John 15:18-21 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. Remember the …
Category: A New Covenant Life
The New Covenant in Christ restores the original divine life of our God into us. So how do we then live that life?
Power by the Way of the Cross
In the book of Galatians, one of the issues Paul addresses is the false notion that we must work in the flesh to gain our righteousness. False teachers had come into the congregation there and had been teaching that the believers could only overcome sin by religiosity. At the center of the religious activity these …
Advent: The Appearing
“The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord.” _ Heri Nouwen The season of Advent celebrations has begun. The term, “Advent,” means “coming” or “appearing.” We …
Power in Us
In the previous two posts we explored how the world in which we live is in its entirety set against us. The world system is intended to destroy our faith and separate us from our God. The controller of this deceptive world system is Satan, and His purposes are dishonest and destructive. John the Apostle …
Angel of Light
In the previous two posts, I have explored the power of the life of Christ in us to reduce and eliminate sin in our lives, and the difficulty we face living in a world completely controlled by Satan, the enemy of our God and ourselves. 1 John 5:19 tells us, "We know that we are …
The Whole World
In the previous post, we discovered that we are to not continue in sin primarily because we have been joined in union with our God. It is His life that is now to be lived in us and not our own life. Because of His life in us, we are to no longer sin. If …
Disciples in the World
1 John 5:18-20 “We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that …
The Outcome of the Cross in Us, Part 2
“One of the strange things about God is that He will come in as far as we allow Him. I have often said that a Christian is as full of the Holy Spirit as he wants to be. We can beg to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We can talk about it, but until …
The Outcome of the Cross in Us
“Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.” ― A.W. Tozer “Christ is Lord and can make any demands upon us that He chooses, even to the point of requiring that we deny ourselves …
Enemies of the Cross of Christ
We often hear of people who are considered enemies of Christ Jesus, a title we give to particularly harmful or evil people. We need to exercise caution in speaking of people in such language, especially considering we were all once in that same condition. Yet there is in scripture an example of a class of …
Without Limit 