In the salutation to his short letter, Jude uses some important terminology that clarifies the identity of true Christians.
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In the salutation to his short letter, Jude uses some important terminology that clarifies the identity of true Christians.
In this most familiar and beloved verse of Scripture, we find three life-changing truths that summarize the gospel.
Once again Jesus miraculously feeds a large crowd of people. In this miracle, and subsequent confrontation with the Pharisees, Jesus manifests His compassion for people in need and yet His consternation over people in darkness and rebellion.
As chapter six concludes, Mark gives us a short yet vivid snapshot of Jesus’ compassion as He willingly and powerfully ministers to many who were hurting and sick.
According to this epistle, growth in assurance of salvation goes hand in hand with growth in love. If we mature in our understanding of God’s love for us and what it means to truly love others, then we will grow in the confidence of our relationship with Christ without the fear of condemnation and punishment.
John makes one of the most significant and far-reaching statements about God’s nature: "God is love." As we celebrate Christmas, it’s important for us as Christians to recognize that God sent His Son into the world to atone for the sins of His people and thus satisfy His holy wrath. And in doing this, He manifested His inherent love. As recipients of this divine love, we must also recognize the great obligation we have now to love one another.
Because Jonah disregarded the voice of the Lord and chose to no longer recognize himself as a slave and God as Sovereign, God set out on a collision course with Jonah and uses sovereign acts of compassion to bring Jonah and the sailors to repentance.
Paul draws two amazing conclusions to the benefit of God's love for us: that hope does not disappoint, and that we should exult and be joyous in the Lord.
The unconditional love of God is the second great benefit highlighted in this wonderful passage of Romans. Planned from eternity and given to the unworthy, God's love is unlimited and unending.
We expect a judge to be just in all his decisions. So is God the Divine Judge unjust when He forgives sin? Paul provides the answer in the doctrine of propitiation. These two verses ought to make people tremble as they behold the majesty of the Divine Judge who sits in the heavens and establishes His justice through the cross of Christ.
After establishing that all men -- both Jew and Gentile -- are guilty before God, Paul begins to answer counter-questions that the Jew would have. But bigger than the answers themselves are what God has revealed about Himself, namely His own faithfulness.
Election is the doctrine that God chose believers before the foundation of the earth solely because of His grace and love and not because of any foreseen merit in man. It is a beautiful doctrine because it allows God to be in the place where He makes the decrees and receives the glory. When election is understood properly by the believer, it prompts him to consecrate his life to God as an act of worship.
We gain further insight into Paul's missionary heart for the Romans by analyzing his indebtedness and his climatic statement of what his mission is: to preach the gospel to the glory of God. He is overwhelmingly concerned with displaying the gospel's power unto salvation.
The Apostle Paul is helping us cement in our minds what our true identity is because he knows that understanding that is crucial to our effectiveness in living the Christian life. He distinguishes us by our Christian character, and our Divine affection.
Most of God's faithful were expecting a Messiah very different from how Jesus was. No feature of Jesus' earthly ministry was more conspicuous than the tenderness of His feeling for the woes and sufferings of men.
If we are going to be like Jesus, then we will seek to love as He did. We look at some of the qualities of this supreme demonstration of love, and flesh out how we reflect this.
The "love of God" is actually a very difficult doctrine. We must learn to adopt a biblical perspective on God's love.
The Colossians were thankful for the power of the gospel. The gospel is God's one and only vehicle thought which men and women can come to find forgiveness for their sin, new life here on this earth, and life eternally in heaven when they die. It is effective for changing individuals.
There are two realities of God that Isaiah highlights that affect how we approach ministry: that God is sovereign and a tender a shepherd.
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