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When Paul talks about Jesus being the image of God, he is not saying he is the likeness. He is showing that Christ was indeed God. When he says Christ is the firstborn, he is showing that Jesus is given all the wealth and authority of all men.
In Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians, each book looks at relationships in the body of Christ. Ephesians is about the relationship of the body of Christ to its’ head; Colossians is concerned with the relationship of the head to the body, and finally Philippians is emphasizing the relationship of the body to each other. This is why the salutations in each book is…
Oftentimes when we read or listen to the scriptures, we tend to gloss over many words that are there. This is nothing new to this age. Even when Christ was on the earth and teaching his disciples, they often didn’t really hear what he was saying. Just as what they heard was formed by their world view, so often what we read…
In the first chapter of Ephesians, Pau; lays out what it means to be in Christ. First is that God is now dealing in grace and peace opposed to wrath. Then we see where our blessings are and how they will be realized. Next we see how we have those blessings: by being in the one who was chosen before the foundation…
To view the messages taught at Grace Bible Camp in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin by Tracy Plessinger, Dan Gross, and Keith Shoop, click on the image below.
God has desired a place to dwell among men since the garden of Eden. After the fall of man, God gave to Moses a plan for a place for Him to dwell among His chosen people. Solomon was the one to finally bring this to fruition. After the fall of Israel, God again gave a plan to dwell among men to the…
Israel’s attack on Iran is nothing new. The animosity in the Middle East began in Abraham’s tent and continues through this day. The war plans weren’t new either. They hearken back to the previous message about Joshua an Ai.
God’s plan for Satan’s defeat is foreshadowed in the book of Joshua. When Israel entered the land after Jericho, their first battle was against the city of Ai. God instructed Joshua how to go about defeating them, and Satan should have paid attention. Joshua hid 30,000 men behind the city by night. Then at daybreak, Joshua made a frontal attack on the…
The promised Messiah was to come from the line of David, but Solomon’s line was written childless at Jehoichin, destroying the kingly line. Christ wasn’t of Solomon’s line, but was born of a virgin: the seed of the woman. But Joseph, his adopted father, was of that line, and Mary was of the line of Nathan, the son of David. Herod then,…
Isaiah 14 records the declaration of war by Lucifer to God when he proclaims: “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.” God…