God’s Righteousness as the Power of the Gospel
As unrighteous sinners who have fallen from God, mankind’s real need is for the powerful gospel of Jesus Christ. But what makes this gospel potent enough to reach even us? …
Category: Truth Constitution
A Basic Lesson from Abraham’s Failure
Gen. 12:9-10: And Abram journeyed onward, journeying toward the Negev. And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine …
The Ministry of the New Testament (1)
The Bible reveals that throughout the ages, God has had only two ministries: the Old Testament ministry and the New Testament ministry. In the Old Testament, the Israelites were governed …
Three Aspects of Oneness in John 17 (1): Oneness In the Father’s Name By the Eternal Life
In John 17 the Lord Jesus prays a profound prayer that is the completion of His message in John 14-16. The subject of this prayer is glorification, as seen in …
Avoiding the Influence of Judaism in the Church Today (3) – The Priests
As believers in Christ, we face many challenges in our walk with Him. One of these challenges is the tendency to drift away from the living person of Christ to …
The Altars in Genesis (4) – The First Altar Built by Abraham: An Anti-Testimony
In a previous post we considered the altar that Noah built to Jehovah (link to post). We saw that Noah was a man who cared for God, but his descendants …
The Altars in Genesis (3) – The Altar Built by Noah
The first post in this series showed that we can build a spiritual altar to God through our consecrating ourselves to Him, that is, through our consent to let God …
Crucial Points regarding the Lord’s Ascension
The account of the Lord’s ascension and the significance of His ascension are recorded separately in the New Testament. For instance, Mark 16:19, which says “The Lord Jesus, after speaking …
The Good Land – Taking Possession of the Land
In previous posts we saw that the good land is a type of the all-inclusive Christ (link to post), the goal of God’s calling for His people to enter the …
Partakers of the Divine Nature
Second Peter 1:4 states that God has “granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature.” The greatest blessing bestowed …