Romans 8:18 speaks of the suffering of this present time, which makes clear that we will suffer during this lifetime. The common belief that God will heal us and help us solve our problems is borrowed from a different time when God was doing something special. When Christ was on earth healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, cleansing lepers and…
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
To make all men see….. Ephesians 3:9
Sermons on Right Division
The body of Christ has a unique origin. The chief of sinners was the one chosen to preach the glorious gospel of grace. It has a unique character. We have liberty in Christ. We follow him not because of laws and ordinances, but because of what he has given us in himself. We have a unique mission: to see all men saved…
Why is it tat those who believe the scriptures the way we do call themselves Grace Believers. Isn’t ‘grace’ something that all Christians claim? We call ourselves grace believers because we don’t borrow doctrine from other dispensations. When God reached down to Saul of Tarsus, the only thing left in prophecy was the wrath of God. But rather than dispensing wrath at…
1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. How does one see right division in this verse? Quite simply by what must be believed on to obtain eternal…
God’s gifts to us are his Word and the local churches. The fact that there are self-governing local churches at all is astounding in light of how God interacted with Israel. In Israel, God had one dwelling place, and they were bound by His law to come up to that dwelling place three times a year. But after the fall of Israel,…
1 John 3:8-9 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.…
One of the main themes of I john is loving each other and loving your brethren. But when he begins to introduce this topic, it seems confusing because first he says that he’s not giving a new commandment, then in the next verse he says he is giving a new commandment. The new commandment he is giving isn’t to love your brother,…
The sin that needs to be confessed in I John is not only the sins of the fathers, but the sin of the nation in rejecting their Messiah. This confession is for national blessing, not for personal salvation. The commandments mentioned again and again in I John are not the commandments of the law. They are “his” commandments – the commandments that…
He is called the Father in creation. He is called the Father by covenant. He is called Father through our oneness in Christ.
To understand Matthew 5 – 7, it is helpful to first look at to whom was this message given, and to whom do those promises apply? Christ says that they will inherit the earth. The body of Christ is blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. What were the prophetic circumstances when they were given? What, according to Daniel, was to…