOD After the inner man, the Christian absolutely desires to be obedient to all of the exhortations, commands, and verbal imperatives of God.…
Who Is The True Israel?
Who Is The True Israel? Who Is The True Israel (PDF Version) I. INTRODUCTION The entire premise of this article, and the passages contained herein, is that Christ is the True Israel of God. Everything found in the Old Testament and in the New Testament concerning Israel must be viewed through the blessed lens of…
The Death Knell of Water Baptism
The Death Knell of Water Baptism [Colossians 2:8-23] Colossians 2:8-23 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him,…
The One Spiritual Baptism
The One Spiritual Baptism Our Baptism ἐν (in/with/by) Christ on the Cross Made Applicable and Effectual in Time via Our Baptism ἐν (in/with/by) the Spirit into Christ Being the One Baptism That Doth Now Save Us And The End/Cessation of (John’s) Water Baptism (Which is Still Practiced by Most Churches in Our Day and Age)…
Election & Predestination: “Left”
Spiritually speaking, I cannot begin to describe my view of this word. From the vantage point of both eternity (as it relates to the non-elect) and temporally (as it relates to the saints of God) “left” is one of the most troubling, distressing, and humbling words that I can think of. For the reprobate, to…
Divine Light: So Very Close To The Truth
Jesus said unto her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live John 11:25 In the book of John, the last miraculous act that the Lord Jesus engaged in before the Pharisees conspired to kill Him (with Caiaphas stating “Ye know nothing at…
(Study Notes) Proverbs 1:2
Proverbs 1:2 Matthew 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be…
A Holistic Hermeneutic
A Holistic Hermeneutic Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18 Finding Christ in the scripture is a deep, deep blessing; it reminds us over and over again of the totality of who He is and what He has done. Seeing Christ, by faith, in His word is…
What Is In A Name?
What Is In A Name? Kyrios In the majority of existing manuscripts of the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament), Kyrios is substituted for Jehovah (YHWH) much like how our AV/KJV Bible substitutes LORD for Jehovah (YHWH). In the New Testament, this same Greek word Kyrios is translated Lord and most often references the Lord Jesus Christ.…
Spiritual Wrestlings 